Hello, I’m not sure if any developers frequent this forum, but I purchased premium almost a year ago and I am trying to decide whether to renew it when the time comes.
I only use Memrise on my mobile phone, but I find the app to be very lacking in features. Initially I thought it would improve with time, but in the past year, despite some clear faults, I can not think of a single improvement to the app.
One of the issues I have with the app is actually detrimental to learning. The on-screen keyboard gives away answers, and I cannot find a way to disable it. This is the worst problem, one I reported many months ago, and the one that makes me wonder how difficult it would be to move over to Anki. Are there any plans to ever fix this? I have seen other people talking about this issue as well.
An ‘update’ a few months ago forces users to listen to the entire audio of an answer before moving on to the next question. This makes courses like ‘Who Composed Me?’ unusable on the app. I have found no way to disable this in the rather empty looking app settings.
The app frequently lags, clicking on ‘review’ for a course often opens the review for the previously studied course instead.
With multiple choice audio questions, often one of the buttons is unclickable, leaving a review session and restarting it appears to be the only way to fix this.
I like to think I am fairly patient, but with seemingly no improvement to this app in over a year (space theme gui doesn’t really count in my books), I really must consider the alternatives.
I see most of these issues, and have raised several of them myself, too. From my experience the problem with multiple audio questions has been fixed (or at least substantially improved) with one of the recent updates.
But I would add
Difficult words are meaningless on the app, it is so trigger happy (even more so than the web version) that I have to completely ignore it. The two don’t synch, anyway.
I still have to look at an animation of scrolling through a repeating line-up of very similar looking planets at the beginning of each course, which takes time especially for long courses, and serves no conceivable benefit that I’ve found
I still don’t get the random/mixed up/unified revising which the web offers, but have to do so course by course
The app seems to mark more or less every word misspelled as difficult, regardless of how long you’ve had this in long term memory, how many times you’ve answered correctly before, or what reveision level it’s on (ie forget an accent on a vowel in a word which you’ve answered correctly 50+ times and which is in 6m rotation - hey presto, it’s difficult now!). the web version seems to be a bit more discerning, if not entirely logical, either, or at least I don’t see the logic it applies.
Also, I have to retract my statement that the issue with multiple audit questions is gone, as I just ran into one where I could not progress as the app had not loaded the correct answer… ah well…