Vozelu vs Pimsleur
Pimsleur is audio first. A 30-minute lesson a day, you listen and answer aloud, and the app adds flashcards and a speed round.
On Vozelu you type every review from memory, and we schedule the next one from how you did. In dialogues, you say your lines aloud.
Try a few sentences
Side by side
| Feature | Vozelu | Pimsleur |
|---|---|---|
| How you answer | You write every review from memory. In dialogues, you say your lines aloud or type them. On iPhone, you type them for now. | Speak aloud in a pause in the audio |
| What you see | A checked sentence with one word missing, and its translation | Nothing; the lesson is audio |
| Schedule | Spaced repetition, built from your answers | One lesson a day in a fixed sequence, with graduated recall inside the lesson |
| Voice | A voice reading of every sentence. When you speak in a dialogue, we check that you said every word. | Recorded speakers |
Price
Pimsleur sells a subscription and one-time courses; a single level is listed at $150 and the lifetime plan at $798, often on sale. Vozelu is free right now.
What Pimsleur users say
it's so ridiculously expensive it's ludicrous. The subscription is monthly and gives you access to all languages at all levels, or you can purchase one level for one language for hundreds of dollars. no in-between.
Google Play reviewthere is a "crossfade" that omits the first second or so off each sentence which is jarring and makes it impossible to follow the speech exercises.
Google Play review
What Vozelu does differently
- Each sentence is its own clip, played whole, at the pace you set.
- Every word has a page: when you first saw it, when you wrote it, where you read it.
- In dialogues, you say your lines aloud and we check that you said every word.
Prices and reviews checked on 15 September 2026.