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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Ratings and reviews
27.5K reviews
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November 6, 2019
The app works well enough and it's pretty streamlined. It does have some kinks though, two in particular that will probably annoy people the most. First, uploading images in conversations only kind of works, and when it doesn't, you can't get rid of the blue loading circle. Second, the search customization only kind of works. Some profiles you've tried to filter out still show up occasionally.
73 people found this review helpful
Corinne Lebens
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March 29, 2022
This is a free, fun app for meeting people from all over the world! I like that you can set very specific filters for your searches as well as put some limits on who can contact you. It's also really easy to customize what notifications you get from the app. I like using it to find language exchange partners. There is also plenty of space allowed on your profile to share photos and write about yourself and what you're looking for. However the messaging section has bugs that make it hard to use.
125 people found this review helpful
Jaci Williamson
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January 2, 2021
Love the concept and I would give it 5 stars, but it's super buggy. Half of the time my messages won't send or either I cant open the messages I got because it says I have "too many requests in a short period of time. This app is great to meat people and then actually talk to them on another app, but I would appreciate if the developers would work on the bugs!!
146 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.
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About the developer
Interpals, LLC
support@interpals.net
819 N Washington St
Tacoma, WA 98406-5445
United States
+1 253-617-1700
