ASL Sign Language Pocket Sign Reviews

by Chlorose1

So Today thx morning, I went to open the daily lessons, but when I got on, it was doing random swords I didint know, well I kinda did know cuz I looked it up in the dictionary but if I didint know, I would’ve gotten it wrong, but guess what, I still got it wrong, because it first, pointed at me, then pointed at herself, then did the love sign then pointed at me again. So I typed in, you I love her, because when you point at someone, it mean you, then I did I and love, I got those to correct, now why did I add the her? Beacuase it pointed at me again and I could choose the same word twice if it didn’t have the same word, but what I’m really upset about is that it started off like that, didint give me a hint at the bottom and didint ahve 2 rectangles with the person inside of it doing asl, and I picking which one I think is correct. Oh and 1 more thing, don’t download beacuase all you can do with out paying weekly or monthly Is the dictionary and alphabet and the daily lessons, if you pay weekly or monthly, you can do lessons and other things. Oh and for the flash cards, I might now use them ever again, cuz for the yes or no questions, it’s always yes, yes, yes, yes. So one time I just spammed Yes. Bye bye and don’t download I may be deleting ASLSignLanguagePocketSign right now. Bye.

by McCracked

I think it’s obvious what the dev is doing here — your “free trial” ends after two weeks (which is an atypical period of time for most trials of this nature which seems deliberate) and then ASLSignLanguagePocketSign charges you $65. The abnormal “free trial” time period coupled with the inflated price is suspect to me, and I think it’s a pretty transparent ploy to get $$ quick from an underdeveloped app that needed more work before being rolled out. I’m skeptical if the dev is actually planning on finishing the work left to do, or if they know they’ll make $$ from folks who forgot to opt out after two weeks and then ride it out until they shut the whole thing down. Don’t think the dev speaks ASL or is involved in the community — lots of mistakes, and the name of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign literally says “ASL (American Sign Language) Sign Language.” Pretty lame imo. If you’re passionate about language-learning, there are better, actually free options for learning ASL online!

by Lolololololoklololol

It says I canceled my subscription a week ago then today I got billed $65 (even though 1 year is $60, not sure where my $5 went) can’t find any contact support That can help me. Searched the web and couldn’t find anything there or in ASLSignLanguagePocketSign . May have my family’s lawyer help me out. But this is ridiculous. $65 is insanely expensive especially since I got through half of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign in a week. It said canceled in my Apple ID but I guess ASLSignLanguagePocketSign charges anyway. I would definitely recommend my school get this for all the laptops if I could get some help because I do think it’s good for learning. But the fact that I was charged so much for nothing is horrible especially since we’re in the middle of a pandemic, and I don’t have the money to cover the $65. I bet this is happening to a lot of people. If ASLSignLanguagePocketSign developers could give me an email to contact to resolve this issue I would really appreciate it.

by Lamertje

Edit*** I just realized they misspelled language in the title. Well that tells you everything you need to know about this dumpster fire of an app.

I really don’t understand how this has above a four star rating.
I’ve been taking ASL lessons for 6 months and would be happy pay for a good app that would help me improve and practice my signing.
I expected, for the price, to get actually lesson with someone who is certified to teach or interpret ASL. Instead you get choppy gifs with emoji style pictographs too learn words like apple and egg.
ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is laughably basic beginner level with very little content. It’s also confusing and really sloppily put together, it just looks very amateurish.
There are no lessons for grammar or to help practice sentence structure, or fingerspelling (besides learning the alphabet).
All it shows is basic words.
You can find much better for apps that charge once the price this costs per month.
I really applaud people creating ASL learning apps, as it’s a great skill to learn. But ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is exploitive, tricking people into paying for something they will learn nothing from.
I tried the free trial but immediately canceled after using it once.
I’m still in disbelief that someone would try to pass this off as being worth a $60 subscription.

by Strangenobody

I came to send a message to the developers, but many of the things I’ve to say appear to been echoed by many already. It’s an ok app if you’re starting to learn. However, there’s quite a few things that leave more to be desired.

