# Practice Portuguese — user reviews

> 72 indexed App Store user reviews of Practice Portuguese by Practice Portuguese, rated 4.10/5 from 82 ratings.

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- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/practice-portuguese/id1517216365.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 57 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 12

## What do users think of Practice Portuguese?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🇵🇹 Excellent for European Portuguese
- 📚 Comprehensive content and structure
- 🗣️ Authentic native speaker audio
- 💡 Engaging and fun learning method
- ✅ Well-organized lessons
- 👍 Helpful grammar explanations
- 🚀 Fast learning progress
- 🌟 Worth the subscription cost
- 💬 Good customer support
- 🎧 Ability to slow audio
- ✨ Smart review feature
- 💯 Highly recommended resource

**Cons**

- 🐌 Slow loading times
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes
- 💸 Expensive subscription
- 🖱️ Clunky/outdated interface
- 🔄 Repetitive content
- 🤔 Limited free version
- 💻 Poor app performance
- 🔒 Login/subscription issues
- 📱 UI/UX design flaws
- 🐌 Sluggish app
- 🚫 No conversational practice

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- Takes ages to load pages
- Doesn't save progress
- Buttons not appearing to complete tasks
- Slow to check pronunciation
- Streak/star tracking not showing
- Login issues after subscription
- App is slow and hangs
- Unable to sign up/create account
- Buy button not showing on purchase page
- Pop-up windows are annoying
- Old messages replaying with sound
- Loses track of lessons/progress
- Apple Pencil use is buggy
- Voices getting cut off

**Most requested features**

- Add C1 and C2 levels
- Scheduled notifications for daily lessons
- Ability to undo flashcard mistakes
- Option to choose specific phrases for flashcards
- Way to take tests and level up
- Dark mode option
- More advanced analytics dashboard

## Newest reviews (12 of 72)

### 2/5 — App is too slow

*2026-03-19*

Poor responsiveness of the app means I’ve given up before I’ve started. Too frustrating to navigate.

### 2/5 — Expensive

*2026-02-03, version 1.21*

There are other programs like this now that are cheaper. The interface is hard to navigate and bit outdated. Meh

### 3/5 — Great concept, very clunky

*2026-01-16, version 1.21*

I would love to give this app a higher rating. The resources are really good, however the pages take ages to load. I cant progress through lessons with it saving my progress and it often doesn’t present buttons to complete a task. It needs a good once over by a UI developer and it would be the best Portuguese language service available

### 3/5 — No load

*2025-12-31*

Please check your app! I even could not load the main page. I bought the subscription mainly because of the app, but I cannot use it at all!

**Developer response:** Thanks for reporting! There may have been a temporary server glitch since it seems to be fine now. Please reach out to support if you’re having further issues and we’ll be happy to help. Thanks for your support :)

### 4/5 — Development is lacking, good for learning European Portuguese

*2025-12-19*

I will start with the good. This is the best app I have found for learning European Portuguese. This was super important to me since my fiancé is Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese is so different from European Portuguese that it was useless to learn Brazil Brazilian Portuguese if I want to speak with my fiancé in his native language. I love the fact that they use real speakers from Portugal to say the words and phrases. The lessons have been very useful and I like the ability to pick my review words and phrases.
Now for the bad. The app is super glitchy and seriously lacking on the development side. I frequently have to close the app and restart it and it can often times be slow to load lessons. It’s also very slow to check your pronunciation. I like the fact that they have the ability to track your daily streaks as well as earned stars however, most of the time those things won’t show up on the app so you can’t really track your streak or compare yourself with other users if you like competition. I reached out to them about this problem and they were responsive, but their solution did not work. The last time they did any updates on this app was two years ago so they are not keeping up on. It’s usability from the development side, which is a bad sign for long-term usability as phones update and change. I also don’t like the fact that there’s no way to practice conversational Portuguese through this app.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your support and feedback! We have been working hard on a totally revamped version of the app and hope to make the beta version available very soon, followed by a public launch once all is ready. Thanks again and keep in touch!

