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.

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Questions? support@interpals.net
Pen pals & language exchange: meet friends worldwide and practice languages
Updated on
Oct 6, 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

26K 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.
7 people found this review helpful
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Waldijk Shakira
September 1, 2026
This app is absolutely ridiculous! It doesn't even give you the chance to select the languages you can speak,I thought my phone wasn't working, but it's the app's fault. Deleting rn! This app is not even worth 1 star. I have been trying to delete my account with no success.
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Zabi Jat
July 14, 2026
"InterPals is a great platform for making international friends, practicing languages, and learning about different cultures. The community is diverse and friendly, though users should always stay cautious when meeting new people online. Overall, it's a fun and useful way to connect with people from around the world."
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What’s new

• Search filters: Age, Sex, Languages and Location are at the top again.
• Interests in Search filters: a clearer layout, and results stay in place while you type.