Why I built FrenchAlly

Here is what a normal study session looked like for me while preparing the TCF Canada:

• two translator windows open, one for each direction,
• a conjugation website in another tab,
• a separate site to check whether a noun is masculine or feminine,
• my lesson notes split between Notion and Google Docs,
• and corrections from ChatGPT or Claude that disappeared as soon as I closed the chat.

Every tool was fine on its own. Together, they were exhausting — and none of them knew what I had already learned or kept getting wrong. Tracking my progress meant copying things by hand into yet another document. That was time I wasn't spending on French.

AI practice isn't the hard part anymore

There are already websites that will correct your writing or talk to you in French. That's useful, and FrenchAlly does it too. But for me the real problem was everything around the practice: looking things up, keeping notes, and remembering what to work on next.

I wanted one studio where the tools, the notes, the practice and the tracking live together — and where the tracking happens by itself.

What FrenchAlly does differently

• One toolbox, everywhere. Translate, conjugate and check genders from any page (⌘K), or just select a word to see its meaning.
• Word cards from anything you read. Select a word in a lesson, your notes or a correction and save it. It comes back as practice until you know it.
• Lessons first, then practice. Short grammar lessons from A1 to B2, each followed by exercises.
• Exam-length writing and speaking, corrected by a grammar checker and an AI coach together. When they disagree, FrenchAlly says it isn't sure instead of teaching you something wrong.
• Your mistakes, kept. Every correction is saved and brought back after one, three and seven days.
• Notes in the same place, sorted by date and topic, with titles written for you if you like.

Built in the open, with testers

I'm preparing for my own exam while building this, and a small group of beta testers is using it with me. If something breaks or a correction looks wrong, the Feedback button on every page comes straight to me, and you'll see my reply in your settings.

If you're on the same road — welcome. Bon courage.

— Asma