### 4/5 — Development has some way to go, but the content is great

*2025-12-10*

When I first started using the app, I ran into so many bugs and crashes that it felt unusable. But I contacted the developers and they gave me an alternative password. I guess log into some sort of beta version? And it’s working much better. It crashes much less frequently, but it still does crash every now and then. Or it will prompt me to re-login in error so I have to reboot the app And then it remembers that I’m still logged in. But the content is great. The featured speakers are great. I don’t think I’ve found a better option for learning Portuguese with a Portuguese accent instead of a Brazilian accent if your goal is to go to Portugal. This was super important for me because I find the Portuguese accent so hard to understand and hear. I feel like I’m learning French all over again. I can only hear a third of the syllables being said. But anyways, good app. Just needs a little more work on the development side.

### 2/5 — Development has a long way to go

*2025-11-23, version 1.21*

This app has a long way to go before it would be, in my opinion, ready for release. But it is already released. It crashes frequently. It regularly loses track of which lesson you left off at, even occasionally losing progress on some of your lessons so that you have to repeat them. It’s also pretty slow. I’m not sure what the back end on this app is, but it’s like they tried to retrofit a website into an app, which is always the wrong approach. Apple Pencil use with this app is extremely buggy. And that’s very frustrating because for many people like myself, writing is critical to comprehension. Make the app for the apps sake. Make it self-sufficient. I’m paying $17 a month to be able to learn with a Portuguese accent, but for this level of bugs, this app is only worth about eight dollars a month. If that. So I will not keep the subscription much longer. I guess I’ll just have to learn with a Brazilian accent and do Duolingo. Because their app is flawless.  The reason it gets two stars instead of one star is that, despite the extremely poor functionality of the app itself, the content is quite good. The style of teaching is quite good. The creators of practice Portuguese are doing themselves a disservice by trying to package great teaching into terrible coding. It never pays to save a buck by hiring coders in another country FYI! Seems like that might be what they’re doing here? Either that or someone who is not the best coder is trying to DIY? The joke about full stack developers being bad at both front and back end comes to mind, lol. Hire professionals! In year 2025, there’s no good excuse to have a poorly functioning app.

### 2/5 — Too glitchy and repetitive

*2025-09-23*

The app constantly crashes, or takes forever to get to the next question. It makes studying an absolute drag. For the price they charge, it’s really not good enough

### 2/5 — Couldn’t purchase

*2025-06-24, version 1.21*

App was super laggy. Tried to buy subscription on the website and it’s broken too…buy button never showed up on the buy page. Wish it worked as the content looked awesome

### 3/5 — Content top. The app is not the best.

*2025-04-23*

As others wrote the content is fantastic to learn Portuguese from Portugal but the app is very sluggish, slow and often hangs.

### 4/5 — Inhalt Top - Umsetzung Ok

*2025-04-03*

Der Inhalt ist wirklich hervorragend, das Konzept super. Aber die ständigen Wartezeiten und Ladescreens sind weder Zeitgemäß umgesetzt noch passend wenn man schon ein durchaus nicht günstiges Abo bezahlt.

### 2/5 — What’s it like?

*2025-03-12*

Although I downloaded the app, unfortunately it’s not possible to find out what kind of learning scenarios this app has unless you become a paid member. Especially with learning languages, one needs to see the methods used as not all methods work for all people. Sadly, none of the lessons are included before paying. Not even the very first

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Expensive

*2026-04-25*

Useless until you pay 22 euros per month because free access is very restrictive (no lessons, 3 sentences transcription etc)

### 1/5 — login broken

*2026-03-24*

I've subscribed  the premium plan but still I can't use nor the app or the website

### 1/5 — So slow

*2025-09-01, version 1.21*

The app is so slow that it is unusable

### 1/5 — Entspricht genau meinem Lernstil

*2025-08-11*

Mit dieser App lassen sich Vokabeln und Grammatik auf unterhaltsame Weise lernen und vertiefen. Mit Hör- und Sprechübungen sowie individuellem Übungsteil. Zwei Sterne Abzug gibt es mittlerweile sind es -4), weil der Server doch etwas schwach ist und zu Stoßzeiten Übungen überhaupt nicht mehr geladen werden. An dieser Stelle sollte der Hersteller aufrüsten. Es ist noch schlimmer geworden, mittlerweile muss ich mich häufig erneut anmelden, weil mein Abo-Status nicht verifiziert werden kann und ich darauf hin ausgeloggt werde. Ich habe weder Zeit noch Lust mich über euren Server zu ärgern und bin kurz davor, mein Abo zu kündigen.

