Course app
Ling
Course app with a focus on Asian and less-taught languages. Structured course app with gamified lessons, native-speaker audio, flashcards and dialogue practice, focused on Asian and Eastern European languages.
The cheapest published subscription works out to $12.50/mo (12 Months, $149.99); the monthly plan is $16.99.
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Published plans
Every consumer plan on Ling's own pricing page or app-store listing on the read date, in US dollars unless marked. Per month is the plan price divided by its term; promotions are noted, never used for the figure.
| Plan | Billing | Price | Per month | Covers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 MonthsPro | Every 6 months | $64.99 | $10.83/mo | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| 12 MonthsProRegular price $149.99 is struck through; promotional price today is $89.99 ($7.50/Monthly), labelled "save 50%". This is the plan the page attaches its 7-day free trial to. | Annual | $149.99 | $12.50/mo | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| 1 MonthPro | Monthly | $16.99 | $16.99/mo | all languages | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
See current prices on Ling's site
What Ling publishes about itself
| Fact | As published | Source |
|---|---|---|
| CEFR levels stated | not stated (not stated by the vendor) | noneread 2026-09-06 |
| What it is | Course app. Structured course app with gamified lessons, native-speaker audio, flashcards and dialogue practice, focused on Asian and Eastern European languages. | none |
| Languages offered | 80: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish (Castellano), Standard Arabic, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog / Filipino, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Free tier | Free tier with limited lessons and limited dialogue practice, with ads | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, Web | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Offline mode | Not stated | none |
| Speech recognition | Yes | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Live tutoring | Ling Live Online Tutor (sold separately on live.ling-app.com; no price published on the pages read) | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Placement test | Not stated | none |
| Refund or trial | 7-day free trial on the 12-month plan; 30-day money-back refund for yearly and lifetime subscriptions bought via Ling web (app-store purchases follow Apple's or Google's refund policy) | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
| Company | Simya Solutions Ltd., Thailand, founded 2017 | vendor pageread 2026-09-06 |
Languages you can learn on Ling
Ling states 80 languages; the 67 below are the ones enumerated on its pages.
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Malaysian, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Spanish (Castellano), Standard Arabic, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog / Filipino, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba
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Affiliate programme and how this page links out
Ling runs an affiliate programme through Post Affiliate Pro (in-house, hosted at simya.postaffiliatepro.com), with the commission rate not published. This site has not joined it: the links on this page are plain, untracked links to Ling, and they would stay in the same place, in the same order, if that changed. Source: programme page, read 2026-09-06.
Sources
- https://ling-app.com/pricing/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://help.ling-app.com/en-us/faqs/what-languages-do-you-offer-and-how-do-you-approach-language-learning (read 2026-09-06)
- https://ling-app.com/faqs/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://ling-app.com/about/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://ling-app.com/ (read 2026-09-06)
- https://ling-app.com/blog/frequently-asked-questions/ (read 2026-09-06)