Interpals: Penpals & Languages
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About this app
Meet people from all over the world on Interpals — the original pen pal and language exchange community, online since 1998 and home to 8.5 million members.
Find someone in another country to write to. Practice a language with a native speaker. Make friends whose everyday life looks nothing like yours.
MAKE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD
• Search by country, city, age, and the languages someone speaks or is learning
• Browse real profiles and photo albums — no deck of cards to swipe through
• See who viewed your profile and who is online right now
• Message requests keep your inbox yours: you decide who gets through
• Join groups around shared interests and post to the community feed
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS
• Find a tandem partner: you help with your language, they help with theirs
• Practice real conversation — the everyday phrasing textbooks leave out
• Built-in message translation for when you get stuck mid-sentence
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi, Dutch, Polish and hundreds more
SEND MORE THAN TEXT
• Share photos and GIFs in chat
• Build photo albums on your profile
• Comment on photos and posts
A COMMUNITY, NOT A DATING APP
Interpals has been bringing people together since 1998. There is no swiping and no matching game. Members come here for genuine friendship, curiosity about other countries, and long correspondences — plenty have been writing to the same pen pal for years.
YOUR SPACE, YOUR RULES
• Block or report any member at any time
• A moderation team reviews reported profiles, photos, and messages
• You control what appears on your profile and who can contact you
• Minimum age 13
FREE
Creating an account, searching for members, and sending messages costs nothing.
Whether you are getting ready to travel, studying a language, planning to study abroad, or you simply want to talk with someone on the other side of the world — start on Interpals.
interpals.net
Questions? support@interpals.net
Find someone in another country to write to. Practice a language with a native speaker. Make friends whose everyday life looks nothing like yours.
MAKE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD
• Search by country, city, age, and the languages someone speaks or is learning
• Browse real profiles and photo albums — no deck of cards to swipe through
• See who viewed your profile and who is online right now
• Message requests keep your inbox yours: you decide who gets through
• Join groups around shared interests and post to the community feed
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS
• Find a tandem partner: you help with your language, they help with theirs
• Practice real conversation — the everyday phrasing textbooks leave out
• Built-in message translation for when you get stuck mid-sentence
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi, Dutch, Polish and hundreds more
SEND MORE THAN TEXT
• Share photos and GIFs in chat
• Build photo albums on your profile
• Comment on photos and posts
A COMMUNITY, NOT A DATING APP
Interpals has been bringing people together since 1998. There is no swiping and no matching game. Members come here for genuine friendship, curiosity about other countries, and long correspondences — plenty have been writing to the same pen pal for years.
YOUR SPACE, YOUR RULES
• Block or report any member at any time
• A moderation team reviews reported profiles, photos, and messages
• You control what appears on your profile and who can contact you
• Minimum age 13
FREE
Creating an account, searching for members, and sending messages costs nothing.
Whether you are getting ready to travel, studying a language, planning to study abroad, or you simply want to talk with someone on the other side of the world — start on Interpals.
interpals.net
Questions? support@interpals.net
Pen pals & language exchange: meet friends worldwide and practice languages
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- Data is encrypted in transit
- You can request that data be deleted
Ratings and reviews
27.4k reviews
James
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14 December 2022
Great concept but such an awful buggy app. Half the messages don't send, you record a minute long voice message and it never sends, then the error message "message not sent" stays at the bottom of your chat forever. When you try to delete the message, it says "message does not exist". This is just one of many technological issues with this app that make it so hard to use.
42 people found this review helpful
Nikos Papageorgiou
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13 January 2024
Can't get past the About Me page. The options to select languages are disabled even after I've written a lengthy description. I'm stuck at step 1 of 3 so I can't even access the main app. Uninstalled after trying a few times. Even worse, that's after I gave them my email and created an account with them. Had I known, I'd stayed away!
34 people found this review helpful
Ash B
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20 October 2022
Not really a good app, shows an average amount of ppl and can search by country, age, language. There are a few better lang ex apps out there. Get veryy few replies. you can search for someone to learn their language and choose the native speaker option. Lot's of fake profiles. Hardly any local matches.Can send quiet a lot msgs daily but often and randomly they don't go through as it gives some error - app is abit buggy, sometime gives errors. Also no built-in translation or correction service.
84 people found this review helpful
What's new
• Phone verification: the Continue and Verify buttons stay above the keyboard.
• Verification on WhatsApp or Telegram: your code, our number and the send button come first.
• Push notifications arrive again when the notification tray cannot be read.
• Verification on WhatsApp or Telegram: your code, our number and the send button come first.
• Push notifications arrive again when the notification tray cannot be read.
App support
About the developer
Interpals, LLC
support@interpals.net
819 N Washington St
Tacoma, WA 98406-5445
United States
+1 253-617-1700
