Reviews for Language Learning Games: Drops

4/30/25: Topics open after 30 seconds or not at all. 3/1/25: The app is broken again. This time it shows that I have an 812 day streak but all of my progress is gone. It wants me to start from 0 words learned. 1/26/25: The app is unusable after latest update. 🙁 1) When I […]

Drops has been amazing because it has shown vocab and short sentences with illustrations and in target language quality audio and text only. Unique, so I purchased a lifetime subscription. However–they have recently been downgrading the experience in a few ways. 1) Added “mic” support. 2) Removed ability to remove English translation (at least for […]

some bits I absolutely love!! despite flaws, still enjoying it. there are I’ve started both Indonesian and Japanese. unfortunately for Japanese, there are numerous “beginner topics” that are called “hiragana combinations”, with a description saying it’s about hiragana combinations, but the vocabulary list is almost all kanji! I’ve explored other “topics”, and they seem very […]

Rating 1 star because the matching exercises are the dominant review exercise despite them being totally unhelpful. They show pictures that are too small to decipher, you can’t click them for a textual cue like the other exercises, and they don’t show the correct answer afterward. They also continue to make me review skipped phrases. […]

Fun, no doubt. But, oversimplified a bit too much. Matching words to oversimplified 2D images. Often, the images don’t even make sense intuitively. When I go back and review I can often recall the words and the meanings, but the images don’t make sense. I have to associate a new set of symbols (the images) […]

I got this for Icelandic. it started out pretty well and reasonable, but very quickly jumped to phrases and sentences that were far to complex. These were to long and fast for the app to even complete before the next part.

I love using this app, but it has been so buggy lately. My sessions get interrupted with a message telling me I’ve mastered a topic when there are still words I haven’t seen. And then the moment I have seen all of the words, it gives me a 100%. You used to have to do […]

This app does not do any grammar, but I never expected it to, just be aware. I use it in conjunction with other apps that do teach grammar! I don’t remember what the free version includes, as I paid for the lifetime premium a long time ago. I just don’t like all the exercises and […]

I’ve been using the app for 4 years on premium and overall I like it, it was worth the one-time premium payment. But would it be too much to ask that native speakers review the material? There are errors that are so obvious that they can only have been made by somebody who doesn’t know […]

if you’re looking for language flashcards, this is an excellent app for that. it limits you to 5min practice per day unless you pay, which can be annoying, but I find that even just 5min is extremely helpful for learning a new language. Also, this is one of the few language learning apps that actually […]

At the beginning of the year, I would have rated this app 5 stars. Over time, I have noticed a decline in quality and app function, likely in part to AI integration. The biggest red flag is that the AI-generated “facts” often don’t match the translations taught within the app’s lessons. Some of the vocabulary […]

This is my all time FAVORITE language learning app. I’ve used it daily for 11 months so far! Thanks to Drops I’ve made great daily progress with Portuguese. I used to use DuoLingo, for French. It was stressful. More pressure. DuoLingo doesn’t offer European Portuguese, but if it did, I’d use Drops instead. I’ve tried […]

Much more sluggish than usual (it has always been slightly janky) ever since they’ve tried to add the multiplayer feature. Please…take it out until you work out the network/sync issues so those of us not at all interested in it can use the app as we always have. Right now it is almost unusable. Downgrade […]

Fairly frequent errors which take months to correct – often errors that make me think an automatic translator not a human was involved (such as those that invovle distinctions that are present in the other language but not in English), but also some stupid ones like having a picture of someone giving a manicure as […]

Lately the app refuses to stop giving me listening exercises even when my volume is turned completely down. It tells me I can’t do listening exercises until I turn the volume up, but when I go back into the lesson, it immediately gives me matching options that have listening rather than written words. Not helpful […]

I really like this app for learning language vocabulary. It’s so much easier for me to learn vocabulary using the simple images than it is to learn it from sentences, or even more complex images like pictures. Overall, this is a great little app, I bought the premium for life version not long after I […]

app is currently broken. i have been tracking my progress thru my google account for years. for the past week, i have only been able to get through a couple words before the app gives me a pop up telling me to pick which email to use to save my progress. i pick my email […]

I enjoy learning new languages with this app, and the unlimited languages for $140 is a great deal, but honestly, the method of teaching it uses does not work for me. I will slowly gain a vocabulary, but having iffy single color pictures that could represent one of a million words or phrases, and then […]

I’m a lifetime member. This app makes vocabulary learning addicting. It cultivates to how memorization works and you can learn brainlessly for five minutes everyday. I wish they’d include verbs, I’ve only been seeing and learning nouns. Some words and phrases are probably autogenerated and wrong, like, nobody would speak that way. I wish there […]

I’m using this for German, and eventually bought the premium version. It is a great companion learning tool to a class/app where you would learn grammer. This app is focused exclusively on vocab and does the job well. I installed the app because I was moving to Austria. Now that I’m here, I have found […]