Preply

Preply is an online marketplace for one-to-one language tutoring, operated by Preply Inc. with a listed U.S. address in Brookline, Massachusetts. Students browse tutor profiles, watch intro videos, read reviews and book lessons in the company's virtual classroom. The home page says the platform has 100,000+ tutors from 180+ nationalities, teaching 120+ subjects, with English the largest group at 33,602 tutors, followed by Spanish at 10,053 and Chinese at 5,254.

After a trial lesson, learners move onto a flexible lesson subscription. Around the lessons sit tools the vendor calls Preply Classroom, Lesson Insights and Daily Exercises, plus AI practice between sessions. A separate Preply Business product sells corporate language training with an onboarding expert and a manager dashboard. The site is available in many interface languages and in six currencies.

• Tutor search and profiles. Students find a tutor by goals, learning style and schedule, and can watch intro videos and read verified reviews first. The vendor says you can switch tutors at any time. Tutor counts per language are shown on the home page, from 33,602 English tutors to 39 Danish ones.
• Trial lesson. The how-it-works page describes booking a 25- or 50-minute trial lesson to meet a tutor, talk about goals and see how you like to learn. The vendor also promises a free replacement tutor if you are not satisfied.
• Preply Classroom. A dedicated virtual classroom where the lesson takes place. The vendor describes it as a learning space meant to keep you focused, and it sits together with the messaging system for contact with your tutor.
• Lesson Insights. After each lesson, the product shows progress and guidance on what to improve next. This is meant to give students a visible record, as opposed to a lesson that ends without feedback. The vendor ties it to the learner's CEFR progress claims, which come from its own studies.
• Daily Exercises and AI practice. Short personalised activities help build a daily habit, and AI tools support practice between lessons, including personalised vocabulary. The vendor says these extend learning beyond the booked hour. The same learning tools appear on the how-it-works page under a heading about improving beyond the lesson.
• Flexible lesson subscription. Learners choose how many lessons to take each week, and the subscription page says plans are tailored to pace, goals and available time. Setup and changes are handled in the Help Center. The subscription page says plans are not fixed, and one long-term learner on that page has been subscribed for 58 months.
• Preply Business. The corporate offering lists personalised learning plans by role, scheduling across time zones, an onboarding expert, and a dashboard for managers to see engagement and progress. Its metrics are vendor survey figures. Vendor-reported figures include 97% of learners feeling more confident speaking English and 92% of HR leaders recommending the service.

• A professional preparing for relocation. Books a trial with a native-speaker tutor, then takes two lessons a week focused on workplace conversations. Tutor profiles show which languages each person speaks, which helps when a shared second language speeds up early lessons. Lesson Insights then shows what to work on after each session.
• A parent arranging English lessons for a child. Searches the English tutor list, filters by teaching focus, and tries two or three tutors through trial lessons. The replacement guarantee on the home page means a poor first match need not end the plan. Tutor profiles on the platform include intro videos that help a parent judge teaching style.
• An HR lead at a distributed company. Uses Preply Business to give employees language training on their own schedules, with a manager dashboard for engagement. The vendor reports a 4.9 out of 5 average tutor rating for corporate learners, based on its own feedback. The vendor's case-study quotes come from companies such as Miro and Delivery Hero.

Open the site, pick a language and press Find your tutor. The how-it-works page walks through three steps: find a tutor who matches your goals, book a 25- or 50-minute trial lesson in the virtual classroom, then subscribe to a lesson plan if the fit is right. You choose currency and interface language from the header.

Students and tutors both use a Help Center with separate sections, 64 articles for students and 89 for tutors. Preply Business is set up through a demo request and a dedicated onboarding expert. The learning curve depends mostly on finding a tutor you want to keep.

Preply matches you with a private tutor, so the first ninety days depend on finding one you stay with. The trial lesson is paid, and after it you subscribe for one to five hours a week, charged every 28 days with a processing fee on top.

Commission on the trial goes entirely to Preply, which funds a free replacement trial if the first tutor does not fit.

Preply is entry #7 of 17 in the language learning apps list: the products next to it are Babbel above and italki below. After the challenger places, Preply is one of the established names, ranked in order and without a score.

Home market: the United States, one of 6 North America bases among the 17 products here.

Charging model: Per lesson, set by each tutor; paid trial lesson; processing fee at checkout.

The pages I could read do not print lesson prices or subscription amounts. The home page lets you pick EUR, BRL, GBP, PLN, UAH or USD, and the how-it-works page says you can choose a subscription that fits your budget and take a 25- or 50-minute trial lesson. A tutor-quality guarantee lets you try another tutor for free if you are not satisfied. Preply Business pricing is handled through a booked demo and is not published. For billing details such as fees and renewal periods, use the Help Center or checkout screen.

Basis: preply.com, read for the Best Language Learning Apps in 2026 guide (reviewed 7 November 2026).

The legal footer links a privacy policy, cookie policy and legal notice, hosted as PDF files on a separate terms site. I could not extract text from the privacy PDF during this session, so hosting region, retention, certifications and data export are not stated here. Preply Inc. lists a U.S. address. Check the privacy policy directly before storing sensitive information in lessons.

Preply comes without a sourced integration list in our records. Verify connectors and API access with the vendor first.

3 products in this guide come closest to Preply on tags, pricing and region.

• italki (#8 of 17): Pay-as-you-go lessons from teachers who set their own prices. Best for: Learners wanting single lessons without a subscription, including rarer languages. (Hong Kong)
• Pimsleur (#10 of 17): Suits: Commuters who want to learn to speak by listening.
• Speak (#16 of 17): Spoken-practice app that answers your sentences with an AI conversation partner. Watch out: the site states no prices, because the FAQ says they vary by plan, region and promotion, so a budget cannot be set before the trial. (United States)

Read from the vendor’s own pages on 5 November 2026.

• preply.com/en: tutor counts, subjects, guarantee, footer links, currencies
• preply.com/en/how-it-works: three steps, trial lesson lengths, tools
• preply.com/en/subscription: subscription approach
• preply.com/en/business-language-training: Preply Business features
• help.preply.com/en: help centre article counts

The same four questions are asked of every language learning apps product: time to value, real cost, the way out and the intended buyer. The result for Preply: #7, out of 17 ranked. Method and commercial relationships are in our editorial process.