2026-03-10
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It is good at teaching and is fun
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Description
Learn a new language with the world’s most-downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening, and writing to build your vocabulary and grammar skills.
Designed by language experts and loved by hundreds of millions of learners worldwide, Duolingo helps you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, German, English, and more.
And now, you can learn Math and Music the Duolingo way!
Build real-world math skills – from calculating tips to identifying patterns – and sharpen your mental math in our Math course.
Learn how to read music and play familiar songs on your device in our Music course – no instrument required.
Whether you’re learning for travel, school, career, family and friends, or your brain health, you’ll love learning with Duolingo.
Why Duolingo?
• Duolingo is fun and effective. Game-like lessons and fun characters keep you motivated to build solid skills across language, math and music.
• Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention.
• Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards and achievements when you make practicing a daily habit!
• Join 300+ million learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn alongside our global community.
• Every course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, and even High Valyrian. And now, learn Math and Music with our newest courses!
What the world is saying about Duolingo:
“Far and away the best language-learning app.” –The Wall Street Journal
“This free app and website is among the most effective language-learning methods I’ve tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges – speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions – that keep me coming back for more.” –The New York Times
“Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education.” – TIME Magazine
“…Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted and fun…” - Forbes
“Our favorite language app…” - CNET
If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads, and get fun perks like Unlimited Hearts and Monthly Streak Repair.
If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms
What's New in Version 7.113.0
Our mascot owl, Duo, is trading in his usual diet of mice for bugs this week. Yup, we’re squashing those pesky bugs to make the experience better for all of you.
For more Duolingo news, contests and product releases, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @duolingo.
Seller
Name
Duolingo, Inc
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
7.113.0
Size
523 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 4+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Contests
Compatibility
iOS 17.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.6 of 5 (613,370 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2026-03-10
J’adore
Super facile 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
2026-03-10
Soo good
I love this app,it’s kinda dramatic tho,I do so many lessons but the fact I barely got any power before I got supper Duolingo but love the app
2026-03-10
Terrible update
Energy system has ruined the app
2026-03-10
Trash
Every time I pronounce something well it is false and they give me the easiest stuff and rightafter the hardest stuff never go on Duolingo ever again
2026-03-10
Can’t see some of the letter accents
I’m using the app to learn Arabic and some of the short vowel markings are not visible causing errors because I have to guess
2026-03-10
Great app i guess
IM LEARNING JAPANESE AND ITS KINDA FUN TBH :DDDDD BUT I DON’T LIKE HOW WHEN U MAKE A MISTAKE IT PUNISHES U CUZ IT REMOVES A LIFE BUT DESPITE THAT, ITS OK I GUESS
2026-03-10
No super Duolingo
To much money please make it free
2026-03-10
Good
Ads but am learning
2026-03-10
Very engaging
I’ve used other language apps. It plays like a slot machine and it makes repetition very engaging and entertaining. Highly recommend.
2026-03-10
Duo
I is like duo, im learning German cause im going to Germany, If the owner of Duolingo is reading this, Thank you! <3
2026-03-10
Duolingo
Still the chess Oscar is playing hard on me beating me in like 40 seconds my elo is lower than before but still he beats me all the time but Duolingo like French and the languages are good just gets harder every unit
2026-03-10
Duo review
Duolingo is an amazing way for anybody to learn any language and also have fun at the same time. I’m currently learning Japanese and I look forward to doing a new lesson every day!
2026-03-10
Great learning
Duolingo help me learned a lot of Chesse and Ukrainian but I think it should allow you to delete a course if you don’t wanna do it anymore
2026-03-10
Took my money
Said it would remind me 2 days before renewing the subscription on my free trial, did NOT. Charged me $150 for the year.
2026-03-10
Nice website
I have been trying to learn French, I am on a streak 100 as we speak! If you’re planning to learn a new language, this is the site for you!👁️👄👁️👍🏻
2026-03-10
Love it
Vert vert good game
2026-03-10
Waste of space
I do a lesson at the same time everyday once a day and today I didnt have the "energy" required to complete ONE LESSON. What a joke.
