Interpals: Penpals & Languages

InterPals

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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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Ratings and reviews

this is to limited because the search shows me all these people and when I try to add friend it says their settings don't let me add. but why? there is no reason just asking to add friend it should ask. if they don't want to they can decline but it won't even ask in the first place. so if they have this setting why show them up in my search results?? wasting time trying to find penpals, when all of them have settings that restrict it. bad design poor programming.

I have been on this app for years. But since yesterday, there has been a 'server connection' issue and an 'internet connection' issue. There is nothing wrong with my internet connection. I had uninstalled and redownload it to see if it would work again but I keep getting the same notifications for both of those issues. I cannot even log back into my account. it is really frustrating, please fix it!!

I enjoy using this app to find new people to talk to from all over, but the app is horrible. when I try to message people the words start to glitch and move. It makes typing very difficult and makes me a bit nauseous. Also, you have to click on things sooo many times before you can look at them. For example, when you try to fill out the bio information you have to press all over the screen before it lets you press the bar to type in or look at drop down items.

What’s new

Fixed
- Fixed a chat list display issue after sending a message.
- Improved handling of your privacy consent choices.