Interpals: Penpals & Languages
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About this app
Meet people from all over the world on Interpals — the original pen pal and language exchange community, online since 1998 and home to 8.5 million members.
Find someone in another country to write to. Practice a language with a native speaker. Make friends whose everyday life looks nothing like yours.
MAKE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD
• Search by country, city, age, and the languages someone speaks or is learning
• Browse real profiles and photo albums — no deck of cards to swipe through
• See who viewed your profile and who is online right now
• Message requests keep your inbox yours: you decide who gets through
• Join groups around shared interests and post to the community feed
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS
• Find a tandem partner: you help with your language, they help with theirs
• Practice real conversation — the everyday phrasing textbooks leave out
• Built-in message translation for when you get stuck mid-sentence
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi, Dutch, Polish and hundreds more
SEND MORE THAN TEXT
• Share photos and GIFs in chat
• Build photo albums on your profile
• Comment on photos and posts
A COMMUNITY, NOT A DATING APP
Interpals has been bringing people together since 1998. There is no swiping and no matching game. Members come here for genuine friendship, curiosity about other countries, and long correspondences — plenty have been writing to the same pen pal for years.
YOUR SPACE, YOUR RULES
• Block or report any member at any time
• A moderation team reviews reported profiles, photos, and messages
• You control what appears on your profile and who can contact you
• Minimum age 13
FREE
Creating an account, searching for members, and sending messages costs nothing.
Whether you are getting ready to travel, studying a language, planning to study abroad, or you simply want to talk with someone on the other side of the world — start on Interpals.
interpals.net
Questions? [email protected]
Find someone in another country to write to. Practice a language with a native speaker. Make friends whose everyday life looks nothing like yours.
MAKE FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD
• Search by country, city, age, and the languages someone speaks or is learning
• Browse real profiles and photo albums — no deck of cards to swipe through
• See who viewed your profile and who is online right now
• Message requests keep your inbox yours: you decide who gets through
• Join groups around shared interests and post to the community feed
LANGUAGE EXCHANGE WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS
• Find a tandem partner: you help with your language, they help with theirs
• Practice real conversation — the everyday phrasing textbooks leave out
• Built-in message translation for when you get stuck mid-sentence
• English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Indonesian, Hindi, Dutch, Polish and hundreds more
SEND MORE THAN TEXT
• Share photos and GIFs in chat
• Build photo albums on your profile
• Comment on photos and posts
A COMMUNITY, NOT A DATING APP
Interpals has been bringing people together since 1998. There is no swiping and no matching game. Members come here for genuine friendship, curiosity about other countries, and long correspondences — plenty have been writing to the same pen pal for years.
YOUR SPACE, YOUR RULES
• Block or report any member at any time
• A moderation team reviews reported profiles, photos, and messages
• You control what appears on your profile and who can contact you
• Minimum age 13
FREE
Creating an account, searching for members, and sending messages costs nothing.
Whether you are getting ready to travel, studying a language, planning to study abroad, or you simply want to talk with someone on the other side of the world — start on Interpals.
interpals.net
Questions? [email protected]
Pen pals & language exchange: meet friends worldwide and practice languages
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- Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews
27.5K reviews
Jake
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November 2, 2026
great concept. the problem is that no matter what parameters you or others put, you will see their profiles at some point. i also have concerns about the age range allowed on this app. kids should not be talking to strangers online especially from other countries. also, if i have my minimum age set to 27, and it set to females only, i shouldnt be getting tons of messages from men, and definitely not 18 year olds. that aside, there are tons of scammers and fake "catfish" profiles on this app.
chinyere precious
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November 1, 2026
Hello InterPals Support Team, I'm experiencing a frustrating issue with my account. Whenever I try to reply to someone's message, the app redirects me to phone number verification. Even after successfully completing the verification process, I'm still unable to send messages. My replies don't appear in the chat, and the app keeps redirecting me to verify my phone number again. I've tried several times, but the issue remains unresolving this
Arnold P. H.
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October 31, 2026
Why a friend's account suddenly appear "unavailable account"??? When I checked the detail it's written "disabled/ deleted"??? It can't be!!! We were still talking like 5 minutes before!!! The only possible deduction is that her account was banned! We both only have each other's as friends so I don't think she spoke to other people (she said she doesn't speak with others)! If this is so, then perhaps she's falsely banned or reported by someone she ignored or something! Please fix this issue!
InterPals
October 24, 2026
Thanks for the feedback. Many members wait for the first message, so try Search with filters for language and country and write first. A profile with a photo and a few lines about you gets more replies.
What’s new
• Phone verification: the Continue and Verify buttons stay above the keyboard.
• Verification on WhatsApp or Telegram: your code, our number and the send button come first.
• Push notifications arrive again when the notification tray cannot be read.
• Verification on WhatsApp or Telegram: your code, our number and the send button come first.
• Push notifications arrive again when the notification tray cannot be read.
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About the developer
Interpals, LLC
819 N Washington St
Tacoma, WA 98406-5445
United States
+1 253-617-1700
