Slurp vs Linva
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slurp
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Read it later. Hear it now. Slurp reads anything aloud and lights up every word as it is spoken. Articles, PDFs, Word documents, newsletters, feeds, podcasts and video live in one library that syncs through your own iCloud. Free, with no account and no tracking. SAVE IT FROM ANYWHERE • Share a link, text, an email or a file from any app: Slurp sits in the share sheet • Web links become a clean article, pictures and all • PDF, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, TXT, Markdown and HTML files keep their formatting • Posts from X and Bluesky arrive complete A READING LIST THAT STAYS TIDY • Collections and sub-collections, in the order you drag them into • Want to Read and Finished lists, and filters for articles, PDFs, posts, podcasts and video • Search runs over the full saved text, not just titles • Items, collections and reading position sync through your own iCloud A READER WORTH STAYING IN • Clean typography with the article's real images, kept for offline reading • The highlighted word stays in view as the page scrolls with the voice • PDFs read page for page, with headers and footers left unspoken • Pick up exactly where you stopped, on whichever device is in your hand FIVE VOICES, FOUR ON YOUR DEVICE • Kokoro, KittenTTS and Inflect: neural voices that run on your iPhone, with no key and no network • Apple: every voice installed on your device, Siri voices included • ElevenLabs: optional, with your own key • Read at 0.75× to 2×, and switch voice for a single item GENERATE ONCE, LISTEN EVERYWHERE New saves are narrated in the background and the finished audio syncs to your other devices, so playback starts at once, even with no signal. PODCASTS AND VIDEO, SAME LIBRARY YouTube, Vimeo, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes play beside your articles, with the same player and Lock Screen controls. Podcasts download when you add them. YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, SPOKEN Follow any RSS or Atom feed, play a new entry on the spot or file it away for later. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no analytics, no server of ours that holds what you read. Your library lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. A bug report is sent only when you send one. Slurp is also on the Mac, with browser extensions and a shortcut that reads whatever you select in any app: slop.ee/goodies/slurp Made by Slop Agency.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Slurp at none against Linva's 3. Linva's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Linva sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Slurp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slurp ships an update every 4 months, Linva every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Slurp | Linva |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kempu OU | 贵博 董 |
In-app purchases
Slurp
No in-app purchases
Linva
- Monthly7 Days trial2 variants$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year