There’s no test feature, so there’s really no way to see if you’re learning anything. The study feature is pretty useless as well as it’s just always yes. The one time I’ve ever had to push no, it wouldn’t let me, and accepted yes as correct even though it was not the correct sign (beef vs hamburger). I don’t yet understand the point of all the treasure and gems; it seems you only use them to buy things like skips, but the lessons are so easy and you get chests so fast, I don’t know what to do but collect them all I guess. I’ve also seen in some harder lessons (where they put more signs together and you need to translate the sentence) that the interpreter uses signs that haven’t been taught yet so you just give it your best guess. Even happens in the study cards somehow?

Again, great app if you’re just starting to learn like me, but definitely could be better too.

by Whatsupdudeee

I’m currently in ASL 2 and I thought I would just download ASLSignLanguagePocketSign for fun to see how much I already know and to try and learn more in addition to the stuff I’m already learning but I’ve noticed that some of these signs are either slightly to sometimes even drastically different to the signs we are taught in asl, I know sometimes there are different ways of signing the same thing but whenever there is a sign like that my teacher makes sure to go over those signs, and I know my teacher isn’t the one messing up considering her mom is deaf and she was an interpreter for a while, idk just seemed weird to me

by Roelian

Very good comprehensive app and I do really like the dictionary feature. However, there’s no real way to review everything you’ve learned in one motion without going through individual sections.

Flash card answers are always “yes” so there’s not much point to even viewing what they’re asking.

Sometimes the parts where you’re given a video and have to put the sentence together uses vocabulary you haven’t learned yet - which, I understand the point, but it’s frustrating and just a process of elimination. During these, the actors often use different signs for the words we just learned and never explain further.

There are also multiple instances where there are no hints or explanations to why a sign looks the way it does, and no explanation on how the hands should be held (as you can’t see them from every angle)

I also wish the lessons were a little harder / options were varied. Every choice I have when given a “what is this sign?” Scenario has the correct word next to the apple and orange signs - which haven’t actually come back up in learning at all.

by Man Who Hates Ads

This is a clear knockoff of duolingo with ASL which is a great idea. They are lacking in some very basic areas though. The only way to study is flash cards with yes or no answers and the answer is always yes. When they give you three options to test a new sign, one of the options is almost always an apple or orange instead of something more relevant. The gifs are edited incorrectly sometimes and some of the hints are clearly mapped to the wrong signs.
ASLSignLanguagePocketSign has a great idea and can easily be a five star app if the developers cared more and spent one week fixing these issues. I still want to learn sign language so I’m going to use ASLSignLanguagePocketSign , but i hope that it is repaired soon.

by EMnM45

Please add more tests. Where they sign a phrase and you text what they said. The two each lesson aren’t enough. I’d like to see real conversations so I can better learn. And the study aspect would be cool if we could make our own flash cards. I wish the lessons weren’t exactly the same after you finish in case you want to review. I flew through the lessons in a day so I’d like to go back and practice but each lesson I go to review is exactly the same and the phrasing test in them are the same so I already know what they’re sign. If there was a section of just testing. Lessons then a real test that would be awesome!

by Ally_geez

I love ASLSignLanguagePocketSign and I’m learning so much! To get the most of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign you do have to pay but it is very worth it! The only complaint I have is that when you want to master words you have been taught the only way to do that is with flash cards that just show you the sign and ask if the sign is correct (and it is ALWAYS correct) so there is no good way to really test yourself to see if you know it or not. It seems like there could be room for something to be added and I think better tests would be just the way to do that! Other than that I use ASLSignLanguagePocketSign everyday and the visuals are very nice. Oh another thing is that if you have music playing in the back ground then it cuts out when you are learning new words so I can’t have music playing in the background at all.

by Callmekipo

When I first tried ASLSignLanguagePocketSign the daily free lesson had image descriptions / sign explanations for each word. This was probably what made me most excited about ASLSignLanguagePocketSign. However, I could not see these explanations in the “study” section of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign when I wanted to review words I learned. And sometimes, the free chest for 7 correct answers in a row would completely cover the sign explanation as well. Finally, the second day’s free lesson had no sign explanations at all. With these issues fixed I could definitely see myself paying for a subscription.

