COSA SIGNIFICAIl file dell'app li elenca. Il telefono ti chiede conferma prima di consentire quelli sensibili.
COSA PUOI FAREImpostazioni telefono → App → autorizzazioni: disattiva ciò di cui non ha bisogno.
Android app 6.104.5 · εxodus Privacy, 2026-11-05
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO3/10
Dichiarano
11
tipi di dati collegati a te
quest'app · 11
tipico delle 19 app esaminate · 9
COSA SIGNIFICACollegato alla tua identità, non anonimo. L'azienda ha compilato questa etichetta da sola.
COSA PUOI FARENell'UE e nel Regno Unito puoi richiedere una copia dei tuoi dati.
App Store label, declared by the developer
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO4/10
Dichiarano
8
tipi di dati utilizzati per tracciarti su app di altre aziende
quest'app · 8
tipico delle 16 app esaminate · 2
COSA SIGNIFICAPuò essere usato per tracciarti su app e siti web di altre aziende.
COSA PUOI FAREiPhone: Impostazioni → Privacy e sicurezza → Tracciamento → disattiva.
App Store label, declared by the developer
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO5/10
Dichiarano
$239.99
prezzo massimo di un singolo acquisto in-app
COSA SIGNIFICAIl prezzo massimo per un singolo acquisto in-app, secondo la scheda dello store.
COSA PUOI FAREImposta una password per gli acquisti nelle impostazioni dello store.
Google Play listing, declared by the developer
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO6/10
Perché · segui i soldi
Seguiisoldi.
“The majority of our revenue comes through our subscriptions and advertising streams and payments are made to Duolingo through service providers.”
Originale in inglese
COSA SIGNIFICADa dove arrivano i soldi, nelle parole dell'azienda stessa.
Duolingo, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-27
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO7/10
Perché · cosa dicono agli investitori
Leloroentratedipendonodaltuotempo.
“If we are unable to maintain or increase our user base and user engagement, our revenue and financial results may be materially adversely affected.”
Originale in inglese
COSA SIGNIFICAIn parole semplici: quando le persone la usano meno, l'azienda afferma che i risultati ne risentono.
Duolingo, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-27
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ABOUIT · DUOLINGO8/10
Follow the money · who owns it
40%
of the votes: Luis von Ahn
💼Severin Hacker 35.8%💼Baillie Gifford & Co 2.9%💼BlackRock, Inc. 2.1%💼FMR LLC 1.6%
ABOUIT'S READINGIts founders have the final say. Users have no vote.
Duolingo, Inc. · proxy statement (Form DEF 14A) filed with the US SEC on 2026-04-17
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ABOUIT · DUOLINGO9/10
Segui i soldi · lobbying
€100K+
a year on lobbying the EU, as the company declares
DA DOVE VIENEDuolingo, Inc. declares spending between €100,000 and €199,999 in a year on lobbying the EU institutions (Jan 2025 to Dec 2025). The company's own figure, not audited.
EU Transparency Register · entry 873758697839-47 · last updated by the company on 2026-10-06
ABOUIT · DUOLINGO10/10
Fine
È tutto.
NESSUN FEEDNessun feed infinito qui. Hai visto tutto ciò che abbiamo su quest'app.
"Duolingo may anonymize your personal information, and use this de-identified data for any purpose, such as better understanding learning trends and training artificial intelligence models."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · read from their site on 2026-11-12
MINIMUM AGE AND MINORS
"Your age, phone number, and email address are not included in your public Profile and are not considered Public Profile Information under this Privacy Policy."
Their words, not yet tested. privacy policy · read from their site on 2026-11-12
AUTO-RENEW, REFUNDS AND CANCELLING
"After your initial subscription period, and again after any subsequent subscription period, your subscription will automatically renew for an additional equivalent period."
Their words, not yet tested. terms of service · read from their site on 2026-11-12
Screen recordings submitted to Abouit by users who stated they show cancelling or deleting their own account. Abouit did not record them and cannot verify who made them. Screens are counted by our published method. Submitted recordings are reported evidence: never a receipt, never part of a grade.
No receipt about Duolingo yet. read — waiting for review First look from Germany on 2026-11-09 (stopped) · privacy policy read 2026-11-12 · terms of service read 2026-11-12
Found clauses are waiting for the jury, the legal review and a notice to the company.
Area by area
Read the details
What we checked in each of the six areas, and what we found there. Not a score: an empty area means not tested yet; "their words" means we quote their documents below but have not tested it. Planet is a seventh row of measured facts from the same first look: what the homepage weighs before any tap, and a CO2e range with its method.
How Duolingo's own help pages say you can reach a person, quoted as written on the date given. We did not contact them. Not tested by us; not a score.
None documented in the 2 pages we read. Its contact page could not be read by our reader, so this says nothing about what that page offers.
