Comparison

Learn Real English vs Watch and Learn

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

Head to head
About

Learn Real English

Improve your English listening skills by watching movies and listening to music. This app offers vocabulary and listening quizzes using video transcripts to help you understand real speakers and improve your conversational abilities.

Highlights
  • Improve listening skills
  • Vocabulary quizzes
  • Listening video quizzes
  • Video transcripts
  • Movie and music content
  • Background playback
Features
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Would you like to improve your English? Would you like to watch the movie? Would you like to listen the music? Real English allows you to improve your English listening skills quickly and easily via listening movies, musics. The app focuses on two types of quiz: vocabulary and listening videos. You hear the video and then check your listening skills. To understand real speakers, to speak more easily to real speakers, you must use real conversations. In addition, the application also provides the transcript of the video can help you more accurately verify their capabilities. Real English may hold the secret to learn English for you. MAIN FEATURES: - Simple, quick and easy to use UI. - Rich content, including movies, cartoon, music. - Support the transcript, vocabulary of the video. - Support for background playing.

About

Watch and Learn

Learn new languages by watching films and series with synchronized subtitles. Tap on unknown words or phrases for instant translations and save them to flashcards for later study. Supports over 40 languages and offers pronunciation practice and knowledge tests.

Highlights
  • Watch films/series in foreign languages
  • Interactive subtitles with tap-to-translate
  • Save words/phrases to flashcards
  • Pronunciation support
  • Knowledge tests for vocabulary
  • Supports over 40 languages
  • Offline dictionaries
Features
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A convenient application for watching films and series in foreign languages with subtitles and learning new words and phrases. Just touch an unknown word or a phrase, get its translation and add a card to learn it later. WATCH - support all popular video formats without conversion - support of subtitles in srt format - download new subtitles from opensubtitles.org - set of interesting films with subtitles for most common languages - audio track selection and many other settings LEARN - intuitive control over the sets of words - ready-made card sets for the most popular languages (English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese) - pronunciation support for words and phrases in foreign languages - knowledge tests for each set of words - export/import cards into csv format TRANSLATE - translate your own phrases and add them to the words sets - transcription for the most popular languages - speech to text function - just say unknown words and app will translate it - edit translations when needed - support over 50 off-line dictionaries - support of 40 languages AND ALSO - synchronization between all iOS devices via iCloud - support of iPhone, iPad and Mac DEVELOPERS LINK support@readandlearnapp.com Main supported video formats: MPEG-4/2/1, MJPEG, H.264, H.263, VP6, VP5, Theora, DV, MPEG-1/2/4, MJPEG, WMV, Cinepak, H.264, H.263, HuffYUV, Indeo3, Theora, Sorenson, VC-1, VP5/6/8/9, H.265, MOV, MP4, AVI, FLV and much more.. Supported languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.

Screenshots

Learn Real English4 screens
Watch and Learn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Learn Real English at 100% against Watch and Learn's 50%. Learn Real English also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (40 vs 6). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Learn Real English sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Watch and Learn sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learn Real English holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Real English has 40 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Learn Real English's written reviews are positive against 50% of Watch and Learn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Real English ships an update every 4 months, Watch and Learn every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Learn Real English versus Watch and Learn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Real EnglishWatch and Learn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (40 ratings) — better2.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB116 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperHai LeAnton Ivanov

Customer experience

Learn Real English

All ratings40 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Watch and Learn

All ratings6 ratings
Positive16.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Learn Real English

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
12 purchases

Watch and Learn

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$1.491 Month
  • Annual subscription$14.491 Year
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Questions

Is Learn Real English free?
Learn Real English is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Watch and Learn free?
Watch and Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Learn Real English or Watch and Learn?
Learn Real English is rated higher. Learn Real English averages 4.7 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Watch and Learn averages 2.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Learn Real English or Watch and Learn have ads?
Both Learn Real English and Watch and Learn show ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Real English or Watch and Learn?
Learn Real English ships an update every 4 months, and Watch and Learn every 7 months. Most recently, Learn Real English was updated on October 24, 2026 and Watch and Learn on October 7, 2026.

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