Comparison

Duory vs Curious Goat

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

Head to head
About

Duory

This app helps you study, practice, and journal in your target languages. It centralizes your language notes, vocabulary, and phrases, offering hands-free practice and journaling features. Capture phrases from anywhere and reinforce learning with widgets.

Highlights
  • Organize notes for multiple languages
  • Hands-free practice
  • Journaling in target languages
  • Capture phrases from various sources
  • Vocabulary browsing from notes
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • On-device language tasks
Features
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Save time and stay focused—no more bouncing between translation apps, Google search and your notes. Study, practice, and reflect with dynamic language notes. Why Duory? • Duory is the smartest way to take language notes on your phone. • Duory lets you keep and organize notes for all your target languages in one place. • Save time and stay focused — no more bouncing between Google Search and your notes. • Practice hands-free while doing boring chores. • Improve your output by journaling in your target languages. • Capture interesting phrases from anywhere! • Browse vocabulary from your own notes in a focused, immersive way. • Make them stick with Home and Lock Screen widgets. • Duory supports 40 target languages. NOTES • Duory is designed to perform language tasks on-device thanks to Apple’s language APIs and other offline language tools. • To perform translations, iOS needs to download language dictionaries for each language pair. This only happens once for each pair. • Duory requires access to your microphone for you to record pronunciation of phrases and your camera for scanning text. FREE FOREVER Get started for free with these features: • Create notes and journals in one target language. • Enhance your language journals with Apple Journaling Suggestions. • Capture phrases from your physical textbooks, Duolingo sessions, images, or RTF/PDF documents. • Use a handy widget to reinforce recently learned words and phrases. • In-app translation and transliteration, including Hiragana and Pinyin. • Record and play back your phrases (no playlists on the free plan). • Access notes you create during your free trial or subscription – forever! Important: If you create notes in target languages outside of the initial language during an active subscription, they will become read-only when your subscription expires (the notes you create in your oldest target language will remain editable forever) DUORY PLUS PLANS Unlock the full power of Duory with a subscription: • Create notes and journals in multiple languages. • Turn your phrases into playlists for hands-free practice. • Control playback from your lock screen or Control Center. • Turn plain notes into memorable ones with stickers and pictures. • Sync your notes and journals to iCloud. Plans are available on a monthly or annual basis. Your payment is charged to your iTunes account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Start your journey with a 14-day free trial on annual plans—cancel anytime to avoid charges. You will always have permanent access to notes created during the trial period or while your subscription was active. However, an active subscription is required to create new notes or edit existing ones in languages other than the first target language you added in Duory. Notes created in the first target language you add to Duory remain editable forever with or without an active subscription. LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SUPPORT ** Duory uses Apple’s Translation API for on-device translation. Here’s the full list of supported languages: • Arabic • Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) • Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional) • Dutch • English • French • German • Hindi • Indonesian • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Polish • Portuguese (Brazil) • Russian • Spanish (Spain) • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Vietnamese PRIVACY Duory is designed with your privacy in mind. We don’t track your data or store your information. Privacy Policy: https://duory.alewa.co/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://duory.alewa.co/terms.html

About

Curious Goat

Develop a daily learning habit with short, engaging lessons and interactive quizzes. Track your progress with streaks and points, and build a personal library of learned topics. Syncs seamlessly with the web experience.

Highlights
  • Daily lessons under 5 minutes
  • Interactive quizzes
  • Reflective challenges
  • Personal learning card library
  • Streaks, points, and level-ups
  • Syncs with web account
Features
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Go deeper on what you've always wanted to learn. Pick one topic and we bring you what comes next: a lesson, a quiz, a challenge and a Fast Fact each day, each one building on the one before. You never have to decide what to learn next. You just show up. Highlights: - Curated curricula in Philosophy, Investing, Jungian Psychology, Drawing, Cooking, Gardening, Creative Writing and Design - Swipeable lessons that build on each other, so your knowledge compounds - Daily quizzes and challenges - A Fast Fact every day - The Rabbit Hole: ask anything about your topic, any time - Everything you learn, saved to your library - Streaks, points and levels, synced with your Curious Goat web account Start today. Every lesson after this one builds on it. Curious Goat offers an auto-renewable monthly or annual Premium subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.learnwithcuriousgoat.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.learnwithcuriousgoat.com/privacy

Screenshots

Duory4 screens
Curious Goat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Curious Goat at 100% against Duory's 0%. Curious Goat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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. Duory sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Curious Goat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Curious Goat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Curious Goat has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Duory's written reviews are positive against 100% of Curious Goat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Duory versus Curious Goat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuoryCurious Goat
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdegboyega DadaAndrew Coyle

Customer experience

Duory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Curious Goat

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Duory

Subscriptions4
  • Duory Plus (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Duory Family Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Duory Plus (Annual)14 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Duory Family Plus (Annual)14 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Curious Goat

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Duory free?
Duory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Curious Goat free?
Curious Goat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Duory or Curious Goat?
Curious Goat is rated higher. Duory averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Curious Goat averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Duory or Curious Goat have ads?
Neither Duory nor Curious Goat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Duory or Curious Goat?
Duory ships an update every 5 days, and Curious Goat every 5 days. Most recently, Duory was updated on October 24, 2026 and Curious Goat on October 15, 2026.

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