Lingua Playlist vs Soya

Learn languages through your own sentences. Stop memorizing textbook phrases you’ll never use. With Lingua Playlist, you can build a personalized language library from real conversations, TV shows, books, podcasts, travel, work, and anything else that matters to you. Create playlists, save sentences, listen to audio lessons, record yourself speaking, and review with smart spaced repetition, all in one app. BUILD YOUR OWN LEARNING LIBRARY • Create custom playlists for supported languages • Organize playlists into folders • Add sentences by typing or voice • Scan text from photos and turn it into sentences • Translate with AI or write your own translations • Get AI-powered sentence suggestions • Save multiple translations for the same sentence • Edit and arrange sentences in your preferred order • Share text from other apps directly to a playlist and automatically translate it into the language you’re learning • Import and export playlists LEARN BY LISTENING Turn your playlists into personalized audio lessons. Listen hands-free while walking, commuting, exercising, riding a bike, or relaxing. • Choose from multiple natural voices for supported languages • Customize playback order, repetition, speed, and pauses • Continue listening in the background • Sync voice preferences across devices IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION Record yourself speaking and compare your pronunciation with natural speech. Get pronunciation feedback, track your progress, and build confidence speaking naturally. REVIEW SMARTER Master vocabulary and sentences with spaced repetition that helps you review the right content at the right time. Track mastery, review history, learning streaks, and overall progress. STAY ORGANIZED • Search your entire sentence library • Use favorites and custom filters • Browse sentences by learning progress • Arrange playlists and folders your way • Sync your library across devices AVAILABLE LANGUAGES English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. Free to download with a limited free plan. Premium unlocks higher limits, AI translation and sentence suggestions, photo-to-sentence scanning, natural voices, pronunciation grading, imports, and cloud sync. New Premium subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. Lingua Playlist helps you learn the language you actually want to use. Your language. Your sentences. Your playlists. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Soya turns the things you already want to read into reading practice at exactly your level. Paste a link, share an article from Safari, or name a book — Soya rewrites it in Chinese, Japanese or Korean pitched at the level you choose, and hands it back as something you can actually read. AT YOUR LEVEL, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S Pick HSK 1–6, JLPT N5–N1 or TOPIK 1–6. The same article at HSK 2 and HSK 5 is genuinely two different texts, not the same text with a glossary bolted on. Change your mind halfway and re-translate it at another level. FOUR LANGUAGES, INCLUDING BOTH CHINESE SCRIPTS Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Traditional is a first-class choice, not a conversion pass over Simplified. TAP ANY WORD Every word carries its reading — pinyin, hiragana or the pronounced hangul — and a tap gives you the definition, the word in that exact sentence, and examples. Tap "Break it down" and the sentence is walked through part by part. PRACTICE THAT COSTS NOTHING Five games built from the words you have actually looked up: fill the gap, pair match, sentence order, listening and a mixed session. They never call a model, so they work on a plane, on the underground, and on no signal at all. A bundled vocabulary catalogue means there is something to practise from the first minute. READ ALOUD Any sentence, any article, at your pace. NEWS, ALREADY TRANSLATED A daily corpus of short news stories, translated ahead of time, so browsing them costs nothing and opening one is instant. YOUR READING STAYS YOURS Your library, your words, your practice history and your reading positions live on your phone. There is no account to make. Sign in only if you want your library on a second device — it is off by default and always optional. FREE, OR YOUR OWN KEY Soya works out of the box with a monthly free allowance and no account. If you would rather use your own model provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — add your key in Settings and it goes straight from your phone to them. Your key stays in the keychain and is never uploaded.