Free alternatives to Loora for English speaking practice, compared
Loora is a coached English conversation a day, after a short trial that asks for your card. These are the apps you can talk with for free and keep, what each gives you, and what it corrects.
Every figure in the table was read on each app's own pricing page or store listing, on the date above. Prices and free tiers move; this table is re-checked and re-dated when they do.
| App | What it is | What is free | What it costs after | What it corrects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluvia | Spoken conversation with 18 AI voices in seven accents, correcting you as you speak | Conversations free with no expiry, no account and no card; listening tests, dictation, writing correction, idioms, phrasal verbs and vocabulary unlimited | From US$5 a month, billed yearly | Grammar, vocabulary and phrasing the moment you slip; the mistakes you repeat come back |
| Loora | AI English tutor by voice | Short trial, then a subscription | $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year | One coached conversation a day, corrected at the end |
| Gliglish | AI conversation partner | 10 minutes a day, no sign-up | Paid plans remove the cap | Feedback on the conversation; pronunciation feedback is paid |
| ChatGPT (voice mode) | General assistant with voice conversation | Voice included on the free plan, with a daily and monthly cap on minutes | Plus, around $20 a month | Whatever you ask for, if you ask each session; no memory of your mistakes |
| ELSA Speak | Pronunciation coach, with sample conversations | Limited daily lessons and sample AI conversations | Premium, around $13 a month billed yearly | Sounds and accent, sound by sound; grammar barely |
| TalkPal | AI tutor for 130+ languages, English among them | 10 minutes a day on the free plan, with an account; 14-day Premium trial | Premium, monthly or yearly; prices vary by country | Chat feedback and a pronunciation assessment tool; daily AI feedback is Premium |
| Speak | Guided speaking course with AI | 7-day trial; no permanent free tier | Premium, around $18 a month or around $84 a year | Inside its lessons, sentence by sentence |
| Praktika | AI avatar tutors | 7-day trial that asks for a card first | Around $8 a month billed yearly | Pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, at the end of each turn |
| HelloTalk | Language exchange with real people | Most of the app | VIP, around $7 a month | Whatever your human partner chooses to correct |
Why people look for a Loora alternative
Price and pace. Loora is $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year, the highest in the table, and the free part is a short trial with a card required, charged in full when it ends unless you cancel. Its format is one coached conversation a day, which suits some people and frustrates others who want to talk when they feel like it.
If what you liked was the coaching, the alternatives below keep the correction. If what stopped you was the price, most of them are free every day.
Free with a daily cap, or a trial that ends
The first family has a permanent free tier with a cap: ChatGPT (voice minutes per day), Gliglish (ten minutes a day), TalkPal (ten minutes a day, with an account), HelloTalk (nearly everything) and Fluvia (first conversations with no expiry, and everything that is not speaking unlimited). You can use them every day without ever paying; what you buy is the removal of the cap.
The second is “try, then pay”: Speak, Praktika and Loora. The trial lasts a few days and after that nothing is free. Praktika and Loora also ask for a card before you start and charge the full plan when the trial ends unless you cancel.
If your question is “what can I talk with every day without spending anything”, the answer is only in the first family.
What Loora does better
Focus. It teaches English only, and its daily conversation is built as a lesson with a goal, a correction at the end and a next step. That discipline is worth paying for if you know you will not open an app without it.
What the alternatives replace is the conversation itself, and in Fluvia’s case the correction arrives while you speak instead of at the end.
Which alternative for which problem
Talk today for free, no card: Gliglish or Fluvia. Both start without an account.
Free-form conversation on anything, as much as the cap allows: ChatGPT’s voice mode with a teacher prompt.
Pronunciation: ELSA Speak, sound by sound.
The same coached-lesson feel at a lower price: Speak, or Praktika with its avatars, both subscriptions with trials.
Correction while you talk and repeated mistakes brought back, English only like Loora: Fluvia. First conversations free with no expiry; the annual plan is US$5 a month against Loora’s $10 a month billed yearly.
How we compared
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a free alternative to Loora?
- Yes, permanently free rather than a trial: Gliglish gives ten minutes a day with no sign-up, ChatGPT includes voice minutes on its free plan, and Fluvia gives its first conversations free with no expiry, no account and no card.
- Does Loora have a free plan?
- No. A short trial that asks for a card, then $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year.
- Which alternative is closest to Loora?
- For a coached English-only conversation with correction, Fluvia is the closest and starts without a card; Speak is the closest in lesson structure, as a subscription.
- Which is cheaper than Loora if I end up paying?
- All of them. Fluvia’s annual plan is US$5 a month, Praktika around $8 billed yearly, Speak around $18 a month or $84 a year, ELSA around $13 a month billed yearly. Prices vary by country.