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AI visibility index · Language learning apps · snapshot 3 June 2026

Which language-learning apps the assistants recommend

35 buyer questions across 5 assistants. The score ranks apps by how often the search-grounded assistants name them.

A first snapshot. Captured 3 June 2026 across 5 assistants. The plan is to re-run the same questions and watch how the ranking moves. How this works.
Number = share of an assistant's answers that named the app (%). Score = average of the 5 grounded assistants.
# App ChatGPT Claude Gemini Mistral Google AI · web Score
1
43
43
29
49
50
43
  • ChatGPT
    43
  • Claude
    43
  • Gemini
    29
  • Mistral
    49
  • Google AI · web
    50
2
31
37
26
31
50
35
  • ChatGPT
    31
  • Claude
    37
  • Gemini
    26
  • Mistral
    31
  • Google AI · web
    50
3
11
23
29
31
33
26
  • ChatGPT
    11
  • Claude
    23
  • Gemini
    29
  • Mistral
    31
  • Google AI · web
    33
4
3
11
20
26
33
19
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    11
  • Gemini
    20
  • Mistral
    26
  • Google AI · web
    33
5
14
14
17
3
33
16
  • ChatGPT
    14
  • Claude
    14
  • Gemini
    17
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    33
6
0
6
14
11
50
16

Name collision: "Speak" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    6
  • Gemini
    14
  • Mistral
    11
  • Google AI · web
    50
7
6
6
6
26
33
15
  • ChatGPT
    6
  • Claude
    6
  • Gemini
    6
  • Mistral
    26
  • Google AI · web
    33
8
0
9
11
3
50
15
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    9
  • Gemini
    11
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    50
9
6
11
11
14
17
12
  • ChatGPT
    6
  • Claude
    11
  • Gemini
    11
  • Mistral
    14
  • Google AI · web
    17
10
9
14
6
26
0
11
  • ChatGPT
    9
  • Claude
    14
  • Gemini
    6
  • Mistral
    26
  • Google AI · web
    0
11
6
9
11
6
17
10
  • ChatGPT
    6
  • Claude
    9
  • Gemini
    11
  • Mistral
    6
  • Google AI · web
    17
12
3
0
3
3
33
8
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    33
13
11
11
0
14
0
7
  • ChatGPT
    11
  • Claude
    11
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    14
  • Google AI · web
    0
14
0
6
0
6
17
6

Name collision: "Drops" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    6
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    6
  • Google AI · web
    17
15
6
6
3
11
0
5

Name collision: "Tandem" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    6
  • Claude
    6
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    11
  • Google AI · web
    0
16
3
11
3
3
0
4
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    11
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
17
0
9
3
9
0
4
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    9
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    9
  • Google AI · web
    0
18
3
3
11
3
0
4
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    11
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
19
6
0
3
6
0
3

Name collision: "ELSA Speak" is also a common word or a bigger brand, so matches are checked in context.

  • ChatGPT
    6
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    6
  • Google AI · web
    0
20
0
9
0
9
0
3
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    9
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    9
  • Google AI · web
    0
21
3
3
3
3
0
2
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    3
  • Mistral
    3
  • Google AI · web
    0
22
0
0
6
0
0
1
  • ChatGPT
    0
  • Claude
    0
  • Gemini
    6
  • Mistral
    0
  • Google AI · web
    0
23
3
3
0
0
0
1
  • ChatGPT
    3
  • Claude
    3
  • Gemini
    0
  • Mistral
    0
  • Google AI · web
    0

Google AI is a single web capture of the AI Overview for 6 of the prompts, not the full set, so treat its column as directional. Every other assistant runs the full prompt set once each.

A leader, and a disruption under it

Duolingo leads the category, named in more than four in ten grounded answers and ahead of every challenger. But ask specifically for an AI tutor and Duolingo nearly vanishes: on the best-AI-app-to-learn-a-language question, three of the four chat assistants and Google's AI Overview skip it and name Langua and Speak instead, AI-native apps built around conversation. The incumbent wins the generic question and loses the one about AI.

The assistant won't name itself

The obvious AI tutor is the assistant you're already talking to. Yet asked for the best AI-powered way to learn a language, Google's AI Overview recommends dedicated apps, not ChatGPT, not Gemini. It points you elsewhere rather than to itself, the mirror image of the self-preference I looked for in the AI index.