VerbamorHow Verbamor compares.
Four apps, 11 rows, every cell checked against the company's own pages. I sell one of the four, so the rows Verbamor loses are marked as plainly as the rows it wins.
What you're studying
Whether the language you want is in there at all.
Whether the app decides what you study, or you do.
Whether the company names the maths that picks your next review, and whether it adapts to you.
How the studying works
Hearing the word and the sentence said properly, not read by your phone's default voice.
Retrieval practice: the answer is hidden until you've committed to one.
The app listening to you and scoring how close you got.
Effort, price and getting in
Whether keeping the deck fed is a chore you have to do.
The habit machinery, for readers who want it and readers who don't.
Studying somewhere other than an Apple device.
Whether the words you built up follow you out if you stop paying.
Whether anything is free. Each app's price sits under its name at the top.
A shaded cell is the strongest answer in its row. Every claim here traces to a source I checked. Seen something wrong? Tell me and I'll fix it.
One app. Pay each month or each year.
You get every feature and all 5 languages either way.
Native
$10.83/mo
$129.99 billed once a year.
$2.50 a week. Less than a coffee.
Less than an hour with a tutor each month.
You pay nothing for 7 days.
Explorer · billed each month
$19.99/mo
Stop in any month.
About an hour with a tutor each month.
This plan has no free trial.
- Record every lesson and make as many cards as you need.
- Cards come from your own lessons. Each card has a picture, native-accent audio and an example sentence.
- Turns your own grammar mistakes into cards, with the correct sentence and a one-line rule.
- Knows how you speak. It shows the words you overuse and the grammar you often get wrong, so you know where to focus.
- Shows when you will review each word, and how much you would forget if you stopped.
- Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
- Not liking the app after 30 days? Email support@verbamor.com and get all your money back.
If the rows fit, the trial is 7 days.
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The longer versions
Each of these takes one competitor, with the concession up front.
- Verbamor vs AnkiA superb engine that ships no language content.
- Verbamor vs DuolingoA beginner course against a review tool for people with lessons.
- Is Quizlet good for language learning?Mastery with no clock, so nothing picks your next review date.
- Keeping your italki lessonsThe competitor is a Google Doc, and it works until about week 3.
Roundups
Wider fields, sorted by your situation rather than ranked 1 to 10.
- The best spaced repetition appsCompared on the scheduler each one runs.
- The best apps for learning Spanish6 apps, sorted by where you're starting.
- The best apps for learning FrenchBuilt around the problem that stops people: the sound.
- If you already have a tutorWhat's worth running alongside real lessons.
Two other apps, head to head
For when you've narrowed it to two apps that aren't mine. Each one is checked against both companies' own pages.
- Anki vs Quizlet: what changed in 2026
- Apps like Duolingo: what I could verify
- Babbel vs Duolingo (2026): which one to buy
- Babbel vs Rosetta Stone: the prices, checked
- Busuu vs Babbel: the ceiling decides it
- Busuu vs Duolingo: which one you should buy
- Duolingo vs Pimsleur: the price question
- Duolingo vs Rosetta Stone: prices checked today
- Jumpspeak vs Duolingo: the prices checked
- Kardo vs Audilingua vs Verbamor: lesson flashcards
- LingoDeer vs Duolingo: the real prices
- Mango vs Duolingo: check your library first
- Memrise vs Duolingo: which one to pay for
- Pimsleur vs Babbel: prices checked Sept 2026
- Rosetta Stone vs Duolingo vs Babbel
- Rosetta Stone vs Pimsleur (2026): cost, and which to pick
- Speak vs Duolingo: the prices and languages
Guides
Which app or method to pick, and how to keep what a tutor teaches you, are on the guides page.