Promova: Learn Languages Reviews

by Slya_aron

I was excited to use Promova seeing all the advertisements on social media, I couldn’t start off from the very second sign in question about native language. I am from Nepal and I couldn’t find any option for Nepalese language in the section. My suggestion is that it is better to acknowledge language and people from various countries which helps building a strong diverse client background.

by Ari.N1372

Promova claims to boost your vocabulary but its designed for people who have minimal understanding of the English language. Anyone with a high school degree will realize that Promova will add little to nothing to their vocabulary. Even their “Advanced” section has basic words like “agenda” or “flawless” (I’m not kidding you thats the most advanced level you’ll find). That might be useful to someone who is just beginning to learn English but its not even middle school level vocabulary. They also charge OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY. An “auto-renewing WEEKLY SUBSCRIPTION OF $9.99.” They ripped me off for the lifetime subscription with a $50 cost. In my 12 years using Promova store and downloading countless apps I have never written a negative review until now. They are total SCAMMERS.

by Nila_Ab

Completely fraudulent and cheater and lier ! They got money from my account without my permission ! I protested , but they just confused me from this email address to another !

They say if you were not satisfied , we will refund your money , but they don't say that you HAVE to use Promova from this level to this level ! So , they didn't refund my mobey at all !

Really sorry for you !

by IvMuz

Saw the Words Booster ad on Instagram. Paid on their website. I haven’t received any confirmation from them but paid with my credit card. Now I have Promova , but very disappointed with it, and it’s impossible to cancel premium subscription if you pay not via Apple Store. I emailed the Words Booster team, no response for days. Please be aware and report them to Apple Store. Scammers!

by Madin_s

I found Promova quite nice but after going through the introduction “test” for the level of the english language I found out that the vocabulary is too limited for advanced level. In order not to miss and pay subscription that I doesn't want I checked in the subscription in my apple id account and in the application. My subscription plan was not there. After 7 days I was billed for the monthly subscription (which I didn’t want) and I am very angry. Looks like the developers intentionally made cancellation not easy (by writing an email to them). Very disappointed!!!!!😠

by Avonlinlin

I download it to learn more “advance” vocabulary but Promova is “teaching you new language” which is not what I intended to do. Anyway, I put down my mother tongue which is chinese and it had horrible translation. Simplifies chinese mixing with transitional Chinese. What a ridiculous mistake. It’s like mixing English with spanish together. And the my mother language Chinese translation in Promova was harder to understand than the English words I am going to learn.
Promova needs better quality control and it’s way advertising it’s product.

by Xzaviero

I was promised a personalized plan for advanced vocabulary leaning. I spent the time taking the assessment and bought Promova subscription, but was never able to find my plan. I reached out to customer service and when I finally got a reply from the team, after more than a week, I got this standard message asking me if my request was still valid, then my ticket was closed right away without allowing me to reply. Reached out them again and still no answer. Very dissatisfied.

by Appreciative.user

The ad showed someone improving on their English. It was displaying ways to enrich the English language, taught in English.

So I downloaded Promova and the first question they ask? What language do you want to learn? Seemed weird if I was going to enrich the English language. But maybe I could select English and there would be a way to select that later...

Nope! The next question was what is your native language? And because I’d already selected English, it was not an available option. I was annoyed this was nothing like the ad, but now was curious.

I picked a language I could read, and before it would launch me into Promova , it required me to either purchase their program, or give payment info for my 7 day free trial. I declined both, but was never able to enter Promova .

Ps your iOS release notes have grammatical errors.

by Norcalcatgal

Through an Instagram ad, I responded to a free trial and then after trying it decided I was not interested. Within a day, I messaged the support team through Promova and asked for a cancellation. They asked me why and I said I wasn’t interested. They tried to give me other offers which I ignored. I just found out they charged me $20 and I am absolutely furious and have opened a PayPal dispute.

by Ana060493

I wanted to cancel my subscription and get my money back. it was their mistake, because the application says that I do not have a subscription to them, but they withdraw money. I asked to cancel the subscription and return the withdrawn money, but in response I received requests to stay and then they simply closed my question and no longer respond to letters. money is not refundable. do not recommend this developer!

by Diliplalwani

I liked Promova learning format and structure. However, advanced words and phrases are very limited. I purchased Promova thinking that I will get new words and phrases on a regular basis. However, it doesn’t seem like it. I completed my whole advanced lessons and now I am left with no advanced words and phrases to learn. Also, although it says advanced, only a few are advanced. What kind of advanced learning is learning living room, bedroom , kitchen ? Promova is good but lacks good amount of words and phrases. I can have a better word and phrases database for you to use into your app. I don’t understand how difficult it is to just update the database content. I am seeing Promova already got similar reviews in the past.

