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Reach120 vs Arno: the 2026-format comparison, with its evidence attached

It is the product most people in this market meet before they meet us, and the comparison is rarely about the TOEFL test alone. Someone weighing Arno is usually deciding between preparing for two or three exams in one place and drilling one exam deeply. That is a real fork with no single right answer, and which side you belong on is knowable before you spend anything. This page separates them on the axes you can actually check, and says where its own evidence runs out.

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Who wrote this, and how to read it

Read on 2026-08-06, without an account, buying nothing and accessing no paywalled surface. Free allowances and prices change faster than pages like this one do, so treat every figure as dated evidence rather than a current quote.

  • There is no score, no rating and no verdict. There are no star ratings in this page or in its structured data — Reach120 has no published review corpus, so a rating would be a number we made up.
  • What Arno does better is stated plainly, because a comparison that finds nothing good in the other product is an advertisement.
  • Reach120 prices are not typed on this page. The pricing page is the only place they are stated, so there is one thing to keep correct rather than fourteen.

Reach120 and Arno, side by side

The spine of this table is the six task types the January 2026 format introduced, because coverage is the one axis with checkable evidence: either a public page names the task or it does not. Everything else — free access, metering, price, scoring transparency — is quoted.

Reach120 and Arno on the six task types the January 2026 TOEFL format introduced
2026 task typeReach120Arno
Build a SentenceWritingRuns it hereNot stated on the page we read
Write an EmailWritingRuns it hereNot stated on the page we read
Academic DiscussionWritingRuns it hereNamed on their page
Listen & RepeatSpeakingRuns it hereNamed on their page
Take an InterviewSpeakingRuns it hereNamed on their page
Complete the WordsReadingRuns it hereNamed on their page

How the Arno column was filled: Four of the six are named on the TOEFL page, in its feature list and its FAQ: Complete the Words, Listen and Repeat, Take an Interview and Academic Discussion. Build a Sentence and Write an Email are named nowhere on it, and the page’s own summary of the exam describes the writing section as one task — "Academic Discussion: write a discussion board post in 10 minutes". That is what the page states. It is not evidence that the product behind the login omits them, and this table never treats an unnamed task as a missing feature.

Free access, metering, price and scoring transparency: Reach120 and Arno
What you are comparingReach120Arno
Free accessReading and Listening practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion and Take an Interview share 1 AI-scored credit a day; Listen & Repeat has its own allowance of 3 a day. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.The TOEFL page states "free unlimited practice for every 2026 question type" and, in its FAQ, "You can practice every TOEFL question type for free with no limits and no credit card." Mock tests beyond the first and "advanced AI feedback on speaking and writing" are stated to need a subscription.
How AI use is meteredThe free tier is metered by measured cost — the three tasks that spend a model on your own words share one daily credit. A paid pass carries a stated fair-use ceiling rather than an open-ended promise.No credit meter and no per-action cost is stated on the pages we read. The split is stated as free practice against a paid subscription, not as an allowance.
Price, as their page stated itExam passes are one-time and do not auto-renew; the current prices are on the pricing page, which this page reads rather than restates.The only price Arno states publicly for its TOEFL product sits inside its own platform-comparison table on that page: "$12–$24/month". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name the currency, the term, or what separates the bottom of the range from the top. There is no pricing page to check it against — https://goarno.io/pricing answered HTTP 404 on 2026-08-06. That one cell is the whole of the public price evidence.
Scoring transparencyHow a score is produced, and what the language model is and is not allowed to do with it, is published at /methodology. No scorer-versus-human agreement figure is published: the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim.The TOEFL page states its AI is "trained on the new 2026 scoring rubrics" and that the scores "closely reflect what you’d receive on the real test". That is a statement about training data followed by an assertion about agreement, and we found no published method or comparison behind it. Reach120 publishes no agreement figure either — its benchmark corpus is too small to publish one honestly — but it does publish how a score is produced, at /methodology.

Every Arno cell above is a sentence their own public page stated, read on 2026-08-06. Prices and free allowances move; check the source before you buy. Reach120's own prices are not typed here — the pricing page is the only place they are stated.

What Arno does better

It covers the Duolingo English Test, PTE Academic, IELTS, OET and Cambridge exams alongside the TOEFL test, and it ships native apps on the App Store and Google Play. Reach120 does neither: one exam, and nothing in either app store today. If you are keeping two or three admissions options open, or you study mostly on a phone, that is a real advantage and it is theirs.

