Memrise Reviews 

Edit : Contacted Memrise customer support, from an email I find on Trustpilot.. They went above and beyond to fix my problem .. Thanks Memrise for thinking outside the box to solve my subscription, appreciate it :)

I started on Memrise, but other apps are way better. The real problem was when I tried to cancel. The directions they give you to cancel a subscription are not correct. I was charged for an extra year, and it's not cheap. Go with something different

Yet more illegal sales promotion tactics. On June 15th I was given a 60% off offer, expiring June 16th. Today (June 22nd, it is still available, even as it still says expiring on 16th). Obviously this is quite illegal.
Also, a note to anyone thinking of signing up. Note that later scenarios in the courses don't have any videos. So an annual or lifetime subscription do not represent as much value as you would think.

I heard a lot of good things about Memrise and thought I'd give it a try. I'm an intermediate learner but despite choosing that level, the program started giving me words like yes, no and thank you. So I changed the settings to advanced. The content was still mostly elementary - I'm a language teacher, I know what's being taught on different levels of the languages I speak and my target language, as I have been studying it for quite a while, and what was presented here was ridiculous. Then I tried picking my own topics and started with politics. I learned a few words (again, pretty basic stuff) and then the program suggested to make sentences. Of course, it complained about missing language-specific letters (I use an English keyboard and there was no on-screen option to insert those characters). But the worst was the type of sentences I was supposed to make. 'The king is reading a newspaper.' This is supposedly advanced vocabulary in politics. The next sentence was: I am drinking water. What?? Has nothing to do with politics, nor with the reviewed vocabulary, and is the most basic stuff you learn on A1. I don't know what they were thinking. Maybe it is better in some other languages, but for Polish, do yourself a favor and find another app to learn with. Even a plain dictionary would be more useful.

I used Memrise off and on for 5 years and was at the intermediate level. After 5 years, I logged on one day and was at level one. Despite multiple attempts to contact the company and correct the issue, I was unable to the correct lesson. That is a lot of time to put into learning a language then not to be able to continue your progress. I would not suggest using memrise.

After not using memrise for 4 years I noticed a payment on my CC statement. Amex said it had been authorised so I had to pay. I did go into my Memrise account and set my subscription renewal to OFF but when I logged in after receiving an email promo it had been set back to Auto renew. This is the second time this has happened.
Through Amex I have put a merchant block on Memrise and deleted my account.
Be very careful, you should not trust Memrise with your financial details. Good luck.

I have been looking for a free alternative to Duolingo as the 5 lives piss me off, and memrise was the answer! I especially love the exercises the bot gives you. So worth it!

I love the App!

I have tried a number of apps and sites to learn Spanish. I recently gave Memrise a shot as they had a sale on and I liked the sound of the methods they use. I have to say it really suits me and I am really enjoying the app and feel like I am making progress with a clear path of progress. I am surprised to read so many negative reviews and cannot comment on previous versions. Things I like:

1. Easy to pick up and do a session in 5 minutes or so.
2. Fun choice of different tests.
3. Measures every word you are learning and learned so you can see your words learned list grow.
4. Good selection of AI to test sentence structure, grammar etc.
5. Wide choice of languages including Welsh.
6. Native speakers and video.
7. Just super fun and addictive.
Definitely my favourite language learning app. I find myself using it all the time when I have a spare couple of minutes, sure beats mindless scrolling. Very well designed. I am excited to see this grow as the AI also develops. This is not a paid review and entirely independent in case anyone is wondering. I just really really like this app.

Not as good as it use to be. My son use to access the community courses which was tailored to GCSE’s and with the old learning structure it was easy to learn, repeating words, it was such a good set up. I wanted to start learning as well as he did so I signed up an account for myself. The learning structure has completely changed and it’s become the same learning structure as Dulingo which isn’t as good. So disappointing, not so easy to learn and I can’t access community courses. They’ve completely destroyed what was a good learning platform. I would probably be better off using Seneca now.

