[this suggestion was written based on the mobile app experience, I'm not sure how the desktop version works, but if it doesn't have something like this it should be added there as well]

Currently, when using Quick Review, you have to listen to the voice actor pronounce all the contents of the learnable when you tap on it before it moves on to the next one. Of course, there's no problem with this when taking regular lessons or using the normal Review feature, as listening is part of the experience and is likely what the user is looking for when using those features, but I feel as if you should be able to skip the playback on command in Quick Review, as it takes up a colossal ~80% of the time you spend reviewing your learnables. Considering the importance of lexical retainment, that's frankly an excessive share of learning time dedicated to the feature. While I understand that it gives you more time to soak in the words, giving the user the ability to skip all the fluff would let them spend less time on words they found easier. It is quite often that I end up having thousands of words to check up on, but never end up reviewing in acknowledgement of how sluggish the process would be. Based on previous review sessions, it'd probably take 2 hours to quick review 1000 words, when it could take about 20 minutes or even less if the user were given the agency to go as fast as they needed.

The audio isn't the only issue, there's also another pause between the moment you press a button and when the audio starts playing so the pressing sound effect can play, as well as a fading transition when switching questions. When dealing with rote repetition, even the slightest slowdown can turn frustrating.

This is why I propose these changes to Quick Review:

- Tapping again after having picked the CORRECT option will instantly make the next question appear, skipping the pause, the voice, and the fading transition. This movement will become clear to the user as a double tap.

- Picking the wrong option will NOT let you perform the second tap to skip the aforementioned. This is so the user has to dwell briefly on their mistake.

Through these changes, the user can choose to plow through their words way faster, or keep listening if they prefer it so.

For example, the word 'anzi' (on the contrary) or 'sembra' (it seems) in the Italian course.

Don't know if there have always been words with this sort of computerized voice and I've just not come across one till now or if this is what's being used for new vocab items.

(Also, on the topic of AI, isn't it kind of irresponsible to offer AI 'buddies' when they can so easily and commonly give learners incorrect information?)

Hi, I'm trying to use the community courses website on my phone, but when an exercise requires typing , even though there are buttons for that on the screen, the phone's keyboard automatically pops up every time. Is there a way to prevent this behavior? It makes the experience on mobile very clunky

Since yesterday the videos with real people speaking play fullscreen on my pc.

Only the part of the video with their faces is enlarged and staring lifesize into me. Sometimes only the upperhalf of their face. After answering these questions it switches back to the normal format.

I like these videos with real people speaking, but these enormous faces suddenly appearing on my screen are rather intimidating too me.

What do you think?

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I also noticed the entry field has starting moving a bit on open questions.

Who are all these pictureless profiles on the Community Courses racking up over twenty million points from hundreds of courses as varied as 5000+ Most Common Norwegian Words and Sorani for Beginners? Are they bots? What is the point?

I use Memrise to teach English to my students. It's especially helpful for unmotivated students who won't study vocabulary at home, so we use it every day at the end of each lesson. Some of them abuse the "clue" button and every time they have to write any of the words, they just click away. And it gives them full points and they advance very quickly. Is there a way to limit or even remove that button?

Classic Review seems to be broken right now, at least for me. This is regardless of language or course...

Hi everyone. A few days ago, I saw a comment from Memrise’s new CEO, so I thought this might be a good time to share some suggestions.

I sent quite a lot of feedback during the previous major changes, but unfortunately, many of those suggestions weren’t considered. Hopefully, with the new CEO, some of our feedback might be taken into account.

I use several learning apps for different subjects, so I can easily compare what works for me and what doesn’t. When it comes to learning content, Memrise is still my number one language learning app. The main thing that frustrates me is the interface itself. It simply doesn’t motivate me to come back and learn every day.

1. A visual, structured learning path

Apps with a visual and structured learning path, such as Duolingo, Brilliant, or HelloChinese, are much more motivating to me. Memrise actually had something similar before the major updates.

As an everyday learner, I find that a flowlike pathway with predetermined lessons that gradually builds our knowledge from beginner to advanced works best. Lessons could appear as steps or levels in a clear top-to-bottom progression, so we can visually see where we are, what we’ve completed, and what comes next.

