Drops vs Russian Language Learning
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
Russian Language Learning
Learn to read, write, and pronounce words and phrases in 100 languages through fun, educational games. This app covers thousands of words and phrases categorized into 100 topics for everyday life and travel situations.
- Learn reading, writing, and pronunciation
- Supports 100 languages
- Thousands of words and phrases
- 100 topic categories
- Smart educational games
- Progress tracking
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The app will help you learn how to read, write, and pronounce words and phrases. You can learn one or more of the 100 languages, such as English and French. It's a fun and easy-to-use educational game that includes thousands of words and phrases that provide you with knowledge in real-world situations. The app is categorized into 100 topics covering everyday life or travel situations. Why this application? - Teach you all the words and phrases that really matter. - It consists of smart games that improve your speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills. - It can count the correct and wrong answers for each educational game. - Multilingual interface (100). Application contents - Nouns and verbs. - Adjectives and antonyms. - Names of body parts. - Animal and birds. - Fruits and vegetables. - Clothes and accessories. - Communications and technology. - Devices and tools. - Education and sports. - Entertainment and media. - Feelings and experience. - Health and exercise. - House and Kitchen. - Places and buildings. - Travel and transportation. - Work and jobs. - Days and months. - Shapes and colors. - Accommodations and general expressions. - Difficulties in making friends. - Location and greeting. - Emergency and health. - General questions. - Numbers and money. - Phone, internet, and mail. - Shopping and food. - Time and dates. - Travel and directions. Test - Listen to a word. - Writing characters. - Translate a phrase. - A missing word from a sentence. - Words order. - Memory exam. PLEASE NOTE Most features of the app work without a subscription. However, you will need the subscription in order to access additional features. Subscription options: - 1-month subscription for $US6.99 (or the equivalent in local currency), automatically renewed until canceled. - 6-month subscription for $US7.99 (or the equivalent in local currency), automatically renewed until canceled. - 12-month subscription for $US8.99 (or the equivalent in local currency), automatically renewed until canceled. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current payment period. Your iTunes account will be automatically charged at the same price for renewal within the 24-hour period prior to the end of the current payment period unless you change your subscription preferences in your Account Settings. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. You can manage your subscriptions through your Account Settings after purchase. When a subscription is canceled, access to the extra features of the app will expire at the end of the current payment period. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/hosy-academy/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/hosy-academy/terms-of-service Have questions or suggestions? Feel free to contact us at hosy.developer@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drops at weekly against Russian Language Learning's every 10 months. Drops also leads on ratings volume (72K vs 4) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). Russian Language Learning's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Drops sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Russian Language Learning sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Drops against 4.8 for Russian Language Learning. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drops has 72K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Drops ships an update weekly, Russian Language Learning every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drops | Russian Language Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (72K ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 72K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #146 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PLANB LABS OU | Imad Al-Zaidi. |
Customer experience
Drops
Russian Language Learning
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
Russian Language Learning
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
Russian Language Learning
- Unlock Features$6.991 Month
- Unlock Features$7.996 Months
- Unlock Features$8.991 Year
Questions
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