Lingofloat vs BuRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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 ā and make new English stick.
BuRead
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BuRead is a reader for people learning a language by reading real things: articles, books and videos with subtitles. Tap a word to see what it means in this exact sentence. The words you tap come back later for review, inside sentences you have already read. WHAT YOU CAN READ ⢠Articles: paste a link, and the page opens as clean text. ⢠Books: EPUB, with a paged mode and a table of contents. ⢠YouTube videos with subtitles: the transcript sits next to the video, and its words behave like words in a text. ⢠Add a link or an EPUB right from your iPhone or iPad, or save a page from your desktop browser with the Chrome extension. WHILE YOU READ ⢠Tap a word: translation, pronunciation, and what it means in this particular sentence. ⢠Select a phrase: it is saved whole and broken down word by word. ⢠Give a word a status with one tap: 1, 2, 3, known, ignore. The marks show right in the text and fade as you learn. ⢠Every text shows what share of its words you already know, so you can pick by difficulty instead of guessing. ⢠Listen to any word or sentence. YOUR WORDS ⢠One vocabulary across everything: a word learned in an article is recognised in a book and in video subtitles. ⢠Review in your own sentences: a word comes back inside the sentence where you met it, not on a bare card. A few minutes a day, and the intervals take care of themselves. ⢠See how many words you know and how it grows. ONE ACCOUNT EVERYWHERE iPhone, iPad and the web. Reading positions, vocabulary and notes are the same everywhere: start on the tablet, and the phone opens the same place. Downloaded texts read offline. LANGUAGES Read in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Russian, with meanings in your own language. PRIVACY No ads and no trackers. Your materials stay yours: nobody else sees them. Details at buread.app/privacy. Made by one developer who wanted to read novels in a new language without a dictionary in the other hand. Questions and ideas: support@buread.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BuRead at every 2 weeks against Lingofloat's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lingofloat ships an update every 2 months, BuRead every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lingofloat | BuRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 ā better | 16.4 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PAO-SHENG CHIAO | Dmitrii Efremov |
In-app purchases
Lingofloat
No in-app purchases
BuRead
No in-app purchases









