Comparison

LangWIDGET vs Xolingo

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

Head to head
About

LangWIDGET

Learn new words through a home screen widget and periodic notifications, offering a passive learning experience. Access all available languages offline without needing an internet connection or creating an account.

Highlights
  • Home screen widget learning
  • Periodic notifications
  • Passive learning method
  • Completely offline
  • No internet required
  • Access to all languages
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You've downloaded enough things for learning languages that force you to stay in the app and look at ads and extras you need to buy. LangWIDGET will teach you the words you want to learn through a cool widget on your home screen and with periodic notifications. You're already checking your phone at inappropriate times anyway. Why not learn a language in addition to just sitting there and breathing? This is a modern take on the classic passive learning methods of listening to audio tapes while you rest. LangWIDGET is completely offline, no internet connection required or even utilized. That means no accounts, no logins, and most importantly, no worries about your data being collected and sold to advertising companies. Everything you need to learn a new language is in your hands. You don't have to purchase individual languages. You have access to them ALL: English, Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Korean, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Czech, with more to come.

About

Xolingo

Learn languages by reading with this app that turns any text into personalized lessons. Tap unknown words to save them, practice them in interactive rounds, and track your progress. Supports Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and English, with offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Personalized vocabulary builder
  • Interactive practice rounds
  • Read your own material
  • Offline dictionaries and translation
  • Progress tracking
  • Multiple language support
Features
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Learn Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and English. Xolingo turns anything you read into a personal lesson. Tap the words you don't know while you read. They go into your word bank with the sentence you met them in, stay highlighted everywhere until they stick, and come back as quick practice rounds built from your own vocabulary. As a word becomes familiar the highlight fades — and when you master it, it leaves the page for good. READ SOMETHING WORTH READING • Short courses that start at absolute beginner and build in order • Leveled articles labelled A1 through B2+, so you can read slightly above your comfort • Complete books in the original language, chapter by chapter • Your own material: paste text, open an EPUB, share a link from Safari, or pull the captions from a video SAVE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY MEET Tap a word or select a phrase and Xolingo shows its meaning, examples, and the sentence it came from. Bundled offline dictionaries cover most words; on-device machine translation fills the gaps without sending your reading anywhere. PLAY THE WORDS BACK The Arcade turns your saved vocabulary into short fill-in-the-blank rounds. Ten questions, real sentences, streaks and ranks. Practice the words you personally collected, or work through frequency decks covering the most common words, from the first hundred up to the first thousand, plus themed decks for work, travel, food, health, and money. Flash cards are there too when you'd rather drill. SEE IT ADD UP Word bank size by familiarity, words mastered, reading time, listening time, day streaks and arcade ranks — all on your device. FIVE LANGUAGES, BOTH DIRECTIONS English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), and Italian. Each one works as the language you already speak or the one you're learning, and the whole app — interface, translations, word cards — follows your choice. READ ALOUD Hear any word, sentence, or whole text in the voice already on your phone. Xolingo marks which voices work offline and prefers them automatically. WORKS OFFLINE, WORKS QUIETLY Keep texts on your device for a flight or a commute. There is no account to create, no advertising, no behavioural tracking, and no learner profile on our servers — your word bank and reading history stay on your phone. FREE AND PRO Xolingo is free to use. Reading and read-aloud are unlimited. Free learners can translate and save five new words or phrases per local calendar day and can play the Arcade frequency decks for ranks 1–100 and 101–200. Reopening saved vocabulary does not use another slot. Xolingo Pro removes the daily new-vocabulary limit and unlocks every Arcade deck, including the deck generated from your Word Bank. It is available as an auto-renewing monthly subscription at US$6.99 or an auto-renewing yearly subscription at US$69.99, which is two months free against the monthly price. The store shows the exact localized price, period, renewal terms, and any introductory offer before purchase. Manage or cancel through the store or Xolingo's Customer Center. Terms of Use: https://xolingo.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://xolingo.app/privacy

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: LangWIDGET at free against Xolingo's freemium. Xolingo's advantage is device support. On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. LangWIDGET sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Xolingo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LangWIDGET against 5.0 for Xolingo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
LangWIDGET versus Xolingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLangWIDGETXolingo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Devices—iPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB124 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAlfonso CejudoAxoLottaLove

In-app purchases

3 purchases

LangWIDGET

One-time3
  • Mixtape 2$0.99
  • Mixtape 3$0.99
  • Mixtape 4$0.99
2 purchases

Xolingo

Subscriptions2
  • Xolingo Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Xolingo Pro Yearly$69.991 Year

Questions

Is LangWIDGET free?
LangWIDGET is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Xolingo free?
Xolingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LangWIDGET or Xolingo?
LangWIDGET and Xolingo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.

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