I want to request for a refund of my purchase. I don’t want to waste $20 on something that’s not useful to me.

by Jessegpierce

The ad I saw implied that I would learn better English vocabulary. Yet, when I open Promova it asks what language I want to learn. I don’t want to “learn” per se. So I picked English, my native tongue. Then it asks my native language. Well, English, but now I don’t even have that choice. The name is Word Booster. I want to BOOST my words, not learn a new language of words. Oh, I guess once you go further, you can pay a whole ton of money for English to English.

by Kamris

I think the advertising could have been more direct about who the target audience for Promova is. I downloaded thinking it was a means to enhance my vocabulary in my native tongue. I quickly discovered that this was not the case. So, wanting to give Promova another chance, I pursued improving my intermediate Spanish skills. Selecting “English” as your native tongue wasn’t a choice when it came to learning another language. I could choose Korean as my native language (if that was my native language) and choose Spanish for the language that I wanted to learn. I could pick German to Spanish, but I could not pick English to Spanish .

by Nipwe

App is great but there are areas that need improvement. I am a native Sinhalese speaker ( Sri Lankan ) and Promova does not support that language. I don’t have a way around to use Promova without selecting an other language as my mother tongue. I believe option for choosing English as the native language should be there. This would be a workaround for people like us. I don’t mind seeing explanation in English for all these sections. Also, app can consider to include Sinhalese as an option as there are 15-18 million Sinhalese speakers and language is already supported in many other places ( windows , google , etc..). Also, there is a high demand for Learniñg English in the country.

by Xfhnvffjk

I really like the environment of Promova but unfortunately i can not use it, because my language is not in the list! more than 110 million people speak Persian (farsi) so please consider this in the next version. Thanks

by Jazzconda

My favorite part was English to English section. If you could do more of that - more people would sign up. It’s so much fun to learn the language with explanations in that language for advanced learners. Advanced vocabulary didn’t impress me, there were things like “Thursday, Wednesday, Santa Clause”, I wouldn’t call it advanced vocabulary. Other than that, great app, so many games, you learn new words fast and effortlessly!

by AthanasiaObelia

I really like Promova overall, except the translations. The translations from one to another language are not consistent with the drawings and long explanations in the same language (since one word can have many meanings). It’s so annoying and confusing that it distracts everything else. It would be even better to have the options to exclude all the parts with translation in it.
Thanks for the great app still!

by Thuta2005

I love Promova, idea and IU design; it’s so cute and Gorgeous. I am so into that. But the one and only problem for me is Promova’s only available on iPhone, iPod and Macs, we, most of students and kids uses iPad for Learning languages or some educational stuffs.. so If you launch iPad version, I’ll be so glad. Thank you.

by Mir~pay

When life gets to be a little jumbled and your mind is racing and the words are just not coming to you. What a great help

by Gabryvlad

If you are not a native speaker but you have to speak as one because you are living in other country, you definitely need Promova

by JayDeePee21

You cannot use without paying. They should be required to display the starting price in Promova Store

by Nollito

I agree that this is a scam because it doesn’t let you test it out before jumping into credit card info.

by Stanxo

Picked advanced level and it was teaching me words like “wash”, “ring”, and “flush” that was translated to my native language with a mistake. Extremely expensive too for no reason

by Fdfdfdgvfd

Promova is mere wastage of time. They will charge you then will not allow you to cancel subscription as there is no option of canxel in app settings

by Ahmed Omran

To Promova owner, shame on you lier! You should consider honesty to part of your life and when you say it’s free it means free but unfortunately we have dishonest here. If I can get you ZERO STAR I will definitely do!

by Human Being From Nowhere

I have no idea why you guys only have several choices for the native languages. Sorry, I stopped there. There is no choice that I can choose

by Sarau99

You don't even have a chance to try it out because they immediately want your credit card info. Plus they don’t have many languages to learn such as Chinese,or Japanese DONT WASTE YOUR TIME
Try Lingo, it’s not free but you at least get a free trial and their is a more languages :)

by Manasa C

The very second step to get started is choosing your native language. If I can not find my language, I am stuck. That means I can not continue to the lessons. Insane app.

by Bobbyp243

This isn’t for enriching your vocabulary. It is only for learning the English language as a second language.

Change your advertisement to relate to your software.

by Splendade

They need a better grasp on appropriate app pricing on the US market. It offered me a 7 day free trial, after which I’d be billed $7.99 a week. That’s $32 a month or $415 a year for a vocabulary learning app? Absurd. I could do an actual course in French with a teacher for that amount of money.

by Zulfiia70

The ad shows one thing when Promova is the completely different thing. This is just a waste of money which you can’t even get back if you don’t like Promova . They don’t even let you test it out. Just shove false information into your face and take your money

by Lizard12305

Way too expensive for a vocabulary App with that money you can actually hire a personal teacher to help you.

by Hellen0mia

Not only does it not offer my native language in the beginning of the process but it doesn’t let me continue forward. So what am I supposed to do, pick a native language that isn’t actually mine?

by Ritka1230

I picked an Advanced Level and the words were like: clothes, wake up, alarm, credit card. Seriously? You call it an Advanced Level? I had looked at over 5 word sets, and non of them impressed me.
I guess if you have just started learning English, then Promova is for you