Toki Pona is a small language made by Sonja Lang in 2001. Her official book, Toki Pona: The Language of Good, teaches 120 words, and the language has had its own ISO 639-3 code, tok, since January 2022. Few language apps teach it. Many learners start with free videos and a community, then add an app for practice.
Here are the apps and services that help with Toki Pona, grouped by what they help you do. You can start with one and add another when you need it.
Custom Lessons Made for You
Bubblegum
For serious learners, Bubblegum is the best app to learn Toki Pona. You learn from Toki Pona you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.
Bubblegum builds Toki Pona lessons around your own life. Tell Poppy, your AI tutor, what you want to learn. She writes lessons for your level and helps you understand the words and grammar. You can read and listen, and ask her about anything that is unclear. News and stories give you more Toki Pona to read about music, food, family, and other things you care about.
The trade-off is that Bubblegum is not a person to talk with. For conversation, try italki and Tandem in Learn With People. For lessons that follow the official book, start with the free videos and courses in Videos, Books, and Communities.
- Lessons fit your level, interests, and goals.
- Read and listen to news and stories in Toki Pona about things you care about.
- Ask Poppy about a sentence while you read.
- Regenerative Review™ brings saved words back in new lessons, so you review them by reading instead of using flashcards.
- Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.
- Lessons and audio are made with AI, so pair them with a community course or a tutor.
- You cannot import your own books or articles.
- A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn.
- Regenerative Review™
Mobile
Build Vocabulary
Clozemaster
Clozemaster shows a Toki Pona sentence with one word missing. You pick or type the word from the context, and sentences come back for review. It helps once you know the basic words and want to see how they fit together.
- Fill in the missing Toki Pona word in real sentences.
- Sentences are ordered by how common the missing word is.
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Anki
AnkiWeb has Toki Pona decks made by learners. One lists the words from the official dictionary with meanings from the first book, and another is ordered as lessons from jan Pije.
- Shared decks on AnkiWeb cover the word lists from the official books.
- Review is scheduled, so you come back to cards over time.
- Flashcards
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Learn With People
Choose a tutor if you want teaching and correction. Choose a language exchange if you want a practice partner.
italki
italki has a Toki Pona tutor page. Read profiles to find a tutor who fits your goals and check current availability.
- Choose a Toki Pona tutor and book one-on-one lessons.
- Get feedback while you speak.
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Tandem
Tandem lists Toki Pona among its languages. Agree with your partner on how to split time between your two languages.
- Practice with messages, voice notes, and video calls.
- Correct each other's writing.
- You arrange practice with a partner; it is not a guided course.
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Videos, Books, and Communities
Many Toki Pona learners begin outside an app. 12 Days of sona pi toki pona by jan Misali is a series of 12 short YouTube videos that teach the basic grammar and the words from the official book. lipu sona pona by jan Lentan is a written course that also comes in Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Polish, and Esperanto. jan Kekan San's Learn Toki Pona! has written and video lessons. Wasona is a free written course with practice texts and a sitelen pona introduction. Duostories has short, community-made stories with exercises.
Sonja Lang's official books are listed on tokipona.org. Pu teaches the language with lessons and exercises, and ku is a dictionary with example translations and 137 essential words. That is why learners talk about the pu word list and the ku word list. Some learners also write with sitelen pona, a set of symbols with one symbol for each word.
Linku is an open-source dictionary with definitions in many languages. You can filter its words by how much the community uses them. The ma pona pi toki pona Discord server has spaces for learning and conversation, and the sona pona wiki points to other servers and learning resources.
For more Toki Pona you can read, watch, and listen to at your level, see our Toki Pona comprehensible input comparison.
Learn Toki Pona in Your Language
These counts cover menu-language choices, including script variants. Other apps’ counts and full lists come from their iPhone listings. Lesson explanations and other platforms may differ.
| App | Supported Display Languages | Full List |
|---|---|---|
| Bubblegum | 74 | Full list
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| Clozemaster | 37 | Full list |
| AnkiMobile (iPhone) | 25 | Full list |
| italki | 19 | Full list |
| Tandem | 14 | Full list |
Other Apps We Looked At (5)
- Memrise community coursesLearner-made Toki Pona courses on Memrise's separate community website. Preview a course to see which words, writing system, and audio it includes.
- Toki Pona PalA helper app with a Toki Pona and English dictionary, flashcards, and short comics with sample phrases.
- kama sonaA dictionary with audio and sitelen pona symbols, flashcards, quizzes, and 11 short grammar lessons. It is new and growing.
- Learn Toki Pona (flashcards)Simple flashcards for Toki Pona words on iPhone.
- nasin sona musiA game that lets you limit the words to the lessons of the official book, so you practice what you have learned so far.
Common Questions
Which Toki Pona app should a beginner choose?
If you are serious about learning Toki Pona, start with Bubblegum. Poppy writes lessons at your level about things you like. Or start with jan Misali's videos or the lipu sona pona lessons, then add Clozemaster or an Anki deck to practice the words. Toki Pona is written in the Latin alphabet, so you do not need to learn a new script first.
Can I learn Toki Pona for free?
Yes. jan Misali's videos are free on YouTube, Linku is a free and open-source dictionary, and Clozemaster lets you play for free. In the 2022 Toki Pona census, jan Misali's videos were the most-used starter resource, chosen by 61.1% of respondents to that question. Bubblegum's lesson library is free to read too.
Is Bubblegum free?
Yes. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn. It holds lessons that other learners asked Poppy for. A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so your first one is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons.
Sources
- Toki Pona (official site)
- sona pona: Toki Pona: The Language of Good
- sona pona: Toki Pona Dictionary
- SIL International: ISO 639-3 code tok
- sona pona: 12 Days of sona pi toki pona
- sona pona: Recommended learning resources
- Results of the 2022 Toki Pona census
- ma pona pi toki pona Discord server
- lipu Linku: About Linku
- Wasona: A Toki Pona course
- Duostories: Toki Pona stories
- Bubblegum
- Clozemaster
- Anki
- italki
- Tandem
Checked on October 10, 2026 against each app's own pages.
