Eppika User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience65.1% of reviews
Neutral9.3% of reviews
Negative experience25.6% of reviews

~ Based on 86 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Eppika Safe?

Eppika: Read & Learn Languages appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Eppika is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 1,332 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,332 App Store ratings for Eppika.

Is Eppika Legit?

Eppika: Read & Learn Languages appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Eppika is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Love it

What a great thing

Response from developer

Thanks for this. Glad it's working for you. Happy reading.

Good concept, flawed execution

I love the concept of this app. However I think it would benefit from several improvements. When you click on a word for translation it only translates that word, not the surrounding context which is needed for many phrases and idioms. The app also then frequently freezes when I want to resume listening after clicking on a word. The audio is in an AI voice rather than the natural speaking you would hear in conversation.
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Response from developer

Thank you for such a detailed review. You're right about the voice: the audio is synthesized, not a human narrator. The freeze when you go back to listening after tapping a word is something we're looking into. On context: in the current version, the word card has a sentence icon that translates the whole sentence the word is in, which helps a lot with phrases and idioms. If the freezing keeps happening, please write to support@eppika.com with your device model and iOS version so we can look at your case.

Blank screen

The App often won’t open on my iPad or my phone, which is very annoying as I have paid to use it. I get a blank screen with the parrot on it and nothing happens.
When I can get in, I have found it to be a useful App. I like that I can swap levels and languages easily.
Sometimes the stories don’t quite follow, or repeat certain sections (but you can review each book to flag this up).
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Response from developer

This one is worth getting to the bottom of. Could you email support@eppika.com with your device and your iOS version? A blank splash screen can come from a few different places, and that tells us which one. Thanks for flagging the repeated sections too; those book reports do reach us.

영어선택했는데

왜 스패니쉬가 나와요?

Response from developer

혼란을 드려 죄송합니다. 앱은 '학습 중'에 설정된 언어의 책을 보여 드리는데, 지금 이 설정이 스페인어로 되어 있는 것 같습니다. 최신 버전 앱에서 프로필 → 학습 중을 눌러 영어와 레벨을 선택하시면 영어 책이 나옵니다. 그래도 스페인어가 나오면 support@eppika.com으로 메일 주세요. 해결되셨다면 리뷰를 수정해 주시면 큰 힘이 됩니다.

Eppika

I am really enjoying this app. I love reading the stories and learning Spanish at the same time. It is really helping me conjugate verbs and understand the use of pronouns. Both of which are difficult for me to do. I highly recommend this to a person who has a decent vocabulary started and is ready to put it to use. I am definitely able to produce sentences better now too. That means I am finally able to Hablo español 😀. I read first, then listen and read along, then just listen. You can also review your hardest words with flash cards and hear them spoken correctly.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much! Reading first, then reading along with the audio, then just listening is a great way to use the books. We're so glad the verbs and pronouns are starting to click. ¡Sigue así!

Fun and useful, could use more content for high-intermediate and advanced learners

The condensed stories are really good for lower and intermediate levels, but as a more advanced Spanish learner I found that the retellings were a little shorter and more simplified than I would hope. Somewhat simplified prose is fine for practicing fluid reading, but a lot of details that make a story rich are omitted, and characters’ internal thoughts are often overexplained, which can make the content a bit boring after a while. I think advanced learners can be trusted to follow more complex ideas as long as the language is familiar. While I appreciate the inclusion of a few unabridged texts in the newest update, I wish there was something between “intermediate” and “unedited 19th century originals” — retellings that still have the detail and nuance of the originals, but use modern language. If the developers could include some content for learners at this level it would be 5 stars for me.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the detailed review. If you haven't tried it yet, the Advanced level sits between Intermediate and Native in the current version, and it's the step we'd suggest before the unabridged originals. Your point about keeping the original's detail and nuance in modern language is a fair one, and we've passed it on to our content team.

The best language reading app!

This app is fantastic! The stories are appropriate for whatever level one is at. I love the story of the day and I love the fact that I can both listen and read. So glad I found this!

