Comparison

画像de英単語 vs ToneBeyondLingua

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

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About

画像de英単語

This app leverages the 'picture superiority effect' to enhance vocabulary learning for university entrance exams and TOEIC. It uses rich illustrations alongside English words to significantly improve memorization efficiency, moving beyond traditional text-based methods.

Highlights
  • Illustration-based vocabulary memorization
  • Covers 4000 words for university entrance exams
  • Utilizes the 'picture superiority effect'
  • Efficient learning method
  • Supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod
Features
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画像をフル活用して大学入試やTOEICに必要なすべての英単語を覚えられる英単語アプリです。 実は人間の脳は、文字列よりも視覚情報(画像や映像)の方が圧倒的に覚えやすく、かつ速く処理できるようにできています。これを心理学や認知科学の世界では「画像優位性効果(Picture Superiority Effect)」と呼びます。文字だけで暗記するよりも画像と一緒に暗記すると、6倍記憶に残りやすいとされており、マーケティング業界・広告業界では、消費者の記憶への強力なフックとして、画像や写真の視覚情報は広く活用されています。 「画像de英単語」は、これまでの文字だらけの単語帳とは違い、豊富なイラストを使って、この画像優位性効果を最大限に活かして英単語を暗記できるアプリです。システム英単語・ターゲット・LEAP に掲載の単語4000語全てに画像をつけたので、大学入試に必要な全ての単語を、圧倒的な効率で覚えられます。 是非、画像を使った新しい暗記学習を体験してみてください。 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://broken-cowl-c5d.notion.site/184a992c4cda80c5a4ccec6cd0a89eb3

About

ToneBeyondLingua

Features
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Say what you actually mean — at the level you can actually speak. Type or speak what you want to say in your own language. Lingua puts it into English using only the most common words, and shows you the sentence broken into coloured pieces: who, does what, when and where. Then it translates its own English back into your language, so you can see how much of your meaning survived. MOVE THE DIAL One control changes everything. Drag it down and the English gets simpler; the back-translation gets thinner, and you can watch the nuance fall away. Drag it up and it comes back. That is the whole idea: not "you got it wrong", but "this is what you can say with the words you have — and this is what a few more words would buy you." Each rung is a vocabulary ceiling by word frequency, from the 500 most common English words up to no limit at all, with CEFR bands shown as a rough guide. Lingua checks every word it produces against that ceiling, so when a word sits above the level you picked it says so, with a dashed outline, instead of quietly slipping it in. A DICTIONARY YOU CAN REACH FOR Missing a word? Pull up the toolbox. Look it up in your own language and see the options side by side with the level each one sits at — "hard" and "difficult" are not the same distance away as "challenging". Tap one and it drops straight into the sentence you are writing. THEN SAY IT OUT LOUD The sentence you just built carries through to the studio, where you shape its rhythm and stress and say it back in your own voice. BUILT TO BE READABLE Large text throughout, with its own size control on top of Dynamic Type. The colour coding is doubled with distinct shapes and icons, so it works without relying on colour vision. Twelve interface languages. WHAT IT COSTS Nothing. No ads, no subscription, no paywalled levels, no limit on how much you can translate. There is an optional tip jar if you want to support the work; it unlocks nothing, because everything is already unlocked. Nothing you write or say is collected, and there is no tracking of any kind. BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD Rewriting a sentence to a chosen vocabulary level runs on Apple Intelligence, on your device. On a device or iOS version without Apple Intelligence, the word search, the level ladder and the pronunciation studio all still work, but automatic level-constrained rewriting will not be available. Composition currently goes from your language into English. — Word lists: New General Service List and New Academic Word List by Browne, C., Culligan, B. and Phillips, J., used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Japanese headwords from JMdict/EDICT, © Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any language testing organisation.

Screenshots

画像de英単語4 screens
ToneBeyondLingua3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 画像de英単語 at weekly against ToneBeyondLingua's every 2 months. 画像de英単語 also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 画像de英単語 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ToneBeyondLingua sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

画像de英単語 ships an update weekly, ToneBeyondLingua every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
画像de英単語 versus ToneBeyondLingua: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter画像de英単語ToneBeyondLingua
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size391 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSatoshi KawazoeTomonori Kowatari

In-app purchases

4 purchases

画像de英単語

Subscriptions3
  • 完全版(月額)$1.991 Month
  • 完全版(6か月)7 Days trial$8.996 Months
  • 完全版(1年間)7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • 完全版(買い切り)$14.99
3 purchases

ToneBeyondLingua

One-time3
  • Small Support$0.99
  • Support$4.99
  • Big Support$9.99

Questions

Is 画像de英単語 free?
画像de英単語 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ToneBeyondLingua free?
ToneBeyondLingua is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 画像de英単語 or ToneBeyondLingua have ads?
Neither 画像de英単語 nor ToneBeyondLingua shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 画像de英単語 or ToneBeyondLingua?
画像de英単語 ships an update weekly, and ToneBeyondLingua every 2 months. Most recently, 画像de英単語 was updated on October 12, 2026 and ToneBeyondLingua on October 5, 2026.

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