Comparison

Learn Cantonese For Beginners vs Kongla 港啦

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 8000+ words and phrases
  • 200+ topics
  • 23 structured chapters
  • Native speaker audio
  • Offline learning mode
  • 6 quiz modes
  • Progress tracking
Features
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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/

About

Kongla 港啦

Features
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Audio-first. Learn by listening and speaking — no need to read Chinese characters to get started. Jyutping romanisation throughout, with characters as an optional toggle once you want them. Real situations — the wet market, ordering dim sum, the MTR, the doctor, the neighbours. Your language, your interface. Learn from English, Bahasa Indonesia, Tagalog, or Thai. Offline from the moment you install it. Every lesson and all its audio ship inside the app — nothing to download, nothing to wait for. Works on the MTR, in a lift, or with no data left. Kongla Premium — unlock every lesson • Monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase • Renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription terms: https://kongla.hk/terms Privacy Policy: https://kongla.hk/privacy

Screenshots

Learn Cantonese For Beginners4 screens
Kongla 港啦4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kongla 港啦 at none against Learn Cantonese For Beginners's shown. Kongla 港啦 also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Learn Cantonese For Beginners's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Learn Cantonese For Beginners sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Kongla 港啦 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Cantonese For Beginners ships an update every 2 months, Kongla 港啦 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Learn Cantonese For Beginners versus Kongla 港啦: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Cantonese For BeginnersKongla 港啦
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAli UmerKongla Group Company Limited

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Learn Cantonese For Beginners

Subscriptions3
  • Cantonese Weekly3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Cantonese$12.991 Month
  • Cantonese$34.991 Year
One-time5
  • Cantonese$2.99
  • Cantonese$4.99
  • Cantonese$5.99
Show 2 more
  • Cantonese$8.99
  • Cantonese$59.99
2 purchases

Kongla 港啦

Subscriptions2
  • Kongla Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Kongla Annual$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Learn Cantonese For Beginners free?
Learn Cantonese For Beginners is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kongla 港啦 free?
Kongla 港啦 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Learn Cantonese For Beginners or Kongla 港啦 have ads?
Learn Cantonese For Beginners shows ads; Kongla 港啦 does not.
Which is updated more often, Learn Cantonese For Beginners or Kongla 港啦?
Learn Cantonese For Beginners ships an update every 2 months, and Kongla 港啦 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Learn Cantonese For Beginners was updated on October 21, 2026 and Kongla 港啦 on October 4, 2026.

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