Canary Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.3% of reviews
Neutral10.3% of reviews
Negative experience38.5% of reviews

~ Based on 78 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Canary Safe?

Canary: Learn Languages appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Canary is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 449 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 449 App Store ratings for Canary.

Is Canary Legit?

Canary: Learn Languages appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Canary is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Extremely disappointing experience

I cancelled during the trial period, yet was still charged for the entire year. Even Apple declined my refund request. So frustrating.

Lovely and useful

A very useful app. I’ve been really enjoying the free version and considering going for the paid subscription. I’ve been using it to learn French and it really boosted my ability to listen and speak. Recommended ❤️

Great app

Ein ganz anderer Ansatz für eine Sprachapp. Find ich klasse. Macht wirklich Spaß!

Wish there were more languages

Love the concept of this app just wish that Chinese was a part of it considering that’s the language that I’m learning.

I’m excited to try it

I heard great things, I’ll try it out

Unique and fun way to learn language!

This app makes it easy and fun to learn a new language. Canary helps you learn through music and connect and practice with people around the world! Highly recommend this app to anyone wanting to learn language in a fast and exciting way.

So far not good

I just downloaded it within the last hour. Tried my first French song with Stromae and I was stuck in “hold tight” blank white screen for 5 minutes.

Terrible ux

Good concept

No trial

I love the idea of this app, but i was disappointed that I couldn’t trial it. I can speak spanish well enough to get by, and love the idea of learning through songs. But before I commit i want to trial it to see if it actually will help me in improving my spanish.

Gutes Tool, leider hängt es oft

Die Idee find ich klasse, leider kann ich die Quizzes nicht abschließen, weil meine Antworten nicht richtig eingeloggt werden. Sehr schade. Deshalb nur 3 Sterne.

Love it!!

Using music to learn another language is absolutely fantastic and really helpful to me!!

Really disappointing

App is advertised as a unique way to learn languages. Using music, games and chatting with people in other countries to learn.

Well, there is a pay wall behind speaking to any timer user and people are either inactive or it’s full of fake profiles.

If you are just starting an app, make it free to gain traction and engagement. No one is going to pay when there is nothing there.

Complete waste of time. And this was inspired by a desperate plea from the creator to leave a review. The app stinks !
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Viele Fehler

Schade, dass die gute Idee so schlecht umgesetzt wurde und so viele Fehler enthält.

Response from developer

Danke für dein ehrliches Feedback. Es tut uns leid, dass die Erfahrung so enttäuschend war. Wir wissen, dass es noch Bugs und Bereiche gibt, die deutlich besser werden müssen, und arbeiten jeden Tag daran, Canary stabiler und intuitiver zu machen. Danke, dass du es trotzdem ausprobiert hast.

eh

Hardly any languages to pick from. All visuals are made from AI.

Can't sign up with email 😟

You can only sign up through apple or google. Ive always signed up to things through my email, & it looks like this was possible for this app in the past. I hope they fix it.

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! Email signup should absolutely be an option, and we’re working on improving the signup flow so users have more flexibility beyond Apple or Google. Appreciate you pointing it out.

Belle découverte !

Je teste actuellement Canary pour améliorer mon anglais en chansons, ça marche pas mal du tout.
Interface fluide, bcp de choix de titres

De base je chantais faux sous la douche je cassais la tete à tout le monde et ça ne ressemblait à rien,

Avec Canary je vais pouvoir continuer de chanter faux, casser la tête à tout le monde mais au moins ce sera de l’anglais !
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Response from developer

Merci beaucoup pour ce retour, ça nous a bien fait rire 😄 Si Canary peut au moins transformer les concerts sous la douche en cours d’anglais, mission accomplie 😂 Ravi que l’app te plaise et que tu profites du choix de chansons !

Aprendi muito rápido com esse app

Melhor app pra aprender um novo idioma

Response from developer

Muito obrigado! 💛 Ficamos super felizes que você esteja gostando do Canary e aprendendo um novo idioma com música

This app does not work at all on my iPad…

It literally loads forever and never allows me to listen to the song. Great idea, awful software….canceling my subscription for sure

Hard to make sense of it

I truly like the concept but the interface with a bunch of AI slop is truly hard to understand.

The choice of learning a language has no effect in the songs that are shown. For example, songs in French are shown when I am learning German.

Some parts of the app simply do not work as expected. Overall it just feels like a vibe coded piece of software with no real craft behind it.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the honest feedback. The wrong-language songs showing in the feed is a bug and definitely not the intended experience. We’re actively fixing that, along with several areas that feel confusing or unfinished. We’re a small team and improving Canary quickly, but we agree the product needs more polish and consistency. Appreciate you calling it out.

Not like the adds

The adds show a taping ryhem game which I thought was supper cool. You have to tap on the correct French words while the song is playing. As someone who loves music and wants to learn French I thought I’d download and give it a go. If it was that and then later had to watch adds to get more coins to play more I probably would have watched it paid for to keep playing. It starts off right away with a monthly or yearly membership which you can by pass if your lucky. But I could not find the game part which means it’s a mini game that is not really the app or is only in the paid section.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry the experience wasn’t clear. The tapping rhythm game is a real Canary feature, not just something made for the ad. It’s part of our learning experience, but we clearly need to make it much easier to find from the app. You can also use Canary without subscribing, although some features are Premium. Thanks for pointing this out, we’ll improve the onboarding and navigation.