How to Cancel Duolingo Super or Max (2026)

To cancel Duolingo Super or Max, you cancel wherever you signed up: through Apple's App Store or Google Play if you subscribed on your phone, or at duolingo.com if you subscribed on the web. Most people subscribed inside the iOS or Android app, and that is the catch. There is no cancel button inside Duolingo itself, so you have to cancel through Apple or Google. Deleting the app does nothing to the billing.

Find your billing source below and follow those steps. The good news: whatever you do, your streak, XP and finished lessons survive. Cancelling drops you to the free tier, not to zero.

Which billing source do you have?

You subscribed through one of three channels. Your receipt tells you which.

• Apple sends receipts from apple.com. Cancel in iPhone Settings.
• Google sends receipts from Google Play. Cancel in the Play Store app.
• The web (you paid by card at duolingo.com) means you cancel in Duolingo's own settings.

If you paid on your phone, Apple or Google is the merchant of record. Duolingo cannot cancel that subscription for you, and its own settings page will not show it.

How to cancel through Apple (iPhone/iPad)

1. Open Settings on your device and tap your name at the top
2. Tap Subscriptions
3. Find Duolingo in the list and tap it
4. Tap Cancel Subscription and confirm

You keep Super or Max until the end of the period you already paid for. Apple does not prorate.

How to cancel through Google Play (Android)

1. Open the Google Play Store app
2. Tap your profile icon (top right), then Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions
3. Tap Duolingo
4. Tap Cancel subscription and follow the prompts

Access continues until your current billing date, then the account reverts to free.

How to cancel on the web (duolingo.com)

Only use this if you paid by card directly on the website. If you subscribed in the app, this page will look empty.

1. Sign in at duolingo.com
2. Click your profile picture (top of screen), then Settings
3. Select Super Duolingo from the sidebar
4. Click Cancel subscription and confirm

Cancelling the Duolingo Family plan

The Family plan cancels the same way, through whoever you bought it from (Apple, Google or web). The plan manager (the account that pays) is the only one who can cancel. Members you invited cannot cancel the plan themselves, they can only leave it. When the paid period ends, every account on the plan drops to the free tier and keeps its own streak and progress.

Cancelling a free trial before it charges

Duolingo runs a two-week free trial on Super. To leave without paying, cancel before the trial's last day. Cancelling during the trial does not cut you off early, you keep the trial features until it expires, and no charge lands after that. Cancel through the same billing source you started the trial in (Apple, Google or web). If you are on the last day, do it now rather than at 11:59pm, since payment can process the moment the trial clock runs out.

Current pricing

Duolingo lists prices in USD and does not publish an Australian rate card. When you subscribe from an Australian App Store or Google Play account, the checkout screen converts to AUD, so the number you actually pay sits above the USD sticker. A $95.99 USD annual Super plan lands near $150 AUD at mid-2026 exchange rates, before any Apple or Google markup.

Duolingo's Australian Family plan has been listed around $174.99 AUD/year. If Super for one person is the goal, the annual plan (roughly $8 USD/month equivalent) costs a fraction of paying monthly.

Super vs Max: Super removes ads and the hearts limit. Max adds AI conversation practice (Video Call and Roleplay) on top for more than double the price. As of January 2026, the "Explain My Answer" feature that used to be a Max headline is free for everyone, which narrows the reason to hold onto Max.

What you keep on the free tier

The free tier is one of the most generous in language learning. You keep every one of Duolingo's 40+ courses with unlimited lessons. What you give up when you drop Super:

• Ad-free lessons (ads return between lessons)
• Unlimited hearts (mistakes cost hearts on mobile, and running out pauses you until they refill)
• Offline lessons
• Progress quizzes and mistake review

Your streak, XP, and completed lessons stay exactly where they are.

Pro tip: Duolingo's web version (duolingo.com) has no hearts system at all. If you mostly learn at a desk, switch to the browser and the free tier barely feels different from Super.

The guilt trip

It is a cartoon owl and it will recover. If the notifications bother you, turn them off in your phone's notification settings before or after you cancel.

The cancel flow itself is clean. Apple and Google process the cancellation with no retention screen, no discount pop-up, no phone call. You click cancel and it is done. The guilt lives in the marketing, not the checkout.

Frequently asked questions

Why can't I find the cancel button in the Duolingo app?

Because the button is not there. If you subscribed on your phone, Apple or Google handles the billing, and Duolingo has no control over it. Cancel in iPhone Settings > your name > Subscriptions (Apple) or the Play Store app > Payments & subscriptions (Google). Only web subscribers, who paid by card at duolingo.com, cancel inside Duolingo's own settings.

Will I lose my streak?

No. Cancelling has no effect on your streak, XP or completed lessons. You move to the free tier and everything you have built stays. The only way to lose a streak is to miss days of practice, and even then a Streak Freeze can cover a missed day.

How do I cancel a Duolingo free trial?

Cancel before the trial's final day, through the same channel you started it in (Apple, Google or web). Cancelling mid-trial does not end your access early, you keep the trial features until the two weeks are up, and no charge follows. Leave it until after the trial ends and Duolingo bills you for a full term with no prorated refund.

Can I still use Duolingo for free?

Yes. The free tier keeps every course and unlimited lessons. You get ads between lessons and a hearts limit on mobile that pauses you when you run out. The web version has no hearts at all, so learning at a desk feels close to the paid experience.

How do I get a refund?

Duolingo does not prorate, so cancelling stops the next charge but does not refund the current period. Refunds after that go through whoever billed you. For App Store purchases, request one at reportaproblem.apple.com; for Google Play, use the Play Store's order history. Under Australian Consumer Law you can also ask for a refund if the service was missold or failed to work as described, though a change of mind alone is not covered.

Do you actually need Super?

For most casual learners, no. The free tier covers what you need to learn a language. Super earns its keep if you do daily lessons on mobile and the hearts system keeps stopping you, or if ads between every lesson annoy you enough to pay $8/month (annual) to remove them. Max only makes sense if you will use the AI conversation practice often.

Unsure? Cancel, run the free tier for a month, and resubscribe if you miss it. Duolingo makes leaving easy and coming back easier.

If a lapsed learning habit is the real problem rather than the price, the fix is the same one that works for Skillshare and Coursera: cancel the charge, keep the intent, and re-up only when you are actually using it. Our subscription cancellation masterclass walks through doing that across every app on your statement.