Memrise Reviews in February 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

RIP things that made Memrise great

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 ...

Auto renewed without notice

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!

Life-time subscription fee returned because of fundamental changes in program

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.

Life-time subscription fee returned because of fundamental changes in program

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.

Disappointed in the recent changes

I've been using Memrise since May 2013 to learn Japanese and a few bits and pieces of other languages. It has been the foundation of my studies and was really useful in supporting other resources and really flexible in what you wanted to learn. I always really liked it, since I could use the community courses to learn the JLPT vocab or vocab that my textbooks used. It wasn't a one-stop shop to learn a language entirely, but it wan't intended to be and I felt like it was really good at what ...

They don't value the community or their niche!

Memrise used to be the only language learning platform that suited my needs as a neurodivergent interested in learning around 5 languages. Sadly new changes have consistently demonstrated: 1) poor understanding of their audience, 2) lack of regard for community content which holds years worth of free content donated to them by teachers and native speakers, and 3) by extension complete disregard for endangered languages. The community courses were due to be removed with an indeterminate ...

Don’t trust

Didn’t get the refund. Seems they are playing with me. You buy lifetime a product and after one year they changed it and no refund granted. A shame

so far it was a good app and i even had…

so far it was a good app and i even had a paid membershi last year for 25euro/year. now it came to an end and prices went up to 120euro/year ,that's a lot of inflation and if i read the other comments hear i can soon exspect a bad upgrade so this will probably become the same story i had with duolingo

New changes not good.

I have been using memrise for some years now - it use to be a great app - Unfortunately now they have updated and moved the community learning lessons to a new online home - which from what i have seen so far does not work - and when i tried the AI learning trial - there was limited lessons - so nothing new for me to learn. Which considering I renewed January i feel very let down. Now the community courses have no sound.

New software is a step backwards

I found the old learning software much better. It is more gamified now, but it takes more time to learn new vocabulary. The AI conversation exercises are nearly random. They have no connection whatsoever with the level of the student. I consider that part unusable and unpractical. I am sorry I cannot be positive. The new learning interface is a serious step backwards from the pedagogical point of view.