Comparison

Viet Basic vs Vietling

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

Head to head
About

Viet Basic

Master essential Vietnamese phrases and greetings, including special Lunar New Year expressions. Easily filter greetings by recipient to ensure appropriate communication. Features audio pronunciation for accurate learning.

Highlights
  • General Vietnamese phrases
  • Lunar New Year greetings
  • Filter greetings by recipient
  • Audio pronunciation
  • Remove ads option
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Learn general Vietnamese phrases, including specific Lunar New Year greetings for Tết. Vietnamese greetings can be different depending on who you talk to. Quickly filter greetings based on who you're talking to. Whether chatting with friends, family, or colleagues, our app has got you covered with your basic greetings. Audio pronunciation included! Choose from two categories: == Categories == - General Phrases - Lunar New Year Greetings == Features == - Audio pronunciation - Filter by - Remove ads option

About

Vietling

Master Vietnamese vocabulary and pronunciation with spaced repetition and interactive exercises. Focuses on the most frequent words and Southern dialect, with personalized learning based on your age and routine. Includes gamified elements like leagues and pets to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • High-frequency vocabulary
  • Studio-quality audio
  • Spaced repetition review
  • Personalized kinship terms
  • Gamified leagues and pets
  • Offline study mode
  • Customizable reminders
Features
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Vietling teaches you Vietnamese vocabulary and then makes sure you keep it. Every word is chosen by how often it actually turns up in speech, so the first hundred you learn do far more work than the next thousand. There are 1,220 of them, each with an example sentence, and they are spoken aloud by a studio voice model rather than read out by your phone's built-in text-to-speech. Hear it before you learn it Vietnamese has six tones, and a word said in the wrong one is a different word. Short video lessons cover the alphabet, the six tones, consonant clusters and vowels, each followed by a quiz, so you know what you are listening for before the words start arriving. Two ways to study Learn introduces new words. You meet the word, pick it out of four, then place it into a real sentence with a gap in it. Nothing is marked correct until you have actually produced it. Review is the quiet one. Spaced repetition brings back exactly the words that are about to slip, on the day they are about to slip, and nothing else. Short sessions, no games, no noise. Come back after a few days away and a few easier cards come first, rather than a wall of everything you have forgotten. Built for Southern Vietnamese The vocabulary is the Southern one — dạ, hẻm, nha, heo — the words you will hear in Saigon and the Mekong Delta rather than the textbook Northern forms. Vietnamese has no age-neutral word for "you", so Vietling asks your age once and teaches you the kinship terms that actually apply to you: what you call a waiter, what a waiter calls you, and what changes when the person is older. A pet, a league, and people to race Every review feeds a pet that grows as you do — pick from eight, from a chick to a dragon. Each week you are placed in a league with other learners at your level; reach the week's target and you climb a tier. Add friends with a code, or send a request to learners the app suggests. The streak is honest about being broken. Reminders that learn your routine Pick a time during setup. Once Vietling has seen when you actually study, it moves the nudge to just before then — and never sends one on a day you have already studied. Light or dark There is a proper dark theme in Settings. Nothing switches on its own and nothing nags you about it; it is a switch, and the app remembers which way you left it. Your data Your progress is backed up to an account the app makes for you, with no email or password needed. Other learners see your display name, profile picture, pet and weekly XP — nothing else. There are no adverts and no analytics. Delete the account from inside the app at any time, and it stays deleted. Studying works offline The deck, the sentences and all of your progress live on the phone, so a session with no signal works exactly as it does at home. Audio is fetched the first time you hear a word and then kept, so words you have already met stay audible offline too, and anything you study away from a connection catches up when you are back online.

Screenshots

Viet Basic4 screens
Vietling4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Viet Basic at 5.0 against Vietling's 2.3. Vietling's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Viet Basic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Viet Basic versus Vietling: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterViet BasicVietling
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB37 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJulie HuynhVantage Media LLC

Customer experience

Viet Basic

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

Vietling

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Viet Basic

No in-app purchases

None

Vietling

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Viet Basic free?
Viet Basic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vietling free?
Vietling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Viet Basic or Vietling?
Viet Basic is rated higher. Viet Basic averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Vietling averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Viet Basic or Vietling have ads?
Viet Basic shows ads; Vietling does not.

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