Eloqui vs Kotrin

Eloqui is an audio-first language-learning app built around spoken conversations with AI tutors. It runs on Android and iOS and offers English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. The app lists 18 culturally matched tutors, with male and female voices for each language. Learners can speak freely, receive corrections during conversations, and use role-play situations such as ordering food, visiting a café, or interviewing for a job. Tutors explain grammar through conversational examples, provide pronunciation feedback, and model correct speech. Spaced repetition brings back vocabulary from conversations, especially words a learner forgets. Practice adapts to stated level and difficulties, while the app tracks streaks, vocabulary milestones, and progress. Eloqui is free to start, with the first conversation free before a subscription offer. The yearly subscription includes a 3-day free trial. Listed prices are $9.99 a month, $22.99, paid once for three months, and $69.99 a year.

Kotrin is an AI-powered app for learning Japanese, with connected practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing aligned to JLPT levels. Its lesson library advertises more than 5,000 lessons for beginner through advanced learners. Practice includes everyday exchanges set in places such as shops and cafés, as well as AI role plays with back-and-forth responses. Lessons cover hiragana through Jōyō kanji, including stroke-order and recognition practice. Kotrin builds a language profile across 1,536 dimensions and adapts difficulty, focus, and scenarios to progress. Its AI-powered content system can create personalized Japanese lessons from a word or idea. The app is listed for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, but is currently available only in English. The free plan includes selected lessons, personalized learning, quizzes, and vocabulary practice, subject to daily practice limits. Pro is listed at $10 a month or $90 a year, both tax excluded, and another Pro listing is ¥1,650 a month. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled; monthly and yearly purchases are non-refundable under the stated terms.