Comparison

头号英语 vs Etch

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

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头号英语

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头号英语|真实视频学英语 英语不是一串等待记住的符号,而是发生在声音、画面、动作、语气和上下文中的真实交流。 词表告诉你一个词是什么意思,视频让你看见:谁在说、为什么这样说、什么时候能用。 很多单词明明背过,换个场景却认不出;很多句子明明看得懂,真正听到时却反应不过来。问题往往不是记忆力不够,而是语言一直停留在纸面上。 头号英语用真实视频重新组织英语学习:在场景中理解,在不同视频里重遇,再通过闯关检验掌握。让抽象的词义变成看得见、听得到、能理解的真实表达。 从记住一个词,到看懂语言如何发生。 【看见,才真正理解】 人物、动作、语气和上下文共同解释一句话。你学到的不只是翻译,而是一个词在真实交流中的声音、意思和用法。 【重遇,让理解留下来】 同一个单词会在不同视频和练习中再次出现。每次重遇都增加一层语境,让“好像见过”逐渐变成“听到就懂”。 【闯关,确认自己真的会了】 通过判断、选择、听写、拼句等任务及时验证理解;配合关卡、连击与排行榜,让每天的进步清晰可见。 【一段视频,一次完整学习】 看场景 → 听表达 → 猜含义 → 核对 → 重听 → 跟读 → 练习 → 再次重遇。 不是刷过就算,而是理解、验证、巩固。 【为视频学习设计的工具】 • 减压字幕:只在难点处提供提示,减少整屏翻译的干扰 • 延时字幕:先听、先猜,再看字幕核对 • 一键解析:随时拆解地道表达与文化背景 • 影子跟读:模仿真实声音、语气和节奏 • 场景微练习:通过判断、选择、听写和拼句,及时验证理解 • 学习笔记:沉淀值得复习和使用的短语与句型 • 搜索与收藏:把想学的单词和表达带回真实视频 • 重复遇见:让重要单词跨场景重现,越见越熟、越练越会 • 游戏化闯关:通过关卡、连击和排行榜,让坚持更有动力 无论你想积累词汇、提升听力,还是建立更自然的英语语感,都可以从一个短小、真实的场景开始。 走出纸面,走进视频——真实英语学习时代,从此开始。 【订阅说明】 头号听力提供自动续费订阅会员:VIP 年卡会员 ¥299/年。 订阅在当前周期结束前 24 小时自动续费,可随时在 Apple ID 账户设置中管理或取消。 用户协议 / Terms of Use: https://api.modelisms.com/api/legal/user-agreement?format=html 隐私政策 / Privacy Policy: https://api.modelisms.com/api/legal/privacy-policy?format=html 使用条款(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

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Etch

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Note: Etch's interface and its AI-generated definitions are in Chinese. It is built for Chinese speakers learning English. I built Etch because vocabulary never stuck for me. Words I looked up were gone the next day. My dictionary app held hundreds of saved words and not one of them had become mine. What I eventually understood is that the problem was not recall — it was writing. Reading a word ten times does less than writing it once. Psychologists call this the generation effect: producing the answer yourself leaves a far stronger trace than reading it. So Etch does one thing well. It makes you write the word. Capture without leaving what you're reading A Shortcut pulls the selected word in along with the sentence it appeared in. The sentence where you met the word is the sentence you'll see again at review time — words stripped of context are the hardest to keep. The entry fills itself in Pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, morpheme breakdown and common collocations arrive a few seconds after you add the word. Senses are ordered to fit the sentence you captured, rather than copied from a dictionary in fixed order. Review by writing, not by recognizing Write with a finger or Apple Pencil, get judged the moment you finish, and see letter by letter where you went wrong. Three modes: write from the meaning, write from the pronunciation, or fill the blank in a sentence. Recognizing a word is not the same as being able to write it — that difference is the whole point of Etch. Scheduling is handled for you Etch uses FSRS-5. It schedules each review from the word’s difficulty, stability, and current retrievability, aiming to bring it back as memory weakens rather than promising an exact moment of forgetting. One vocabulary across Mac and iPhone Capture on the Mac, review on the iPhone, progress syncs both ways. A home screen widget keeps today's words in front of you, and the ink darkens as you finish them. Etch is free, carries no ads, and does not sell your data. You can export your whole vocabulary at any time, and delete your account from inside the app.

Screenshots

头号英语4 screens
Etch3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Etch at none against 头号英语's 2. 头号英语's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. 头号英语 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Etch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

头号英语 ships an update every 2 days, Etch weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
头号英语 versus Etch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter头号英语Etch
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer上海墨斗曲线智能科技有限公司宏 周

In-app purchases

2 purchases

头号英语

Subscriptions1
  • VIP 年卡会员$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • 终身会员$99.99
None

Etch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 头号英语 free?
头号英语 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Etch free?
Etch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 头号英语 or Etch have ads?
Neither 头号英语 nor Etch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 头号英语 or Etch?
头号英语 ships an update every 2 days, and Etch weekly. Most recently, 头号英语 was updated on October 16, 2026 and Etch on October 6, 2026.

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