Clozemaster fills in the blanks. Immersed plans the hours of real language around them.
Clozemaster is a vocabulary game: a sentence with one word missing, thousands of them, sorted by how common the word is, with spaced repetition. Immersed shows what your hours were made of: each session is one of nine activities, so drill time and real input stay apart, and the mix explains your progress better than a total. It is a language immersion tracker and planner: a free plan built from your answers, a daily timeline for the shows, podcasts and books you learn from, and reports of your hours.
Free. About two minutes. No account, no card.
The short version
Checked October 24, 2026.
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Clozemaster and Immersed don't compete. Clozemaster is for growing vocabulary in context, and it is a favourite of learners past the beginner course. Immersed is not a flashcard app and doesn't teach vocabulary.
Immersed plans and tracks the hours you spend in your language. Log your Clozemaster rounds as Study or SRS, and they sit on the same timeline as your shows and podcasts. Use Clozemaster to drill, Immersed to plan the input and see what your hours were made of.
01What each one counts
Sentences mastered, or what your hours were made of.
Clozemaster counts sentences: how many you have played, how many are mastered, how far you are through the most common words. Points and a review queue keep you coming back. Most of its sentences and translations come from Tatoeba, a volunteer-built sentence collection.
Immersed counts sessions, and each one is one of nine activities: Active Listening, Passive Listening, Active Subtitles, Reading, Study, SRS, Speaking, Writing or Shadowing. Reports stack your hours by activity, chart how much you understood over time and link back to the shows and channels you spent the most time with.
Hours alone are one number. Your 1,000 hours and someone else's 1,000 are not the same if one of you spent half of them drilling. Clozemaster answers "do I know this word in a sentence?" Immersed answers "what did my time in the language look like this month?"
02Where it fits
A good drill for the middle stretch, not a replacement for input.
Clozemaster is usually recommended to intermediate learners: you already know the basics, and now you need thousands more words. Seeing each one in a full sentence helps. Reviewers also name its limits: it is not for complete beginners, its speaking mode is closer to pronunciation practice than conversation, and isolated sentences are not the same as following a story or a conversation.
That is where Immersed comes in. The free blueprint asks about your time, goals, level and what you already watch, then gives you milestones for your first months, a daily protocol and an Immersion Library of things to watch, listen to and read at your level. The words you drill then show up in real speech.
If quick rounds with points are what keep you going, Immersed has its own: free listening games in 12 languages (numbers, time, years, colors, animals and fruits; Korean has eight games), each with an all-time top 10 per language and a Challenge a friend link. Signed in, your play lands on the timeline by itself as listening time.
03Tracking Clozemaster time in Immersed
Press play, play a round, stop.
Immersed doesn't connect to Clozemaster or read its stats. Start a session in Immersed, pick Study or SRS, play your round, and stop. Forgot? Log the session afterward. You can also add a repeating Clozemaster task to your timeline with a reminder, say 15 minutes on the train.
Over a month you'll see how your time splits between drilling and input. If sentence drills start eating the hours meant for listening and reading, the time by activity chart shows it.
Side by side · checked October 24, 2026
Immersed and Clozemaster, feature by feature.
What it does
Vocabulary in context
Immersed · No, Immersed doesn't teach vocabulary
Clozemaster · Yes, fill-in-the-blank sentences by word frequency
Spaced repetition
Immersed · No
Clozemaster · Yes, a review queue
Listening practice
Immersed · Free listening games in 12 languages with leaderboards; YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts play in a session
Clozemaster · Cloze-listening and a hands-free Radio mode
Grammar practice
Immersed · No
Clozemaster · Grammar Challenges on Pro
What to watch, listen to and read
Immersed · Library in 22 languages and Discover
Clozemaster · No
Planning
A plan built from your answers
Immersed · Free blueprint
Clozemaster · No
Daily timeline
Immersed · Wake up to Wind down
Clozemaster · No
What to do today
Immersed · Planned tasks with reminders
Clozemaster · Reviews due and new sentences
Tracking
Hours broken down by activity
Immersed · Nine activities, stacked in reports
Clozemaster · No
Time spent drilling
Immersed · Logged as Study or SRS sessions
Clozemaster · Not the main stat
Sentences played and mastered
Immersed · No
Clozemaster · Yes, with advanced web stats on Pro
Comprehension rating per session
Immersed · Yes
Clozemaster · No
Automatic tracking
Immersed · One press to start; Discover scroll and games log themselves
Clozemaster · Every answer is logged
Export
Immersed · PDF, Excel, CSV
Clozemaster · Not built in
Apps and price
Languages
Immersed · Any; Library in 22, hand-picked Toolkit in 11
Clozemaster · 50+ languages, 170+ language pairs
Platforms
Immersed · Web app on phone and computer; Android app in testing for Google Play
Clozemaster · Web, iOS and Android
Free plan
Immersed · Blueprint, games with leaderboards, Discord, sample app
Clozemaster · Yes, with a daily sentence limit
Paid plan
Immersed · $60 a year or $9.99 a month
Clozemaster · Pro, US App Store: $69.99 to $79.99 a year, $8.99 to $12.99 a month
Credit where it's due
Both are good. At different things.
