UTalk
In today’s video I’m reviewing UTalk. This company reached out to me multiple rimes asking me to make a review about their app. They offered some kind of program that I could earn money whenever people download the app, but I refused because I don’t want to do that kind of a thing. I’m quite glad that I didn’t because after actually using their app I was quite disappointed with the low effort that they’ve put into it. This app is free, but this is a perfect example of why free isn’t always a good thing. Watch the video to learn more about this disappointing app.
My research, it’s a scam
When doing more research about this app, I find that they do their advertising mainly through smaller youtube channels. This together with the low effort app makes this really feel like a scam intended to only make money without providing any real value to people which they can’t get for free from any other service. I would not recommend people to use this app and instead recommend something like Memrise or Anki instead, which provide a much better value and quality proposition.
Multi language teaching apps
I have an upcoming article in which I talk a bit about why all Japanese language learning apps are bad. But these apps that promise to teach you over 10 languages are poison which you should stay away from. Most of the time they are terrible and require you to pay to unlock more of their cookie cutter stuff. They pay a couple of translators to translate an excel sheet, press a generate button and voila, they have a piece of garbage which some people actually pay money for.
Too negative?
In my opinion I’m not too negative. Because of these terrible apps which keep pushing adds in the play store, it gets almost impossible to find real decent applications by smaller companies or indie companies who actually hand made their courses or lessons. The good stuff gets buried under these other terrible cookie cutter apps. Sad thing about it is that it’s not going to change and you can’t really blame these companies either, it’s the people who keep spending money on these cookie cutters which should be blamed, without them the cookie cutters would disappear and we will find the real language learning applications.
Take in mind, this is just all my own opinion, if you disagree then fine. I’m not perfect I also make mistakes, but I stand behind what I said about these cookie cutters.
