Mimo
reviews and complaints

When I first tried to learn Python, I started with a certain, well known company’s learning program.
Mimo is, so far, vastly superior. For starters, there aren’t mistakes in the curriculum. The other one asked questions in the tests that weren’t even covered until the following section, forcing me to teach myself through google, reddit, and python forums, then “reverse engineer” the solutions, just to complete the test.
Mimo teaches logically, giving you practical information in a sensible order, building on what you learned in previous sections.
That other platform did the outdated “hammer the long form into their heads with little-to-no explanation, first,” method. I did that entire first course with a constant migraine thanks to the confusion and stress! (Chronic illness warrior here.)
I’d rather pay Mimo for a year and learn practical coding I understand, at my own pace, than pay those other people $50 per 6-week course and scramble to try and cram a ton of confusing, sometimes superfluous, information into my head as fast as possible before the deadline so I don’t waste $50.
I had a single-subject notebook nearly filled with 6 weeks worth of notes for the things I’ve learned in a WEEK from Mimo (which actually make sense!) Plus, no migraines with Mimo!
Mimo seems to have taken the tack: Coding is a [computer] language so it should be taught like a language. I say, “Brilliant!”
I already knew I enjoyed coding from playing with html as a kid, and more recently, fiddling around with simple code in my favorite computer games (ex: making trees grow back faster), but until Mimo, I didn’t think I enjoyed learning it!
Again, thank you, Mimo. I’m having a great time learning a new skill. ❤️

Firstly, I hardly leave reviews. However, I cannot express my gratitude for such an awesome application! I would rather call it an asset. They currently have SQL and Python languages. There is also a section for web development using HTML that integrates the process of building websites, however I have not looked into this to date.

They have introductory lessons of learning, but I will provide an update in my response. I am really loving this app due to the fact that I personally practiced Python in the past, but seemed to have issues remembering some aspects to properly complete a working program that functions without syntax errors. As I have been doing the lessons, it is all coming back.

I am VERY curious of whether they intend on adding more languages into this application, as it is very resourceful. I’m excited to see the development of this app!

The only complaint I have is that they offered a 50% discount for the pro version due to the current hardships of some people face during current events. I wanted to see if it was worth it before making the purchase, however it took a few days to get past a few lessons and realize that this application is an asset. Now the offer previously offered is no longer available… I wish I could have taken advantage of this opportunity, however it has expired before I realized the potential.

In any case, I recommend this app for those of all levels. It takes some time to make it past the introductory portion, and I wish there would have been a test to get past the first few lessons. This would allow the opportunity to see the lessons of your skill set. If I had seen this specific material, I would have purchased with the special promotion immediately!

I am brand new to coding. I’ve been wanting to get into it for awhile, and this app has given me that opportunity. I’ve only been doing it for a few days now, but so far I really like the app. It does a great job of breaking the lessons down and explaining each part. It also does a great job of explaining why an answer is correct or incorrect. I love that I can go as quickly or slowly as I need. Another feature I love is the goal tracker. You set a goal, how many chapters you want to complete each day (1-3) and it keeps track of your streak. I am very competitive and this feature helps me reach my daily goal to keep my streak going. As much as I would love for the app to be free, I understand the subscription cost, and think it is a fair price. I personally paid for the years subscription because it is the better price since I want to use it long term. But if you only want a couple months, the month to month plan is very reasonable.

There are two reasons I didn’t give the app 5 stars. First, there is a lack of practice opportunities outside of the lessons. You get 1 daily challenge where you can practice what you are learning but that’s it. The best way to learn and commit that learning to memory is through repetition and practice. The second reason it’s not a 5 star app, is because so far all of the quiz’s are either multiple choice, or choose the options to fill in the blank(s). There are hardly any times you have to fill in the blank yourself, with no options too choose from. More often than not, fill in the blank questions only has options that are the correct answers just out of order. It should include incorrect options as well as the correct ones. Please improve the quizzes available and add more practice opportunities.

Yes, this is an 11 year old writing this. I have been a big fan of coding ever since I heard of the online website “Scratch”. As I got older, coding with pre-made code blocks became easier. I eventually mastered the code blocks, and was ready to move on to actual code. The problem however, was I didn’t know where to start. YouTube tutorials didn’t help, all the online courses were way too expensive, and it was a pain to try and find the right thing to code on. So, my last resort was to search the App Store. If you have wanted to find a good game to add to your device, you have definitely run into some terrible games that you wonder how they even got on the App Store. That was my worry. I found a topic for coding, and clicked on it. I scrolled down, and then it had a section that said for adults. I know for a fact that I am ahead of my age, getting into real coding. In fact, in my tech class, we are just getting into coding. But the type of code I have already mastered. Anyways, that’s besides the point. When I looked at the adults section, I saw something called Mimo. It looked like a subtle learning app for coding. When I looked at it, I saw the words HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. Those happened to be the code types that I was trying to learn! It was a free app, and one of the only free apps. Here I am, a few days later, writing a 5 star review on how good this app is. It reminds me of Duolingo. This app is letting my future unravel, quicker, and quicker. If you are like me, and you want to get into coding, this is the app to get. Thank you to the developers of this app for helping me with my future. Let me say, in a few years, you will see games by me, all because of the people who went through the trouble to make this app. Thank you for your help!

-Micah

Okay, where to start? First things first, if you think that this review is saying that the app is bad, that is not true. This app is WONDERFUL! With, of course, a few downsides. But, other than that, it’s amazing.

Okay, so when I first got this app, I wanted to code, even become a professional developer. So, I got the app (mind you, this is a couple of years ago, so I can’t really remember that well) and it. Was. Incredible! The first lesson I took was fun! Bite sided, easy and interactive! I would get frustrated (Not your fault, I was little) but it was easy. So, when I got my new phone, I was jumping all over getting the app. Mom said yes, and I got the app. I’m literally doing almost every day of the week. (If I get a chance.)❤️Also, you added a new language in programming! And you update this very often. So, there are no bugs, the app is ‘squeaky clean.’

Okay, this next part is sad, because it is the downside part. (Sorry, but for all the ups, there is a least one down.) The first one circles back to the positive paragraph about Mimo. I said that I got the app when I was little. When I was that age, I remember that there were more lessons, and in order to get them, you needed to buy pro. Of course, my mom said no. But it was nice to buy pro, and then you get more courses. Now, maybe 3 years later, I’m 10, I get the app on my phone, and then ALL THE COURSES THAT YOU NEEDED TO BUY PRO WITH ARE GONE! I mean, 3 courses are good, but what happens if I finish all of them! Yeah. And I liked the way that the webpage was before. You changed the layout. It’s still good, but I liked the original one. Now I’m confused.

Whew! I need a breath. Sorry about the downside, but there are more positives than downsides, the downs are just longer. Other than that, pretty good app! Squeaky clean!

