Beelinguapp: Language Learning

The total use of AI in this app makes me not feel particularly great.. especially the fact there is a complete overuse of AI illustration to the whole app. From the welcoming screen to the story thumbnails, it’s not uniform in style and colors and it’s not human. Please make time to reflect on the use of AI a bit further and try getting real artists to draw for you instead. I promise more people will use this app if there is more human elements to it, it is a language app first of all.

When marking text, the marked text sometimes pops out of the frame causing some confusion and visibility trouble, but otherwise a fun app to practice reading with.

The UI is broken, graphical elements keep flashing in and out of view. Visual reading aids are out of synch with the audio. I was reading my first bit of text but the app interrupted me with a reading comprehension quiz before I was half way through, and I had to guess my way through it in order to close the quiz after which I was asked to leave a review. Before I had finished writing the review the app crashed. My phone (an iPhoneX) got quite hot while the app was running (for approximately 10 minutes) and quickly cooled off after the app crashed. Instead of offering a trial period (the civilized thing to do) the developers have opted to pressure you into buying a one year premium subscription by giving you a 30% discount if you buy within 30 minutes of opening the app. There is a timer counting down at the bottom of your screen the entire time. So instead of 14 or 30 days to decide if the payed content is worth your money in the long run, your give 30 minutes of browsing the free content to decide whether you think a one year subscription might be right for you. That is a predatory practice and thus I encourage you not to download this app.

I read Japanese texts. Since I'm deaf, sounds don't benefit me. I've requested several times from customer service to add furigana to Japanese kanji. No reply after several months. I paid for 1 year's subscription.

I downloaded this app and signed up for the free trial period. While I liked some aspects of the app, there were a couple really simple errors that should’ve never been made (the verb “marchar” was where the month “março” should have been and “imagine” was in English, not “imaginar”). I’m an intermediate level Portuguese learner so I was able to catch them and report them, but it doesn’t give me a lot of hope in actually learning good material once I get past the basic features. I’ll try using this for the remainder of trial period, but probably not beyond. Too many kinks and issues that I suspect they got by building out with AI or computer models and they don’t have staff who are actual knowledgeable in language to fix.

Love this app will rate five plus stars when it syncs across all my devices thanks … still waiting for an update… ??? Update I appreciated the two recent updates yet still some glitches with the flash cards and syncing… can the stories be alphabetized by the most recent so you don’t have to try and look for the story you just read when you want to start the game portion ? Keep trying getting better…many thanks for your response five stars when the app syncs across all devices can be a really great app!!! 4.5 stars now Jan/29/2025 Better with today’s update now is syncing across my devices for the library portion but not for your journey. On phone story :5 A2.1 on iPad story :1 A2.1 I am very impressed un trying to improve this app you’re almost there !!!

This app is phenomenal, it has single handedly brought me very close to full fluency. The reading is the best, because you learn words that are at your level, and you learn these words IN CONTEXT, not just on some boring flash cards. And being able to see the translation of a word or phrase immediately, and then adding it to your glossary is a game changer. Not to mention the audio to go along with it, so you can hear what you’re reading, and choose the speed at which you listen. Phenomenal app overall, can’t so thank you enough to the developers!

This app is more for people who already have background knowledge. I downloaded as I want to learn Korean and thought it’d be better than Duolingo but this is not a substitute. The free version just lets you read and listen to stories in other languages. I’m a beginner so I wasn’t able to get much from that as words change based on what is being said to whom and what it’s about. I upgraded to premium to have the vocab and learning path unlocked hoping that was the key. TLDR it’s not lol. It starts you off reading stories then leads to review of 5 words that you have to memorize in order to take the quiz and complete the level. So either you say you memorized it that day to proceed to the quiz to or actually memorize it before you go on to the quiz delaying movement to the next level. The quiz gave you an option to answer and view the questions in English but I’m nowhere near the level to even begin trying to use the Korean version or learning to using it to advance to other levels. I think this is great but not for the real people that need the basics to get in and start.

Love the concept, but the UX still leaves something to be desired. Do I need to be prompted about the new “Smart Dictionary” every single time I open a story? No. Did they test that? Over a year ago, I reported a bug where the “Complete” or “Submit” button at the end of lessons intermittently doesn’t work on iPhone 13 mini. Still a problem Does the app really need to force my background music into the degraded mono mode when I open it? No, but it does.

[Update] They use AI art which is jarring. The pop-up dictionary when highlighting words loads endlessly and never shows any definition. The stories are riddled with inconsistencies, writing names in katakana then switching to English letters. Very disappointed. - I love the amount of languages this app as & the fact that there’s an option for a lifetime subscription is awesome! However, I have 2 major gripes with this app. 1. The filters for levels either don’t work or they just don’t have the levels, I’ve set it to beginner 1 in Spanish, Japanese and German, unfortunately, it doesn’t bring anything on that level up to the front like it should. 2. The flash cards are a bit… lacking? What am I supposed to do with them? I can’t just marked them as memorised because I’m still in the process of learning them. There needs to be a build up, there needs to be more intuitiveness and interactions with the flash cards. Perhaps add a review option? Not to mention, the button to mark as memorised breaks sometimes.