Pinguingo is a WhatsApp contact that chats with you like a language tutor. Daily voice notes, quick check-ins, on-the-fly corrections, spoken audio between meetings, on your commute, in line for coffee.
By month three, you’re not studying. You’re chatting. And you’re getting better.
$9/mo, first month free. Reply ‘stop’ before day 30 and you’re never charged. WhatsApp only, nothing to install.
You downloaded Duolingo. Started Babbel. Bought the Pimsleur set. Wrote “learn Dutch” on a goal list in January. It’s May.
The honest truth: you don’t have a learning problem. You have a finding-30-quiet-minutes-after-work-to-study problem. And every gamified mascot trying to drag you back into another app is making it worse.
Meanwhile, you spend 2 hours a day inside WhatsApp.
Here’s what changes: every day, a native-speaker bot pings you in WhatsApp. You reply back. It corrects you, gently. You message it on the bus, at the dinner table, before you fall asleep. A few months in, the WhatsApp habit is the study habit and you’re holding conversations you couldn’t hold last quarter.
Same WhatsApp contact. Pick your language, switch any time.
Set up once. Then just keep using WhatsApp like you already do.
Choose from 10+ languages. Tell us roughly where you’re at: absolute beginner, can-order-coffee, holding-conversations. Choose when you want to hear from the bot. 60 seconds, done.
One link. One reply. Nothing to install. Pinguingo lives as a single contact in the messenger you already check 50 times a day.
Wake up to a word. Send a voice note on the bus. Ask “how do I say…?” before dinner. The bot replies in your target language, with spoken audio, and gently corrects what you said. The conversation is the lesson.
A word, a phrase, a tiny prompt, landing in the chat you already check 50 times a day. By month two, your group chat thinks you went to night school.
Tap-and-hold to speak. The bot replies with native-speaker audio and a gentle written correction. The first time you record yourself out loud is the day your accent starts to fix itself.
Stuck for a word? Want to order food, write a birthday text, or argue about football in another language? Just message Pinguingo. It answers in your target language and in English. The conversation is the lesson.
Three a day, mornings only, weekdays only, exactly at 8:14am, you set the pace. Reply ‘more’, ‘less’, or ‘pause until Monday’ to retune in seconds.
Pick your active windows. Pinguingo is dead silent the rest of the day. We never send ‘you missed today’, because there’s nothing to miss.
Every word and example sentence arrives with clean audio in a native voice. Tap once, hear how it actually sounds, no IPA chart, no YouTube rabbit hole.
A menu you photographed in Lisbon. Your tutor’s list. The lyrics of a song stuck in your head. Pinguingo reads the page, translates the vocabulary, and weaves it into your daily WhatsApp chats, the same way it teaches everything else.
One photo. Any text, menus, signs, song lyrics, handouts, screenshots, even your scribbled notes.
We translate everything in seconds. Tap to keep the words you actually want. Discard the rest.
The words show up inside your daily WhatsApp chats in questions, voice notes, mini-conversations. Not flashcards. Real use.
Each piece below already exists as its own paid product. We pay for the underlying tools so you don’t. The whole stack lands in the chat you already check 50 times a day.
CorePinguingo Whatsapp Contact
Unlimited WhatsApp messages, voice notes both ways, and on-demand chat in your target language.
Costs: WhatsApp Business API delivery: ~$5–15/mo at typical usage
The Always-On Tutor
Message the bot anytime ‘how do I say…?’, ‘is this right?’, ‘rewrite this nicer’. Answers in your target language and in plain English. No 60-minute lesson to book. And the words you used today are remembered for tomorrow.
Costs: 1 hour/week with a real tutor: $30/hour
Voice-Note Coach
Tap-and-hold to speak. The bot replies with a native-speaker recording, generated by ElevenLabs’ best voices, and a gentle written correction.
Costs: ElevenLabs Creator subscription: $22/mo
AI conversation engine
Frontier-grade AI doing the listening, correcting, and replying. The same engine you’d pay to chat with directly, wired into a daily learning loop.
Costs: Claude Pro / ChatGPT Plus: $20/mo
The Daily Drip
A fresh word, phrase, or conversation starter dropped into your WhatsApp at the times you choose. Spaced-repetition under the hood so the words actually stick.
Costs: Memrise Pro / vocab apps: ~$10/mo
The Class-to-Chat Scanner
Snap any list, menu, sign, handout, song lyric. We extract, translate, generate spoken audio, and fold the words into your daily chat.
Quiet Hours & No-Guilt Pause
Timezone-aware. No 3 AM pings, no audio at the dinner table. Reply ‘pause’ for a week. No streak to break, nothing to apologize for.
Buy each piece separately
~$220+/mo · six different subscriptions to manage
All of it on one WhatsApp contact
We pay the API, the audio, the AI, you pay one bill
$9/mo · or $69/yr founders’ rate
First month free. Reply ‘stop’ before day 30 and you’re never charged. Founders’ rate locked in for the first 500 annual subscribers, after that, annual moves to $89/yr.
One WhatsApp contact, every day, in your target language. Card on file so we don’t have to ask twice. Reply ‘stop’ any time before day 30 and you’re not charged a cent.
Premium Monthly
First month free · cancel by replying ‘stop’
Premium Annual
Founders’ rate — first 500 subscribers only
Founders’ rate is capped at the first 500 annual subscribers. After the cap, annual moves to $89/yr. Existing founders keep $69/yr forever. Monthly stays $9/mo either way.
Try Premium free for 30 days. If by day 30 you can’t hold a 5-minute WhatsApp chat in your target language with the bot, in voice notes reply ‘stop’ and we refund every cent. No exit interview. No “are you sure?” loop. Keep the words. Keep the audio. They’re yours.
Because Pinguingo isn’t an app you have to remember to open, it’s a WhatsApp contact that messages you. The same chat habit you already have 50 times a day becomes the study habit. No streak, no mascot, no “you missed today.” And you reply by voice, in your real voice, like a friend, not by tapping the same five buttons in a tree of cartoon owls.
Unlimited daily WhatsApp messages. Voice notes both ways. The always-on tutor. Class-to-Chat Scanner. Quiet Hours. $9/mo, first month free or lock in $69/yr at the founders’ rate. The First-Conversation Promise.
Start chatting on WhatsAppFree for 30 days. Reply ‘stop’ before day 30 and you’re never charged. Founders’ rate capped at the first 500 annual subscribers, after that, annual is $89/yr.