Mimo is perfect for those learning to code. I already know how to code but wanted something to supplement keeping me on track. I use Mimo as practice and a way to reinforce things I've already learned. I like that Mimo tests me with questions but they could be harder with more opportunities to make mistakes. Also there aren’t explanations when you get things wrong but maybe thats a good thing.

I think Mimo could utilize spaced repetition for coding problems or challenges as that is optimal for learning and understanding. I wish i could also adjust the difficulty level; the whole app seems to be on easy mode, but if I could adjust the difficulty i could make the peactice harder for me. For instance the answer is very obvious most times as their is just one option and all you do is click the one option. Or the the answer will be above and you just click the answer; the only way you can get it wrong is if you weren’t paying attention to the above sentence.

Amy last issue is I would like more opportunities to type my answer in rather than predictive text giving me the option, again I think this could be fixed with a difficulty option. It will definitely be useful for some but it would be nice if that could be turned on and off.

My final desire is that we aren't given
Option to change what we focus on. For instance, I’d really like to practice Javascript, but im stuck in CSS for at least another week with daily goal use. I don’t think this is nessarily a bad thing as you are forced to learn everything because you can’t skip topics, but I would love to focus on Javascript now as that is important to me know, with the chance to go back to CSS.

I think Mimo is great and I’m subscribed to premium. Its amazing for beginners but can be improved for people using this as a supplement to their learning.

Before MIMO I thought I’d never get coding.

I wanted to make mods for games like The Sims and Fallout. Serious mods that add useful content, not just cosmetics.

Every time I’d look at source code or hit up a tutorial it’d be like looking at Tealc’s alien runes.

And trying to understand C++? Fuhgeddaboudit. Alien. Most games use C++ or some variant of C for all their scripting, which is really complex stuff for a newbie.

No tutorials ever broke the languages down in a way I could understand AND practice meaningfully. They basically just mosey on along assuming you know the difference between a function a variable and an int declaration. I tried visual basic. I tried java. I tried python. Nothing helped me comprehend coding.

MIMO is different. For the first time in my life, I can try out a coding language and comprehend it. The python course I’ve gotten 70% through so far and each lesson walks through a new concept in baby steps.

You get to see a completed script in most cases, then duplicate it in part or in full. The lesson normally lets you select fragments to fill in the blanks with, which is immensely helpful if you’re like me and don’t immediately remember all formatting.

Sometimes you’ll hand-type elements in but it’s in a way that’s never overwhelming. Like you might write out a variable like sue = friend_a. Simple stuff. It goes slowly and lets you build on your knowledge with additional modules in each lesson (via additional stars.) You can always go back and revisit lessons if you need to brush up on some concepts.

After using MIMO I can finally look at game scripts and understand how they’re put together, what everything is, and what kind of data I can modify for my needs.

Highly recommend. I think I’ll be getting pro soon since the value is definitely present.

This app simply changed my life.

Hello,

I have to say this app is great in that it allows users to pay for lessons to learn code right on their phone rather than paying lessons elsewhere (at work, a nearby university, etc). The problem, however, is the lack of free courses. I found that the beginner (free) courses are general background and very very low level questions that most people who know anything about computers can answer. Since I’m trying to learn, maybe another course after that like learning games, After trying each of the free courses offered, I can’t tell whether the learning style is right for me yet and I can imagine I’m not alone in my thinking. Every single one of the free courses was fun, easier for beginners, and helped apply background knowledge but didn’t allow me to see how in-depth this app can get, what kind of techniques are going to be used down the road, and etc.

Look, I get it, you never know what your teacher will be like entering a real class so what’s my point here? Since we all have the opportunity to meet our teacher on a better level since this is an app (slightly more free courses but not too much), you should take advantage of that as you could likely pull in many more users that feel this program could be right for their learning style but wouldn’t want to spend the money if they’re weary of the later courses and how they’re structured like me.

After taking each of your intro courses I feel that I met my teacher for 15 minutes, we reviewed what we will learn, and that is it. Do you really know your teacher and how successful this course will be from a 15min meet and great? My suggestions are as so: either allow users to take both sections of the first course or create detailed introduction video that is placed at the beginning of each course so the user can learn about what you’re going to teach us specifically.

This new update is phenomenal.

About two years ago I set out to learn how to program. At the time I was overwhelmed by the number of options I had available to learn. In some ways this is a real advantage because it means that there are likely many great teachers out there that can get your time and attention. On the other hand, it means there are more educators to sort through, and there are vast troves of incredibly dense essays on the most esoteric of topics. When you’re learning that’s the last place you want to go.

This app has been great for presenting concepts in the most approachable of ways. I can easily spend a couple minutes on in and have an example oriented lesson on something that I need to learn.

I got the lifetime membership that came out right when they first launched. I don’t know if they still offer it, but I believe that it was worth it.

If you are looking to put down this app as an expert programmer, then this is not the right tool for you. If you would like to pay about 1/10th the cost of a college course to have someone simplify a concept so that it is readily digestible, then this is the app for you. I have found that the authors of the lessons have managed to convey the core concepts in such a way that when I proceed to more in-depth material I have the right mental framework for it (and when I come back to a Mimo lesson after first encountering the in-depth material I think, “Why didn’t I do this first?”).

A common thing that happens when self-taught is that you have a problem, google the problem, find someone’s solution and a bunch of mumbo-jumbo that makes no sense, fix the problem, encounter another problem, google it, encounter similar mumbo-jumbo and the same keywords and you think to yourself, “I should have just learned this properly in the first place”.

Mimo does a good job of making sure you do.

This has to be the best app/program/ anything... to learn to code. I have tried so many different programs, videos, sites. I can’t mention competitors becauSe well I don’t want this review removed. But trust me man, I struggled and looked everywhere, everything is confusing hand has no road map. This program has a road map, walks you step by step on what to do from the basics to the advanced stuff. I’m Very happy I found this app. Blessed for sure. 10/10 would recommend. In 1 month I learned HTML, CSS fully, and I am now about to start JavaScript, and if it’s anything as interactive as the previous lessons I’m pretty sure I will have it down by next month or 2z awesome

Update:
I had stopped using mimo because I had started a coding boot camp through work(Amazon) which was offering to train operations associates to enter tech, I had 3 of the best engineers as instructors, and I was lost, too fast and examples are more theory based and do it and then we correct you. So I decided to work again in mimo, I this time finished my JavaScript class and did their methods, class, objects, and OBject oriented programming; and let me tell you, once again mimo is undefeated, learn by doing, multiple examples, do it over and over till you learn it not memorize it. I’m seriously so thankful for mimo, you guys are doing the lord m’s work helping all of us learn by doing. My boot camp is in Java which is more verbos but the concept of object oriented programming is the same, and mimo has been here to make sure I learn it every step of the way. I’m very thankful for mimo. 100% A+ would recommend.

