Well-known apps like Rosetta Stone, Duolingo or Babbel offer no Egyptian courses, but there are other apps for learning Egyptian that are just as good.
uTalk Egyptian App
Alternative to Duolingo or Babbel
Systems: Android App, iPhone App, Online Version
Content: Egyptian Arabic vocabulary (2000 words), lessons and playful exercises
Prices:
USD 12 (1 month and all 160 languages)
USD 60 (12 months and all 160 languages)
Discount offer: USD 199 (Lifetime Access to all 160 Languages)
Overall Value: 
The uTalk app teaches about 2000 Egyptian Arabic words and focuses primarily on playful exercises.
There are several exercises to choose from:
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Read and listen to Egyptian words (with translation and photos)
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Match the Egyptian word you heard to a photo
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Speak a Egyptian word and compare the recording with the original
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A memory game with pictures
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Speak the Egyptian translation of an English word
The vocabulary is divided into 60 freely selectable topics. The special thing about the uTalk app is that you get access to
all 160 languages.
The interface of the app is well made and is similar to other apps like Babbel, Duolingo or Mondly.
Summary: Getting access to 160 languages is impressive and the scope (2000 words with native speaker audio and exercises) is also solid.
Link: uTalk Egyptian Language Course App
Egyptian Basic Course
From 17 Minute Languages
Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS)
Suitable for: Beginners and Advanced Learners, Students, Professionals
Content: 1300 words (basic course), 5200 words (complete course), grammar, verb conjugations, exercises
Prices: USD 29,95 (Basic Course), USD 97 (Complete Course)
Overall Value:
The Egyptian Basic Course contains a vocabulary trainer for the basic Egyptian vocabulary (1300 words) with native-speaker audio, as well as grammar explanations and various exercises.
The vocabulary trainer works with a long-term memory method, in which the new vocabulary is checked at increasing intervals.
You can choose between text input, multiple choice or simply confirming whether you knew a word or not.
The exercises include text comprehension questions, filling in word gaps or just vocabulary lists where one side is covered.
The basic course corresponds to the official language levels A1 and A2 (explanation of CEFR language levels).
The Complete Course contains:
- Basic course for beginners (basic vocabulary with 1300 words)
- Intermediate course (1800 more words)
- Advanced course for experts (2100 words)
- Additional specialized vocabulary
- Covers the official CEFR language levels A1 to C2
There are 17 different languages you can use to learn Egyptian Arabic with this app.
Summary: Much cheaper and even better than the famous Rosetta Stone. There is a free demo version available and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Link: Egyptian Basic Course and Complete Course
Glossika Egyptian App
Egyptian for Advanced Learners
Systems: iPhone App, Online Version
Suitable for: Intermediate and advanced learners
Content: Egyptian advanced exercises
Prices: USD 17 (1 month and 1 language), USD 31 (1 month and all 64 languages)
Overall Value: 
The Glossika app is for people who already have some basic proficiency in Egyptian Arabic or already know a similar language or dialect.
The app has an entry test to determine your Egyptian Arabic proficiency level. You can start from A1 to B2 (beginners and intermediate).
Glossika works with whole sentences instead of single Egyptian words. You can choose which topics you want to learn.
This app has intentionally no "gamification". The only exercises are reading, listening, typing the sentences and speaking into the microphone.
There are also no grammar explanations. You are supposed to understand Egyptian grammar from the context, like in Rosetta Stone.
You can try the complete app with all 64 languages for 7 days for free (without providing payment information).
Summary: Effective exercises for advanced learners, but somewhat higher price and not much variety.
Link: Glossika Egyptian Language Course App
Mango Egyptian App
Includes Grammar
Systems: Android and iOS Apps, Online Version
Content: Egyptian lessons with native speaker audio, grammar, culture
Prices: USD 7.99 (1 month), USD 80 (1 year),
USD 18 (1 month and 70 languages), USD 180
(1 year and 70 languages)
Overall Value: 
The Mango Languages App offers 70 languages, including Egyptian.
This app also has some grammar lessons and cultural explanations. The explanations in English are all recorded and well done.
However, the number of lessons for learning Egyptian Arabic is quite small, which means that this app is only suitable for absolute beginners.
