Alternatives to Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clozemaster.
Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short daily sessions.
Lingvist also targets vocabulary with adaptive review on Android and the web, but teaches through its own courses and custom decks rather than fill-in-the-blank game sentences.
Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers.
Memrise builds vocabulary through spaced repetition courses with native speaker videos, but it is web only and relies on the company's own course content.
Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions.
Drops runs on Android and iOS with five-minute visual vocabulary sessions in over 55 languages, teaching single words more than words inside real sentences.
Duolingo
A language-learning app with short game-like lessons, plus courses in subjects such as chess.
Duolingo is a freemium app on web, Android and iOS with short game-like lessons aimed at beginners, whereas Clozemaster suits learners who already have basics.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
Anki is open source under AGPL-3.0 and lets you build your own cloze or sentence cards with recall-based scheduling, but you must create or find decks yourself.
LingQ
A language learning service built around reading and listening to real content such as books and podcasts.
LingQ builds vocabulary from real books and podcasts across 52 languages, but it requires an account and full use depends on a paid plan.
Readlang
A web tool and browser plugin for learning languages by reading with click-to-translate and flashcards.
Readlang builds vocabulary through click-to-translate reading on the web and as a browser extension, saving words as flashcards, with some features paid.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Language Reactor
Browser extension and toolbox for learning languages from native videos on Netflix and YouTube.
Busuu
A language learning app with short expert-made lessons and feedback from native speakers.
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for chatting with native speakers, with built-in translation and correction tools.
Migaku
A Chrome extension that turns YouTube, Netflix and other sites into language learning material.
Babbel
A subscription language learning app built around structured lessons focused on everyday conversation.
