So I’m posting this on behalf of a friend. He has been using Memrise for the past 5 months on the website. I’ve recommended Memrise to him and told him to never use the app. I think most of us here on the forums know that the app is completely useless for proper language learning. So he has been happily using Memrise on the website with my recommended userscripts.
Yesterday he got curious about the difference between the app and the website. So he installed the app on his iOS device and logged in. But then he found out that everything is locked behind a paywall, except classic reviewing sessions. So he has to pay to plant new words!
I was pretty shocked about this, so we decided to test it on my Android device. He logged into his account on my device, but there all the basic functions were completely free to use. Just like on the website.
I think it’s kinda strange that iOS users are forced to pay for learning sessions, but Android and website users not. Is this even allowed or could it be seen as some kind of discrimination?
You could add or create courses on the web site, use them at the web site and then they show up inside the iOS app.
I suspect Memrise wants to elevate the contents of their iOS app by hiding all the non-Memrise produced courses. The big side effect is that the iOS looks crippled compared with the Android one. The same is true of fast learning, available in Web app but removed in iOS with the exception of the Memrise-built app.
This kind of market targeting in software just bites back in forms of a bad end user experience.
Speed review?
It is available on the Android app as Pro (whereas in the Android emulator software and Memrise app I would miss the feature for “all typing”) as I heard it lately about the IOS app and the “full typing” with the keyboard icon.
I am a PRO user, so I don’t know what I wouldn’t get if I weren’t PRO.
But there are several threads saying that you higher levels on Memrise courses are (sometimes) blocked for non-PRO. But not always consecutively. E.g. 1, 2, 5,6,7 are free abyt 3,4 and 8 are paid or something like that.
I am surprised to hear it’s an iOS thing. Or is it app version depended? And perhaps you have an older version of the Memrise App on yr Android?
In any case, weird, that the products are not only different accross iOS, Android and the web (that’s perhaps difficult to sync), but that what you get for PRO /need PRO for, is significantly different.
I don’t think that is what Kim means. It’s about that a courses that he/she is studying, is partially paid on iOS, but not on Android or the web. It’s not about which course you can add/find using the App.