After using memrise for 8 or 9 years every day (I can prove 2000+ days), learning 34000 words, reaching level 18 (19 if that existed), scoring an overall 114 million points and teaching my own course, I’m done with memrise.
shoving some stupid app in my face after every second session? no thanks. very disappointed by whoever decided this might be a good idea for monetizing the app.
I’m leaving with a crying eye (sad to leave my achievements behind) and a laughing eye (I’ll be able to spend 1.5 hours per day on other things in the future).
If I miss studying languages too much, I guess I’ll try some other apps.
Hi, as we’ve grown the cost of providing the service to millions of users for free has grown as well and it was necessary to implement adverts to offset some of this cost. We want to be able to provide a service to users who cannot afford to purchase a subscription and adverts seems a fair way to do so.
I should note in the android release you should have today or in a couple of days we’ve reduced the volume of the adverts as they were too loud (it’s currently set to the device’s volume but some ad publishers maximise the noise so we’re reducing it substantially).
We’ve also reduced our subscription prices at the same time, for instance in the UK an annual subscription costs £25 a year, equivalent to 6.8 pence a day if you take advantage of our frequent 50% off deals. Of course subscribers aren’t shown adverts.
I’m sorry after 8 years you aren’t able to support us and I wish you the best of luck on your future language learning journey.
Did I get it right that now in your app you have advertising of unaffiliated with Memrise products? Just curious, because I have a subscription myself, so I don’t see it.
If nothing else it proves how addictive Memrise is!
I would not necessarily say that is a negative feature.
Great to hear different voices in it, the video scenes etc. The growing flowers are fun too. Bit of playfulness.
The only bit that in my view could be expanded is the grammar part. Perhaps it expands at higher levels, just started… I get curious about the changing forms of words, but may of course not apply to everyone.
Also, it is what textbook resources off or online are good at - while they don’t give the fun vocabulary and phrase learning of Memrise.
And Memrise is in turn better than the many simpler flashcard apps around, just flashing an apple and an orange or whatever at you.
(added, yes Duolingo and some related ones do phrases but do not have the width otherwise, that I have seen…)
I don’t understand why one wouldn’t be able to spend a few quid on something that is being used day in, day out, 1 or 2 hours per day, for what, 8 or 9 years!?
Why not buy a lifetime license? For those saying they don’t have the money (IDK, $110 or so), why not save a little money, skip a few cinema visits, a few beers, a night out - should be feasible for the vast majority, really. And if not: why complain about adverts, or do you stop watching TV as well …?
If there were more paying users I bet Memrise would be a whole lot better, too!
But hey, “I want it all, and I want it for free” is what seems to so often govern the world nowadays.
