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Skritter Chinese App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Needs an update urgentlyNot iOS 10 conform. Update HD graphics and make the app faster. It also crashes when studying lists. Loved the app before but it doesn’t work well with iPhone X at all.Version: 2.7.7
✓ Good but expensiveThis is great app but really too expensive for upwards of over hundreds of dollars.Version: 2.3.0
✓ Great AppThe app has been great. Very good response, smooth writing, great sounds. The characters snap into place like they do online when you write them, but there is also the option to keep it more natural with the strokes you make with your fingers staying on, so you can see how good (or bad) your writing is. The voices as you study are also great! The little comments as you go every 10 mins or so are a great addition and very encouraging. 你是人吗?Love it. The app syncs with your online account well, adding words from the lists you're studying, as well as showing your lists on the phone. Offline functionality is fantastic. If you have 3G it works great while commuting on public transport. Maybe on a train you go through a patch with no coverage or a tunnel, you can keep learning and going through characters already added. As soon as a connection is back, you can start adding new words. I can also see how great it'll be for long distance travelling, such as planes, to keep your knowledge of the characters ticking along. Being on the iPhone is also handy if you want to watch a movie or TV while studying. Great job, thank you very much..Version: 2.0.1
✓ App not working on 12.3.1 IPad Pro 11 inch in June 2019I have been a Skritter user for a couple of years. Bought a new iPad Pro (11 inch) June 2019 and discovered the app just does not work at all on this hardware - it crashes on login with an existing account. I also feel that the developers have not updated this app for nine months and that it really needs the ability to operate on an ipad in landscape mode. Disappointing. There is a newer alternative version of this app but I find it slow and clunky to use. I would really prefer to see the bugs in this version fixed..Version: 2.7.5
✓ SorryDo you have to pay for it?.Version: 2.7.7
✓ Effective but overpricedI find the app very useful for studying characters in all aspects. It bothers me how expensive the subscription is, however, for what is a finite list of characters. The developer should allow a one-time purchase, permanent purchase of specific study lists/modules, or a significantly lower cost subscription model for multi-month or annual periods..Version: 2.7.7
✓ Crashes on iPhone XR and iPad AirReally sad, I cannot use it on my iPhone XR or my new ipad air. I would love to use the app and give it a try. I have heard its great for learning Chinese characters but as soon as I touch anything in the app it crashes. It won’t stay open long enough to even try it out..Version: 2.7.5
✓ BadTrying to teach my daughter how to write Chinese but she doesn't know a single word and they expect her to know how to write a random word without guidance! She's only 8!.Version: 2.5.0
✓ Functions but the UI is clunkyI was disappointed to see that the chinese app has not been updated to the cleaner UI of the Japanese app. Sometimes on my phone, certain buttons will be unreactive or slow in the peripherals of the screen. The look and feel of it just seem so outdated I am hesitant to pay money for this experience..Version: 2.7.6
✓ App doesn't workOpened app and got black screen. Couldn't do anything..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Adding words too slowApp takes too long to load new words to custom lists. Makes it painful to create lists.Version: 2.7.6
✓ App doesn't workOnce the app has been opened and a word list selected nothing happens???.Version: 1.0.1
✓ Good service with a crippling issueThe Skritter App is great for practicing character writing, and help with learning the corresponding tones and definitions. However, as a paid service, the app and Skritter have some troubling issues. In order to study specific characters, one must randomly shuffle through all of the characters he or she encountered through the app, which can be laborious and frustrating. Only after doing so can you study certain characters separately from the rest. This major issue makes the app comparatively useless to the old pen-and-paper technique to studying for tests or vocabulary quizzes. Also, should you just wish to study one of the three components of characters (tones/writing/definitions) this cannot be done until, once again, they have been seen randomly. Lastly, the interface is a bit clumsy, making it difficult to find specific characters you wish to study. It is pretty easy to get randomized ones, though. This leads me to reiterate, this app is great for reviewing and learning characters independently. It's use in conjunction with a course is questionable, unless these few issues (and somewhat counterintuitive features) are resolved or removed..Version: 2.4.0
✓ Please fixI don't know why but when I write the second tone it doesn't detect the stroke, causing me to have no choice but to get it wrong in the end..Version: 2.7.2
✓ IPad good; iPhone broken; expensiveOn the iPad this app works excellently and is a joy to use but a bit expensive. However it has not been updated for the iPhone X and not only does it look terrible, it doesn’t really work. It always thinks neutral tones are 1st tone. You can’t tap to get a hint, instead it draws a line for character, and you can’t go backwards, etc. For such an expensive monthly fee to use the app, I expect the authors to keep it up to date..Version: 2.7.4
✓ BadThis app doesn't tell u that u must subscribe to it and it will charge u money every month after a free trail period and I have no idea if I now will be charge for this app every month now I thought it was free ! I only wanted to learn Chinese for a bit of fun now it seems I might be paying for it ... Plus I can't contact the company that designed this app without signing up for god only knows what once I find out I'm not being charged I'm deleting it and finding one that has no hiding charges to it that you only find out about once downloaded !!!.Version: 2.5.0
✓ Great app, unfair pricingUsed the one week free trial and loved it. Trying to get a 12-month subscription now, but the price increases by $10 every time I press "buy"!! Probably another example of non-US customers being ripped off!!!.Version: 2.1.0
✓ CrashesApp keeps crashing for me.Cannot even try it :(.Version: 2.1.0
