Comparison

Drops vs LingoPix

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

LingoPix

This app uses pictures, audio, and interactive exercises to help you build vocabulary in a new language. Features include AI-powered object recognition for real-world learning and speech analysis to perfect your accent. It offers personalized learning plans and spaced repetition to aid memory retention.

Highlights
  • Picture flashcards with audio pronunciation
  • AI object recognition with LingoCam
  • Speech analysis for accent perfection
  • Hands-free learning mode
  • Spaced repetition system (Smart Shuffle)
  • Personalized action plans
  • Customizable flashcard practice modes
Features
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Introducing your secret weapon for learning a new language… LingoPix is a vocabulary building system that combines pictures, audio, and interactivity to make words memorable. Build a deep vocabulary with thousands of picture flashcards • Tap the picture to hear the word for it spoken by a real person. • Tap again to hear it pronounced s-l-o-w-l-y. • Trying to remember a word and want a hint? Rub the empty area of the flashcard to reveal the word letter by letter. Learning words with pictures is great! • Pictures help your brain connect the letters and sounds of a new word with its meaning. • They enable immersive learning. See just the words of your new language along with pictures to explain them. Keep away words in your native language. • Learning with pictures is casual and digestible. When you have a little downtime, instead of picking up your phone for something mindless, treat your brain to a few new words. LingoCam. A fun new way to learn the words for things around you. Just point your camera at an object and hear the word for it spoken aloud. LingoCam operates with AI object recognition built with machine learning. A telescope lets you see faraway things. A microscope lets you see small things. LingoCam lets you see things in a new language. Perfect your accent with Speech Studio Record your voice, then hear your pronunciation compared with the teacher’s. You’ll be amazed as your accent melts away. Learn anytime with hands-free mode Press the Play button and cycle through words hands-free. Learn while exercising, doing housework, or cooking. Smart shuffle. Like a pipeline to pour words into your long-term memory. Smart shuffle is a unique spaced repetition system where each word to learn has a temperature. New words start “hot”. Hot words are reviewed frequently. “Cold” words are reviewed periodically, enough to retain them in long-term memory. Make an action plan Within seconds, create a personalized action plan to target the most useful words in the language. Just pick a goal and date, tap a button, and plot a course over the coming days and weeks to reach your goal. Receive a reminder on days of the week you’ve chosen for learning. Open the app and find a pack of “words for the day” prepared for you. Customizable flashcards With different program modes, you can choose to: • practice recognition of words from writing or from speech. • practice recall of words from memory. • fine-tune your accent. • repeat words many times in a row, when you want something to play in the background. A roadmap through the language LingoPix has an enormous database of pictures. Build a deep vocabulary, or explore a variety of topics that interest you. What excites you? Food? Travel? Shopping? Sports and games? Technology? A day at the beach? Or want to brush up on important words for school or your profession? LingoPix has a word pack for that. And it’s not just pictures… LingoPix offers audio cards for important words and conversational phrases that aren’t visual. Night Review Review everything that you saw earlier in the day. Perfect to reinforce words in your mind before you go to sleep. Flipboards A flipboard is an interactive overview of a collection of words. Each word has a tile on a gameboard. One side shows the word you are learning. The other side shows its translation. Tap tiles to flip them to the other side. iCloud Sync Sync your learning progress and plan across all your iOS devices. 4500 pictures and 6000 audio cards: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Greek, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Irish Gaelic, Hungarian, Catalan, Indonesian, Tagalog, Cantonese, Vietnamese. 600 pictures and 1200 audio cards: Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Croatian, Romanian, Malay, Sinhala, Tamil, Hindi Enjoy learning words with LingoPix! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Drops4 screens
LingoPix4 screens

Verdict

The call

Drops and LingoPix both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Drops's written reviews are positive against 38% of LingoPix's. Drops also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (72K vs 79). LingoPix's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 LingoPix sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Drops against 4.6 for LingoPix. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drops has 72K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Drops's written reviews are positive against 38% of LingoPix's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drops ships an update weekly, LingoPix every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Drops versus LingoPix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDropsLingoPix
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (72K ratings) — better4.6 (79 ratings)
Positive reviews74.6% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings72K — better79
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#160 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPLANB LABS OUNemo Apps LLC

Customer experience

Drops

All ratings71,502 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews2,192 reviews
Positive74.6%
Neutral9.6%
Negative15.8%

LingoPix

All ratings79 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative46.2%

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

LingoPix

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
2 purchases

LingoPix

Subscriptions2
  • World Passport Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • World Passport Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Drops free?
Drops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LingoPix free?
LingoPix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drops or LingoPix?
Drops is rated higher. Drops averages 4.7 out of 5 from 72K ratings, while LingoPix averages 4.6 from 79 ratings.
Do Drops or LingoPix have ads?
Drops shows ads; LingoPix does not.
Which is updated more often, Drops or LingoPix?
Drops ships an update weekly, and LingoPix every 2 months. Most recently, Drops was updated on September 24, 2026 and LingoPix on September 18, 2026.

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