Alternatives to Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Drops.
Duolingo
A language-learning app with short game-like lessons, plus courses in subjects such as chess.
Duolingo teaches with short game-like lessons covering more than vocabulary, adds streaks and reminders, and runs on web as well as Android and iOS.
Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short daily sessions.
Lingvist also focuses on vocabulary but uses adaptive placement and review, with more than 50 courses in one subscription on Android and the web.
Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers.
Memrise builds vocabulary with spaced repetition and videos of native speakers, covering rare and classical languages, but this listing is web only.
Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
Clozemaster teaches vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences with spaced repetition, aimed at intermediate learners rather than beginners, on Android and the web.
Babbel
A subscription language learning app built around structured lessons focused on everyday conversation.
Babbel replaces vocabulary drills with structured conversation-focused lessons on Android, iOS and web, but it requires a paid subscription.
Busuu
A language learning app with short expert-made lessons and feedback from native speakers.
Busuu offers short expert-made lessons with feedback from native speakers and pronunciation practice, with full course access requiring payment.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
Parley
A KDE vocabulary trainer that uses spaced-repetition flashcards to help you memorise foreign words.
HelloTalk
A language exchange app for chatting with native speakers, with built-in translation and correction tools.
Tandem
A language exchange app that pairs you with native speakers who want to learn your language.