by Totally Sass Master Right Meow

I have been using this for about two days and I have tried a few other apps and this is the one I like the most I’ve definitely learned a lot so far I just wish they would make it a little more challenging when it’s asking you like which one is apple and there’s the giant apple figure on top doesn’t do much to challenge you and like a lot of other people said definitely not making the flash card a constant yes would help a lot more so I can actually know if I can figure out the word myself.

by Mbberg04

I like ASLSignLanguagePocketSign! Unlike the other ones I’ve quickly scanned, this one seems to have questions to help you retain it, instead of others that just give you the sign and hope you remember it.
I did notice that when you study, most questions are the answer yes, which isn’t honestly that big of a deal. But when I did come across one that was no, I tried to press the button “no” and it didn’t work (nothing happened). And then when I pressed “yes” it told me I was right.
But besides that, I think it’s pretty good! :)

by Lela Clark

My only real critique of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is that sometimes the instructors have too much of a flourish on their hand movements so it makes it difficult to understand the sign that they’re trying to teach.
(“Window” shouldn’t bounce so much, it should be one solid movement) Or their facial expressions doesn’t match the sign.
Other than that I think it would be awesome to have a harder difficulty setting for older learners. It’s easy to know the answer for “what sign is orange” when there is a picture of an orange next to the sign.

by P1919191

Hello! I love ASLSignLanguagePocketSign. It’s has a great format and is good for practice. I have a few wishes that should be easy to implement:
- I wish, like flash cards, there was “test yourself” section where you just show the English word and I have to remember the sign myself, THEN I could see the sign once I click to see it. Right now, you can’t quiz yourself this way.
- I wish for more variations of words in the lessons. The word apple and orange keep coming up, as if those are the only words mixed in to each themed lesson. Please mix in more words.
- I wish I could turn the photo hints (which are amazing!) off to challenge myself
- I wish I could turn off having to type the words into a box. It slows down my practice having to do that.

by MalGal85

ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is great and I just started using it. I know some sign language but is a good way for me to learn more. I think it would be a great idea to have a setting menu to say seton up a reminder to do lessons and a profile to see your overall progress. I have one question, what are the gems used for, I do not see a store page to use them and when I click(tap) on the gems it does nothing. I would love to see more features added in there near future.

Thank You

by Abigaiiilmae

ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is great for anyone starting out and has a passion to learn something new. The lessons are great and they demonstrate all the words very well. They also have a dictionary where you can look up specific words. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn.

You do have to pay for this but you get a free two week trial and it’s only 6 dollars a month and in my opinion it’s worth it completely.

A few things I wish they would have added or fixed are

- the study section repeats some words over and over (like milk and soup for some reason) and so before I can get to new words I have to make it through six or seven of the same words over and over

- I wish there was a section showing all the words you’ve learned just in a list as I’d like to be able to go down the list and repeat the signs almost like flash cards

- is love for there to be little practice tests or something like that after say every 5-10 lessons so we know that we really are retaining everything we’re learning

Over all this is a really great app and I’m excited to continue using it!

by LaurenInCminor

Overall very good app. ASLSignLanguagePocketSign has the most comprehensive dictionary out of all of the apps I have tried. There are a few issues, such as the flashcards- the answer is always yes. It would be nice if it were an actual quiz. It would also be nice to be able to review the things that you’ve already mastered, not just be able to review signs once.

One feature I would love to have is to be able to add my own signs to the list of mastered signs. For instance, if I look something up and learn it, I want to be able to add it to the list of mastered signs, so I can go back and review it.

Thank you so much for a wonderful app! I’m really enjoying using it to learn to sign and communicate!

by Rrice123

I’ve tried several other ASL apps and this one is the best! I like that it quizzes you with multiple choice questions. The new version, 2.2.2, is doing something with the audio on my iPhone. I hear a chiming sound sometimes. I prefer no audio and there should be a way to disable it if you plan on using it more extensively. A way to send Dev feedback and bug reports would be nice too. I was on the verge of subscribing until this version.

