“Amazing 🤩 — Amazing 🤩 This app is amazing 🤩 I love the way it teaches you to learn your language, I love the whole set up how to app actually works, I love the podcast and books, I basically love everything in this app. I never tried…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 496 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★755,312 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
277 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Speak a new language with real-life conversations. Babbel is the award-winning language learning app with courses tailored to your native language, built by 200+ language experts and trusted by millions worldwide.
Because lessons are built for speakers of your language, an English speaker learning Spanish gets different lessons than a French speaker does. You learn to speak, listen, and understand grammar in context, then practice real conversations with Babbel Speak, an AI conversation partner that gives you personalized feedback.
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 22.17.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 22.17.0, updated 2026-10-02.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 496 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“You have to pay for everything — I don’t think it’s fair to have an app free in the App Store and then charge $100 or $300 just to learn languages. So expensive for what? Why can’t learning languages be free?”
“great app but you have to pay to do anything and it’s not cheap — Love learning on this app but had to stop because it just got to expensive for me”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 22.17.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$17.99
Highest$107.99
Mexican Spanish – 1-month plan$17.99
Learn Spanish – 3-month plan$45.99
Spanish 1 month$17.99
All Languages – 12-month plan$107.99
Mexican Spanish – 3-month plan$45.99
Show 4 more purchases
French 1 month$17.99
Learn French – 3-month plan$45.99
Italian 1 month$17.99
Mexican Spanish – 1-year plan$89.99