Ahem vs BaoBeiTalk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ahem
Learn languages through immersive story conversations where your choices shape the narrative. Step into real-life situations and discover new expressions through context, making language practice feel personal and memorable.
- Interactive story conversations
- Learn relevant phrases
- Phrase mastery and reinforcement
- Adaptive conversation pacing
- Quests and progress tracking
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Stop memorizing phrases you’ll never use. Choose what you want to learn, and Ahem builds an immersive story around it. Meet characters, respond naturally, and use the language as the situation unfolds. Your choices shape what happens next, turning words and phrases into moments you can actually remember. No rigid curriculum. No endless drills. Just personalized language learning built around what matters to you. Learn Through Stories Explore lively situations—from finding your way through a train station to navigating an unexpected conversation. Each story gives the language a reason to exist. You are not memorizing an isolated phrase. You are using it to understand someone, solve a problem, make a choice, or move the story forward. Features Choose What You Learn Start with a phrase, situation, or something you have always wanted to express. Interactive Story Conversations Talk with characters and influence how each scene unfolds. Personalized Experiences Stories are built around what you choose and adapt to how you respond. Save Useful Phrases Keep words and expressions that matter to you and revisit them later. Review and Reinforce Turn story moments into phrase reviews, summaries, and quizzes. Quests and Progress Reach milestones and discover new surprises as you continue learning. Start with one phrase. Step into a story built around it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Ahem-Privacy-Policy-223f764a70a8804a8438ece307cf6a71
BaoBeiTalk
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A calm storybook for one- to four-year-olds, in Mandarin, English and Bahasa Melayu. Three things at once, and it is the combination that is hard to find: · Your child hears a familiar voice — yours, if you record it · Three languages, all of them fully taught, not one with language packs · A session that ends. We hand them back to you. Tap a picture and it says the word, makes its sound, then says something about it. "Cow. Mooooo. Brown cow." It never asks your child a question, because a question is a test, and a child who cannot answer one learns that talking is a test too. THE SAME WORDS, ALL THE WAY THROUGH Cat becomes "The cat is sleeping" becomes a story with a cat in it becomes a song you sing together. One vocabulary, six ways of meeting it. · 153 words, every one in all three languages, with pinyin · 37 short sentences built only from those words · 32 stories, from four pages for the youngest to fifteen for a whole bedtime · 3 songs — the tune plays and you sing, because a robot singing to a baby is not the point · Chinese characters and printed letters, traced stroke by stroke in the right order · Counting to fifty, and five things to play. None of them is a test. YOUR OWN VOICE Record any word, sentence or song yourself, and your child hears you instead of the app. Four built-in English voices to choose from if you would rather. Recordings never leave your phone. MADE TO BE CALM No scores. No stars. No streaks. No badges. No autoplay. No music stings. A pause after every spoken line, so there is a gap for your child to speak into. Set a daily limit and the app stops for the day — whatever is being read finishes first, so nobody is cut off mid-sentence. FOR THE GROWN-UP Ask for more Mandarin and the app tells you whether your child is actually getting it, counted on your device from taps in the app. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO DATA COLLECTION. Works with no signal. Subscription required after the free trial. The preview is one story, ten words, two sentences, one thing to play and the character 大. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS BaoBeiTalk is free to download. A subscription opens everything else, and it stays open. - BaoBeiTalk, one week: US$11.99 per week - BaoBeiTalk, one month: US$34.99 per month - BaoBeiTalk, one year: US$249.99 per year Prices are in US dollars and shown in your own currency at purchase. Every plan starts with 7 days free. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the period. Manage or cancel a subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://baobeitalk.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ahem at 15.1 against BaoBeiTalk's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Ahem sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and BaoBeiTalk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Ahem | BaoBeiTalk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glasswake LLC | Natalie Leong |
In-app purchases
Ahem
- Premium Weekly$9.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
- Echo Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
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- Ahem Premium Monthly$14.991 Month
- Ahem Premium Annual$99.991 Year
- Premium Annual$149.991 Year
BaoBeiTalk
- One Week7 Days trial$11.997 Days
- One Month7 Days trial$34.991 Month
- One Year7 Days trial$249.991 Year