I was using Udemy and treehouse to try to recap on videos, and sure they are good and teach you stuff, but nothing beats learn by doing mimo.
Best of the best, I recommend that this be your first option before you try anything else and lose motivation because “it’s hard” this app will show you its easy, you were just taking the long way! I can’t stop typing how thankful I am for mimo
Thanks mimo!

I absolutely love this app! Mimo makes coding seem so easy and approachable. I get excited to learn more and practice what I’ve learned everyday. I have a few suggestions to improve this app even more: 1) more in-depth courses, 2) generalized practice, and 3) more freedom.

I really enjoy how the learning system works on Mimo; however, I wish the courses had more material. For example, I’m doing the HTML and CSS course right now, but it only goes over the basics. I know there’s a lot more to learn, and I hope that the developers will be able to add much more to these courses (and the others as well)! Perhaps one day the courses will be full length, from the basics to the utmost advanced skills.

Additionally, I wish that there was a structured, quick way to practice all of the skills I’ve learned so far. The Duolingo app implements something similar to this, where there’s a little bit from each skill combined into one session. I would like to see something similar to this in Mimo, as I believe that it would really help solidify the skills I have learned. The projects and playgrounds are a good start, though!

The final improvement I would make to Mimo is allowing the user more freedom as they progress through the skill. As it stands, there isn’t much actually typing out the code yourself. A lot of it is assembling preset blocks to form the code. While this is helpful when you’re first learning a skill, I think that as you improve, there should be more instances in which the user has to type it themselves. This would help solidify the different skills. Additionally, I think that when the user gets something wrong, they should not be told the answer. Instead, we should be told what we did wrong and perhaps a hint. I think figuring out how to fix our mistakes instead of being told how contributes to a really solid understanding of the material.

Aside from these suggestions, I’m absolutely in love with Mimo and will continue to use it! Thank you to the developers for sparking a new interest of mine!

I came to Mimo as an absolute novice when it comes to coding. I had minimal experience with HTML and no experience whatsoever with any other coding languages. At first, I found the lessons fun and engaging, and within a couple of weeks I felt like I had a decent understanding of the basic mechanics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These principals are taught in bite-sized lessons, similar in structure to Duolingo. Two things the program does really well is providing side projects that allow you to apply your knowledge and skill challenges that allow you to test your understanding of the material. This is what drew me in initially.

However, when I tried to dive deeper into some of the other lessons Mimo has to offer, I was incredibly disappointed by how shallow the material was. Their Python course, for example, is only spread out over 11 lessons, and there are none of the aforementioned skill challenges or side projects that allow you to solidify your knowledge. I had the same experience when trying to learn C#. It seems that they’ve put quite a bit of work into HTML, CSS, and JS, but not nearly enough into their other offerings.

They have a system in place where you can repeat a lesson three times (which I only learned by contacting tech support - nowhere in the app does it tell you this), with each level supposedly being more difficult than the last. Except they’re not more difficult - it’s mostly just the same info, over and over again. Half of the questions tell you exactly what to do, so it feels more like rote repetition than actual learning. Overall, I get the sense that Mimo’s marketing strategy is to make it seem as though they offer more material than they actually do, and to stretch that information over as many units as they possibly can.

I paid for a month of Pro, which I don’t regret. I got a lot out of this month of learning. But I feel like I’ve already hit a wall with what this app can offer me, and I don’t think I’ll be renewing.

TL;DR: Good for total beginners, but if this is a skill you’re serious about acquiring then I’d recommend looking elsewhere.

I’ll preface this review with a fact about me; I rarely write reviews. It takes a lot for something to either wow me enough or disappoint me enough to leave a review. In the case of Mimo, it frankly has knocked my socks off!

I’m using Mimo alongside precourse material for my upcoming bootcamp and honestly, it’s providing more information in a more accessible format. Everything is explained very well and delivered in a way that just clicks with how I learn.

You’re also given the opportunity to really drill the information into your head by maxing out the stars. It can be a bit repetitive to do this but I actually think that’s a good thing; once I get annoyed with covering the same thing over and over I know I’ve got the knowledge.

I’m always a bit hesitant with app based learning programs because I always feel like I’m going to get to the point where I want to learn more and then they’ll tell me that I need to upgrade. That’s not the case with Mimo! The free version is very robust and has all of the information on HTML, CSS, and JS that you need to get started. The only thing I can see that would require a membership is the projects which, while great, aren’t necessary to learn the information; mainly just practice.

Unfortunately, I was planning on learning the material first and then tackling the projects but my discounted pro price expired. It’s all good though, as I said, the free version is great! There’s a small ad at the end of each lesson but they’re very easy to click out of and only last a couple of seconds.

The only thing I’d like to see from Mimo is an option to access the lessons from a computer. Obviously, I’m not going to be doing web dev on my phone so it would be nice to get the practice in on desktop. Projects are available on desktop though so if I decide to spring for a pro subscription I will be taking advantage of that.

I’ll end this with a thank you to Mimo for providing this amazing service! If you’re thinking about trying this app, absolutely go for it!

Tldr: this app slaps. (I had to write that because the review itself was the most boomer thing I’ve ever written)

This app is very helpful for grasping and visualizing the basics of programming. I love the mini apps it walks you through along the way because most of my discouragement while learning programming has been “okay… I know what this does… but what do I use it for?” Lol. The leader boards add a nice competitive touch that keep me engaged as well. The only negative thing I would say is that there can be an awful lot of hand-holding, even when you’re further into a topic. For example I was just going through comparisons in JavaScript and it spent several pages telling me how a greater-than (>) operator checks to see if one value is greater than another. But on the final page the instructions were “check if this number is greater than another *by typing >*”. Personally I feel like it’s harder to lock those ideas in because you don’t really have to. The instructions tell you exactly what you need to pass, and if you get an answer wrong it immediately corrects you by telling you the right thing to type. In one sense I understand you don’t want to make it too hard for beginners. But in another it almost feels like it removes the necessity for me to access my own memory and solve the problem myself. Like if I was learning math and something said, “Solve 5+5 by typing 10.” It feels disappointing at times because I’m thinking, “We’ll shoot. I would have liked to initiate my own brain resources to figure that out, but I’ve accidentally glanced at the answer by reading the question.” Lol. However, it should be noted that at later modules it does pull back and let you work things out by yourself a little more. So it’s not a COMPLETELY overbearing teacher.

BESIDES that possibly minor nit-pick though, I really love this app. I’ve tried a few others and they don’t feel nearly as engaging. They tend to fall on the other side of the spectrum where they either just leave you hanging without much clue what to do. Or there’s no interactivity and it’s just strictly multiple choice questions. This app actually has you type things out (or select from predefined options, which is easier to handle on mobile).

Overall a great learning tool!