SCAM

This app is so bad. I was recommended it by a friend who said it was great for her so I subscribed for the 3 month period assuming that that would unlock the full books, as opposed to the Ai generated short summaries. When you click on the get full book link, it takes you to a separate Amazon link where you can purchase the physical book for $20. Even with the membership I can’t access the full book, and am stuck with the AI slop versions. I can’t tell that there are any benefits to the membership, really feels like a scam. Do not recommend.
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LOVE this app

I use this app almost every night to read before bed. It’s relaxing to me and allows me to “study” Spanish as I wind down for sleep. The ONLY complaint I have is the self-help books (and maybe others? I’m not sure) are books _about_ the book itself, which is not really the same as reading a simplified version of the book, the way the others are written. In other words, instead of having the book be a simplified version of How to win friends and influence people, the book talks about why the book became so popular and what from the book resonated with people.
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Response from developer

Thank you — reading before bed is exactly how a lot of people use Eppika, and it's good to hear it works for you. Fair point on the self-help titles. A novel can be retold scene by scene; a non-fiction book has no plot, so we retell its ideas through short scenes instead, and that reads differently from the original. If one of them felt like it was describing the book rather than teaching from it, email support@eppika.com with the title and we'll look at that one specifically.

Love it

What a great thing

Response from developer

Thanks for this. Glad it's working for you. Happy reading.

Amazing app but…

I love this app for learning, the stories are great, the options are plentiful, and it has helped my reading comprehension immensely. The only feature I’d wish they’d add is when you click on a verb to translate it, I’d like it if there was the un conjugated form too. That way you could learn new base verbs as well as their forms. Just an idea, hope y’all like it.
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Response from developer

Showing the base form of a verb next to the in-context translation is a good idea. I've passed it to the team. Glad the stories are helping your reading, and thanks for writing the idea up properly.

No Free Trial - Not Worth It

First off - no free trial offered, so you jst have to jump in and pay for the trial period.

Then, although the concept sounds appealing, my foreign language level is elementary .. so you’d think I’d start out reading elementary-level books?
No - I started out on Sherlock Holmes.

I don’t think this app will really help my foreign language comprehension.
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Buns

It asks for a free trial as soon as you log in and you can’t try it at all.

False cancellation

I tried this app, and I decided that it was not for me. I canceled this app about a week and a half after downloading it. Did not use it. I canceled before the date and they still charged me and then when I asked for a refund, they said they do not give refund so I suggest you make sure that you like their product before you commit to it because you will not get your money back they lie
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Bad

Really bad

My first time reading a story en Español - I loved it.

I diligently filled out what I thought my ability was in Spanish. My first story was a great and clear read. Onward! I am 81 and it was still fun and clear to me.

Learning and fun

I was really surprised how well I understood the stories. I couldn’t understand every word and for those words, I merely had to tap on them and the definition came up as well as a link to hear the word spoken, tapping on the menu, gave a translation for the entire sentence.
So far, I’ve read a Grimm fairytale and a story taken from Alice in Wonderland.
I’ve read in many places that listening to Spanish text while reading the text is a great learning technique and even better if you say the words along with the reader. This app is designed for all of those things and it’s fun!
For now, I must go. Alicia is waiting for me al País de las Maravillas
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Response from developer

Glad you found both of them on your own — tapping a word for the definition and opening the whole sentence. Most people find one and not the other. If Alice landed well, the library also has Tom Sawyer, Dracula and The Wizard of Oz, each at three difficulty levels, so you can re-read one a level up when the current one starts feeling easy. Around 230 Spanish titles in total. Que disfrutes el País de las Maravillas. Nick, Eppika

Support is responsive

Had a problem with the application, no audio . Sent a note to support site got response within a couple hours. The problem (mine!) diagnosed quickly.

Frankstein

8

Response from developer

Obrigado pelo 8 — e por escolher justamente o Frankenstein. Me conta o que faltou para virar 10: escreve em support@eppika.com que eu leio. Se ajudar enquanto isso, o livro tem áudio para acompanhar a leitura e mais de um nível de dificuldade, então dá para reler num nível acima quando o atual ficar fácil. Nick, Eppika

Highly Recommended

This app is wonderful with new helpful content every day. There support team is wonderful and helpful and I think this is a great tool for someone looking for more help in learning a language