# Toki Pona — user reviews > 88 indexed App Store user reviews of Toki Pona by Martin Voigt, rated 4.81/5 from 591 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toki-pona/id1562195368/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/toki-pona/id1562195368.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 508 · 4★ 63 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Toki Pona? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Effective for learning Toki Pona - 💡 Helpful for building vocabulary and grammar - 🎨 Visually appealing design - 🆓 Mostly free with optional paid content **Cons** - 🐛 Some lessons introduce words not yet covered - 🔍 Insufficient explanations in tips and notes - 💰 Paywall for additional content - 🔍 Dictionary definitions could be more comprehensive **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when switching to the Train tab - Sorting issues in the dictionary **Most requested features** - Add support for Sitelen Pona - Improve progress saving and ability to reset - Include sample sentences in dictionary - Add more advanced lessons and content - Provide audio for example sentences ## Newest reviews (19 of 88) ### 4/5 — Alright *2025-12-23, version 1.14* Decent enough for learning the language, but by lesson 3, it starts adding words that aren’t in the vocabulary you have already learned. This makes it a little frustrating as exiting the lesson to look the word up restarts the lesson from the beginning. ### 4/5 — pona mute, taso ilo lili li pali pona ala *2025-02-18, version 1.14* mi kepeken ni tan mi wile kama sona e sitelen emoji. ona li pona mute. taso tenpo lili la ona li pana e sitelen ike. kin la ilo lili li pali pona ala. ni ale ala la ona li ilo pi pona mute. ### 5/5 — Toki Pona sona pana pi Pona. *2025-01-30, version 1.14* Pone mute. Pona mute pi tenpo ali. Mi sona mute e Toki Pona. Pona mute! ### 5/5 — Ali Pona! *2025-01-06* Amazing app for learning Toki Pona! I saw that “wile” has 2 entries when you search it up in dictionary that lead to the same thing but overall amazing app! If I could put more than 5 stars I would! ### 5/5 — ni li pona *2024-11-30, version 1.14* ilo pona tawa kama sona pi toki pona. sina o pali ni e sitelen pona. ni li pona tawa jan toki pona. ### 5/5 — Toki pona is Super cool *2024-11-14, version 1.14* Toki pona taught me a new language quick one hundred percent recommended and it has no ads ### 5/5 — pona mute *2024-11-08* This app is a one stop shop to learn the basics of Toki Pona and be able to get by in a conversation. I wish they would update the app with more advanced lessons, then the app would be 5 stars. It’s still far and away the best Toki Pona app on iPhone. ### 5/5 — Straightforward language, straightforward app *2024-10-01, version 1.14* In Toki Pona, Pona means something roughly like “good, simple”, and that’s a good way to describe this app. It does a good job teaching, it’s pretty simple and easy to use, and yeah… gets the job done! ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2024-07-27, version 1.14* I’m currently learning toki pona and this app is amazing to learn it ! 10/10 Recommended😻 ### 5/5 — best app to learn toki pona *2024-07-04, version 1.14* i tried reading pu and learned quite a bit from it, but this app is a very easy way to learn the language and practice vocabulary! ### 4/5 — Really enjoying learning with this app *2024-05-31, version 1.14* ilo li pona The app is simple but very effective. Each lesson starts with a short list of new words and a grammar tip. It feels great to progress through the lessons unlocking new vocabulary. The app reads new words aloud. I wish it read out the example sentences too, but that’s a minor quibble ### 5/5 — Great app! Sitelen pona would be nice though :3 *2024-05-23* Ive learned a significant amount of toki pona from this app and just want to say a few things: one, great job! This is easily the best current toki pona learning app. Two, i like the option to turn on Sitelen Jelo, but I was hoping to learn with Sitelen pona as well. Final thing, the dictionary is quite nice, very helpful when making flashcards :> ### 5/5 — great for learning toki pona *2024-05-22, version 1.14* Very immersive! This helps me a lot with learning Toki Pona. 10/10 would recommend :3 ### 5/5 — Would recommend *2024-04-07, version 1.14* Firstly,I am still using the app to learn so my opinions are not final but I definitely do have a good impression. The lessons are bite sized and give a good understanding to me and possibly others.The amount of words in one lesson are easily remembered and give a pretty good understanding of the concept. My only complaint however is the fact that some separate words like ‘pi’ or ‘e’ are a bit under-explained in the tips and notes sections.But besides that this app is a very good source of learning for me. ### 5/5 — best way to learn toki pona *2024-03-23, version 1.14* this is how i learned toki pona i recommend this app for sure ### 4/5 — One problem… *2024-03-20, version 1.14* The app is great! But I have one problem… the lessons give me words that I haven’t learned yet like nasa and Len! In verbs and adverbs. Please stop doing this it’s messing with my brain. ### 4/5 — Good app *2024-02-27, version 1.14* Good for learning. I'm using it often. I wish the app would use the toki pona symbols instead of emojis. ### 5/5 — Good app ... *2024-02-21* Good app. Plenty of words to learn. But lengthen the timer to 15 seconds. No one