The Best AI Language Learning Apps for Speaking Practice in 2026

This guide is for speaking practice in any language: Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Korean, English and more. If you are learning English specifically, our guide to the best AI apps to learn English goes deeper on English-only tools and English for work.

The best AI language learning apps at a glance

Ten apps with real AI conversation practice. Fluently, our product, comes first. The rest are grouped by type, not ranked: AI tutors for many languages, then course apps that added AI conversation, then English-only coaches. Prices are in-app purchases on the US App Store on November 14, 2026; where the store lists several prices for the same period, the table shows the range.

How we chose and checked the apps

An app made the list only if its own listing or help pages describe an open conversation with an AI that you answer out loud, and if we could check its languages, platforms, free option and price on an official page or store listing on the same day. That rules out flashcard apps with a microphone button and marketplaces for human tutors. Three rules apply to every profile:

• Prices are the in-app purchases on the US App Store, shown as a range when the store lists several variants for one period. A period is given only when the store labels it.
• Free means free to keep using. A trial is called a trial, and a daily allowance says how many minutes.
• Features are as each company describes them on its site, help center or store listing. We did not test them, so this guide does not score them.

The ten apps, one by one

Each profile says what the AI conversation does, who it suits, what is free and what it costs.

Fluently: talk through your own situations in 19 languages (our product)

Fluently is our app, so read this profile with that in mind. You talk with an AI tutor by voice, like on a phone call, in any of 19 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, Polish, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Danish, Finnish and Czech. You can describe your own scenario for a role-play, and the tutor plays the other role. For example: “You’re my landlord in Madrid. I’m calling because the heating is broken. Ask me questions.”

After your turn, a card can show a grammar fix, a more natural way to say your sentence or a better word, and the conversation keeps going. In the call settings you can turn off live captions to train your ear and change how fast the tutor speaks. If you are learning English, the free AI speaking assessment scores your pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, grammar and coherence, and those scores update as you practice; in the other languages, a short level check sets your starting point. Companies can use Fluently for Teams, which shows each employee’s English speaking level, focus areas and progress.

• Best for: learners who want to practice the conversations they actually have: their own work, trips and plans.
• Free option: Fluently is free to start. Take a free AI speaking assessment to see your level, then practice with games that build your vocabulary and pronunciation. Conversations with your AI tutor come with Fluently Premium.
• Platforms: iOS and Android.
• See a session: our tutor pages for Spanish, French, Japanese and Korean show what practice looks like in each language.

Speak: a speaking course with an AI tutor

Speak, from Speakeasy Labs, is the most structured app here. Its lessons follow three steps it calls Learn, Practice and Apply: you learn phrases, drill them out loud, then use them in a back-and-forth conversation with the Speak Tutor, which gives feedback on pronunciation and phrasing (speak.com). Its help center lists English courses for speakers of 15 native languages, and Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Chinese courses only for native English speakers.

• Best for: learners who want a lesson path, not only open conversation.
• Free option: a 7-day free trial, then a paid subscription.
• Price: Premium $17.99–$21.99 a month or $83.99–$109.99 a year; Premium Plus, which adds the full Speak Tutor experience, $39.99 a month or $164.99 a year (App Store).
• Platforms: iOS and Android.
• Watch out: if your first language isn’t English, Speak only teaches you English. Our Speak review covers the plans in detail.

Praktika: avatar tutors for a gentle start

Praktika’s tutors are animated avatars, each with its own personality and accent, and they can explain things in your native language, which helps beginners. Its help center lists 14 language options, with European and Brazilian Portuguese counted separately, at every level from A0 to C2. After each answer you get tips and corrections on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, pace and word choice, and the App Store listing says you can turn a photo or a PDF into a lesson, or upload your résumé to rehearse interview answers.

• Best for: beginners and shy speakers who find a face easier to talk to than a voice.
• Free option: a free plan with three avatars, limited speaking practice and basic feedback (Praktika’s free plan).
• Price: $9.99 a month; $49.99–$139.99 a year.
• Platforms: iOS and Android; Praktika says a desktop version isn’t available yet.
• Watch out: the free plan is a sample. All avatars and practice modes come with Premium.