I’ll start by saying that I’ve been interested in learning code for awhile now — have looked into many different approaches to learning it. But there’s so much to learn and so many ways in which one can learn that I just gave up. It felt like too big of an endeavor. It seemed hopeless that I could learn it at all.
I had looked up ways to learn to code on YouTube, sought out articles, asked friends who had learned/were learning it themselves, but hadn’t yet tried applications. After all, there was an app for just about anything right? Why not give an app a try? I’m often on my phone looking for something to do, anyways.
So I searched for something in the App Store that seemed like a genuine way to learn and one that worked with whatever knowledge you had — even if you were a complete beginner. I found a few but they still spoke in a way that made me feel like I was in way over my head. Then I found Mimo. The developers seemed confident that you could go in with little-to-no knowledge of coding but would come away knowing exactly what you needed to. I gave it a try and immediately fell in love with the interface: they had light and dark modes, set-up was easy, navigating the different paths wasn’t confusing nor was it intimidating, and it was gamified enough with leagues and customization options and achievements that it didn’t feel like a boring educational app. It also helped that I was actually learning everything I needed to know on their web development career path.
I’ve been using Mimo for 100+ days now and I would highly recommend it to anybody looking to start their coding journey. They’ve even got a program where pros take you through the proper steps to becoming a web developer, in case you wanted more structure than going through lesson after lesson yourself.
Typically with an app that has a premium version, a lot of the good features would be kept from you behind a paywall. But with Mimo, the free version is just fine. You do only have five hearts (mistakes) and it takes around two and a half hours for each one to fill, but one can still learn effectively.
The lessons are bite-sized enough that you can fit each one or multiple in between activities or on a lunch break. The explanations are always succinct, they’re able to break down many complicated topics into just a few sentences that are easier to digest. I haven’t felt alone even though I’ve been learning on my own.
10/10 from me! Will continue using the free version, but when I have enough, I’m definitely going pro. Customer service is also amazing — in case you ever have a problem.

After seeing this featured as an App of the Day I was really intrigued by the concept. The UI is nice and clean, which actually matters to me, and I loved the idea of learning to code on the go. What’s unfortunate though is how you basically have to purchase a yearly subscription after just one lesson. I saw all of the positive reviews and after considering it for a day or two decided to take the plunge and sign up — that’s when I sadly started to second guess my decision.

In short, I wanted to love the app and refer everyone I knew to it but it’s not quite worthy of high praise yet. In all honesty, none of the several tracks and lessons I’ve started make me feel as though I could actually code in any of the languages, and within each I’ve found the app sprinkled with errors and lessons that feel less than solidified. At the time of this review all of the lessons are either quizzes, an exercise in rearranging lines of code in order, and tapping multiple choice answers to fill in blanks. That’s all well and good, but lessons leading up to that often don’t give you the information you need to actually learn the material, so you’re basicallly left guessing. Should you get the answer wrong is tells you what the answer *shouldhave been and then advances you anyway…‍♂️ Why not offer a hint or a reminder and give the user a chance to get the answer right?

One of the glaring omissions in this app is something that lead me to write this review…a code editor. Not one of the many, many lessons I’ve taken has given me the chance to actually write code and have the app evaluate it. In fact, the “Build An App” track which teaches Swift *andthe Ruby track ask you to either complete exercises on the web or in a code editor…ON A DESKTOP! If the point of the app is to learn coding languages on the go, what exactly is the point of it when I need to sit at a computer to extract the full value? This huge failing is of course something you could never know from the single free lesson you’re able to try out — only after you’ve already given the developer $50

The whole reason I felt compelled to write this review, which I almost never do, is because in my search to compensate for this app’s shortcomings by attempting to find a mobile code editor, I found *multiplefree or reasonably priced options for apps and courses that offer so much more than Mimo. Shame on me for getting swept up in the excitement and signing up vs seeing what else was out there first.

I’m giving it 2 stars because I like the concept and the slick UI, but regrettably, that’s about it. If the issues I’ve mentioned are addressed and I can extract $50 worth of learning from the app in the next year I’ll gladly update my review.

I hate to say it, but buyer beware

I’ve always wanted to learn about coding, but like most new ventures, I was a bit intimidated by my lack of understanding.

As I’ve been using this tool, I feel that it really has a strength to expose me to the concepts of machine learning and computer languages. These are all concepts that I hear at work often but never have much input about. But I am eager to learn.

This review is early as I started a few days ago- so these are just initial impressions.

I started this app by choosing to learn the language of Basic. And the more I delve into this, the more I see that it’s not too different from arithmetic. You just keep learning process by process and rung by rung. Like a ladder. Miss a rung and it can ruin your whole journey.

EASE OF USE:
This app is intuitive and it really involves the user to really sit down and read the info and ACTUALLY DIGEST IT. THINK ABOUT IT AND ALSO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU CAN APPLY THESE LESSONS IN THE REAL WORLD- OR A REAL WORLD APPLICATION.

I look forward to what I can learn from this amazing tool. Thanks to the folks who made it.

To compare the learning style of this app, I’ll compare it to another app that lots of folks may know: Duo Lingo. Duo is used to learn spoken languages and once I sampled Mimo, I realized that it follows similar patterns and learning structure.

THE COST:
I’ve read WAAAAY too many reviews of people who are complaining that this app costs money.
You should understand two things:
1) The skills that this app teaches you are skills that you can use to make a loooooooooot of money if you know what you’re doing. Why would someone teach you how to fish for free? These are real life transferable skills, and if $30 for A YEAR is too much for you, then maybe you should focus on other priorities before learning to code. I don’t understand how people can complain about that price, then you find out that they have a subscription to Hulu, Netflix, and a whole other slew of streaming services that people pay for and watch maybe 3 or 4 times a month.

2) the people who make this app are... you guessed it... PEOPLE. They didn’t just wake up one day and decide to kill themselves to make an app for no gain. They have families and they have regular people needs- like buying groceries and paying rent. Who in the world told you that these people’s labor is free to you? Why are you that special? And if you ARE that special, are you allowed to just walk into a store and take whatever you want to your benefit without paying? So then what implored you to believe you can do that with this dev’s app? Because it’s not a physical object? Just pay the money and work hard and make your ideas come to life. THEN YOU make money.

All in all, if you can part with the money- because it costs money- it’s a very affordable way to learn an amazing skill with plenty of humor and clever instruction.

I was originally going to post a Twitter message on this, but it became too long and your account is legitimately difficult to find unless I google it; searching “Mimo” on Twitter shows a whole lot of not you.

Okay so, I’m not like a coding expert by any means, but I learned HTML in school long before trying this app and I came to it for a refresh and so I could learn HTML5’s new content easily.
But this app is fundamentally flawed.