but a touch typist can beat that clock! That timer makes learning stressful and frustrating. Thank you. ### 5/5 — True to the spirit of the language *2024-01-30, version 1.14* Simple and effective. Made with care. pona :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad, outdated course *2025-09-23, version 1.14* This app uses a course written in 2004, and Toki Pona has changed a lot since then. The explanations are insufficient, many dictionary entries are wrong, and the exercises often require you to know a grammatical feature not introduced yet in the course. Please do not use this app to learn Toki Pona. ### 1/5 — bad resource *2023-11-21, version 1.14* I'm a fluent toki pona speaker and have been for some years. i'm dismayed to see that people think this app is a good way to learn toki pona. it stifles creativity and is filled with misleading information. it's based off a set of very outdated courses that never had completely correct info. plus, the in-app purchases are such a bad idea when you can learn these same things for free, BETTER. ### 1/5 — so creepy *2022-05-22, version 1.13* it said something is watching me. so creepy. ### 2/5 — A little broken *2023-04-27* The parts of this app that work are very good. I feel like I’m learning the words pretty well, and I’m growing my understanding of how these words can be used to encompass broad concepts, as well as smaller ones. However, this app has bugs that have not been fixed. It’s impossible to use the train feature. the exercises are fun, but when I want to practice, I don’t want to have to do the same exercises over and over again. I wish they would fix this, but I don’t think they will. **Developer response:** The train feature should work now! ### 2/5 — Ok *2023-03-22, version 1.13* If I press on the train section, the app closes. Other than that, the lessons are ok. ### 3/5 — I would give this five stars but *2023-08-22, version 1.14* The apps definition summaries basically can be very very misleading and you have to go into the dictionary and look at the full definition to understand it actually Example Mute I thought that meant amount but it also could mean more The summary did not say that one bit and was very misleading ilo li ike lili e sona ### 3/5 — Could of been a good app *2023-05-16* It would of been five stars if it didn't just throw words at me and expected me to know them. These new words are also overwhelming because when they throw new words at you that weren't even in the vocabulary your still trying to learn other words. ### 3/5 — It’s ok *2022-04-29, version 1.13* I wanted to learn Toki Pona but it needs more tips ### 3/5 — Doesn’t save progress *2021-08-04, version 1.2* Great tutorial and quizzes but needs to save progress or its rather hard to use ### 3/5 — ni li pona! *2021-07-15, version 1.2* this is great! however, the courses are kind of dumb in some cases. specifically they include the period at the last word when it's "order these words correctly", making the last word obvious. then, the dictionary sorting is horrible. if I search for "ma", I don't want to first see "!", I want to first see ma. if what I'm searching is a full toki pona word, that toki pona word should be listed first. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — So far SO good!!! *2026-02-14, version 1.14* I’ve just started using this and am only on my 9th lesson, but it is SUPER easy to use and has help me progress lots!!! Highly recommend if you are interested in Toki Pona ### 5/5 — I love this app *2025-11-26, version 1.14* I learned in about 3 days it's awesome ### 5/5 — Wonderful app *2025-10-25, version 1.14* Great for toki pona. I use it as my reference dictionary. @developer, where did the dictionary list come from? I noticed alasa and namako but not kipisi. ### 5/5 — Really helpful! *2025-07-02* This app is amazing! I wouldn’t recommend it being your only study method - I’ve been putting the words into Anki as well as doing this - but this app has structured lessons and exercises that help you, not only memorize words, but also how to use them. I’ve had an amazing time with this app and would recommend to anyone trying to learn Toki Pona. Oh… and it’s 100% free ### 5/5 — Pona pona! *2025-06-29, version 1.14* Les exercices sont vraiment bien faits pour acquérir progressivement le vocabulaire et la grammaire. L’application est jolie! Je ne sais juste pas s’il y a les 141 mots du dictionnaire 2024 ou si c’est seulement les 137 mots de l’ancien dictionnaire ### 5/5 — It’s good! *2025-06-25, version 1.14* It is a good app. I only wish it had more stuff for learning sitelen pona. ### 5/5 — so far the best app eva *2025-04-18, version 1.14* this is so good everyone should use i love it so much i am probs gunna be fluent ### 5/5 — Pretty great *2025-04-06, version 1.14* I mean I feel like I’m learning the language, and that’s the point of the app ### 5/5 — Very happy *2025-03-06, version 1.14* This app is really good. It helped me learn Toki Pona really quick. Definitely five stars recommend ### 5/5 — ni li ijo pona mute! *2025-03-04* What a helpful app for learning Toki Pona! The practice sentences do a great job of demonstrating the flexible thinking required to express so much with so few words. I’m sure this app is opening up the language to many people who like to learn “hands on” in a game-like environment, rather than just through reading or watching lessons. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*