Talkpal: the most languages and free daily minutes

Talkpal is a GPT-based tutor that lists more than 130 languages, from Spanish and Japanese to Swahili and Welsh. Its modes cover text chat, audio-only calls, role-plays, debates, conversations with famous characters, and word and sentence drills; its App Store listing says Premium adds personalized pronunciation and grammar corrections.

• Best for: less common languages and a zero budget.
• Free option: a Basic plan with a 10-minute daily limit, plus a 14-day Premium trial (Talkpal pricing).
• Price: $19.99 a month, $49.99 for three months or $119.99 a year.
• Platforms: web, iOS and Android.
• Watch out: use the free minutes to check how well it handles your language before you pay.

Langua: voices cloned from real speakers

Langua, from LanguaTalk, gives each AI tutor a voice and accent cloned from a real person, with a choice of dialects in some languages. Call mode runs hands-free voice conversations, you can switch to your own language when you get stuck, and after a chat you can open a detailed feedback report. It teaches 22 languages, from Spanish and Japanese to Hindi and Croatian (Langua).

• Best for: intermediate learners who want long, natural conversations.
• Free option: one conversation without subscribing; the free trial of the paid plans, 5 days on monthly and 7 days on yearly, needs a card.
• Price: Communicate $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year; Unlimited $29.99 a month or $199.99 a year. Langua’s site says its cheaper plan limits calls to 30 minutes a day.
• Platforms: web, iOS and Android, with progress synced between them.
• Watch out: Langua’s 30-day money-back guarantee covers only subscriptions bought on its website, not in the App Store.

Gliglish: role-plays in the browser, 10 free minutes a day

Gliglish runs role-plays of everyday situations with an AI teacher: travel, job interviews, dating and more. It suggests replies when you get stuck, lets you ask in your own language, slows the tutor down on request and highlights grammar mistakes. Its store listing names 38 language and dialect options, such as Spanish from Spain or Mexico and Brazilian or European Portuguese.

• Best for: free daily conversation practice in a browser, with nothing to install.
• Free option: 10 minutes of practice a day.
• Price: Gliglish Plus $29.00 a month or $192.99 a year.
• Platforms: any desktop or mobile browser, iPhone and iPad, and Android.
• Watch out: the pronunciation score after each sentence works for American English only.

Duolingo: Video Call inside a free course

Duolingo says all of its courses are free, paid for by ads and subscriptions. Its AI conversation is Video Call: you call Lily, a character from the app, and talk about anything you like. She adjusts to your level, and Duolingo says you won’t hear her correct your grammar. Calls last about a minute early in a course and up to three minutes later. Duolingo’s Video Call announcement lists courses in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, plus Japanese and Korean on iOS.

Video Call used to need Max, Duolingo’s top plan. In its Q3 2026 shareholder letter, Duolingo says new Super subscribers already get unlimited Video Call, all Super subscribers should have it by the end of 2026, and it stops selling new Max subscriptions in November 2026.

• Best for: a daily habit first, with short AI chats on top once you pay.
• Free option: every course, with ads.
• Price: the US App Store lists Super Duolingo at $9.99–$12.99 and at $83.99–$119.99 without naming the periods.
• Platforms: web, iOS and Android.
• Watch out: a call of a few minutes without grammar corrections builds confidence more than accuracy. See what is free in Duolingo.

Babbel: a course with an AI conversation partner in beta

Babbel builds each course for speakers of your language, so an English speaker learning Spanish gets different lessons from a French speaker. Next to guided dialogues and speech recognition, its US App Store listing describes Babbel Speak, an AI conversation partner with personalized feedback, and marks it as a beta whose features and availability may change. The same listing names the 14 languages Babbel teaches.

