Comparison

EdgeLingo vs LangToll

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

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EdgeLingo

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Ordering abroad, tomorrow's interview, a meeting with colleagues overseas — the few lines you'll actually need: how many times have you practiced them? EdgeLingo lets you speak whenever you want. An AI plays the barista, the interviewer, the landlord, and every line you say comes back with a more natural way to put it — then it gets you to use that line in your next conversation. The AI runs on your iPhone: download the models once, and you can practice without a connection after that. Want a bigger model? Turn on Cloud AI. ■ Follow a journey • 6 journeys, 20 stops, 60 lessons: a trip abroad, eating like a local, a new job, living abroad, making friends, and handling trouble • Every lesson has four steps: key phrases → shadowing → conversation → your fixes. About 10 minutes each • Tell it where you're going, for how long and with whom, and the conversations follow your trip. Each stop has a challenge and stars, and the map grows as you go ■ How you practice • 84 real scenarios: airport check-in, ordering food, job interviews, reporting a repair to your landlord… The AI stays in role, asks follow-up questions, and every scene has clear goals that get ticked off as you hit them • A more natural line for every sentence: grammar and word choice, learned in context instead of from a list • Corrections come back: the things you keep getting wrong, the AI creates a chance to say right next time • Today's practice: shadow a few lines, have one conversation, hear your last corrections again — ten minutes a day is progress • Tap to look up: tap any word or phrase in a conversation to see what it means and save it to your word bank — the AI works the ones you haven't used yet into later conversations • Widgets and Siri: your streak and today's practice on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and Siri can start a session for you • AI placement: speak for a minute to get a starting level; from there it adjusts to how you actually do • Build your own scenes: describe one in a sentence, or photograph a menu or a sign • Pronunciation scores (English, Japanese, Korean; optional): see which sounds need work after you shadow • 16 practice languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Hindi, Greek and Latin (experimental). The first 12 also work as the app's language, so explanations come in your own ■ Why EdgeLingo • Pay once: it's yours. No subscription, no account — Cloud AI is included too, with a daily fair-use limit • Works offline: the AI and voice models download the first time you open the app; after that, a flight or a trip without a SIM changes nothing. With Cloud AI on, it falls back to the on-device AI whenever there's no signal • Private: no ads, no tracking, and your practice stays on your phone by default. With Cloud AI on, only text is sent (plus a photo, if you say yes, when you build a scene from one) and nothing is stored; with pronunciation scores on, shadowing recordings are sent for scoring and not stored • Optional iCloud sync: your sessions, corrections and saved phrases live in your own iCloud, so a new phone doesn't mean starting over ■ Requirements iPhone 12 Pro / 13 Pro, or any iPhone 14 or later (6 GB of memory or more), iOS 26. The first launch downloads the AI and voice models, about 3.0–3.4 GB. Wi-Fi recommended. Switching to a new practice language may download that language's voice.

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LangToll

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Your doomscroll is about to teach you a language. LangToll puts the apps that eat your evenings behind a toll gate. Want TikTok, Instagram, YouTube? Pay the fare first: a quick round of exercises, about a minute, and your pass is issued. A stretch of phone time, earned. Then the gate closes again. No streak guilt. No willpower required. You will learn — because you can't not. WHAT YOU BECOME: Order dinner without pointing at the menu. Understand the group chat. Speak in sentences instead of single words. The twenty minutes you were going to lose anyway become the reason you can. HOW THE TOLL WORKS: • Choose the apps that steal your time — they go behind the gate • Practice a short session to earn your pass • Your pass buys a stretch of phone time, then the apps lock again • Miss the toll and Tolly, the operator, keeps the gate shut THE WORDS NEVER LEAVE YOUR SCREEN: While your pass runs, your vocabulary rides the Dynamic Island — word on one side, translation on the other — and your lock screen carries the countdown with the word of the moment. He watches the clock. You soak up the words. Even the scrolling you paid for keeps teaching. SIX LANGUAGES, A REAL CURRICULUM: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English — each from A1 to B2. Not a phrasebook: multiple choice, typed answers with accent-forgiving grading, cloze, sentence building, listening, and article drills where your language has them. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE: • Every lesson through B1 ships inside the app — works with no signal • Words you master collect in your wallet like ticket stubs — and each one you master mid-session buys you five extra minutes • Every word and sentence read aloud in a studio-tuned native voice • Nothing to sign up for. No account, no email, no password. LANGTOLL PLUS: The lock and the whole A1 course are free forever. Plus opens the route: A2 to B2, your words riding the Dynamic Island all day, unlimited apps and whole categories behind the gate, any fare you like, strict mode with zero grace, the studio voice, the full curriculum, and AI packs for your world and your goal — say "pass the B1 exam" and every session carries exam material. 7-day free trial on monthly and yearly. Your worst habit becomes your study schedule. Terms of Use: https://langtoll.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://langtoll.app/privacy

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: LangToll at Free against EdgeLingo's $9.99. LangToll also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). EdgeLingo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

LangToll is free to download; EdgeLingo costs $9.99 up front. LangToll sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. EdgeLingo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EdgeLingo ships an update every 5 days, LangToll every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
EdgeLingo versus LangToll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEdgeLingoLangToll
Price$9.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJIA CING CHENRaphael Schneider

In-app purchases

None

EdgeLingo

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

LangToll

Subscriptions3
  • Plus Weekly — All Languages$3.997 Days
  • Plus Monthly — All Languages7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly — All Languages7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is EdgeLingo free?
EdgeLingo costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LangToll free?
LangToll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EdgeLingo or LangToll have ads?
Neither EdgeLingo nor LangToll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EdgeLingo or LangToll?
EdgeLingo ships an update every 5 days, and LangToll every 4 days. Most recently, EdgeLingo was updated on October 28, 2026 and LangToll on October 25, 2026.

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