Apps for the French citizenship test, compared honestly

What to look for before you pay

• The naturalisation listThe Ministry publishes separate knowledge questions for naturalisation and for residence cards. Make sure an app trains you on the naturalisation list if that is what you are applying for.
• Situational questions cannot be officialTwelve of the forty questions are situations, and the Ministry does not publish them. Every app writes its own.
• The real paper40 questions in 45 minutes, 32 correct to pass. At least one app on sale times its test at 30 minutes.
• How you payPrices run from free with ads to 9,99 € a month, with one-off passes and lifetime unlocks in between. Check the model before you start.

The apps and sites, side by side

Ours first so you know where it stands, the rest in no particular order. Prices and ratings are as each store showed them on 20 October 2026.

• Belong France (Belong Europe ApS)iPhone and Android. Free to start since November 2026, then 6,99 € a month or 34,99 € a year. 1,019 practice questions written by Belong France from the official programme, in French with an English toggle, across the exam's five themes, and a whole paper of 40 questions in 45 minutes passing at 32. It also tracks the rest of the road to French nationality: residence, French at B2, the five year path and dual nationality.
• CiviQuiz (Marouene Tekaya)iPhone. Free, ad removal 2,99 €. A 40 question mock, based on the official arrêté of October 2025. 4.8 from 140 ratings, the most here.
• Académie Civique (Salaheddine Serrakh)iPhone and iPad. Free, ad removal 2,99 €. A 40 question, 45 minute mock passing at 32. 4.6 from 124 ratings.
• Examen Civique (Taki Eddine Mekhalfa)iPhone. Free, no in-app purchases. Uses the questions published by the Ministry, with a mock. 4.8 from 46 ratings.
• Examen Civique 2026 France (itechnodev)iPhone and Android. Free, lifetime 9,99 €. 614 naturalisation questions plus 200 for the interview, and a 40 question mock passing at 32.
• examen civique : civic quiz fr (YI CONSEIL)iPhone. Free, then 4,99 € a month or 14,99 € once. French, English and Chinese, with a 40 question mock. Says plainly it is not an official list.
• PrépaCivique (prepacivique.fr)Website. Free tier, then 12 € for a month to 25 € for six months, paid once. 3,000+ questions including the official lists, in French and English, and a 40 question, 45 minute mock.
• LeTestCivique.frWebsite. Free 40 question, 45 minute mock, with a premium tier. 1,900+ questions.

Which one to use

Start with the free official material: the revision sheets on formation-civique.interieur.gouv.fr and the naturalisation question list from the Ministry. Then pick an app that trains you on that list and runs the real 40 question paper.

If you also want to know where you stand on everything else French nationality asks of you, Belong France is the one built for that: residence, French at B2 and the five year path, in the same app as the practice. What you enter stays on your phone.

Questions people ask

More on the examen civique

• Examen civiqueSample questions and what the exam is
• The 40 questionsForty multiple choice questions on a screen, forty-five minutes at most and a pass mark of thirty-two.
• The official materialThe ministry publishes three things and charges for none of them: the fiches that cover the whole référentiel, the list of knowledge questions the paper draws from and the livret du citoyen, rewritten in July 2026.
• Booking, fee and centresTwo organisations are approved to run the exam, you book on demand rather than waiting for a session date, you can sit as many times as it takes and the attestation de réussite never expires.
• Who is exemptTwo conditions and two short lists, and neither is about age or nationality.
• After the examA pass gives you an attestation de réussite that never expires.
• Practice paperNot a random selection.

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