✓ IPhone app hard to useThe iPad app works well, but there are major usability issues with the iPhone app. It’s near impossible to press the back and forward buttons. And you can tap to see what the next stroke is, but it always registers as trying to draw a dot. And it will never show you the full stroke order. Either you view the full character, or you have to tap to get a hint then draw what was hinted, then tap again, and hope that somehow the next tap is considered a request for a hint rather than a stroke. It doesn’t even have a way to show you the stroke order the first time you encounter a character, which makes learning new characters with it pretty frustrating. They still haven’t updated it for iPhone X either, which makes all the trade offs that they’ve made to save vertical space all the more frustrating..Version: 2.7.5
✓ Needs fixingNormally this is an app I can't recommend enough, so useful to support learning mandarin with a huge range of textbooks to choose from. However the latest update has serious problems so I would recommend waiting until it's fixed before you make any purchases.Version: 2.6.0
✓ Latest update broke usabilityPlease revert the app to its older version! At the minor gain of smoother transitions, it’s now almost impossible to “tap back” to the previous character, nor is it any longer possible to tap the “got it” symbol to toggle green/red with one touch. It now takes way longer to practise, as most of the one-touch efficiency of the app is now lost. Please revert!.Version: 2.7.5
✓ ConfusingWhen you start, they expect you to know a bunch of words.? Luckily my mom is here to help..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Why change the purchase?This is a great app that used to cost $10. Now they want $15 per month for it. Its good, but not that good! Most students can't afford $15/month.Version: 2.1.0
✓ High price for what it really offersI started to use skritter because when I was doing the trial, I realized It was quite useful to improve my chinese writing and tones pronuntiation in a short time. However the application hasnt been fully developed and it has some bugs like it stays in the same characters without testing new ones. Also, sometimes it doesnt allow you to test the words you want or the parts of the language you want to practice like writing, listening and tones. Therefore i wouldnt recommend to pay such a high price for a service that the app is acually not going to offer..Version: 2.7.5
✓ Outdated for XSWhich is a pity given the high price you are paying. New version is in beta status since forever..Version: 2.7.7
✓ Pretty good but way overpricedThis service is pretty good but very expensive for what it is. The best feature is really that you can pull in existing lists of textbooks. I used this app pretty heavily but have come to realise that you can get 95% of the way with a little bit of work on your end..Version: 2.7.5
✓ Great app. But few problems.The app is very useful to learn by the formatting, character strokes, and definitions of that characters. But the top part of the title tier section where users can edit the words definition needed to be removed, due to some fanatic users try to mislead users by spelling misleading deceptive notes upon looking its definition, which people can freelancing edit with random words. The app is dated compared to other apps or study apps functionality. It really needed a better functions with text scrolls and could’ve done better with its lists of text book options like providing some flexible options which can easily help to understand what text book is beneficial that can be separated from the larger minimal categories. And provide some useful hints if the user gets stuck. Not bad... but definitely need some improvements over some areas..Version: 2.7.7
✓ Concept is fantastic, execution a let downFor an expensive $15 a month, I really expected the app for the iPad to be far superior. It regularly crashes, regularly fails to connect when I want to input words, sometimes fails to save inputted words, and doesn't let me edit errors at the list-making stage. This has been this way during my whole 6 month subscription so far. The ONLY reason why I am continuing my subscription is because Memrise (which is free) doesn't let me create my own lists, whereas Skritter does. Once Memrise introduces this function, I will unsubscribe from Skritter. If you don't need to create your own list, stick to Memrise..Version: 2.7.3
✓ Needs to updateThis is an overall nice product with one glaring flaw. It desperately needs to be updated for the new screen sizes of the iPhone X and XS. It’s a crime to charge so much for a subscription and not update the software, now that it’s been more than a year since the X has come out. I hope the development team will address this issue ASAP..Version: 2.7.5
✓ Love but needs app updatesAgreed w earlier reviews in terms of needed updates, and no I don’t pay $15/month to not be able to use the app version and have to go to beta on my phone. Also really need to make definitions and sample sentences editable when adding the vocab rather than having to go back into the list and clicking (and most of the time this doesn’t work) Few responses to definition updates/corrections. I expect more w a high subscription fee I frequently recommend Skritter and like it a lot, but I do hope it addresses these user concerns.Version: 2.7.5
✓ Great appDown rated to 1 star because after further use it is full to the brim of bugs. Held together by cellotape, caused me many hours of frustration, lost progress etc. Excellent and addictive app. I regret not using it earlier in my studies, since I downloaded it and gave up quickly. Instead I focused on recognition only via Anki. That works until the intervals get to 2 months+ and the retention drops dramatically. So my advice is, do it right from the start. Write them out. Another reason I gave up on Skritter at first is I didn’t find the dark setting. I find the sound and graphics much more addictive in the dark version. My only concern is with the future switch to a React Native version of the app. So far the beta is nowhere near as good as this one - and I hope it’s not pushed out until its brought up to par..Version: 2.7.4
✓ Bugs for months; frustrating to the point of unusableSkritter is the only reason I even bought an iPhone, but I haven’t been able to use this app for months, because of tapping bugs that have ruined its user interface. I’ve long since canceled my subscription and quit recommending this app to others. It used to be so great... I keep checking back every few months, hoping it’ll be fixed. But it seems the developers have forgotten about us and are putting 100% of their energy into some lame beta version that misses the mark on literally everything that made the classic skritter great. A shadow of its former glory, Skritter is washed up and in desperate need of a competitor to swoop in and put it out of its misery..Version: 2.7.5
✓ Crashes immediately on studyLooks like it might be nice, but it crashes (app exits) whenever I actually try to use it. iPad Pro 11 inch, iOS 12.3.1..Version: 2.7.5
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