by SkiCu29

First and this is just my personal opinion, I see a lot of reviews that say they don’t like the flash card questions as being bad because the answer is always “Yes” personally, I like it because it’s more of a review and that seems to work for me.
I believe there are many other aspects of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign that tests your knowledge to see if you know what a particular sign means. Perhaps they should change the flash cards to review cards but like I said, in my case at least, they reinforce the correct sign.
I think the best part of ASLSignLanguagePocketSign are the hints that basically explain the sign and how to make it which provides a mental image association with the sign making it easier to remember and recognize when you see it.
I think it’s a great app

by Jiane17

I didn’t really like it, it is not free. You have to sign up to the membership in order to use any features. Literally can’t do anything without having to pay for it. I would have like it it at least had a little sample of what the lessons consist of so I can then decide to purchase it but it does not, only thing is the 2 week trial after you sign up but i prefer to not do the trial until I know a little of what the apps have to offer.

by Dhdgsgvs

I would at least like to know what ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is before I have to give my payment information and all that.. at least give some lessons. It’s annoying to get ASLSignLanguagePocketSign after all the advertisements just to see that you need to give your credit card information for a trial. Other than that I’m sure it’s great but i could never see because I’m poor 💃

by EclipseWolf91

I like how there is a dictionary and a study section but I don’t like how you have to pay for lessons or go by the free trial route which charges you money after the free trial. I think ASL is a great thing to learn, and I thought ASLSignLanguagePocketSign would help me learn it but instead of helping I have to pay for lessons. And I will not do that. Learning something that should be used since there are deaf and mute people who talk using ASL should not be charged on an app

by MarMar420726

If you really want to learn ASL stay away!!!!! Full of mistakes. There’s childish, mismatched clip art, a confusing interface, and text that is difficult_tounderstand. It tricked me into paying for a subscription when I just wanted a free trial. Online resources are better. ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is unsalvageable. I would rate it 0 stars if I could. WASTE OF TIME

by IAmACleverNickname

I want to cancel my trial before I am charged the annual fee but I see no sign of how I can do that. How do I cancel?

It is an interesting app, but there is some choppy editing between the GIFs, so the beginning of another sign sometimes shows up at the end of the sign you’re working on. Sometimes it’s tough to tell if it is supposed to be included in the sign you’re working on or not, which is confusing. Assuming the new lessons continue to have these glitches, I don’t think it’s worth the cost.

by Smh1354

ASLSignLanguagePocketSign has potential to be useful, but only a few signs are available unless you pay for a subscription. The signing itself is also a bit sloppy.

by Hairdresserdrew

The videos loop so you can’t tell where one starts and stops and some of them can be a bit messy and hard to see. It also only allows you to have so many a week. Kinda dumb since your paying for ASLSignLanguagePocketSign .

by OLD G+ LOVER

You guys have “you’re welcome” as “your welcome”, in the video for the sign for “in” it has both the sign for “in” and “out” and it marks me as having written the wrong answer just because I capitalized it... also I’m not sure if you guys can fix how it makes the vocab words one word even if its two words (ex: “getout”)
Overall pretty helpful, the signs are clear.

by Br00k:3

I’ve always wanted to learn ASL but never knew where to start. I downloaded ASLSignLanguagePocketSign and from the beginning was great even though I have to pay to actually do anything it’s great. However it keeps kicking me out and I’m gonna be really mad if I just paid money for this and then it doesn’t even work. Please fix this I really want to learn.

by Ceitlyn

ASLSignLanguagePocketSign is good except u have to pay for rest of the lessons after food1 which takes out the fun of learning asl

by Tyanna Riddick

It’s a great app but if you don’t want to play for a app to teach you then you don’t want to get ASLSignLanguagePocketSign because you have to pay for the teaching so that just made me not want to learn and when I saw I had to pay I deleted so fast I didn’t want to pay that much for a app.

by SuperWhoLockRYCBAR

I really like ASLSignLanguagePocketSign overall. However, I’m in high school and don’t have a job, so I can’t afford to pay to unlock all of the lessons. I really wish I could unlock more lessons with gems. I have severe anxiety and need to relearn asl to communicate when I’m nonverbal. (I took asl 1 freshman year but I don’t remember enough to thoroughly communicate) This would really help me, and I imagine it would help others too.

by Bbtvvgjhghjjsizhz

ASLSignLanguagePocketSign really helped me learn sign language! I am learning sign language faster than I am learning Korean! So I really recommend ASLSignLanguagePocketSign for you! It really works & helps you learn sign language!