Best Language Learning Apps in 2026

Bubblegum is the best app for serious learners. You learn from text and audio you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.

Bubblegum teaches 60 languages, from Spanish and Japanese to Welsh, Hausa, and Toki Pona, and its menus come in 74 languages. Tell Poppy, your AI tutor, what you want to read about, and she writes a lesson at your level that you can read, hear, and ask her about.

If you already have a book or a show in mind, Bubblegum won't open it for you. The reading and video apps further down are made for that.

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Duolingo's App Store listing calls it "the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons." Its lessons follow a set course.

Babbel teaches 14 languages, English among them, and fits each course to the language you already speak. Besides lessons, you can listen to its podcasts.

Busuu has full courses in 14 languages, including Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. Its site lists more than 2,500 hours of learning, from level A1 to C1.

Rosetta Stone lists 25 courses, counting American and British English and two kinds of Spanish on their own. Its newest app is called Rosetta Stone Sapphire.

Pimsleur has courses in more than 50 languages for English speakers, plus 15 versions of English for people who speak other languages. Each lesson takes 30 minutes.

LingoDeer teaches 20 languages, starting from the alphabet, in lessons made by language teachers. Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Hindi are among them.

LingQ supports 53 languages, and 22 of them are marked as beta. You can read lessons from its library or bring your own with its browser extension.

Readle has more than 2,000 news stories made into short lessons, sorted by level. Its site offers seven languages, including Japanese and Chinese.

Beelinguapp has stories in 23 languages. Each one sits next to its translation, so you can read both side by side.

Language Reactor turns the Netflix shows and YouTube channels you watch into practice. It can also translate a text you paste in and read it aloud with a computer voice.

Migaku turns websites, YouTube, and Netflix into study material for 11 languages, from Japanese and Mandarin to Portuguese and French.

Speak teaches seven languages: Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, English, and Chinese. Each lesson moves from learning a phrase to practicing it, and then to using it in a conversation.

Praktika teaches 13 languages with lifelike AI tutors who listen, answer, and correct you as you talk. Your tutor can explain things in the language you already speak.

Talkpal says it covers more than 130 languages, and its menus come in 51. You can practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing with its AI.

Univerbal is an AI tutor for conversation practice in more than 20 languages. It suits learners who know some words but want practice before talking with a person.

italki lets you pick from more than 150 languages and over 20,000 teachers.

Preply connects you with tutors for live classes in more than 90 languages, its App Store listing says.

Anki is a flashcard program that works for any language, since you make or download the cards yourself. The computer version for Windows, Mac, and Linux is free, and so is AnkiDroid for Android.

Memrise teaches with short videos of people speaking the language, so you hear real accents and speed. Its home page offers Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and 145 more.

Drops teaches words through quick games in more than 55 languages, from Hawaiian and Maori to Igbo and Yoruba.

Clozemaster has thousands of fill-in-the-blank sentences in more than 50 languages, so you learn each word inside a sentence. Its site says the core game is free.

HelloTalk calls itself the original language exchange app. Its App Store listing names 16 languages and says there are more than 260 others.

Tandem is a community where members teach each other their languages. Its App Store listing says it covers more than 300 languages, including 12 sign languages.