Comparison

Elevation Project vs Sorry, Babushka

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

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About

Elevation Project

Unlock human consciousness and potential with ancient wisdom and transformative teachings. This app offers a step-by-step program for rapid healing, emotional breakthroughs, and accessing higher spiritual experiences. Connect with a global community and learn from masters of Jewish mysticism.

Highlights
  • Rapid healing and emotional breakthroughs
  • Access higher states and spiritual experiences
  • Learn sacred wisdom for an extraordinary life
  • Courses on personal mastery
  • Connect with a global community
  • Transformational workshops and meditations
Features
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Open the door to healing, breakthroughs and transcendent experiences on a whole new level. Welcome to Elevation, the world’s most ancient and profound system to unlock human consciousness and potential. Sourced from the sacred traditions of Kabbalah Chassidus and for the first time ever open to spiritual seekers, everywhere. Rav Doniel Katz and the Elevation Team have synthesized the most profound experiential and transformative teachings of our 4,000-year-old mystical tradition, into an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program, that for the first time ever, make even the highest and most transcendent experiential teachings of our tradition accessible to all. - Experience rapid healing and emotional breakthroughs when nothing worked before - Access higher states & spiritual experiences easier than ever - Learn sacred wisdom to live an extraordinary life - Experience the world’s most advanced courses on personal mastery - Learn from a modern master, Rav Doniel Katz and remarkable teachers of Jewish mysticism - Meet and connect with a global community of people doing the extraordinary In this app join thousands at incredible live events, access transformational workshops and meditations, learn from Rav Doniel and incredible spiritual masters and more. When your heart is ready, we are here to begin. To learn more visit – www.elevationproject.com -- Terms of Use: mn.co/terms-of-use

About

Sorry, Babushka

Learn practical, everyday language phrases often omitted from traditional courses. Engage with a virtual grandmother character who reacts to your spoken words, providing feedback and context for nuanced communication.

Highlights
  • Interactive dialogue with virtual character
  • Learn practical, omitted phrases
  • Contextual word origins and usage
  • Speech recognition for pronunciation practice
  • Character reactions and feedback
  • Eight available languages
  • Root-based dictionary organization
Features
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Every language course teaches you to ask where the library is. None of them teach you what people actually say when the bus doesn’t come. Sorry, Babushka is the other half of the language. A cartoon grandmother sits in her kitchen in one of eight languages, and you learn the words your textbook left out by saying them to her face and seeing what happens. She is not a scoreboard. She reacts. HER PATH One long path per language — 150 levels. Mild words first, the unforgivable ones much later, taught family by family. She tells you what a word means, where it came from and who you can say it to, and then the lesson ends the only way it can here: you say it to her, out loud, and she answers. Six times along the way you end up in her kitchen instead, answering a plain question to her face. SHE COACHES, SHE DOESN’T PUNISH Miss a word and she breaks it into syllables and says it again, slowly. Nothing is lost for getting it wrong. There is no tapping past her either, until she decides you have tried enough for one day. THE SHOUT ROOM Say anything you have learned and she gives as good as she got, or let her name a word she taught you and say it back. Five good ones keep your streak alive. A STREAK THAT IS ACTUALLY A RELATIONSHIP The number on the home screen is the days you’ve kept coming to her kitchen. Miss a couple and she looked at the door and the door looked back. Miss a week and your photograph gets turned to face the wall — she says so, out loud, and then forgives you, because you came. No hearts, no gems, no notifications. A grandmother who noticed. TWO VOICES, ON PURPOSE A plain native voice teaches — the words, the examples, the dictionary. She only ever reacts, in English in that language’s accent, dropping into her own language for the words that matter. A switch in Settings puts her back in it entirely. EIGHT GRANDMOTHERS Russian, Spanish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Persian and Mandarin Chinese. Each written separately, because none of this material translates. Italian keeps blasphemy in a category of its own. Spanish attaches its worst words to the altar and the family line. Persian aims at honour rather than obscenity. Mandarin admires an insult with no dirty word in it more than any that has one. You learn those distinctions here, because getting them wrong is exactly how a foreigner gets it wrong. THE DICTIONARY Organised by root, not alphabetically, because that is how these words work: the root at the top with its meaning and origin, and under it the words grown out of it, each with pronunciation, real English sense, and a line on who you can say it to. Around 180 words per language. SAY IT OUT LOUD Tap the microphone and she scores what she actually heard, word by word. Where a phone cannot hear a language at all, the app says so and takes your word for it. FREE, COMPLETELY All eight languages, the whole dictionary, the whole path. No subscription, no ads, nothing locked. AN ACCOUNT, IF YOU WANT ONE You do not need one. The app is complete signed out, it works in airplane mode, and she asks twice and then stops. If you do make one — with Apple, with Google or with an email address — it exists for one reason: so your streak and your words survive losing your phone. It is the only thing that makes this app talk to a server at all. No analytics, no advertising identifier, no trackers, nothing sold or shared, and nothing you say into the microphone is ever stored or sent anywhere. FOR ADULTS This app contains strong language in eight languages. That is what it is for. An age setting on first launch limits how far it goes, and it holds everywhere. WHAT IS NOT IN HERE No slurs. Nothing that attacks anyone for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexuality, gender identity or disability, at any setting, in any language. Swearing is aimed at a moment. A slur is aimed at a person for what they were born as. The app teaches the first and has no interest in the second.

Screenshots

Elevation Project4 screens
Sorry, Babushka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sorry, Babushka at none against Elevation Project's 3. Elevation Project's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Elevation Project sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Sorry, Babushka asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Elevation Project holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elevation Project has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Elevation Project versus Sorry, Babushka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElevation ProjectSorry, Babushka
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (26 ratings) — better4.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB8 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperElevation Worldwide FoundationMITCH AARON GOULSON

Customer experience

Elevation Project

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sorry, Babushka

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Elevation Project

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan2 variants$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Plan$37.991 Month
None

Sorry, Babushka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elevation Project free?
Elevation Project is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sorry, Babushka free?
Sorry, Babushka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Elevation Project or Sorry, Babushka?
Elevation Project is rated higher. Elevation Project averages 4.9 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Sorry, Babushka averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Elevation Project or Sorry, Babushka have ads?
Neither Elevation Project nor Sorry, Babushka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Elevation Project or Sorry, Babushka?
Elevation Project ships an update weekly, and Sorry, Babushka weekly. Most recently, Elevation Project was updated on November 8, 2026 and Sorry, Babushka on November 6, 2026.

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