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Language learning apps.

Installs
1260.1M

Across all 13 apps in this market.

Duolingo: Language Lessons has 77% of them.

  • 13 apps
  • 7,306 reviews held
  • 2,575 negative
  • Median $7.99

2 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 2,575 negative reviews.

Limits & capselevated

2.9% vs 1.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 75
  • Jumpspeak | Language Learning1star· Sep 10, 2026

    Be Careful Before Purchasing — The app's subscription structure makes it unclear that Premium is not the model which gives you access to Unlimited AI features, which means if you sign up for Premium you will wind up being told to upgrade. Also if you use Sign In with Apple, you may find a glitch where the app is unable to manage your subscription via Apple Subscriptions and be locked out of changi

  • Duolingo: Language Lessons1star· Sep 8, 2026

    Terrible — It is terrible it doesn’t work and the responses are wrong they are terrible at their job. The energy thing is really stupid. Honestly don’t waist ur time with this. The energy is a very small portion to do anything. Just to learn with unlimited energy is costing a lot. These people are money hungry. Pls don’t get this app for ur sake please don’t waste your time. PLS CAN WE CUSTOMIZE

  • Duolingo: Language Lessons1star· Sep 8, 2026

    capitalist — used to be actually helpful and motivating when they had a heart system but they replaced all their employees with ai slop and changed it to energies which only get you about 2 free lessons and you have to watch ads to get more energy this app is quite literally pay to win if you have a subscription then you get unlimited lessons and they push the subscription constantly with their ai

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall5 of 75

Billingelevated

37.8% vs 30.6% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 974
  • HelloTalk - Language Learning1star· Sep 13, 2026

    Double standards racist — I’ve been banned from using this app permanently and the support team replies insanely late over 24 hours and they said I was banned for violating the rules and I will be honest. I did say some bad stuff but that doesn’t mean the people. I said it didn’t say best stuff either, but they didn’t get banned only me they don’t ban girls they rarely do and some people can sprea

  • Busuu: Language Learning App2star· Sep 11, 2026

    Ads & upgrade notifications super annoying — I like the concept of the platform; however, the ads and the constant request to upgrade to the premium version are very annoying and disruptive when you’re trying to get through a lesson. During my second lesson, a mah-jongg app popped up and it took forever to remove it from my screen. The ad continued to try to force me to download the app. I finally

  • Jumpspeak | Language Learning1star· Sep 10, 2026

    Big, fat scam — I paid $79.00 4 days ago for a one year subscription. I tried to log on today and got a message saying my account was queued for deletion. I emailed support asking them why my account was being deleted. I got an AI response thanking me for clarifying that I did not request for my account to be deleted and that my account is queued for deletion (makes no sense). I emailed back askin

Named problems · 4
  • Price judged too high for the value74 of 974
  • Trial converted without clear consent54 of 974
  • Cancellation blocked or broken27 of 974
  • Charge the user never authorised13 of 974

Also counted

ThemeOf 2,575 negatives
  • Performance349 · 13.6% · 13 apps
  • Support201 · 7.8% · 13 apps
  • Ads178 · 6.9% · 12 apps
  • UX131 · 5.1% · 13 apps
  • Login & auth80 · 3.1% · 11 apps
  • Accuracy41 · 1.6% · 11 apps
  • Sync & data18 · 0.7% · 9 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

What Apple surfaces for “language learning”

41 storefronts · 14 recurring suggestions

Position in Apple’s suggestions
1510
free
pingo ai
ai
contexto
czeq
busuu
linglock
pingo al
bunpo
fraza
innovative
lumi lingo
nonsense
pimsleur
010203041

Countries

Measured 19 September 2026.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after language learning apps, in their order.

Who they're for
kids
App Store
arabic language learning app for beginnersduolingo-language lessonsduolingo-language lessons freelanguage learninglanguage learning for kidslanguage lessonslearn languageslearn languages free

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “language learning for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 45

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 13 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-14.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-14. 13 of 13 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Jumpspeak | Language Learning$49.99–$499 · 9 tiers11.6% of 393
Pimsleur | Language Learning$19.99–$164.99 · 6 tiers9.3% of 75
Speak: Language Learning$17.99–$164.99 · 6 tiers8.7% of 172
Babbel - Language Learning$17.99–$107.99 · 9 tiers7.4% of 322
Rosetta Stone Classic (2024)$44.99–$199.99 · 9 tiers6.6% of 136
Innovative Language Learning$7.99–$24.99 · 10 tiers4.9% of 143
Busuu: Language Learning App$6.99–$139.99 · 9 tiers4.8% of 62
Duolingo: Language Lessons$0.99–$119.99 · 10 tiers4.1% of 606
Falou - Fast language learning$4.99–$149.99 · 8 tiers3% of 99
Memrise: Language Learning App$24.99–$329.99 · 10 tiers2.1% of 191
HelloTalk - Language Learning$0.29–$149.99 · 10 tiers2% of 302
Teuida: Learn Languages$1.99–$89.99 · 6 tiers0% of 21
Airlearn - Language Learning$4.99–$79.99 · 10 tiers0% of 53

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new language learning app?

13 apps compete on this shelf, holding 7,306 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, limits & caps, runs in 12 of 13 of them at 2.9% of negative reviews against 1.8% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in language learning apps?

1. Limits & caps: in 12 of 13 apps, 2.9% of negative reviews; 2. Billing: in 13 of 13 apps, 37.8% of negative reviews.

How many language learning app reviews did App Imp count?

7,306 US App Store reviews across 13 apps, 2,575 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-14 snapshot, never estimated.

How this is counted

Every 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. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,217 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.