2026-03-09
Brooklynn
This app is amazing. There’s math music chess a bunch of languages. It’s amazing for really any age up from 5 to 100 whatever and it’s nice to have on your lock screen too because it reminds you like I forget a lot and it helps way more than I thought I would and it helped me actually way more than I thought it would
2026-03-09
Rating Duolingo
Really good and learns a lot. Although they are exaggerating with the advertising, and you can only do about 3 lessons a day without any Super Duolingo or Duolingo Max that cost a lot. But I did end up by finding a solution…
2026-03-09
My experience with Duolingo
I love Duolingo it teaches me a lot of French and I love it. Also, Duolingo has got my grade way higher first I was at emerging and now I’m at advancing and mastering. Duolingo is the best French and other languages, I know. Duolingo helps me a lot. Concerns that I don’t like our ads, but they are very quick, which is very nice. I love Duolingo and I hope your app stays the same for a while!!!!!!!!!
2026-03-09
Eric’s great reveiw
This helped me learn Irish,le do thoil.
2026-03-09
Duolingo
Its so fun plus it helps you learn and no payment there are only adds that includes super Duolingo and max Duolingo so i recommend this game to all ages
2026-03-09
Duo is the best
This is the best language app ever 10 out of ten
2026-03-09
Great but energy
We run out of energy so fast and it’s really annoying i want to focus on my learning rather then my energy! Otherwise It’s really good✨🎀😁
2026-03-09
Excellent
Best educational game ever
2026-03-09
Saving my family language
My family is originally from Finland but I was born in Canada and this program helps me maintain my second language.
2026-03-09
Fun
I’ve been on this for a few months now and it’s a really fun way to learn. At first it was like vocabulary soup. It took a while but it’s starting to come together nicely.
2026-03-09
A very happy user :)
I continue to come back to the app over the years I’ve had it. I think the Duolingo team has truly cracked how to make education fun! I know they make it look easy but as a person in tech, I can fathom how much work must go into building the platform. Keep it up!!! 🫶🏽
2026-03-09
Duolingo
Duolingo is a very good app for learning languages. It practices grammar, spelling, speaking, etc with you. It also gives you challenges to improve. On the side of that, from the newest update, to do the lessons you need energy which you use for amount of time you answer the questions. Now that part is the problem for me. When you want to learn a language you want time to actually understand and answer the questions while thinking, but with the new update it doesn’t allow you to do that. If you run out of energy, you have to end the lesson. I would recommend Duolingo if you are fine with answering fast questions and are up to do a challenge!
2026-03-09
used to be great
the app used to be really fun. i convinced the new energy system is a scam. nothing makes sens!! sometimes, i mistake cost more, sometimes less. sometimes, 6 energy is sufficient for one lesson ; but others, it’s gonna cost you everything you have and you won’t even be able to finish it and you’ll loose your XP. The XP system is also broken. It almost never give you the amount of xp that is promised ; and your score will vary from one minute to the other and you’ll loose xp for no reason. i get that you want people to switch to the subscription version but that’s not how you are gonna get it. VERY disappointing
2026-03-09
boo ai
this app was so much better before the developers decided to use ai on the entire app
2026-03-09
Learning French and Chess
This app is very interactive and does a great way to remind you , celebrate your wins and motivate you to keep going. It has been made as a game to keep learning a fun oriented activity.
2026-03-09
Very good!
Helped me a lot! Now I know Chinese!
2026-03-09
…
Energy feature sucks for free people. Waiting 25 damn hours for full energy. At least give more energy (30 - 40) or make it charge faster. People are crazy in the high leagues. In my Obsidian League, literally everyone has super/max except for the top 2, and they probably pay money for gems to refill as well. I am the only damn free to play in my league…also AI be running this game like Do Big on Roblox that ruined literally every popular game. I’m talking like they bought every popular game for at least 20 grand and using passes to their advantage, which equals perfectly to super and max. If you aren’t going to expand the energy free people get, at least take that “uNlImItEd EnErGy” away from the super/max people or charge them more for it.
Otherwise a good learning app, although I just use English because I already fluently speak English, so that’s free exp for me at least. I have someone that plays this too and they keep getting a free 3-day trial of super family (why not me?) and adds me to their free trial plan.
To those complaining about hearts, just don’t do those jump up to this section tests.
2026-03-09
Awesome
Only my second day and I can say, “I am (and then my name)” and I can order
2026-03-09
Chess
It’s pretty good at teaching chess but definitely not the best
2026-03-09
What I think about Duolingo,
It helps me to get ahead at school and it is so easy and fun!!!
2026-03-09
I hate Duolingo
An app designed to continuously test you on things you don’t know. An absence of learning.
