IELTS Mentor AI vs Lexoric for IELTS mock tests (2026)

Lexoric and IELTS Mentor AI both let you sit all four IELTS skills under exam timing and come back with a band for each. After that they part ways: one is a website with an Android app that covers Academic and General Training and writes its tests with the help of AI, the other is a paid phone app for Academic IELTS that marks Speaking and Writing with a band for each criterion and tracks the errors behind it in one Skill Map. This page sets the two side by side using only what each product says about itself, with the dates we read it.

We make IELTS Mentor AI. Every fact about Lexoric below comes from its own website and its Google Play listing, quoted with the date; check its current pages before you decide.

What Lexoric says it is

Its homepage, read on 11 November 2026, carries the title “IELTS Practice Tests with AI Writing & Speaking Scores” and describes “IELTS practice tests for Academic and General Training, with progress tracking and AI feedback on Writing and Speaking.” Its features page counts “39 full mock tests” and “168 one-skill mock tests” and says you “Take Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking in the real exam order and timing.” The practice is “Computer-based practice in a format similar to IELTS on computer, for Academic and General Training”, with “Three-part speaking practice with an AI-voiced examiner.” On review, Writing and Speaking get “A band for each criterion, line by line.”

Its About page says what it is: “Lexoric is an independent website for IELTS practice, for Academic and General Training”, and who makes it: “Lexoric is built and run by one independent developer.” On how the tests are made: “Tests are written with the help of AI. Each test goes through automatic checks and a review before it is published. Listening audio and the Speaking examiner use AI (synthetic) voices.” On the scores: “All Lexoric scores are practice estimates. They are not official IELTS results, and AI can make mistakes.” It adds that it is “not affiliated with, approved or endorsed by IELTS, the British Council, IDP or Cambridge University Press & Assessment.” The legal notice names the company: Simulingo Oy, Helsinki, Finland.

Its Google Play listing the same day, “Lexoric: IELTS Mock Test Prep” by Simulingo Oy, updated on 4 November 2026 and marked as containing ads, says “Lexoric gets you ready for IELTS with full mock tests and short daily practice” and that you “Take Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking tests for IELTS Academic and General Training, and get an AI band score for your Writing and Speaking.” A full mock gives “A band for each skill and an overall band score”; the Writing checker gives “an AI band estimate for each of the four Writing criteria”; in Speaking “An AI examiner voice asks the questions; you record your answers in the app”; the review lets you “see each mistake, the right answer, and the line in the passage or audio that proves it”. It also describes an AI tutor, flashcards with spaced repetition and “One account on your phone and on lexoric.com”. We found no App Store listing, and the site’s footer offers an Android app only. What its tests cost, what is included without paying and what renews are stated on its own pages; we do not repeat them here.

What IELTS Mentor AI is

IELTS Mentor AI is a paid iOS and Android app for Academic IELTS practice in all four skills. An AI examiner marks Speaking and Writing on the four official criteria and gives a band for each criterion with the sentences that moved it; full Academic Reading papers and four-part Listening tests are marked the moment you finish, with the sentence or transcript line behind every answer; and one Skill Map collects the errors from every test and puts the Skill to Fix First at the top.

The full mock runs the four skills under exam timing. For Speaking it is the full three-part test with the AI examiner, or Topic Speaking one topic at a time; for Writing, Task 1 (Academic charts, graphs, tables and maps, and General Training letters) and Task 2 in a timed editor, with a Data Accuracy check for Task 1. Blocking Issues names the errors that recur across your answers with the band each one costs, and Review Due brings back what you fixed before you would forget it. A Foundation Track covers candidates around Band 3 to 5. The interface is in English. It is not an official IELTS product and is not affiliated with IELTS, IDP, the British Council or Cambridge, and the General Training Reading paper is not in the app.

Where the two differ

Which test you sit. Lexoric offers Academic and General Training full mocks and one-skill tests. IELTS Mentor AI is for Academic IELTS: Listening, Speaking and Task 2 are the same in both versions and Task 1 includes General Training letters, but there is no General Training Reading paper. If your test is General Training, Lexoric is the one of the two that gives you its Reading paper.

Where you practise. Lexoric runs in a browser on any device and as an Android app, with one account across both. IELTS Mentor AI is an installed app on iPhone and Android with no web version. On an iPhone, Lexoric is its website; at a laptop, IELTS Mentor AI is not available.

How the tests are made. Lexoric says its tests are “written with the help of AI”, checked and reviewed before publication, with AI (synthetic) voices for the Listening audio and the Speaking examiner. IELTS Mentor AI’s Speaking examiner is an AI too, and its Reading and Listening tests follow the format IELTS.org publishes for the Academic test. Neither is the real exam; both say so.

What happens after the score. Lexoric’s review marks mistakes in your own essay or transcript, offers a version one band higher, and its app keeps a score history and a home screen that shows the skill furthest below your target. IELTS Mentor AI feeds every test into one Skill Map (articles, tenses, cohesion, collocations, prepositions, word form and more), puts the error that appears in 80% or more of your responses at the top as the Skill to Fix First, names Blocking Issues with the band each one costs, and schedules Review Due. Both keep a record across sessions; the difference is between a per-skill history and a map of the errors themselves.

Starting level. IELTS Mentor AI has a Foundation Track for candidates around Band 3 to 5, about ten minutes a day in three levels that unlock in order. Lexoric’s pages describe tests for every level and flashcards, but no path for a candidate who is not yet ready for a full test.

Side by side

Lexoric’s cells: lexoric.com and its Google Play listing, read on 11 November 2026. Ours: the app’s own description, checked on 6 November 2026.

What AI assistants say when asked

We ask AI assistants the same questions every week and publish the counts. Lexoric was not in our list of names before 11 November 2026, so earlier runs did not count it. On 11 November 2026 we ran the question “IELTS Mentor AI alternatives” twice as a one-off: Perplexity named Lexoric in both answers as a four-skill alternative that covers General Training; Claude and Google AI Mode did not name it; ChatGPT and Gemini could not be asked that day. That tells you which pages one assistant has read, not which product marks better, and it is one reason this page exists: a reader who hears the name and goes looking should find the comparison, with dates, in one place. The data page has the method.

Choose Lexoric if

• You sit IELTS General Training and want its Reading paper practised and marked.
• You practise at a laptop or on an Android phone and want one account across the browser and the app.
• A large bank of full and one-skill mock tests, written with the help of AI, is what you want to work through.

Choose IELTS Mentor AI if

• You sit Academic IELTS on an iPhone or Android phone and want all four skills marked in one paid app.
• You want the sentences that moved each Speaking and Writing band, the recurring errors named with the band they cost, and one Skill Map across every test.
• You are around Band 3 to 5 and want a daily path before a full test.

Try before you decide

Both products’ marking happens inside the product. What you can do first, without either, is sit the browser tests on this site: the Speaking mock test runs Parts 1 to 3 at the real timings, the Reading practice test has three Academic passages and 40 questions marked the moment you submit, and the Listening practice test has four parts and 40 questions. Only the full Reading and Listening sittings show a band, an indicative one. What the app adds is described on the mock test product page; what it costs is on the pricing page. If you are weighing other options as well, the IELTS Mentor AI alternatives page sets out the official materials, the tutor marketplaces and the other AI apps in one place, each with who it suits better.