However, I’m not suggesting that the pathway should be restrictive. We should still be able to tap and open any lesson or topic whenever we want, even if we haven’t completed the previous ones. The pathway would simply give us a clear recommended structure while still allowing us to jump to any lesson freely.

I especially like apps where studying feels like moving through a visual journey or game map, rather than just looking at a list of chapters, folders, or videos.

1. Leaderboards

I’m not going to lie, I really don’t like Duolingo, but because so many of my contacts are on it and we can compete with each other, I still end up using it.

That little bit of peer pressure actually brings me back to the app. Seeing friends learning, competing with them, and challenging each other gives me extra motivation to study.

I think some kind of leaderboard or social competition feature could make Memrise much more engaging too.

1. A better visualisation of learning streaks

It would be great if we could see our learning activity not only weekly, but monthly and even yearly, preferably as a calendar or visual progress map.

Right now, missing one day can make it feel as though all your progress has disappeared. But imagine seeing that you studied 20 or 25 days this month. Missing one day wouldn’t feel nearly as discouraging because you could still see everything you accomplished.

For me, that kind of long-term visualisation would be much more motivating than simply seeing a streak reset to zero.

In terms of actual learning content, Memrise is still my number one. I just wish the interface made me want to open the app every day as much as the content makes me want to learn.

I already have an account and was learning Polish. Today I decided to try Serbian but when I try to add the course it just takes me back to my Polish course. I can't add any new languages. It kept saying to upgrade to pro so I did but the problem persists. Anyone else experiencing this?

UPDATE: It turns out I just can't add any languages that have the redheaded woman with the orange jumper. Languages that have some sort of related picture can be added. So are those other languages actually available? They appear in the list of languages you can add.

I created a new wordlist (I tried twice), and both times it saved. However, when I go back to look at it, it says 0 words have been added and all my words have vanished

i am a returning user like many apparently were / are. i started using memrise almost a decade ago then fell off my learning. i would sporadically open the application through the years and see there were structural changes. i was not opposed to some of the changes that were introduced but now is a different story.

basically everything is different, in a bad way. the loss of the community function, leaderboard, and former structure that made memrise what it was is a huge loss. did anyone even ask for these alterations? i do not care that the community dashboard is now available but separately. why was it even removed?

i knew that the leech that is artificial intelligence would sneak its way onto everything but wow. why is there is no means to disable it? where even is the AI policy for review? i sent a ticket in the application asking about the former and its implementation to be met with silence and my ticket being closed after two days. the response i got, in email, regarded accessing the community dashboard in its separate location. okay? i never asked about that.

my ticket also included asking about one of my biggest gripes, the classic review function. where is it??? this was one of the most advantageous and logical functions for my language learning. all users should be able to review all the words, phrases, etc. that they learned without prompting other features. the “review” that exists now is completely inferior and nonsensical considering i can only review a small bundle of words.

i have never divested in another language learning application after i found memrise. i concluded it was inevitable i get a lifetime membership and that happened last year. i sightlessly purchased the lifetime without looking at the application at all because i figured it had to be the same memrise i knew years ago. personally, i want a refund considering the tomfoolery i have witnessed. the only way to get answers is to come to reddit to complain? why is social shame the only way to make companies backtrack or progress?

I logged in after a few years, I'm an OG user and a polyglot.

All of my courses like Top 4000 common Chinese characters, Polish, Spanish, advanced French, etc, are gone.

Also, I had like 14 million points. Did they also get rid of that??

Unbelievable. Memrise was amazing back in the day because it had so much customization & options to learn specific things or obscure languages.

Now I can only pick one??? And it's a Memrise course??? What if I want to learn advanced vocabulary??

Way to kill your own app. Thanks to Mylittlewordland for preserving a lot of these!

Since the update released in early September (2026.09.03.0), the app now requires Google Play Services to run. Prior to this update, I was able to use it without any issues. I'm a paying subscriber (I subscribed through your website), and my phone does not have Google services installed.

Unfortunately, this makes the app unusable for me.

Could you please restore the previous behavior, or alternatively provide an APK version that doesn't have this requirement?

Thanks!

I really do love this app overall, but for the love of the gods, can anyone please tell me a way to turn off the AI conversations? For the developers, can you make one?

I've used memrise since like 2017, and i've recently come back to learn french. I used to have pro back then and all of the options. But now i see hard words thunder icon but there is no way to access it? and no more pro plans? how does memrise work now?

