Comparison

PlayLing vs Learn Spanish!!

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

Head to head
About

PlayLing

Learn languages through audio with a background player and interactive flashcards. Optimize your learning rhythm with adjustable speeds and repetitions, and track your progress across numerous themed collections. Ideal for fitting language study into your daily routine.

Highlights
  • True background audio playback
  • Adjustable learning speed and repetitions
  • Interactive flashcard mode
  • Smart phrase practice
  • Supports any language translation direction
  • 75+ themed language collections
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Meet PlayLing! • True Background Mode Learn with your screen locked. Let PlayLing play phrases, translations, and repetitions while you walk, commute, work out, or go about your day. • Easy Controls Skip or repeat phrases with your headphones or lock screen controls. • Scenario Builder Adjust speed, repetitions, and pauses to fit your learning rhythm, or choose ready-made practice plans. • Visual Mode Switch to interactive flashcards whenever you want to see the translation, review phrases, and take full control of your practice. • Smart Practice Rate how well you know each phrase and focus on the ones that need more practice. • Any Language to Any Language Choose the translation direction — from your native language to the one you're learning, from the language you're learning back to your native language, or a random mix. • 10 Languages, 75+ Collections Each language includes 75+ themed collections with 100 real-life phrases per collection, from beginner to C2. Topics include travel, work, health, romance, and much more. English includes 150+ collections with an expanded grammar section. • Natural Voice Audio High-quality voice audio is available for every collection, with optional device TTS. • Track Your Progress Pick up where you left off and keep building your language skills over time. PlayLing is built to make language learning fit into everyday life — whether you're actively learning with flashcards or learning through background audio. PlayLing is for people who: • want to learn a language without constantly focusing on the screen; • want to use time while commuting, walking, or doing other activities; • want to improve listening comprehension; • prefer learning ready-made phrases rather than single words; • study several languages or are returning to a language after a break. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION PlayLing Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://playling.netlify.app/privacy-policy

About

Learn Spanish!!

Master Spanish vocabulary and conversation through contextual learning and spaced repetition. This app focuses on building a strong word base and practicing real-life dialogues, progressing from beginner to advanced grammar.

Highlights
  • Real sentences in understandable context
  • Spaced repetition for long-term memory
  • Hands-free listening mode
  • Practice real conversations
  • Progress from beginner to advanced grammar
Features
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Learn Spanish without the pressure, and actually remember it. Most apps leave you stuck on a few travel phrases or bury you in grammar drills you forget by morning. This one is built around what really makes you fluent: knowing thousands of words, and meeting each one often enough that it sticks. Every new word shows up in a sentence built only from words you already know, so instead of memorizing a list, you read real Spanish and it just makes sense. You learn a few words at a time, and the app brings each one back right before you'd forget it. Starting from zero? You'll read short Spanish sentences on day one. Already speak some but stuck on the plateau? This is the part most apps skip: harder vocabulary, the verb tenses, the subjunctive, and longer, real sentences. What's inside: - Real sentences from day one, in context you can already understand. - Spaced repetition that brings each word back at the right moment, so it settles into long-term memory with no cramming. - A hands-free mode. Keep going by ear while you walk, drive, or do the dishes. Listen, and tap only when you miss one. - Real conversations, so you practice the natural back-and-forth, not single words. - The whole journey in one place, from your first words to advanced grammar and verb conjugation. - No streaks, no hearts, no cartoons. Just steady progress you can feel. From the makers of three #1 language apps on the App Store, now built for Spanish.

Screenshots

PlayLing4 screens
Learn Spanish!!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Learn Spanish!! at daily against PlayLing's weekly. Learn Spanish!! also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 1). PlayLing's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. PlayLing sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Learn Spanish!! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PlayLing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Spanish!! has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlayLing ships an update weekly, Learn Spanish!! daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PlayLing versus Learn Spanish!!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlayLingLearn Spanish!!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB33 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAleksei LoginovLuli Languages LLC

Customer experience

PlayLing

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Learn Spanish!!

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

15 purchases

PlayLing

Subscriptions4
  • PlayLing Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • PlayLing Premium 3 Months$11.903 Months
  • PlayLing Premium 6 Months$18.996 Months
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  • PlayLing Premium Annual$29.991 Year
One-time11
  • Finale: effortless English (Flue...$2.49
  • Science and space$2.49
  • Art and creativity$2.49
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  • Music and culture$2.49
  • Science and medicine$2.49
  • History and architecture$2.49
  • Travel and the city$2.49
  • Cinema and tech$2.49
  • Physics and science$2.49
  • Music, art, and history$2.49
  • Pets$2.49
1 purchases

Learn Spanish!!

One-time1
  • Unlock All$9.99

Questions

Is PlayLing free?
PlayLing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learn Spanish!! free?
Learn Spanish!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PlayLing or Learn Spanish!!?
PlayLing is rated higher. PlayLing averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Learn Spanish!! averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do PlayLing or Learn Spanish!! have ads?
Neither PlayLing nor Learn Spanish!! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlayLing or Learn Spanish!!?
PlayLing ships an update weekly, and Learn Spanish!! daily. Most recently, PlayLing was updated on October 24, 2026 and Learn Spanish!! on October 24, 2026.

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