Best Apps to Learn Latin in 2026

Which Latin app fits depends on what you want to read, whether that is Virgil or the Mass.

Latin has two ways of sounding out the same written words. Classical Latin is the restored pronunciation of ancient Rome, and Church Latin, also called Ecclesiastical Latin, is the Italian-style pronunciation of the Catholic Church. Rosetta Stone teaches Classical Latin, and Lingua Sacra records its vocabulary in Church Latin.

Other Apps We Looked At (9)

• Declinatio: Latin Grammar67 guided lessons on declensions, verbs and sentence structure, and 21 Latin texts to read, including all twelve books of the Aeneid.
• Lingua SacraChurch Latin with 202 lessons, 52 prayers, the Vulgate, and vocabulary audio recorded in Church pronunciation.
• Liberation Philology LatinMultiple-choice drills on Latin vocabulary and grammar, including the words of Book I of the Aeneid.
• SermocinandoTalk in Latin with characters from the ancient world, with subtitles and grammar notes.
• BiblingoTeaches Latin 1 and 2 for reading the Vulgate, beside Biblical Greek and Hebrew.
• MondlyTeaches Latin among its 41 languages.
• MemriseLearn Latin vocabulary from word lists made by other learners.
• ClozemasterFill in the blank in Latin sentences sorted by topic, which suits intermediate learners.
• uTalkLatin words and phrases in games, with Classical Latin voiced by graduates of Oxford University.

Many Latin learners work from a textbook, and a book can sit beside any app above.

Lingua Latina per se illustrata by Hans Ørberg teaches Latin without translation, through one long story and notes in the margin. Its main book, Familia Romana, has 35 chapters about a Roman family, and its audio comes in both Classical and Church pronunciation. The Cambridge Latin Course is built on the reading method, and its fifth edition is endorsed by the UK exam boards OCR and Eduqas. The Oxford Latin Course follows the life of the poet Horace. Principium is an app that follows Wheelock's Latin chapter by chapter.

Memoria Press builds grammar step by step, and Latin Alive! is a series with streaming video lessons and quiz packets. Visual Latin is a video curriculum for homeschool. The Paideia Institute's Living Latin is a self-paced online course in 60 units, set in modern Rome. Latinitium has Latin guides and audiobooks.

Dickinson College Commentaries pairs Latin and Greek texts with notes, vocabulary and audio. The Latin Library has the texts of many authors, from Caesar to Augustine. Perseus from Tufts University keeps classical texts online.

When a word form stops you, Logeion from the University of Chicago searches many classical dictionaries at once, including Lewis and Short. Type the form into Whitaker's Words or Collatinus to see which word it comes from. Vicipaedia is the Wikipedia written in Latin.

Spoken Latin is taught in immersion programs and by some tutors. The Paideia Institute's Living Latin in Rome is an intensive program where participants read Latin and practice speaking it, and a two-week version exists for high school students. Vatican News has aired Hebdomada Papae, a weekly news bulletin in Latin with an Italian translation, since 2019. Yle's weekly bulletin Nuntii Latini ran from 1989 to 2019, and its recordings can be heard on Yle's site.

Before you pay, open one Latin lesson to see which language it explains the Latin in.