Namaste English is the English-learning app from HinKhoj, the Jaipur company best known for its Hindi-English dictionary. It is aimed squarely at Hindi-medium speakers who want to move from reading English to speaking it, which is a different audience from the general-purpose language apps it competes with: Duolingo teaches many languages to speakers of many languages, while Namaste English teaches one language to one audience and uses Hindi to do it. The app is organised around four things: graded spoken-English practice across four proficiency levels, a virtual teacher feature called EnglishDidi, a grammar library running from beginner to advanced, and vocabulary games. The vocabulary and dictionary side is the most mature part, which is unsurprising given HinKhoj's history. What to watch out for: the free tier is a sample, not a course. Most of the catalogue on the website is marked as needing an "Unlimited Account", so treat this as a paid product with a free trial rather than a free app. More importantly, several reviewers report that some lessons contain outright errors — grammar tips that disagree with the answer key in the matching practice question. That is a real quality concern in a teaching product, and worth knowing before you rely on it as your only source. One number worth reading carefully: the app scores 4.05 with Indian users and 4.58 with US users on the identical pool of 41,986 ratings. The India figure is the relevant one for most people reading this page, and it is the one we store.
4.1/5 on Google Play Store, India locale (gl=IN): 4.05 from 41,986 ratings. The same listing reads 4.58 with gl=US on an identical rating count; the India figure is stored. · Last verified 2026-09-01
Free to start. The basic English workshop series and shopping vocabulary are free, and the app is free to download, but most of the course catalogue requires a paid "Unlimited Account". The app also carries ads. Treat it as freemium: usable free, but the full course library is behind a paywall.
For Hindi-medium learners specifically, it is a closer fit than Duolingo, because it explains English through Hindi rather than assuming English-language instructions. It is a weaker fit if Hindi is not your first language. Note that it has no pronunciation-scoring or live-tutor feature, so it does not replace ELSA Speak or Cambly.
Yes. It is made by HinKhoj InfoLabs LLP, whose Google-verified developer address on the Play Store is in Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017, India. HinKhoj is the same company behind the long-running HinKhoj Hindi-English dictionary.
The Google Play listing shows 1M+ downloads and 41,986 ratings as of 1 September 2026.
Yes. The most recent Google Play update was 19 January 2026, so it is actively maintained. This matters — several better-known Indian English apps are no longer maintained or have been delisted entirely.
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