Comparison

Superfluent vs MyScribe

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

Head to head
About

Superfluent

Practice real-world conversations with an AI tutor for just 5 minutes a day. Get instant feedback on your speaking, grammar, and pronunciation to build confidence and fluency. Explore culture while learning languages like Spanish, French, and English.

Highlights
  • Real-world conversation practice
  • AI tutor feedback
  • Grammar and pronunciation correction
  • Cultural exploration
  • Progress tracking
  • Streak import
  • Short daily sessions
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Real world speaking practice, just 5 minutes a day. Practice hundreds of real conversations and get helpful feedback from your personal AI tutor on every reply. Named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year and one of The New York Times' Best Language Learning Apps. Superfluent is the language learning app that actually works. No flashcard drills: you speak from day one, in the real moments you'll face when you travel, move abroad or meet your partner's family. No fear, no stress. Make your mistakes here, not in front of a waiter. SPEAK IN REAL CONVERSATIONS: Order a drink, ask for directions, go on a date, call your mother-in-law. Hundreds of real-world conversations, set in the places the language is actually lived. LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES: Your personal AI tutor gives instant, helpful feedback on every reply, so you fix your grammar, phrasing and pronunciation as you go. EXPLORE THE CULTURE: Follow curated routes or roam the map in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and more, and pick up the culture along with the language. STAY MOTIVATED AND TRACK YOUR PROGRESS: Watch your Fluency Report grow, see your speaking speed improve, and fill in the map as you finish each route. BRING YOUR STREAK: Already learning somewhere else? Import your streak and graduate from basic vocab to real conversations. JUST 5 MINUTES A DAY: Short sessions that fit any day and build real confidence fast. Download the app for free today and practice speaking any of the following languages: Spanish (Mexico and Spain), English (England and the USA), French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), and more languages will be coming soon. You can upgrade to Superfluent Pro or stick with the free version of the app instead. It's up to you. Either way, we're here to help you reach your fluency goals. ---------------- Superfluent Pro Subscription: By subscribing to Superfluent Pro, you'll have unlimited access to all Superfluent content. We have monthly and annual plans for the Superfluent Pro subscription. We also offer a Family Plan subscription if you want to share Superfluent Pro with up to 5 other people. Your Apple account will be charged for payment when you confirm the start of your subscription. The subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing cycle. You can cancel the renewal at any time by going to the settings in your Apple account. Terms of Service: https://superfluent.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://superfluent.com/privacy

About

MyScribe

Learn Russian at your own pace with a comprehensive course designed for adults. Focus on reading, writing, listening, understanding, and speaking through native-speaker audio and interactive exercises. The app offers offline access and a calm learning environment without pressure.

Highlights
  • Full A1 beginner's course
  • Cyrillic alphabet tracing
  • Native Russian speaker audio
  • Handwriting and typing practice
  • Interactive practice rooms
  • Literal phrase readings
  • Offline course access
Features
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MyScribe is a calm, complete way to begin Russian — built for adults who want to learn properly, not chase a streak. Most apps turn language into a game of points and pressure. MyScribe doesn't. There are no scores, no levels, no leaderboards and no timers. What there is: a quiet count of the days you showed up, and — only if you ask for it — one reminder a day, always about something real: a lesson left in the unit, an episode waiting for the commute. The rest is a course you move through at your own pace, the way you'd work through a good book. Every lesson is checked by a native Russian teacher before it reaches you. It's built on four things you actually do with a language: READ — Meet each phrase in print, with a clear English gloss and a note on the sounds that surprise you. WRITE — Write it back by hand. MyScribe is named for the scribe in you: tracing the words yourself is how they stick, and it's the one thing screens usually skip. Prefer the keyboard? You can type instead. LISTEN — Hear everything spoken by real Russian voices — Katya and Maxim, your native hosts — with Sarah to guide you along in English. Or let any lesson read itself to you, hands free, and put the phone in your pocket. UNDERSTAND — And it tells you what the Russian literally says. «У меня есть брат» is, word for word, "at me there is a brother" — because Russian has no verb for "have". Once you can see that, the grammar stops being a set of shapes to memorise. Every phrase in the course carries its literal reading, checked by a Russian teacher. SPEAK — Say it yourself, out loud, in every lesson. Then step into short guided conversations with your hosts and take your turn. WHAT'S INSIDE • A full A1 beginner's course — 23 units, from the Cyrillic alphabet to saying where you're from • The alphabet taught letter by letter — all 33, with stroke-order tracing and a real Russian teacher's own recordings • Real spoken audio throughout — over 1,500 clips, all human-warm • Handwriting practice on every phrase (or type, your choice) • A Practice room for every unit: recognise words, identify sounds, choose the right reply, rebuild a phrase from memory, and hold a short conversation • A Grammar bank that lays out the patterns you've been using, in plain language — including the six cases • Shadowing — 22 episodes made for headphones and a screen-off pocket: the unit's conversation in Russian, then in English, then a gap to say each line back • Lessons on the go — any lesson read aloud, hands free, carrying on through the course while the screen is off • The literal reading of every phrase — what the Russian actually says, word for word, beneath the translation • A fourteen-day rhythm on the home screen — the days you showed up, never a chain that breaks PRIVATE BY DESIGN MyScribe works fully offline — the whole course lives on your device. An account is optional: sign in with Apple or Google only if you want your progress to follow you to another phone, and delete it from the app whenever you like. Your microphone is used only so you can practise speaking; what you say is kept just long enough to play it back to you, and is never sent anywhere. We never ask to track you, and never read your advertising identifier. What the app does report is anonymous: that it was opened, how far through the course somebody got, and whether a purchase happened — so we can tell which of our own ads work and where the course loses people. Nothing is attached that identifies you or your device. TRY IT, THEN DECIDE The first four units are free — the Cyrillic alphabet among them, no sign-in, no time limit. Then choose: one purchase that opens every remaining unit for good, or a weekly or monthly plan that starts with three days free and renews until you cancel. A2 is included either way. No ads. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://drawbridgestudio.com/myscribe#privacy Здравствуйте — let's begin.

Screenshots

Superfluent4 screens
MyScribe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Superfluent at 4.1K against MyScribe's 2. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Superfluent sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and MyScribe sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Superfluent against 5.0 for MyScribe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Superfluent has 4.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Superfluent ships an update every 6 days, MyScribe weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Superfluent versus MyScribe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperfluentMyScribe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (4.1K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.1K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB503 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuperfluent, Inc.Steven Decia

Customer experience

Superfluent

All ratings4,014 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral4.4%
Negative2.7%

MyScribe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Superfluent

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Volume issue when trying to pronounce individual words

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to turn off text display and focus on listening
  • Option to review past conversation scenarios

MyScribe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Superfluent

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly$10.991 Month
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Monthly$19.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Annual$74.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$74.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Annual3 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Annual7 Days trial$119.991 Year
  • Family Plan7 Days trial$149.991 Year
3 purchases

MyScribe

Subscriptions2
  • Full Course, Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Full Course, Monthly3 Days trial$16.991 Month
One-time1
  • Full Course$49.99

Questions

Is Superfluent free?
Superfluent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyScribe free?
MyScribe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Superfluent or MyScribe?
MyScribe is rated higher. Superfluent averages 4.9 out of 5 from 4.1K ratings, while MyScribe averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Superfluent or MyScribe have ads?
Neither Superfluent nor MyScribe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Superfluent or MyScribe?
Superfluent ships an update every 6 days, and MyScribe weekly. Most recently, Superfluent was updated on November 14, 2026 and MyScribe on November 15, 2026.

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