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Duolingo
Duolingo is the app that made language practice a daily reflex, and the streak-and-gamification engine behind that habit...
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Networks, tools and standouts in Education our editors actually tested. Honest verdicts, no paid placements.
Duolingo
Duolingo is the app that made language practice a daily reflex, and the streak-and-gamification engine behind that habit...
Babbel GmbH
Babbel takes the opposite bet to its gamified rivals: structured, expert-built courses aimed squarely at real conversati...
Simon & Schuster
Pimsleur leans on a 50-year-old audio method and barely apologizes for it. Each half-hour lesson is a structured convers...
Speakeasy Labs
Speak bets everything on getting you talking. Instead of matching tiles, you hold spoken conversations with an AI that l...
UNACADEMY INC
Airlearn positions itself as the studious cousin of the streak-chasing apps. It teaches grammar, vocabulary, and cultura...
Memrise Limited
Memrise has been around since 2013 and has clearly matured into a serious contender in the language learning space. With...
Busuu Limited
Busuu has been around since 2010 and carries the weight of that experience well. With a 4.71 store rating across nearly ...
Pingo AI, Inc.
Pingo AI takes a conversation-first approach to language learning, putting an AI speaking partner at the center rather t...
HELLOTALK FOREIGN LANGUAGE EXCHANGE LEARNING TALK CHAT APP
HelloTalk has been connecting language learners with native speakers since 2012, making it one of the longest-running ap...
Rosetta Stone, Ltd.
Rosetta Stone Classic has been on the App Store since 2011, and that history shows, for better and worse. The immersive ...
LingoDeer Co, Ltd.
LingoDeer has been quietly building a strong reputation since 2017, and its 4.75 store rating across 27,000 reviews sugg...
Falou has been quietly racking up a serious user base since its 2019 launch, now sitting at 93,000 ratings averaging 4.7...
PLANB LABS OU
Drops has quietly built a loyal audience of 50 million users since its 2014 launch, and spending time with it reveals wh...
TEUIDA
Teuida targets three languages, Korean, Japanese, and Spanish, with a speak-first philosophy baked in from the first les...
ATi Studios
Mondly has been around since 2015 and now carries Pearson branding, which lends it some academic credibility. The roster...
Creative Empire, LLC
Mango Languages has been around since 2011 and version 8.79.0 still feels like a mature, well-maintained product. The 85...
Jumpspeak pitches itself as a conversation-first language platform, covering roughly 20 languages under a single members...
Praktika.ai Company
Praktika takes a conversation-first approach to language learning, pairing users with AI avatars that carry full backsto...
Preply Inc.
Preply is not a drill-and-repeat vocabulary app. It is a tutor marketplace first, with a mobile layer built around booki...
Hyperthought Games Incorporated
Lingo Legend wraps vocabulary drilling inside a card-battling RPG, asking you to answer language flashcards in order to ...
SIMYA LABS COMPANY LIMITED
Ling covers ground that Duolingo and Babbel simply ignore, offering over 70 languages including Lao, Khmer, Hokkien, and...
Innovative Language Learning USA LLC
Innovative Language Learning bundles access to up to 34 languages inside a single 52 MB app, leaning on short audio and ...
Mihalis Eleftheriou
Language Transfer is a free audio course app built around a single developer's teaching philosophy: make learners constr...
Immersely Inc.
Umi takes a clip-based immersion approach to language learning, letting you pick up Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, G...
Lithium Lab Pte Ltd
EWA has been quietly building since 2017 and now sits at a hefty 419 MB, which tells you something about the depth on of...
LingQ Languages Ltd
LingQ has been around since 2010 and version 6.0.18 shows a platform that has genuinely matured. Built around an input-b...
Zero Billion, Inc.
LingoTok pitches itself as a private AI language tutor you can interrogate on any concept, at any pace. Released in late...
Tripod Technology GmbH
Tandem connects language learners directly with native speakers across 300-plus languages, including 12 sign languages, ...
italki HK Limited
italki connects language learners with private tutors and native speakers for one-on-one video lessons. The model is str...
Unlimited Promova Limited
Promova has been quietly building since 2019 and now sits at 220 MB with a 4.58 store rating across 63,000 ratings, whic...
DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES
Learna positions itself as a full-spectrum English tutor, covering grammar, speaking, reading, pronunciation, and vocabu...
Beelinguapp UG (haftungsbeschrankt)
Beelinguapp has been around since 2017 and takes a genuinely different route to language learning: instead of drilling f...
Appcano LLC
Learn Spanish for Beginners from Appcano LLC has been around since 2013 and just hit version 31.0, which signals genuine...
PingoLearn
Lingopanda targets English and Spanish learners who want to build spoken confidence rather than just memorize vocabulary...
Lingopie Inc
Lingopie bets on a simple idea: watching real foreign-language TV shows and movies is more motivating than drilling verb...
Lingvano GmbH
Lingvano targets complete beginners who want to learn American Sign Language through short, video-based lessons taught b...
Curiosity Media
SpanishDictionary.com Learning has been around since 2009 and the accumulated depth shows. Curiosity Media has built som...
Lingvist Technologies OU
Lingvist takes a vocabulary-first approach to language learning, leaning on spaced repetition and frequency-based word o...
Dreaming Languages, Inc.
Dreaming builds on the reputation of Dreaming Spanish and Dreaming French, two comprehensible-input platforms that have ...
