Rosetta
Finnish isn't something Rosetta Stone teaches. Its site and app listed 25 languages on October 24, 2026, and Swedish was the only one from the Nordic countries.
Our Finnish comparison covers more apps, such as Pimsleur and Glossika.
Bubblegum
For serious learners, Bubblegum is the best app to learn Finnish. You learn from Finnish you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input.
Poppy, your AI tutor, writes Bubblegum's Finnish lessons about your new home in Tampere, like getting to know the neighbors in your building.
- Practice asking about the sauna at a lakeside cottage with Poppy in live voice chat.
- Finnish nouns change their endings a lot, and a noun's card shows its forms in a table of 14 cases.
- Clear, expressive AI voices read every lesson aloud, with a different voice for each speaker.
- A Finnish novel from the library can't become a lesson. Snap a photo of one page, and Poppy explains what it says.
- 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™
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Duolingo
You earn rewards and achievements as you work toward the Finnish goals you set.
- Close to 925,000 learners have signed up for Finnish from English, according to Duolingo's course list.
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Speakly
Speakly ranks Finnish words by how much you'll need them and teaches the top 4,000 in that order.
- From the start, you write and say whole Finnish sentences with the words you learn.
- Once you know enough words, it opens real-life situations that test them.
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FinnishPod101
FinnishPod101's Premium PLUS plan adds a Finnish teacher who answers your messages and checks your writing and recordings.
- Premium adds review tracks and dialogue tracks to each audio lesson.
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| App | Free? | What's Free |
|---|---|---|
| Bubblegum | Free version | The lesson library is free for everyone. Your first custom lesson is free, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. |
| Duolingo | Free | Every Duolingo course is free. Super Duolingo removes ads and adds extras such as Unlimited Energy, and you can try it free for 14 days. |
| Speakly | Free trial | You can try Speakly free for 7 days. After that, you pay for a plan or buy lifetime access. |
| FinnishPod101 | Free version | A free FinnishPod101 account gives you a survival phrases course and the first 3 lessons of every pathway, with new lessons each week. Paid plans open every lesson, and Premium starts with a 7-day free trial. |
Which Finnish app should a beginner choose?
If you are serious about learning Finnish, start with Bubblegum. Poppy writes lessons at your level about things you like. Or begin with Duolingo if you want a free course, or Speakly if you'd like the most common words first.
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
- Rosetta Stone: home page (language links, read October 24, 2026)
- Rosetta Stone Sapphire: App Store listing (25 languages)
- Duolingo: course list (read October 24, 2026)
- Duolingo: Learn Finnish
- Duolingo: App Store listing
- Speakly: home page
- Speakly: lifetime access
- Speakly: method
- FinnishPod101: plans and features
- Bubblegum
- FinnishPod101
Checked on October 24, 2026 against each app's own pages.
