linguafolks vs Beelinguapp
frlisez n'importe quoi à votre niveau exact
Beelinguapp gives you parallel texts from its library. linguafolks gives you parallel texts from anywhere, at your exact level.
Beelinguapp is side-by-side parallel reading with audio, over a large curated library of stories and articles.
Beelinguapp popularised the format linguafolks also uses: your language on one side, the language you are learning on the other, so you are never fully lost and never fully carried. It does it well, it has audio, and it has a large and well-produced library behind it.
Two things constrain it. The first is difficulty: you choose from a small number of coarse levels, and you choose them yourself, which means the difficulty is a guess rather than a measurement. The second is supply: you read what has been curated. If nothing in the library is about the thing you are actually interested in this week, that is the end of the conversation.
linguafolks measures instead of asking, and generates instead of curating. A one-minute test estimates your vocabulary size and places you inside a CEFR band; any URL you paste, or any one-line description of what you feel like reading, comes back written at that level with the original alongside.
Three things Beelinguapp doesn't do
- Coarse bands, chosen by you
- Difficulty is a small number of levels that you select for yourself. Self-assessment is the least reliable input available: most people place themselves by how they feel about the language rather than by what they can read. linguafolks measures a vocabulary size and places you to Lower, Mid or Upper within a band, then writes to that.
- Their library, or nothing
- Curated content means somebody had to decide in advance that you would want it. linguafolks takes any URL, or a sentence describing what you feel like reading, and produces the text, so the supply of material at your level is not a catalogue but everything.
- No mnemonics, no grammar exercises
- Reading is the whole product. linguafolks closes the loop: the words you did not know become drawn scenes, and the grammar underneath them becomes short exercises in French and English.
Read anything at your exact level.
frlisez n'importe quoi à votre niveau exact
The text is rewritten to sit within reach, hard enough to grow and easy enough to finish, with the original beside it so you can see what changed and check yourself against it. Tap any word to find out what it means and keep it.
FrenchLe café se trouvait quasiment déserté à pareille heure. Des effluves de café chaud imprégnaient la salle. Quelques clients s'entretenaient à mi-voix près de la devanture.
Elle tergiversa longuement avant de passer commande. Le serveur patientait près du comptoir, sans hâte aucune. Elle jeta finalement son dévolu sur un chocolat chaud et une part de tarte.
Il consigna la commande d'un hochement de tête. Au-dehors, la pluie ne faisait que commencer. Elle ouvrit son livre et fit abstraction du reste du monde.
EnglishThe café was almost empty at that hour. A smell of hot coffee filled the room. A few customers were talking quietly by the window.
She hesitated a long time before ordering. The waiter waited by the counter, in no hurry. She finally chose a hot chocolate and a slice of pie.
He noted the order with a nod. Outside, the rain was just beginning. She opened her book and forgot the rest of the world.
FrenchLe café était presque vide à cette heure-là. Une odeur de café chaud remplissait la pièce. Quelques clients parlaient tout bas près de la fenêtre.
Elle a hésité longtemps avant de commander. Le serveur attendait près du comptoir, sans se dépêcher. Elle a enfin choisi un chocolat chaud et une part de tarte.
EnglishThe café was almost empty at that hour. A smell of hot coffee filled the room. A few customers were talking quietly by the window.
She hesitated a long time before ordering. The waiter waited by the counter, in no hurry. She finally chose a hot chocolate and a slice of pie.
Read about what's interesting to you.
delies, was dich interessiert
Pick something ready-made, paste any URL and get what the page actually says, or describe in one line what you feel like reading and it gets written. Not a library you have to want something from.
Italiancurated stories and articles, sorted by topic - every one at your level
Das Festival beginnt heute Abend.
The festival starts tonight.
Germanpaste a link - the page arrives side by side, simplified to your level
A chuva caía devagar sobre a esplanada.
Ela escolheu a mesa junto à janela.
O empregado trouxe-lhe um chocolate quente.
Portuguesedescribe a text in one line - AI writes it, at your level, on your topics
Words that stick
ptaprenda vocabulário mais rápido
Every word gets an anchor, something you already know that sounds like it, fused with the meaning into a single scene, and then drawn. If it makes you smirk, it is doing its job.
baleine
means whale
FrenchballerinaA graceful ballerina twirls on stage, her body morphing into a massive whale mid-leap.
pays
means country
FrenchpayA traveler at a border checkpoint paying gold coins to enter a vast, sprawling country.
raser
means shave
FrenchrazorA gleaming razor blade shaving off a thick beard in one smooth stroke.
Where Beelinguapp wins
No product is better at everything, and a comparison that pretends otherwise is worth nothing to the person reading it.
What Beelinguapp does better
- Audio narration alongside the text, which linguafolks does not have at all.
- A big, well-produced curated library, professionally edited.
- The parallel reading interface itself is mature and pleasant to use.
- Far more languages than we support.
Where linguafolks falls short
- Grammar exercises exist in French and English only. The other four languages have reading and vocabulary.
- There is no audio and no speaking practice anywhere in the product.
- We generate texts rather than curate them, so there is no hand-edited library to browse.
- Six languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese and English.
- It is a new product, without the years of polish the established apps have.
Plainly, then
Choose Beelinguapp if
- Audio matters to you. We have none, and that is a real gap.
- You would rather browse a curated shelf than describe what you want.
- Your language is not one of our six.
Choose linguafolks if
- You want to read about your own interests, not a library's.
- You would rather be measured than pick a band.
- You want vocabulary and grammar work attached to what you just read.
Questions
- Does linguafolks have audio like Beelinguapp?
- No. There is no audio and no speaking practice anywhere in the product today. If listening is your priority, Beelinguapp is the better choice.
- Is the parallel layout the same?
- Very similar: target language and your language side by side. The difference is that our target-language side has been rewritten to your measured level.
- Can I still read curated material?
- Yes, there are ready-made texts. You are just not limited to them.
Find your level first.
It takes about a minute and needs no account. Whatever you decide afterwards, you will at least know where you actually are.
Claims about Beelinguapp were checked in August 2026 against the company's own published material. Either way, check theirs before you decide. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.