Mondly Appears in 5.3% of AI Answers. Here's Our Five-Step Plan to Improve Its AI Visibility.

Mark HuntleyBy Mark HuntleyFounder and CEO
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Key Takeaways

  • Mondly was mentioned in 28 of 529 benchmark answers and recommended in 19, trailing category leaders by a wide margin.
  • November results were weaker than October, with both mentions and recommendations declining in the latest monthly snapshot.
  • No conflicting claims were recorded in the captured answers, so the first step is baseline measurement and fact verification.
  • Priority work centers on the Turkish lessons page, cited review articles, and comparison questions where Mondly is often absent.

Answer Capsule

In November 2026, Mondly appeared in 28 of 529 AI answers included in the Language Learning Software benchmark (5.29%). It received 19 recommendations (3.59%), with 8 Top 3 placements and 3 first-place recommendations. A mention means the company appeared in an answer; a recommendation means the answer affirmatively endorsed it.

Our plan compares the company with its competitors, checks conflicting AI claims against reliable sources, and identifies website pages, third-party sources and buyer questions to address. The historical results show how the figures changed across available months. Different monthly samples limit those comparisons, and conflicting AI claims require verification before corrections are proposed.

Current AI visibility

Questions This Section Answers

  • How do Mondly mentions, recommendations and placements compare with its Language Learning Software peers?

Mondly recorded 28 mentions (5.29%) and 19 recommendations (3.59%) across 529 answers included in the benchmark. Top 3 placements numbered 8; first-place recommendations numbered 3. Framing among its mentions was 19 positive, 9 neutral and 0 negative.

Rank

Company

Mentions

Mention rate

Recommendations

Recommendation rate

Top 3

Top 3 rate

#1

#1 rate

1

Duolingo

517

97.73%

473

89.41%

356

67.30%

234

44.23%

2

Babbel

473

89.41%

448

84.69%

379

71.64%

108

20.42%

3

Pimsleur

430

81.29%

416

78.64%

264

49.91%

28

5.29%

4

italki

323

61.06%

303

57.28%

85

16.07%

29

5.48%

5

Busuu

275

51.98%

259

48.96%

91

17.20%

8

1.51%

6

Rosetta Stone

199

37.62%

163

30.81%

55

10.40%

4

0.76%

7

Memrise

150

28.36%

129

24.39%

32

6.05%

2

0.38%

8

Lingoda

113

21.36%

103

19.47%

39

7.37%

6

1.13%

9

Mango Languages

57

10.78%

46

8.70%

12

2.27%

3

0.57%

10

Mondly

28

5.29%

19

3.59%

8

1.51%

3

0.57%

Mondly appears in a small share of the answers studied, and it is recommended less often than it is mentioned. That gap matters because a mention can sit in a list without any endorsement, while a recommendation is what a buyer may act on. The company also trails the leading apps by a wide margin, so the near-term opportunity is to be considered at all in more answers, not to overtake the category leaders.

Placement is thin as well. Only a handful of answers put Mondly among the top choices, and fewer still name it first. Positive framing is not the constraint here, since almost every mention reads favorably. The practical question is whether the company's own pages and the sources AI systems draw on give a clear, current reason to recommend it.

What changed since last month

Questions This Section Answers

  • How did Mondly counts and coverage differ across the available monthly snapshots?

Metric

Jul 2026

Aug 2026

Sep 2026

Oct 2026

Nov 2026

Mentions

46 / 520 (8.85%)

46 / 522 (8.81%)

47 / 558 (8.42%)

41 / 539 (7.61%)

28 / 529 (5.29%)

Recommendations

32 / 520 (6.15%)

37 / 522 (7.09%)

38 / 558 (6.81%)

28 / 539 (5.19%)

19 / 529 (3.59%)

Top 3 recommendations

8 / 520 (1.54%)

15 / 522 (2.87%)

11 / 558 (1.97%)

10 / 539 (1.86%)

8 / 529 (1.51%)

#1 recommendations

0 / 520 (0.00%)

3 / 522 (0.57%)

4 / 558 (0.72%)

1 / 539 (0.19%)

3 / 529 (0.57%)

From October 2026 to November 2026, Mondly's mention count fell from 41 to 28, while its recommendation count fell from 28 to 19. The recommendation rate was 5.19% and 3.59% respectively.

The monthly record shows a softer November than October on both mentions and recommendations. The recommendation rate moved down alongside the mention rate. These are separate selected samples, so the movement describes what was recorded in each month rather than a proven trend, and the difference in answer totals does not explain the change.

Earlier months were stronger, with mentions and recommendations both higher in the summer. Top-three and first-place counts have stayed small throughout, which suggests placement has never been a strength for Mondly in this benchmark. The agency would treat the recent movement as a prompt to check the underlying evidence, not as a verdict on any change in the market.

