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Bingua

Learn Languages by Scrolling.

An endless feed of real video made by native speakers, with a dual-language transcript. Tap any word you don't know and it becomes a flashcard that comes back before you forget it.

Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese.

Coming soon to the App Store

$7.99/month or $39.99/year. 7-day free trial on the yearly plan.

How it works

Watch

Real video made by native speakers, already playing when you open the app.

Understand

Tap any word for its translation and what it's doing in that sentence.

Save

Tap "+" and it's a flashcard. You're still watching.

Review

Saved words come back just before you'd have forgotten them.

01

Start with something you'd have watched anyway

Bingua opens on a video that's already playing. Not a lesson, not a set of example sentences: real video made by native speakers, on the subjects you told it you were interested in when you set up.

Underneath, the transcript scrolls in time with the speech: the line as it's spoken, and the English line right under it. You're not reading a lesson. You're watching something and following more of it than you would anywhere else.

The Bingua feed: a video playing with a dual-language transcript scrolling beneath it, the Spanish line above the English one.

02

Tap any word, without leaving the video

A word goes past that you don't know. Tap it, and a card opens right where your eye already was: the translation, the part of speech, and a plain-English note on what that word is doing in that sentence. Not a dictionary entry, an explanation of the line you're looking at.

When it's the whole sentence that tangles you up rather than one word, swipe that line sideways. You get a short breakdown of how it fits together, the thing a tutor would lean over and tell you.

No app switch. No dictionary tab. No losing your place.

A tapped word opens a card reading "ocupado", translated as "busy" and labelled as an adjective, with a Save button beside it.

03

One tap and it's yours

Tap "+". That's the entire action.

No deck to choose. No form to fill in. No deciding whether a word is important enough to be worth saving. It's saved, and you're still watching.

This is the part that makes it stick: you never sit down to study. The deck fills up as a by-product of watching things you wanted to watch, and every card in it came from a video you chose.

A sentence breakdown card explaining how a Spanish line fits together, with a Save button at the top.

04

It comes back before you forget it

A couple of days later, the Cards tab has a number on it. The word you saved is waiting, surfaced at the point you were about to lose it. You grade how well you knew it, and the deck decides when you'll see it next.

When you want to push harder, run a ten-question quiz built entirely from your own saved cards: listening, typing, matching, and saying the words out loud into the microphone.

There's a daily goal you set yourself and a streak that ticks over when you hit it. They're there if you want them, and they're not the point.

A saved card being reviewed: the word "grandes" with its meaning, the sentence it came from, and Forgot and Got it buttons.

Why Bingua

Built for the moment other apps stop working

You can order a coffee. You still can't sit through a real video without losing the thread. That gap is what Bingua is for.

Beginner apps hit a ceiling

Their sentences are manufactured. Nobody actually says them. Bingua's material is video made by native speakers, for native speakers.

Raw video gives you no handholds

Real content comes with zero scaffolding: no inline translation, no way to save what you didn't know. Bingua adds exactly that layer, and nothing else.

A dictionary beside the video breaks the watching

The mode switch is why that habit dies after a week. Here the answer opens where your eye already is, and the video keeps playing.

One loop, not two modes

Everywhere else you do a lesson, then separately you watch something. Watch → understand → save → review is a single continuous motion, and the studying is a by-product of the watching.

Bingua is not a course, not a grammar app, not a social network, and not a translator.

One subscription. Everything in it.

Bingua is a subscription app. There's no free tier and no ad-supported version: you subscribe, and you get the whole app.

Monthly

$7.99per month

The complete app. Cancel any time through your app store account.

Coming soon to the App Store

YearlyBest value

$39.99per year

The same complete app, for less, and it includes a 7-day free trial.

Coming soon to the App Store

Both plans are identical: all six languages, unlimited translations, unlimited saved cards, and the full quiz. The yearly plan isn't a bigger version of Bingua, it's the same Bingua for less. The free trial is available on the yearly plan only.

You don't need an account. Bingua works fully as a guest and keeps everything on your device. Make an account only if you want your cards, progress and settings to follow you to another device. That's also the only way to move a subscription to a new phone.

Subscriptions renew automatically. You manage and cancel yours through your app store account, any time.

Questions

Is there a free version?

No. Bingua is subscription-only: $7.99 a month, or $39.99 a year. The yearly plan comes with a 7-day free trial; the monthly plan doesn't have one. We'd rather tell you that here than after you've downloaded it.

Do I need to create an account?

No. Bingua works completely as a guest, storing your cards and progress on your device, so you can subscribe without ever signing up. An account is optional. It syncs your cards, progress and settings across devices, and it's the only way to carry a subscription to a new phone.

Which languages can I learn?

Six: Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese, each with its own library of real video. English is always the translation side. One subscription covers all six, so you can switch whenever you like.

I'm a complete beginner. Is this for me?

Probably not yet. Bingua is built for people who already have a foothold in the language: you can follow a slow speaker on a familiar subject, but real video still leaves you behind. If you're starting from nothing, a structured beginner course will serve you better first, and Bingua will be here when it stops teaching you anything.

Where do the videos come from?

They're made by native speakers, for native speakers. Real video about real subjects, not clips recorded for a language course. Bingua doesn't host or produce any of it. What Bingua adds is the layer on top: the synced dual-language transcript, the tap-for-translation, the sentence breakdowns, and the review deck built from what you saved.

Is Bingua a course?

No. There's no syllabus, no unit one, no placement test, and nothing telling you what to study today. The feed and the review deck are the whole method: you watch what interests you, save the words that stopped you, and the deck brings them back. If you want a structured path from A1 to C1, Bingua isn't it.