Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.7 (193162 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

193k Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 30 More
Size

500.7
MB

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

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

193k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

One of our favourite apps for learning another language, the process is genuinely fun. What’s more, all those languages and games are available for free!
Amazing app! The most productive app you’ll ever have
08/04/2021

Sam Sahana
This is an amazing app and I’ve come to loooooove it! It’s been just about 4 days and I can already see That I’ve learnt many new words in German. The app is genius and accordingly matches with your pace of leaning/understanding. It’s highly customisable and a really smart way to learn a language. You don’t need to commit to it. You’ll get into it without even trying to! It’s now been 260 days and this app is just sooo much different from the conventional way of learning a language. My friend started learning German at school at about the same time as me. I can say so many sentences, even write small paragraphs while my friend is still stuck at salutations and basic sentences. This app is something else! Literally a magical boon from the Gods. No exaggeration. Genuinely commenting this. I thoroughly love it. Credits to the genius developers and team behind this app. Bless you for making this piece of magic free and hence accessible to everyone. I even recommended this app to our domestic helper’s kids and similar people I know of who May not otherwise be able to afford a language course. Plz Continue this free service. It can change a life! U’ll continue to receive our Fullest support and love!!! Love you tonnes, Duo fam! ❤️
Amazing app! The most productive app you’ll ever have
08/04/2021

Sam Sahana

This is an amazing app and I’ve come to loooooove it! It’s been just about 4 days and I can already see That I’ve learnt many new words in German. The app is genius and accordingly matches with your pace of leaning/understanding. It’s highly customisable and a really smart way to learn a language. You don’t need to commit to it. You’ll get into it without even trying to! It’s now been 260 days and this app is just sooo much different from the conventional way of learning a language. My friend started learning German at school at about the same time as me. I can say so many sentences, even write small paragraphs while my friend is still stuck at salutations and basic sentences. This app is something else! Literally a magical boon from the Gods. No exaggeration. Genuinely commenting this. I thoroughly love it. Credits to the genius developers and team behind this app. Bless you for making this piece of magic free and hence accessible to everyone. I even recommended this app to our domestic helper’s kids and similar people I know of who May not otherwise be able to afford a language course. Plz Continue this free service. It can change a life! U’ll continue to receive our Fullest support and love!!! Love you tonnes, Duo fam! ❤️
A Marvellous Teacher!
21/02/2024

Trisha Swastika
I’m not used to writing lengthy reviews, so I’ll keep it short here as well. This app is awesome if you want to learn any foreign language, as a variety of languages are available here. Also, it’s like a game challenge so it keeps you hooked to the app and in order to be on the top in the leagues, you keep on doing your lessons and learning the language. The only thing, although, I don’t like about the app is the concept of ‘hearts’ like any other video game. You can keep the ads, it’s okay I get you gotta make profit too. But the concept of hearts or limited lives is not done. This is not a video game, even if you’ve made it like one for people to find it intriguing. Whilst learning a language completely unknown, people are tend to make mistakes, and not just one or two, but many. If you guys keep these ‘hearts’, i.e., the mistake counter, it’ll be an obstacle in people’s aim of learning their desired language. Making mistakes is not bad, but they should get the chance to correct them every single time. You can’t just let us wait for hours and hours for one heart when we make 5 mistakes. It’s honestly really frustrating. I know you’ve done this to increase the number of ads you put in, but if that’s the case, you can put those after a lesson or two. No need of this heart system. I’ve cut off 1 star solely due to the same reason. I would like to request the Duolingo team to kindly look into this and if possible, remove this limitation of mistakes we can do being a non-super duolingo user.
A Marvellous Teacher!
21/02/2024

Trisha Swastika

I’m not used to writing lengthy reviews, so I’ll keep it short here as well. This app is awesome if you want to learn any foreign language, as a variety of languages are available here. Also, it’s like a game challenge so it keeps you hooked to the app and in order to be on the top in the leagues, you keep on doing your lessons and learning the language. The only thing, although, I don’t like about the app is the concept of ‘hearts’ like any other video game. You can keep the ads, it’s okay I get you gotta make profit too. But the concept of hearts or limited lives is not done. This is not a video game, even if you’ve made it like one for people to find it intriguing. Whilst learning a language completely unknown, people are tend to make mistakes, and not just one or two, but many. If you guys keep these ‘hearts’, i.e., the mistake counter, it’ll be an obstacle in people’s aim of learning their desired language. Making mistakes is not bad, but they should get the chance to correct them every single time. You can’t just let us wait for hours and hours for one heart when we make 5 mistakes. It’s honestly really frustrating. I know you’ve done this to increase the number of ads you put in, but if that’s the case, you can put those after a lesson or two. No need of this heart system. I’ve cut off 1 star solely due to the same reason. I would like to request the Duolingo team to kindly look into this and if possible, remove this limitation of mistakes we can do being a non-super duolingo user.
Just a bit lower than it used to be…
28/09/2025

Kat (anonymous) 🐱🐱
Duolingo is an amazing app overall, perfect for quick bites of learning lessons that are fun, interactive, and motivating. With leaderboards, I’m always encouraged to try a lesson. There are many varieties, with chess matches available for the chess course, on-keyboard songs for music, and hanzi + pinyin for Chinese, including many more! The graphics are visually appealing, with diverse character personas to create an atmosphere of fun for everyone! The only reason I cut a star for this rating is because of the Super privileges. Most people started out as hobby learners, who don’t want to or can’t pay for it. It isn’t fair that their learning is stunted because of this. Some things are understandable, but not being able to have free legendary levels and speaking + listening exercises is quite disappointing, along with ads on almost every single lesson, which take up too much time. My overall opinion is that Duolingo is really great, but I would like it if some things were more available towards non-super learners! edit: I’m going to have to bring this down from four to three stars- everything was going well till energy was added, which might have been the worst decision yet. True, it does help learners with mistakes. But only 25 energy? There could have at least been a choice, rather than every user being converted to a system where you can only do a lesson or two a day, even the ones that were absolutely fine with the 5-heart system.
Just a bit lower than it used to be…
28/09/2025

Kat (anonymous) 🐱🐱

Duolingo is an amazing app overall, perfect for quick bites of learning lessons that are fun, interactive, and motivating. With leaderboards, I’m always encouraged to try a lesson. There are many varieties, with chess matches available for the chess course, on-keyboard songs for music, and hanzi + pinyin for Chinese, including many more! The graphics are visually appealing, with diverse character personas to create an atmosphere of fun for everyone! The only reason I cut a star for this rating is because of the Super privileges. Most people started out as hobby learners, who don’t want to or can’t pay for it. It isn’t fair that their learning is stunted because of this. Some things are understandable, but not being able to have free legendary levels and speaking + listening exercises is quite disappointing, along with ads on almost every single lesson, which take up too much time. My overall opinion is that Duolingo is really great, but I would like it if some things were more available towards non-super learners! edit: I’m going to have to bring this down from four to three stars- everything was going well till energy was added, which might have been the worst decision yet. True, it does help learners with mistakes. But only 25 energy? There could have at least been a choice, rather than every user being converted to a system where you can only do a lesson or two a day, even the ones that were absolutely fine with the 5-heart system.

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Provider: Duolingo, Inc
Size: 500.7 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 30 more

English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
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Editors’ Choice

Amazing app! The most productive app you’ll ever have

A Marvellous Teacher!

Just a bit lower than it used to be…

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OUR FAVOURITES

iPhone essentials

More by Duolingo

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