Comparison

Practy vs Ether Echo

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

Head to head
About

Practy

Master verb conjugations and vocabulary with spaced repetition flashcards and listening exercises in 8 languages. Enhance learning with a browser extension that integrates with streaming services and websites for real-world content practice.

Highlights
  • Conjugation drills across all tenses
  • Spaced repetition vocabulary flashcards
  • Listening exercises in 8 languages
  • Progress tracking dashboard
  • Browser extension for streaming content
  • Dual subtitles and instant definitions
Features
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Practice verb conjugations across the tenses learners struggle with: the preterite and subjunctive in Spanish, the passé composé in French, the passato prossimo in Italian, and more. Master every tense, pronoun and irregular form. Practice vocabulary with customizable flashcards and spaced repetition. GO DEEPER WITH OUR EXTENSION A free companion browser extension extends Practy to Netflix, Youtube, HBO Max, Disney+, and the rest of the web. Learn from real content with dual subtitles, instant definition lookups and instant flashcard creation. Save words that sync to your iPhone for practice on the go across all exercises. LANGUAGES Currently available for learning Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, English, Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese. More languages to come! Terms and Conditions: https://practy.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://practy.app/privacy Apple Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Ether Echo

Features
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You will not learn to write Japanese here. You will learn to understand it when someone says it, and to say it yourself. That is a decision, not a gap. Learning to read and draw a foreign script costs months that bring you no closer to a conversation. Ether Echo removes that step and spends every available minute on the only two things that produce speech: your ear and your mouth. THE METHOD Every word you meet becomes a card, and every card comes back at the moment you were about to forget it. That is spaced repetition, computed by FSRS, the algorithm that models your forgetting curve instead of following a fixed schedule. You review less and retain more, because nothing comes back too early. But the cards are not word lists. Every word arrives inside a sentence you hear, spoken by a voice, in context. You do not memorise "dog = 犬". You hear a sentence about a dog, and you understand it. WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE - Hear a sentence, choose what it means. - Hear it with no text at all, once the word is anchored enough to drop the crutch. - Read a sentence in your own language, find how it is said in the other. - Say it out loud, and speech recognition tells you whether you were understood. None of it asks you to draw a character. THE VOICE TUTOR Once you have enough words, you talk to a tutor that answers out loud, live, in the language you are learning. It stays inside what you already know: it will not use words you have never met. This is where vocabulary turns into speech. SCRIPTS THAT ARE NOT LATIN Japanese appears in rōmaji, Mandarin in pinyin with its tones, Russian in accented transliteration, because Russian stress is never written down and changes what a word means. You always read something you can pronounce. LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian. The interface speaks all seven, and you pick the one things are explained in. PLACEMENT A short assessment finds where you already are. You do not start at "hello" if you are past it. SUBSCRIPTION The app, the courses, the spaced repetition and every exercise are included. The subscription pays for live conversation minutes with the voice tutor: 50, 150, 300 or 600 per month depending on the tier, billed monthly or yearly. Thirty trial minutes when you sign up, no card required. TERMS OF USE Auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. It renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and it is managed from your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://echo.infiniteether.studio/confidentialite/en

Screenshots

Practy4 screens
Ether Echo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Practy at none against Ether Echo's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Practy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Ether Echo sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Practy ships an update every 11 days, Ether Echo every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Practy versus Ether Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPractyEther Echo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB84 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHamilton Technology LLCInfinite Ether Interactive Inc.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Practy

Subscriptions2
  • Practy Plus Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Practy Plus Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
8 purchases

Ether Echo

Subscriptions8
  • Lite$9.991 Month
  • Starter$24.991 Month
  • Regular$39.991 Month
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  • Intensive$79.991 Month
  • Lite Annual$99.991 Year
  • Starter Annual$249.991 Year
  • Regular Annual$399.991 Year
  • Intensive Annual$699.991 Year

Questions

Is Practy free?
Practy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ether Echo free?
Ether Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Practy or Ether Echo have ads?
Ether Echo shows ads; Practy does not.
Which is updated more often, Practy or Ether Echo?
Practy ships an update every 11 days, and Ether Echo every 10 days. Most recently, Practy was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ether Echo on October 8, 2026.

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