### 1/5 — Inhalt gut - App verbesserungsbedürftig

*2025-07-14*

Der Inhalt ist gut strukturiert mit sinnvollen Übungen. Die Lektionen sind sinnvoll aufgebaut und man hat das Gefühl, Fortschritte zu machen. Leider ist die App wohl etwas veraltet, was den Lernspaß etwas dämpft. Man hat lange Ladescreens und alte Meldungen werden immer wieder neu abgespielt mit Sound. Das Layout an sich ist gut, aber ich wünsch mir gerne eine zeitgemäße optimierung für Mobilgeräte, wenn man schon für das Abo bezahlt.

### 1/5 — Fake reviews?

*2025-03-18*

Im confused about the good reviews. Each action is extremely slow to load. I thought maybe I could develop patience and try paying for it anyway, but on the sign-up page, there is no submit button. Im sure glad I didn’t pay for it, as it seems unusable. Im sure the content has value but between the extremely slow load times and being unable to sign up, I don’t think these guys are tech-ready.

### 1/5 — Nutzlos

*2025-02-19*

Mann kann hier ohne Geld oder ohne Premium Mitgliedschaft kaum was machen.

### 1/5 — Non functional

*2025-02-05, version 1.21*

Just downloaded app and every time I try to make an account (I click on sign up) it just takes me back to the home page.

### 1/5 — Can’t access activities

*2024-11-14*

I wanted to see what the activities were like before subscribing because $20 a month is a lot, but all it will let me do is read an article on how to get started..

In response to the developer: saying “most features require a paid subscription” actually isn’t that clear. “Most” implies that there will be something unpaid in order to trial before buying. It’s disappointing because I might actually have gotten the subscription if I could have some semblance of what I would be paying for.

**Developer response:** We say very clearly in the description that this is a paid subscription because we like to pay our staff without relying on selling user data.

### 1/5 — Deceiving

*2024-11-09*

Can’t do anything without paying!! Does not state that it’s a pay app. I avoid apps that are not upfront, hidden costs not acceptable

**Developer response:** It’s not deceiving, we literally say it in the beginning of the description. Enjoy the other big companies that sell your data and teach Brazilian.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Best app for European Portuguese

*2026-06-25*

I tried most if not all the apps for Portuguese this one not only has vocab but grammar rules and explains everything so that it’s easy to understand!

### 5/5 — Superior

*2026-04-01, version 1.21*

My wife has been trying to learn Portuguese on Duolingo for almost 3 years (only Brazilian which is a bummer, overall not effective). She can understand a few words but hasn’t really learned the language or how to speak. 

As someone who grew up in a Portuguese household and speaks at an advanced to fluent level, this app is phenomenal! 

I have been going through it myself to see the quality and I am very impressed with how easy it is to follow, the explanations and structure of the whole program. Any “bug” problems others have mentioned are no longer an issue, seems to be running very smoothly.

My wife will be switching to this app to learn as it’s most importantly European Portuguese but it legitimately teaches you how to speak/understand the language unlike Duolingo.

I want to teach our children Portuguese. Aside from speaking it in the home, this app will be an excellent interactive tool to assist in their learning. This way they can speak with family back in Portugal!

Obrigado por criarem uma aplicação que ensina a nossa língua de forma divertida e fácil. A avó vai ficar feliz quando os netos estiverem a falar com ela em português! 😄🇵🇹

Vão criar mais unidades? C1 e C2?

