Lingora vs LingQ

Lingora is a language-learning service available on the web and through Android, iOS, and macOS apps. It offers courses in 21 languages, with 500 lessons per course progressing from zero to lower beginner. Lessons center on real sentences; the demo provides word meanings, transliteration, and pronunciation audio. Practice options include vocabulary games and quizzes, a step-by-step script trainer, grammar quizzes, tone quizzes for tonal languages, speech practice, personalized review, and an adaptive AI tutor. Offline lessons are also listed. Lingora has free services with limited or conditional access and advertising, as well as a free trial. Prices vary by course and access type: Cantonese A1 Premium is $4.99 a month, All Courses Premium is $12.99 a month, Cantonese A1 Pro is $14.99 a year, and Southern Vietnamese A1 Lifetime is 49.99 USD one-time. The maker is based in Hamburg, Germany, and its terms license the services for personal, non-commercial use. The AI tutor sends relevant chat history and recently studied material to Anthropic’s API; speech recordings go to Microsoft Azure for recognition.

LingQ is a language-learning service built around reading and listening to real-world content, with new words learned in context. It offers 52 languages, a placement test, personalized review and offline lessons. Its browser importer can turn content from YouTube, Netflix, TikTok, Spotify, Apple TV, Disney+ and Amazon Prime into lessons. LingQ is available on the web, Android and iOS, with a browser extension for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. The free membership allows 20 saved words and phrases, five lessons made from imported content and one audio playlist. Premium membership provides unlimited saved words and imported lessons, full sentence translations and offline access. Premium is listed at $215.76 per year, billed upfront for the selected duration and recurring until canceled; Premium Plus is $269.99 per year on the same billing basis. Paid membership is also noted from $8.99/mo (annual). Users can change or cancel plans at any time, and trial or subscription auto-renewal can be canceled.