Comparison

Learn New Languages vs Ether Echo

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

Head to head
About

Learn New Languages

Practice speaking a new language by shadowing any text you choose. Listen to natural voices, repeat sentences, and get instant word explanations. Improve fluency with a proven technique.

Highlights
  • Practice with any text
  • Natural lifelike voices
  • Three-layer subtitles
  • Tap-to-look-up word explanations
  • Shadowing mode with recording
  • Smart word review
Features
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You've studied a language for years, but when it's time to speak, the words won't come out. You understand more than you can say. And the textbook dialogues? Nothing like how people actually talk. Shadowfy fixes exactly that. It turns any text you love into speaking practice: news, stories, song lyrics, a page from a novel. A natural, lifelike voice reads it aloud, and you repeat right after it, sentence by sentence, until the words come out on their own. That's shadowing: the listen-and-repeat technique interpreters have used for decades to sound fluent and natural. Shadowfy makes it effortless. HOW IT WORKS 1. Paste any text in the language you're learning 2. Listen to a natural voice read it, sentence by sentence 3. Follow the three-layer subtitles and repeat out loud 4. Tap any word for an instant explanation 5. Record yourself and compare with the original FEATURES • Your content: practice with anything you actually want to read • Natural, lifelike voices in 21 languages, male & female, adjustable speed • Three-layer subtitles with translations in your native language • Tap-to-look-up: instant word cards with meaning, pronunciation, synonyms and usage • Shadowing mode: auto-pause after each sentence, record your voice, A/B compare • Discover feed: curated articles, dialogues and stories for every level (A1–B2) • Smart review that brings your saved words back at the right time • Dark reading mode for focused, comfortable practice • Interface available in 20 languages LANGUAGES YOU CAN PRACTICE English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese. FREE & PRO Shadowfy is free to download and practice with every day. Shadowfy Pro gives you the full experience: more imports a day and much longer texts, unlimited word explanations and unlimited saved words. Just $4.99/month or $39.99/year (prices may vary by region). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://shadowfy.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://shadowfy.app/privacy.html Stop just studying a language. Start speaking it, one sentence at a time.

About

Ether Echo

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You will not learn to write Japanese here. You will learn to understand it when someone says it, and to say it yourself. That is a decision, not a gap. Learning to read and draw a foreign script costs months that bring you no closer to a conversation. Ether Echo removes that step and spends every available minute on the only two things that produce speech: your ear and your mouth. THE METHOD Every word you meet becomes a card, and every card comes back at the moment you were about to forget it. That is spaced repetition, computed by FSRS, the algorithm that models your forgetting curve instead of following a fixed schedule. You review less and retain more, because nothing comes back too early. But the cards are not word lists. Every word arrives inside a sentence you hear, spoken by a voice, in context. You do not memorise "dog = 犬". You hear a sentence about a dog, and you understand it. WHAT A SESSION LOOKS LIKE - Hear a sentence, choose what it means. - Hear it with no text at all, once the word is anchored enough to drop the crutch. - Read a sentence in your own language, find how it is said in the other. - Say it out loud, and speech recognition tells you whether you were understood. None of it asks you to draw a character. THE VOICE TUTOR Once you have enough words, you talk to a tutor that answers out loud, live, in the language you are learning. It stays inside what you already know: it will not use words you have never met. This is where vocabulary turns into speech. SCRIPTS THAT ARE NOT LATIN Japanese appears in rōmaji, Mandarin in pinyin with its tones, Russian in accented transliteration, because Russian stress is never written down and changes what a word means. You always read something you can pronounce. LANGUAGES English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian. The interface speaks all seven, and you pick the one things are explained in. PLACEMENT A short assessment finds where you already are. You do not start at "hello" if you are past it. SUBSCRIPTION The app, the courses, the spaced repetition and every exercise are included. The subscription pays for live conversation minutes with the voice tutor: 50, 150, 300 or 600 per month depending on the tier, billed monthly or yearly. Thirty trial minutes when you sign up, no card required. TERMS OF USE Auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. It renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and it is managed from your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://echo.infiniteether.studio/confidentialite/en

Screenshots

Learn New Languages4 screens
Ether Echo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Learn New Languages at none against Ether Echo's shown. Learn New Languages also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Learn New Languages sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Ether Echo sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn New Languages ships an update every 2 weeks, Ether Echo every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Learn New Languages versus Ether Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn New LanguagesEther Echo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB84 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJianru LiInfinite Ether Interactive Inc.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Learn New Languages

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Subscription (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Pro Subscription (Yearly)$34.991 Year
8 purchases

Ether Echo

Subscriptions8
  • Lite$9.991 Month
  • Starter$24.991 Month
  • Regular$39.991 Month
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  • Intensive$79.991 Month
  • Lite Annual$99.991 Year
  • Starter Annual$249.991 Year
  • Regular Annual$399.991 Year
  • Intensive Annual$699.991 Year

Questions

Is Learn New Languages free?
Learn New Languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ether Echo free?
Ether Echo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Learn New Languages or Ether Echo have ads?
Ether Echo shows ads; Learn New Languages does not.
Which is updated more often, Learn New Languages or Ether Echo?
Learn New Languages ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ether Echo every 10 days. Most recently, Learn New Languages was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ether Echo on October 8, 2026.

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