• Best for: beginners who want grammar explained and a course written for their first language.
• Free option: the first lesson of every course; Babbel’s site says up to 80 free lessons, depending on the language.
• Price: $17.99 a month or $45.99 for three months for one language; $107.99 a year for all languages.
• Platforms: web, iOS and Android.
• Watch out: Babbel Speak is a beta added to the course. If it is your reason to subscribe, check that your course offers it first.

ELSA Speak: English pronunciation with AI role-plays

ELSA Speak teaches English only. Built around pronunciation feedback, it adds AI role-plays for interviews, presentations and meetings, a bilingual AI tutor that lets beginners start a conversation in their own language, and a Speech Analyzer for free speech (elsaspeak.com).

• Best for: English learners whose main problem is being understood.
• Free option: free to start, with paid upgrades.
• Price: $19.99 a month, $39.99–$52.00 for three months or $71.00–$129.99 a year.
• Platforms: iOS and Android.
• Watch out: no other languages. Our Fluently vs ELSA Speak comparison goes into detail.

Loora: one AI English coach for open conversation

Loora is an English-only coach for open conversations about any topic, with real-time feedback on grammar, pronunciation and fluency and a daily fluency score. You can download it free and use a trial before you subscribe (loora.com).

• Best for: English learners who want a conversation partner at any hour, without a course around it.
• Free option: a trial.
• Price: $14.99–$19.99 a month, $44.99 for three months or $59.99–$119.99 a year.
• Platforms: iOS and Android.
• Watch out: its App Store listing says unused time is not refunded when you cancel.

Can’t I just use ChatGPT’s voice mode?

You can start there. ChatGPT’s App Store listing suggests its voice mode for practicing a new language, and its free plan includes limited voice chats (ChatGPT pricing). It will talk about anything at any hour.

What it lacks is the tutor around the conversation. It doesn’t score your speaking or follow a lesson path, and it tends to correct you when you ask rather than every time. If you use it, give it a tutor’s job at the start of every session, for example:

A dedicated app sets that up for you every time and adds what a chat doesn’t: Fluently’s cards after your turn, Praktika’s lessons at your level, Speak’s course.

How to get more out of an AI conversation

• Bring your own situation. The call you dread, the trip you are planning, the meeting next week. Describe it as a role-play.
• Answer in two or three sentences. AI tutors follow your lead, so one-word answers give you one-word practice.
• Say the corrected sentence again, out loud, then use it once more later in the same conversation.
• Turn captions off after a while to train your ear. If you can’t follow without them, slow the tutor down.
• Keep it short and daily. Ten minutes every day is easier to keep up than an hour once a week.

Which one should you choose?

• To talk through your own situations in any of 19 languages, with a card after your turn: Fluently.
• A structured course with conversation built in: Speak for English, or for its six languages if your first language is English; Babbel if you want grammar explained.
• A beginner or a shy speaker: Praktika.
• A less common language or no budget: Talkpal’s 10 free minutes a day, or Gliglish in the browser.
• Long, natural conversations with a choice of dialects: Langua.
• A free daily habit first: Duolingo.
• English pronunciation: ELSA Speak; open English conversation: Loora.

For one language in depth, see our guides to the best apps for Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. If you are leaving Duolingo, our list of Duolingo alternatives compares the options by how much you get to speak.

Before you pay

• A trial is not a free plan. Speak and Loora start with a trial; Talkpal, Gliglish and Praktika keep a free tier with limits; Duolingo’s courses stay free.
• Many trials need a card and renew on their own. Cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions, not by deleting the app.
• Apple decides refunds for App Store purchases, which is why Langua offers its money-back guarantee only on web subscriptions.
• Test the speech recognition with your accent during the free part, in a quiet room and in the place where you will really practice.
• Read the App Privacy section of the store listing: every app here records your voice to work.

Start speaking your next language

Get the Fluently app, take the free AI speaking assessment to see your level, then practice with games that build your vocabulary and pronunciation. Conversations with your AI tutor, where you role-play your own scenarios and get a card after your turn, come with Fluently Premium. Learning a language other than English? A short level check sets your starting point.

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