Babbel - Language Learning
What Babbel is
Babbel is the award-winning language learning app with courses tailored to your native language, built by 200+ language experts and trusted by millions worldwide.
The sentence of its App Store description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.Speak a new language with real-life conversations. Babbel is the award-winning language learning app with courses tailored to your native language, built by 200+ language experts and trusted by millions worldwide.
Because lessons are built for speakers of your language, an English speaker learning Spanish gets different lessons than a French speaker does. You learn to speak, listen, and understand grammar in context, then practice real conversations with Babbel Speak (Beta)*, an AI conversation partner that gives you personalized feedback.
Learn a new language faster with bite-sized lessons designed to fit your everyday life. With Babbel’s proven method, you could start having real conversations in as little as 3 weeks. Your language learning adventure starts with a lesson.
WHY BABBEL WORKS
• Tailored to your native language: Courses are created by language experts and tailored to your native language, so you learn naturally and efficiently.
• Real-life conversations: Learn the language people actually speak, for travel, work, and everyday life.
• Speak with confidence: Practice out loud with speech recognition and Babbel Speak, an AI conversation partner to improve your pronunciation.
• Research-proven results: Efficacy backed by researchers at Yale University: 100% improved their oral proficiency in 3 months.**
TRUSTED BY MILLIONS
• 25 million subscriptions sold
• 1.6 million 5-star ratings across platforms (based on App Store ratings)
• After 10 hours with Babbel, 96% of learners saw better test scores on grammar and vocabulary***
BUILT FOR REAL LIFE
• Short, effective lessons: Learn in as little as 10 minutes a day
• Lessons for every motivation: Learn for travel, work, or fun
• Listen, speak, write: Options for every learning style
• Stress-free conversation practice: Build confidence with Guided Conversations, then practice freely with Babbel Speak (Beta)
• Smart review system: Boosts learning and retention
• Grammar in context: Clear explanations exactly when you need them
• Offline mode: Download lessons and learn anywhere, anytime
• 5,000+ courses: Over 60,000 lessons across all languages
LEARN 14 LANGUAGES
Spanish (Latin American or Spain), French, Italian, German, Portuguese, English (American or British), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, and Indonesian.
TRY BABBEL TODAY
Download Babbel now and take a free lesson.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
A subscription is required to access full courses. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple account.
Available plans:
• 3 months
• 6 months
• 12 months
• Lifetime
Privacy policy: https://about.babbel.com/en/privacy/ Terms of use: https://about.babbel.com/en/terms/
LEARN MORE
Read Babbel Magazine for tips and insights: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine
Follow us:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babbel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/babbel.languages
CONTACT US
Questions or feedback? Email: support-mobile@babbel.com
*Babbel Speak is in beta: functionality, quality, and availability may change or be withdrawn at any time. Babbel reserves the right to charge for this feature in the future.
**Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available at http://bit.ly/BabbelYale.
***Based on a study conducted with Babbel users learning Spanish. Available: http://bit.ly/BabbelMSU.
What people say
Babbel's missing-feature complaints come down to the languages on offer: reviewers say their own language is not available as a starting language, and some say few languages can be chosen.
Written by an LLM from the lead report's counts.Read the reportBefore you install Babbel
Written reviews run 1.7 stars well below the store score.
Store ratings count every star tap; written reviews come from people with something to say, so they usually run lower. Read the shares below as what reviewers raise, not the chance it happens to you.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Pricing and fees16%
“this app is bad as a person who is underage and doesn't have money how am I supposed to learn the language if I need to do a subscription to do anything??”
- Crashes and bugs8%
- Charges and refunds5%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Learning for fun87 reviewers; most raised: pricing and feesComplain48%Praise75%
- Travel39 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain67%Praise59%
- School or study24 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain50%Praise88%
What Babbel reviewers say
One public report on Babbel - Language Learning reads 2,299 App Store and Google Play reviews from the last year. The report “Duolingo vs Babbel vs Busuu: which language app do learners fault?” was last updated Oct 26, 2026. Of its 2,299 judged reviewers, 69% complain, 50% praise something, 16% make a request, 4% say they're quitting and 2% cancelled a paid plan. The top complaint is missing feature at 28% of complaints, then pricing and fees (22%) and content quality (19%). Top praise: easy to use, at 14% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (40%) and more content (32%). Two audience differences stand out. New user: say they're quitting 2.5x as often as everyone (11% vs 5%). 1 star: mention privacy and notifications 1.9x as often as everyone (4% vs 2%).
One public report on Babbel - Language Learning. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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