- You lose hearts on everything. Even correct answers. I was asked to set a flexbox with its cross axis as horizontal. I set as column. I get syntax 100% correct. I somehow STILL get it wrong, and get locked out for another 3 hours. I have also gotten answers “wrong” when the app didn’t recognize my code correctly, and all I had to do to get it “right” was add and remove a space. This is especially messed up because losing hearts is your way of pressuring me to buy pro. I’m not going to buy pro when you’re teaching people incorrectly, and especially because you leave vital parts of it out that I have to go to Sololearn to get. And they at least let me use points to buy hearts back.
- Pro users can blast through it with no opposition while still competing on the same leaderboard. Status & competition means nothing when you can pay to win.
- Unless you’re a pro user, you can’t post on the community tab. This means only people who have no heart restriction and no experience of the terrible error tracking can speak. And that’s real fishy to me.
- Some of your code is just inaccurate or unusable. In theory it feels correct, but I have since gone on to my PC and started coding the exact same website to the point of pasting my code from this app and formatting as you would there. The code will not recognize some of your syntax, so I have no idea where you’re getting it from. I have to go google “how to link local files” to actually get the correct one to make my links work, which tells me you know how overly complicated the HTML code that’s ACTUALLY correct looks and are just simplifying it, but that’s not how it works. People need to learn the REAL code, or they’re not actually learning.
- Sometimes it just appears to me that your app is coded… badly. Like outright terribly. And that’s not good for a coding app. My significant other can’t even use your app because it crashes whenever they try to start it. The moment error tracking is messed all to heck. It loads very slowly despite being a simple app with few images or text relative to others. This app should not have a lot of load.
- No one is allowed to mention competitors on your community. I see people dancing around and trying to avoid mentioning names to avoid having their posts taken down, and that seems oddly authoritarian.
- Shockingly few classes. I have heard whispers of the app having many more things to learn, but they seemingly vanished to be replaced by only a few options.

I could literally come up with many more issues if I had the time. But seriously, I understand this isn’t a huge company with tons of resources to fix issues, but you shouldn’t be running it this poorly. It’s not very ethical, nor is this a good product to use, “free” or not. I don’t think anyone would mind if you take a while to update, but this app is inundated with problems for free users, and even paying users will be taught incorrectly. And that’s sad.

Unless you want to sign up for a reoccurring $30/$50 fee after an incredibly brief encounter with this app, downloading it isn’t worth your time. In case you’re still curious, however, this is what you’ll encounter during what basically amounts to an incredibly short free trial followed by a hasty sales pitch:

1.) You’re directed to sign up. IE: Sign into your actual Google or Facebook account by giving the developers your Login ID/Password.

2.) Pick your free lesson from 4 courses, (each has one incredibly brief free lesson and nothing more.) If you pick the Mobile App option you’ll be shown 2 examples of one command and asked to repeat them both one time:

a.) print (“Hello World”)

b.) print (“—————“)
print (“Hello World”)
print (“—————“)

*Also keep in mind that this one command isn’t put into context. IE: Where/When/Why/How do you use this command?

4.) You are now asked to set up a reoccurring payment, paid in-full at the time of purchase: $30 (3 months access) or $50 (1 year access.) You must purchase to continue to the second lesson, so you are expected to use your incredibly brief experience with this brand/app to make a reoccurring $30/$50 purchasing decision.

*Bottom Line: I decline. An incredibly brief encounter with this app is not enough to help me make a purchasing decision at this price point. This is especially true when you factor in the one and only “pay-to-play/pay-in-full/reoccurring” purchase option and the fact that your pricing is right in line with other software that I’ve found that charges a one-time fee for unlimited use or physical software that one can reuse or sell after completing the program to recoup some of the cost.

*Developers: I do not wish to demean your product in any way (because I really like the look and feel of the app/software.) I only wish to convey to you that the “immediately asking for money” strategy just doesn’t work via this platform without major branding and/or significant advertising. A consumer has to get to know your brand/product before they’ll reach for their wallet, especially when they’re considering a reoccurring payment at this price point. Take it from me... I am currently working on my MBA, my family has owned and operated our own business for 4 generations, and I’ve homeschooled my son K-10. I’ve dealt with the public, I’ve worked in sales, and I’ve bought a LOT of educational software/books/apps/etc. You have a great idea here; I was genuinely excited to learn more when I downloaded the app. If not, I wouldn’t have felt so compelled to write this review. It appears to the consumer as if you’ve let greediness overpower your promise however.

If you would’ve given me the entire first lesson for free I would’ve been much more familiar with your teaching style and apt to have continued with your program. This would’ve been especially true had your pricing included a one-time or monthly fee of $4-$10 (that isn't billed all-at-once,) or a price point that is more in-line with the amount of content you’re given. (IE: Offer pricing based only on unlimited Mobile App creation lessons.) I do a LOT of homework before I purchase or recommend any sort of teaching materials. My time and money are valuable and I like to make confident decisions when I purchase software of this type. In other words, I have to feel as if I’m getting the very best “bang for my buck” before I commit to any purchase, (especially from an unknown brand.)

*Lastly I ask you, the developers, to put yourself in your customers shoes and honestly answer these questions: Are you familiar with this brand? How did you hear about this developer? Does that add or subtract to the idea that this brand offers quality educational materials that merit this amount of money? Did you learn anything during the free trial that would merit a purchase, IE: Can you can actually use it in the real world? Example: Where/When/Why/How do you use the print (“Hello World”) direction that you just learned? Lastly: Did you find that there was enough free content to merit a purchase, and if not, are you ready to commit to a reoccurring payment just to see if the rest of the app is worth your time/money?

Good Luck with your app! I hope you’ll take my review seriously and reconsider what you’re giving your potential buyers. I will gladly check back in the future and adjust my review accordingly. Hopefully I will be able count myself as one of your customers (née pupils) in the very near future.

