Interpals: Penpals & Languages

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27.7K reviews
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Rated for 12+
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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]
Pen pals & language exchange: meet friends worldwide and practice languages
Updated on
Nov 2, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

27.4K reviews
Sparsh Goyal
September 3, 2026
The app is good but the monitoring is not good and overall its not safe, when you make many friends here they block your account or while you try to login it shows error it's means somehow they have ability to see everything what you are chatting and sharing, Additionally they don't monitor if someone reports they directly blocks your account and on mail they rarely respond.
19 people found this review helpful
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Shiva Bn
June 27, 2026
This is by far the worst app I have ever installed on my phone. My account was suspended without any explanation, and since then I have been completely locked out. I have emailed the support team multiple times asking them to delete my account, but they never respond. Because I can't log in, I have no way to delete it myself, and they refuse to do it on their end. If you care about your privacy and your personal data, I strongly recommend avoiding this glitchy app.
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Mehreen Zahra
September 13, 2026
Very inappropriate. Did not write anything violating terms, search for global friends and sent introductory message to two only. All of a sudden "account suspended due to suspicious activity". Didn't even use VPN. This is very unfair.
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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.