App is useless
You press ‘Start Learning’ and the only place it takes you to is ‘Allow notifications’. There’s nothing pressable there, so all you can do is return to the start. I’ve never found an app with just 2 pages before.
Great for creative entrepreneurs
I love the wide range of choices of courses and the superb quality of the teachers
They Won’t work with you.
I signed up for a 30-day Domestika Plus trial and missed the cancellation deadline. The receipt did disclose that I would be charged $329 after the trial, so I’m not claiming the charge was unauthorized. However, I contacted Domestika immediately after the renewal, canceled the subscription, and asked for a one-time courtesy refund because I had not intended to continue. Support cited their no-refund policy and then did not respond to my escalation request. I’m disappointed by the lack of flexibility and customer service for a $329 annual charge.
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Beware the subscription trap
Highly devious business that uses deliberate dark patterns to trap you into, then enforce a subscription model that is excessively overpriced. Don’t trust them with holding any credit card or bank information as it is extremely difficult to get them to surrender it.
False advertising
Domestika advertises a course at a very low promotional price, such as $1 or $2, and the customer believes they are purchasing that individual course. However, they are subsequently charged for a Domestika Plus subscription without being clearly aware that they have agreed to this recurring subscription or knowingly consented to the additional charge.
I have found many people from different countries reporting the same experience. I asked for a refund and they refused.
I have found many people from different countries reporting the same experience. I asked for a refund and they refused.
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Poor customer service
There are some decent classes on this platform. However, I paid for a year subscription, and I was unable to get all the credits included in this subscription. The customer service is just a bunch of bots —-there was no way to resolve the issue. I spent ridiculous amount of time trying to resolve this issue. It was very frustrating. I think this is not the only platform out there. So I would recommend trying to find a different one with actual customer service and not just robots. I still feel very angry about being ripped off and having no recourse.
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Frauds
Free trials are a trap. Be careful!!
Beware
As several others who’ve been caught in the same trap as I have have indicated in these reviews, this company uses deceptive marketing to confuse users into accidentally purchasing a “plus” annual account for several hundred dollars, and then refusing to refund. For a company with a .org website, offering arts training this is just wrong on many levels.
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Homeschooling
Great for additional learning and fun with 9+ kids in homeschooling.
Brilliant for aspiring creatives
So much to learn and the courses are always very reasonably priced and often discounted.
Deceptive Sales
Poor Quality Courses. Zero Customer Service. Deceptive Sales Tactic.
This company will make you sign up for an annual subscription that costs over $200 when trying to enroll for a single course.
Here’s how the scam works:
They will offer you the first month for less than $1 as a trial. After that period, they will charge you the whole sum for the annual subscription. They will not send you any e-mails prior to the end of the trial period and THEY DO NOT ALLOW REFUNDS. They do not respond to e-mails either.
The courses are all beginner levels. Nothing but introductory topics. You will not learn anything unless you are a child with zero knowledge about the world. Youtube offers free courses that are way better than anything here in this app.
Most courses in this app are made by outsourced instructors that do not speak in English, definitely for cheap labor. You’d have to rely on English subtitles that are again, also outsourced, done by foreigners who has horribly heavy accents with no hint of fluency in English.
This company will make you sign up for an annual subscription that costs over $200 when trying to enroll for a single course.
Here’s how the scam works:
They will offer you the first month for less than $1 as a trial. After that period, they will charge you the whole sum for the annual subscription. They will not send you any e-mails prior to the end of the trial period and THEY DO NOT ALLOW REFUNDS. They do not respond to e-mails either.
The courses are all beginner levels. Nothing but introductory topics. You will not learn anything unless you are a child with zero knowledge about the world. Youtube offers free courses that are way better than anything here in this app.
Most courses in this app are made by outsourced instructors that do not speak in English, definitely for cheap labor. You’d have to rely on English subtitles that are again, also outsourced, done by foreigners who has horribly heavy accents with no hint of fluency in English.
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Minhas mãos são muito especiais e abençoadas
Os cursos que a Domestika oferece são uns verdadeiros tesouros para o artesão
Unfair refund policy and action
This company has a 14-day refund policy for its products, and I have always submitted my refund requests within the stated refund period. My requests are made for genuine reasons, particularly when I find that a product is lacking in quality, and I make sure to follow the company’s stated refund policy and its requirements.
What is particularly concerning is that, despite following their refund policy, I was apparently reported to Apple for allegedly misusing the refund system. As a result, Apple has stopped accepting refund requests from me for other applications and products hosted on App store. This has had a significant impact on me.
I am currently enrolled in around 70+ courses with this company. I have made a substantial investment in their products, and it is extremely disappointing to find myself facing restrictions on Apple’s refund system because I exercised the company’s own refund policy for products that I genuinely considered to be of poor quality.
When I contacted the company, I was told that I was allegedly misusing their refund policy. However, when I spoke to their customer support representatives, they denied having made such a claim or complaint to Apple. This contradiction is extremely frustrating and raises serious concerns about the transparency of their communication and how my case has been handled.
