Yes, me for example… I really want and use the off-line mode a lot, a lot, if not only. In the subway and many rural areas in the world, the internet is still flaky and it is really frustrating to get an error message when you want to review 10 words…
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How did you request a refund?
Okay, I try again. Do you know the alternatives to Memrise? (without Anki)
I think DuoLingo is up there however it does not have any of the features Memrise users currently want. It depends on your language also. I am a student of Korean and there are some alternatives: LingoDeer is quite good for grammar. Tinycards is OK. Rosetta stone I guess… or just reverting to physical paper and making your own SRS. There will be more apps out there but something really works when you get a large user base and there is a ‘consensus’ amoung users that it is a ‘goto’ app. Memrise was, but I guess it won’t continue. 
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I’ve just updated my review in the Play Store. If people wanted Duolingo they would download Duolingo, not Memrise.
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Boris, you’re correct. It’s about £££
It seems that for us that have paid out for a subscription and convenience, we’ll be paying twice over for a worse service.
If Memrise are going to press on with this change, for those of us that don’t use the official courses they could at least organise partial refunds on the subscriptions from when the course transfer over to Decks. It is such a major change of usage it’ll be worth discussing with whoever we pay our subscriptions through, or even Trading Standards in the UK
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If you need the most desired features (Android/iOS app + offline mode + user created courses + user friendly interface), then most likely there is none. I have tested several more or less similar apps yesterday, but in my opinion they are no-good. Try to google “alternatives to Memrise” to see the full list.
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Yes, I wonder if Apple or Google could help, if one is out of his 30-days period…
Or create a copy of the Memrise app, call it ‘Decks’ and have it pointing to the Decks internet server, rather than the memrise one…
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Yes, they will be. Mems are part of the new functionality I just read in the FAQ.
@ What features are available in Decks?
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I welcome the changes, if it’s handled well. Are there plans to make the API more open in Decks for users and/or open sourcing some parts as well in the future? I would love to contribute to such a project.
This is awful news and it will kill Memrise in the long run.
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Please don’t use only the website, but also an app. I mostly use memrise offline and that is the reason why i paid for lifelong membership. I almost finished the official courses in the relevant languages. I don’t have mobile internet, so I can’t use your app anymore if you stop the service I paid for.
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I just changed my rating of the Android App to 1 star, since it will no longer support community created courses. I recommend others to do the same.
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Yes, except for some old courses, since they will be migrated to Decks.
See: http://community.memrise.com/t/will-there-be-courses-created-by-memrise-on-decks/33430
Question 4: “Your learning progress will be migrated to Decks as well. This includes course progress, points, leaderboard positions and streak.” (see first post of this topic)
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I like Anki.
There is a free Android app for it (created by volunteers) and a one-time-payment iOS app (created and maintained by the Anki author).
All offline, though you have the opion of synchronising your progress with AnkiWeb at a time that’s convenient for you, which can be useful if you use Anki on multiple devices (e.g. mobile and PC).
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As others have already said, we NEED offline mode. We paid for offline mode so how can you remove that? You don’t offer enough courses to only use Memrise. It is fine for me to use another app but I can’t live without offline mode as others already said. Noone will only use a website. And I can’t afford to pay for unlimited mobile internet. I often study in the subway or bus, but this is not possible without offline mode. So you make me stop learning languages… I am so disappointed about this development. I always told everyone to use memrise, I love memrise, official courses and also community courses. Everything together. Perfect choice. But what do you recommend me to do after finishing official classes without internet? Please think about it again…
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Quizlet, but not as good as Memrise. No mems. They were another major feature that was for me the reason to move to Memrise, but I forgot what that was. And there is no Quizlet community or forum. That is absolutely important too.
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You can use it on any device that has a web browser – that includes a PC.
It’s never a good sign when the owner of a community starts segregating its user base to a different site. This smells like it’s a move made to offset financial troubles, or create a worse but more profitable experience for free users. User generated content is the lifeblood of memrise, and vastly outnumbers official courses in both popularity and in size, so you better be really, really careful what you’re doing with Decks, or this change could turn around to bite you in the b-hind faster than I crammed through my first 1000 words.
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