Alternatives to Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Memrise
A language learning app with courses built around spaced repetition and videos of native speakers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Memrise.
Duolingo
A language-learning app with short game-like lessons, plus courses in subjects such as chess.
Duolingo offers short game-like lessons with streaks on web, Android and iOS, with a lighter format and without Memrise's videos of native speakers.
Babbel
A subscription language learning app built around structured lessons focused on everyday conversation.
Babbel provides structured conversation-focused lessons on Android, iOS and web, but requires a paid subscription with no free tier.
Busuu
A language learning app with short expert-made lessons and feedback from native speakers.
Busuu adds corrections from native speakers and pronunciation feedback to short lessons on Android, iOS and web, with full course access requiring payment.
Rosetta Stone
An immersion-based language-learning app with pronunciation feedback, conversation practice and flashcards.
Rosetta Stone teaches through immersion without translation, with speech recognition feedback and conversation practice, and needs a paid membership after the trial lesson.
Drops
A visual, game-like vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages, built around five-minute daily sessions.
Drops is a mobile-only visual vocabulary trainer for over 55 languages built around five-minute sessions, focusing on vocabulary more than conversation.
Lingvist
A language-learning app that teaches vocabulary with adaptive algorithms and short daily sessions.
Lingvist teaches vocabulary through adaptive review on Android and the web, adding custom decks and classroom tools, with full access by subscription.
Pimsleur
An audio-first language-learning app built around 30-minute spoken lessons for conversational practice.
Pimsleur switches to audio-first 30-minute spoken lessons that work hands-free and offline, covering 51 languages in one paid subscription.
Clozemaster
A language-learning game that builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences in over 50 languages.
Clozemaster builds vocabulary through fill-in-the-blank sentences with spaced repetition on Android and web, better suited to intermediate learners than beginners.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Anki
Flashcards that schedule themselves, showing you a card just before you would have forgotten it.
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.
Speak
A language learning app that uses an AI tutor for spoken conversation practice.
Language Reactor
Browser extension and toolbox for learning languages from native videos on Netflix and YouTube.
LingQ
A language learning service built around reading and listening to real content such as books and podcasts.
