LingQ vs SpeakAccent

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.

SpeakAccent is an iPhone language-learning podcast player from SpeakAccent, based in Vilafranca de Bonany, Balearic Islands, Spain. It uses real podcast episodes as lessons on iOS, with synchronized transcripts that highlight words and phrases during playback. Learners can tap words or phrases for translations in their native language, then use shadowing to record themselves repeating podcast lines and compare the recording with the original. Saved words and phrases can be reviewed through difficulty-based spaced repetition. Podcast discovery supports searching or pasting an RSS URL when that option is available. The free plan costs nothing, supports one learning language, and includes a native-language podcast player with limited translations and study. Offline lessons are not available. Premium yearly and monthly plans are listed as planned, with no prices shown. SpeakAccent says learning data may remain on the device without an account or sync and that it does not sell personal data or use advertising trackers in the learning experience.