Yes. Prima Speak is free to start, with no card and nothing to install. You get 10 minutes of live speaking with Prima on your first day of practice and 3 minutes every day after that, the whole course, and 50 text messages a day. The Chrome extension is free too, and its subtitles never use minutes. If you want to speak for longer every day, Pro is $9.99 a month.
Here is what is free, what costs money, and how the minutes work. Start free: it runs in your browser.
Quick answers
- Is Prima Speak free?
- Yes, to start, with no card: 10 minutes of live speaking on your first day, then 3 a day, the whole course and 50 text messages a day.
- Is it a free trial?
- No, a free plan: your minutes come back every day, with no end date. Only Pro has a trial: 3 days free on a first subscription.
- What does Pro cost?
- $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, for 10 minutes of speaking a day and unlimited text chat.
- Is the Chrome extension free?
- Yes. It is free to install, and its subtitles and translations never use minutes. Practising out loud with Prima in it uses your daily minutes.
- Do I need an account?
- No. As a guest you can practise out loud for your first 3 days. Then a free account keeps everything you did, and your free minutes keep coming.
- Are there ads?
- No. The website and the Chrome extension show no ads, on the free plan or on Pro.
What the free plan includes
- Live speaking with Prima: 10 minutes on your first day of practice, then 3 minutes a day, about one short lesson.
- The whole course: real-life lessons from first words to advanced, each one played by Prima as the other person and scored at the end.
- Text chat with Prima: 50 messages a day.
- Everything around it: your reports, your Review list of words and Prima's notes about you.
- The Chrome extension's subtitles: the language you are learning with the translation in yours, at no cost.
What uses minutes, and what never does
Only time in a live speaking session with Prima uses minutes. Text chat, word review, reading your reports and the extension's subtitles never do. (Why minutes: we sell minutes, not tokens.)
- One allowance covers all your languages and all your devices.
- Silence ends a session: it closes by itself after 60 seconds of silence, so a forgotten tab cannot use up your minutes.
- A fresh allowance every day: your minutes come back at midnight UTC, and the app shows when that is where you are (in New York, 7 PM in winter). Minutes you did not use do not carry over to the next day.
When today's minutes run out
- A minute before the end, the screen says "1 minute left today." with a button for more minutes.
- In the last 30 seconds, Prima starts wrapping up, so the session ends on her summary, not mid-sentence.
- A free lesson that the day's end would cut off runs up to 60 seconds longer, free, so you finish it and get your report.
- After that, chat, word review and your reports still work, and your speaking minutes come back at midnight UTC. If you want to keep talking today, you can add minutes once or go Pro.
Pro: what it adds and what it costs
- 10 minutes of speaking a day, enough for a lesson and a real conversation, on every device you sign in on.
- Unlimited text chat with Prima.
- $9.99 a month, or $79.99 a year: about $6.67 a month, 33% less than paying monthly. Prices are in US dollars.
- A first subscription starts with 3 days free. You give a card at checkout, and it is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel before. One trial per account.
- Cancel any time in Settings, under Manage billing. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.
- Refunds: for a purchase on the website, write to hello@primaspeak.com within fourteen days of your first Pro payment and it is refunded in full.
Every plan and price on one page: Pricing.
Extra minutes, without a subscription
Extra minutes come in two packs: +30 minutes for $2.99 or +60 minutes for $4.99. You pay once. They never expire, they are used after your daily minutes run out, and they work on any device. A pack is refundable if none of its minutes were used.
Which is better? If you speak most days, Pro gives you more minutes for the money. If you practise now and then, a pack is simpler.
What is free in the Chrome extension
Prima Speak for Chrome (also on Microsoft Edge Add-ons) puts Prima beside the videos you watch, in your browser's side panel.
- Free: installing it, and subtitles in the language you are learning with the translation in yours. They need no microphone and no minutes, and they depend on what Chrome's speech recognition supports for your language.
- Uses your daily minutes: the practice moments. About every minute of speech, at the end of a line, the video pauses, you say the line out loud, Prima corrects one thing, and the video plays on.
- No account to start: as a guest you get subtitles at once and spoken practice for your first 3 days.
More in Prima Speak for Chrome, step by step and dual subtitles on YouTube, free.
Questions
Is Prima Speak really free?
Yes. The free plan has no end date and needs no card: 10 minutes of live speaking on your first day, then 3 minutes every day, the whole course and 50 text messages a day. You pay only if you want more speaking time.
How many free minutes does Prima Speak give you?
10 on your first day of practice, then 3 every day, enough for about one short lesson. They come back every day at midnight UTC, and one allowance covers all your languages and devices.
Do I need a credit card?
No. Only Pro's free trial asks for a card, at checkout.
Is Pro worth it?
If you want to speak for longer than 3 minutes a day, yes: 10 minutes is a lesson and a real conversation every day, for $9.99 a month, or about $6.67 a month on the yearly plan. Not sure? Start free, then try Pro: a first subscription has 3 days free.
What happens if I stop Pro?
You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for, then go back to the free plan's minutes. Your progress, your words and your reports stay in your account, and so do any extra minutes you bought.
Can I use Prima Speak on my phone?
Yes, in the browser: Safari on iPhone (iOS 15 or later) or Chrome on Android, with the microphone allowed. Your minutes are the same on every device.