2026-03-08
Very nice and helping
I really like Duolingo. It helps me learn languages and chess!
Except the videos kinda scare me cause’ they make him look scary😭 ☺️
2026-03-08
Stop forcing the family trial
I’m already paying for the premium version and the app keeps forcing me to activate family mode for no reason. I don’t want it nor do I need it. I’ve cancelled my regular premium account because of how annoying this was.
2026-03-08
So garbage
It’s just bad
2026-03-08
It’s nice
Its really nice if you want to learn a language but it’s annoying because you have an energy bar
2026-03-08
Duolingo
Hallo ich bin Yousra
2026-03-08
Easy learning
I’m very pleased to be learning with Little to none struggle. Thank you
2026-03-08
Lovely
My dad said if I learn Spanish he’ll take me to Mexico and Duolingo has been very helpful
2026-03-08
Crashes sometimes
It crashes sometimes. And some of the Japanese vocabulary is a little too dated. Like ancient not contemporary.
2026-03-08
Go Duolingo
I love Duolingo. I think I can beat chess now, and my Spanish is on fire señorita.
2026-03-08
Needs more options
Its a great app for learning languages but i think it should have some more options like for instance i feel like you should be able to be like oh yeah ill be away so i cant do my dtream i also think thye should add more languages like punjabi but overall i love this app
2026-03-08
Great for learning, but problems with free trial.
This app is a great learning app for people at any age. There was one problem that happened to my child and I. We tried out the Super Duolingo family trial, and we could not cancel after our trial ended. We even looked up how and none of the strategies were accurate. Please add a section in the Duolingo app for canceling subscriptions.
2025-08-26
New free option is worse, you can not only do one lesson per day
The old free option gave you five hearts (five opportunities to fail), but now it’s an energy score that depletes whether you’re right or wrong, so it limits you to one lesson per day. It may be good with the paid version, but not worth it for the free version
2025-05-10
AI first
If you put AI first you show that your intentions are solely greed. No one should use this app and it really did not help even when I was trying to learn Spanish with it. Bad app it’s like the Harry Potter of language learning. Overrated and bad. If there was an option lower than 1 star this would deserve that rating.
2025-05-10
ew
ai sucks
2025-05-09
AI
I’ve been practicing spanish on this app for over half a year now and because of their announcement about terminating over 10% of employees to replace them with AI, it’s time to delete and not look back. The people they’re taking the jobs of have qualifications like linguistics degrees on top of the fact that they are human. Duolingo just pulled a PR stunt with the owl’s “death” to keep their audiences on socials. The AI’s capabilities are very much overestimated since it’s known to confuse words with multiple meanings still. Meanwhile your greedy company wants to use it to TEACH a language from zero. All duolingo has done for me since I installed it was make me review my high school spanish. I’m not gonna lie and say it wasn’t fun, I genuinely enjoyed the little game-like exercises before going to bed but it’s not a good enough reason to keep supporting this app. If anyone reading this feels the same and is thinking of deleting the app, PLEASE delete your account first or they will keep using it to train their AI. I know what they think they’re doing is revolutionary like investing in mobile back in the day but it’s just turning away all of their customers at this point. Duo if you’re reading this, listen to the online discourse since you’re so active on social media.
2025-05-09
AI
Firing your contract employees to replace them with artificial intelligence was bad but then trying to cover it up with a publicity stunt is pathetic. The language learning is not that helpful anyway with repetitive and weird lessons. Half the time the speech lessons could not even detect what I was saying. Your best bet for language learning is to talk to another HUMAN person.
2025-04-30
Adios Búho!
I have a 5 year streak & will be deleting the app now that they announced that they will be replacing employees with AI.
2025-04-30
Don’t turn to ai
I’m giving this app 1 star and then deleting it, Duolingo your better than this. You shouldn’t be laying off employees to replace them with ai.
2025-04-30
AI ruined everything
Duolingo used to be amazing, and unite/employ people from all walks on life and language. Now, they replaced everyone with AI and it SHOWS. The grammar is faulty, the sentences don’t make sense, and it will mark a correct answer as incorrect at random. The AI model had ruined the app ethically and functionally.
2025-04-30
Company is firing people for AI slop
Used to subscribe to this app for 5 years now and had a 1400+ day streak. Cancelled subscription, deleted app, and deleted my data. Won’t support CEOs that are that shortsighted.
