Pricing
Beginner stories and the daily challenge are always free. A free account opens with 7 days of Pro — no card. Go Pro when you want the full story library.
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Plus 7 days of Pro when you sign up — unlimited stories, no card. When it ends, all 3 of this month's stories are still unspent.
Every story, whenever you want it.
$12 per month
$79 per year
Billed monthly.
$6.58/mo, billed yearly.
Cancel anytime. Stories you unlock on the free plan are yours to keep.
Getting started is free, no card required: the daily challenge, A0 stories, curriculum lessons, vocab quizzes, and 3 full stories a month. A free account also opens every A1 story. Pro is $12/month (or $79/year) for unlimited stories at every level. See the pricing page for details.
You can play the daily challenge and explore stories without one. Log in to save vocabulary, run vocab quizzes, use speech recognition for pronunciation, and keep your streaks and progress.
No. The bottom of the ladder starts at the alphabet and the sounds, and the first stories are a few sentences long. Tap any word for its meaning and its audio as you read.
They’re written and edited for YoloSabo by a real person — never raw AI output, never textbook sentences. The bar is language you’d actually hear: everyday words and real turns of phrase. They’re short, self-contained, levelled by CEFR difficulty, and worth reading on their own.
One shared puzzle a day — everyone learning your language gets the same one. It plays right in your browser with no account, so it’s the fastest way to try YoloSabo. Come back daily to build a streak.
That’s the most common place people stall: you can recognise plenty, but native speed still washes over you and speaking still freezes. Start at A2 with a story you can follow, then do its listening and retell exercises rather than reading more. The daily challenge is a quick gauge of where you actually are.
That’s what the listening and retell exercises are for. You hear each sentence at real speed and write down what you caught — the same audio the story uses, so you’re not jumping from a graded voice straight into the deep end.
There’s no deck to build and no quota to clear. Review here is built from the words you actually missed, in the stories you actually read — not a pile you have to maintain.