Sololearn: Learn to Code Apps 4+

Tried a few, this is the one!

I’ve been wanting to get into programming a little so i downloaded a few similar apps and ran thru a few of their modules. Within maybe 10-15 minutes, I would exhaust their free content and would be pressed to upgrade to a pro account to learn any more. I thought about doing it for one of the apps even though the language i was looking for (C#) wasnt available yet. Then I found this app and my search is over! It does have a pro version like the rest, but it doesnt appear to hold back content from non pro members. It also has waaaaay more content to dive into compared to the others. I love that in addition to the learning/ module side, there is also a challenge mode that turns a tough subject into a game. Then SoloLearn takes it a step further and lets users share codes they’ve been working on INSIDE THE APP and you can run them on your phone to check out how they work. This is awesome and is going to keep me hooked for a while!

Limited success

I liked your app a lot before you updated it and made it all advanced. My biggest issue is limiting the amount I can do in one day without paying. Also each module takes me a few minutes to lean and only being able to get through a couple before getting shut down and being forced to pay money or wait 5 hours to continue is respectfully quite stupid. I’m a 16 year old kid who wants to learn and doesn’t have a job to provide for your monthly fee. Limiting my learning by involving this annoying rule is a quick way to demotivate me from learning and using your app at all.

If you even care about my request which I don’t think you guys will because you guys want money. Allow me to work as much as I want for free and allow me to have infinite wrong answers because on times of desperation and when I am confused I can find the right answer and learn more efficiently by just getting the answer after I already failed once so I can figure out why I’m wrong. But NO I have a pop up screen blocking me from doing that after I get 3 questions wrong.

Your app was better before because it didn’t have this weird and quite annoying rule. If it wasn’t for this I would rate the app a 5 stars.

Developer Response ,

Hello,
Thanks for your feedback!

We were hoping you might be able to contact us at info@sololearn.com and toghether discuss your concerns further.

Thank you again for sharing your experiences, and we look forward to speaking with you.

This app is NOT free

Okay, so I guess the reading portions of the lessons are free, which is nice, but most people learn by doing. I hadn't even gotten through the third Javascript lesson yet before I got an alert saying that I'd run out of free practice. You could say just to go to my PC where there are more free resources available, but if I was readily able to do that, I wouldn't have bothered to find an app to help me learn. I have an infant who wants to be held at all times (and doesn't seem to like my office chair), and a requirement to learn Javascript for my job, so an app is how I'm attempting to make both work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big believer in supporting the developers of apps that serve me well, and this app does look like it *might* be quite helpful to me. It's just hard to properly rate an app's usefulness when some of what I find to be essential parts of it are locked behind a paywall, so I don't know if I can properly evaluate it for purchase. While I know that there's a free trial, I know that I will be auto-charged upon that trial's expiration, and I don't know if I'll want to pay yet. I'd be okay with the free trial if it didn't involve consenting to pay upfront, rather than waiting until the trial's conclusion to ask me about it.