Choosing a citizenship test app

Five things that matter

1. It has both the 128-question 2025 bank and the 100-question 2008 bank, and lets you switch.
2. It offers flashcard or free-response practice, not just multiple choice.
3. It tracks individual questions across sessions, not just a score per quiz.
4. It can show questions in your own language beside the English.
5. It works offline.

Everything else — themes, streaks, leaderboards — is decoration.

1. Both question banks

This is the one that disqualifies most apps. Two versions of the civics test are live at the same time, and which one you take depends on whether you filed Form N-400 before or on/after 20 October 2025. An app that only carries the 100-question list is out of date for every new filer. An app that only carries the 128 is wrong for everyone still in the older queue.

Check before you commit: can you switch versions in the settings? If not, the app is guessing on your behalf.

2. Oral-style practice

The real test is an officer asking you a question out loud. Multiple choice measures recognition; the interview measures recall. They feel similar and they are not, which is why applicants score 90% on quiz apps and then blank in the interview room.

A good app gives you a mode where the answer is hidden until you have committed to one — a flashcard with honest self-grading. Use multiple choice to learn, and that mode to verify.

3. Per-question tracking

A score of 8/10 tells you almost nothing. What you need to know is which questions you keep missing, across weeks, so those come back more often and the ones you know cold stop wasting your time.

Look for a mastery view broken down by category, not just a history of past scores.

Study the whole bank on your phone

All 128 questions of the 2025 version and all 100 of the 2008 version, offline, with mastery tracking per category and study in your own language. Free on iPhone and Android.

4. Your own language

If English is not your first language, seeing the question in your language next to the English is not a nice-to-have. It is the difference between memorising sounds and understanding what you are being asked. And unless you qualify for a 50/20, 55/15 or 65/20 exemption, you will have to answer in English — so you need both at once, not one or the other.

5. Offline access

The study that actually happens is the study you do in gaps — on a bus, in a waiting room, on a break. Those are exactly the places with bad signal. An app that needs a connection to load the next question loses most of its useful moments.

How ours is built

US Citizenship Civics Test is free on the App Store and Google Play, and it is built against the five criteria above:

• Both banks, switchable under Settings → Quiz Version: all 128 questions of the 2025 version and all 100 of the 2008 version, taken verbatim from the official USCIS lists.
• Mock interviews in the real format — 20 questions with a 12-question pass mark on the 2025 version — plus quick quizzes and a daily challenge.
• Mastery tracking per category and per question, with statistics showing where you are strong and where you are not.
• Multilingual study in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Swedish and more, always alongside the English.
• Fully offline, and it uses your state and ZIP code to handle the location-dependent questions.

The app is free to download and the core studying is free. A subscription unlocks PRO features — category quizzes and advanced statistics. The practice engine on this website is free with no account and no limits, so try it here first and only install the app if it is doing something you want.