AI recommendation trend

Observed recommendation rate (%), Jul 2026 to Nov 2026

0%2.5%5%7.5%10%Jul 2026Aug 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026Nov 20266.15%Jul 2026: 6.15%7.09%Aug 2026: 7.09%6.81%Sep 2026: 6.81%5.19%Oct 2026: 5.19%3.59%Nov 2026: 3.59%
  • Mondly3.59%

Separate selected monthly samples. Missing points are unavailable, not zero. Provider/prompt equivalence is unverified; rate movement does not demonstrate causation.

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Step 1. Measure

Questions This Section Answers

  • What should the agency measure and verify first for Mondly?

AI answers contained 0 conflicting claims about Mondly: 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low. Of these, 0 were rated critical or high priority; the critical claims are included in that total. These ratings help prioritize fact-checking. They do not establish that a company or publisher made an error.

No conflicting claims about Mondly were recorded in the captured answers, so there is no obvious factual dispute to chase. That is a useful starting position, but it does not mean the company's story is being told well. The measurement step would build a scorecard that separates how often Mondly appears from how often it is endorsed, so the client can see where the real gap sits.

Alongside that, the agency would assemble a short list of claims worth checking against primary sources. With no flagged conflicts, this becomes a light verification exercise rather than a repair job, and it gives the client a defensible baseline before any content work begins.

Step 2. Make the website consistent

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which recorded claim differences about Mondly should be verified before proposed page edits?

No results are available for this part of the analysis.

Both columns quote AI answers, not verified company facts. Resolve the entity, date and source before deciding whether a correction is warranted; different dates can explain an apparent conflict.

This part of the analysis returned no results, so there are no disputed topics to resolve for Mondly. The agency would not invent corrections to fill the gap. Instead, it would confirm the company's core facts directly with the client and check that the website states them plainly and consistently.

Where any future AI answer appears to conflict with the site, the first step is to establish the entity, the date and the source behind the claim. Different dates can make two statements look contradictory when they are not. Only after that check would a page brief or correction be proposed, and only with current primary-source evidence in hand.

Step 3. Align the external narrative

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  • Which cited third-party pages are relevant to fact review for Mondly?

Cited page selected for review

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Answers mentioning the company

Conflicting claims linked to this page

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_US&id=com.atistudios.mondly.fa

2

2

0

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_GB&id=com.atistudios.mondly.fa

1

1

0

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=fa&id=com.atistudios.mondly.fa

1

1

0

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atistudios.mondly.fa

1

1

0

https://talkreal.org/en/blog/best-language-learning-app/

50

12

0

https://nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-language-learning-apps/

133

10

0

These pages were selected because they relate to the company in the captured answers. Their current contents still need checking before any correction request. A page linked to a conflicting claim is not necessarily its cause, and the same answer may contribute to more than one row.

The cited pages selected for review are mostly app-store listings and two independent review articles. The review articles were cited far more often than the store pages, and neither is linked to any conflicting claim. Citation volume is not proof of influence, so the agency would read each page as it stands today before deciding whether anything needs to change.

The store listings are worth a consistency check, since several language variants appear. For the review articles, the sensible move is a factual review of how Mondly is described, followed by a courteous, evidence-backed request only if something is clearly out of date. Publishers control their own pages, and a request is not a guarantee of an edit.

Step 4. Optimize priority company pages

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which observed Mondly website pages should receive review briefs?

Company website page

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Benchmark answers citing the page

Recommending answers citing the page

https://mondly.com/turkish-lessons

2

2

2

https://explore.mondly.com/free-vs-premium

1

0

0

https://mondly.com/

1

1

0

https://mondly.com/?AFFILIATE=90027&c=1

1

0

0

https://mondly.com/faq/learning-method-of-mondly-vr

1

0

0

https://mondly.com/privacy

1

0

0

https://mondly.com/vr/

1

0

0

The company's website was cited 8 times across 7 distinct page addresses; the table shows 7 pages selected for review. Zeros in the answer columns mean no matching answers were recorded. A cited page is not automatically a page that accompanied a recommendation.

Mondly's own site was cited across a small set of pages, and only one of them appeared in answers that also recommended the company. That page, covering Turkish lessons, is the clearest candidate for a page brief. The others, including the homepage, the free-versus-premium page and the VR pages, were cited without accompanying recommendations, which may simply mean those answers were not recommendation-style questions.

The agency would prepare briefs that use approved company facts and answer the questions a learner actually asks, such as how the free tier compares with premium or how the learning method works. Each brief would be checked against what the page already says before any new content is proposed.

Step 5. Publish around buyer questions

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which observed buyer questions support content briefs for Mondly?

