Comparison

French vs Fluentish

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

French

Build real French skills with a calm, honest approach. Focus on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and reading with clear explanations and practice drills. Track your actual progress without pressure or gamified elements.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition vocabulary review
  • Grammar lessons and drills
  • Practice by specific focus areas
  • Pronunciation audio
  • Reading and listening stories
  • Unlimited verb conjugator
  • Honest progress tracking
Features
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Practice French is a calm, honest way to build real French — without the streaks, lives, and guilt of gamified apps. Pick what you want to practice, see your actual progress, and stop whenever you like. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Vocabulary with spaced repetition (SM-2) — review the right words at the right time, so they actually stick. • Grammar lessons and short drills — clear explanations followed by fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice practice. • Practice by focus — drill exactly the area you want: articles, conjugation, prepositions, pronouns, agreement, negation, or common mistakes. • Pronunciation — tap to hear French read aloud in the exercises and on vocabulary cards. • Reading & listening lessons — short illustrated French stories, every one narrated with high-quality audio, with a guided dictation mode and comprehension questions. • Conjugator — complete conjugation tables for more than 12,000 French verbs, with a type-every-form practice mode. Free and unlimited. • Honest progress — see what you've learned and where to focus, with no fake streaks or pressure. BUILT TO BE CALM No ads. No daily streak shaming. No dark patterns. Just a few quiet minutes of practice whenever it suits you. FOR EVERY LEVEL Content spans A1 to C1 — from your first words to advanced, nuanced sentences. WORKS IN YOUR LANGUAGE The app and translations are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Arabic. FREE TO USE Free daily limits apply on iOS, Android and the web: 50 practice answers and 3 story starts per day. Premium removes both limits. Purchase Premium only in the mobile app through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Sign in to the same account to use Premium on the web and across your devices. PREMIUM • Monthly or annual subscription. • Removes the daily free-practice limit. • Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store account settings. Start today — your first session takes just a few quiet minutes. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://practice-french.com/privacy

About

Fluentish

Features
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Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian or Arabic by scrolling. Fluentish is a language learning app built like a feed: an endless scroll of tiny exercises, with flashcard-style spaced repetition underneath, that adapts to your level. Swap an hour of doomscrolling for real vocabulary. The app is in English, Spanish and French. Spanish and French speakers learn English. NO LONG LESSONS. JUST A FEED. There is no track to complete and no end screens. Exercises arrive continuously: match words, complete sentences, pick what you heard, read tiny stories. More than a dozen card types, mixed so it never feels like a worksheet. Answer by tapping, silent and one-handed, or with typing and speech practice on Plus. IT MEASURES, IT NEVER ASKS Fluentish times your answers. Fast and correct means you know the word; slow means it's shaky; wrong means not yet. Your vocabulary is tracked word by word, and difficulty adapts immediately, with no quiz asking what you already know. SPACED REPETITION, BUILT IN Words you've learned retire into a spaced repetition queue (FSRS) and resurface right before you'd forget them, like flashcards without maintaining a deck. Export your dictionary to CSV or Anki flashcards with Plus. A LESSONS TAB TO BROWSE, NOT A COURSE TO FINISH What sits behind the cards, in one place and free: the alphabet or sound system, grammar notes one idea at a time, conjugation and declension tables with a play button on every form, greetings and politeness formulas, and short true notes about the language itself. FIVE LANGUAGES FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS • Spanish: vocabulary by frequency, listening practice, and Spanish conjugation tables with audio on every form. • French: vocabulary in context, and French verbs conjugated form by form. • German: vocabulary, conjugation tables, and German declension shown case by case. • Italian: vocabulary, verbs, and short stories once the words are yours. • Arabic: from the alphabet up, described below. LEARN ARABIC FROM ZERO Arabic is taught as Modern Standard Arabic across all ten levels, starting with the alphabet itself. Early cards carry the harakat, the short-vowel marks, and shed them as you climb, which is how real Arabic text works. Arabic is laid out right to left and set at a size it can actually be read at. FIND YOUR LEVEL IN 2 MINUTES A short placement test starts you at your real level, from beginner to advanced (levels 1–10). Beginners start with the 500 most useful words in the language; intermediate learners skip what they already know. FREE VS PLUS Free: unlimited scrolling, forever. No daily limit, no hearts. Free covers every level up to your placement level (minimum levels 1–3). Fluentish Plus: advance through all 10 levels, typing and speaking cards, dictionary export, streak repair, and a streak pause of up to 14 days. $7.99/month or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial on annual. And if you break a streak without Plus, saving it once costs $0.99. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Speaking practice is graded from recognized text, never from audio: your recordings never reach Fluentish. Your phone does the recognizing, on device where it supports the language and otherwise through Apple's own speech service, the same one behind your keyboard's dictation key. Fluentish has seven language pairs: Spanish, Italian, French, German and Arabic for English speakers, plus English for Spanish and French speakers. Each direction is its own course, generated and checked separately rather than mirrored from another language. The app interface is available in English, Spanish and French. More pairs are on the way; we'd rather do these properly than ship ten badly. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://fluentish.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://fluentish.co/privacy

Screenshots

French4 screens
Fluentish4 screens

Verdict

The call

French and Fluentish are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. French sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Fluentish sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
French versus Fluentish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrenchFluentish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperToba UG (Haftungsbeschränkt)Yuval Fatal

In-app purchases

2 purchases

French

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$22.991 Year
2 purchases

Fluentish

Subscriptions2
  • Fluentish Plus$7.991 Month
  • Fluentish Plus (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is French free?
French is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fluentish free?
Fluentish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do French or Fluentish have ads?
Neither French nor Fluentish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, French or Fluentish?
French ships an update every 9 days, and Fluentish every 9 days. Most recently, French was updated on October 17, 2026 and Fluentish on October 6, 2026.

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