I've been using Duolingo to casually learn French. I also used school method (setup classroom with one email id and enrolled using another) to avoid ads, limited hearts, and leaderboards.

However, Duolingo has started showing ads and limiting hearts since last month for me. I checked reddit and seems like they've been rolling out these changes since last 3 months or so.

So I'd like to know what are the alternatives available for Duolingo?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Few more things to add:

I had thought about paying for Duolingo. However I saw news about them using AI and laying off employees (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/09/tech/duolingo-layoffs-due-to-ai/index.html)

And apparently they're showing ads for Max tier to people who've already paid.

https://old.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/1gi9f7o/if_super_duolingo_was_actually_ad_free_instead_of/

https://old.reddit.com/r/duolingo/comments/1i3gyb5/duolingo_max_is_extremely_annoying/

So I'm looking to jump ship (While knowing that next platform might degrade in future and I'll have to make similar post again. Isn't that great?🫠).