2025-04-30
AI 👎🏻
Boycotting as I don’t support replacing all your contractors with AI. Hard to practice and learn with the life system anyway so I’m sure there’s better out there
2025-04-30
Ai
Hate your ai route. Change or lose consumers, no choice.
2025-04-30
Firing employees for AI
Deleted the app since they fired people for AI
2024-10-17
How to get scammed
1. Accept duolingo 2 free weeks trial 2. Get forced charges of multiple annual plans for the same year 3. Get told to contact Apple because they don’t do reimbursement
2024-01-08
Duolingo is going the AI way
Disgusting of you guys to fire human translators in favor of AI translations to cut costs. Once my gift sub is up, I’m uninstalling and not giving you guys any of money.
Shame on you.
2024-01-08
A beautifully designed package, encasing a slew of issues.
Let me preface this, by saying I am not a language expert, nor am I some technological wizard who knows the ins and outs of apps and the business behind them. I felt I should give my opinion after learning German for 80 continuos days.
The pros: A beautifully designed app, it is probably one of the most aesthetically pleasing apps I have seen on any phone. Likewise, getting into learning can be very addicting with this app, as the gameification of learning can be great for a lot of people. Think of it like using Zwift, but for your brain. Very cool in those regards. The breakdown of the language sections is great too, and not too overwhelming.
Cons: My first issue comes with the leadership at DuoLingo. Letting go of 10% of your contractors to replace them with AI learning, is incredibly suspect. It's a trend with a lot of industries now, looking to cut out the human part of learning to save a buck and make more profits. Languages were designed by humans and made for humans, not robots. This action will probably make me go to other learning options.
Second; the removal of community aspect of Duolingo. When you used to make a mistake, you could ask the community about the issue, and they would always give you amazing feedback when it comes to sentence structure, slang, etc. This is arguably more important for learning than Duolingos current method, which is just a big red "WRONG" and not explaining WHY something is incorrect. Please bring back community aspects like this.
Finally: Speech... learning German has been great, but my problem comes from how fast the speech can be for large sentences. Makes it impossible to get a correct, and clean sentence to solve. The sentences need to be way more clear and precise. Likewise it's either A) fast sentence or B) Excruciatingly Slow replay. Both incredibly painful either way. My suggestion would be to reduce the speech playback by 15-25% to make it sound more clear.
All in all, an okay app. However I will probably cancel my subscription when the time comes to do so. Incredibly disappointed in the support of AI to remove contractors for profits.
TLDR;
Pros: Visually nice, easy to get into, addicting at times.
Cons: Ai for Profits, Lack of community Feedback, speech could be better for long sentences.
2024-01-08
Used to be good but not anymore
This app used to be good and insightful when learning but the amount of AI they keep adding in hurts your learning ability so much. Don’t know what you did wrong in a lesson? Well now you get to pay to hear AI tell you! A company that prioritizes profit to the point that it hurts users….
2024-01-08
Unethical
They laid off their translators so that they could save money using AI to translate. So now you’re learning how to speak a language from a machine, not someone who can speak that language. Worthless app.
2024-01-08
BOO AI BOOOOO
Laying off staff and replacing them with AI when your translations are mediocre at best anyway? I'm sure this won't cause any problems whatsoever! I'll be moving to another language learning app that still cares about the human connection involved in learning a new language.
2024-01-08
they use ai
they fired a bunch of their translators in favour of using ai to do their translations :/ won’t be using this app anymore
2023-05-30
It’s all completely wrong in French
This app is awful. Someone who doesn’t speak French made this lol I went on here to check it out for my boyfriend, it’s hilarious how BAD it is. Almost nothing is correct, don’t waste your time 😂
2022-10-03
Destroyed
The update to the path interface has really destroyed the product. I was thinking about upgrading to a subscription before, but now I’m thinking about uninstalling.
2022-10-03
Preposterous New Update
The new update is lazy, unintuitive, and frankly just overall worse. You have completely disregarded thousands of loyal users who have been using the platform with no issues by changing it completely to a redundant, quite useless update.
We used to be able to focus on multiple lessons at a time, while also being able to go back, review, and practice in areas where we were not confident. The old layout was user friendly, adaptable, and it was quite easy and fun to use. If you got tired of one area of language, you could move on to another and go back to what was frustrating you at a later time without hindering your progress.
