Free
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- One language
- Logging and the timer
- A daily goal with a weekly recap
- Streaks, stats and the map
- All your history, with CSV export
Language learning tracker
How many hours have you put into Japanese?
Most people guess. LangTrack is a small web app for writing it down: what you did, in which language, for how many minutes. A few weeks in, the guess turns into a number.
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Evening
Mei 👋
12 days strong. You're past the hard part.
🔥
12
day streak
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Start timer
Again: 20 min watching
🎯Your goals
- 🇯🇵 Daily Japanese 15 of 20 min 75%
- 🇰🇷 Daily Korean 30 of 30 min ✓ done 100%
This week4h 12m
MTWTFSS
Why write it down
Learning a language is slow enough that you can't feel it happening. By March you have no idea whether January was ten hours or forty. Writing the minutes down fixes that, and it's most of what this app does.
| Day | Activity | Language | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Vocabulary | Japanese | 14 min |
| Today | Reading | Chinese | 10 min |
| Today | Vocabulary | Chinese | 7 min |
| Yesterday | Watching | Japanese | 52 min |
| Yesterday | Watching | Chinese | 39 min |
| Yesterday | Listening | Japanese | 36 min |
| This week so far | 11h 18m | ||
How it works
There isn't much to it. That's on purpose.
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Log the session
Pick the activity, the language and the minutes. Forty-five minutes of a Chinese drama takes a few seconds to enter, and doing the same thing as yesterday takes two taps. If you'd rather not do the maths, start the timer and stop it when the episode ends.
Logging 45 minutes of Story of Yanxi Palace. -
Set a daily number
Give a language a target, say 15 minutes a day. The ring on the Today screen fills as you log. Some days it's full before breakfast. Some days you log five minutes at 11 pm to keep the streak. Both count.
Japanese: 175 of 15 minutes. Going over is allowed. -
Read the week back
Each goal gets a weekly recap: how many days you hit it, your best run, minutes per day. It doesn't grade you. Hitting the goal 2 days out of 7 looks like exactly that, and next week starts clean.
- Hit rate, last 30 days
- 67%
- Best run, days
- 11
From the Japanese goal in the screenshot.
Hours to your level
Set a level goal and LangTrack estimates the hours from FSI figures, then shows what's left and roughly when you'll get there.
It's a rough guide, adjusted for the languages you already speak. Your own logged hours soon tell you more.
Spanish B2
412 hours left
Not starting from zero?
Enter the hours you put in before LangTrack as one starting total per language. The count starts where you actually are.
Where the hours went
The Stats page splits your time by language, puts this week next to last week, and lays the year out as a grid of days. The account in the screenshot has almost exactly as much Chinese as Japanese, so it would be obvious if one of them started to slip.
89h logged on that account so far
A map of who you can talk to
Add your languages with a level and the map colours in the countries where they're spoken. It also works out roughly what share of the world you could hold a conversation with. Nobody needs this. It's nice to look at during a slow week.
Also in there
- Timer
- Start it, do the thing, stop it. The minutes go into the log.
- Late entries
- Forgot to log yesterday's reading? Change the date and add it today.
- Streaks
- Days in a row with at least one session. Pro can repair a streak you broke.
- Media library Pro
- Time per show, book or podcast, so you know which drama took up your autumn.
- Phone or laptop
- It's a web app. Open app.langtrack.app and sign in. There's nothing to install.
- 26 interface languages
- The app itself is translated, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
Pricing
Free covers one language, keeps all your history and doesn't run out. Pro is for people learning more than one.
Pro
US$2.99 a month
or US$29.99 a year (about US$2.50 a month) Save 16%
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited languages
- A media library with time per show, book and podcast
- Streak repair for a missed day
Prices are in US dollars. Pro is bought inside the app.
Questions
Something else? Write to us.
Is it actually free?
Yes. The free plan covers one language, with logging, the timer, a daily goal, streaks, stats, the map and all your history. Pro costs US$2.99 a month or US$29.99 a year (about US$2.50 a month) and adds unlimited languages, the media library and streak repair.
Do I need to install anything?
No. LangTrack is a web app at app.langtrack.app. It works in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.
Which languages can I track?
About 340, including Welsh, Cantonese, Latin and Esperanto. The app's own interface is available in 26 languages.
What if I forget to log a session?
Log it later. Every entry has a date, so you can add yesterday's reading today.
What happens to my streak if I miss a day?
It goes back to zero. Pro has streak repair for the odd missed day. The weekly recap is the kinder number anyway: 5 days out of 7 is a good week.
How many hours does it take to reach B1?
Very roughly 350 to 450 hours for Spanish or French if you're starting from English, and a lot more for Japanese or Mandarin.
From the blog
Most of what's on the blog is about hours, and how to count them.
- The FSI language list: hours for every language The four difficulty categories, from Spanish to Japanese, and what the class hours mean if you study on your own.
- How many hours does it take to learn Mandarin? FSI says 2,200. What that number measures and how it lines up with HSK levels.
- How to track comprehensible input Counting watching and reading as real hours without fooling yourself.
- How many hours does it take to reach B1? Rough numbers for CEFR B1, and how to pace them.
Log today's session.
Pick a language and put in the minutes. It takes less time than reading this page did.
Start tracking — it's free