Which language learning app has the best progress reports?

Hours are one-dimensional. Two people with 1,000 hours can be in very different places, because what you did in those hours is the thing. So a report for a language learner has more to do than a timesheet. These are the five things I looked for in every app.

Toggl Track has some of the best time reports anywhere, and a lot of immersion learners use it. The Summary report shows headline totals, a bar chart by day, a donut by project, client or tag, and a grouped list underneath, with strong filters and rounding. Detailed lists every entry, and Workload (the old Weekly report) shows hours per grouping across any range.

The free plan gives you personal reports and PDF export in portrait or landscape. CSV and Excel export, saved reports and sharing start at Starter, $9 per user a month billed yearly. Stacking the daily bars by project or tag is Premium, $16. Toggl 2.0 (the new Toggl, now the default for new sign-ups) lists CSV export on its free plan, so check which Toggl you are on.

For a learner, Toggl shows what you set up. Make one project per activity and the donut shows your mix. It has no idea of comprehension, and it won't link back to the show you watched. It suits anyone who wants a free, exact stopwatch on every device and doesn't mind building the system. The full comparison is in Toggl reports vs Immersed reports.

Clockify's Summary report draws a bar per day, stacked by project or split by billable time, with the total printed above each bar, plus a donut beside a grouped table. Its reminders and idle detection are free, which is generous.

PDF export is free. CSV and Excel need the Basic plan or higher (from $3.99 a seat a month, yearly), and free reports cover up to a one-month range at a time. Like Toggl, it is built for teams and billable hours, so activities and comprehension are whatever you build with projects and tags. It suits learners who already use it for work.

A spreadsheet is the classic immersion log, and it deserves credit. It is free, private, and it will still open in twenty years. Some learners build lovely things in it: weekly columns stacked by language, monthly pies by activity, a year grid with each day coloured in.

It shows exactly what you designed and nothing you didn't. There is no timer, no reminders and no links unless you type them, and every chart is a formula you maintain. The export question doesn't come up, because the sheet is the record. Notion works the same way, with templates from free to about $15. It suits people who enjoy building their own system. See Immersed vs a spreadsheet.

These answer a different question from an hours report, and they answer it well.

Anki has the statistics most learners know: cards due, a calendar of review days, reviews per day split into new, young and mature cards, retention and more, for a deck or your whole collection. A Save PDF button saves the whole page. It counts cards, not hours of immersion, which is right for flashcards. Free on desktop, Android and the web; the iPhone app is paid.

LingQ shows known words, LingQs, listening hours and words read as cumulative and daily charts over a range you pick, with a weekly summary against your goals. Listening and reading inside LingQ are counted for you; time outside it you add by hand. I found no export for the statistics. Premium is $14.99 a month in its iPhone app.

Migaku counts your known words, marks each word's status, and tells you roughly how much of a page or episode you should understand from the words you know. Users report a newer statistics page with a streak and a heat map; I couldn't find official documentation of an hours chart. See Migaku's pricing page for current plans. Disclosure: I worked at Migaku, and there is a partnership. Signing up through Immersed's link gets you an extra month of Migaku free and 30 days of Immersed Pro.

Many learners keep one of these for words and a tracker for hours. They pair; they don't compete.

These are built for immersion, so they speak a learner's language from the start.

Immersed was built around the question a timesheet can't answer: what were my hours made of? Every session is one of nine activities (Active Listening, Passive Listening, Active Subtitles, Reading, Study, SRS, Speaking, Writing, Shadowing), with the actual show or book attached and a rating from 1 to 5: comprehension for input, flow for output.

In Growth, Reports & analytics, the Summary covers a week, a month, a year, all time or any dates. It shows each day as a bar stacked by activity, a comprehension line you can lay over the chart, a consistency grid with your streak and your best, your activity mix, and your top 10 shows, channels, podcasts and books with links back to them. Detailed lists every session, with search and filters.

The big trackers don't rate comprehension per session. To be fair, they aren't the only option: one small Chrome tracker, Arthur Immersion Tracker, shows a comprehension distribution too. Immersed puts the rating on the same chart as your hours, so you can see whether the same shows are getting easier.

The PDF is made for a learner's month, not a client. It prints in landscape, with each day's bar stacked by activity colour and no minutes squeezed inside the bars. You give it your own title (it starts as "Korean Immersion Report", with your language), pick the sections, and it prints Korean, Japanese and Chinese titles in proper fonts with the links still clickable. It includes Activity and Time Entry breakdowns, so you see both the mix and the shows.

Every PDF you save goes into My reports. Share makes a short link anyone can open without an account, valid for 7 days. Summary also exports to Excel, and the Detailed tab exports your whole log as one CSV of 14 columns: language, activity, title, platform, link, start date and time, end date and time, duration, comprehension score, tags, notes and time zone. All of this is part of Immersed Pro, $60 a year with a free week first or $9.99 a month.

Where Immersed falls short: there's no free report, no idle detection, it never counts your viewing on its own (every session starts with a press), and there's no iPhone App Store app yet (the web app installs on iPhone).

The short version. "Paid" means it needs a paid plan. Prices are in US dollars as listed on October 26, 2026.

If you already have a history in Toggl or a spreadsheet, bring it in first so your report covers it.