Interpals: Penpals & Languages
Language exchange & penpals
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Meet new friends, pen pals and language partners from around the world
Meet people with Interpals, the original culture and language exchange community with 8.5 million users since 1998.
Chat with new friends, pen pals and language partners from all over the world.
Match with tandem language partners for language exchange or meet up with travelers from other countries who are visiting your area.
Practice languages with native speakers to learn English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish and hundreds more, all for FREE!
more • Checkmarks show as soon as you tap an option, such as Male, Female, Native speakers only or Only online users.
• Search filters: Age, Sex, Languages and Location are at the top again.
• Interests in Search filters: a clearer layout, and results stay in place while you type.
2.16.1 7 Oct
• Complete profile fields directly from Home, and find native speakers and upcoming birthdays.
• Filter your inbox.
• Open links from messages and replies.
• Keep your sign-up progress if the app closes.
• Fixes for keyboard layouts, photo uploads, voice messages, and connection issues.
2.16.0 3 Oct
New
- A redesigned screen for writing posts.
- Tell us when no phone verification code arrives.
- A tidier home screen, with your status under Discover people.
Fixed
- Photo viewer: swipe back works again, and options wait for the photo to load.
- The resend wait shows the real time instead of a short one.
- Steadier reconnection, and the right count in profile view notifications.
2.15.0 19 Sept
New
- Pause your account from Settings when you need a break, and resume it the next time you sign in.
- New Search filters: interests, username, and hiding people by what they are looking for.
- Discover on the home screen suggests people from your age, languages and goals, and its filters add language and goal choices.
- Redesigned filters in Search and Discover: tonal chips, a clearer age slider, a count of active filters in each group, and a matching dark theme.
- Phone verification offers one more way to verify, where available: send a short message from WhatsApp or another chat app.
Fixed
- Fixed several crashes, including one with Chinese language settings.
- Dates keep your regional format.
- A notification tap opens the right screen once, also after the app restarts. Digest and reminder notifications open Search.
- Photos show their preview while the full image loads.
- Voice recordings stop at the longest length that can be sent.
- Swipe actions on list rows no longer catch vertical scrolling.
- When you come back to the app, one connection notice replaces the error screens.
- A like that cannot go through is undone quietly, without an alert.
- Profiles hide the add-friend button when you cannot add that person.
- Message request buttons match the other main buttons.
- Lists no longer show a blank refresh gap after you move between screens.
- Your sex selection shows the right option after a save fails.
- A suspended account shows when its suspension ends.
- Account deletion explains how restoring your account works, and its dialog clears the bottom of the screen.
- A new profile photo no longer stays pending after sign-up.
- The profile checklist on the home screen opens the field you tap.
2.14.0 18 Sept
New
- Discover people on the home screen: a strip of profiles to browse, with filters for country, sex and who is online. Tap the heading to open full search.
- Phone verification now offers a second provider when the code cannot be sent, so it works in countries that used to refuse it.
- Redesigned sex selection on sign-up and profile edit, as a segmented control with clear option rows. It follows your text size and works with screen readers.
- The typing indicator in chat now travels over the live connection, so it appears sooner and uses less data.
- A faster app: quicker startup, a lighter alerts list, faster translations, and date dividers that no longer slow long conversations.
Fixed
- Sign-up keeps the answers you give after the location step when you leave the app and return.
- The phone step continues when a code is refused and verification is waived, and the resend wait stays at 60 seconds when you return to the step.
- Sign-in with Apple completes, and a sign-in link with no session to bind is discarded instead of failing.
- The login screen keeps its keyboard and its bottom spacing correct.
- Profile editing: interest text is replaced without an extra keyboard tap, interest edits scroll above the keyboard, and the school field stops at the length the server keeps.
- Search filters keep unsaved edits, and discarding them works every time.
- Leaving profile edit to recover your profile now stays inside the app.
- A profile's friends list now fills in on your first visit, instead of staying empty until you pull to refresh.
- The trip date picker opens and closes on the arrival date.
- Albums keep your uploads in view while they finish, pending photos are left out of the photo totals, and paging through an album follows your scroll.
- Notification settings match your account, your choices survive a restart, and a notification tap opens the right screen. A comment notification opens its post.
- A message that failed to send shows a themed retry row with a proper touch target.
- Returning to a screen reloads it only when something it shows has changed.
- Clearer messages when a request fails with no details.
2.13.0 11 Sept
New
- Redesigned home screen header: a welcome banner with your photo, how complete your profile is, and a shortcut to a detail you have not filled in yet.
- The app now speaks 28 languages. This release adds 21, among them Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
- The app starts faster: the side menu now loads its content when you open it.
