What's the best app to organize studying a language?

For language learners, tudy is the planner and habit tracker around your practice, not the teacher. Make a subject for each language, topics for skills like speaking, listening, grammar and vocabulary, run the focus timer during practice, and let the streak keep you coming back. It has no lessons or speech tools, and its flashcards are not spaced repetition. The Free plan allows 5 subjects but only 1 flashcard deck.

What makes language learning different

Learning a language is a long game with very small daily steps, and the results are slow to see. You rarely have exams or deadlines, unless you are working toward a certificate or a trip. The material comes from many places: an app, a textbook, a tutor, podcasts, videos, a conversation partner. And the skills are different from each other. You can read well and freeze when speaking, or understand podcasts and still not write a sentence.

So the real challenges are keeping a daily habit, balancing skills (most learners drift toward whatever feels comfortable) and knowing how much time you really put in. That is the part tudy can handle.

One subject per language, one topic per skill

Create a subject for each language you study, and topics inside for the skills you want to balance: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary. Tie the timer session or task to a topic, and the stats show how your hours split. If you realize you gave listening 20 minutes this week and grammar three hours, you will adjust.

The Free plan allows 2 topics per subject, so you would have to pick two skills to track or fold them together. Pro removes the limit. See Topics.

Plan your week with tasks and the Calendar

Tasks fit language goals well: “Finish unit 4 exercises,” “Write a 100-word journal entry,” “Watch one episode without subtitles.” Give each a due date. If you have a weekly tutoring session or conversation exchange, put it on the Calendar. Adding it as a weekly repeating class (say, every Tuesday at 6pm) is a Pro feature, and tudy sends a notification the day before a task is due.

On Pro, you can also make repeating tasks. “Speaking practice, 15 minutes” every day shows up each day and never piles up: there is only ever one open.

The focus timer for practice you can measure

The focus timer (Pomodoro or stopwatch) belongs to a subject and, optionally, a topic. It works for listening to a podcast, reviewing vocabulary, or a conversation session. Time you spent away from the app can be added manually, and it counts toward your streak without earning XP. Over a month, the stats show how many hours went into each language and skill.

Vocabulary and flashcards: where to be honest

tudy flashcards are decks of cards with a front and a back, studied in rounds, with the option to redo only the ones you missed. A completed round of 3 or more cards counts toward your streak and earns XP. That is helpful for quick vocabulary review and phrase practice. It is not spaced repetition: tudy does not schedule each word based on how well you remember it. For a long-term vocabulary, Anki is the usual choice, and it pairs fine with tudy. The Free plan gives you 1 deck total, shared across all subjects, so if you study two languages you will need Pro for separate decks. See Flashcards.

The streak, tuned for slow progress

Languages reward consistency more than almost anything else, and the streak is built for that. A day counts if you complete a task, run the timer for a minute, or finish a flashcard round. Sunday is a rest day that does not break the streak, and consistent days earn streak freezes (up to 2) that cover a day you miss. If you have used another app’s streak before, the rest day and the freezes are the difference. See Streaks.

Language partners and friends can join your weekly leaderboard. XP comes from finishing tasks, flashcard rounds and focus time, with daily caps.

What tudy does not do

• No lessons, no pronunciation or speech feedback, no language content.
• No spaced repetition. Use Anki for that.
• No integration with Duolingo or other language apps. You log your time yourself.
• Talk to tudy (Pro, 7 messages a day) is a study mentor that can build a practice plan and quiz you. It is not a language tutor.
• No offline mode.

Pricing

Free to start. Pro is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, card only. Pro lifts the limits on topics, decks and subjects, which language learners tend to hit first.

Where to start

Create one subject for your language, add two topics for the skills you most want to balance, and set a daily 15-minute timer session as your first week’s goal.

Frequently asked questions

Does tudy teach languages like Duolingo?

No. tudy has no lessons, no speech practice and no content in any language. It organizes the study you already do, tracks your time and keeps your daily habit going.

Are tudy flashcards good for vocabulary?

They work for simple rounds of vocabulary review, but they are not spaced repetition. If you want cards scheduled by how well you remember them, Anki is the standard tool. Also, the Free plan allows only 1 deck.

Can I track time spent speaking, listening and reading?

Yes. Create one subject per language and use topics such as Speaking, Listening, Grammar and Vocabulary. Run the focus timer on the right topic and the stats show hours per skill.

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