Drops vs AUT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
AUT
Access campus news, events, and personal academic information. Navigate student life with interactive maps, class schedules, and job listings. Stay connected with community chat and personalized notifications.
- Personal class timetable
- Customized news and events feed
- Interactive campus maps
- Student job listings
- Community chat with chatbot
- Real-time computer lab availability
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With the official AUT App, you have access to up-to-date news, events and information about AUT anytime, anywhere. New tools and functionality allow you to navigate student life at AUT both physically and virtually. By logging in with your student Network ID you’ll be able to: • See your personal class timetable • Access a customised feed of news and events • Add events and activities to direct to your schedule • Get quick access to your grades • Receive timely and personalised notifications direct to you • Engage in community chat, including AUT’s chatbot Tua • Make use of interactive campus maps and navigation • Check the live shuttle bus schedule • See and apply for student jobs • Launch an enquiry with Student Hub • Be guided on how to develop your Pepeha and gain confidence in Te Reo • See real-time computer lab availability • And more! Auckland University of Technology Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau is committed to enhancing student communications across our 30,000 students. The app allows AUT to send meaningful notifications along with in-app messages relevant to you, reducing the volume of email and one size fits all communications. The AUT Student App provides endless tools to engage with you and support you on your student journey. Plus, got a great idea to add to the app – let us know. The app was built in-house by AUT Grads keen to develop and deliver new functionality to serve you, our awesome student community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drops at 75% against AUT's 30%. Drops also leads on ratings volume (72K vs 1) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). AUT's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 13) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Drops sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. AUT asks for nothing beyond the download.
AUT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drops has 72K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Drops's written reviews are positive against 30% of AUT's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Drops ships an update every 8 days, AUT every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drops | AUT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (72K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.8% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #174 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PLANB LABS OU | Auckland University of Technology |
Customer experience
Drops
AUT
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
AUT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drops
- Genius for a month$7.991 Month
- Premium$9.991 Month
- Premium$11.991 Month
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- 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
- Unlimited time for all Languages!$59.99
AUT
No in-app purchases









