Comparison

Clearly vs Linva

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

Head to head
About

Clearly

Features
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Clearly turns anything you read into natural speech — and into a way to learn the language while you listen. Everything runs on your device, offline. NEW — Read the web in Safari. Turn on the Clearly Safari extension and listen to ANY web page right where it is — no copy-paste, no importing. Select a sentence, tap play, and Clearly reads aloud from there in a natural voice, highlighting each line and scrolling to follow along. Pause, skip sentences, and change the speed from a control bar on the page. It's the fastest way to turn articles, blogs, news, and docs into hands-free, fully on-device listening. Paste text, open a .txt file, drop in a web link, or bring in an X post. Clearly pulls out the article, reads it aloud in a natural voice, and gives you a quick summary — all on your device. Tap any sentence to start listening from there, with the sentence highlighted as it plays. Pause on something you don't fully understand and open Interpret: Clearly shows a literal translation and a natural one, then explains the words you pick — meaning, pronunciation, and an example sentence. A reader and a quiet language tutor in one. WHY CLEARLY • NEW: Read any web page in Safari with the Clearly extension — select a sentence and listen, with live highlighting • 100% on-device and offline — no account, no internet, nothing leaves your iPhone • Natural speech in 31 languages, powered by on-device Supertonic TTS • Sentence-by-sentence playback with live highlighting • Tap to translate (literal + natural) and explain words, on-device with Apple Intelligence • Private summaries and titles, generated on your device • Import from the clipboard, text files, web pages, and X GREAT FOR • Reading and listening practice in a new language • Turning articles, notes, and documents into hands-free listening • Reading support and accessibility • Anyone who wants private, offline text-to-speech Translation, word explanations, and summaries use Apple Intelligence and need a supported device. No accounts. No tracking. Your text stays with you.

About

Linva

Learn languages through immersive, AI-powered lessons. Generate lessons from any text, practice pronunciation with real-time feedback, and engage in AI-driven conversations. Track progress and build vocabulary with a comprehensive approach.

Highlights
  • AI-generated lessons from any text
  • Native-quality text-to-speech audio
  • Bilingual reading with synced phonetics
  • Real-time pronunciation scoring
  • Shadowing with pitch waveform analysis
  • AI conversation practice
  • Dictation and vocabulary building
Features
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Linva turns the language you want to learn into something you live in. Type or paste any text and Linva instantly translates it and voices it with natural, native-quality audio — a ready-made bilingual lesson in seconds. Read along sentence by sentence with the target language, your own language and IPA phonetics aligned together. Switch to immersive reading, or shadow the audio while a real-time pitch waveform shows how closely you match a native speaker. When you finish, get a pronunciation score down to the word and the individual sound, so you know exactly what to improve. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Generate a lesson from any text with AI translation + text-to-speech • Import your own audio — or a video — and Linva transcribes and translates it • Read bilingual text with synced audio and phonetics; tap any word for its in-context meaning • Shadow with a live waveform and loop any sentence • Score your pronunciation at the word and phoneme level • Dictation practice: hear the audio or see your language, then write the target word by word — streaks, sparks and sound effects keep you hooked • Watch videos and study perfectly synced subtitles • Chat with an AI to actually use what you just learned • Take a placement test to find your level • Keep a library of recordings, track your progress, and listen in the background even when locked Linva is built on comprehensible input: you acquire a language fastest by understanding real content slightly above your level — listening, reading and speaking until it becomes natural. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with the interface in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish. Start your immersion today. EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Clearly4 screens
Linva4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clearly at none against Linva's 3. Linva's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Linva sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Clearly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clearly ships an update weekly, Linva every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Clearly versus Linva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearlyLinva
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size406 MB40 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMINTECH贵博 董

In-app purchases

None

Clearly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Linva

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Clearly free?
Clearly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Linva free?
Linva is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clearly or Linva have ads?
Neither Clearly nor Linva shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clearly or Linva?
Clearly ships an update weekly, and Linva every 2 days. Most recently, Clearly was updated on October 18, 2026 and Linva on October 6, 2026.

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