Memrise Easy Language Learning

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R8] 5/5 · US Best one yet: I have tried so many language apps, but once I got memories, it changed my life forever. Duolingo didn’t work. It kept asking me for subscriptions when it said free and it’s add
2. [R16] 5/5 · US Helped me so much!l: I used too be a Duolingo user but it hasn’t helped me with much Italian. I was looking through the App Store and found memrise! This app has helped me with so much Italian already and I’ve only had it for a month!
3. [R18] 5/5 · US Helped me become bilingual: This app helped me learn Spanish, which I have been trying to learn probably my entire life but once I got this app, I actually started learning really fast so if you wanna learn language is this app is a must have
4. [R24] 5/5 · US it works so well! way better than duolingo!😭: i love it so mych and my vocab in multiple languages has expanded a lot!
5. [R5] 5/5 · US They have Chawcktow!!!: ❤️
6. [R22] 5/5 · US DUOLINGO EXPANSION PACK!?: I’m a user of Duolingo. I have an 895+ day streak. I discovered Memrise just yesterday and after seeing all the courses they offered, I was awestruck. This is around 120+ more courses than Duolingo has to offer! Urdu, Toki Pona, Icelandic… they teach everything! And not to mention you can change your Memrise streak to whatever you want! My favorite part of Memrise, as
7. [R33] 5/5 · US native american: i’m so glad they have lakota on the list
8. [R43] 5/5 · US great, but broke?: i opened the anglo saxon language selection and it refuses to load any screen and sticks to loading unfortunately, however, the fact i see anglo saxon at all makes me really really happy because i was planning to learn it awhile back :3 it still broke sadly :( maybe it was left unfinished?
9. [R14] 5/5 · US Really nice app: It’s convenient and effective with showing actual speech. Far superior to Duolingo and far fewer ads
10. [R35] 5/5 · US Very nice: This app is very good, it has lots of features like writing, reading, recognizing hearing, ai conversations, videos and some other stuff that aren’t behind a paywall. It also has very short ads which don’t have a time wait to click skip, you can just click it right away. The only downside I would say is the amount of information they collect on you. Before you get this app, I would reco
11. [R41] 5/5 · US I'm learning French: A wonderful app, I really liked that it's free and also has videos where native speakers pronounce words, everything is very clear. · translated
12. [R62] 5/5 · US Amazing!: This app is absolutely amazing for learning Japanese hiragana and Japanese in general. The real life teachers are so amazing, and the reviews help so much with making sure to remember. For ever since I was younger, (about 6 years old) I have wanted to move and live in Japan. So the first step I am taking is learning the writing and language, as well as the culture and history. This app i
13. [R13] 5/5 · US Hmm: Better than duolingo
14. [R1] 1/5 · US Unfortunately, the app was very buggy at first, and now it has stopped working altogether, even though it used to be my favorite app. · translated
15. [R3] 2/5 · US App not working well: I love the app but lately things have not been loading correctly. For example, I’d start studying my words and they do not get recorded as « started » at all. It’s like I haven’t even taken the lesson. The review session also does not get recorded. I’d start out with 76 words, review 10, and it’d still be 76 words. If I press again, it’s the same 10 words I just practiced. Pl
16. [R4] 3/5 · US Stuck: I think it’s got a bug because I keep going over the same ol’ lessons. It might be because I had to upgrade phones.
17. [R6] 1/5 · US Memrise is broken & No way to Report It!: The current state of Memrise does not save any of your progress. You complete a lesson in the Scenarios section, and when you return to the page, it is like it never happened. As a workaround I manually update my streak to keep the count going. If you log out and back in, your streak is back to zero and all progress is lost. You are set back in time to a
18. [R2] 2/5 · US Booooo AI: Used to be my favorite app for language learning 10 years ago. If I were able to opt out of using AI to advance (like it used to be!) then I wouldn’t mind still using it, but since I can’t, it’s bye-bye. GenAI is killing the planet. Do better.
19. [R19] 2/5 · US Use something else to learn: Probably the worst app out there for language learning. I am doing a free one now and it’s better than the paid version of this one. You learn things without any context. And the ai bot sucks.
20. [R40] 3/5 · US Too much AI now: I loved this app so much. But now all the Ai took away all the fun of learning the language. I can no longer get through lessons without being prompted to type conversations with Ai over and over. I wish there was an option to avoid the Ai, but it is so integrated into the lessons now.
21. [R45] 1/5 · US No option to turn off AI chatbot: I really like that they have videos of real people speaking naturally as part of the learning process, but after a while it forces me to text to a AI chatbot. I hate it! It’s time consuming and not very relevant to what was in the lessons I just learned. It’s not engaging and just robotic. There’s no option to take this feature out while the natural speaking vide
22. [R7] 2/5 · US Great until it's not: This app I can see potential in being more conducive and productive in learning languages. But as of the last update, the entire Learn Words set of modes are broken. By broken, I mean none of the completions are saving for ANY of the languages. To make it worse, the customer support/bug report from memrise is honestly disappointing in multiple ways. Automated responses withou
23. [R9] 1/5 · US Billed without approval: Billing cancellation went through on desktop before renewal but you apparently need to cancel on your phone too. $100 plus charge, they do not respond at all, emailed 4 times same day of charge and nothing for weeks now. Desperate for money maybe, they will ignore you. Be careful with this company.