Fixed
- Fixed several crashes, including ones in notifications and in chat.
- The app opens cleanly, without a flash of your content before the launch screen finishes.
- Search results scroll smoothly to the end, and your filters keep their settings while you browse.
- Search text with symbols such as ( or + no longer breaks the list of choices.
- Sign-up and sign-in report fewer errors, and your occupation stays on the form.
- Albums load their next page again after a failed attempt, and the photo strip opens from anywhere on a profile.
- Photo upload and crop failures are now explained instead of failing quietly.
- Older conversations open with their messages, the message box stays steady, and the inbox updates faster.
- Quoted replies and the retry row for a failed message stay inside the message column.
- A reply to a message that no longer exists now sends, and a deleted message no longer lingers in the thread.
- The GIF picker offers a retry when it cannot load.
- Corrected wording and word order on translated screens.
- Fixed a pale background behind some screens in dark mode.
2.12.0 8 Sept
New
- Profiles now open instantly from search and lists, filling in the details as they load.
- Redesigned search filters in Settings, with tappable chips for your selections.
- Search results stay in view as you scroll — the filter bar tucks away.
- Cards and buttons now respond the moment you press them.
- Smoother transitions when opening a profile.
Fixed
- Fixed a crash at launch when the app's local data could not be opened.
- Fixed a crash when a message arrived without any text.
- Chat loads and scrolls faster, and conversations keep their messages between launches.
- Voice messages now record reliably right after playing audio.
- Photos in feeds, albums and avatars load faster, use less data, and look sharper.
- You are now told when a message cannot be sent because the connection dropped.
- Failed messages with photos now retry and delete correctly.
- Cancelling Sign in with Apple no longer reports an error.
2.11.0 26 Aug
New
- Tabs on Friends, Groups and profiles now show icons, fit their labels without wrapping, and can be swiped between.
- Redesigned notification settings, matching the web layout.
- Reduced Motion is now respected across animations, and loading states are announced to VoiceOver.
Fixed
- Fixed a crash when sign-up reported an error.
- The interface language you picked is no longer overwritten by your device language.
- Photos that fail to load now show a placeholder instead of blank space.
- The 99+ notification badge no longer clips.
- Removed extra blank space at the bottom of some screens.
2.10.0 18 Aug
Fixed
- The tracking permission prompt no longer appears after declining tracking in the privacy consent form.
- Fixed a chat list display issue after sending a message.
2.9.3 14 Aug
- Fixed voice messages failing to record and send.
- Fixed crashes that could happen when opening chats or the feed.
- The unread message badge now clears correctly.
- Improved how audio messages look while sending.
2.6.1 1 Jul
Feature
- More Languages: App store listings are now available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Indonesian.
- Passkey Support: Secure your account with biometric sign-in using your device passkey.
- Smoother Signup: Added clear notifications about date-of-birth changes and updated the verification process for reactivating accounts.
- Audio Upgrades: Fully updated internal audio systems for better reliability.
Fixed
- Visual Updates: Fixed dark mode contrast issues on the groups list and comments toolbar.
- Text Scaling: Fixed a layout bug where large system font sizes would distort the legal links.
- Form Tweaks: Name fields now allow single-character names, and signup screens will no longer auto-focus filled inputs.
- Upload Stability: Added network timeouts to preventing hanging uploads and throttled error notifications.
- Crash Fixes: Resolved multiple backend errors to prevent app crashes on the feed, messages, and onboarding screens.
2.6.0 26 Jun
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.5.1 17 Jun
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.5.0 3 Jun
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.9 26 Apr
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.8 14 Apr
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.7 12 Apr
Feature
- Enhanced messaging experience with auto-growing text input and swipe-to-lock audio recording
- Redesigned sign-in page, notification badges, and profile action buttons
Fixed
- Search filter validation errors
- Theme changes now apply without restarting the app
- Various UI fixes for dark mode, button layouts, and deleted user handling
2.4.6 12 Jan
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.5 06/12/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.4 14/11/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.3 30/09/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.2 12/09/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.4.1 31/08/2025
Feature
Added dark theme support. You can enable it in Settings -> General settings -> Application theme.
2.4.0 28/08/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.3.25 09/08/2025
This new version contains stability, performance and/or minor interface updates.
2.3.24 27/06/2025
• Checkmarks show as soon as you tap an option, such as Male, Female, Native speakers only or Only online users.
• Search filters: Age, Sex, Languages and Location are at the top again.
• Interests in Search filters: a clearer layout, and results stay in place while you type.
more Version 2.16.1 7 Oct
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