Comparison

Immerse vs Speak City

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

Head to head
About

Immerse

Master a new language with immersive lessons, live classes, and AI-powered practice. Turn everyday moments into learning opportunities and track your progress on a personalized path. Ideal for work, travel, or daily life.

Highlights
  • Self-paced lessons
  • Live instructor-led classes
  • AI-powered practice
  • Real-world language capture
  • Personalized learning path
  • Progress review
Features
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Build real-world fluency in the language you're learning, through immersive lessons, expert-led classes, and the everyday moments you capture along the way. Immerse is the mobile companion to the Immerse Fluency Performance Platform. With it, you can: • Progress through Self-Paced Lessons in your personalized Learning Path • Schedule Live Classes with instructors, join from web or VR • Review what you've learned between sessions to lock in retention • Capture real-world language moments through your phone or paired AI glasses, turning everyday encounters into personalized practice Whether you're learning English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French — for work, travel, or daily life — Immerse meets you where fluency actually happens: in the real world.

About

Speak City

This language learning game immerses you in real-life scenarios where speaking aloud is the only way to progress. It offers honest feedback and adapts to your skill level, making learning practical and engaging.

Highlights
  • Real-life scenario-based learning
  • Spoken conversation curriculum
  • Honest performance feedback
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Culture-native scenes
  • Progressive city unlocking
Features
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You've studied. You've done the lessons. And a real person says one sentence to you and your mind goes blank. Speak City is a language game where the levels are real places — and the only way forward is to actually speak. Speak City isn't a flashcard deck, a chatbot tutor, or another course you'll abandon by Wednesday. It's the first language game where the conversation IS the curriculum: real scenes, spoken out loud, judged honestly — and a city that opens as you speak. HOW SPEAK CITY WORKS 1. You land in a city where nobody speaks your language — with nothing but your passport. 2. Every level is a real place with a real goal — order breakfast from the barista, get your medicine past a chatty pharmacist, talk your way into the party. 3. You speak. Out loud, in your own words. The characters listen, react, and speak back. 4. Every scene ends with a fair verdict: the transcript of what you actually said, what worked, what to fix — and an instant free retry. Win the scene, stamp your passport, and the city keeps opening — from surviving your first café to holding your own at a table full of locals. AN HONEST VERDICT, NOT A GOLD STAR You've had the apps that cheer everything you say — and the false sense of progress that comes with them. Speak City tells you how you really did: kindly, clearly, and with the exact words to do better. Progress you can feel, because it's real. YOU CAN NEVER FAIL — AND YOU CAN'T FAKE IT Stuck mid-scene? The world helps: the character slows down, rephrases, offers a hint, a local friend whispers the phrase you need. A total beginner still walks out with the win. The scene adapts to your level — the verdict never lies about it. A CITY, NOT A COURSE No template drills. Every scene is culture-native — the café banter, the pharmacy manners, the dinner-table chaos are true to the place, illustrated like somewhere you'd want to visit. Your passport fills with stamps, districts unlock, and the map is your progress bar. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO'VE DONE THE OTHER STUFF School classes. The apps. Maybe a tutor. You can pass a quiz — you just can't order a coffee. You don't need more vocabulary lists; you need somewhere safe to actually talk. Speak City is for the part of you that learned a language to speak it. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Subscribe to Speak City Plus to unlock the full city — every district, scene, and character. Speak City Plus is offered as an auto-renewing subscription. A free trial may be available. If a free trial is offered, you'll be charged your subscription fee as soon as the trial period is over. If not, you'll be charged to your iTunes account as soon as you confirm your purchase. You can manage your subscription and disable auto-renewal via Account Settings after purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Renewal charges will be applied to your account within the 24 hours preceding the end of the current period. Cancelled subscriptions remain active until the period ends; auto-renewal is stopped, but refunds are not provided for the current period. Unused free trial portions are lost if a subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy: https://languagegame.ai/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://languagegame.ai/tos

Screenshots

Immerse4 screens
Speak City4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Immerse at 100% against Speak City's 0%. Immerse also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Speak City's advantage is ratings volume (103 vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price and ads 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. Speak City sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Immerse asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Immerse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speak City has 103 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Immerse's written reviews are positive against 0% of Speak City's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Immerse ships an update fortnightly, Speak City every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Immerse versus Speak City: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImmerseSpeak City
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.5 (103 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2103 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#94 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB183 MB
Age rating+124+
DeveloperImmerse Inc.Myrtle

Customer experience

Immerse

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Speak City

All ratings73 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Immerse

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Speak City

Subscriptions2
  • Plus$17.991 Month
  • Plus7 Days trial$83.991 Year

Questions

Is Immerse free?
Immerse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Speak City free?
Speak City is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Immerse or Speak City?
Immerse is rated higher. Immerse averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Speak City averages 4.5 from 103 ratings.
Do Immerse or Speak City have ads?
Neither Immerse nor Speak City shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Immerse or Speak City?
Immerse ships an update fortnightly, and Speak City every 5 days. Most recently, Immerse was updated on November 7, 2026 and Speak City on November 6, 2026.

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