What Clozemaster does well
- Vocabulary in real sentences, so you learn how a word is used, not just what it means
- Sorted by word frequency, so the most useful words come first
- Over 50 languages and 170+ language pairs, including many that big apps skip
- A free tier that is useful on its own
- Cloze-listening and a hands-free Radio mode for the commute
- Quick rounds with points that make a few minutes on the train feel like a game
- A good next step for intermediate learners who have outgrown a beginner course
What Immersed does that Clozemaster doesn't
- Counts the hours you spend in your language, not the sentences you play
- Plans your day on a timeline, with a Clozemaster round as one task among many
- Breaks your time into nine activities, from Passive Listening to Shadowing, with Study and SRS among them
- Asks how much you understood, and charts comprehension over time
- Tells you what to watch, listen to and read in your language
- Exports reports as PDF, Excel or CSV
- Has free listening games in 12 languages with an all-time leaderboard for each game and language
Pick Clozemaster if
- You know the basics and want to grow vocabulary fast, in context
- You want quick, game-like rounds for spare minutes
- You learn a language that few apps cover
- You want sentence-level practice in addition to your input
Pick Immersed if
- You want to know how many hours of real input you are getting
- You want a plan for where drills and immersion fit in your day
- You want to see if drilling is taking time away from listening and reading
- You want help finding things to watch, listen to and read at your level
Use both, or move over
Drill in Clozemaster, immerse and count it in Immersed
Keep Clozemaster for your daily round. In Immersed, add it as a repeating task at the time you usually play, and log it as Study or SRS. Then plan the bigger blocks around it: an episode at lunch, a podcast on the commute, a chapter before bed.
Clozemaster tells you which words you know in a sentence. Immersed tells you how much time you spent hearing and reading those words in real use, and how that time is split.
Pricing · checked October 24, 2026
What each one costs.
Immersed
- Free: the blueprint for one language (with the Toolkit, Library picks and the Fluency Checklist's Foundations), the listening games in 12 languages with their leaderboards, Aim Runner, the Discord and the sample app. A free account also gets the Fitting Room's day-one outfits, Hour Marks and badges from game time.
- Immersed Pro: $60 a year (starts with a free week, about $5 a month) or $9.99 a month. Timeline, sessions with the nine activities, Discover, Library, Growth and reports, monthly Sprints, more languages.
Clozemaster
- Free: sign up and play for free. Free accounts have a daily sentence limit; users reported 30 sentences a day when it started in 2022.
- Clozemaster Pro: unlimited play, unlimited listening practice in 30+ languages, Grammar Challenges, custom review settings, advanced stats and offline downloads.
- Pro on the US App Store: yearly plans listed at $69.99 and $79.99, monthly at $8.99 and $12.99. The yearly plan on the web comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Clozemaster's own Pro page loads prices for your region, so check it there or in your app store. Both are cheap next to a tutor. The question is not which one, but whether you also want a plan and a record of your input hours.
FAQ
Questions people ask.
Is Clozemaster good for intermediate learners?+
It is one of the most common picks for that stage. Once you know the basics, it drills thousands of words in full sentences, most common first. It won't teach you to follow a conversation by itself, so pair it with plenty of listening and reading.
Is Clozemaster free?+
Yes, you can sign up and play for free, with a daily sentence limit. Clozemaster Pro adds unlimited play, more listening practice, Grammar Challenges, offline downloads and more stats. On the US App Store when I checked on 24 October 2026, Pro was $69.99 to $79.99 a year or $8.99 to $12.99 a month.
Where do Clozemaster's sentences come from?+
Clozemaster's FAQ says its sentences and translations come from Tatoeba, a user-curated collection released under a CC-BY license. That is why some sentences can be odd or uneven.
Does Immersed replace Clozemaster?+
No. Immersed is not a flashcard or vocabulary app. It plans, tracks and shows your immersion. Use Clozemaster to drill words, Immersed to plan and count the hours of input.
Should I log Clozemaster as Study or SRS in Immersed?+
Either works, as long as you stay consistent. SRS fits if you mostly clear your review queue, Study if you mostly play new sentences. Both keep the drill time separate from your listening and reading hours in your reports.
Can Immersed read my Clozemaster stats?+
No. Immersed doesn't connect to Clozemaster or read its stats. You press play when you start a round, or log it afterward. The parts of Immersed that log themselves are the Discover scroll and its own free listening games.
More comparisons
Stop guessing. See what your hours add up to.
Answer a few questions and Immersed builds your plan: a daily routine that fits your life, milestones for your first months, and things to watch at your level. Free, about two minutes, no account needed.
The plan is free and stays free. No card.
Checked October 24, 2026 against published product information. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, tell me on Discord and I'll fix it.