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

AVOID

AVOID. I got a good flow going with a good course that slowly built up competency; then suddenly it all stopped - access denied. The courses are now all user generated. Someone at Memrise decided it needed a revamp. It is now ..... Hopeless. Poor quality lessons delivered in a thoughtless way.

I bought a Lifetime membership

I bought a Lifetime membership. Not knowing they would change the whole thing weeks later. Now it sucks, no use, garbage. Cannot recommend it!

This site has gone from bad to worse

This site has gone from bad to worse. I rely heavily on community courses to teach my students and now they can no longer access these courses via the app. All promotions for the new look app stated “coming in the autumn “ and then they swooped in early and removed all commuity courses (from the app) without warning. I had great difficulty finding my courses again and the app functionality is now gone for these courses several months ahead of schedule

I am shocked

I am shocked. I was a happy, satisfied user. I knew there was Memrise. I knew there was this lovely app. I was using it to learn skills (for example, regions of Italy and other amazing and unique courses). There were years of YEARS there of learning. The skills and the words I was learning were saved there. It's impossible to restart: the lessons have been deleted. They no longer let me access these courses. Hours and hours, endless hours of practice. Suddenly, I accidentally pressed a ...

Japanese not great, plus auto renewed without warning

Auto renewed without giving me any notice - my android phone broke 6 months ago and I replaced with an iPhone, so no longer have easy access to the Google Play store. Memrise did not make it clear they would auto renew, and did not send any email stating they would be taking the money again, giving me no chance to log in on the browser and cancel. As for the app itself, the Japanese was going great (that’s why I upgraded) until suddenly the next level threw in multiple Kanji with no ...

Five german courses experience

I've been using Memrise for my language journey and must say, it's far superior to Doulingo in my opinion. My favourite feature is learn with natives, it provides an authentic leaning experience. I've completed five German courses. The user-friendly interface and clear progression make my progress easy. The structured courses and spaced repetition ensure knowledge retention.

Five german courses experience

I've been using Memrise for my language journey and must say, it's far superior to Doulingo in my opinion. My favourite feature is learn with natives, it provides an authentic leaning experience. I've completed five German courses. The user-friendly interface and clear progression make my progress easy. The structured courses and spaced repetition ensure knowledge retention.

They charged me for no reason/subscription

They earlier this week charged my credit card £49.99 for a subscription which doesn't exist (meaning I couldn't actually ask for a refund as the website functionality required a subscription in the first place...) I have asked them ~7 times to refund me my monies, and they have not done so yet. I am having to write to them repeatedly to get any response. The only response I've had was an illogical one that my refund was processed last week, which doesn't make any sense as the payment only ...

They don't listen to their customers

They don't listen to their customers ever. They have made several ugly redesigns, removed the mute feature, removing everything that made Memrise good in the first place in order to become a terrible second-rate version of Duolingo. This website used to be amazing! Now I'm not even sure how much longer the community courses will be up. As a paying user I am becoming more and more disillusioned with Memrise as time goes on.

Good product, gradually becoming bad.

Memrise has a good product overall, but it has been going downhill recently. They have recently introduced new AI components which can be useful, but they seem to have disregarded the rest of their product to push these AI features over popular user features and issues that are repeatedly brought to their attention. They operate Memrise in a very hands-off manner, and do not have much interaction with the community where a lot of us are very concerned with the longevity of the service ...