language learning

Hard

87~

Popularity

Difficulty

Opportunity

Why it is this hard

Duolingo: Language Lessons holds the top spot with 5,414,665 ratings behind it. 4 apps in the ten carry over 100,000 ratings; the rest are smaller, so the page is not uniformly defended. The top three between them account for 6,224,604 ratings.

1 Duolingo: Language Lessons 5,414,665 ratings
2 Babbel - Language Learning 751,674 ratings
3 Speak: Language Learning 58,265 ratings
4 Pimsleur | Language Learning 29,300 ratings
5 Airlearn - Language Learning 45,354 ratings
6 Busuu: Language Learning App 100,403 ratings
7 Memrise Easy Language Learning 216,587 ratings
8 HelloTalk - Language Learning 43,653 ratings
9 Language Learning: Pingo AI 14,945 ratings
10 LingoDeer - Learn Languages 27,718 ratings

Read from the US App Store on 2026-09-01. Rankings move; this is a reading, not a permanent fact.

Easier ways into the same audience

The neighbouring terms with the most demand left over once difficulty is accounted for. Somebody searching these is looking for the same kind of app as somebody searching “language learning”, and the page is cheaper to reach.

perapera -ai language learning opportunity 27 · difficulty 57
fast language learning apps like falou opportunity 20 · difficulty 66
promova language learning app opportunity 20 · difficulty 68
language learning ai opportunity 19 · difficulty 57
language learning korean opportunity 19 · difficulty 61

What it would take to rank

The App Store indexes 160 characters of you: a 30-character name, a 30-character subtitle and a hidden 100-character keyword field. A word counts once across all three, so “language learning” needs to appear in exactly one of them — and Apple builds phrases from single words, so the two or three words in this term can each sit separately.

Which field it belongs in depends on what it is worth against everything else you are chasing. That trade is what App Store metadata, field by field is about, and choosing keywords you can rank for covers how the three numbers above are worked out.

Every keyword around “language learning”

What the App Store suggests alongside it, each scored the same way. Sorted as the tool sorts them — by what is left over once difficulty is counted.

Keyword	Popularity	Difficulty	Opportunity
perapera -ai language learning	62~	57	27
fast language learning apps like falou	59~	66	20
promova language learning app	61~	68	20
language learning ai	44~	57	19
language learning korean	49~	61	19
free language learning apps	62~	70	19
language learning french	44~	64	16
language learning free	49~	70	15
language learning spanish	49~	69	15
language learning arabic	24~	64	9
language learning games	24~	70	7
language learning app	8~	70	2