Comparison

Drops vs Learn

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

Head to head
About

Drops

Learn new languages through engaging games and visual aids. Practice vocabulary and common phrases in over 55 languages, from beginner to expert levels. Track progress, unlock achievements, and enjoy professionally curated lessons with native speaker pronunciations.

Highlights
  • Gamified vocabulary learning
  • Visual learning aids
  • 55+ language options
  • Progress tracking and rewards
  • Native speaker pronunciations
  • Customizable learning goals
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Join over 50 million people who use Drops for free language lessons. It’s fast, fun, and easy! Practice vocabulary in Spanish, Japanese, French, Korean, Chinese, German, English. Discover 55+ different new languages with Drops! Learn new languages while playing games. You can become fluent, learn vocabulary and common phrases in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and Hindi. Set goals, unlock achievements, and get rewards! • Become fluent in a foreign language with this language learning app • Learn to read characters and scripts from different alphabets like Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and Hindi • Custom illustrations for each vocabulary word makes it easy to remember • From beginner to expert levels, grow your foreign language vocabulary • A professionally curated vocabulary list with more than 3,000 words and phrases • Game-like language lessons that make language learning fun and effective • Level up! Track your progress and get rewards • Professional voice artists and sound design with correct dialect pronunciations • Learn to speak languages like Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English (British), English (American), French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish (Mexican), Spanish (European), Tagalog, Ainu, Arabic (Egyptian), American Sign Language (ASL), Basque, Bosnian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chti, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Maori, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Serbian, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, and even Yoruba! "By focusing on visually appealing games and vocab, Drops aims to lower the barrier preventing users from exploring a new language and, ultimately, accessing the social and economic benefits knowing that language may provide." - TechCrunch We are featured by CNET, Forbes, VentureBeat and many other places too! Try Drops Premium with a 7 day free trial. Download the app to learn about different membership options, and register to learn all about exclusive discounts. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of Drops premium. Afterwards your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. You can cancel your subscription anytime, and you won't be charged in the next billing cycle. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: http://languagedrops.com/privacypolicy.html

About

Learn

This app helps you learn languages by breaking down audio into sentences. It provides tools for listening, speaking practice, pronunciation feedback, and memorization. Track your progress and identify difficult sentences to improve your language skills.

