Reviews for Tandem: Language exchange

Great way to meet friends who share your passion to learn a new language. It's a fantastic way to get real practice speaking, writing , and reading in your desired language for free, while simultaneously helping someone else learn your native language. The UI is nice as well. *Update: after reading some other recent comments, I too do not receive new message notifications, this doesn't bother me as much because I prefer to not constantly have notifications on my phone. Also, I only had to wait 15 minutes to be "approved".

Fantastic. Feature rich and easy to use. I've only been using the all for a few days and I've already found over a dozen people that I regularly practice with. My only gripe is that a not-insignificant amount of people seem to use this as a dating platform. All accounts are vetted for approval (probably for this reason) and there are report features, but it's still a slightly noticeable issue. Barring this, this is an amazing way to meet people speaking a language that you're learning.

Tandem has helped me to make lots of friends in my target language (Japanese). It's such a blessing to be able to talk to people around the world and teach/learn languages at the same time. I also think they do a good job keeping scammers and malicious people off this app. Every once in a while I have small problems (phone calls dropping, etc), but overall I am very happy. Thank you to all the developers!! 🙇🏼‍♀️

It's overall a good app for people who want to learn and exchange languages and culyures. Very simple and I like it. The one and big issue I have is that they have been becoming more and more aggressive with their ads. It's like I have to see an ad to check out a profile or to open a chat. It's been making me want to use this app less and less, sadly. Hope they become more moderate with their ad fequency.

I like it so far, but there are some definite draw backs: 1.) It's not free, and it tires to trick you into buying a subscription when you first sign up by saying that it could "take up to 7 days" to match you with potential partners (which, of course, is nonsense as the algorithm does this instantly), but you can pay to "skip the waiting line." 2.) You can only add three languages for free. 3.) In app translations are limited to 5 a day, and you have to rewrite the text yourself.

For the first day, it's been swell. I recommend new users to be patient, it was a big mistake of mine to jump from one person to another thinking nobody was replying. Tandem is what you make out of it, and I think I'll be content with using its free version. I think the correction, translate, and transliterate features were all useful digital features that supersede face-to-face language exchange in some aspects.

The app is great in theory, but is unusable in practice. Notifications won't get delivered, so I never know if someone has sent me a message. Messages appear read even though I didn't read them, and behavior is generally erratic. Unusable until these bugs are fixed, and it's a pity. I bought a one year subscription but canceled it when I realized the app doesn't work properly.

My experience has been great up until I went to click on pro and it says I've already purchased pro, which I had, and that it will restore my pro benefits. When I click continue it does nothing and if I force close the app and reoped it its still stuck on that message leaving the app unusable. If I gotta pay again that's fine, but I can't even look at the black Friday deal for a lower price.

lovely, I signed up to expose myself to languages and sharpen my learning. application was fast, free, and I was talking to people soon. Platform seems beginners friendly, but I'm still new. Maybe I need to explore the app more for resources, but I'd love some more tools for new speakers. or just more translate/transliterate counts for free/new users.

I've been having a blast on this app! I've made friends pretty easily, and I chat with several on a daily/ every other day basis. I did get way too many messages at first, which made it hard to handle and figure out who was willing to use the app truly for language learning and not for flirting/short, meaningless conversation. However, after I googled forums and suggestions on how to alleviate this, (just by going offline) I've been able to manage my conversation partners much better. Great app!