FIRST off Thank you for the amazing app and for making it so that I can now swipe forward and “review” completed content without actually having to resubmit and answer all the questions again. Total Life Saver I came into this app with a pretty solid python, git, pip, GitHub and OOP understanding and I’d run into this problem on a project. — I needed to display interactive content online! I thought to myself okay well flask should be able to do it? Up until this point my only backend experience was deploying a discord bot onto AWS (into a live virtual machine that stayed on and accepted some basic input output commands). But this wasn’t a discord project. I needed to display some content, running from an application in python onto a page that could be reached. In my mind all I ever knew was python. I never thought I’d actually learn a new language. Not yet at least. But I’m the type that learns on a need to know basis. I learned python from books. But JavaScript…was intimidating to me because the web was different. It worked on a browser! No IDE. Anyways…I must have STORMED this app daily. I took leader board First in the final division and put together a pretty solid streak. In that process I learned and was exposed to React, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Arrow Functions, OOP in JavaScript and got a really solid foundation on how things look with ALL the examples Mimi provides. I didn’t want my python to go to waste either so I polished up by storming through the cert. I decided that I’d keep a flask app up and running through python… (since learning two languages…html/ js react sort of felt that way…and multiple concepts can be daunting)I decided to keep what I KNOW in a controlled area (the back end). I leaned about routes and how to wire things in through videos, flask docs etc… But it was MIMO that taught me the JS I needed. I went from making static pages and using elements that grab fields by ID or Div class…to using OOP classes and finally to using React Components and effects that work with useState(). I really grew fond of React and how polished it was. I installed it, got a react app running and was golden. Connecting flask to react was a dream come true for me because I like to create things that also workout muscle groups so that I don’t forget the skill. I’m able to switch between python and JS now. I didn’t even know that what I wanted to do was called FULL STACK DEVELOPMENT. I just sort of tinkered my way into it like a mouse looking for cheese . Call it the Magic the Gathering player in me. But I like to tinker. Anyways, this app has been SOOOOOOO beneficial to me that I cannot help but RECOMMEND IT. There are so many good examples. It’s so motivating with the streak system and leaderboards. There’s a community that I’m guilty of not using as much because I get so zoned in sometimes! Even now I’m alt tabbed somewhere. But this app has helped me learn a LOT of concepts in web development. It didn’t have EVERY answer because I customized My experience. But there was ALWAYS an example of how to structure things. I especially loved the explanations with pictures. I love how you can save examples in your profile. Mines is littered with all sorts of notes that I come back to lol. I even dabbled into the Desktop version of the app which was in beta but looked good! The year membership is SO WORTH IT! Don’t get me wrong, I plowed through the heart system for as long as I could. But learning becomes ADDICTIVE with this app. And so you just constantly want to keep learning. I couldn’t resist. Now, my react app runs a front end hosted on AWS amplify. And my Flask app supports it with Flask CORS and is hosted on Heroku. I’m now going through some finer things in SQL and what do you know? MIMO just added more content :) Learning how to post and get was covered at the time of my learning but not fully. I ended up using the Axios library and learned about posting with body etc…. Now I see the new content really covers it well! I am SO THANKFUL to the staff of Mimo for providing such a polished product! Had I not been so picky and free roaming I would’ve signed up for the developer program too. But I love the freedom this app gives you. I just want to learn. And Mimo played a HUGE part in my development as a developer (kinda cool wording). Thank you ALL! My project displays exactly what I want it too. One thing I wish is for a Prestige mode. So that I can reset the bars on some of my subjects to “retrain”. Sometimes I feel as though ONE lap isn’t enough. I know we have drills to go through, that fill the purple bar, but sometimes I just want to review the entire block of content and have it progress as though it were my first time through so that I know where I left off. Maybe a review button after you’ve actually completed it one time through? Also this keeps me more engaged because without my points coming through from reviews I just don’t seem to care anymore about the leaderboards despite having reached rank 1 on final tier. I’m sure some others probably stopped worrying about it as well too. But I love the leaderboards because it helps keep me in check. Another thing I’d like to see is an introduction to the Agile Development process. Just some basics or Scrum. Whatever process you guys use yourselves or recommend. As a development community, learning how to build is one thing, but learning when to build is another. But that might be outside of the scope of this app but it would be cool. Lastly, I would really like to know how to automate testing for JS/React on here. I do it a lot with python using Pytest and the whole front end testing world is new to me. I want to build code and make sure that too might be further outside of the scope of learning the languages. Thanks again! Please keep up the good work and know that you guys ALL are making a huge difference in Developers!

I applied for the free trial on Mimo to learn code. I haven’t used the app in over a month. The card that I used to apply for the free trial has no funds on it. Last night I used my new card for a completely different app, and then I found out that you guys charged that same brand new card without me having entered any payment information for it on Mimo. I need the $99.99 refunded to my account because I have a family to support and I do not have the kind of money to afford a yearly Mimo Pro subscription. I’ve already cancelled the subscription but I would like my money back because I did not authorize this renewal

Really simplistic “learn to code” app. There are so many free options out there that teach you way more than this app does. Tapping a bunch of buttons on a screen is NOT how you learn to actually write code. If you are trying to learn, you need to actually WRITE code. Over and over until it becomes second nature and you no longer have to think about it. Maybe if this app added a practice mode where you can actually type code in, it will help.

Also, really sneaky how this app is free in store, but when you go to create an account, it is 59.99 a year with a 7 day free trial that you must cancel yourself through your app store profile. This is the main reason for the one star review. No option to cancel in app and it doesn’t even tell you how to cancel, hoping you’ll just forget you are subscribed after the trial ends. I had to go research online. Subscription for one whole year?! That’s a really long time to still be tapping some beginner code in an app. Probably because the app won’t actually teach you anything and just wants you subscribed longer.

To premise this, I love Mimo, and I absolutely want to see it evolve into something fantastic. But my issue comes down to this:

From the outside, it looks like a fun app made to introduce the foundations of code. Is it entertaining? Totally. Is it easy to understand? Totally not. It’s beautifully designed, and the lessons start in the right places, but once you get deeper in, the tiny explanations start to work against you.

When it tells you that you’re wrong, it does a very poor job of explaining WHY you’re wrong (or right, for that matter), which is a really kind of an important factor when you’re trying to teach— probably my biggest complaint. Lessons are mystifying from start to finish, which you really really really can’t afford when working with something as explicit as code.

Given the price point for an educational app like this, I figured this kind of issue would be the last thing I would find. I don’t feel all that educated by a lot of these lessons, ultimately.

But I’m gonna hold onto my subscription until it expires and keep an eye out for updates. Who knows.

About 2 years ago (2018) I tried it out their discounted trial for 2 weeks, then I decided it wasn’t for me and I canceled my subscription, but a few weeks later I was charged the subscription. I emailed customer service (who took so long to get back to me) about the issue, they seemed willing to help. In the end they confirmed with me that they canceled my subscription and I will be refunded. Great!
A year later 2019, I got charged on mimo again! I talked to the customer service and told them why this was happening, they told me I was still subscribed, so again, they helped me unsubscribed and get my refund back. Fast forward to this year, 2020, I got charged again! I don’t understand why this is happening after constantly getting confirmed my subscription is now canceled. I checked my account and yes it is not subscribed. Why am I keep getting charged? I am worried that I will have this issue happen every single year for the rest of my life. I really don’t want to be dealing with long customer service waits. I am concerned for their incapability to manage private informations.

I’ve been using the paid version this app for a couple months after using the free version because I wanted to learn to code. It was fine for a while then I encountered various frustrations. I would earn over a 1000 xp points but the leader board still had me in demotion with 90xp. Even worse I found obvious ridiculous mistakes in the quizzes. The directions would say one thing and then when it showed the check there were thing a listed wrong that hadn’t even been given as part of the problem. (Ex: problem says I’m missing an unordered list and nested items but original question only actually asked me to link to two pages from the main page). Now I’m finding that all my progress is being removed from the main page even after it was removed yesterday and I redid the last lesson to reinstate the credit. If there’s not massive improvements I will definitely not ever resubscribe for the pro level of this app. Very sad because I’m starting Computer Science classes for my major next year and wanted access to a robust & reliable app to keep me practicing during my down time at work etc.