Highlights
  • Sentence-by-sentence audio learning
  • Blind listening and imitation tool
  • Pronunciation and intonation feedback
  • Visible progress bar for learning
  • Recite mode for memorization
  • Error correction for text and phonetics
Features
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No matter what language you are learning, with just an audio file, we immediately let you listen, speak, learn, memorize and spell it sentence by sentence and finding out your listening, pronunciation and intonation problems immediately [Support learning 61 languages]. Outstanding Features: 1. Learning Sentence by Sentence ->​ Becomes so easy: Drag in or add in an audio file and you are good to go [see App Preview: V1]. 2. High-efficiency Blind Listening + Imitation Tool ->​ Each sentence starts with automatic continuous blind listening, and you can choose to imitate it directly and get individual letter-level hints when needed [V2]. 3. Cross Play:Makes Pronunciation, Intonation Problems not only can be Seen, but also can be Heard [V3]. 4. The innovative colorful and visible "Sentence Blocks Progress Bar" allows you to see Difficult Sentences, Learning Process and Results, etc. at a glance, and makes sentence by sentence learning super easy ->​ Every sentence you want to learn is so clear and visible that all you have to do is click on it. 5.Rich and Extensively sourced audio text books. Main Function: 1. Listen: Auto-play repeatedly according to your choice: 1.1. Single Sentence [Step mode: Default] / All Sentences [normal] / Sentences marked with "Difficult" [normal + difficulties] 1.2. Original Soundtrack only 1.3. Your voice only 1.4. Cross play [you said, then the original] 2. Speak, Check and Hint: 2.1. Immediately display each word and phonetic symbol you say. 2.2. Automatically check each sentence and show the correct part of what you said in the original area. 2.3 Letter-level hints. 3. Learning: 3.1 You can check the text, translation and phonetic symbols of each sentence at any time [P3, P4] 3.2 supports text right-click menus. So you can easily use third-party apps such as audio dictionaries, etc. [P7] 4. Recite and Bear in mind 4.1 In [Recite] mode: Choose a sentence that was correctly spoken before and see if you can still say it correctly in 7, 15, or 30 days only based on its translation? [P5] 5. Spelling/Back Translation 6. Browse, Copy, or Print Text, Phonetic Symbols and Translations. [P6] 7. Correct errors Errors in text and phonetic symbols due to recording quality or teacher's accent or current network status, etc., can be corrected by: 7.1. Tap the "Edit" button to modify its text, phonetic symbols and translation. 7.2. Try to merge 2 sentences. 7.3. Try to split the sentence. 7.4. If you said it out correctly, tap the [Bingo? ] Button 7.5. Import the sio file shared by others 8. More 8.1. Auto starts learning from the last sentence you quit. [entry -> book] 8.2. The number of sentences on "Sentence Blocks Progress Bar" can be adjusted according to the speed of specific audio file. 8.3. Background playback and headphone control* enable you to learn anywhere, anytime. .One click: play / pause .Double Click: Play the next sentence .Press 3 times: Play the previous sentence 8.4. Swipe Left / Right to choose Previous / Next sentence. 8.4 Multiple screen. 9. Settings & Select a Dictionary 9.1. To get the correct text: Please make sure that the language code is consistent with the recording language you are learning. 9.2. To get your native language translation: In the preferences, set your native language to the language of the translation you want to get. 9.3. Get phonetic symbols*: Install one of the following dictionaries. .New Oxford American Dictionary .Oxford Dictionary of English .Chinese, Traditional-English .Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary .Oxford German Dictionary .No installation required for learning Chinese *Currently only US, English, French, German and Chinese are supported. 10. Others 10.1. Requires iOS 14.0, MacOS 11.0 or above 10.2. Built in a Chinese and an American MP3, download to experience 10.3. 5 sentences free trial [any audio file], unlimited use on all Macs, iPads and iPhones for a total of only $2.99, support family sharing.

Screenshots

Drops4 screens
Learn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drops at 75% against Learn's 0%. Drops also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#168 vs unranked). Learn's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price and in-app purchases 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. Drops sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Learn sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drops ships an update weekly, Learn every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Drops versus Learn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDropsLearn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (72K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings72K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#168 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPLANB LABS OU秋生 廖

Customer experience

Drops

All ratings71,502 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews2,197 reviews
Positive74.6%
Neutral9.6%
Negative15.8%

Learn

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Drops

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login issues and lost progress
  • Crashes and performance problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more grammar and sentence-level learning
  • Improve accuracy of translations and pronunciations
  • Provide more flexibility in time limits and review sessions
  • Integrate more conversational practice
  • Improve user interface and navigation

Learn

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

Drops

Subscriptions12
  • Genius for a month$7.991 Month
  • Premium$9.991 Month
  • Premium$11.991 Month
Show 9 more
  • Premium$14.991 Month
  • Curious for a month$22.991 Month
  • Holiday premium!$39.991 Year
  • Premium7 Days trial$62.991 Year
  • Premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • All Language Learning Plans7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • Premium7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Premium7 Days trial$89.991 Year
  • Premium7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlimited time for all Languages!$59.99
3 purchases

Learn

One-time3
  • get 100 Checks$0.99
  • upgrade to unlimited$1.99
  • Unlimited voice checks.$2.99

Questions

Is Drops free?
Drops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learn free?
Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drops or Learn have ads?
Drops shows ads; Learn does not.
Which is updated more often, Drops or Learn?
Drops ships an update weekly, and Learn every 6 weeks. Most recently, Drops was updated on September 27, 2026 and Learn on June 1, 2026.

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