Bunpo Language Learning
Bunpo packs over eight languages into a single 132 MB app, covering everything from Japanese hiragana and JLPT prep to c...
AIFLAME TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD.
LangLearn pitches itself as a personalized AI tutor for English and Spanish, covering speaking practice, grammar, vocabu...
LanguaTalk Inc.
Langua, from LanguaTalk Inc., launched in late 2024 and pitches itself squarely at spoken confidence rather than vocabul...
PLANB LABS OU
Learn Korean and Study Hangul, built by PLANB LABS OU and running since 2017, takes a picture-first approach to Korean v...
Lang-8, Inc
HiNative connects language learners with native speakers across more than 170 countries through a community Q&A format. ...
Lingo Play Ltd
Lingo Play has been quietly building since 2015, and version 5.2.3 arrives with a catalog that is genuinely hard to argu...
INTSIG PTE. LTD.
Easy Speak from INTSIG targets working professionals and exam candidates who need spoken English practice more than gram...
Natulang OU
Natulang takes a genuinely different stance in the crowded language-learning space by centering the experience almost en...
Enux Education Limited
FluentU takes a genuinely different approach to language learning by anchoring lessons in real-world video content like ...
goFLUENT
goFLUENT positions itself firmly in the corporate and higher-education lane rather than the casual learner space. The ap...
TalkPal, Inc.
Talkpal leans hard into conversational practice as its core mechanic, which sets it apart from flashcard-heavy competito...
Andrey Pyankov
Andy English Language Learning has been quietly running since early 2016 and sits at a respectable 4.73 across 16,000 ra...
YIYAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
ChineseSkill has been in the App Store since 2014 and still pulls a 4.83 rating from 15,000 reviewers, which is hard to ...
Fluently, Inc.
Fluently puts spoken English practice at the center of its experience rather than treating it as an afterthought. Releas...
Xeropan International Kft.
Xeropan wraps language learning inside a sci-fi narrative where a future professor travels back in time to restore commu...
LEARNING TECH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO. L.L.C.
LANG targets learners of Spanish or English with short, interactive lessons covering speaking, reading, listening, and w...
DuoCards s.r.o
DuoCards tackles vocabulary building through two parallel tracks: spaced-repetition flashcards and video-based language ...
Libros Media Ltd
Rocket Languages has been around since 2013 and the app, now at version 6.8.0, reflects over a decade of iteration. Supp...
Signum International AG
EF Hello is a conversation-focused English learning app built around an AI tutor named Addi, developed by Signum Interna...
Dino Lingo Inc.
Dinolingo packs a genuinely impressive breadth into a single family subscription: 50 languages, 40,000-plus activities, ...
Hallo, Inc
Hallo puts conversational speaking at the center of language learning rather than treating it as an afterthought. The ap...
Aurora Borealis Culture Media Limited
RealSpeak targets the gap between vocabulary drills and actual spoken fluency, positioning itself as a conversation-firs...
Alexey Nenastyev
PlayLingo takes a familiar idea, learning a language through real media, and packages it with enough AI tooling to feel ...
Enverson
Enverson AI is a free language learning app covering English, German, Spanish, French, and Russian, with an AI tutor han...
App Vizyon
Lang AI Tutor arrived in late 2024 from developer App Vizyon and pitches itself as a conversation-first English learning...
SofoApp OU
Speals AI is a spoken English practice app from SofoApp OU that pairs learners with an AI tutor for real-time conversati...
AmazingTalker
AmazingTalker connects learners to vetted, one-on-one language tutors across more than 100 languages, from Spanish and E...
Luli Languages LLC
Japanese!! Learn Kana and Kanji has been quietly maintained since 2015, recently updated in mid-2026, and has earned a 4...
Imad Al-Zaidi.
French Language Learning from developer Imad Al-Zaidi is a free vocabulary-focused app that organizes French words and p...
LinguaLeo
Lingualeo has been around since late 2011 and claims over 23 million users across a library covering more than 20 langua...
Appalex Ltd.
Wordy from Appalex Ltd. bets its entire identity on one idea: skip the textbook sentences and learn language through rea...
AJA Digital LLC
Polyglot lands in a crowded language learning space with a genuinely different pitch: study multiple languages at once r...
Hitech LLC
Lingwing has been in development since 2017, built by a small team at Hitech LLC around the idea that immersion beats ro...
Emile Robillard
Jacta is a lightweight session-logging app for language learners, built by solo developer Emile Robillard and released i...
Dmitry Schavlik
Lingard takes a reading-first approach to learning English, Spanish, German, and French, letting you work through real b...
Superfluent, Inc.
Superfluent takes a map-driven approach to language learning, dropping users into real city environments to practice spo...
Edailabs
Emma: Learn Languages from Edailabs puts an AI conversation partner at the center of the experience rather than the usua...
Released in December 2024 and already sitting at 4.56 stars across 658 ratings, English Learning - AI LearniQ from Larau...
Lune Digital LLC
Lune AI bundles a surprisingly broad toolkit into a 37 MB package, pairing AI-generated flashcards and stories with live...
Longtail Studios
PopStudy targets Spanish, French, and Chinese learners who want more than casual dabbling, anchoring its approach in spa...
MemoApp Inc.
Memo takes a social-media-first approach to English and Spanish vocabulary building, feeding learners a stream of short ...