Trancy vs ContextCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trancy
Transform your favorite YouTube videos and podcasts into interactive language lessons. This app uses AI to provide bilingual subtitles, instant translations, and speaking practice with pronunciation feedback. Learn over 10 languages through real-world content.
- AI bilingual subtitles
- Instant word translation
- Speaking practice with AI evaluation
- Summaries of video content
- Sync YouTube subscriptions
- Support for 10+ languages
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Learn a language from the YouTube videos and podcasts you already love. Trancy adds AI dual subtitles to what you watch and listen to. Tap any word to translate it, practice line by line, get your pronunciation scored, and talk with an AI tutor. Every word you save becomes part of your own knowledge base, built from real content. DUAL SUBTITLES, EVERY LINE CLEAR • See the original and the translation together on YouTube videos • No subtitles? AI generates them for videos and podcasts • Follow your favorite channels in the app and learn from every new upload PODCASTS, NOW WITH SUBTITLES • AI turns podcasts into bilingual transcripts • Read along as you listen, and catch every word you missed TAP ANY WORD, KEEP WATCHING • Definitions, phonetics and pronunciation appear instantly • AI explains meaning and usage in context • Save new words and great sentences in one tap YOUR OWN LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE BASE • Every word and sentence you save comes from videos and podcasts you actually watched • Saved words are highlighted the next time they appear in a video, a podcast or a lookup • Your collection grows with expressions you really met, not lists someone else picked INTENSIVE LISTENING AND SHADOWING • Line-by-line listening: playback pauses after each sentence, with loop and blind listening • Shadowing with AI pronunciation scores that point out the words you missed • Adjustable speed, so you can train your ear from slow to native pace FLASHCARDS THAT STICK • Example sentences are the exact lines you heard, so every word keeps its context • Spaced repetition reminds you right before you forget • Hear the original sentence read aloud while you review SPEAK WITH AN AI TUTOR • Role-play real situations: shopping, work, travel and more • Practice speaking anytime, without the pressure A LITTLE PROGRESS EVERY DAY • Daily goals, streaks and study time • Designed for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo WHY LEARNERS CHOOSE TRANCY • Learn from content you love instead of dull textbooks • 11 languages to learn, including English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and French • Trusted by 600,000 learners SUPPORT Questions? Visit https://www.trancy.org/chat Terms of Service: https://manual.trancy.org/en/legal/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://manual.trancy.org/en/legal/privacy-policy
ContextCat
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ContextCat helps you learn a language by reading things you actually want to read. Open a news article, a book from the library, a web page or your own PDF. When a word stops you, tap it. You get a short explanation of what it means in that exact sentence, written in your own language. No switching apps, no guessing which dictionary meaning fits. TAP ANY WORD See the meaning that fits the sentence, the word type, and how the word is built. Select a few words to translate the whole phrase. TODAY'S NEWS Each morning the Today tab has a new edition of real articles: world, science, tech, culture, sport, food and travel. Most stories are in English, and for several languages there is also a section from outlets in that language. Tap a headline and the article opens in the app, with every word one tap away. LISTEN WHILE YOU READ Natural voices read your books, PDFs and texts aloud, sentence by sentence, and highlight where you are. Pause, go back a sentence, or slow it down. ASK ABOUT WHAT YOU READ Not sure what a paragraph means? Ask. Answers come from the text in front of you. You can also ask for a quick quiz to check you understood it. WORDS THAT STAY WITH YOU Words you look up are saved for you. Study cards bring them back right before you would forget them, and you can watch the number of words you know grow. READ YOUR OWN THINGS Open a PDF, add a link to a web article, or paste text. You can also share a link or a PDF to ContextCat from Safari, Files and other apps. Everything you open stays in your library. NEW HERE? A short first read and a quick tour show you how it works. JUST WANT TO READ? Choose reading only if you read in your own language and want help with long or tricky documents. You still get listening and questions about the text, without the study tools. Explanations come in your language, in any of the 39 the app supports. SUBSCRIPTION ContextCat is free to try. The free plan includes a limited number of explanations, imports and questions. Premium lifts these limits. - Choose a monthly or yearly plan. Both renew automatically. - Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. - Your plan renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. - Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://contextcatapp.blogspot.com/2025/06/contextcat-privacy-policy-english.html Terms of Use: https://contextcatapp.blogspot.com/2025/06/terms-and-conditions.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Trancy at none against ContextCat's shown. ContextCat's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Trancy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ContextCat sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Trancy ships an update monthly, ContextCat weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trancy | ContextCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (241 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 241 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | L2D LIMITED | Caner Gulay |
Bugs and requests
Trancy
Reported bugs
20 issues- Crashing after update
- Crashing on iPad
- Crashing when going full screen
- Crashing after purchase
- Crashing on 'My' page
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- Subtitles not working
- YouTube subtitles extraction failed
- AI subtitles formatting incorrect
- Safari browser not working
- Cannot close subtitles in full screen on iPad
- Netflix subtitles sometimes freeze
- Sharing to app not working on iOS
- Mandatory portrait mode on iPad
- Cannot use horizontally on iPad
- Cannot use in landscape mode on iPad
- iPad app is just a scaled-up iPhone app
- Videos with Japanese audio play Japanese
- AI translation errors
- AI talk dialogue recognition rate low
- Paid member experiencing crashes
Requested features
17 requests- Repeat playback function
- Background playback
- Larger font size option
- White background option
- Persian/Farsi language support
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- Support for VisionOS
- Connect to podcast app
- Arabic language support
- Add more speed levels
- Implement segmentation feature on mobile
- Offline video saving
- Reverse 3-second function
- Multiple word book selections
- Spaced repetition practice for vocabulary
- Copy AI definition
- Connect to OpenAI for translation
- Whole sentence transcription with pronunciation
ContextCat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Trancy
- Trancy monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Trancy Premium + AI 月订3 Days trial$8.991 Month
- Trancy Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$33.491 Year
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- Trancy Premium + AI 年定7 Days trial$74.991 Year
ContextCat
- ContextCat Pro (Monthly)$7.991 Month
- ContextCat Pro (6 Months)$24.996 Months
- ContextCat Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$49.991 Year









