Spanish and French conjugation apps, with the prices they don't publish

I haven't used any of these apps. Everything below comes from their own App Store listings and websites, read on 21 September 2026, with the source named so you can check it. Prices here move, so treat the date as part of the figure.

That disclosure is here because the pages ranking above this one read like reviews and aren't. The biggest reviews 8 apps and gives a price for 3.

The gap these apps don't close

You can conjugate poder on a worksheet. All 6 persons, present and preterite, no hesitation. Then your tutor asks what you did on Saturday and you say yo puedo ir when you meant pude ir, and you hear it a half-second after it leaves your mouth.

That's the actual complaint behind this search, and every app on page one answers a different one. They compete on verb counts: 2,400 against 1,600 against 1,000 against 500 against 50. No learner has ever been held back by the 1,900th verb.

Filling a conjugation table is recognition with unlimited time and the pattern in front of you. Speaking is production, at conversational speed, while you're also picking the vocabulary and watching whether the other person followed. Practising the first gets you better at the first.

The research points at the fix. Kang, Gollan and Pashler taught learners Hebrew words and compared hearing a word then repeating it against trying to produce it from memory first. On a spoken test 2 days later the retrieval group won, with better production and no loss of pronunciation quality. The scope is narrow: that test was naming single pictured objects, not speaking in sentences.

So a conjugation app is a good tool for learning a pattern you don't have yet, and a weak one for fixing the handful of forms that collapse under pressure. Both problems are real, and the category is sold as though they were one.

What they actually cost

Every figure below is from the US App Store listing or the company's own site, read on 21 September 2026. Ella Verbs has the strongest page on this search and publishes no price anywhere on ellaverbs.com. Its App Store listing does.

A one-time $9.99 purchase and a $39.99-a-year subscription get marketed as the same kind of thing, and they aren't. ConjuGato costs less in year one than Ella Verbs, and the gap compounds every year after.

We're also the most expensive row on that table. Verbamor costs more than every dedicated conjugation app here, it's iOS only, and there's no free tier. If your problem is that you don't know the preterite endings yet, one of the cheap rows is the better purchase.

One correction while the table's open. The FluentU roundup ranking first for this search lists Lingvity as "Available: Android". It ships on the App Store too, rated 4.8 from 35 ratings, and its 50-verb figure is the whole app rather than a free tier.

Who should buy which

You want an exhaustive reference. Ella Verbs wins this outright. 18 tenses, 2,400 verbs, and 998 full verb tables readable on its website for free before you install anything. Go and read those tables; they cost nothing and they're good.

You want the cheapest real drilling, once. ConjuGato at $9.99 buys all 3 moods and 2,000 verbs forever, no renewal. Conjuu is the same shape at $7.99 for everything, with the wrinkle that it also sells the pieces separately, so check which one you're buying.

You want to spend nothing today. Lingvity lists no in-app purchases and takes about 10 minutes to try. It covers 4 tenses and roughly 50 verbs, a real ceiling, though for a beginner on the present tense it's further off than it sounds.

You're learning French. Conju Gate prices Pro at $0.99 a month on its own site and claims 10,000 or more verbs, with fill-in-the-blank drills and a microphone exercise. Conjuu for French is the one-time equivalent at $7.99.

You already know the patterns and still stall when you talk. None of these will move that much, including ours if you only want form drills. Skip to the last section, or spend the money on another tutor hour instead.

Where each free tier stops

"Free" does different work on each of these pages, so here's the actual boundary, quoted from each listing.

• Ella Verbs: "all of the present tense (6 levels and 2 milestones) and 100 of the most popular verbs", then a no-obligation trial with no payment details required, then the subscription.
• ConjuGato: "250 common Spanish verbs" and the indicative present, preterite and present progressive. The $9.99 Pro adds "1,750 verbs, including many advanced ones" and the subjunctive and imperative.
• Lingvity: "Hundreds of exercises are available for free", and no in-app purchases appear on its App Store page at all.
• Conju Gate: free with ads. Paying removes them, and Pro Plus adds AI-generated sentences.
• Verbamor: nothing. There's a 7-day trial on the annual plan and no free tier, which is the least generous entry on this list.

Ella Verbs' free slice is the most interesting one, because the present tense is where most learners actually live. You could stay inside it for months.

Drilling the forms you personally miss

Here's the part we do differently, and it only matters for the second problem, the one where you know the rule and still miss the form at speed.

Verbamor listens to a recording of your own lesson. One pass over the transcript flags what you fumbled, and a missed verb form becomes its own card carrying a plain label, like "past subjunctive of ir". The sentence on the card is the one you said, corrected, with the form blanked out so you have to produce it.

A worked example. You're telling your tutor about last weekend and you say si yo tengo tiempo, iría. The miss is the conditional wanting a past subjunctive before it, si yo tuviera tiempo. That form becomes a card, your own sentence with tuviera blanked, and it returns until it holds. A word you already owned and fumbled gets its due date pushed into the past, so it comes back next session rather than in 3 weeks.

The honest limit: you have to have spoken the form wrong somewhere Verbamor could hear it. It won't teach you the subjunctive from scratch, and a conjugation app will. We hold on to what you've already met, so a beginner with no preterite should buy one of the cheap rows first and come back later.

You don't need a tutor for it, incidentally. The Translate tab saves words and whole phrases into the same card pipeline with no lesson involved.

And if you like building your own cards, Anki does all of this for free on desktop and Android, US$24.99 once on iOS, with FSRS available once you turn it on at the bottom of the deck options page. It ships no Spanish of its own, so you supply the sentences. For anyone who enjoys making cards that's the right answer, and it's the one I'd give a friend.

Whatever you pick, make the practice produce the form rather than select it from 4 options. That's the finding underneath the testing effect, and it's the one design choice that separates drilling that transfers from drilling that feels productive.

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Every load-bearing claim Verbamor makes is traced to its paper on the research page.