The concept is great. The main lessons are great, but the rest just does not work. I feel like I am testing à program for them. AI repetition. Wrong language, crashes, bugs. Worse still I spend half my time correcting membots grammar mistakes. To begin with I found it fun, but paying for something that is not fit for purpose. No. Oh and god forbid you insult AI, you get put in the naughty corner…..so frustrating. It’s has such great potential but they need to fix all the issues before taking customers money.

I am literally heartbroken - mems are gone :(
I used Memrise about 10 years ago to learn country capitals. It was such fun, and I succeeded in learning them all through the excellent pedagogical techniques Memrise used - mostly the mems; user created and in invaluable tool for memory using images and image descriptions. I've re-started now that my kids have flown the nest and I have more time. Have been so excited to start. Why are the mems gone? Can I get a copy of them?

I've bounced. I just wanted to delete progress, and start again. It used to be possible but with recent "upgrades" this is lost.

So since i wanted to start a language course from scratch my only alternative was to cancel, create a new account, pay again, maybe get a refund...

Just easier to switch to Duo Lingo.

A note to the Head of Product. Leaving out this ability was a huge mistake.

Another bot company, set in one only purpose. Making money.
No after sales services for technical errors.
The best way to learn a foreign language, like japanese, it is to get a Genki book.
This app was just aWaste of time, reflecting the waves of bot apps on the market

Auto renewal without notice. I have never used the app and have no knowledge how they obtained my credit card details

After posting this review on Trustpilot I Recieved an email from Memrise offering to refund my payment.
Thank you Memrise. Thank you Trustpilot.

I've been using Memrise for several years, and it was once an excellent language-learning app. However, recent changes have been disappointing.

The abrupt removal of community courses, without warning, made it difficult to find and access them again, and many of these courses have lost their app functionality well ahead of schedule.
The transition of community lessons to a new online platform has not been smooth, with the new site often failing to work as expected.

Additionally, the AI-driven learning features offer limited content and do not match the student's level, making them impractical for effective learning.

The shift towards a more gamified approach has made it harder to learn new vocabulary efficiently.

To top it off, my subscription was auto-renewed without prior notification, a process I don't even recall setting up.
Overall, the new interface and features represent a significant step backward in terms of educational quality.

After completing ther Pimsleur Icelandic course I wanted to keep learning. I stumbled upon the free version of Memrise & am thrilled with the presentation of their lessons in Icelandic. One of the best parts so far is learning to read it. I love the native speakers, the quizzes, the ability to review. I can't tell you how satisfied I am so far. Hoping it maintains this level of satisfaction. Then I may consider the subscription.

Memrise used to be amazing, just indispensable in my language learning journey- so much so I happily paid to be able to access community courses and support the app grow.

Unfortunately in the last couple of years the company started systematically dismantling everything that made Memrise stand out and shine in the midst of a plethora of generic language learning apps.

If they'd given me the option to download a separate app to use offline with downloaded community courses I would have happily paid $100+ or more, even maybe double or triple that just to be able to keep using the community courses- which have been so critical to my language study and will still be in the future.

I'll be looking at other avenues to try and find features that Memrise used to offer. It's really sad the people in charge of Memrise seem adamant to run it into the ground. I'm willing to bet the executives came from competitors to sabotage the Memrise by betraying the loyal, long-time, supporters and paying users. It really feels like the changes are meant to destroy the app. Sincerely, there are already so many alternatives that offer the new feature they're trying to force on us- and worse, the other apps are already using AI better.

I have nothing positive to say for the people responsible for taking an excellent, enjoyable, very intuitive, and wonderfully unique app and setting it all on fire, destroying communities of language learners in the process. Shame on them. Shame on them for lying about community courses and throwing a perfectly functional app in the trash for lack of creative thinking and complete disregard for the users that contributed countless hours to making quality content.

Auto renewed without notice
I had no notification of an annual renewal - I couldn't even remember setting it up let alone remember that it auto renewed!
I then found it really difficult to work out how to cancel auto-renewal so that it didn't do the same thing next year.
Auto renewals should be forced to send reminders!

Memrise is going to remove all community-made courses from their program. Unfortunately.
I had bought a life-time subscription for being able to use just these community-made courses offline.

When I explained my situation, they booked back the full amount of my life-time subscription fee I had bought last year.

That is a fair policy, for which I am grateful.