Hundreds of syntax errors and incorrect outputs being displayed around every turn.

Obviously NO ONE cared to run or even proofread the code. I don’t submit all the errors I find because I have submitted SO many and I don’t think they care.

The first reason I don’t think they care is because given the popularity of this app I highly doubt I’m the first one submitting these errors and they haven’t been fixed.

The second reason I don’t think they care is because this code should have been tested to be correct before presenting it as education material.

The reasons above lead me to believe this was a hastily written money grab app.

Aside from the errors, there is NO reason this is a subscription based app. $80 only buys you a year. That should buy the whole app permanently. $80 already sounds astronomically expensive for what it truly is.

A short, error riddled app with a glossary that has only a small fraction of what is covered. Hope you memorize everything(it might be wrong though)! The Python course can be finished in the month of the free trail if you can get past the errors.

Why does this cost so much it’s just a coding app and I found better apps like this for free that actually want to be able to teach people and not just milk them for their money. If your going to make an app nobody can afford at least tell them up front instead of making them download the app and then telling them you need to pay which buy the way makes people delete it. I thought this was a cool app but when it wouldn’t let me use it because it costs so much money I got out of the app and deleted and downloaded another app about java script which is pretty fun.

I got a response saying it’s free so people can get an idea of how it works but I can’t get an idea of it if I only get one short lesson that doesn’t show me how to do real stuff. I wouldn’t know whether or not it’s worth paying for. Also I’ve looked at other reviews saying there are a lot of bugs. I’m not going to pay for this because fixing a bug will take time and can ruin the experience and before you know it your subscription could end and the bugs won’t be fixed. I could use the money for rent to and other things like food water and real education.

I had purchased a premium subscription back in September and it was working great and I loved the lesson plans. I was learning and making progress everyday. Recently within the last few weeks it seems to register that I don’t have premium any more, I try and restore purchases and it says I already purchased premium, yet I still can’t access the 2nd and 3rd stars on courses like I was once able to.

I contacted support and it literally takes 2-3 days just for a response and that is ridiculous. It’s been over a week now, almost two since I lost the ability to fully access the courses and still no help from support. They told me fixes that were easily found in their FAQ, in my initial email I even said I already tried it. What is their response to fixing my issue? Of course it was try the thing that I already did and told them I did!

This review is more of a review of support and their ability to fix my problem more than it is a review of the actual content of the app. When it worked it worked great, I loved the courses and layout. But when it stops working, finding help or at least a little transparency is an impossible task.

I love not only this app, but the simple idea of it. An app that is dedicated to teaching people about a hidden language in an ever evolving world that relies on technology to work. When I saw that this app existed, I was jubilant. However, my heart sank when I finished the first lesson of How To Make Apps, and I saw that I had to get the premium subscription for more. I became extremely disheartened when I came back to the App Store and found that this was true for every course in the app. I do realize that not knowing this was my fault because the information ended up being really easy to find. The app of the day story said nothing about this though. And I do understand that app creators need to be paid, but as much as I hate them, I would much rather prefer having to watch an ad before each lesson. I would still be okay with the premium subscription to disable ads. I was really hoping to be able to get started learning about coding at a young age in order to prepare for my future career, but this is not possible with the current requirements for the lessons. I hope that you take this review into consideration in the making of this app later on. Thank you.

This app has a pretty good way of teaching coding, but i have many problems with how they attempt to pull it off.

For those who do not know, this app requires a pretty hefty subscription. It does offer portions of courses for free, but you will not get anywhere with them.

One very big problem is that each course repeats the definition of code. I know what code is, and that's why it is so hard to get going on a course for me.

Another thing is how basic this app teaches you. I tried learning HTML, and it somewhat worked, but my friend learned twice what I did in the same amount of time in a different app.

There are many free alternatives. If you're looking for C++ , I recommend learncpp.com, it's where I learned c++ better than this app could teach. The only pros of this app is that it has multiple coding languages available, and it's on your phone, but having it on your phone just means you don't type out the code, you select pre-made options.

This app is great if you have never heard of code, and have no idea what it is, but if you want to be able to use what you learn then don't use this app.

Edit: A good advantage is this app's amount of developer feedback.

First of all, I gained nothing out of my use of this app. Admittedly, I didn't use it much, considering that it would mark even my VERY OBVIOUSLY wrong answers (or ones that it JUST told me in a previous lesson were wrong) as right, so I didn't exactly trust what it was teaching me. Also, many of the lessons were either complete common sense or way too advanced for a beginner--with no in between. For the advanced parts, there was ZERO explanation on any of the material. Secondly, this app makes is near impossible to cancel a membership. I used a coupon code for a membership over a year ago and used it very little after, regretting my purchase very much. Then it renewed my subscription with no warning (I had completely forgot I even had the app), and I have been trying to locate how to cancel the membership for the past half hour with NO LUCK. Every time I try to login online for some reason (I've tried on multiple browsers, two laptops, and my phone), the login will not go through. I don't mean that the password is wrong, I mean it LITERALLY DOES NOTHING when I click the login button. Additionally, there is no way WITHIN the app to cancel my subscription. I emailed customer support and got a link to manage my subscription, which again, DOESNT WORK. If I could give 0 stars I would.

I was really excited when I purchased a subscription for this app- I’m a front end developer and wanted to begin learning other coding languages. I purchased a subscription through their web app and Mimo charged my credit card instantly but I never received the premium features. I’ve emailed their support team, provided them with all my information including screenshots and proof of purchase from my credit card company but still have not received premium access or a refund. They have been unhelpful, barely responsive and quite honestly, apathetic. I’m really disappointed in Mimo. The app has a lot of potential and could have been a really great experience. Mimo, if you’re listening, I’d like to encourage you to 1. Find a payment gateway/accounting platform with better integrity and transaction history because at this point it’s basically theft. 2. Provide users more free content. 3. Improve your Customer Service and relationships by creating a more in depth knowledge base or forum for troubleshooting. Give better feedback and assistance through your support emails. A one sentence question replied every 24 hours is inefficient to quick and simple solutions and negligent of your responsibility as a business. At this time I would not recommend your product. I may as well have lit $20.99 on fire.

