Alternatives to Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short 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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Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short daily sessions.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Lingvist.
Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions.
Drops teaches vocabulary through visual five-minute sessions in over 55 languages including rare ones, on Android and iOS rather than 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 native-speaker videos across many languages, but it is web only and less suited to custom material.
Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
Clozemaster teaches vocabulary inside real sentences with spaced repetition across over 170 language pairings, with advanced features requiring Pro.
Duolingo
A language-learning app with short game-like lessons, plus courses in subjects such as chess.
Duolingo swaps vocabulary focus for short game-like lessons with streaks and reminders, available on web, Android and iOS.
Babbel
A subscription language learning app built around structured lessons focused on everyday conversation.
Babbel offers structured conversation-focused lessons with clear progression 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 provides short structured lessons with feedback from native speakers and pronunciation practice, with full access requiring payment.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Lingvist as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Parley
A KDE vocabulary trainer that uses spaced-repetition flashcards to help you memorise foreign words.
Lingvist is a proprietary vocabulary app for Android and the web with adaptive review and custom decks, but full access requires a subscription and it needs an internet service.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
Readlang
A web tool and browser plugin for learning languages by reading with click-to-translate and flashcards.
LingQ
A language learning service built around reading and listening to real content such as books and podcasts.
