HiCoCo Chat vs Verbsy

Most language apps give you flashcards. HiCoCo gives you friends. Meet a cast of AI personas — each with a distinct personality, backstory, and daily life. Chat with them in real scenarios: order coffee, navigate a job interview, catch up over a call. Every conversation is tailored to your level, quietly fixing the grammar patterns you struggle with most, without ever stopping the flow. REAL CONVERSATIONS, REAL PROGRESS Talk freely or pick a scenario. Your AI friends remember past conversations, adapt to your proficiency, and gently correct mistakes through natural restatement — not grammar lectures. WORDS THAT STICK Every word you encounter in chat gets saved automatically. Our spaced repetition system (FSRS) schedules reviews at exactly the right moment so vocabulary moves from short-term to long-term memory. PRONUNCIATION THAT ACTUALLY IMPROVES Speak your replies out loud. HiCoCo scores your pronunciation on the spot and shows you exactly where to improve — vowel by vowel, word by word. YOUR DAILY LEARNING FEED Open the app to a personalized home screen: your streak, words due for review, a grammar insight from yesterday's conversation, and a message waiting from one of your AI friends. INSTANT DICTIONARY, ANYWHERE Tap any word mid-conversation to see a plain-language definition in your mother tongue, real bilingual example sentences, and an option to save it to your vocabulary list. Works offline too. BUILT FOR EAST ASIAN LEARNERS HiCoCo is designed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speakers learning English or Japanese. Coco helps you start chatting immediately and guides you toward the right personas and scenarios as you go. —— FREE — Try it now • 3 AI conversations per day • 5 voice messages per day • 3 featured personas • Unlimited dictionary lookups • Unlimited SRS review • Full streak tracking • 7-day Pro trial included PRO — Unlock everything (¥38/month or ¥228/year) • Unlimited conversations and voice messages • Full persona library — all characters and scenarios • Pronunciation assessment scoring • Offline mode • 50% off with annual plan vs monthly —— No leaderboards. No XP grinding. No gamification gimmicks. Just meaningful practice that compounds — one conversation at a time. Start your 7-day free Pro trial today. Terms of Use: https://hicoco.io/en/terms

You know the word. You have known it for years. Then the moment comes, someone is waiting - and nothing comes out. That silence is not a vocabulary problem. It is a speaking problem, and you cannot tap your way out of it. You fix it by talking out loud, badly, to someone patient. Verbsy is that someone: an AI tutor you can only talk to. There is no keyboard anywhere in a Verbsy conversation. You open your mouth or nothing happens. TALK - THERE IS NOTHING TO TYPE - Live spoken conversation in 16 languages, answered in real time - Interrupt it mid-sentence, the way you would a person: the mic stays open while it speaks - Auto mode replies when you stop talking; Push-to-Talk for noisy places - Captions of the tutor's speech, paced to its measured speaking rate so the text trails your ear - It drops into your own language to help when you are stuck PRACTICE WITH THE SCREEN OFF Lock the phone and keep going. A Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity keeps the timer, Pause and Stop in reach; on iOS 17 or later, pausing never opens the app. Walk the dog, ride the bus, do the dishes. SEE WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGED Every conversation ends with a summary, not a trophy. Five skills - Vocabulary Breadth, Grammar Accuracy, Pronunciation & Fluency, Listening Comprehension, Conversational Confidence - each 0-100 with what moved this session, minutes spoken, and how many of your own saved words you actually used out loud. For your first few conversations the numbers stay hidden while Verbsy works out your level. SAY YOUR GOAL OUT LOUD Tell the tutor what you are training for: a trip, an interview, your partner's family. Verbsy turns it into a plan of can-do steps and steers your conversations toward them. A step completes only on repeated evidence across at least two different days. THE WORDS YOU FUMBLED BECOME CARDS Verbsy suggests words and phrases from what you said; you tick the ones worth keeping. They become flashcards with spaced repetition, mastery states and Recognize / Produce / Mixed review. The deck is cached on your phone, so review works with no signal. IT REMEMBERS YOU Your name, your interests, the topics you have raised and the mistakes you keep repeating all carry into the next conversation. 16 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Mandarin also offer a regional variant. iPhone only, iOS 16.1 or later. WHAT YOU GET WITHOUT PAYING 30 minutes of tutor conversation, once. A single lifetime allowance shared across every language: not a renewing trial, not 30 minutes each. Everything else is free - all 16 languages, text-only flashcards and the full review system, skills, goals, stats, streaks and dark mode. VERBSY PREMIUM An auto-renewing subscription that unlocks 1 hour of tutor conversation per day, plus AI-spoken pronunciation audio - in the regional variant you picked, where your language offers one - and an AI illustration on your flashcards, up to 50 media generations a day. Conversations need internet; your flashcard deck does not. Your voice is streamed live to the AI and is not stored on Verbsy's servers. You can delete your history, profile, skills or vocabulary - one language or all - without deleting your account. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Verbsy Premium is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription at the price shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends; renewal is charged within 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Deleting your Verbsy account does not cancel the subscription. Privacy Policy: https://verbsy.ai/en/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/