iconRead vs Lingofloat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iconRead
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Help kids and foreign language learners to learn English, by playing Youtube videos with Karaoke style syncing subtitles and showing words' meanings in sliding small pictures (icons, hence the name iconRead, pronounced as "I can read!"). This app turns usual English Youtube videos and English texts into an immersive language learning experience.
Lingofloat
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Lingofloat helps English learners improve listening, pronunciation, and vocabulary through real-world content. Instead of studying isolated words or textbook examples, Lingofloat lets you learn from podcasts, YouTube videos, recordings, and uploaded media. Import content you actually care about, follow along with interactive transcripts, save useful expressions, and review them in context. Lingofloat is designed especially for intermediate to advanced English learners who want to move beyond classroom English and understand how people really speak. Key features: • Import podcasts, videos, and audio files • Follow along with clear, interactive transcripts • Tap words and phrases for learner-friendly explanations • Save useful expressions from real conversations • Practise listening with replay, chunking, and shadowing • Record your pronunciation and compare your speech • Review saved language through spaced repetition • Build a personal English learning system from content you love Whether you are preparing for study, work, migration, interviews, daily conversations, or simply want to enjoy English content more easily, Lingofloat helps you turn real input into active practice. Learn from the shows, voices, and topics you already care about — and make new English stick.
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Verdict
iconRead and Lingofloat are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iconRead | Lingofloat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jun Ouyang | PAO-SHENG CHIAO |
In-app purchases
iconRead
No in-app purchases
Lingofloat
No in-app purchases









