Comparison

Talkpal vs Benkyo Box

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Talkpal

Practice realistic conversations with advanced AI to improve speaking, listening, reading, and writing in over 130 languages. Offers interactive learning modes and personalized feedback to build fluency and confidence.

Highlights
  • AI-powered conversational practice
  • Learn 130+ languages
  • Realistic dialogue simulations
  • Personalized feedback and corrections
  • Bite-sized lessons
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Talkpal is an AI-powered language learning app helping millions of learners speak, listen, read & write more confidently in a new language. Practice realistic conversations with advanced AI voice & chat, and learn 130+ languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and more. WHY CHOOSE TALKPAL? - GPT-based conversational AI for interactive, adaptive learning - Learn faster through real speaking practice - not memorization - 130+ supported languages with dynamic difficulty - Free to download, some features available at no cost TRUSTED BY MILLIONS OF USERS WORLDWIDE Join 5,000,000+ language learners speaking confidently in over 130+ languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Finnish and Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu and more WHAT YOU GET WITH TALKPAL PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Start speaking from day one with bite-sized lessons. Practice with immersive AI language learning modes designed to build real fluency & improve your speaking skills: 1. Chat Mode: Speak with a GPT-powered personalized AI language tutor 2. Word Mode: Learn core vocabulary & perfect pronunciation 3. Sentence Mode: Strengthen grammar and sentence structure 4. Dialogue Mode: Practice daily phrases with pre-scripted conversations 5. Call Mode: Audio-only speaking practice for fluency & confidence 6. Roleplays: Real-life speaking scenarios (travel, work, dating, & more) 7. Characters: Engage in dynamic conversations with famous characters 8. Debates: Discuss topics to develop logic & spontaneous speech SKILLS YOU WILL IMPROVE - Speaking: Clear pronunciation & real conversational flow - Listening: Understand natural conversations & diverse accents - Writing: Clear, accurate phrasing & grammar - Reading: Comprehension & understanding of everyday vocabulary FOCUS ON YOUR GOALS - Travel: Learn useful phrases and local expressions - Career: Practice interviews, meetings & presentations - Study: Enhance grammar, vocabulary & listening skills - Daily life: Order food, make plans & communicate naturally FEEDBACK & PROGRESS TRACKING WITH TALKPAL PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION - Personalized AI pronunciation & grammar corrections - Track progress with streaks, achievements & personalized lesson stats - Short, efficient & engaging practice sessions - Improve speaking, listening, writing & reading skills WHY TALKPAL - Improve speaking & fluency with interactive language learning modes: Chat Mode, Word Mode, Sentence Mode, Dialogue Mode, Call Mode, Roleplays, Characters, Debates, Photo Mode, and personalized AI-generated Courses tailored to your level & learning goals - Join millions of learners & become a language learning champion. Download now & speak for real. Build your fluency with Talkpal - anywhere, anytime COMPANY & FEEDBACK - Share your feedback & suggestions at support@talkpal.ai & let's make your language learning experience even more exceptional! - Terms & Conditions: https://talkpal.ai/terms-and-conditions/ - Privacy Policy: https://talkpal.ai/privacy-policy/ - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Benkyo Box

Create and study custom flashcards with rich media support, including sketching and image annotations. Organize your learning with folders and track your progress with daily study schedules and trend analysis.

