Allora vs Xolingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Allora
This app offers a calm and focused approach to learning Italian, French, and Spanish through short daily lessons and engaging stories. It guides users from beginner levels to conversational fluency with a clear roadmap and smart vocabulary review.
- Guided roadmap from A0 to B1
- 35 hand-crafted units
- Leveled daily stories
- Tap-to-translate and save words
- Spaced-repetition flashcards
- Learn multiple languages separately
- Natural voice pronunciation
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Allora is the calm way to learn Italian, French, and Spanish - ten focused minutes a day, from your very first word to holding a real conversation. No stress, no guilt-trip streaks. Just a clear path and three simple daily loops: A GUIDED ROADMAP (A0 to B1) 35 hand-crafted units across 8 stages take you from the alphabet and greetings to past tenses and everyday conversation. Each unit ends with a checkpoint quiz, so you only move on once it's really stuck. DAILY READS Short, leveled stories - order a coffee in Rome, catch a train, meet a neighbor - written to match exactly where you are. Tap any word you don't know to hear it and save it instantly. SMART REVIEW Saved words turn into spaced-repetition flashcards that come back right before you'd forget them, so vocabulary actually sticks. THREE LANGUAGES, ONE APP Learn Italian, French, and Spanish together or one at a time - your progress, streaks, and saved words are tracked separately for each. Every lesson and story is read aloud in a natural voice, so you train your ear and your accent from day one. Start with ten minutes today. Una lingua al giorno.
Xolingo
Learn languages by reading with this app that turns any text into personalized lessons. Tap unknown words to save them, practice them in interactive rounds, and track your progress. Supports Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and English, with offline functionality.
- Personalized vocabulary builder
- Interactive practice rounds
- Read your own material
- Offline dictionaries and translation
- Progress tracking
- Multiple language support
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Learn Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian and English. Xolingo turns anything you read into a personal lesson. Tap the words you don't know while you read. They go into your word bank with the sentence you met them in, stay highlighted everywhere until they stick, and come back as quick practice rounds built from your own vocabulary. As a word becomes familiar the highlight fades — and when you master it, it leaves the page for good. READ SOMETHING WORTH READING • Short courses that start at absolute beginner and build in order • Leveled articles labelled A1 through B2+, so you can read slightly above your comfort • Complete books in the original language, chapter by chapter • Your own material: paste text, open an EPUB, share a link from Safari, or pull the captions from a video SAVE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY MEET Tap a word or select a phrase and Xolingo shows its meaning, examples, and the sentence it came from. Bundled offline dictionaries cover most words; on-device machine translation fills the gaps without sending your reading anywhere. PLAY THE WORDS BACK The Arcade turns your saved vocabulary into short fill-in-the-blank rounds. Ten questions, real sentences, streaks and ranks. Practice the words you personally collected, or work through frequency decks covering the most common words, from the first hundred up to the first thousand, plus themed decks for work, travel, food, health, and money. Flash cards are there too when you'd rather drill. SEE IT ADD UP Word bank size by familiarity, words mastered, reading time, listening time, day streaks and arcade ranks — all on your device. FIVE LANGUAGES, BOTH DIRECTIONS English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), and Italian. Each one works as the language you already speak or the one you're learning, and the whole app — interface, translations, word cards — follows your choice. READ ALOUD Hear any word, sentence, or whole text in the voice already on your phone. Xolingo marks which voices work offline and prefers them automatically. WORKS OFFLINE, WORKS QUIETLY Keep texts on your device for a flight or a commute. There is no account to create, no advertising, no behavioural tracking, and no learner profile on our servers — your word bank and reading history stay on your phone. FREE AND PRO Xolingo is free to use. Reading and read-aloud are unlimited. Free learners can translate and save five new words or phrases per local calendar day and can play the Arcade frequency decks for ranks 1–100 and 101–200. Reopening saved vocabulary does not use another slot. Xolingo Pro removes the daily new-vocabulary limit and unlocks every Arcade deck, including the deck generated from your Word Bank. It is available as an auto-renewing monthly subscription at US$6.99 or an auto-renewing yearly subscription at US$69.99, which is two months free against the monthly price. The store shows the exact localized price, period, renewal terms, and any introductory offer before purchase. Manage or cancel through the store or Xolingo's Customer Center. Terms of Use: https://xolingo.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://xolingo.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Allora at none against Xolingo's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Xolingo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Allora asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Allora against 5.0 for Xolingo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Allora | Xolingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | AIDAN LANE CONNOLLY | AxoLottaLove |
Customer experience
Allora
Xolingo
In-app purchases
Allora
No in-app purchases
Xolingo
- Xolingo Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Xolingo Pro Yearly$69.991 Year









