February 15, 2022 by J.A. García Our Top Picks 0 comments

20 Best Apps To Learn Spanish On Your Own in 2022

On the lookout for apps for learning Spanish?

Look no further!

We’ve searched far and wide to bring you a list filled with fun, interactive, and dynamic apps to study Spanish on your own.

We know sometimes it’s hard to find time to learn or practice a new language, and phone apps are undoubtedly a great way when you have limited time.

So just sit back, pull out your phone, and start tapping and scrolling!

With these apps, you’ll learn how to improve your accent, learn some Spanish slang, do a grammar check, and even solve some riddles in Spanish!

We even included a couple of kid apps, just in case you need them.

Best Overall
Best Free Apps
Best Apps for Immersive Spanish
Best Apps for Learning Multiple Languages
Best Apps for Conversational Spanish
Best Apps for Goal-Setting and Tracking
Best Apps for Spanish Listening
Best Apps for Grammar Lovers
Best Apps for Gamified Learning
Best Apps for Improving Your Accent
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Best Overall

Winner: Babbel

Price: The first lesson is free. $12.95 for 1 month, $26.85 for 3 months, $44.70 for 6 months, and $83.40 for 12 months.

Considered by many the best app for learning languages, Babbel is perfect for beginners and intermediate Spanish learners. Babbel’s lessons are only 10 to 15-minutes long, and they include fill-in-the-blank questions, audio lectures, and speaking exercises.

Pros: It’s a very intuitive app with an inviting design.

Cons: It can get repetitive since it’s set up like a regular textbook.

Website: https://www.babbel.com/

Runner Up: Pimsleur

Pimsleur offers many fun lessons such as reading assignments, flash-card-type games and role-play conversation challenges. Pimsleur is $19.95/month, after a 7-day free trial.

Website: https://www.pimsleur.com/

Best Free Apps

Winner: Google Translate

Price: Free

Don’t forget the basics! If you need a quick translation, go to Google Translate. It’s a free, user-friendly app. But it’s not just about translations. You can also use it to scan and translate, say, menus or signs on the wall; transcribe and translate audio recordings, and even help you talk to Spanish speakers with its Conversation Mode.

Pros: It’s easy to use.

Cons: It’s not an educational tool, so you’re on your own with this app.

Website: https://translate.google.com/ (online version)

Runner Up: Google Podcast

Many people turn to podcasts to learn a new language, and Spanish is no different. There are also many podcasts available in Google Podcast to learn Spanish; here are a few: Radio Ambulante, Españolistos, Palabras Bravas, Duolingo Podcast. Use this free app while in the car.

Website: https://podcasts.google.com/

Best Apps For Immersive Spanish

Winner: Brain Pop: Película del Día

Price: $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year.

Though this is not a language-based app, the Spanish used in the lessons of this educational app is perfect for beginners and intermediate Spanish learners. With BrainPop, you can watch hundreds of short videos about science, social science, math, health, technology, art, and language, all in Spanish; even the menu is in Spanish.

Pros: Thanks to its wide range of topics, you’ll learn words and phrases unavailable in other apps.

Cons: Its animations and layout are not as eye-catching as that of other apps.

Website: https://esp.brainpop.com/

Runner Up: Canticos

Canticos is a cute bilingual preschool app filled with interactive books and tons of activities in English and Spanish. Canticos is $6.99 a month, or $57.99 a year.

Website: https://canticosworld.com/

Best Apps For Learning Multiple Languages

Winner: Memrise

Price: $8.49 a month; $60 a year; $119.99 for a lifetime plan.

Like Duolingo and Babbel, with Memrise, you have access to many videos and activities to learn some of Spanish’s most common phrases and get you familiarized with the language. Additionally, Memrise also includes short films of native speakers acting out daily circumstances where they might use these words and phrases. There are 23 languages available in Memrise.

Pros: You can learn several languages, each with a different level and topic.

Cons: Memrise is mainly focused on vocabulary.

Website: https://www.memrise.com/

Runner Up: HiNative

With HiNative, you can also interact with other users and ask them questions. You simply post a question and wait for another user to answer it. Premium users ($5.68 a month or $4.96/month paid annually) have access to a sound library, and their questions are moved to the top of the line.

Website: https://hinative.com/en-US

Best Apps For Conversational Spanish

Winner: Busuu

Price: Busuu’s Premium Plan costs $5.83 a month, and its Premium Plus Plan is $.6.66 a month. Learn the plan’s features here.

Also available online, Busuu is a language learning platform that lets you interact live with native Spanish speakers that are also part of Busuu’s worldwide community. While some other apps limit how much you can practice every day, with Busuu, you choose if you want to practice a few minutes a day or take one of the app’s accelerated courses.

Pros: The app offers some brilliant grammar explanations.

Cons: Unless you pay for a Premium Plus Plan, you can only learn one language at a time.

