Pick Praktika for avatar tutors, unlimited speaking practice on Premium, pronunciation scores, a free plan, or Android. Pick Smort to turn the words from each chat into flashcards you review with spaced repetition, or to bring your Anki decks.
Publisher disclosure: Smort publishes this page and is one of the two apps in it. We say where Praktika is the better pick. Smort’s status: Private beta. It requires an iPhone with iOS 26 or later.
Smort vs Praktika, side by side
How each app gets you talking, what you keep, and how you review it.
| Topic | Praktika | Smort |
|---|---|---|
| How you talk | AI avatar tutors in lessons, Free Talk, a video-call mode, and Custom Topics, where you set the topic and both roles. Premium has unlimited speaking practice. | Live Voice Chat on a topic you pick or type, with captions and translations. Tap Help me or ask Smort to slow down. Up to 100 minutes a month. |
| Languages for English speakers | Praktika lists 14 language options in all: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Russian, Dutch, and Polish. | Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, French, German, and more. |
| Feedback when you speak | Real-time feedback on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, speaking pace, and word choice. Tap your own message for an overall and per-word pronunciation score. | Checks what you said, not your accent. Kana or kanji both count in Japanese. Simplified and traditional characters count as the same word in Mandarin. |
| What you keep after a chat | Tap a word during a lesson to add it to your dictionary. Completed lessons stay in your profile, and you can download them as PDFs. | Pick up to 10 words. Smort drafts the flashcards, and you edit them before you save. |
| How you review | Look back at completed lessons in your profile. Praktika’s help center doesn’t describe spaced repetition. | Say or type each card from memory before you see the answer. Spaced repetition brings it back when it’s due. |
| Your own material | Upload photos, PDFs, videos, or voice notes to turn them into a lesson. Custom Topics build a lesson around a topic you choose. | Make cards from a topic, your notes, or a screenshot. Import Anki .apkg decks. |
| Price | Free plan with 3 avatars, limited speaking practice, and basic feedback. Premium comes weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly, and covers every language. Praktika’s help center says prices vary by plan and region. | Subscription required: $7.99/month or $79.99/year (USD). One plan, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. |
| Devices | iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later, Android, and most tablets. No desktop version yet. Lessons can be downloaded for offline practice. | iPhone with iOS 26 or later. |
When Praktika is the better pick
- You want unlimited speaking practice
- Praktika Premium has unlimited speaking practice with AI avatar tutors. Smort’s Voice Chat has up to 100 minutes a month.
- You want pronunciation scores
- Tap your own message in Praktika for an overall and per-word score on pronunciation, fluency, completeness, and rhythm. Smort checks what you said, not your accent.
- You want a free plan
- Praktika’s free plan has 3 avatars, limited speaking practice, and basic feedback. Smort needs a subscription.
- You use Android
- Praktika runs on Android, iPhone and iPad with iOS 18, and most tablets. Smort needs an iPhone with iOS 26.
When Smort is the better pick
- You want flashcards with spaced repetition
- Praktika saves the words you tap to a dictionary, and its help center doesn’t describe spaced repetition. Smort turns up to 10 words from each Voice Chat into flashcards, and spaced repetition brings each one back when it’s due.
- You have Anki decks
- Smort imports your .apkg decks. Praktika builds lessons from photos, PDFs, videos, or voice notes that you upload.
Methodology and sources
Criteria: How each app gets you talking, what you keep afterward, how you review, your own material, price, and devices. Praktika facts come from its own pages, and Smort facts from its App Store description.
What we did not do: We didn’t score either app. Praktika changes often, so check its own pages for the latest.
Primary sources: Praktika help: free versionPraktika help: learning processPraktika help: languagesPraktika help: custom topicsPraktika on the US App StorePraktika on Google Play