24. [R52] 1/5 · US Not getting what I paid for!: I paid for the lifetime membership to learn Polish since I’m moving there. I made it through absolute beginner and beginner and the content no longer loads in the lessons. I’ve reached out to the company several times, but they won’t get back with me. I’ve paid for a service and product that they are not providing. I want the courses content or a refund, or even jus
25. [R31] 4/5 · US Options: If I remember correctly this app used to provide more topics than only language. I miss that, this used to be my favorite study app.
26. [R32] 3/5 · US Bring back ASL videos please: Please bring back the ASL videos you all used to have. 💐
27. [R46] 3/5 · US They’re getting a little too greedy: They used to be the best app. But they’re removing features that I loved and used to recommend to my friends. Now I treat this app as an “at-your-own-risk” or unnecessary supplement to language learning. It’s okay. But it’s no longer the best.
28. [R47] 1/5 · US Was great before ai slop: Memrise used to be an amazing language learning tool. Recordings of real people saying words, curated videos that scaled with you as you learned, and just an overall good sense of progression. Now half of the voices are ai generated, the videos are all ai subtitled YouTube rips that are not level appropriate at all, and the sense of progression is just gone. It’s better
29. [R92] 1/5 · US I haven’t used this app for 11 months: haven't used this app for 11 months, but I was suddenly charged over $115 without confirmation. I tried following your email instructions, but I'm stuck in a loop of automated replies. I panicked and deleted my account, so now 'Restore Purchase' doesn't work. I need a full refund as I haven't used the service at all.
30. [R93] 2/5 · US Prices are inconsistent: When I originally planned to subscribe permanently, I found that the original discount for permanent subscription was changed from 70% to 65%. This makes people feel very bad.
31. [R320] 3/5 · GB Business terms could be clearer: Be careful when subscribing as they will take recurring payments from you after the initial payment. This is not made clear from the outset. I thought I’d be paying just the once but they took another payment the following year. To their credit they reversed the second payment but the whole thing should be clarified from the start.
32. [R254] 3/5 · GB Fantastic: Used to be a fabulous app, now there’s no offline learning, the only reason I bought a lifetime membership. Please bring back.
33. [R68] 2/5 · US Another Duolingo: You have to memorize phrases instead of learning how to put vocabulary together. Doesn’t teach grammar. Often confusing as to what is being specifically asked.
34. [R90] 2/5 · US Glorified Flash cards: I have been paying for this app for 3 years now - to learn Japanese. Everything started out well; learning simple words and phrases came easily. However, the app stopped teaching grammar, so for about a year or so all it has done was try to teach me new nouns and verbs. No sentence building, so scenarios- just words. This is great if you’re taking classes and want to reinfo
35. [R111] 2/5 · US Poor teaching: This app doesn’t have great lessons that help and give random words to learn instead of teaching you words in order and is just sloppy.
36. [R119] 2/5 · US AI sentence building is bad: The app is good but introducing ai sentence building that is incorrect and slow to get through is just annoying. I dread those lessons and when I try to use a word I learned it goes "no you can't use that word." it asked me to build a sentence in Portuguese "we have ___ to eat." I tried to use fruta but it told me I have not learned that and I should use uma mesa ins
37. [R30] 4/5 · US It’s good but one small issue: I am learning Coptic I need to know what the words pronounce without it i don’t wanna use the app any more please add sound to tell how it’s pronounce you don’t have to use real people just use some text to speech voice or something
38. [R42] 1/5 · US For beginners only: All of the levels are mostly the same
39. [R74] 1/5 · US It’s confusing: I opened the app for the first time and it said I already reviewed 300 words. Now it keeps testing me on 300 words that I just don’t know. Also it keeps popping up with my streak status every time I press anything. And the app isn’t intuitive. I want to just learn a certain word list and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do that. No offense, but I think this app needs a
40. [R104] 1/5 · US They destroyed the app: It was the best app for learning languages. Until they changed it completely. Then, you could learn at your own pace. Repeat lessons and practice. Now you have to score points to advance, you can’t keep track of your progress and do it at your own pace. Why did you do that? The app is unusable now.
41. [R110] 3/5 · US Disappointing: I had high expectations but landed on a poorly executed app. Review Mode is useless - impossible to review past words learned at your own pace / more than once. You have to wait the next day until the mode switches on again. Bugs in review mode (speed review option shows as available then disappears after completing an unrelated review ). AI help bot keeps referring to a scenarios
42. [R257] 3/5 · GB Unintuitive & disjointed-Regret subscribing!: Some good features but no real structure to learning. No means to slow down the speech & answers disappear before you have chance to review. Really sorry I subscribed before realising this.