There are no exercises, except for the repeated vocabulary tests.
You can also record your own pronunciation in the app and compare it with the recording of a native speaker.
Summary: Good quality, but not much vocabulary. Only for absolute Egyptian Arabic beginners.
Bluebird Egyptian App
Egyptian Lessons and Exercises
Systems: Android and iPhone apps, online version (PC and Mac)
Content: Egyptian exercises with native speaker audio and speech recognition
Prices: USD 9.99 (1 month), USD 100 (12 months), USD 200 (unlimited), USD 400 (163 languages)
Overall Value:
The Bluebird App offers 146 source languages and 163 target languages and dialects, including Egyptian Arabic.
The Egyptian language course in this app includes the following:
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Daily video lessons in three difficulty levels
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Basic Egyptian vocabulary on several dozen topics
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Common Egyptian verbs with conjugations
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Analysis of your own pronunciation (with speech recognition)
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Tests: listening comprehension, filling in word gaps, vocabulary quizzes
There are about 500 video lessons for learning Egyptian, each 5 to 60 minutes long. For languages with other scripts, the words can also be displayed transliterated in the Latin script.
The Bluebird app has no grammar lessons. Instead, you are supposed to understand the grammar "implicitly" from the examples, like in Rosetta Stone.
Summary: The video lessons and the interface take some getting used to, but the exercises are quite varied. Especially for smaller languages, this app is a viable alternative.
Cudoo: Egyptian Course
Online Learning with Certificates
Systems: Online Access (PC, Mac, smartphones)
Content: Egyptian video lessons and quiz tests
Prices: USD 12.99 (one course), USD 24.99 (4-7 courses bundle)
Overall Value:
Cudoo is a kind of online university that offers courses with certificates on different topics.
This includes language courses for 160 languages. These are all beginner courses (CEFR level A1 and A2).
For each language there are 1-10 courses and each course has 20-40 lessons.
The lessons each include a short video with new vocabulary and there are short quiz questions below the video.
Summary: The videos are well made, so especially for smaller languages these courses are a good start.
Link: Cudoo Online Egyptian Language Course
Pimsleur: Egyptian Arabic
Most Expensive Software to Learn Egyptian
Systems: PC and Mac (incl. Mobile App)
Suitabe for: Beginners, advanced, students, travel vocabulary
Content: Egyptian vocabulary, lessons with native-speaker audio and speech recognition
Price: USD 150 (Basics)
Overall Value: 
The Pimsleur App is very similar to Rosetta Stone in that it does not give grammar explanations, verb conjugation tables, etc.
Instead, the Pimsleur method is supposed to let you learn the Egyptian Arabic dialect intuitively, just like your native language - by combining pictures, reading and speaking (speech recognition).
The complete course includes a total of five courses (levels 1 to 5). The beginner course is level 1.
Each of the five courses offers 30 daily lessons of 30 minutes each and there are various interactive exercises.
This Egyptian Arabic learning course for PCs and Macs also includes a mobile app for Android and iOS systems.
Summary: The most expensive Egyptian beginner course, even though it is unlikely that learning with it is much better than with the cheaper apps.
Overview of the Egyptian Arabic Learning Apps:
| Learning App |
Subscrip-
tion? |
Price |
Systems |
Value |
| uTalk | No | $199 | PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
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| uTalk | Yes
(1 month) | $12 | PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| uTalk | Yes
(12 months) | $60 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
17 Minutes
(Basics) |
No |
$29 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
17 Minutes
(Complete) | No | $97 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
Glossika
(1 language) |
Yes
(1 month) |
$17 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
Glossika
(64 languages) |
Yes
(1 month) |
$31 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| Mango |
Yes
(1 month) |
$8 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| Mango |
Yes
(12 months) |
$80 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| Bluebird |
No |
$200 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| Bluebird |
Yes
(1 month) |
$10 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
| Bluebird |
Yes
(12 months) |
$100 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
|
Cudoo
(one course) |
No |
$13 |
Online
Access |
|
Cudoo
(complete) |
No |
$25 |
Online
Access |
|
Pimsleur
(Basics) |
No |
$150 |
PC, Mac, Android, iOS |
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