Brazilian Portuguese by Nemo review: price, free version and privacy

Our verdict

Pick Nemo if you want to learn useful Brazilian Portuguese phrases and check your pronunciation, pay once and keep your data private. If you need grammar, a full course or European Portuguese, use it as a side tool next to another app.

What Brazilian Portuguese by Nemo is

Nemo is a phrase trainer for Brazilian Portuguese, not a course. Its description says it is "not built around lessons" and is meant to be picked up for a few spare minutes during the day. You work through essential words and phrases with native speaker audio, quiz yourself, and use the Speech Studio to record your voice and hear it next to the teacher's. The app tracks your progress on each word, reintroduces words for review, and has a Review Mode for what you practiced earlier the same day.

Who it suits

• Learners who want a one-time purchase instead of a subscription
• Travelers to Brazil practicing essential phrases and pronunciation

Strengths

• One in-app purchase unlocks the complete version, with no subscription in the price list.
• The Speech Studio lets you record a phrase and play it next to a native speaker's, according to the description.
• All audio is stored on the device, so it works offline and in airplane mode, per the description.
• Runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with a hands-free play mode shown in the screenshots.
• The privacy label says no data is collected, and the app has about 3,900 ratings averaging 4.7.

Limits

• No grammar lessons or structured course; the description says it is not built around lessons.
• Brazilian Portuguese only.
• Last updated in January 2025, older than most Portuguese apps on the store.
• Topic packs such as travel, hotel, food, shopping, verbs and conversation starters need the paid upgrade, per the description.

What the free version does

The app is free to download, and the description says the free part targets the most basic, high-frequency words. Upgrading to the complete version adds directions, travel and hotel phrases, food and shopping vocabulary, important verbs and sentence building blocks, and compliments and conversation starters. The listing does not give the exact number of free words.

Price

On the US App Store in November 2026, the price list has one item: the Nemo Portuguese Foundation pack at $14.99. There is no subscription in the list.

Privacy

The privacy label says the developer does not collect any data from the app. Nothing is declared for tracking or linked to your identity.

What the screenshots show

The screenshots show a topic list (If You Only Learn 10 Things, Hello and Goodbye, Essential Phrases, Basic Questions, Food, Shopping, Hotel, Money, Travel), a flashcard introducing "Obrigado" with its English meaning and microphone and play buttons, and a hands-free mode for listening while you walk or commute.