Babbel Competitors

Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store. Our mission is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Learning a new language is hard, but staying motivated is often the hardest part. That’s why we use fun, bite-sized, game-like lessons designed to keep you engaged and to drive real learning outcomes. Our approach is grounded in efficacy: we continuously test and improve our methods to ensure learners make meaningful progress. We also believe in democratizing education by offering an effective, high-quality free product. Developing a great free product is essential to our mission, ensuring that anyone with a smartphone can access learning that works. When it comes to utilizing AI tools, we have a golden rule: we use it when it clearly improves outcomes for learners. We don’t use it as a shortcut or a replacement for people, but as a tool to enhance learning experiences and efficacy. Duolingo has been named to: Fast Company’s Most Innovative Education Company (2026, 2022), Apple Design Award (2023), TIME100 Most Influential Companies (2023), Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators (2022), among others.

Busuu is an online learning platform delivering internationally recognised professional language courses to corporations and businesses across the world. Our flexible online and live language learning experience helps to build inclusive, productive workplaces. We offer high-quality learning that supports both employee and company-wide development. Busuu was co-founded in 2008 by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti, based on their passion for languages and frustration with traditional language learning methods. In January 2022, Busuu was acquired by US leading online learning company, Chegg (NYSE: CHGG). Busuu for Business is the chosen language supplier to over 500 global businesses and educational establishments, who trust our integrated, proven, measurable method to deliver real and sustainable language learning results.

Lingoda is an online language school building bridges around the world through language learning. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, we offer online language courses in German, English, Business English, French, Spanish and Italian to more than 100,000 students worldwide. Our private and small group classes are taught by 1,500+ qualified, native-level teachers from around the world, leading more than 550,000 classes per year. Our lessons are offered 24/7, empowering even the busiest people to master a language and unlock their potential, at any time from anywhere. We believe in a communicative approach to language learning that allows students to put their new language skills into practice immediately. Our CEFR-aligned learning materials are designed by linguistic experts and focus on meaningful topics that relate to our students’ interests, careers and everyday lives. Thanks to our extensive rotating roster of teachers and our small group classes, students are exposed to a variety of regional accents and expressions within the same language and have the time and space to practice speaking in every lesson. Our diverse team includes over 250 international professionals, representing dozens of countries and languages. In 2021, Lingoda won the EdTech Cool Tool Award for the Best Language Learning Solution; the Europas Awards also named Lingoda as 2021’s Hottest EdTech StartUp. We have a score of 4.4 on Trustpilot and 74% of our reviews rated as ‘excellent’ because we offer a high-quality and authentic learning experience that helps students achieve their learning goals and speak a new language with confidence. Lingoda GmbH Bergmannstr. 102-103 Berlin 10961, Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 166 39 436 Email: contact@lingoda.com