The Best German Learning Apps & Websites

If you need a bit more structure to your German learning, a good place to start would be an online German learning app. I would never suggest that an app can make you fluent in German. The apps on this list should be used with other materials in order to make a complete language curriculum. That being said, I believe they each have their place in your German learning journey.

Deutsch Gym

One of the most important aspects of learning a language is speaking the language. This can sometimes be incredibly difficult, however. Language exchange apps don’t really hit the mark and in-person meetups are hard to find or too far away.

Enter Deutsch Gym. With Deutsch Gym you can practice speaking with German learners as your level while supervised by a German native speaker. There are different meetups for every level from A2 through C1. All of the levels from A2 through B2 meet every day and C1 meets 5 days each week.

Before each meetup Deutsch Gym provides a list of questions to help keep the conversation going during the meetup. Each meetup has a theme so you get to practice speaking German on a variety of topics. The meetups take place on a voice channel on Discord, which means you don’t have to worry about what you look like or what the room around you looks like. You are there to speak German and you do just that. After a quick introduction from the native speaker, German learners are split into groups of no more than 3 to practice speaking German. The native speaker makes their rounds and checks in on each group.

If you think Deutsch Gym is for you, click here and sign up today!

Deckmill

When you are starting to learn German, flashcards will be one of your greatest tools. You can learn how I recommend you use flashcards here. The difficult part, however, is knowing which words to put on the flashcards and making sure that when you write sentences on flashcards that they are correct. Deckmill takes all of the thought out of making the flashcards and gets you set up with 3000 flashcards to be used on the Anki platform.

The flashcards are designed to start with simple phrases and work your way up to more complex phrases. Since it is built on the Anki platform, you will never have a problem forgetting older vocabulary. The spaced repetition method brings back old vocabulary on a regular basis to make sure that you don’t lose old vocabulary in the pursuit of new vocabulary.

The best part about Deckmill is that it isn’t a subscription. You pay once and you have access to all of the cards in all of the 8 languages available. Normally the price is €14.99, but you can get 20% off with the code HERRANTRIM when you check out. Click here to get started with Deckmill.

For a full review of Deckmill, click here.

LingQ

LingQ is a very cool website where you can import a text or audio and turn it into a German lesson. There are tons of premade lessons already in the system and more are being added every day. Simply start the lesson and you will see the text with words you don’t know highlighted in blue and words you have seen before, but not learned completely in yellow. For my full review of LingQ click here.

Lingoda

If you are familiar with my YouTube channel, you will know that Lingoda has been a sponsor on my channel for a very long time. There is one big reason for this. They are AMAZING! Lingoda is THE online language school for anyone wanting to learn German, French, Spanish or English. They can take you from knowing zero German to passing your C1 exam in no time. Their systematic approach to language learning, their individual attention in group lessons and their simple and flexible lesson scheduling make Lingoda my #1 choice for language learning lessons online.

For my full review of Lingoda, click here.

iTalki

If you are looking for 1-on-1 lessons with a qualified German teacher, iTalki offers a ton of options. iTalki is a great source for finding a personal tutor in German and getting the extra help you want. Unlike online courses and other such websites, iTalki allows you to schedule one-off lessons when you need them. You only pay for the lessons you take. It isn’t a subscription. It is simply, buy a lesson, get a lesson.

Lingopie

I kept seeing ads for Lingopie on Instagram, so I finally tried them out. It is like Netflix had a baby with a language school. You can watch 1000s of hours of tv shows and movies in German. It has subtitles for everything. When you see a word or phrase you don’t know, you can click on it and get it translated. If you want to save it for later, you can put it into your flashcard list. Lingopie is the perfect combination of entertainment and education.

Der Die Das Rockets

Der Die Das Rockets is an Android and iOS app that aims to help you remember the genders of over 300 German nouns. It is fun to play, has a great story to go with it and the animation is adorable. The general premise is that a city is being attacked with rockets with words written on them. You have to swipe in the correct direction in order to detonate them before they reach the city. The direction you swipe is dependent on the gender of the noun. Swipe up for feminine, down for masculine and right for neuter.

There are 8 categories with 8 levels in each. Each level includes 6 words. This brings the total number of words in this game to 384. The categories of vocabulary include: body, animals, work, house, food, city, nature and mixed. The vocabulary in the “mixed” category doesn’t really fit into any of the other categories. Things like “Beispiel”, “Frage”, “Anfang” and “Angst”.

I love this app and couldn’t recommend it more highly. It is simply fantastic. You won’t find a better vocabulary trainer for $0.99 anywhere. If you want to read a full review of Der, Die, Das Rockets, click here.

*Links to Deutsch Gym, Deckmill, LingQ, Lingoda, iTalki, and Lingopie are affiliate links.