Speak a new language. Not read it.
Chatterling trains your ears and your mouth with the phrases people actually use. Short daily sessions, real situations, and honest feedback on every word you say.
Built for speaking out loud
Most apps teach you to tap the right answer. Chatterling makes you say it, then tells you exactly what a native speaker would have heard.
Speak from day one
Every lesson is built around your ears and your voice. You hear a phrase in a native-sounding voice, you say it back, and you get a score with the exact words that did not come through.
Hear what you missed
Feedback goes beyond a number. The result card underlines the letters that were not heard and points you to the sound behind them, from the rolled rr to Japanese long vowels, each with a word to practise. In tonal languages it even compares your melody with the tutor's.
Natural voices, fully offline
Download a neural voice pack once and every lesson runs on your phone: no internet needed, nothing recorded leaves the device. Choose among several voices per language.
Private by design
No account, no tracking, no ads. Speech recognition and translation run on your device wherever iOS allows it. Deleting the app deletes everything.
A method made for speaking
Seven minutes a day, every step out loud. A session walks each phrase through six kinds of practice, in this order.
Listen
Hear the phrase and its meaning, said by a native-sounding voice.
Shadow
Say it straight back while the sound is still fresh.
Recall
Say it from memory, with the text hidden.
Respond
Reply to a line a local would really say to you.
Put it together
Combine phrases you know into longer sentences.
Understand
Hear it cold and say what it means in your own language.
Spaced repetition that keeps you talking
The app decides what comes back and when. Phrases you know well return inside short dialogues built from the lines you have mastered, so nothing goes stale, and a running count shows how many words you can already use.
The sounds come first
Before your first lesson, a three-minute primer walks you through the sounds beginners get wrong in your new language, with a native-sounding example for each.
Twenty-six languages, any direction
Learn any of them from any of the others. Every phrase set was written and reviewed for each language, with the forms you need as a man, a woman or in neutral wording, and with polite and casual registers where the language has them.
Choose a language to see the app in it
English
Talk your way through real situations
Role-play a café, a hotel desk, a pharmacy, a job interview, a flat share, a phone call. Your tutor speaks, you answer out loud, and the difficulty grows with you: ninety-five situations and about fourteen hundred phrases, from survival to confident.
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence you can also invent your own situation and improvise freely with an on-device tutor.
Your interpreter, in your pocket
In Live, your phone listens to the other person, translates on the device, and speaks your reply in the voice you chose. Useful at a counter, in a taxi, or at a family dinner abroad.
Translation uses Apple's on-device language packs. Five minutes a day are free.
Free to start, Plus when you want more
Everything below runs on your device. There is nothing to sign up for.
Free
- One lesson a day at the Survival level
- Guided Talk situations
- Five minutes of Live every day
- Every language, the sound primer and a natural voice
Chatterling Plus
- Unlimited lessons, every goal up to Confident
- Free-form Talk with situations you invent
- Unlimited Live interpreter
- The full voice library
- Family Sharing included
Monthly, every six months, yearly, or once for life. Prices are shown in the App Store for your country.
Get Chatterling on your iPhone or iPad
Chatterling is on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS 26 and later. There is no Android or web version yet.
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