Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.8 (16898 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

17k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

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Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 1
Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 30 More
Size

500.4
MB

Learn a new language, chess & more with the world's most downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online alongside our global community. • Every course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & website is among the most effective language-learning methods I've tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges, speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions, that keep me coming back for more." - The New York Times "Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education." - TIME Magazine "Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & Monthly Streak Repair. If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

17k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

One of our favourite apps for learning another language, the process is genuinely fun. What’s more, all those languages and games are available for free!
Single challenge bug
11/01/2023
miaelalalalal
Hey I had 276 I think gems. I wanted to do a Legendary challenge so I start a single challenge, as usual I need to give 100 gems for it. But...It told me I don't have enough so it gave me options to buy. I went back chose single challenge again...it said I don't have enough agaaaaain...I go back I choose single challenge again...and it said I have to buy gems again cuz I don't have enough. When I clearly had...but when I go now to home screen I see I was charged those 2 times 100 gems for trying to start the challenge but never got to do it cuz it kept redirecting me to buy as I don't have....what now I lost my gems?? iOS help please
Single challenge bug
11/01/2023
miaelalalalal

Hey I had 276 I think gems. I wanted to do a Legendary challenge so I start a single challenge, as usual I need to give 100 gems for it. But...It told me I don't have enough so it gave me options to buy. I went back chose single challenge again...it said I don't have enough agaaaaain...I go back I choose single challenge again...and it said I have to buy gems again cuz I don't have enough. When I clearly had...but when I go now to home screen I see I was charged those 2 times 100 gems for trying to start the challenge but never got to do it cuz it kept redirecting me to buy as I don't have....what now I lost my gems?? iOS help please
Horendeous update
12/11/2025
krimbobulus
The app was amazing back when I first started my journey a year ago. But then they have fundamentaly changed it ever since.First they completely rewampes the language I was learning to a point where I had to reset my course because it couldn’t correctly align my past progress to current and started giving me extremely difficult lessons (not to mention the answers are sometimes just wrong). Then they change the mistakes system to a battery system which I feel is directly targeting a person kike me with well over 90% accuracy. Then this week I have started getting 2-5 minute ads while before they lasted from 10-30 seconds to get more energy.In general I could before climb to the top of the leaderboard and do a lot of lessons a day without any feel of stopping even if I had to watch a few ads to replenish hearts. Now i can barely do 2 lessons that average 3 minutes in lenght after which I have to watch 4-5 2 minute ads. In coclusion, 6 minutes of learning lessons that are extremely flawed (I always report if something is wrong) and then 10 minutes of ads for things I will never buy no matter if the ad presented is a second or 5 minutes.
Horendeous update
12/11/2025
krimbobulus

The app was amazing back when I first started my journey a year ago. But then they have fundamentaly changed it ever since.First they completely rewampes the language I was learning to a point where I had to reset my course because it couldn’t correctly align my past progress to current and started giving me extremely difficult lessons (not to mention the answers are sometimes just wrong). Then they change the mistakes system to a battery system which I feel is directly targeting a person kike me with well over 90% accuracy. Then this week I have started getting 2-5 minute ads while before they lasted from 10-30 seconds to get more energy.In general I could before climb to the top of the leaderboard and do a lot of lessons a day without any feel of stopping even if I had to watch a few ads to replenish hearts. Now i can barely do 2 lessons that average 3 minutes in lenght after which I have to watch 4-5 2 minute ads. In coclusion, 6 minutes of learning lessons that are extremely flawed (I always report if something is wrong) and then 10 minutes of ads for things I will never buy no matter if the ad presented is a second or 5 minutes.
Out of balance.
07/10/2022
Mirjam Tuul
Way too much emphasis on keeping up a streak and getting to the top of the leaderboard, and way too little emphasis on actually learning the language. There's no way to turn this feature off either. It makes you feel like you're learning a lot and doing well, when in reality you're just getting rewarded for repeating things you basically already know and the learning process is really slow. Losing a streak is so unmotivating. And the annoying ads of course. I've tried the paid version as well and it's not that much better. It just seems like the paid version is a normal app that's just as inefficient and the free version seems like there's a bug or something. And I'm only fully realising all this after having used this app for years. They're really good at tricking you into using their app and not very good at actually teaching you a language. To me the only way there is a point in using this app is with notifications turned off and as a "time-waster", instead of more pointless ways of spending time on the phone, like scrolling or playing games.
Out of balance.
07/10/2022
Mirjam Tuul

Way too much emphasis on keeping up a streak and getting to the top of the leaderboard, and way too little emphasis on actually learning the language. There's no way to turn this feature off either. It makes you feel like you're learning a lot and doing well, when in reality you're just getting rewarded for repeating things you basically already know and the learning process is really slow. Losing a streak is so unmotivating. And the annoying ads of course. I've tried the paid version as well and it's not that much better. It just seems like the paid version is a normal app that's just as inefficient and the free version seems like there's a bug or something. And I'm only fully realising all this after having used this app for years. They're really good at tricking you into using their app and not very good at actually teaching you a language. To me the only way there is a point in using this app is with notifications turned off and as a "time-waster", instead of more pointless ways of spending time on the phone, like scrolling or playing games.

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Size: 500.4 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 30 more

English, Arabic, Bengali, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
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