Kantonese vs Bayān
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kantonese
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Kantonese brings Cantonese into your everyday life, without the effort. A widget on your lock screen shows a word, its Jyutping pronunciation and its meaning. You walk past it ten times a day: memorisation happens through exposure, not through drilling. When you do want to study actively, the spaced repetition engine shows you each card right when you are about to forget it. • 125,000-entry dictionary, fully offline • Lock screen and home screen widgets • Jyutping with colour-coded tones • Five decks: spoken Cantonese, everyday expressions, slang, and two decks built from real usage frequency • A register filter: you decide how far the vocabulary goes, from neutral to very colloquial • No account, no ads, no data collected Free forever: the widget, the everyday deck and 10 new cards a day. Kanto+ is a subscription that opens the other decks and lets you run several at once, raises the limit to 30 new cards a day, and adds detailed statistics and extra widget styles. It comes with a 7-day free trial and is available monthly or yearly — prices are shown in the app in your local currency. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app-support-pages.netlify.app/canto/
Bayān
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Bayān t'accompagne dans ta relation au Coran : écouter, lire, mémoriser, à ton rythme. ÉCOUTER • Une radio du Coran que tu personnalises : couleurs, style, récitateur. • Plusieurs récitateurs reconnus, sourate par sourate. • Des ambiances et des fonds pour chaque moment de la journée. IMPORTER ET DÉCOUPER • Importe tes propres audios : Bayān les découpe partie par partie pour que tu puisses répéter, réviser et mémoriser chaque passage. MÉMORISER • Un programme de mémorisation progressif, avec répétitions et révisions. • Suis tes progrès et reprends là où tu t'es arrêté. LIRE • Le texte arabe du Coran, avec une lecture claire et confortable. USTADH, TON COACH IA (Premium) • Pose tes questions et reçois un accompagnement personnalisé pour avancer dans ta mémorisation. • Choisis la présence de ton coach : Brume, Voile, Courant ou Soie. Bayān Premium Certaines fonctions (dont le coach Ustadh) nécessitent Bayān Premium. Abonnement mensuel ou annuel avec renouvellement automatique. Le paiement est débité sur ton compte Apple ; l'abonnement se renouvelle sauf résiliation au moins 24 h avant la fin de la période, depuis les réglages de ton compte Apple. Confidentialité : https://bayan-quran.github.io/bayan-legal/privacy/ Conditions : https://bayan-quran.github.io/bayan-legal/terms/ Conditions d'utilisation (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bayān at daily against Kantonese's every 3 months. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Kantonese sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Bayān sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Kantonese ships an update every 3 months, Bayān daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kantonese | Bayān |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 295 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Aurelien Roblin | Elyas Bouamama |
In-app purchases
Kantonese
- Kanto+7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Kanto+7 Days trial$17.991 Year
Bayān
- Bayān Premium Mensuel$5.991 Month
- Bayān Premium Annuel$44.991 Year









