TAG · 2 REVIEWS
AI-first
Every App Comrade review tagged AI-first, across every platform.
Duolingo on iPhone is no longer a language app.
Chess, Music, and an AI tutor named Lily now share the home screen with Spanish. The owl is building a curriculum company, and the iOS app is where the experiment lives.
MAY 10, 2026
Duolingo became a great game and a worse language app.
The owl earned its hundreds of millions of users through gamification that worked. Now the gamification is the product, and the AI pivot has stretched the experience further from what made it useful in the first place.
MAY 7, 2026