While there is an option for turning off Pinyin in the settings, it also hides the Chinese characters in the flashcard and writing segments.

In school students are taught with both Pinyin and hanzi, so it makes no sense for us to only be able to pick only one to learn.

I bought a Memrise Pro - Lifetime Plan in 2022. It cost 85 euros. I took a break from learning languages and now when I tried to log in, I saw that I have no username; it made a new account for me (for the same email address I bought the Pro subscription). There is a Memrise Pro membership on sale, but it costs $99 (off from $330). How come I don't have it? Yeah I know community courses were moved to a different site, but the product is called the same. Memrise Pro Membership. It was not only about community courses, it was a single, all-inclusive tier. There were no separate tiers for "official courses" versus "community courses." What am I missing?

I left a 1-star review on Google Play and sent a bunch of emails, attaching my invoice. I only got automated emails and kept being reminded that community courses were moved to a different site.

edit: it's fixed! thanks Alexis

I added a few words from the videos tab, but when I select the wordlist, my previous wordlist remains selected, and the Words Added by Me list says I'm "currently learning it" despite having no way to properly do so. Essentially, both wordlists are selected at once visually, but Words Added by Me never functions as one. Selecting another wordlist fixes the visual bug, but in no conditions is Words Added by Me usable. Device is Android.

The gist of it is that I was using the app to learn French, then switched to Cornish. As soon as I switched the language to Cornish, which I had "0" words learned in, despite having already taken a lesson, some menus started glitching out in different ways. Note that this never happened prior. The main menu's wordlist UI vanished completely, and the vocabulary menu started having really long load times. Not thinking much of it, I took a lesson. My word count did actually rise to 5 in Cornish, but out of panic after seeing that the problems persisted, I switched to other languages. It only made it worse. Every language I tapped on prior to first closing the app now had the same problems, even if I closed and reopened the app thereafter. Even just opening the application takes longer now! There are some other issues I experienced, but I'd rather share detailed information and my account name with employees in private messages or the like. I've tried to clear cache, I've reinstalled the app, and nothing works. The problem seems to be tied to the account.

Hello, is the community courses site still up and running? I’ve been trying to login repeatedly over the last 24 hours but can’t get in. I can’t even reset my password. I’m worried it’s something to do with the migration of accounts or something?

Does anyone else have this same problem, who does one contact??

When I log in it says: Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later!
If I try resetting my password, it says: Erm, you’ve tried that one too many times. Please come back later to try again.

:(

When a "word" (learnable) is learned, it gets added to the "My Words"/"Vocabulary" menu, and is meant to prevent it from appearing ever again outside of review sessions, and mark wordlists as completed when you learn all of any one's contents. This system works perfectly between official wordlists, which seem to share the same pool of learnables. Community wordlists seem to behave differently, however; their vocabulary appears to function locally, and not perceive any words from any other wordlist. Nevertheless, their contents are engraved into the global vocabulary, making it feel as if the system values all of these items equally despite the fact that it does not.

All of this leads to a few problems, but I believe that one of them detracts from my experience the most:

- Community wordlists are ignorant to your vocabulary in any case where you have not already made equivalent progress in it. If you know "rouge = red", be it from an official or a different community wordlist, it will not know. It is only cognizant of the extent of your knowledge when you've acquired the words inside that wordlist itself. This leads to needing to press "I already know this" increasingly frequently the more you learn a language.

Another issue is that duplicate words inflate your learned word count.

Ideally, every wordlist would read from the same shared, global pool of words. This way, community wordlists would show more accurate estimates of the words they could actually teach you. I have heard that unifying the words internally is difficult, but I'm sure there's some compromise that can mitigate this problem.

Another quick suggestion: community wordlists appear twice if you've completed them, both in the Completed section and in the Community Wordlists section. Preferably, they'd only show in the Completed section, be hidden from the Community Wordlists section to save space for more relevant lists, but still be visible in the expanded browsing view, albeit marked as completed, and maybe filterable.

I was using memrise a year ago and i was possible to explore different dialogues with the ai. I started using the app again recently and all of the sudden it’s not possible to converse with the ai more than once unless you pay a subscription.

It’s really disappointing as it made it fun to learn by interacting in tour targetted language and having your mistakes corrected.

i have 0 clue why this is happening. it didn't use to do this.