We’ve spent the last five years creating a new way for you to learn, and we’ve been so humbled and happy to see the impact it has had on the world.
More than 25 million of you have used our visual, playful approach to learning language. We’ve been working incredibly hard to make the app work beautifully, to bring you more than 42 languages, and to scale our platform for educators, language learners, kids (with Droplets), and to support new alphabets (with Scripts). Drops has been recognized with awards from Apple, Google, and Fast Company.
All of this is great. But what motivates us more than anything is more users around the world discovering Drops, and having fun while learning a new language. Mark and I started Drops because we were tired of the old way language was learned, and we believed in finding a better solution. We think language can enrich your life, and we created Drops to suit learners of all ages and levels.
Today, we are proud to announce the next stage of our journey: Drops is joining the Kahoot! team. We’ve gotten to know Kahoot! for some time now, and we’ve been super impressed by their dedication and focus on making learning awesome (see announcement by Eilert Hanoa, CEO of Kahoot!)
Since its inception in Norway in 2012, Kahoot! has become a truly global brand by building an education platform that, like ours, is based primarily on making learning fun. Their mission is to make learning awesome by empowering all educators, teachers, students, and employees to unlock their learning potential. In the last 12 months, more than one billion participating players in over 200 countries attended over 200 million Kahoot! sessions.
We’re excited for the Drops team to become part of the larger Kahoot! Group, because we are perfectly aligned in our mission, and we’re both trying to make education better for millions of people around the world. Also, we know with Kahoot!’s knowledge and network, we’ll be able to help more people around the world discover the joy and effectiveness of learning languages through Drops.
Thank you to all our fans everywhere. While this is an important milestone for our business, our story is only getting started. Our product, vision, and roadmap remains unchanged — in fact, we will now have more resources and the ability to make Drops even better for you all. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on.
Daniel Farkas
Drops Cofounder & CEO
For more information check out the official press release here: Kahoot! acquires Drops to make language learning more awesome!
"Love my fun language learning and practice with daily Drops sessions, and monthly Challenges to participate in, and quiz mode to test contextual learning - brilliant! So much thought, consideration and inclusivity has gone into the design and function of this app, I can't praise it highly enough."
"Great little learning app! I've learned at least 5-10 new words in Spanish in my first 5 minutes. Easy to pick up and thorough."
"Great language learning app! It helps you get daily words done in a short amount of time. I would highly recommend using drops to learn whatever language you want to learn."
"What an amazing app! I’ve tried several apps for language learning and I cannot recommend Drops enough. I don’t know how a short Drops session can teach me as much as 1 hour+ of focused use of other apps, it’s like magic."
"Amazing language learning tool. Excellent app for increasing vocabulary in your foreign language of choice. Useful for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners. The repetition of the words makes them much easier to remember, and without the hassle of making your own flash cards. I have used Drops for two years now and have seen great results."
"Very engaging way of learning Yoruba in a stimulating way. Will be using to learn myself and to teach my child!"
"Less than a week in but using this alone with the popular one babbel working on German. When using just one app I got bored, babbel is not as fun. So using both at once actually let's my adhd do its thing but I still focused since I can switch easily between both apps and work in different areas. Also I like the quick little sessions makes me feel like I actually did something."
"So engaging. I speak Spanish well, but often forget words in conversation that I know I should know. This game is fun and quickly brings back vocabulary I may have put in the back of my brain after not using it for awhile. Case in point: I spent 11 years in construction, then went back to teaching in English and/or Spanish depending on the teacher/student"
"Amazing app"
"I have been desperate to find an app that really helps me learn Japanese and this is the best by far"
"I like that you can switch between different subjects and topics constantly and it’s really easy to learn a lot of vocabulary very quickly! This works perfect for me because I can learn a lot of words but then practice sentence structure with my grandmother whose from Croatia"
"Fantastic app great opportunity to learn languages on your spare time. Drops makes it easy to learn and retain words to formulate sentences."
"Best of the best. Awesome app in every sense"
"This app us the best and how I am doing Learning Ukraine is Helping me alot tnx"
"Definitely recommend! I'm using this to learn mandarin 10/10"
"Fun and interactive. Great for repetition!"
"Very engaging way of learning Yoruba in a stimulating way. Will be using to learn myself and to teach my child!"
"Amazing language learning tool. Excellent app for increasing vocabulary in your foreign language of choice. Useful for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners. The repetition of the words makes them much easier to remember, and without the hassle of making your own flash cards. I have used Drops for two years now and have seen great results."
"Great little learning app! I've learned at least 5-10 new words in Spanish in my first 5 minutes. Easy to pick up and thorough."
"I have been desperate to find an app that really helps me learn Japanese and this is the best by far"
"I like that you can switch between different subjects and topics constantly and it’s really easy to learn a lot of vocabulary very quickly! This works perfect for me because I can learn a lot of words but then practice sentence structure with my grandmother whose from Croatia"
"Fantastic app great opportunity to learn languages on your spare time. Drops makes it easy to learn and retain words to formulate sentences."
"What an amazing app! I’ve tried several apps for language learning and I cannot recommend Drops enough. I don’t know how a short Drops session can teach me as much as 1 hour+ of focused use of other apps, it’s like magic."
"Love my fun language learning and practice with daily Drops sessions, and monthly Challenges to participate in, and quiz mode to test contextual learning - brilliant! So much thought, consideration and inclusivity has gone into the design and function of this app, I can't praise it highly enough."
"Definitely recommend! I'm using this to learn mandarin 10/10"
"This app us the best and how I am doing Learning Ukraine is Helping me alot tnx"
