Fluency vs Carpi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fluency
Learn languages through engaging content like stories, podcasts, and music. Immerse yourself with interactive features like word-by-word highlighting and tap-to-translate. Ideal for learners who prefer context-based vocabulary acquisition over rote memorization.
- Learn through stories, podcasts, and music
- Tap-to-translate words and sentences
- Karaoke-style highlighting for reading
- Watch YouTube videos with subtitles
- Learn vocabulary in context
- Self-paced immersion
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Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese through immersion — not flashcards or boring drills. Fluency is a language app that helps you build real fluency through stories, podcasts, videos, and music. Just real content you actually enjoy. Read stories with word-by-word highlighting Follow along with audiobooks and beginner friendly books. Tap any word to translate it instantly. Karaoke-style highlighting keeps you immersed and improves reading comprehension at your own self-paced rhythm. Watch YouTube videos in your target language Learn from real native content with subtitles and captions to help you follow along. Pick up new vocabulary and phrases naturally by watching videos made for real audiences. Listen to music designed for language learners Build listening comprehension and learn new vocabulary through music — one of the most natural ways to absorb a language. Songs are designed for your level and focus on common vocabulary and natural usage of the language. Immersive reading practice Tap to translate any word or sentence as you read. Follow along with audio narration for listening practice while you read. Whether you're reading short or full-length stories, Fluency turns every page into a self-study session. Perfect for learners who: - Want to learn vocabulary through context, not memorization - Prefer self-paced immersion over structured lessons - Are beginner, intermediate, or advanced and want real reading and listening practice - Are tired of apps that feel like homework Languages available: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese — with more coming soon. Download Fluency and start learning through stories, videos, and music today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://getfluencyapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://getfluencyapp.com/privacy
Carpi
This app transforms passive scrolling into an active Spanish learning experience. It uses short video clips with synchronized subtitles and interactive word lookups to build vocabulary and comprehension. Users progress through simulated real-life scenarios, focusing on practical conversation and understanding native speakers.
- Interactive video feed with synchronized subtitles
- Tap-to-learn word definitions and pronunciation
- Simulated real-life conversation scenarios
- Focus on understanding native speaker responses
- Speech recognition with feedback on pronunciation
- Multiple Spanish variants (Argentina, Latin America, Spain)
- Vocabulary and sentence practice
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You scroll anyway. Now it's Spanish. Carpi turns scrolling into listening: short clips of people speaking everyday Spanish, and a route that teaches you to answer back. THE FEED Swipe up and the next clip plays. Subtitles run along in Spanish and in your language, line by line, in time with the video. Tap any word to see what it means and hear it spoken. Save it, and it comes up in your next word round, so what you heard doesn't just scroll away. Every time you open the app, the feed starts with clips you haven't seen yet. Clips play from YouTube. THE ROUTE You land in Buenos Aires, Mexico City or Madrid, and the Spanish you learned doesn't sound like the Spanish around you. The route teaches you the Spanish you'll actually hear, one step at a time. Seventy-five places, one street. A café where you say hello, sit down, order, ask the waiter for something and pay. A kiosk, a market, a bus stop, a pharmacy, a phone call. Every place is one thing you can do afterwards, and you move on before it drags. No levels. No streaks. No percentage bars. You make progress because the next place is where you want to go. THE MOMENT THEY SWITCH TO ENGLISH A hundred and twenty-two of the sentences are the ones coming at you, not the ones you say. "¿Para acá o para llevar?" "¿Se lo caliento?" Most apps teach you to speak. Almost none teach you to understand the answer. Eighteen more are for the second you didn't catch a word. "¿Cómo?" "¿Me lo repetís?" The exact second someone switches to English, or doesn't. SPEAKING, HONESTLY RATED You say a sentence and get an answer instead of a score: understood, borderline or not yet, plus the two or three weakest words. A number tells you nothing about whether it would have worked. THREE KINDS OF SPANISH, EQUALLY Argentina and Uruguay, neutral Latin American, or Spain. Every word and every sentence on the route is spoken in all three variants, by three different voices. La palta or el aguacate. Vos podés or tú puedes. You choose, and you can change it anytime. WHAT ELSE IS INSIDE Around a thousand words and over a thousand sentences, chosen for everyday life rather than from a frequency list. Dictation at three speeds, for the sentences that arrive as one slurred block. Conjugation as full tables, because the pattern is what you're learning. Branching scenes where the conversation goes wrong and you fix it. ACCESS Right at the start, you say your first sentence and hear whether it lands, and the first three clips in the feed are free. Then you choose: the yearly plan with a free trial, a weekly plan, or Full Access with a single one-time payment, no subscription at all. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled anytime in your Apple subscriptions. No account needed, not even to buy. If you want to keep your progress safe, create one, with Apple in a single tap. Learn less. Say more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Provider terms: https://carpincho.app/terms Privacy policy: https://carpincho.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fluency at 5.0 against Carpi's 4.5. Fluency also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (32 vs 2). Carpi's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Fluency sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Carpi sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fluency holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fluency has 32 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fluency ships an update weekly, Carpi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fluency | Carpi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 32 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +12 |
| Developer | Fluency LLC (US) | Steffen Giebler |
Customer experience
Fluency
Carpi
In-app purchases
Fluency
- Fluency Premium (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Fluency Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Carpi
- Full access · 1 week$5.997 Days
- Carpi Pro Yearly – Special7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Full access · 1 year7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Carpincho Full Access$149.00









