Daily Hangul vs WordWake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Hangul
Learn Korean effortlessly by seeing characters, pronunciation, and meaning on your lock screen or home screen widget. This app integrates learning into your daily routine, making Korean familiar and accessible without dedicated study time.
- Lock screen Korean learning
- Home screen widget for Korean
- Passive learning through exposure
- Character, pronunciation, and meaning display
- Flashcards in-app
- Fits into daily phone usage
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Learn Korean passively from Your Lock Screen* REQUIRES A PAID SUBSCRIPTION Korean, every time you check your phone. The #1 Korean Lock Screen Learning App. Join 70K+ learners turning glances into growth. Characters, pronunciation, meaning — right on your lock screen* Daily stories and sentences, tailored to your level Widgets + push notifications to keep you on track Go deeper with standard, informal, and formal sentences You already check your phone 100+ times a day. Now every check teaches you something TERMS: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://dailyhangul.app/terms
WordWake
Learn a new language passively through your phone's lock screen with new words and phrases displayed each time you unlock it. It offers ten languages with extensive vocabulary, cultural notes, and pronunciation guides, plus practice games for active learning.
- Lock screen vocabulary display
- Ten languages available
- Cultural notes and insights
- Native pronunciation audio
- Alphabet learning modules
- Five practice games
- Ad-free experience
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WordWake teaches you a language from your Lock Screen. New words appear where you already look a hundred times a day — no app to open, no streak to protect, no guilt. When you want more, it's there: tap any word for its meaning, hear phrases slowly or at full speed, play quick word games, or put on Listen Mode and learn with your screen off. 10 languages: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. HOW IT WORKS - Add the widget once. WordWake shows you a small set of words, then swaps them as you learn. - Every phrase comes with a word-by-word breakdown — tap any word to see what it does and hear it alone. - Quick stage checks tell you what stuck. Your tricky cards come back until they don't. WHEN YOU HAVE A MINUTE - Listen Mode: English, then the phrase slowly, then at natural speed. Hands-free, offline. - Word games built from what you've actually learned — never something you haven't seen. - Culture facts about the places behind the language: tipping, etiquette, food, getting around. TRAVELING? Tap "Going somewhere?" for an optional trip plan — real situations like ordering, checking in, and asking for help, built around your dates, with practice you can speak out loud. Your everyday learning stays exactly as it is. WORDWAKE PRO Try everything free for 3 days. Then $7.99 a month, or $29.99 once for lifetime access. Cancel anytime. Made by one person who wanted to learn German without opening another app. Real speakers correct real mistakes — tap any word and "report a problem" to help. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WordWake at 100% against Daily Hangul's 26%. WordWake also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Daily Hangul's advantage is ratings volume (505 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Daily Hangul sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and WordWake sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WordWake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Hangul has 505 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Daily Hangul's written reviews are positive against 100% of WordWake's.
Daily Hangul ships an update weekly, WordWake every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Hangul | WordWake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (505 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 505 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 131 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALEX XINWEI LIU | Christopher Arnold |
Customer experience
Daily Hangul
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In-app purchases
Daily Hangul
- Monthly Plan$4.991 Month
- Yearly Plan7 Days trial$29.991 Year
WordWake
- WordWake Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- WordWake Plus Yearly$19.991 Year
- WordWake Plus Lifetime$29.99








