Frienow vs CineLingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Frienow
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Frienow makes language learning more fun by turning practice into games and challenges. Learn 9 languages with more than 50,000 exercises across a wide variety of topics. Practice through different game modes, challenge other players, compete in tournaments, earn points, and climb the global leaderboard as you improve. Build your vocabulary, improve your listening skills, and learn naturally through images, audio, and context. Learn. Play. Compete.
CineLingo
Learn Spanish and Portuguese by watching short film scenes. This app focuses on auditory comprehension, teaching vocabulary with images and native audio before you hear it in context. It uses spaced repetition and ear training quizzes to help you master the language.
- Learn vocabulary with images and native audio
- Understand spoken language in film scenes
- Ear training for similar-sounding words
- Spaced repetition for vocabulary retention
- Daily 10-minute lessons
- Focus on Latin American Spanish and European Portuguese
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CineLingo teaches you to understand a spoken language by watching a story. Each day you watch a short scene from an original film. Before the scene, CineLingo teaches you the words in it, with pictures and native-speaker audio. No translation, no grammar drills. Then you watch, and you understand the line when it comes. Most apps train your reading. CineLingo trains your ear. HOW IT WORKS • See the word, hear the word: every word comes with an image and spoken audio, so you learn the meaning directly, not through English. • Hear it in the scene: the words you just learned come back in real dialogue at natural speed. • Train your ear: quizzes use words that sound alike (hombre / hambre) so you learn to hear the difference. • Keep it: spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it. • Ten minutes a day: one episode, one lesson, every day. TARGET LANGUAGES • Latin American Spanish • European Portuguese, as spoken in Lisbon, which few apps teach BUILT ON COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT CineLingo is built on comprehensible input: you acquire a language by understanding messages just above your level. Use it alongside the app you already have, or on its own. Start with Day 1. For Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Frienow at none against CineLingo's 4. Frienow also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence 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. CineLingo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.00 per 7 days. Frienow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Frienow ships an update every 8 days, CineLingo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frienow | CineLingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Paulo Johnson | TrackTrack.it, LLC |
In-app purchases
Frienow
No in-app purchases
CineLingo
- Premium Weekly$3.007 Days
- Premium Monthly$9.001 Month
- Premium Yearly$79.001 Year
- Portugal Travel Pack$9.99









