Learn Cantonese For Beginners vs CantoMeow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Cantonese For Beginners
Master Cantonese with a comprehensive, user-friendly app designed for beginners. It offers over 8000 words, 200+ topics, and 23 structured chapters, featuring native pronunciations and offline learning. Interactive quizzes and progress tracking help build fluency for travelers and language enthusiasts.
- 8000+ words and phrases
- 200+ topics
- 23 structured chapters
- Native speaker audio
- Offline learning mode
- 6 quiz modes
- Progress tracking
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Build your Cantonese for everyday conversations, family connections and travel in Hong Kong. Start with useful greetings, listen to recordings and practise short phrases with English meanings and pronunciation guides. LEARN STEP BY STEP Explore 48 chapters and 432 short lessons with more than 5,000 word and phrase entries. Read Cantonese characters alongside English and Jyutping pronunciation guides. Start with Greetings, Goodbyes, Polite Essentials and Simple Replies. Continue through Numbers and Time, People and Family, Food and Drink, Places and Directions, Shopping, Eating Out, and Planning and Taking a Trip. Explore more advanced topics in Work and Jobs, Stories and Experiences, Discussion and Persuasion, and Flexible Communication. CONNECT CHARACTERS WITH SOUNDS • Explore Cantonese sounds through character examples. • Listen to included recordings without streaming. • Adjust audio speed, volume and repeat. • Reveal answers to practise recall or use Direct Learning. • Review with reading, listening, translation and true-or-false quizzes. YOUR WORDS. YOUR ROUTINE. Save useful words to Favorites and organise them with color highlights. Return to the lesson a word came from. Add chapters to My Interests, change their order and track learned words, completed lessons and quiz results. Get a fresh daily practice task every 24 hours. START FREE Explore the sounds and characters section and Chapter 1 with ads. The first four lessons are available immediately; complete each preceding lesson to unlock the remaining lessons in that chapter. For Chapters 2–48, upgrade or watch an available rewarded ad for temporary chapter access during your current app session. Lesson progression still applies. FULL ACCESS Choose a Weekly or Yearly subscription, or a Lifetime one-time purchase, for full course access without ads. Eligible users may receive a 3-day free trial on the Weekly plan when offered by the App Store. Prices and trial eligibility are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After a free trial, the selected plan renews at the displayed price unless canceled. Manage subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Canceling renewal keeps paid access until the current period ends; your saved learning progress remains after access expires. Course text and included recordings work offline. Purchases and ads require an internet connection. Start with a greeting and keep building your Cantonese. Privacy Policy: https://owlspeak.web.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
CantoMeow
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The only Cantonese app with a live AI tutor that listens, corrects your tones, and speaks back in native Cantonese. Learn using Jyutping or Yale romanisation — no Chinese characters needed. WHY CANTOMEOW? Cantonese has 6 tones. Say the wrong one and you've said a completely different word. Most apps ignore this. CantoMeow is built around it — every lesson teaches tones explicitly, and the AI practice tutor catches your mistakes in real time. LEARN MODE — WORKS OFFLINE • 50+ structured units from beginner to advanced. Bonus units added every month. • Audio for every word at normal and slow speed • Jyutping AND Yale romanisation — switch any time • 5 assessment types per unit: listening, tones, translation, fill-in, word order • Spaced repetition review (SRS) so you never forget what you learned • Fully offline — no internet needed after download PRACTICE MODE — AI TUTOR • Speak Cantonese, get corrected instantly • AI identifies tone errors, grammar mistakes, and mispronunciations • Hear native Cantonese responses from your AI tutor • Up to 30 minutes of daily AI practice included • Conversation history tracks your progress over time WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Greetings · Numbers · Time & dates · Food & restaurants · Transport · Shopping · Family · Grammar particles · Colloquial slang · Idioms · Fast speech · And much more FREE FOREVER Units 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are completely free — no timer, no ads, no nag screens. Try before you buy. UNLOCK EVERYTHING — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Unlock all 50+ units for a single payment of $19.99. No subscription required for the full learning course. AI PRACTICE TUTOR — MONTHLY OR ANNUAL Add the live AI conversation tutor for $9.99/month or $99.99/year (save 17%). Privacy policy: https://www.cantomeow.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.cantomeow.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CantoMeow at none against Learn Cantonese For Beginners's shown. Learn Cantonese For Beginners's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support 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. Learn Cantonese For Beginners sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and CantoMeow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Learn Cantonese For Beginners ships an update every 2 months, CantoMeow every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn Cantonese For Beginners | CantoMeow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ali Umer | Eberything |
In-app purchases
Learn Cantonese For Beginners
- Cantonese Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Cantonese$12.991 Month
- Cantonese$34.991 Year
- Cantonese$2.99
- Cantonese$4.99
- Cantonese$5.99
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- Cantonese$8.99
- Cantonese$59.99
CantoMeow
- Practice Tutor - Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Practice Tutor - Annual$99.991 Year
- CantoMeow - Learning Unlock$19.99
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