Memrise review: price, free version and privacy

Our verdict

Pick Memrise if you want to hear how real people speak and rehearse everyday conversations. Learners who need explicit grammar teaching, or who want a cheap monthly plan, should look elsewhere.

What Memrise is

Memrise is a language app built around short videos of native speakers. The screenshots outline each session as learn words and phrases, watch native speaker video, then practice an AI conversation. The description lists hundreds of real-life scenarios, AI Buddies for role-play, and about two dozen named courses, including separate Spain and Mexico Spanish and Portugal and Brazil Portuguese.

Who it suits

• Hearing real native speakers
• Role-play conversation practice
• Learners who prefer a lifetime plan

Strengths

• Native-speaker videos from the start
• AI conversation practice in real-life scenarios
• Regional varieties such as Spanish (Mexico) and Portuguese (Brazil)
• Lifetime plans in the price list
• Apple Editors' Choice, rated 4.8 from about 217,600 ratings

Limits

• The free plan limits lessons, videos and conversations and shows ads
• The Monthly Language Learning Plan is listed at $24.99, high for a monthly plan
• The listing says little about grammar teaching
• The description mentions over 100 languages but says Pro is designed for Memrise-approved courses, of which it names about two dozen
• Identifiers are declared for tracking

What the free version does

The description says the free plan has limited vocabulary lessons, limited videos and conversations, and ads. Memrise Pro unlocks all lessons and videos, unlimited speaking practice and no ads.

Price

On the US App Store in November 2026, the price list includes a Monthly Language Learning Plan at $24.99, a 3-Month plan at $24.99, an Annual Language Learning Plan at $61.99 and a Lifetime Plan at $329.99, with lifetime offers at $98.99 and $131.99 and other subscription offers from $58.99 to $79.99.

Privacy

Identifiers may be used to track you. Contact info, user content, identifiers and usage data are linked to you, and diagnostics are collected without being linked.

What the screenshots show

The screenshots show a 'Have basic conversations in 2 months' claim with language flags, and a '15 mins per day' session split into Learn words and phrases, Watch native speaker video and Practice AI conversation.