When people ask AI how to learn a language, here’s which apps land on the shortlist. Language apps compete on habit and progress. See who AI defaults to this period before you pick a daily practice tool — and watch which competitors move in or out.
Drops made the largest climb, up 5 to #10.
| Compare | Pos | Product | Company | Change | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Duolingo | Duolingo | 93.1 | 88% | 1.0 | — | |
| 2 | Memrise | Memrise | 74.5 | 88% | 4.6 | 6 | |
| 3 | Pimsleur | Simon & Schuster | 72.0 | 100% | 7.5 | 2 | |
| 4 | Babbel | Babbel | 71.4 | 75% | 3.7 | 2 | |
| 5 | HelloTalk | HelloTalk | 68.1 | 88% | 6.4 | 10 | |
| 6 | Rosetta Stone | IXL Learning | 59.6 | 50% | 3.3 | 8 | |
| 7 | Tandem | Tandem | 55.5 | 75% | 8.7 | NEW | |
| 8 | Duolingo Max | Duolingo | 51.9 | 13% | 1.0 | 5 | |
| 9 | Busuu | Busuu | 50.4 | 50% | 5.5 | 3 | |
| 10 | Anki | Anki | 48.8 | 50% | 6.0 | 6 | |
| 11 | Duolingo Ultra | — | 45.6 | 13% | 2.0 | NEW | |
| 12 | Clozemaster | Clozemaster | 44.1 | 38% | 5.3 | 1 | |
| 13 | Babbel Live | Babbel | 40.2 | 13% | 3.0 | NEW | |
| 14 | Speech Recognition 2.0 | — | 35.6 | 13% | 4.0 | NEW | |
| 15 | Pi | — | 31.6 | 13% | 5.0 | NEW | |
| 16 | LingQ | LingQ | 30.7 | 25% | 7.5 | 7 | |
| 17 | Replika | — | 28.1 | 13% | 6.0 | NEW | |
| 18 | Drops | Kahoot | 25.4 | 25% | 10.0 | NEW | |
| 19 | italki | italki | 25.4 | 25% | 10.0 | NEW | |
| 20 | LinguaAI | — | 25.2 | 13% | 7.0 | NEW |
Overall Top 20 — mention frequency vs average rank. Split by this period's medians. Tap a point to see its name.