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In one sentence
Talvo is a language-learning app for iPhone and Mac that gets you talking: AI lessons written around your interests, a conversation tutor that corrects you out loud, and a live interpreter for real conversations with native speakers.
Facts
| Platforms | iPhone (iOS 26) and Mac (macOS 26), native SwiftUI, one subscription for both |
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| Languages | 27, including Egyptian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Mandarin and Taiwan), Spanish (Mexico and Spain), French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Turkish, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian and English |
| Price | Free first lesson, free live-interpreter taste, free reviews and deck. Pro: $69.99/year with a 7-day free trial, $12.99/month, $5.99/week |
| Accounts | None. No sign-up, no login, no ads, no tracking |
| Mac release | 30 September 2026 |
| iPhone release | October 2026 |
| Developer | Muhammad Abdullah, independent developer, Pakistan |
| Links | App Store · talvoapp.com |
What makes it different
- Lessons written for the learner. Each unit is generated around the person's interests, level and the words they already know, from A1 to B2, instead of a fixed course.
- A tutor that talks back. Role-play situations where the tutor speaks first, listens, replies in character and corrects quietly with an explanation. Hands-free mode uses on-device speech recognition.
- A live interpreter. Hold the phone between two people: tap while the other person talks, see what they said, how it sounds and three ways to reply, and Talvo says the reply out loud. Works in both directions.
- Practice graded by AI. Six exercise types. A missing accent gets a nudge rather than a fail, and romanized answers are accepted for non-Latin scripts.
- Spaced repetition. Every word met in a lesson or conversation becomes a card scheduled right before it would be forgotten, and weak spots become targeted drills.
- Native on both platforms. A real Mac app and a real iPhone app, with one subscription for both.
The story
Talvo was built by one developer who used the big language apps for years and still froze when someone actually spoke to him. Those apps teach words well and prepare you badly for a real person, a real question and no time to look anything up. Talvo was designed backwards from that moment: lessons that use your own life so the words stick, a tutor that makes you speak and corrects you like a patient friend, and an interpreter for the day you're in the conversation before you're ready for it. It also covers languages the major apps neglect. Egyptian Arabic is a first-class course because that is the Arabic people speak.
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Review access
Writers and creators can have a free year of Pro: email hello@talvoapp.com from your publication's address or with a link to your channel, and you'll get an offer code the same day.