“Summery — I loved this app so much for the first couple lessons and I have been using it a lot every single day. Until I would have to pay $20 or more to continue which is a deal breaker for me. I loved this app so much but then I lost my…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 525 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.9 ★118,103 ratings
—Downloads
9+Age rating
119 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Join 5 million people and start building bridges by learning ASL with the most popular sign language learning app.
Lingvano is the perfect starting point for beginners, with video lessons made by Deaf teachers that can be done anywhere, anytime. You'll start signing in your very first lesson, and can become conversational with just 10 minutes/day of practice!
#Bite-sized lessons make learning easy – Build your vocabulary and learn grammar in 600+ lessons – Match signs to the correct picture or video with visual lessons – Check in on your signing progress with end of chapter quizzes – Tap the turtle icon to slow down the speed of any video or dialogue…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 6.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 6.0.0, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 525 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 525 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Subscription — You have to pay to continue to next unit.”
“Pay to win — It’s great and all, yeah but like why do we have to pay to learn asl and pay to be inclusive, ik yall have to get money some how but it would make it so much better if we can learn for free- just have a pay wall to learn…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 6.0.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$17.99
Highest$119.99
ASL Premium monthly$17.99
Lingvano Premium monthly$19.99
ASL Premium quarterly$47.99
Lingvano Premium quarterly$53.99
ASL Premium yearly$119.99
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Lingvano Premium yearly$119.99