How To Beat The Heart System In Duolingo (November 2025)

Duolingo is a popular language learning app with 40 + language courses. The app is popular for its gamified way of learning a new language with bite-sized lessons.

Duolingo has a plethora of other features that make learning fun. One of them is the Heart System. 

Duolingo heart system helps in the learning journey. However, users can lose hearts by making mistakes.

When you lose all hearts on Duolingo, you will not be able to continue your learning process until the hearts are automatically restored.  

Also Read > How to Get Unlimited Hearts On Duolingo

From what is the Heart System, why is it important, to how to restore it, this post has got you covered.

Without any further ado, let’s get started:

What Are Hearts on Duolingo?

Duolingo hearts are helpful in the learning process on the app.

As you begin a course, you receive  5 hearts and with a wrong answer, you lose one heart.  

As soon as you lose all five hearts, the study process will come to a standstill.

After that, you need to wait for four hours to get your heart back and continue the learning process.    

However, there are other ways to regain the lost hearts in Duolingo. To learn what those methods are and how they work, you need to keep on reading.

How to Restore Hearts On Duolingo?

Here are some easy ways to regain hearts on the Duolingo app:

Practice Exercises

Learners need to practice what they have learned earlier to regain hearts as many times as they wish. 

  • Tap on the Hearts icon.
  • Next, tap on Practice. 
  • For each lesson, you gain a heart.

Also Read > Duolingo Practice To Earn Hearts Greyed Out Fix

Watch Ads

When you begin a lesson or when you complete a practice session on Duolingo, you will get an option to watch ads to gain hearts.   

Spend Gems

You can restore hearts by spending Gems.

You need to pay 450 gems to gain hearts or buy hearts outside the lesson for 350 gems. 

Subscribe to Super Duolingo 

Subscribing to Super Duolingo will get you features like unlimited health, zero ads, and unlimited hearts.

Also Read > Duolingo vs Super Duolingo

If you are a Super Duolingo user, you can complete as many lessons, without worrying about mistakes so no heart is lost.

  • Open your Duolingo app.
  • Tap on the Super Duo icon.
Duolingo Heart System
  • Tap on the Unlimited Hearts.
  • Switch it on.

Duolingo For Schools

  • Open Duolingo app.
  • Go to the settings menu.
  • Choose ‘Duolingo for Schools‘.
  • Enter the classroom code.
  • Join the class.
  • You can now enjoy unlimited hearts.   

Duolingo Max

Another method to gain hearts is by using Duolingo Max but it is available to select users currently.  

Desktop  

The desktop version of Duolingo has no heart system. However, as per the latest update, Duolingo has added the heart system on the Desktop now.

Translators

As you move ahead in your course, the exercises will become more tough and there will be more mistakes.

To avoid making mistakes while learning, one must use a translator. 

We do hope you found this guide helpful for more queries share them with us in the comment section.

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