Lerni languages online review

Pros and cons

Who it suits

• Adults with a few spare minutes a day who prefer the same routine in every language.
• Learners past the basics who want a certificate and a C2 course ceiling.
• People who want a 60 day refund window before committing to a yearly plan.

Who should look elsewhere

• Bunpro, whose entry price is $0, if reaching a free floor matters more to you than a certificate.
• Reading Eggs, at £6.99, if a kids version matters, since Lerni does not offer one.

What it does well

Lerni keeps the scope tight. You get 5 languages inside a single download, and each one follows the same lesson format rather than expanding into a large library. A certificate comes with the plan, so a finished course leaves you with a record rather than a habit and nothing else. Offline study is supported too, which means lessons keep working on a train or away from a connection. For daily practice, that removes a common reason an app gets closed after a week. The refund window is the strongest figure here. You have 60 days after paying to change your mind, which is long enough to settle into the routine, work through some lessons and see whether short daily sessions suit you before you take on another period. The same discipline shows at the edges. There is no kids version and no family subscription, so the app is built for adults on a single account, and there is no free tier, so the first lesson cannot be sampled before you pay. Speaking practice is where the plan is thinnest. Speech recognition is not part of the offer, so nothing scores your pronunciation, and AI conversation is not offered either, so there is no partner to speak with. Learners who want their accent checked will miss both straight away.

Pricing

The budget rests on a pair of Lerni prices. Lerni's entry price is €8.25, which is the smaller opening step, and Lerni's yearly plan is €99, which is the figure that decides what staying on costs. Read them as separate decisions rather than one headline. The entry figure covers a short opening commitment, so it flatters the cost of getting started and makes the app look cheap to try. The yearly figure is the renewal price, and anyone who keeps the app pays that rate again when the period ends. The gap between the two is where a subscription either earns its place or does not. So the useful question is not which number is smaller. It is whether the yearly rate still feels reasonable once the entry step has done its job. A reader who finishes a course inside a single yearly period is paying €99 for the whole thing. A reader who drifts past that period is committing to the same figure again, and that is where the yearly price starts to matter more than the entry price. Lerni is not the cheapest way into the category, so the yearly figure has to earn the difference on its own.

Where it sits among rivals

On refunds, Lerni ranks 2 out of 29 brands, which places it at the front of this group on the money-back period. Entry price is the weaker side. Lerni ranks 18 out of 35 brands on the starting figure, so opening an account here costs more than it does across most of the list. The yearly figure fares better: Lerni ranks 11 out of 18 brands, which is well up the field. The pattern is easy to read. Lerni is not the cheapest way in, and it sits among the more forgiving on refunds. If you weigh cost at entry most heavily, the entry ranking is the one to watch. If the renewal figure settles your choice, the yearly ranking works in Lerni's favour, and the refund ranking suggests you can test the format without settling for a long commitment.

How Lerni languages online compares

• 

  The TEFL Institute

  8.9 vs 9.0
• 

  Future Skills Academy

  8.9 vs 8.8
• L

  Linguatv

• BS

  Brain Sensei

• 

  The Profs

  8.9 vs 8.6
• 

  Fiszki

• 

  Creativebug

• 

  Legale Lover

  8.9 vs 9.1
• CL

  Code Labs Academy

• 

  International Open Academy

  8.9 vs 8.7

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• lerni.us checked September 30, 2026

  Backs: Founded, Number of languages, Lesson length (minutes), Price from

  “We have been teaching adults since 2009”

• lerni.us/contact checked September 30, 2026

  Backs: Headquarters, Support channels

  “50-312 Wroclaw, Poland”

• lerni.us/pricing checked September 30, 2026

  Backs: AI conversation practice, Highest CEFR level, Certificate, Free tier, Languages, Learning method, Money-back period, Offline use, Price per year, Speech recognition

  “Vocabulary quizzes with native audio, fill-in-the-gap exercises, multiple choice”

• lerni.us/regulations checked September 30, 2026

  Backs: Family subscription, Kids version, Legal entity

  “Only one user may use a single account”