Now, if you get stuck on something, or don’t want to do a specific exercise at that time. You are forced with either losing your streak or forcing yourself through an activity you have no motivation for.
There are also absolutely NO indication of what the next course will be about. Verbs? Transportation? Daily life? Where did the categories go?
My grandmother is 77 years old. She has been using Duolingo for around 2-3 years to help teach her different languages. And she has absolutely loved it. Every day for the past 2+ years I have heard her spend countless hours on Duolingo. Lately she’s lucky to spend more than 20 minutes on it before it becomes too boring and tedious for her.
How do you expect users to want to continue learning if you have made it nearly impossible?
How is it that in this new update you’ve seemed to completely ignore the very people who’ve made your app so widely used? You admit you’re hearing the app for “new users” but what about the old users who are the very reason your app does so well?
Maybe you should actually listen to what your users are wanting out of this app instead of being capitalist pigs focused on brining in as many new users and paying subscribers as possible.
2022-09-09
Hate the new update
This was an amazing app and then they went and changed it for some reason. It was great and fun and I was actually learning but with the new version I am having a much harder time. If it doesn’t switch back, I may have to find another app.
2022-09-09
Learning path update has ruined a good thing
I’m a long time user of Duolingo- 8 years. I’ve seen a number of changes in the app, most of them positive. However, the new learning path is a disaster. For those of us who have been using the app for a long time, the new UI completely negates all of our previous work. I will only continue to use this app if an option to revert back to the previous learning path is offered to users.
2022-08-29
New path update sucks. Give us the option to change back
Really bad new update. I thought it wasn’t so bad until I went to my first units I already did and boom there’s words I haven’t even learned yet. Also lost my august challenge progress with the update too. I don’t know if I have to go back so I don’t get screwed over for not understanding words that mysteriously popped up or if I’m just gonna have to give up the app and look for something else. Between how gamified this app is and this massive obstacle, I’m discontinuing my massive streak and looking for another learning app. I feel like everything I worked for was pretty much thrown away and I don’t wanna be working on a n app that decides to put words and lessons I didn’t complete, in my completed path. Zero sense
2022-08-24
Bring back the classic format
A lot of regular users seem annoyed by the new format. I’m over 200 days in a row learning Spanish and loving duolingo but the format change this week was tough to take. Don’t like it at all.
2021-06-29
please take off hearts.
i loved this app so much! it was a great way to learn a language without any pressure, and it made learning fun too! but then you added the hearts. the WORST thing you could do. please take them off! you’re literally holding people back from learning! punishing them if we get it wrong, OF COURSE WE ARE GOING TO GET THINGS WRONG, we are literally learning a new language ON AN APP. anyways, please take them off! :(
2021-06-07
Duolingo Review
I have been extremely impressed with the organization and function of the app. I feel as though I am picking up Dutch really quickly in a short amount of time (as someone who has learned another language through school and can compare). The mix of written, spoken, listening and pronunciation work on the app is truly incredible, I never expected the app to be this good.
2021-04-28
Duo lingo sucks
It takes 5 HOURS just to refill ONE heart?? Duo lingo says it wants us to learn but all it wants CLEARLY is the money. Duo lingo, u need to fix this. I’m not gonna pay each month just for HEARTS. I will learn form a different app. Practice what u preach which is “we want everyone to learn free!!”🤨 MHMMM that sounds like a bunch of cap right there.
2020-12-19
Please change the voices
I have been using this app since February on a daily basis and have really enjoyed learning Spanish. Recently the voices have changed and one of the characters is a child’s voice. It is awful, hard to understand. Please, please, please change it back to clearer voices and remove the Spanish speaking child
2020-06-08
money hungry!
we sit through ads, that we are told is for supporting free learning, and now you make it so much more difficult to learn on this app when you just want us to pay. you charge way too much. some of us have lost our jobs and cannot pay. you’ve taken away perks from the app that were helping me learn. i now have to pay gems to use certain features that were always free for me to use?? why??? i have spent countless hours on this app and watched literally a thousand ads to help support my free learning and apparently that was all for nothing. you are just slapping me in the face and i can no longer even use the timed experience ramp up challenge without buying it?? i am SO unimpressed and so disheartened by this change in the app. it has really killed my desire to practice and learn. and again, i’m months into a streak, practicing for at least 3-4 hours a DAY. you guys are ruthless. it’s so sad. truly sad.
2020-05-23
Take away the hearts!