Highlights
  • Custom flashcard creation
  • Image sketching and annotation
  • Quick entry and CSV import
  • Folder organization
  • Daily study scheduling
  • Progress tracking and trends
  • Shortcut integration
Features
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Benkyo Box is a flashcard app that is like your notes, but of the things that you want to commit to memory like names, fun facts, or exam material. These are the facts that you don't want to bury in a note taking app, and want to ensure you truly know them. Every flashcard you add to Benkyo Box is added to your daily studies, in which a beautiful study interface shows you the card’s question, you try to recall its answer, reveal it, then rate yourself after seeing the actual answer. Based on that rating, the card is re-surfaced in future with a notification so that you can practice again until you know it. Flexible flashcard content: Flashcards not only have the standard image/text front and back format, they also support in-app sketching and images for both the question and answer. Text supports multiple lines in both the question and answer so you can learn lists in a single flashcard. Powerful annotation cards: Looking to learn concept of an image? Like: - the components of a mechanical object - anatomical parts - different elements of a dish Benkyo Box makes this easy with Annotation Cards - simply annotate an image with arrows, rectangles and other tools, which automatically turn into flashcards. It preserves the original image as incredibly useful context. Easily create study material: - Natural Language: No need to enter questions and answers in flashcards! Enter a statement you'd like to learn, and with Apple Intelligence, we'll rewrite it as question and answer (Advanced Learner feature). - Quick Entry: Enter many cards at once by alternating questions and answers in plain text. This is specially helpful for pasting content from LLMs or adding multiple cards during a meeting. - CSV import: import a spreadsheet with flexible options on how to interpret the columns for the final flashcards - Folder import: select a folder with multiple images, creating a flashcard for each image in the question, filename on the answer. If the folder contains a CSV, the CSV can be used to customize how the images are imported (used as question, answer or both). Shortcuts for everything: Quickly do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts, like adding cards, checking your study status, importing content, and even updating app settings. Flexible organization: Organize your flashcards using folders and subfolders for all your topics, or keep them in the default unsorted folder if you prefer them that way. Your schedule and trends, at a glance: Open the app and you'll immediately see your study progress for the day and the time for your next study (also available as a widget). Navigate to the calendar to see what you have scheduled for today, the following days and how you scored the previous day. Flexible study sessions: Study a specific topic by navigating to it, or study all topics scheduled for today by studying from the Today view. Study times and flashcard frequencies can be configured in settings. Also if you are feeling like studying a topic but the cards are not available yet, you can always reset the folder and study right away. Privacy: Cards are private information and we have no access to them. If you use iCloud sync, Benkyo Box securely encrypts your content in iCloud with client-side encryption - nobody in the server can read your cards. Themes, each with a Dark Mode version: Choose a theme to match the mood of the study session. Advanced Learner Features: With Advanced Learner, a paid tier, you get features that help you streamline your studies: - Add cards using natural language - Extract cards from text and articles using on devices that support Apple Intelligence - Hidden folders that are ignored from studies until you are ready to unhide them - Deadlines that help prioritize studies before an important date Most importantly, the app is fully functional without Advanced Learner and we work hard to ensure that it’s easy to unsubscribe from it with the least disruption as possible.

Screenshots

Talkpal4 screens
Benkyo Box4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Benkyo Box at 100% against Talkpal's 58%. Benkyo Box also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Talkpal's advantage is ratings volume (4K vs 6) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Talkpal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Benkyo Box sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Benkyo Box holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Talkpal has 4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Talkpal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Benkyo Box's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Talkpal ships an update every 9 days, Benkyo Box weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Talkpal versus Benkyo Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalkpalBenkyo Box
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4K ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
Best chart rank#179 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB154 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTalkPal, Inc.autorelease LLC

Customer experience

Talkpal

All ratings3,977 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.5%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews889 reviews
Positive57.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative31.8%

Benkyo Box

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Talkpal

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent log-outs and login issues
  • Compatibility problems on certain devices
  • Inconsistent or incorrect grammar feedback

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more languages and voice options
  • Improve responsiveness of AI
  • Allow customization of conversation level
  • Provide option to save/review past conversations
  • Integrate with other language learning tools

Benkyo Box

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Talkpal

Subscriptions3
  • Premium 1 Month Pass14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium 3 Months Pass14 Days trial$49.993 Months
  • Premium 12 Months Pass14 Days trial$119.991 Year
3 purchases

Benkyo Box

Subscriptions2
  • Advanced Learner (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Advanced Learner (Yearly)$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Advanced Learner Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Talkpal free?
Talkpal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Benkyo Box free?
Benkyo Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Talkpal or Benkyo Box?
Benkyo Box is rated higher. Talkpal averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while Benkyo Box averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Talkpal or Benkyo Box have ads?
Neither Talkpal nor Benkyo Box shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talkpal or Benkyo Box?
Talkpal ships an update every 9 days, and Benkyo Box weekly. Most recently, Talkpal was updated on November 8, 2026 and Benkyo Box on November 4, 2026.

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