# LingQ | Learn Languages

> Learn to speak, read & understand any language with real content, not drills

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.linguist](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.linguist)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.linguist`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LingQ Languages Ltd.
- **Category:** EDUCATION
- **Downloads:** 2,798,732
- **Rating:** 4.52 / 5 (50,637 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.1.24
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-30
- **First published:** 2011-10-07
- **Publisher country:** CA
- **Size:** 77 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linguist)
- **Website:** [https://www.lingq.com/en/](https://www.lingq.com/en/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.lingq.com/privacy/](https://www.lingq.com/privacy/)

## Description

**LingQ** helps you learn to speak, read, and understand 45+ languages through real content instead of textbook drills or gamified exercises. Build fluency with books, podcasts, articles, videos, and lessons tailored to your interests using comprehensible input and language immersion.

Import content from YouTube, Netflix, podcasts, ebooks, and the web, then look up words instantly, track vocabulary, review with spaced repetition, and follow your progress. LingQ also includes AI transcription, simplified lessons, AI voices, an AI chatbot, karaoke mode, native-speaker writing corrections, tutoring, and a global language-learning community. Premium adds unlimited lookups, content imports, SRS reviews, and expanded AI features.

## Rankings

- #36,341 — Overall
- #74 — Education (Gross)

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_CUSTOM_AUDIENCE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.linguist.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

User reviews praise LingQ for its effective paid features, reading-centered multimedia learning, and overall usefulness for language learning. However, recurring drawbacks include expensive paywalls gating core features, updates that degraded usability and introduced bugs, and gaps in language support (missing Tamil, Russian access issues, and Arabic requests). The app is valued for progress tracking and focus, but these pricing and reliability concerns recur across multiple reviews.

### Pros

- Valuable paid version with strong vocabulary learning and progress tracking.
- Reading-focused learning with multimedia features, including video mode and the ability to compile YouTube videos into lessons.
- Broad usefulness and positive impact on language learning; widely regarded as fundamental.
- Distraction-free, focused learning with time-saving benefits (no ads, easier to stay on task).

### Cons

- Premium pricing and paywall gating; many core features require a subscription.
- Update-related usability issues and bugs affecting core features (unreliable highlighting, tapping issues, removal of speaking in sentence view, Mandarin audio problems).
- Limited language support and missing options (no Tamil, difficulty selecting Russian, requests for Arabic).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.linguist)