Website: https://www.busuu.com/

Runner Up: Tandem

With Tandem, you can text, send voice notes, send video, or ultimately call another user. Tandem Pro subscriptions range from $6.99 for one month, $3.99/month for three months, and $2.92/month for a year’s subscription.

Website: https://www.tandem.net/

Best Apps For Goal-Setting and Tracking

Winner: Duolingo

Price: $6.99/month after a 14-day free trial.

Duolingo is one of the top education apps and one of the best apps in history! Founded by the Guatemalan entrepreneur Luis von Ahn, Duolingo offers its users daily and fun exercises in the form of short games. Users can also set goals and keep track of their progress quickly as well. This app is perfect for beginners and intermediate Spanish speakers.

Pros: It is very intuitive and easy to use.

Cons: You won’t become a fluent Spanish speaker simply by using this app.

Website: https://www.duolingo.com/

Runner Up: Wordle

True, Wordle is not an app. But with this game, you can learn countless new words in Spanish; it’s a great way to improve your vocabulary if you’re just starting, and you can also compete with friends.

Also, the game is free, so don’t fall for any copycats on the AppStore or Google Play.

Website: https://wordle.danielfrg.com/

Best Apps For Spanish Listening

Winner: LingoPie (LiñgöPie)

Price: This app’s subscription is $12 a month or $65 a year. A Family Plan costs $99, and up to four people can use it.

Maybe you prefer just watching movies and tv shows. Well, LingoPie is perfect for you, then! With LingoPie, you first select a movie, tv, or telenovela, even all in Spanish. Subtitles will then appear on the screen, and if you click or tap on a word or phrase, you’ll get the translation into English, and at the end, you get all the words or phrases you interacted with to see if you can remember them.

Pros: You have access to different types of Spanish.

Cons: This app will only let you exercise your listening skills, no writing, speaking, and no grammar.

Website: https://lingopie.com/

Runner Up: FabuLingua

With FabuLingua, you can story your way through Spanish with the help of games, songs, and fun activities. With new content released monthly, FabuLingua is also great for kids! FabuLingua’s yearly subscription is $31.99

Website: https://www.fabulingua.com/

Best Apps For Grammar Lovers

Winner: Mondly

Price: Mondly is $9.99 a month, or $47.99 for a one-year subscription.

Mondly takes the best of some of these apps. With it, you can go through basic activities and exercises, learn grammatical rules, and broaden your vocabulary. You can even talk with chatbots, using words and phrases you would use in everyday situations in the app’s unique and very cool virtual reality platform.

Pros: You can interact with a hotel clerk, an airline representative, or other people you might encounter in real life from the comfort of your home.

Cons: Content is similar for many of the available languages.

Website: https://www.mondly.com/

Runner Up: MosaLingua

This app’s great advantage is that it goes in-depth with the phrases’ grammatical structure and provides recordings done by native Spanish speakers. MosaLingua costs $4.99 a month or $59.90 a year.

Website: https://www.mosalingua.com/en/

Best Apps For Gamified Learning

Winner: Lingo Arcade

apps for learning Spanish - Lingo Arcade

Price: $0.99 to unlock the first 22 levels; $8.99 to unlock the app’s four games and 150+ levels

With Lingo Arcade, you scroll up and down, listen to basic phrases in Spanish paired with images, and at the end, the app repeats one of the phrases and asks you to match it with one of six options. We recommend this app if you want to expand your vocabulary or if you’re just starting out to learn Spanish.

Pros: Lingo Arcade’s library of words and combinations is huge

Cons: It quickly becomes repetitive.

Website: http://www.alligatorapps.com/

Runner Up: 94 Segundos

This free app will give you a letter, and you have 94 seconds to come up with as many words that begin with that letter as possible!

Website: http://www.94seconds.com/

Best Apps For Improving Your Accent

Winner: Rosetta Stone

Price: $39.99 for three months and $59.99 for six months.

Similar to other apps, the exercises and recordings of Rosetta Stone’s app help you prepare for everyday interactions. It also includes reading material and an extensive phrasebook with a wide variety of topics, which you can use while offline. This app’s voice recognition software compares your pronunciation to that of native speakers and won’t let you advance until yours matches the one you heard.

Pros: You have access to an online tutor.

Cons: At times it is repetitive.

Website: https://www.rosettastone.com/product/mobile-apps/

Runner Up: FluentU

This app has an extensive library of fun videos and accompanying exercises, and the videos include interactive subtitles. FluentU is $30 a month and $240 a year, both at the end of a free, 14-day trial.

Website: https://www.fluentu.com/

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J.A. García

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I am a Guatemalan bilingual fiction writer, translator, and journalist. In my spare time I like to read, play video games, and do sports. I’m a fan of historical fiction, family sagas, and graphic novels. I’m left-handed, a failed drummer, an amateur goalkeeper, and I drive a 1988 Subaru J10.