--- title: "OralPrep vs Frantastique: French Course or Oral Exam Simulator?" description: "Frantastique teaches French in short daily lessons. OralPrep rehearses the DELF and TCF oral and scores it. Prices, strengths and how to combine them." lang: "en" slug: "oralprep-vs-frantastique" pubDate: 2026-09-15 alternates: en: "oralprep-vs-frantastique" es: "oralprep-vs-frantastique-comparativa" fr: "oralprep-vs-frantastique-comparaison" de: "oralprep-vs-frantastique-vergleich" it: "oralprep-vs-frantastique-confronto" ar: "oralprep-vs-frantastique-muqarana" --- **Last updated: 15 September 2026.** We checked the prices and features of both services on that date, using Gymglish's own pages for Frantastique. *Disclosure: OralPrep publishes this blog, so we are an interested party. Where Frantastique is the better choice, we say so.* **Frantastique is a French course; OralPrep is an oral exam simulator.** Frantastique sends you a short lesson every day and builds your grammar, vocabulary and listening over months. OralPrep runs the DELF or TCF speaking test with the official timing and scores your answers against the official criteria. If your French is still below the level of your exam, start with a course such as Frantastique. If you already have the level and need to rehearse the oral itself, OralPrep is built for that and Frantastique is not. Frantastique is published by Gymglish, which also operates under the name Aimigo. Its old address, frantastique.com, now redirects to gymglish.com, so the links in this article point there.
OralPrepFrantastique
What it isAI oral exam simulator for the DELF and TCFOnline French course with one personalised lesson a day
PriceFirst evaluation free; Premium 9.99 € for a pack of 12 evaluations, no subscriptionSubscription: Basic from €14 a month, Premium from €21, Gold from €31.50, depending on length; 7-day free trial
Skills trainedSpeaking onlyReading, listening, grammar, vocabulary and written exercises, plus speaking practice
Speaking practiceComplete exam parts with an AI examiner that speaks and replies in turns"Speaking practice at the end of each episode": a conversation with the hero of the course story
Timed mock of the DELF or TCF oralYes, with the official timing for each partNot offered
ScoringEvery answer scored per criterion against the official rubric, with an indicative mark (DELF out of 25, TCF out of 20)Daily score on your exercises; own level scale with approximate CEFR equivalents
Pronunciation feedbackIndirect: judged from a transcript of your audioAudio with a variety of accents; no pronunciation score described
LevelsDELF A1 to B2, TCFRoughly A1 to C1/C2; not designed for complete beginners
Human teacherNoGold plan includes tutoring by Gymglish's teachers
CertificateNo (indicative score only)Certificate of completion on the Gold plan; not an official diploma
## What each one does **Frantastique** sends you one episode a day, about 10 minutes long according to Gymglish. The episodes follow a comic story in which an intergalactic agency thaws out Victor Hugo so that he can guide you through the French-speaking world. After the story come comprehension, vocabulary and grammar exercises, a review of points covered earlier and an excerpt from a film, series or song. When you send your answers, you receive a correction with a daily score and explanations, and later lessons return to what you got wrong. The course includes speaking. The shop lists "speaking practice at the end of each episode" on every plan, and the help centre describes "a conversation service through which you can talk with the hero of your Learning Series". That gets you used to producing French. None of the pages we checked present it as an exam simulation, and none mention exam tasks, timing or the DELF and TCF grids. **OralPrep** covers the oral and nothing else. You choose your exam and level, and an AI examiner takes you through each part in order with the official timing: - **DELF B2:** [30 minutes of preparation, then about 20 minutes of speaking](/blog/en/delf-b2-speaking-structure-criteria) - **DELF B1:** [about 15 minutes of speaking, with 10 minutes of preparation for Part 3](/blog/en/delf-b1-speaking-structure-criteria) - **TCF:** [three tasks in 12 minutes](/blog/en/tcf-speaking-test-structure-criteria) At the end you receive a score for each criterion and a transcript of what you said. OralPrep does not teach you French. ## Does Frantastique prepare you for the DELF or TCF? In part, and Gymglish words the claim with care. Its French page on language certificates says "une utilisation régulière de Frantastique peut préparer à certains des tests suivants" (regular use of Frantastique can prepare you for some of the following tests), then lists the DELF, DALF, TCF and TFI. A course that raises your level of French does help with every paper in those exams. The way Frantastique measures progress says little about your oral, though. Your level is calculated from "the difficulty of questions, the results of all exercises and revisions, your participation rate", and Gymglish adds that reaching a given level "does not indicate or guarantee that a student will be graded at the equivalent level on the CEFR scale". None of those factors is a spoken answer. In a 2022 comparison table on its blog, Gymglish itself lists the skills tested by the DELF as reading, listening, writing and speaking, and those covered by the Frantastique learning report as reading, listening and writing. The oral asks for something a daily lesson rarely does. At DELF B2 you receive a short document you have never seen, prepare for 30 minutes, present a structured point of view and then defend it while the examiner challenges you. A candidate with enough vocabulary can still run out of arguments after two minutes, or spend so long on the introduction that the conclusion never comes. Those are problems of format, and they improve with repeated attempts under the real time limits. ## What each one costs One is a subscription and the other is sold by the evaluation, so there is no meaningful price per mock exam for Frantastique. **Frantastique.