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Quick answer: There's no single best Polish app for every child. For a low one-off price and a young child, look at Gus on the Go: Polish. For the widest mix of videos, songs and printables, look at Dinolingo. For a motivated older child, Duolingo is free. If your main goal is getting your child to say Polish out loud, that's what we built Voiczy for. Whichever you choose, add free Polish radio or TV and real conversations with Polish speakers.
A note before you read: we make Voiczy, one of the apps below, so we aren't neutral. To keep this fair, the apps are listed alphabetically, not by preference. We checked each app's store listing and website in November 2026, with store prices from Germany. This is a comparison of what they offer, not a long-term test of every app with children, and prices and features can change.
We looked at four things that matter for a child learning Polish:
Dinolingo teaches 50 languages, including Polish, to children aged 2 to 14 through videos, songs, stories, games and printable worksheets. One family subscription covers all the languages.
Duolingo's main app has a Polish course from English, with short lessons and some speaking exercises. It's free to use, and a paid plan removes ads.
A small app in which an owl guides young children through basic vocabulary such as numbers, colours and shapes, with short games. You pay €3.99 once, and there's no subscription. The listing was updated in October 2026.
Picture-based vocabulary for children aged 2 to 7, in 13 categories such as farm, numbers and body. One category is free, and the others are in-app purchases or part of a Pro edition.
This is our app. Children aged 3 to 14 hear a word, see a picture and say it out loud, then practise talking with Leo, an AI tutor. It also includes bilingual audio story books and basic maths in Polish. At the time of writing, the Polish path has 271 words with audio, the same as our other languages.
You can see what Polish looks like on Voiczy.
Some of the best Polish for children costs nothing:
An app can give your child daily practice, but it can't give them a reason to speak. In heritage families, that reason is usually a grandparent on a video call, a Polish friend or a summer in Poland. Short daily habits also beat long weekly sessions: ten minutes every day is worth more than an hour on Saturday.
Our parent's guide to teaching Polish covers this by age, from toddlers to primary school.
Duolingo is free, and it suits older children best. For younger children, Learn Polish With Amy and Voiczy both have free parts, but neither is fully free.
Most apps here start at ages 2 to 4. At that age, keep it to a few minutes and do it together. Children get more out of an app when an adult repeats the words afterwards.
We don't think so, and we make one of these apps. An app builds words, confidence and habits. Fluency also needs real conversations with people who speak Polish.
You can also compare the wider range of language apps for kids.
