Over 700 courses, now with a faster review system that targets the exact words you keep getting wrong. Start free and speak from your first lesson.
Learn a new language with lessons that fit into a real day.
lairner gives you more than 700 courses across dozens of languages, from Spanish and French to Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin. Every course is built by the lairner team and structured so you start speaking in your first session.
Short sessions mix listening, speaking, and translation practice, so you train the language the way you'll actually use it. A review system tracks the words you find hard and brings them back just before you'd forget them. Your vocabulary grows through flashcards that adapt to your pace instead of a fixed list everyone gets.
The dashboard shows what to do next, whether your streak is safe, and where your weak spots are. Lessons sync across your devices, so you can carry on from your iPad on your phone.
What you get:
- 700+ courses across dozens of languages
- Sessions that build recall and speaking confidence
- Adaptive vocabulary review that targets your mistakes
- A progress dashboard with streaks and goals
- Dark mode
- Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Free to start. Pro unlocks infinite hearts and removes lesson limits.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
UPDATE: The recent updates have improved the UI considerably. Very happy to see the errors I described below are gone. I am enjoying learning Estonian on this app. Good job!!!OLD REVIEW: I speak Latvian fluently and placed with a test in advanced lessons, but it’s stuck on super basic vocabulary even though I passed the full exam with a perfect score. I can’t get to an advanced level or delete and re-add Latvian. Learning Estonian from the beginning is ok. Making an account and logging in is pretty buggy and it asks for my Apple ID password multiple times. Still a good resource for learning rarer languages.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback! We‘ve improved a lot since then and would love for you to try again!
Excellent alternative to Duolingo
Leo Lyon
I've been a Duolingo Super and then Max subscriber for years with a 2000+ day streak. Duolingo has been increasingly annoying in its design decisions over the past few years and, when my subscription renewal was due. I had some initial issues getting my account and password setup in Lairner but the team monitoring Threads messages were quite helpful and now I'm really enjoying Lairner!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your review! Hope you can catch our constant new updates and features!
Super good
Alaa Thair
Amazing app
Developer Response
Thanks a lot!
Great app but
toningston92
So far the app is pretty good . A few suggestions tho. I speak fluent Bulgarian and English and there are a few wrong answers that need to be corrected since they are confusing and simply wrong ! There is no way to report wrong answers so please create a way for users to report that. Try to reach out to users to help with the right pronunciation of words and sentences too that can help
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for the reply. please check out the app again - it should be much better now! Reporting should also be available to you! Thanks!
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Version 3.6.1
The developer, Tim Anthony Alexander, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Tim Anthony Alexander
Size
67.9 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