** On 15 September 2026, Gymglish's shop, displayed in euros, showed three plans with "from" prices: Basic from €14 a month, with up to 5 episodes a week; Premium from €21, with up to 7; and Gold from €31.50, with unlimited episodes, a certificate of completion and tutoring by Gymglish's teachers. A 30% discount was displayed that day, bringing the plans to €9.80, €14.70 and €22.05. Gymglish says prices "may vary based on course duration, language, and selected features". Its business brochure, which quotes prices excluding tax, gives an idea of the spread: Basic costs €42 a month on a 6-month plan and €21 a month on a 36-month plan. The free trial lasts 7 days. **OralPrep.** Your first evaluation is free. After that, the Premium pack costs 9.99 € for 12 evaluations and does not renew. Each evaluation is one scored session, either a full mock exam with every part in sequence or a single part you want to practise, so a full mock costs under 0.85 €. Prices may be lower in some countries. In practice, a Frantastique subscription pays for daily lessons for as long as it runs, while an OralPrep pack pays for 12 scored rehearsals of your oral, which are most useful in the weeks before the exam. ## Where Frantastique is better **It teaches you French.** OralPrep assumes you already have the vocabulary and grammar for your level and shows you where your answers fall short. Frantastique builds that base, with explanations, corrections and reviews that come back to your mistakes. If your French is a whole level below the exam you are aiming for, rehearsing the format will not make up the difference, and your time is better spent on a course. **It trains the other papers too.** The DELF and the TCF also assess listening and reading, and the DELF and some versions of the TCF assess writing. Frantastique works on listening and reading every day and includes written exercises. OralPrep only prepares the oral. **It goes beyond B2.** Frantastique's level scale runs up to level 5, which Gymglish places at roughly C1/C2. OralPrep covers the DELF from A1 to B2 and the TCF, but not the DALF C1 or C2. **It fits into a working week.** Ten minutes a day with a story to follow is a routine most people can keep up for months. That is what you need early on, when the exam is still too far away for mock orals to help much. **A teacher on the top plan.** The Gold plan includes tutoring by Gymglish's teachers. OralPrep has no human teacher on any plan. **Culture and accents.** Episodes include excerpts from films, series and songs, and Gymglish says the course covers France, Belgium, Canada and other French-speaking countries, with a variety of accents. That is useful listening practice for any French exam. **A longer free trial.** Frantastique gives you seven days of lessons; OralPrep gives you one free evaluation. ## Where OralPrep is better **It rehearses the oral you will sit.** Each part runs as it does in the exam, with its preparation time and speaking time and, for the TCF, the role reversal in [Task 2, where you ask the questions](/blog/en/tcf-speaking-task-2-example-model-answer). You practise the tasks you will actually face, such as the DELF B2 exposé and debate, rather than general conversation. **It scores your answers against the official criteria.** For the DELF, each answer is scored on task fulfilment, lexique, morphosyntaxe and phonologie, with an indicative mark out of 25. For the TCF, it is scored on the linguistic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic criteria, with a mark out of 20. You can see which criterion is costing you points, whereas Frantastique's daily score reflects how you did on the lesson's exercises. **It makes you speak for as long as the exam does.** A DELF B1 or B2 oral asks you to keep talking for several minutes and then handle follow-up questions. Repeating that against the clock teaches you how much to say in each part and when to move on. **No subscription.** You buy evaluations when you need them, usually in the final weeks, and nothing renews afterwards. **A transcript of every attempt.** Reading your answer back shows the repeated words, the missing connectors and the arguments that felt complete when you said them. ## What OralPrep can't do - **It isn't a course.** It will not teach you grammar or vocabulary you don't have yet. - **It only prepares the oral.** There is nothing for listening, reading or writing. - **Pronunciation is judged indirectly**, from a transcript of your audio. - **The exchange is turn-based.** The AI examiner does not interrupt you. - **The score is indicative.** It uses the official criteria, but it is not an official result, and like any assessor, human or AI, it can misjudge an answer. - **No DALF C1/C2** at the moment. ## How to combine them For a candidate six months away from the DELF B2 oral, the plan could look like this: - **At the start:** begin Frantastique and use your free OralPrep evaluation for one full simulation, to see where you stand on the oral. - **Months 1 to 4:** Frantastique every day. Leave mock orals aside for now; the language comes first. - **Months 5 and 6:** keep the daily lessons and add one full timed simulation a week on OralPrep, eight in all, the last one a few days before the exam. Add three single-part sessions on whichever part scores lowest. Read [the B2 criteria](/blog/en/delf-b2-speaking-structure-criteria) once so you know what each score refers to. This plan uses 12 OralPrep evaluations: the free one, eight full simulations and three single-part sessions. One 9.99 € pack covers the eleven paid evaluations, with one left over.