Pages read: “How do I cancel my Super Duolingo subscription?” (Cancel article · Internet Archive copy of 2024-06-20 · source · SHA-256 e100c920c3e3…); “How can I delete my account and data?” (Close-account article · Internet Archive copy of 2023-12-09 · source · SHA-256 4ed82266043a…)
Contact page: not read: its text did not reach our reader (often built by JavaScript) (page)
What the stores and its help centre say
The company's own declarations, copied as shown on the date given, with a link to the source and the hash of our archived copy. Not tested by us; not a score.
App Store (US), as the listing showed it
“Data Used to Track You”: “Purchases”, “Location”, “Contact Info”, “User Content”, “Identifiers”, “Usage Data”, “Diagnostics”, “Other Data”
Google Play Data safety page: not read: the site's robots.txt or the site itself refused our reader, and we never get around a refusal. 2026-11-09 · source
Cancelling, per its help centre: not read: the page our reader received had almost no readable text. 2026-11-09 · source
Closing the account, per its help centre: not read: the page our reader received had almost no readable text. 2026-11-09 · source
Nell'app Android
What an independent analysis of the published app file lists for Duolingo (Android version 6.104.5, report of 2026-11-05). A permission says what the app can ask the phone for, not what it does with it. A newer version may differ.
Sentences copied word for word from the latest annual report of the company behind Duolingo. Companies must tell investors what their business depends on.
“The majority of our revenue comes through our subscriptions and advertising streams and payments are made to Duolingo through service providers.”
Where the money comes from, in the company's own words.
Duolingo, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-27 · source · SHA-256 7bd34eb75513…
“If we are unable to maintain or increase our user base and user engagement, our revenue and financial results may be materially adversely affected.”
In plain words: when people use it less, the company says its results suffer.
Duolingo, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-27 · source · SHA-256 7bd34eb75513…
“As of December 31, 2025, our directors, executive officers, and 5% stockholders and their affiliates held in the aggregate 76.3% of the voting power of our capital stock.”
They decide how the app works. Users have no vote.
Duolingo, Inc. · annual report (Form 10-K) filed with the US SEC on 2026-02-27 · source · SHA-256 7bd34eb75513…
Lobbying: cosa dichiara l'azienda
EU TRANSPARENCY REGISTER · 2026-10-06 · THE MAKER OF DUOLINGO
Duolingo, Inc. declares spending between €100,000 and €199,999 in a year on lobbying the EU institutions (Jan 2025 to Dec 2025).
People it declares working on this, in full-time equivalents: 1.
Che tipo di cifra: This is the company's own declaration. The register does not audit it, and it covers everything the company does, not this app alone. EU only.
Whole sentences copied exactly from Duolingo's own documents, grouped by subject. Their words, not yet tested: this is quotation, not a finding, and no jury has looked at it. Each sentence links to the archived copy it came from.
AI TRAINING ON YOUR CONTENT
"Additionally, Duolingo may generate, record, and store audio recordings or transcripts of the text and audio you submit, and use these recordings or transcripts for product improvement and personalization purposes, including training and running Duolingo’s own artificial intelligence models."
"Duolingo may anonymize your personal information, and use this de-identified data for any purpose, such as better understanding learning trends and training artificial intelligence models."
"Your age, phone number, and email address are not included in your public Profile and are not considered Public Profile Information under this Privacy Policy."
"If you purchase an auto-renewing periodic subscription through the Service, your Duolingo account will be billed continuously for the subscription until you terminate it as set forth below."
"After your initial subscription period, and again after any subsequent subscription period, your subscription will automatically renew for an additional equivalent period."
"If you do not wish your subscription to renew automatically, or if you want to change or terminate your subscription, you will need to log in to your Duolingo account and follow instructions to terminate or change your subscription, even if you have deleted your account."
"Individuals have the possibility, under certain conditions, to invoke binding arbitration for complaints regarding DPF compliance not resolved by any of the other DPF mechanisms."
"Prior to initiating any arbitration, the party seeking arbitration (“Claimant”) must first send a written Notice of Claim to the other party (“Respondent”) by email or USPS Certified Mail."
"If the AAA is unavailable to conduct an arbitration, the parties shall arbitrate through another mutually agreed upon organization or on an ad hoc basis according to the rules in this section."
"Duolingo may share personal information with third parties that help us provide or improve the Service, including hosting providers such as Amazon Web Services, search engine providers such as Google, analytics providers such as Crashlytics, support providers such as ZenDesk, and payment processors such as Stripe."
"Duolingo may also share your information with third-party vendors that support product features such as AI, speech recognition, and content moderation."
"If you purchase a Duolingo subscription and submit a payment method to Duolingo, Duolingo may retain your IP address for longer solely for purposes of payment processing and fraud prevention."
"Duolingo and its licensors own and shall retain all intellectual property rights and other rights in and to the Apps, and any changes, modifications, or corrections thereto."
"If your Code Provider terminates your use of the Promotion Code, you will retain control of your Duolingo account and data, and may subscribe to Duolingo on your own."