Update and response to developer: The app in the store is free plus no where did I see you state that you only get ONE free lesson then have to pay $4.17 a month/$50 a year to actually use this app and all you get is like basic questions that's it...well my review still stands as do others and I'm sure we will use another app that fits our needs as this one doesn't
I seen this app on Facebook and decided to check it out since it says it's free so I install it sign up via FB click which option I want (building iOS apps, Web Browser, Game Development and hacker (yes hacker no joke) then I proceed to lesson one "Gettung Started" 9 questions then at the end it says "Storing Information" clicking on it takes you to the menu where you see a lock (like me your wondering what gives) so click on it and it says to unlock ALL tracks and courses you "must" upgrade and pay $4.17 a month (again like me your wondering what's the point in only getting ONE free lesson that doesn't REALLY show you the true or real stuff you want to learn?) so in my opinion yeah it's not worth it I mean if it's free then make it truly free a lot of people are trying to learn this stuff to better their lives and if your poor you can't afford a whopping $50.04 a year that's unrealistic and downright dumb and crazy so uninstalled this paper weight

I got the app and signed up for the subscription when it was still a monthly basis service, the service is way too basic which is not bad at all for the price i thought it was an ok deal, but then they switched to annual subscription and I thought i would pay for a year, thing is, thats how they get you because your subscription is not through the app anymore but their website or actual service so you can’t really cancel on iTunes like you usually do with subscription apps you download from the app store, well A year went by and i didn’t even use the service twice which i thought ok well i have a whole year maybe I’ll use but i didn't, then i noticed they charged me for another year! So i wrote them and asked them to please refund my money, THE SAME DAY the subscription renewed, obviously they can see i never used the service and will not use it again, but the person message me back saying they can’t refund this is probably how their business operates a yr goes by and you forget then you get hit with another $49 charge, i mean its 2018 what kind of company dies business like this? Call ANY company with this type of services and you get refunded right away! I will be sure to let all the people i know in this industry about the horrible customer service experience with this company and encourage them to leave a review as well!

I almost did it again today, Apple! are you a fine print company where WE have to scrutinize every purchase or download I make in the App Store?!? This time with the app Smart Cleaner, you had better post highly visible opt-in notices for your “free” apps that post subscriptions to users credit cards or let yourself in for class actions. If I hadn’t scrolled a little further and tapped on the ‘very fine print’ I would not have known that Smart Cleaner would have been charging me ~$5/week for something i’d use twice a year, $30/per use!

I would have liked to check mimo out but am afraid if I breath near their app it would cost me $10, seriously a defeatured free version is better than kind-of tricking some users into a subscription.

There's a hidden fee, maybe annual, of $80 that they hit me with AND I NEVER USED IT, not once! Now I have to hope Apple maybe/might refund me through their text-us-and-hope customer anti-service department. All charges NEED to be verified, and twice as much when it is a substantive charge, $80 is that for most people. My god Apple, I never bought an app for $20, i'd have thought you'd have flagged me or something. This hurts my budget, while others would go hungry because of BS like this.

Seriously this deserves class action attention if it is the only way to get these theives attention, Mimo and Apple.

Update: The developers contact me telling me that I need to understand that they are putting a lot of work into this app. But I don’t think they understand is I paid full price for an app just to learn swift and they dropped support for that app, in favor of this app which has an in an enormous subscription fee to it. I will see that they office to teach you a lot of stuff, but nothing that I want. I still say they should offer a flat fee app for each subject and then continue to support this ad for the people that were foolish enough to pay a very high subscription fee.

This app is a total scam and should never have been allowed into the App Store. It’s on sale for $30 years subscription for only three sections of swift programming. That is just crazy. I know there’s other things you can learn in this app, but I’m only interested in learning the swift programming. They used to have another app that I had paid full price for for learning swift programming. But they stop supporting it in favor of this app, that they now wants a $50 normal year subscription for. Especially when you consider how many other options are out there for learning swift. I can buy $10 video courses on Udemy.com for a better value than what this app can provide. I like the app, I just wish it was a one time price, a fair price to learn swift. I’d pay $5, but it’s not worth more that.

The only thing free about this app is the bogus flat intro of each lesson. Then it’s $50-60/year or $30 for 3 months.
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Update:
I gave in and decided to subscribe. The lessons in some areas are decent while in others are still too rudimentary to even consider oneself a novice after passing their last level. Overall I’d give it 2.5 stars if possible, because it’s half way there.
The program itself is a great concept not lacks execution. I joined to see if it had more depth, and really it doesn’t. I’ve been in the tech field for over 20 years and I’ve done programming (no expert, but I can hold my own), SQL Database Administration, Ethical Hacking, and Systems Administration. I would like to think I know what I’m talking about.
The program has promise but needs more practical content rather than multiple choice options. If there’s a way to involve an emulator for programming, or establish a bit more real-world application of concepts. Learning the vocabulary and verbiage is great, but when it comes to practice it’s very different than in the app.
I would also suggest that the concepts have a common theme. That way the user can follow a storyline throughout.
For me, it’s a waste of money. For a absolutely newbie to programming it might help, but 3-4 courses on Udemy or Coursera costing $10 each might give you a better handle on it than the app, and still cost less.

Saw this app on an ad and got a little excited. As an individual very familiar with programming/hacking had to try it out and suggest if it was worth “you have no clue how often ppl ask hey would you *insert command4 me”. Wasn’t till after I went thru the childish albeit correct 1st phase that I see the dreaded subscription required... so can’t tell you anything after chapter one. I will add even tho not sure developers will post this part. If you want to learn use your preferred search tool and search all this info is out on the clear net for free. Find, read, learn (so yes little extra effort then a app but if u strap for cash and is something you’re passionate about you’ll do it) after reading then you look for simulation of your choice “also easy to find free version” everything from java script simulator, html 5, python, even as far as free programs Alice to teach graphics “that one is fun to randomly play with”. To developers I do like the ideal behind this but since ik most the stuff I saw in app already “was a few gems I spotted but once again should b able to find” wish y’all would do a little different approach. A: make clear b4 first lesson hey we run off subscriptions, B: go from subscription to a one time purchase (like buy these lessons $2.99) “personally would love this one” the cash u lose at higher subscription price you probably make up for from higher sell count of ppl getting what they wanted. C: A large one time purchase “tho these normally don’t work but :/“

Good: It’s visually appealing.

Bad: You can only do one section before being hounded to pay... for a subscription. I’m sorry- subscription to what? The ‘free section’ consists of you choosing from multiple choice options, with no option to actually type anything into an editor. Multiple choice won’t help you when you need to remember syntax- you should/will eventually be typing this stuff over and over and over and over again. Why not actually start now?

Even the content that is supposed to draw you into purchasing a subscription doesn’t really engage you enough to the point where you actually think to entertain paying for a subscription. On top of that, it’s not even well enough explained to be considered ‘beginner’ content.

There are way more comprehensive resources that go into much more detail available for FREE. Kahn Academy’s free Computer Programing is getting absolutely huge. HackerRank and SoloLearn are both great free tools with huge communities you can reach out to for guidance/assistance. Even CodeCademy, which has the option for a subscription for extra content, actually lets you learn something useful without you having to pay for- let’s be honest- widely available information that just isn’t in a pretty format that is palatable to the end user/consumer.

Response to Developer: No, I think I understood everything very clearly, and it looks like you just want to scam noobs out of money. Simple as that. “Oh, we’re sorry you didn’t figure out how to use our app- it’s not for you” is the typical CYA lazy dev response. Again- Kahn Acadamy, HackerRank, FreeCodeCamp- all free, WAY BETTER.