Comparison

Oki vs Zarafa

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

Head to head
About

Oki

Learn English with personalized lessons, speaking and writing practice, and detailed feedback from an AI coach. Create flashcards and track your progress across all language skills. This app offers a comprehensive approach to mastering English.

Highlights
  • Personalized lessons based on interests
  • Speaking and writing practice
  • Detailed feedback on mistakes
  • AI coach for real-time conversation
  • Flashcard creation
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Learning English across multiple apps is inefficient. Oki combines personalized lessons, speaking practice, writing tasks, flashcards, and a personal AI coach in a single interface. Oki teaches 13 languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Kazakh, Italian, French, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Filipino, Indonesian and Hindi. What Oki offers: — Lessons created around your interests. The app generates study materials based on the topics that matter to you: from travel and technology to literature and business. You stay engaged and remember more. — Speaking practice with intelligent feedback. You speak, and the system analyzes your pronunciation, fluency, and vocabulary usage. Oki highlights exactly what can be improved and suggests adjustments that help you sound more natural. — Writing practice and homework review. Written assignments are checked in detail: every mistake is not just corrected, but explained. You receive a breakdown that shows the reason behind each error, which helps you avoid it in the future. — Flashcards with interval repetition. Completed material is automatically turned into flashcards. The system shows them at the optimal moment so that knowledge moves into long-term memory without unnecessary cramming. — Real-time AI coach conversations. Each dialogue adapts to your current level. New words and phrases are introduced gradually, without overload, so your vocabulary expands naturally during the conversation. Coming soon: — Automatic generation of a complete study program built around your interests and goals.
— Watching YouTube videos with translation and the ability to create lessons based on any video.
— Full in-bot communication without distractions from external tools. Why people choose Oki: A single environment. Lessons, speaking, writing, flashcards, and feedback are available in one app. There is no need to download separate programs for each skill. Real, measurable progress. Unlike traditional apps that mainly offer mechanical exercises in a glossy package, Oki tracks concrete metrics: practice time, number of words spoken, and completed lessons. You always know exactly how far you have come. Tracking of all language skills. Detailed statistics let you see not only completed topics but also the balance between speaking, writing, and revision. Notifications support consistency without harsh pressure. Structured tasks, not endless chat. Unlike text-based AI chatbots, Oki provides a format close to study materials: full lessons, flashcards, verified tasks with error breakdowns. This goes deeper than simply exchanging messages with a bot. Personalization without overload. The AI remembers your interests, preferred pace, and learning style. The difficulty of new words increases gradually, so you never face abrupt jumps or lose confidence. Higher accuracy of feedback. The system detects errors 64% more accurately than comparable solutions and provides corrective feedback that contributes to real improvement, not just a formal check. The method behind Oki was developed with input from English teaching experts from the United States. The project is powered by the Aleem Labs team — an educational community that has been helping learners with free guides for two years. These materials have been used by more than 600,000 people, and an additional 3,000 students from 35 countries have completed training through the team’s programs. Three actions required to master a language: • Learning new words and phrases. • Practicing speaking and writing. • Reviewing through an interval repetition system. Oki implements all three stages: personalized lessons for acquiring new knowledge, speech and writing practice with feedback, and flashcards for reinforcement. This is exactly why users achieve noticeable results. Download Oki and start learning English systematically — without the chaos of multiple apps and superficial cramming. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Zarafa

Learn new vocabulary effortlessly by placing flashcards directly on your Lock Screen and Home Screen. This app offers words in 40 languages across 32 topics, with offline functionality and pronunciation guides.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
  • 40 languages supported
  • 32 topic categories
  • Offline functionality
  • Pronunciation audio
  • Live Activity support
Features
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A language isn't learned in an hour a day. It's learned in a hundred glances at your screen. Zarafa puts a word from the language you're learning exactly where you already look fifty times a day — the Lock Screen and the Home Screen. Unlock your phone, read a word. No session to start, no lesson to finish. • 40 languages: Spanish, French, German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese and more • 32 topics: the 300 most frequent words, essential verbs, travel, airport, restaurant, work, medicine, slang, idioms, false friends • Widgets in every size, on the Lock Screen, plus Live Activity • Translated into your native language, not through English • Works offline — the starter dictionary ships inside • Pronunciation out loud, and stats without streak guilt Put the widget on your screen and the words will start finding you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dbranchuk.github.io/zarafa/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

Oki4 screens
Zarafa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Zarafa at 100% against Oki's 63%. Zarafa also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Oki's advantage is ratings volume (393 vs 9). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Oki sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month and Zarafa sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.09 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Zarafa holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oki has 393 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Oki's written reviews are positive against 100% of Zarafa's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oki ships an update every 5 days, Zarafa every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Oki versus Zarafa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOkiZarafa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (393 ratings)4.7 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings393 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB26 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlidar KuchukovDzmitry Branchuk

Customer experience

Oki

All ratings393 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral9.9%
Negative26.8%

Zarafa

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Oki

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Registration process not working properly

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to register through third-party accounts
  • More language learning options

Zarafa

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Oki

Subscriptions10
  • Oki Promotion Monthly$1.001 Month
  • Oki Pro One Dollar Discount1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Oki Pro Monthly 50% Off$2.991 Month
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  • Oki Premium 50% off Discount$4.991 Month
  • Oki Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Oki Pro$9.991 Month
  • Aleem Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Oki Promotion Annual$10.001 Year
  • Oki Pro Annual$29.991 Year
  • Aleem Annual3 Days trial$88.001 Year
5 purchases

Zarafa

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly$2.091 Month
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly −50%$9.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Oki free?
Oki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zarafa free?
Zarafa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Oki or Zarafa?
Zarafa is rated higher. Oki averages 4.4 out of 5 from 393 ratings, while Zarafa averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Oki or Zarafa have ads?
Neither Oki nor Zarafa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Oki or Zarafa?
Oki ships an update every 5 days, and Zarafa every 2 days. Most recently, Oki was updated on November 5, 2026 and Zarafa on November 1, 2026.

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