If a company offers a 14-day refund policy, customers should be able to rely on that policy without being penalized for legitimately exercising it. If a product is genuinely poor in quality and a customer requests a refund within the stated timeframe, there should be no reason to characterize that customer as abusing the system.
I find the company’s handling of this situation deeply unfair and lacking in transparency. The consequences have extended beyond this company and have affected my ability to request refunds through Apple’s system for other products as well.
Domestika should stand behind the refund policies they publish. Customers should not be effectively blacklisted or have their access to legitimate refund mechanisms restricted simply because they exercised a clearly stated refund policy in good faith.
What is particularly concerning is that, despite following their refund policy, I was apparently reported to Apple for allegedly misusing the refund system. As a result, Apple has stopped accepting refund requests from me for other applications and products hosted on App store. This has had a significant impact on me.
I am currently enrolled in around 70+ courses with this company. I have made a substantial investment in their products, and it is extremely disappointing to find myself facing restrictions on Apple’s refund system because I exercised the company’s own refund policy for products that I genuinely considered to be of poor quality.
When I contacted the company, I was told that I was allegedly misusing their refund policy. However, when I spoke to their customer support representatives, they denied having made such a claim or complaint to Apple. This contradiction is extremely frustrating and raises serious concerns about the transparency of their communication and how my case has been handled.
If a company offers a 14-day refund policy, customers should be able to rely on that policy without being penalized for legitimately exercising it. If a product is genuinely poor in quality and a customer requests a refund within the stated timeframe, there should be no reason to characterize that customer as abusing the system.
I find the company’s handling of this situation deeply unfair and lacking in transparency. The consequences have extended beyond this company and have affected my ability to request refunds through Apple’s system for other products as well.
Domestika should stand behind the refund policies they publish. Customers should not be effectively blacklisted or have their access to legitimate refund mechanisms restricted simply because they exercised a clearly stated refund policy in good faith.
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Go to trust pilot if you want to see alternative reviews
I have no idea how Domestika gets such a high rating here. Agreed, the courses are very polished, but very light on content. The support is nonexistent. If you have a problem there is NO-ONE to reach out to. Their billing strategy for DomestikaPlus is cavalier at best. They will not send a reminder, they wil not warn you, they will just bill you. In many ways, Domestika epitomises all that is wrong with online purchases - dubious quality, no support and cavalier billing practices. I would add that the AI voice over is very poor and the feedback on class projects is AI too.
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Replace Doom Scrolling with Knowledge
I enjoy the short lessons, but it’s the doing that makes it work, and the community.
Good content, poor user experience
We’ve found some really good instructors on here, some less so. The student reviews are typically a pretty good guide. My aggravation is the app’s lack of understanding that many of us do NOT want courses in other languages, will NEVER take a course in another language, and do NOT want them to keep emailing us “great new courses” that we get all the way to checkout and have to remember “oh wait - let me make sure this is in English before I buy”. My settings say English. I’ve had to cancel two courses for language when we first started on the app. And yet today I get an email with three “new courses I would like” and two of them are in a foreign language. I doubt we are unique on this? Seems like a simple concept to fix, but instead now I’ve had to just turn off notifications entirely so my daughter doesn’t accidentally purchase again. Frustrating.
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Highly dissatisfied for dishonesty
I recently purchased a class with no obvious label that it was secretly opting me in for a $349 annual subscription plan… in fact, I didn’t see any info about it until the charge was made…
Apparently this subscription is for credits to get classes as they come, but in no world would I pay for such a subscription when you can buy individual classes when they are on sale… I am beyond furious as they have no working phone support number and they use AI to respond to multiple emails to dispute the subscription… this company cannot function with deceptive marketing.. it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Sad, because I love the artists they host to teach classes.
Apparently this subscription is for credits to get classes as they come, but in no world would I pay for such a subscription when you can buy individual classes when they are on sale… I am beyond furious as they have no working phone support number and they use AI to respond to multiple emails to dispute the subscription… this company cannot function with deceptive marketing.. it is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Sad, because I love the artists they host to teach classes.
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Watch your renewals
Be very careful when subscribing and cancelling. If you email asking for cancellation they will not cancel your subscription but continue charging you, it happened to me for 2 years. They took out $584 last month. I could not believe it! Domestika refused a refund even though I asked my subscription to be cancelled 2 years ago.
I ended up putting a claim through PayPal and am very grateful to them for giving me the refund.
I ended up putting a claim through PayPal and am very grateful to them for giving me the refund.
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Do not subscribe for Domestika
I highly doubt not recommend Domestika. They tricked me to sign up for a course of 1€ and then they deducted a full subscription from my account without any notice. I tried all the ways to return back then money. I even sent them emails but no reply. And they back this up with their policies. On top of all that the content of the courses is very surface level and weak. You can not depend on that only to truly lean new skill
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