Where Reach120 is different

Arno is broad and lives behind a login; Reach120 is narrow and publishes. Arno’s practice runs in its app — a plain fetch of toefl.goarno.io on 2026-08-06 returned the page title and no practice material, which is ordinary for an application and is also the reason its material cannot be read before you sign up. Reach120 puts the questions, the answers, the transcripts and the sample responses in the page itself, for one exam only.

Different is not better in the abstract. The difference matters only if it matches what you are short of — time, money, feedback, or lessons.

Where Reach120 is weaker, in its own words: This page makes no case for its own product over the others. Where Reach120 is weaker: there are no taught video lessons, no human tutor review of a response, no coverage of any exam other than the TOEFL test, fewer free AI-scored submissions a day than PrepEx states, and no published scorer-versus-human agreement figure — the internal benchmark corpus is too small to publish as an accuracy claim, so it is not published.

Which one to choose

  • Choose Arno if what it does better is what you are short of. That sentence is above, unedited, and it is the whole reason this section can be brief.
  • Choose Reach120 if you want to read the practice material and its answers before creating anything, and you want the four sections in one place with the method published.
  • Choose both if the budget allows. They are not mutually exclusive, and nobody preparing for an exam owes one vendor loyalty.

Before either: Three things the public pages do not settle. What separates the bottom of the stated "$12–$24/month" range from the top, and on what term, since there is no pricing page. Whether the writing practice you need is in there: that page’s exam summary names one writing task, while the 2026 format ETS documents also has Build a Sentence and Write an Email. And the pages carry self-reported user counts and named student results, which this page restates none of — an unaudited number is not evidence, ours included.

Sources, and what we could not read

  • Arno TOEFL page — https://goarno.io/toefl, read 2026-08-06.
  • Arno homepage — https://goarno.io/, read 2026-08-06.

Arno states the following about itself. These are their words, quoted, and this page does not verify them:

  • "Arno is fully updated for the January 2026 TOEFL iBT® overhaul."
  • "Our AI is trained on the new 2026 scoring rubrics so your practice scores reflect the real test."
  • "No other TOEFL platform gives you this much for free while offering such powerful premium features."

Reach120 vs Arno: common questions

Is Arno better than Reach120?
This page does not answer that, and no page published by one of the two products honestly could. What it gives you instead is the evidence to answer it yourself: what each states about free access, price and 2026 task coverage, quoted from the page it was read from on 2026-08-06, plus a plain statement of what Arno does better — It covers the Duolingo English Test, PTE Academic, IELTS, OET and Cambridge exams alongside the TOEFL test, and it ships native apps on the App Store and Google Play. Reach120 does neither: one exam, and nothing in either app store today. If you are keeping two or three admissions options open, or you study mostly on a phone, that is a real advantage and it is theirs.
What does Arno cost?
On 2026-08-06, their own page stated: The only price Arno states publicly for its TOEFL product sits inside its own platform-comparison table on that page: "$12–$24/month". Currency is shown as a dollar sign; the page does not name the currency, the term, or what separates the bottom of the range from the top. There is no pricing page to check it against — https://goarno.io/pricing answered HTTP 404 on 2026-08-06. That one cell is the whole of the public price evidence. Prices and sales move, so check the page itself before paying.
Can I use Reach120 free instead of paying for Arno?
You can use a large part of it free and decide afterwards. Reading and Listening practice is free with no daily limit and no lifetime limit. Write an Email, Write for an Academic Discussion and Take an Interview share 1 AI-scored credit a day; Listen & Repeat has its own allowance of 3 a day. Published questions, answers, transcripts, sample responses and PDF packs need no account.
Does Arno cover the 2026 TOEFL task types?
Here is what we could establish rather than what we assume: Four of the six are named on the TOEFL page, in its feature list and its FAQ: Complete the Words, Listen and Repeat, Take an Interview and Academic Discussion. Build a Sentence and Write an Email are named nowhere on it, and the page’s own summary of the exam describes the writing section as one task — "Academic Discussion: write a discussion board post in 10 minutes". That is what the page states. It is not evidence that the product behind the login omits them, and this table never treats an unnamed task as a missing feature. A blank cell in the table on this page means we found no public statement, not that the feature is missing.
Who publishes this comparison?
Reach120 does, and Reach120 is one of the two products in it. That is disclosed at the top rather than buried, every competitor fact carries the URL and date it came from, and the section stating what Arno does better is mandatory on every page in this set. Nothing here is sponsored and Arno did not review it. If you believe a fact on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-read the source.

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