Memrise

Memrise
Type of site
Privately held company
Available inArabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
Founded2010
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Greg Detre
Ed Cooke
Ben Whately [1]
CEOSteve Toy
URLmemrise.com (community courses)
RegistrationYes
LaunchedSeptember 2010
Current statusActive

Memrise is a British language platform that uses spaced repetition of flashcards to increase the rate of learning.[2] It is based in London, UK.

Memrise offers user-generated content on a wide range of other subjects. The Memrise app has courses in 16 languages and its combinations, while the website for "community courses" has a great many more languages available, including minority and ancient languages.[3] As of 2018, the app had 35 million registered users.[4] Memrise has been profitable since late 2016, having a turnover of $4 million monthly.[5]

  1. ^ "Ben Whately - founder's story".
  2. ^ Shellenbarger, Sue. "Flashcards Get Smarter So You Can, Too". WSJ. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Learn Languages, Grammar & Vocabulary with Memrise - Apps on Google Play". 2018-12-27. Archived from the original on 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  4. ^ "Memrise raises $15.5M as its AI-based language-learning app passes 35M users". 11 June 2018.
  5. ^ "The Entrepreneur: Ed Cooke, Memrise". Startups.co.uk. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-01-12.