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Languages, Math, Music & Chess · Duolingo
Top-tier listing. Defend it and keep shipping.
Land the top 3 fixes below and this listing reaches 99/100 · 8,761 m (Summit Ridge).
Ordered by how many points each one adds to the score. Start at the top.
Repeats title words: “languages”.
Apple counts a word once across title, subtitle and keyword field. Replace “languages” with words you do not rank for yet.
First paragraph is 265 characters.
Only about three lines show before “more”. Put the single strongest benefit in the first 170 characters.
Last 40 written reviews average 3.8★.
Recent written reviews trend negative, and they are the first ones visitors read. Reply to them and fix the top complaint (see Review Radar below).
On iOS, only the title, subtitle and hidden keyword field count for search. The description does not. Words you only mention there are invisible.
7 unique words. Apple combines them, so “budget” and “planner” also rank for “budget planner”.
The first three do most of the selling: they appear directly in search results. Read them as a stranger would, in two seconds.
Grouped by theme from the most recent written reviews. Run this on a competitor and the complaints become your feature list.
Reads the recent reviews in any language and tells you what to fix, and what a competitor could exploit.
All-time: 84% five-star across 5.5M ratings.
Apps Apple shows next to this one, run through the same audit.
Metadata Studio checks character limits, wasted words and keyword coverage as you type.
Audit of the public listing as of today. The hidden 100-character keyword field cannot be read from outside App Store Connect, so it is not scored.
491 MB.
Large downloads lose installs on cellular and in low-storage markets. Use on-demand resources and trim bundled assets.
Three title and subtitle options plus a keyword field, each checked against Apple's character limits.
The description keeps coming back to these, but the title and subtitle skip them. Check each one in Keyword Scout and move the winners into the keyword field.
Live position in Apple's search results. Checks are saved in this browser, so the next visit shows what moved.
Positions come from Apple's public search API and can differ by a few places from what a phone shows.
“I’ve been using Duo for some time, and it’s not getting better. I’m not talking about their educational content—that’s not part of this review. But the current state of t…”
“I can't believe how expensive premium is and how fraudulent the new costume pieces lottery is. Do better.”
“This app used to be great but now it’s constantly giving me adds about how I should get the paid version, but the reason they want me to get it is to not have ads when th…”
“I’m a paid Duolingo subscriber, and I’m getting increasingly fed up with how often parts of the app fail. The latest example is the Early Bird Chest. I earned the double…”
“I found that this app has become more and more geared towards school-age children. While I enjoy the gamification it’s just gone overboard and all the little bells and wh…”
“He’s funny and helpful. The app is fun, learning any language, music and chess! You can also call the characters! I think that’s really awesome!”
“This company has showed me new languages and skills for free! It’s so fun and educational I love it!!!!!”
“This app is the best learning app, despite forcing me to pay for a subscription, this app has many good things like languages like German, Japanese, etc. they even got ch…”
“Overall this app works well and I feel it’s much improved over the years. Sometimes though it doesn’t give the triple points it’s supposed to or it expects you to know a …”
“So if I’m already playing when it strikes midnight, they count that as breaking my streak, even though I’m currently playing. Not good it needs to be fixed.”
“It’s fun but you run out of energy. The reminders to do your lesson are very pushy. I wish all the helpful extra activities were not maxed.”
“As of Sept 28, it is now impossible to pass the highest levels of the flashcard frenzy word review. Tested in front of witnesses, ran out of time without missing a single word and moving as quickly as the app would allow…”