Kikase
37 languages · speak from day one
Learn a language by living the story.
Kikase drops you into a scene with a cast who talk back. You speak, they answer, the plot moves. No flashcard treadmill — just conversations you actually want to finish, with corrections that arrive the moment you need them.
Your first hour is free. No card to try it.
What's inside
Everything points at one thing: getting you talking.
Reading and listening are the warm-up. Kikase is built so the largest share of your time is spent practicing the language out loud.
Real conversation, out loud
Press the mic and answer in your own words. Kikase listens, replies in character, and quietly logs what tripped you up. Every character gets their own AI voice — cast by role, and directed to act the line rather than announce it.
Written by people
Every story is hand-written and curated by a human, then spoken by AI. The plot doesn't go stale but, the things you say cause reactions that mean something.
The same story, at your level
Each story is rendered to the difficulty you're on, so the plot that works at A1 is the same plot that works at B2 — just harder language.
Progress you can see
Streaks, a medal cabinet that keeps growing, and a record of what you've practised. Grown-ups collect enamel pins; kids collect stickers, one per story, shinier every time they earn it again.
The story library
Eight genres, and the app dresses for each one.
A story isn't just text in a different colour. The cast changes what they're wearing, the score changes underneath them, and the sound effects land on the beat they were written for.
The cast dresses for the genre
Characters are drawn for the story they're in — the same name turns up in a detective's coat in one story and a wizard's hat in the next. There's a whole wardrobe behind it, several looks per genre.
A score that follows the scene
Over a hundred and forty music beds, and a story moves between them as it goes — the music under the reveal isn't the music under the chase. Sound effects are cued to the line they belong to.
Not everyone is human
Dragons, crocodiles, octopuses, a talking fridge — forty-seven species are drawn and any of them can join the cast. They get portraits and voices like anybody else.
Review
Practice built from your own mistakes.
Corrections from conversation become a review deck, scheduled by spaced repetition so they come back exactly when you're about to forget them. Five games work that deck, each for a different way of getting stuck.
- Fix the Sentence — spot what's wrong and repair it
- Emoji Sentence — build a line from a picture prompt
- Word Match — pair words with their meanings
- Sentence Scramble — rebuild a sentence word by word
- Say It Right — say it until the sound lands
A fifth game, Say It Right, scores pronunciation out loud — screenshot still to come.
Made for children
Kids mode is a different library, not a brighter skin.
Children get their own stories, built around something impossible — a frog the size of a shed on the roof, not a lost sandwich — with a cast far more likely to be a crocodile than an accountant. The look changes too, into a child-friendly cut-paper theme, and settings and billing sit behind a grown-up gate.
The writing
Written to be impossible, not merely gentle.
A child's story isn't a softened adult one. Ours are written against their own rules — the premise has to break something about the world, and nobody in the story is allowed to find it strange.
The premise breaks the world
A frog the size of a shed is on the roof. Not a lost sandwich — if it could happen on a Tuesday, it doesn't make the cut.
Everyone is completely calm about it
"He's been up there since Tuesday. He does that." The straight face is where the joke lives — nobody ever says "how strange!"
It gets sillier, never harder
Silly problem, sillier, silliest — then the child's idea works and everybody laughs. Nothing turns grim on the way, and the cast never fall out.
A running gag they can see coming
One phrase or sound that returns word-for-word three or four times. Children love the anticipation, and repetition is exactly what a learner needs.
Words that are fun in the mouth
Onomatopoeia, rhyme, comically long words. A child will repeat "sploosh" unprompted and never repeat "subsequently".
Grown-ups are the silliest people there
They panic, they're confidently wrong, they get stuck in the hedge. The child and the learner are the ones thinking clearly.
Side by side
What actually changes
| Grown-up mode | Kids mode | |
|---|---|---|
| Stories | Mysteries, rescues, sci-fi, tension. Adult stakes, adult pacing. | A separate library, written to be impossible and deadpan — a frog on the roof, and it escalates. |
| Cast | People, mostly, dressed for the genre. | Talking crocodiles, dragons and fridges, each with their own portrait and voice. |
| Look | The standard theme, light or dark. | A child-friendly cut-paper theme. |
| Rewards | A medal cabinet of enamel pins. | A sticker book — one per story, shinier each time it's earned again. |
| Settings & billing | Right there in the profile tab. | Behind a grown-up gate. |
| Account | Your own login. | A profile inside the parent's account. No child login exists. |
For parents
The short version of what we do and don't do.
No child accounts
A child profile lives inside your account. There is no child login, no child email address, and no way for a child to sign in anywhere on their own.
A grown-up gate
Settings, subscriptions, profile switching and account controls are all behind a gate a child can't pass.
No ads, no other users
No advertising, no in-app purchases inside kids mode, no messaging between users, no friend lists and no public content feed.
Written, not improvised
Kids' stories come from a library our team writes and reviews — a child isn't dropped into an open-ended conversation with a model.
Speaking is how it's played
Kikase is a speaking app, for children too — they answer out loud, not on a keyboard. What happens to a recording is set out in the children's section of the privacy policy.
Delete it whenever
Remove a child profile from your account and its learning data goes with it. No request needed, and nothing is kept back.
Languages
37 to learn — and the app speaks your own back to you.
Kikase's interface follows your native language, not your phone's. If you think in Polish, the menus are in Polish while the story stays in Japanese.
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Dutch
- Polish
- Czech
- Slovak
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Greek
- Danish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Finnish
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Turkish
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Urdu
- Punjabi
- Gujarati
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Indonesian
- English
Questions
The things people ask first.
Do I need to talk out loud to use it?
Yes. Kikase is a speaking app — you answer with your voice, not a keyboard. That's the whole point of it, and it's why you'll want somewhere you don't mind being heard.
Is it free?
Your first hour is free, and you don't need to give a card to use it. After that a subscription keeps the stories and conversation going. You can cancel from your App Store or Google Play account at any time.
Who writes the stories?
People do. Every story is hand-written and curated by a human before it ships, then rendered into your language at your level and performed by AI voices. It isn't a model improvising a plot at you.
What ages is kids mode for?
Roughly 5–11. A parent creates the child profile inside their own account; the child never has a separate login, and anything with a bill or a setting attached sits behind a grown-up gate. See how kids mode works and our children's privacy section.
How is this different from a flashcard app?
Flashcards test recognition. Kikase makes you produce the language in a situation that has a point to it, then turns your actual mistakes into the review deck. The games exist to reinforce what you got wrong in conversation, not to replace it.
Does my recording get stored?
Your speech is sent for transcription so the app can respond and score pronunciation. What we keep and for how long is set out in the privacy policy.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone, Android and the web. Your progress is on your account, so you can start a story on a phone and pick it up in a browser.
Your first conversation is about four minutes away.
Pick a language, pick a story, and start talking. The first hour is free.