Language app Duolingo has recently with complaints. This weekend the company launched therefore Duolingo Plus, a paid version which is advertising away and has other advantages.
Duolingo Plus: you need to know
The paid version of the app is called Duolingo Plus, and costs $ 10 per month. Plus is at the moment only available for Android users of Duolingo, and is gradually for everyone rolled out. Users of the iOS version, Plus ‘soon’.
For the fixed monthly fee, you get an ad-free version of Duolingo for me). In addition, you get access to an offline version of the app. You can find lessons now at any time download, to use them on time without the internet. Do you want to on the way to your holiday address is the local language practice in the plane, than that with Duolingo Plus.
For existing users, nothing changes: they can continue to use the app as before, albeit with commercials. A spokesman for Duolingo to let you know that all the lessons in the app will always be free, will remain. The paid users have to co, said Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn. “Subscriptions to ensure that we taaleducatie free can offer to the millions of people worldwide,” so let him know in a blog post.
The developers of the app to experiment for quite some time with different business models. In addition to the recently surfaced claims, there are also variants of Duolingo for the business which must be paid for. Also, there are several in-app purchases.
In the past, tried Duolingo to earn money by also working as a paid translation service. The texts that users had to translate in order to learn, would this be supplied by companies. So, users could learn, and at the same time be used as professional translators. The plan is to date not a great success: this feature is still in beta.
Duolingo for Android downloadYou can Duolingo download in the Play Store via the link below. The app is free and works on almost every Android smartphones.
→ Download Duolingo in Google Play (free)