Babbel GmbH
4.72star750,799 ratings
Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-08-24 · nothing estimated or modelled
Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent — a 4.72star average beside 50% negative is the finding, not an error.
33.2% of this app’s 247 negative reviews, against 32.1% typical store-wide, which is normal for the store.
elevated · 4% of this app’s 247 negative reviews, against 2.8% typical store-wide.
elevated · 3.6% of this app’s 247 negative reviews, against 2.9% typical store-wide.
9.3% of this app’s 247 negative reviews, against 11.5% typical store-wide, which is normal for the store.
Ads, Performance, Support, Login & auth all run well below the store’s typical rate.
n = 40. Too thin to act on — we recount weekly.
All 11 panel members · 2026-08-24 snapshot.
| App | Ratings | Billing |
|---|---|---|
 Busuu: Language Learning App | 100,237 | 46.9% |
 Pimsleur | Language Learning | 29,113 | 45.6% |
 Speak: Language Learning | 57,426 | 43.3% |
 Innovative Language Learning | 34,177 | 35.7% |
 Rosetta Stone Classic (2024) | 237,992 | 35.6% |
 Babbel - Language Learning | 750,799 | 33.2% |
 HelloTalk - Language Learning | 43,569 | 32% |
 Duolingo: Language Lessons | 5,398,190 | 28% |
 Memrise Easy Language Learning | 216,465 | 23.5% |
 Airlearn - Language Learning | 45,027 | 16.2% |
 Teuida: Learn Languages | 57,475 | 0% |
Every complaint across language learning apps, frequency-ranked from real App Store reviews — the gaps nobody on this shelf has fixed.
Read the language learning apps reportEvery number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly — nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the shelf figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares — never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.