Lexirise vs Sottaku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lexirise
Learn languages through engaging content like comics, podcasts, and videos. Tap words for instant translations and save them for spaced repetition reviews. Practice speaking and track your progress with offline study options.
- Learn from comics, podcasts, and videos
- Tap words for instant readings and meanings
- Save words with context sentences
- Spaced repetition reviews
- Speaking practice with feedback
- Offline study and progress tracking
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Stay in the story. Learn the words along the way. Learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean and more from comics, podcasts, captioned YouTube videos, books, and your own uploads. Tap a word for its reading and meaning. Save it with the sentence it came from. Review it later, without building flashcards by hand. Real content can be hard at first. But you don't have to know every word to start enjoying it. Lexirise puts help where you need it, so one unknown word doesn't end your reading session. READ ANOTHER CHAPTER Read manga, manhua, and webtoons with tappable text. See pinyin, furigana, and word meanings without switching to a dictionary. Bring your own books, PDFs, comics, text, and audio too. HEAR THE WORDS YOU'RE READING Follow podcasts with interactive transcripts. Tap a word as you hear it, check the meaning, and keep listening. Watch captioned YouTube videos with word lookup in the app. SAVE THE WORD, NOT JUST THE TRANSLATION Keep useful words with their source sentence, reading, and audio. Sort them into decks and tags, or export them to Anki. Your collection comes from things you chose to read and hear. REMEMBER WHAT YOU MEET Short spaced-repetition reviews bring words back when they need practice. Use reading, typing, and listening modes, or build a study session from your own material. TAKE IT INTO A CONVERSATION Practice speaking with guided missions and feedback. Live Transcript helps you follow conversations and lessons, look up words, and return to saved transcripts. KEEP GOING, WHEREVER YOU ARE Download supported material and reviews for offline study. Track reading, listening, reviews, and streaks. Add a Study Today widget, join the weekly League, or study with friends in a Study Circle. Your words and progress sync across iPhone, iPad, and the web. The included Safari extension adds lookup tools to supported websites. Lexirise is for learners who want to spend more time with the language they love, not follow a fixed course of canned lessons. Start free. Pick a comic or podcast, then tap the first word you don't know. Optional Pro plans unlock higher limits and advanced tools, including speaking practice and Live Transcript. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sottaku
Master Chinese, Japanese, and Korean vocabulary with this app. It offers fast lookups, audio pronunciation, spaced repetition, and interactive quizzes. A browser extension and community chat are also available for enhanced learning.
- Fast word and sentence lookups
- Audio pronunciation and furigana
- Spaced repetition flashcards
- Quick quizzes and challenge modes
- Community chat feature
- Companion browser extension
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Sottaku is a language learning app where you can study up to 15 languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Latin, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew and Hindi. Study with fast lookups, grammar explanations, audio, flashcards, quizzes and spaced repetition, then bring the language into real conversations by discovering language exchange partners and talking in Sottaku Chat. • Discover learners and native speakers for language exchange • Chat with partners and the Sottaku community • Search words and example sentences • Explore grammar guides and sentence breakdowns where available • Furigana (reading hints) and audio for reading & listening where available • Save words as flashcards and review with smart scheduling • Quick quizzes and challenge modes to stay consistent • Use our companion browser extension, Sottaku-Yomitan, to look up words while reading online (Chrome/Firefox/Edge) • Sync your progress across devices when you sign in Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sottaku at 4.7 against Lexirise's 3.8. Sottaku also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and review sentiment (80% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Lexirise sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Sottaku sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sottaku holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Lexirise's written reviews are positive against 80% of Sottaku's.
Lexirise ships an update weekly, Sottaku every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lexirise | Sottaku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lexirise | Sottaku Inc |
Customer experience
Lexirise
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In-app purchases
Lexirise
- Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
- Pro Monthly Referral Offer$14.991 Month
- Pro Annual Referral Offer7 Days trial$79.991 Year
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- Pro Annual$79.991 Year
- Pro Annual Offer$79.991 Year
- Pro Annual1 Month trial$79.991 Year
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Lifetime$169.99
- Lifetime$199.99
Sottaku
- Sottaku Pro$14.991 Month
- Sottaku Pro: Gift Sub$14.991 Month
- Sottaku Pro Annual$119.991 Year
- Sottaku: 750 Gold$9.99
- Sottaku Pro: One Month Gift Sub$14.99
- Sottaku: 1600 Gold$19.99
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- Sottaku: 3400 Gold$39.99
- Sottaku: 9200 Gold$99.99
- Sottaku: 20000 Gold$199.99