I love Duolingo- or at least I used to. The health bar is awful and totally ruins the entire app.
I don’t know why they did this and sincerely hope they take it away!
2020-03-09
Why Duolingo plus?Microtransit actions annoyances
This app is the best free language learning app at most, it’s heart system where you lose a heart each time you fail a question and then a whole lesson.And the only solution to this problem for us is to buy Duolingo plus to have infinite hearts.This honestly sucks cause you have to pay for it monthly or whatever just to learn a proper language or wait a few hours every day to get one or two hearts.Thanks Duolingo
2020-03-08
You’re better off using the website version than the app.
The health bar isn’t a thing on the website, and as such I find the website much more conducive to actually learning. You’re allowed to make mistakes and learn from them as opposed to being punished and shut out. It’s also more forgiving of typos since you don’t lose health — ironic, since it’s easier to make mistakes on a phone’s miniature keyboard than a full-size keyboard. On the website, you don’t have to worry about losing health just because your dumb fat finger accidentally pressed enter before you were finished typing, because you’ll get the chance to try again without losing health. Would have liked to be able to learn on the go, but the app is garbage, so I’ll stick to desktop learning.
2020-03-07
Mauvaise appli
Depuis sa mise à jour que je n’avais pas je ne peux plus pratiquer autant qu’avant avec Duolingo car il y a maintenant des vies c’est vraiment stupide quand qu’on veut vraiment apprendre l’anglais...
2020-03-01
GET RID OF THE HEARTS
If your reading this Duolingo is an amazing app and I’ve been playing it for a while now and see that there is a health system preventing me from learning more please fix this problem and I will recommend this once awesome app...
2020-03-01
Great app, plagued by ads and money-grubbing scheme
Tl;dr – Great app to learn but only if you pay subscription. As a free user, you can get away with learning the basics before it gets too tiresome with all the ads and waiting for hearts (lives) to restore.
Long version:
This is my first time using Duo, the lessons are designed beautifully, and the gamification helps add fun to the learning.
But, like so many other reviews have mentioned, the heart system and countless ads ruined the free user experience. You can get upto 5 hearts and even a simple mistake such as choosing a different verb form results in loss of a heart.
As others have said, this puts the pressure on learner and it becomes more about getting the right answer through the system instead of learning.
I don't think you can learn much in the free version, specially when difficulty of lessons increase as you progress in the course. You'll end up giving up instead of waiting for hearts and ads to finish.
This is ironic considering that the founders of Duolingo built this app with the idea of free education. It doesn't seem like that's the point anymore.
2020-01-13
😡
Ok i thought that this was going to help me learn Spanish but it taught me how messed up this app is. you need hearts to learn. And keeps reminding me about the plus thing. Im sorry (not) but this app was a huge disappointment😡
2020-01-13
Counter Intuitive System
If I am trying to learn a language and I get a question wrong, I lose a life and am then restricted from learning the language. How am I supposed to improve if I am restricted from learning the language because I don’t know the language? This system does not help me learn the language and restricts my education.
2020-01-11
Right now Duolingo wouldn’t dare offer a live invitation to rate their app
An open invitation to rate them would absolutely tank their current good rating. Right now I’d be happy to give them 0 STARS
After having earned a winning streak of almost a year, I lost it by minutes on the daylight saving time change over. It would cost me $10 to restore it- with no option of using gems! I found that so offputting that I stopped using the app for over two months. That’s getting close to the cost of a punitive parking ticket. Duolingo has totally abandon good pedagogy in adopting a punishment mode to force you to upgrade. Punishment is totally effective as a motivator for learning. In fact, is is counterproductive Now that I’ve come back to it I’m even more put off. You now need to maintain hearts in order to progress through a lesson. This will cost you 450 gems. Your errors never used to impede your ability to move to your daily goal. You just got an extra question and a reduced bonus. NO PUNISHMENT! Now you have to keep buying the hearts or you have to start the lesson completely over even if you were just one question away from finishing it! What a put-off.
My first review lesson was very complex in its use of grammar, specific irregular verbs, and specific situations for pronouns, adjectives and articles. I kept making a different little mistake in many my do-overs and burned through a lot of hearts. That’s when I learned that you lost everything if you didn’t buy. Also frustrating is that Doulingo is totally unforgiving if you so much as mis-type one letter a name. It used to be a lot easier to forgive them their imperfections when you weren’t being fined for them. There also is no refund when you are fined for a correct answer- one that you share with them to help them improve.