### 5/5 — I would give my first-born for this app to exist for every language

*2026-02-06*

Words can’t express how grateful i am that this app exists!! I never thought apps worked for me as I’m not a fan of Duolingo, Babel, etc. But the structure of the courses, with clear explanations, real-life in-context examples, the native speakers, plus all the podcast and shorty content is incredible. And what’s more it’s PT-PT!! I’m at an A2 level now and will keep using this app alongside lessons with my teacher, at least until I reach B2.
Thank you Practice Portuguese team!!

### 5/5 — Exceptional

*2025-10-14*

I was a bit hesitant hesitant to use this app, but European Portuguese is limited in its options when learning. I took a chance and I am not disappointed! The app is amazing. It starts off building a foundation, explaining the words and reviewing your pronunciation. It gives great additional information on when it would be appropriate to use and has so many additional resources of videos, podcasts, and review sheets. It contains multiple people to hear a variety of different native speakers to assist you. I am spending hours learning in this app and I am very impressed at what I already am learning.

### 5/5 — The best app for learning European Portuguese

*2025-10-01*

200 million people speak Brazilian Portuguese, and there and plenty of resources for learning it. European Portuguese… not so much. Given the limited apps for learning the language, you might want to forgo learning it. Don’t! Practice Portuguese is a phenomenal resource for learning the language. There are smart flash cards, lessons, videos, short audio, and more. It’s structured in a way that makes it easy to work through units while allowing you to easily skip around or answer questions about pronunciation, grammar, social norms, etc. I pay for the upgrade and it’s worth every penny. Support is helpful and quick too!

### 5/5 — Love this!

*2025-08-16, version 1.21*

This app is wonderful for those who intend on moving to Portugal, have no prior knowledge of European Portuguese, and need to learn the language. There are so many other platforms that teach Brazilian Portuguese, but only few that teach European Portuguese, and even less that offer lessons in a fun and thorough format.

This app combines not only logically organized language lessons, but also videos to listen to conversation, quizzes to test your knowledge, smart review to continually test you on what you’ve learned until you master them, and information about Portuguese culture. This app is very motivating and I enjoy using it to learn the language.

One thing I would love to eventually see in the app is scheduled notifications to remind me to do a daily lesson/smart review. Otherwise, I love this app!

### 5/5 — Toller Einstieg

*2025-07-16*

Es ist gar nicht so einfach eine App zu finden, die europäisches Portugiesisch auf einem derart hohem Niveau vermittelt. Ja, die App ist langsam. Und die Pop-up Fenster nerven. Auch das UI ist nicht unbedingt intuitiv. Aber über all das sehe ich hinweg, wenn ich die Sprache vernünftig lernen kann und das gelingt auf jeden Fall mit dieser App. Dafür halte ich den Preis für moderat. Man muss es immer in Relation zu der Zielgruppe sehen und die ist nun mal nicht so groß wie die für brasilianisches Portugiesisch. Allerdings wäre eine weitere Entwicklung sehr wünschenswert.

### 5/5 — The best!

*2025-03-19, version 1.21*

This app is the best if you’re looking for something like Babbel, for European Portuguese. Really great content!

### 5/5 — Best language learning app their is

*2025-03-17, version 1.21*

I’m about to renew for the third year. This app is amazing. The duo behind this app offer a lot of free information on the web, YouTube, and other platforms. But it’s well worth investing in this app to get access to the rest of their content. There’s a lot of it! It’s so well organized and you have the option of working your way through structured lessons, jumping about to specific topics, and practicing your favourite verbs. I bought so many different apps to learn European Portuguese, but this one is the one that I have kept using. It’s an extensive collection of videos, audio, and text. With easy to use tests to check your learning progress.

### 5/5 — Best App for Learning Portugal Portuguese

*2025-01-12*

I love this app! I’ve tried Babbel and Duolingo, but this is so much better. It focuses on Portugal Portuguese, teaches proper grammar, pronunciation and expands vocabulary effectively. Highly recommend it for anyone serious about learning the language.

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