Busuu review: price, free version and privacy

Our verdict

Pick Busuu if you want a structured course and real people to correct your exercises. If you need everything free or a language outside its 14, choose another app.

What Busuu is

Busuu offers complete courses in 14 languages, built from expert-written, bite-sized lessons. Its distinctive feature is a community of native speakers who give feedback and tips on your exercises, and you can correct learners of your own language in return. The description also lists a personalized Study Plan with reminders, Smart Review for the grammar and vocabulary you met, video flashcards with real people, and official Busuu certificates.

Who it suits

• Learners who want human corrections
• Written practice in French, German or Italian
• A structured course with a study schedule

Strengths

• Native speakers give feedback on your exercises, according to the description
• A personalized study plan with notifications
• Smart Review stores the grammar and vocabulary from your lessons
• Courses in 14 languages, including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and Turkish
• Rated 4.7 from about 101,500 ratings and updated in October 2026

Limits

• Full access needs a subscription
• Identifiers and usage data are declared for tracking, and location and purchases are linked to you
• Requires iOS 18.0 or later
• Age-rated 13+
• Many overlapping plan names and prices

What the free version does

The description says 'a lot of the features are free', but a subscription is needed to access all features. The listing does not say exactly which ones are paid.

Price

On the US App Store in November 2026, items with a monthly name are listed at $6.99, $9.99 and $23.49, an Annual Subscription at $79.99, and 12-month items at $70.00, $138.99 and $139.99 (Premium Plus). A 14-day Premium Plus trial item is listed at $89.99.

Privacy

Identifiers and usage data may be used to track you. Purchases, location, contact info, user content, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics are linked to your identity.

What the screenshots show

The screenshots show a language picker (Spanish, French, German, English, Italian, Japanese and more) and a true-or-false video exercise asking whether '¡Buenos días!' is said in the morning.