Comparison

Kalima vs Viglot

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

Head to head
About

Kalima

Features
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Learn languages by reading and watching. Articles, videos and books, picked for your level and interests. Find something you want to read or watch, tap the words you don't know, and keep them with spaced-repetition review. FIND SOMETHING YOU'LL ENJOY • Discover articles, videos and books that match your level and interests. • Bring your own: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2, TXT and other ebook and document formats, web articles, videos with captions, or text from a camera scan. • Share a link from Safari or another app straight into Kalima. READ ONE SENTENCE AT A TIME • The reader keeps one sentence in focus as the text flows past. • Tap any word for its meaning and translation, or translate the whole sentence. • Listen with word-by-word highlighting, at a speed that suits you. • Ask about a sentence to have it explained, simplified or broken down. WATCH AND UNDERSTAND • Follow a video line by line with a transcript that keeps pace. • Tap a word to pause the video and see what it means. • Translate a line or slow the video down. SAY IT OUT LOUD • Read a sentence aloud and see which words you got right, with a score for every try. KEEP THE WORDS YOU FIND • Save words with the sentence you found them in. • Review with flashcards scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. • See your week at a glance and choose how many new words to learn each day. • Import vocabulary exports (CSV) and flashcard decks (.apkg), keeping each deck's review history. 18 LANGUAGES Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Vietnamese or Hebrew. Kalima itself is available in all 18. MAKE IT YOURS Choose your text size, font and a light or dark theme. KALIMA PRO Kalima Pro adds AI voices, Ask, speaking practice, sync across devices and higher limits. SUBSCRIPTIONS Kalima Pro offers monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions. Eligible new subscribers may receive a 7-day free trial on either plan; Apple determines eligibility, which is shared across the subscription group. Your localized price is shown before purchase. Kalima keeps analytics pseudonymous and does not send your imported text, book titles, saved words, definitions, URLs, or searches to analytics. Privacy Policy: https://kalimaapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://kalimaapp.com/terms

About

Viglot

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You understand far more than you can say. Viglot closes that gap with speaking practice built around your own life, in 40+ languages. ■ When it's your turn, your mind goes blank You've studied for months, maybe years. You can read a menu and follow a conversation. But when it's your turn to speak, your mind goes blank. Fluency isn't knowing more words, it's getting them out when it counts, and that is exactly what Viglot trains. ■ Past the basics, most apps run out of things to teach you Ordering a coffee and asking the way won't get you through a doctor's appointment, a job interview or dinner with your partner's family. Viglot starts where beginner courses stop and takes you from intermediate to advanced (B1 to C2), with new situations every time instead of the same drills with longer words. ■ Learn the language for your life, not a textbook's Tell Viglot what you need the language for: your job, a move abroad, your partner's family, football, cooking. Every lesson becomes a scene from that life, and every phrase comes with a picture of the moment and a native-quality voice. Words you need, seen in a real moment, are words that stay. ■ Practice speaking without an audience No one to practice with, or too self-conscious to try in front of people? Your conversation partner in Viglot is an AI: it's there whenever you have ten minutes, never loses patience and never judges. You get a goal, like returning a faulty jacket, explaining your symptoms or agreeing on a price, and you talk it through out loud. Afterwards you find out whether you got there and what to say better next time. ■ Don't stall when a word is missing In a real conversation you forget a word, or the other person gets you wrong. Viglot trains you for both: you practice saying things in your own words, and Viglot even misunderstands you on purpose, so you learn to rephrase, give an example or ask a clarifying question until your point lands. ■ Stop forgetting what you learned Words you struggle with come back sooner, words you know come back later, so your time goes where it's needed. A word only counts as learned once you've produced it yourself, not just recognized it. And the difficulty follows you: it eases off when you're struggling and pushes when you're cruising. ■ Exam coming up? Type your exam as the topic, for example DELE B1, DELF A2, Goethe B1, JLPT N4, HSK 3 or TOPIK II, and your lessons follow its syllabus unit by unit. Any other topic works just as well. Viglot isn't affiliated with any exam provider. ■ Not learning from English? Most apps only teach from English. Viglot works in any pair of 40+ languages, in either direction: German from Persian, Spanish from Arabic, English from Ukrainian, Japanese from French. Learn Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and many more, including regional varieties such as Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Egyptian Arabic. Right-to-left languages work fully, and the app itself is available in 36 languages. ■ Who it's for Viglot is for learners who want to finally use what they know. It covers A1 to C2 and is tuned for B1 and up. It isn't made for complete beginners: it assumes you already know the basics. ■ Free to start The core exercises are free. Premium unlocks the conversations and the speaking practice, plus listening, culture and grammar-feedback exercises. Premium is a monthly subscription; cancel anytime. You know more than you can say. Time to start saying it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://viglot.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://viglot.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Kalima4 screens
Viglot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kalima at every 4 days against Viglot's weekly. Viglot's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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. Kalima sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Viglot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kalima ships an update every 4 days, Viglot weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Kalima versus Viglot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKalimaViglot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB59 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMuhammadjon OlimovViktor Pergjoka

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Kalima

Subscriptions2
  • Kalima Pro Monthly7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Kalima Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year
1 purchases

Viglot

Subscriptions1
  • Premium$17.991 Month

Questions

Is Kalima free?
Kalima is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Viglot free?
Viglot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kalima or Viglot have ads?
Neither Kalima nor Viglot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kalima or Viglot?
Kalima ships an update every 4 days, and Viglot weekly. Most recently, Kalima was updated on November 5, 2026 and Viglot on November 5, 2026.

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