{"id":110,"date":"2025-05-13T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/duolingo-is-replacing-hearts-with-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:49:00","slug":"duolingo-is-replacing-hearts-with-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/duolingo-is-replacing-hearts-with-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo is replacing hearts with energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duolingo is making a big change: it\u2019s moving on from hearts in favor of a new \u201cenergy\u201d mechanic. The idea is to switch from a system that punishes mistakes to one that\u2019s intended to feel more motivating \u2014 and a bit more gamified.<\/p>\n

Under the old system, you\u2019d lose a heart if you made a mistake while doing a lesson. To earn hearts back, you could do things like watch an ad, pay for a full refill using Duolingo\u2019s Gems currency, or just wait for the hearts to refresh.<\/p>\n

Under the new system, you\u2019ll spend one unit of energy to complete an exercise, and a mistake will cost one energy. But you\u2019ll also get extra energy back at a randomized rate for completing multiple lessons right in a row. As a result, users should be able to do more lessons, and that\u2019s what\u2019s showing up in the data, Moses Wayne, a senior staff engineer at Duolingo, tells The Verge<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe feel like this is a way that we can motivate you to focus on things you\u2019re getting right rather than penalizing for the things that you\u2019re making mistakes on,\u201d Wayne says. He also says that \u201cwe wanted to find a way to gamify the experience a little more.\u201d<\/p>\n

A full energy bar is 25 units of energy (versus five hearts). Energy regenerates over time, like hearts do, Wayne says. You can also buy more energy with Gems, and subscribers to Super Duolingo and Duolingo Max will have unlimited energy, similar to how subscribers of those tiers have unlimited hearts, according to Duolingo spokesperson Monica Earle.<\/p>\n

Wayne points out that, under the hearts system, you could fail out of your first lesson of the day. \u201cIn an energy world, that\u2019s really not going to happen because we\u2019re not penalizing you for mistakes anymore,\u201d Wayne says. Duolingo\u2019s aggregate metrics show that, in general, people are able to engage \u201ca lot more\u201d with Duolingo now than before.<\/p>\n

The change is rolling out first on iOS over the next weeks and months, and the aim is to bring it to Android later this year. If you happen to play Duolingo across iOS and Android right now, your Android app will stick with hearts, while the iOS app will stick with energy; they won\u2019t sync, Wayne says.<\/p>\n

Duolingo\u2019s CEO recently announced that the company is going to be \u201cAI-first,\u201d<\/a> and it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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