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## Which one suits you **Choose Frantastique if** your French is still below the level of your exam, the exam is several months away, you want to work on listening, reading and writing as well as speaking, or you are aiming for C1 or C2. **Choose OralPrep if** you already have the level, the exam is a few weeks away, and you need to rehearse the oral under real conditions and see your score for each criterion. **Use both if** you have several months before the exam: build the language with the course, then rehearse the oral with the simulator in the final weeks. Related: [how a reliable DELF oral simulator should work](/blog/en/reliable-delf-oral-exam-simulator), [TCF oral exam simulator](/blog/en/tcf-oral-exam-simulator-ai), [practising DELF speaking without a teacher](/blog/en/practice-delf-speaking-without-teacher) and [OralPrep vs italki](/blog/en/oralprep-vs-italki). Sources, checked 15 September 2026: [Frantastique course page](https://www.gymglish.com/en/frantastique) (lesson length, conversation feature, free trial, price variation), [Frantastique shop](https://www.gymglish.com/frantastique/shop/) (plans, prices, discount; tutoring by teachers as described in the [Italian](https://www.gymglish.com/frantastique/shop/?language=it) and [Spanish](https://www.gymglish.com/frantastique/shop/?language=es) versions), [Frantastique levels](https://www.gymglish.com/en/frantastique/level) (level scale, CEFR disclaimer, how levels are calculated), [Frantastique brochure](https://www.gymglish.com/en/frantastique/brochure) (business prices by subscription length), [Gymglish help centre, subscription content](https://help.gymglish.com/en/articles/1462144), [Frantastique, diplômes de français reconnus](https://www.gymglish.com/fr/frantastique/diplome-test-francais) (exam preparation claim), [Gymglish blog, French certification: DELF](https://blog.gymglish.com/2022/03/18/french-certification-delf) (2022 comparison table). ## FAQ ### Does Frantastique prepare you for the DELF or TCF? It helps with the language more than with the oral format. Gymglish, the company behind Frantastique, says that regular use of the course can prepare you for some French tests, including the DELF, DALF and TCF, and a higher level of French does help in every part of those exams. When this article was checked on 15 September 2026, none of Frantastique's pages described a timed mock of the DELF or TCF oral or a score against the official grid. ### Does Frantastique have speaking practice? Yes. Every plan in Gymglish's shop includes speaking practice at the end of each episode, and its help centre describes a conversation service in which you talk with the hero of your Learning Series. Gymglish presents it as a way to practise speaking French, not as a simulation of an exam oral. ### Is the Frantastique certificate an official French certificate? No. The Gold plan includes a certificate of completion with statistics on your progress and participation. Gymglish states that reaching a given Frantastique level does not indicate or guarantee the equivalent grade on the CEFR scale. An official DELF or TCF result comes only from sitting the exam at an approved centre. OralPrep does not issue official results either: its scores are indicative. ### How much does Frantastique cost compared with OralPrep? Frantastique is a subscription. On 15 September 2026 its shop, in euros, listed Basic from €14 a month, Premium from €21 and Gold from €31.50, with a 30% discount displayed and a 7-day free trial. Gymglish says prices vary with the length of the subscription, the language and the features chosen. OralPrep has no subscription: the first evaluation is free and the Premium pack costs 9.99 € for 12 evaluations. A subscription keeps the daily lessons coming for as long as you pay; a pack is used up after 12 scored rehearsals of the oral. ### Is Frantastique enough on its own to pass the DELF B2 oral? It can bring your French up to the level the exam requires, but the oral also tests a format: 30 minutes of preparation, then an exposé and a debate lasting about 20 minutes in total. The ability to hold a structured argument for that long, on a subject you have only just seen, comes mainly from timed rehearsal. If you study with a course, add a few mock orals in the final weeks. ### Can I use Frantastique and OralPrep together? Yes, and for a candidate with several months to go it is a sensible split. Use Frantastique every day to build vocabulary, grammar and listening, then add timed OralPrep simulations in the last two months to rehearse the oral and see which criterion costs you the most points.