To Duolingo: I’ve been watching your ads to help keep this free. Some users cannot afford your fees, others will struggle with them- but make them a priority, others can afford them, and some could afford to pay more. That has always been the spectrum of your clients. You have forgotten your roots and your early mission. Your continued message of ”working to keep the working to keep Duolingo free” is becoming exceedingly hypocritical. I can’t help but wonder if you have a director and staff driving your new changed mission with a sub-plot of creating and keeping very well-paid jobs. I volunteer for hundreds of hours a year, and it saddens me to see these changes. Maybe you should get rid of the dishonest manipulation and do something like Wikipedia. They have a link that takes you to an explanation of their financing and have a donation button. They also are struggling, but they’re being honest in their struggle, not manipulative. Manipulating just diminishes the humanitarian aspect of helping individuals to learn a new language, many of which will be newcomers to the countries they live in or want to work in. It also diminishes the value of the work that your volunteers do, and have done, for altruistic reasons. Do please consider do please consider on doing this last cash grab undoing this last ill-thought cash grab.
2020-01-10
Heart feature trash
The heart feature added to app version of this platform is awful.
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2019-12-19
heart system is stupid
It won’t work out if waiting for whole 24 hrs to have full health, learning language is about making mistakes, the heart system is just another level stupidness, used to love it but now no more.
2019-12-18
Bye bye learning...
I use to LOVE duolingo app for learning Spanish... that is until they turned to a “health system” and you require lives to learn.
When learning a new language you are going to make mistakes and if you have to wait a full day to earn lives you will never learn at that rate.
I’m on an 80 day strike and up until today I didn’t need lives to learn and I would really learn by completing 20+ lessons in an hour.
Now I cannot get through 4 because I’m out of lives!!
Please take this option away!
Even the version you pay for requires lives!! That’s so ridiculous.
I use to recommend this app to anyone who wanted to learn a language and I no longer will be!
This app is designed to learn not play.
If I wanted to earn lives to play I would play candy crush.
2019-12-16
Used to Love it! Hearts??? Really???
I have been using this app for a while now. The new hearts system sucks. It is just a terrible idea to prevent someone from doing lessons because you ran out of hearts. Take this new feature out please.
2019-08-25
Hate the health bar and repetitive lessons
It takes forever to just get 1 heart after I have made a mistake. The lessons are also very redundant and repetitive, it's like the same lesson 48 times
2019-04-12
Pay to win!?
This LANGUAGE LEARNER is pay to win. Why you may ask? Because of the health bar. Once you get 6 or less questions wrong, you’ll have to wait an hour for the health, so you can LEARN. You’d expect Candy Crush to have this, but no, DUOLINGO does. I hate to be the kind of guy that says “back in the old days”, but I’ll have too. In my elementary days, my teacher used Duolingo as a free time tool. It didn’t have the health bar, more customization, and a better interface. Now the app itself is rather nice, but I can’t get past the fact that it’s p2w. I understand you guys work hard, but just accept donations like Wikipedia, or use your ads. You can keep the Duolingo Plus, but take out the health bar. 1/5
2018-12-02
Used to be amazing...
Before their terrible monetization scheme this was the best free language app out there. Now, it’s completely ruined. Instead of encouraging mistakes as you learn, it punishes you for each one, making each lesson seem like a pressure test.
I used to recommend this app to anyone, but I will no longer do so. The health system on a timer is something I want no part of.
If money isn’t an issue for you, it’s still probably a fine app with the monthly subscription fee, but the value for free users has completely been scraped from the program.
2018-07-24
Lacks explanation
The only downfall of the app is that it doesn’t explain why an answer is wrong. For instance, if you use the masculine version of a word but the correct version is feminine, it would notify that your answer is incorrect but wouldn’t provide the correct answer, or an explanation. I find when learning a new language that it’s easiest to remember how to structure sentences and spell words correctly if I understand why.
2018-06-29
Best language learning tool ever!
They drill the language into your head by their unique way of repetition with different variations until it sticks! You get the sense that they spent a lot of effort and paid attention to detail and methodology.
Even the ads are polite to the point where you would want to watch their ads! Ads by consent!
Well executed. Good job!
2017-09-09
Duolingo
Awesome app, makes learning a language fun and easy. I wish it had Mandarin.