Comparison

QuackPath vs Colish · Hear it. Know it

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

Head to head
About

QuackPath

Create personalized language learning courses from your own content, whether it's text, photos, or spoken situations. Practice vocabulary, take quizzes, and engage in speaking exercises with an AI tutor. Learn across 15 languages with features like widgets and group games.

Highlights
  • Create lessons from custom content
  • Vocabulary learning with translations and pronunciation
  • Varied quiz types for practice
  • AI voice tutor for speaking practice
  • Widgets for home and lock screens
  • Group game mode for learning
  • Supports 15 languages
Features
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QuackPath turns your own content into a personal language course. Paste text, scan a page, choose a photo, share a PDF from another app, or simply describe a real-life situation. QuackPath builds a course around what you actually want to understand: useful vocabulary, translations, example sentences, quizzes, and speaking practice. Study from the things that matter to you: articles, notes, book passages, menus, signs, emails, travel moments, class material, work phrases, and everyday conversations. What you can do with QuackPath: - Create courses from pasted text, scans, photos, shared documents, or situations you type or speak - Follow full courses to learn a whole language step by step: 40 levels each, in 14 languages, with review from earlier levels - Take ready-made courses for everyday situations (at the cafe, asking for directions, checking in at a hotel) as often as you like - Play the Weekly Challenge, a free word game each week (Hatch, Flock, Echo, or Dash), with a new puzzle every day and a leaderboard - Play QuackBits, quick mini-games for letters, numbers, colors, directions, typing, and more, each with free modes - Challenge a friend to a 1v1 on a ready-made course, with each of you playing in your own language - Learn vocabulary with translations, examples, and pronunciation - Practice with varied quizzes, including matching, typing, listening, sentence building, and speaking - In a course, tap a word to see its meaning, hear it, star it, or mark it as known - Build a word memory that follows you across every course - Review favorites and the words you miss most often - With Plus, practice speaking with the AI tutor: speak out loud and it answers back - Keep learning from Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Live Activity, and the Apple Watch app - Join a class by scanning your teacher’s code, or run your own class in Teacher mode with Plus - With Plus, host a live HugeScreen quiz on a TV or laptop while everyone plays by phone (joining is free) - Learn across 15 supported languages Most language apps give everyone the same path. QuackPath builds the path around you: the words you meet, the topics you care about, and the moments you actually want to handle. Add content you own, have permission to use, or are allowed to use for personal study, then turn it into lasting vocabulary. QuackPath Plus unlocks the AI tutor, unlimited courses, no daily limit on new levels, and your whole library. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Colish · Hear it. Know it

Features
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Words while your ears are free. On the commute, on a walk, while cooking or in the shower, your eyes and hands are busy. Your ears are not. Colish groups words into sets of 50 and plays them on a loop with more natural native-language audio. Put on headphones, pocket the phone, leave the screen off. Listen as you go You work with 50 words at a time, round after round, until they sound familiar. Playback has Standard, Quick, Immersive, and Shadowing. Speed and the pause between words can match your pace. Fade Review Three steps: listen to a set of 50; mark a word you know, and it plays less often in that set; days later those words come back for review. Time goes to the words you have not learned yet. One action When you know a word, mark it. If you are unsure, mark it Not yet, and this round plays it more. That is the only action, so it works while walking or doing chores. 50-word stages A whole book is split into stages of 50. When most of a set is mastered, the next stage comes in: mastered words leave, later words from the book fill the gap, and you still face 50. You can see each word's state at any time: playing, mastered, familiar, or not yet. Due review Due words form their own group: play the word, pause so you can recall, then show the meaning, and choose remembered or forgotten. Remembered words wait longer next time. Forgotten ones return to the set you hear every day. A notification fires when they are due. Open it and you are in review. Without looking On headphones, one click pauses or resumes, two clicks skip to the next word, three clicks mark it known. Lock-screen media controls have previous, next, and known, and they show the word being spoken and what it means. Gestures and cues On the player, swipe left or right to change words, swipe up to mark known, swipe down to mark not yet, two-finger swipe down for the sleep timer. Every action has a haptic and a sound. Marks use a cue, not speech, so they do not interrupt the word being spoken. Widgets and Dynamic Island On iPhone, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show the book you are listening to, how many words are due, and how many you have mastered. One tap resumes. Dynamic Island and the lock-screen card show the current word, reading, and meaning. You can mark it known there. A wrong mark can be undone in a few seconds. More natural native-language audio Words and examples play with more natural native-language audio. Each word has a short example sentence, so usage comes with it. Offline listening After you pick a book, audio downloads in the background. Once it is done, you can keep listening on the subway, on a plane, or anywhere without a signal. Decks Starter lists, HSK core words, and JLPT common words. Pick a book for an exam, or start with high-frequency words to grow vocabulary. More books are being added. Native language Choose your native language in Settings. Meanings and the interface language follow it. The book list shows the ones that fit. Sleep timer Set a time before bed and playback stops then. You can also stop after the current round. Switch phones After you sign in, mastered words, review schedule, and the book you are listening to sync to a new phone. Learning and listening work without signing in. Sign in when you want the sync.

Screenshots

QuackPath4 screens
Colish · Hear it. Know it4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colish · Hear it. Know it at none against QuackPath's 2. Colish · Hear it. Know it also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). QuackPath's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 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. QuackPath sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Colish · Hear it. Know it asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuackPath ships an update every 9 days, Colish · Hear it. Know it daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
QuackPath versus Colish · Hear it. Know it: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuackPathColish · Hear it. Know it
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB32 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHidayet BAYSALZAIU K.K.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

QuackPath

Subscriptions2
  • Quackpath plus7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Vocaio Plus Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Colish · Hear it. Know it

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuackPath free?
QuackPath is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colish · Hear it. Know it free?
Colish · Hear it. Know it is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuackPath or Colish · Hear it. Know it have ads?
Neither QuackPath nor Colish · Hear it. Know it shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuackPath or Colish · Hear it. Know it?
QuackPath ships an update every 9 days, and Colish · Hear it. Know it daily. Most recently, QuackPath was updated on October 24, 2026 and Colish · Hear it. Know it on October 24, 2026.

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