Is Duolingo down for you? Here’s what’s going on (Update: Back)

Duolingo currently reports “increased errors” on its status page.

Leaderboards are down, and users are having trouble connecting to the app.

Duolingo shares that it’s investigating the incident but has no word yet on a fix.

Update, October 27, 2026 (05:09 PM ET): Well, that didn’t take long! Roughly 45 minutes after first reporting the outage, Duolingo is sounding the all-clear.

Original article, October 27, 2026 (04:37 PM ET): Keeping your Duolingo streak may be the single-most important feat you accomplish every day. Ok, so maybe that’s a smidge hyperbolic, but let’s not pretend that carrying a years-long streak isn’t one serious badge of honor. That’s exactly why we’re so upset when we learn about any service outage impacting Duolingo availability. We just got done dealing with one last week, and now there’s another getting in the way of our language study.