Question observed in the research

Benchmark answers to this question

Company mentions

Company recommendations

Which language app teaches Farsi?

5

4

4

What is the best language course?

4

1

1

What is the best online language learning program?

5

1

1

What is the best program for kids to learn Spanish?

1

1

1

What is the best program for learning conversational French?

2

1

1

What is the best program to learn a language?

5

1

1

What is truly the best language app?

4

1

1

What's the best language learning tool?

5

1

1

These are recorded answer observations, not search volume, verified demand, or proof of missing website content.

The recorded questions cluster around broad comparisons, such as the best language app or program, plus a few specific ones about Farsi, Spanish for kids and conversational French. Mondly was mentioned in only a handful of answers to these questions, and the Farsi question is the one where it appeared most often. These are observed answers, not search demand.

The agency would turn the recurring questions into content briefs, starting with the comparison-style questions where Mondly is largely absent. Before writing anything new, it would check whether existing pages already answer those questions well. The goal is content that gives a clear, factual reason to include Mondly in a shortlist.

Our 90-day action plan

Questions This Section Answers

  • How should the agency sequence the proposed Mondly work and judge completion?

Period

Deliverable

Completion criterion

Days 1–30

Baseline scorecard, scoped fact-review register and page/source shortlist

Each record has an owner, evidence requirement and review status

Days 31–60

Approved page briefs and justified publisher requests

Separate confirmed edits, no-change decisions, requests and responses

Days 61–90

Buyer-content briefs and a fresh scorecard

Record work completed separately from measured answer outcomes and comparability limits

The first month establishes the baseline: a scorecard, a scoped fact-review list and a shortlist of pages and sources, each with an owner and a review status. The second month turns confirmed findings into approved page briefs and justified publisher requests, with clear records of what was edited, what was left alone and what was requested.

The third month produces buyer-question content briefs and a fresh scorecard. Throughout, completed work is recorded separately from any change in measured answers. The plan sets up the conditions for better visibility; it does not promise a particular movement in mentions or recommendations, and the monthly samples remain only partly comparable.

Methodology

Questions This Section Answers

  • How are Mondly answer metrics and citation populations defined?

This report covers 2026-11. The exact dates when the original AI answers were collected have not been verified. The visibility rates use 529 answers that met the benchmark's inclusion rules. A company is recommended only when the answer both endorses it and uses positive wording. Top 3 and first-place counts are part of those recommendations, not extra recommendations.

An answer can mention or recommend several companies, so company counts cannot be added to find the number of distinct answers. The net sentiment score is positive minus negative mentions, divided by all company mentions; it describes answer wording, not customer satisfaction.

The wider citation analysis covers 800 captured answers and 5437 appearances of cited URLs. Citation appearances across all captured answers differ from the number of benchmark answers citing a page and the number that also recommend a company. The current contents of cited pages and disputed company claims still need independent verification.

Monthly sample coverage:

Reporting month

Answers included

AI services covered

Services

Jul 2026

520

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Aug 2026

522

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Sep 2026

558

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Oct 2026

539

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Nov 2026

529

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

The answer samples differ between months. These comparisons show how the recorded results changed; they do not establish why they changed.

The answers were collected for the reporting month, but the exact collection dates are unverified. Visibility rates rest on the answers that met the benchmark's inclusion rules, and a company counts as recommended only when an answer endorses it with positive wording. Top-three and first-place counts sit inside those recommendations rather than adding to them.

An answer can name several companies, so company counts cannot be summed into a count of distinct answers. Sentiment describes answer wording, not customer satisfaction. The citation analysis covers a wider set of captured answers than the benchmark, and cited pages still need independent checking. Monthly samples differ, so comparisons show what was recorded, not why it changed.

Our first three priorities

The first priority is a focused page brief for the Turkish lessons page, the one owned page that appeared alongside recommendations. It should be checked against approved facts and shaped around the questions learners ask, since it is the clearest owned asset in the evidence.

The second is a factual review of the two independent review articles, which were cited far more than the store listings. Any request would follow verification of their current contents and would be framed as a correction only where something is demonstrably out of date.

The third is buyer-question content for the broad comparison queries where Mondly is mostly absent. Existing coverage should be checked first, and new briefs should give a plain, factual case for inclusion. None of this guarantees a rise in recommendations; it improves the evidence available to the systems that answer these questions.

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About The Author

Mark Huntley

Mark Huntley

Founder and CEO

Mark Huntley, J.D. is founder of CiteWorks Studio, a strategic advisory focused on visibility, authority, and recommendation presence in AI-shaped search environments. His work centers on embedding-level GEO, vector optimization, and cosine gap engineering — helping brands align their digital presence with the retrieval systems that increasingly shape discovery, interpretation, and choice.

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