PolyglotGym vs Mowa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PolyglotGym
Learn over 90 languages with structured, CEFR-graded courses. This app offers interactive lessons, a comprehensive grammar reference, a smart vocabulary trainer with spaced repetition, and a built-in dictionary. Start learning immediately as a guest with no paywall.
- CEFR-graded courses (A1-C2)
- 90+ languages supported
- Interactive lessons with dialogues and exercises
- Example-driven grammar reference
- Smart vocabulary trainer with spaced repetition
- Built-in dictionary
- Progress tracking with streaks and achievements
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Learn a new language the structured way - from your first words to real, confident fluency. PolyglotGym gives you proper CEFR-graded courses (A1 to C2), a grammar reference, a vocabulary trainer, and a built-in dictionary for 90+ languages, all in one app. Start instantly as a guest. No account, no paywall to begin. WHAT YOU GET • 90+ languages, A1 to C2 Follow real level-by-level courses - German, Spanish, Czech, Ukrainian, Icelandic and dozens more - built around the CEFR framework instead of random word lists. • Lessons that actually teach Every module mixes dialogues, reading, listening, and dozens of interactive exercise types, with natural-sounding audio so you learn how the language really sounds. • A grammar reference you'll come back to Clear, example-driven explanations for every level, written to make sense for your own language - not machine-translated - so tricky rules finally click. • A smart vocabulary trainer Build your own word lists and review them with spaced repetition. A daily review session brings back exactly what you're about to forget. • A real dictionary, built in Look up any word, see its meanings, forms, and pronunciation, and save it straight to your vocabulary in a tap. • Learn several languages at once Studying more than one? Switch between languages and keep every streak alive. • Stay motivated Streaks, XP, levels, and achievements keep you coming back - without turning learning into a grind. CULTURE, NOT JUST WORDS Examples and dialogues are grounded in real culture - the food, places, holidays, and everyday situations a native speaker would actually recognize - so you learn the language people really use, not a phrasebook caricature. START FREE Open the app and start learning as a guest right away. Create a free account whenever you want to sync your progress across your iPhone, iPad, and the web. Five minutes on the train or a full session at home - your next language is waiting. Questions or feedback? Visit polyglotgym.com.
Mowa
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Mowa teaches Polish as one course. Words, grammar and reading are three views of the same progression — not three apps in a trench coat. WHAT A DAY LOOKS LIKE Open Today and the app tells you where you are: your current unit, and what it lets you do ("You can order in a café"). Then one session: the word reviews that are due, the grammar set those words need, and new material only if the time you asked for allows it. One budget, honestly costed. THE COURSE • 18 units from your first words to B1. Each has a can-do goal, its own vocabulary, its grammar topics and a capstone passage to read when you finish it. • 104 grammar topics from A1 to C1, with 1,040 exercises. Lessons, pitfalls and explanations are written out in English, Russian and Ukrainian — not machine-translated. • 18 edited reading passages from A1 to B1, recommended when you genuinely know enough of the words. Coverage is measured, not guessed. More than 130 practice drafts up to C1 are one switch away. • 10,000 Polish lemmas with glosses, examples, inflection tables, aspect pairs and more than 15,000 recorded clips. BEYOND RECOGNITION • Listening-first reviews. Once a word is stable, you hear its sentence before you see it. • Sentence echo. We show the meaning, you type the Polish — graded on sense, not on a missing comma. • Fluency sprints. Sixty seconds over words you know well, scored against nothing but your own last run. All three sit outside your daily budget and never touch your review schedule. HOW IT DECIDES WHAT TO SHOW YOU • Spaced repetition (FSRS) schedules everything: words individually, and each grammar topic as a single card graded on the whole exercise set. • A two-minute check at the start finds your level and drops you into the right unit. It is an estimate, not an exam — practice keeps correcting it, and you can retake it any time. • Grammar is practised on words you already know, because a case ending on unknown vocabulary is noise. MOCK EXAMS Prepare for the Państwowy B1 and telc exams with six complete mock papers and focused drills. You can score writing and speaking yourself, or get optional AI feedback with Premium. IF YOU ONLY CAME FOR THE WORDS If you came here to learn Polish words, nothing has been taken away. The frequency queue still runs from the most useful word to the ten-thousandth, you can still swipe through the dictionary and sort what you already know, and you can switch the grammar course out of your daily plan in Settings and use Mowa as a pure vocabulary trainer. YOUR STREAK, HONESTLY A day counts when you practise. There is a calendar, a widget for your Home Screen and a small celebration the first time you finish a session each day — and that is the whole of it. No gems, no leagues, no fake levels, and no guilt when a streak ends. Premium can automatically save one missed day each month. It counts the days you showed up; it never claims you learned something you did not. Core lessons, readings, reviews and manual mock scoring work offline. Premium AI feedback for mock writing and speaking needs an internet connection. The free version includes ads; Premium removes them. No account or sign-up is required. Interface in English, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian. MOWA PREMIUM Mowa Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://itsartstudios.com/apps/mowa/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PolyglotGym at none against Mowa's shown. PolyglotGym also leads on device support (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PolyglotGym ships an update weekly, Mowa every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PolyglotGym | Mowa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 329 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Igor Polietaiev | Aliaksei Kernazhytski |
In-app purchases
PolyglotGym
No in-app purchases
Mowa
No in-app purchases









