# Learn Swahili - Free WordPower — user reviews

> 95 indexed App Store user reviews of Learn Swahili by Innovative Language Learning USA LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 49 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 37 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1

## What do users think of Learn Swahili?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- ✨ Rare resource for Swahili
- 🌟 Animal/nature vocabulary is gold
- 👍 Learning made easy with flashcards
- 💖 Inspiring pride and cultural growth
- 🚀 Amazing app
- 👍 Great app
- 🗣️ Fun voice memos
- 💯 Voice is African woman
- 👍 Very good and helpful
- 🥳 So fun and easy
- 💡 Effective learning methods
- 🎯 Communicating with boyfriend
- 🌟 Word of the day is motivating
- 📚 Strategic learning approach
- 🤩 Revived love for language
- 🗣️ Motivated to learn own language
- ✅ Simple to use
- 🗣️ Easy to pronounce words
- 💡 Flashcards are great for words
- 💯 Wonderfully simply organized
- 👍 Helpful and well organised
- 🚀 Great for seeing friends
- 🌟 Been with app over a month
- 📚 Great learning tool
- 💯 Fantastic app
- 💰 Upgrade is well worth it
- 💼 Perfect for business
- 🗂️ Categories like flashcards, word of week, quiz
- 🔥 App is fire
- 🏆 Best app for Swahili
- 🗣️ Hear word and see examples
- 💡 Personal learning experience
- ✅ Easy to follow
- 🎧 Audio on every word
- 💡 Tests vary
- 🌟 Helps keep motivated
- 👍 Very good, easy to learn
- 🗣️ Pronounce properly
- 📚 Useful for basics
- 🤝 Polite conversations
- 💡 Start learning basics quickly
- 🗣️ Girlfriend impressed
- 📚 Structure of courses easy to follow
- 💯 Nice
- 🚀 User friendly
- 👌 Great app, easy to use
- 👍 Good
- 🗣️ Hear words and practice pronunciation
- 💬 Able to speak with friend
- 🗣️ Impressed by teaching
- 💡 Smart way to learn
- 🗣️ Good job conversing in Tanzania
- 🗣️ Pronounces words
- 💯 Love it
- 💯 Good
- 🗣️ Husband impressed by app's pronunciation
- 🖼️ Pictures included
- 👍 Great learning tool
- ✅ Easy to use and learn from
- 🗣️ Great help for holiday
- 🗣️ Useful vocabulary
- 💡 Nice way to revise and learn
- 🌟 Excellent selection of words
- 🤩 Cool, like word a day
- 💡 Educational
- 🚀 Keeps up to date
- ✅ Easy to learn at own pace
- 💡 Love the changes
- 🗣️ Brilliant with example phrases
- 📚 Understand word usage in context
- 🌟 Add more words to vocabulary
- 👍 Vocabulary boost
- ✅ Simple and helpful
- 💬 Learn new word everyday
- 📚 Review growing vocabulary
- 🗣️ Practice pronunciation
- 👍 Enjoy picking up words
- ✅ Works great
- 💡 Great job

**Cons**

- 💰 Many features locked
- 💰 Upgrade required for more content
- 💰 Only basic words free
- 💰 $10 fee for full version
- 🤔 Context not explained
- 🐛 Incorrect audio files
- 🐛 Some words incorrect
- 🐛 Some words spelled wrong
- 🐛 Voice doesn't match word
- 🐛 Not all words are Swahili
- 🐛 Sentences don't match vocals
- 🐛 Audio files missing
- 🐛 Recordings don't match words
- 🐛 Too few conjugational words
- 🐛 Numbers, verbs, days/months missing
- 🐛 Some phrases make no sense
- 🐛 Odd words seldom used
- 🐛 Everyday words not prioritized
- 🐛 Short words only, no sentences
- 🐛 Not what expected
- 🐛 Slow to get anywhere
- 🐛 Random words, hard to form sentences
- 🐛 Only 1 word initially
- 🐛 No sound, speaker icons don't work
- 🐛 Reluctant to spend $10 without sound
- 🐛 Very limited content
- 🐛 Poor word choices
- 🐛 Taping audio does not work
- 🐛 Not all words are correct
- 🐛 Some words not common
- 🐛 Some words are not actual Swahili words
- 🐛 Poor software engineering
- 🐛 Inefficient space utilization
- 🐛 Not free at all
- 🐛 Lots of potential but too little to test
- 🐛 Waste of a download
- 🐛 Only one word and audio doesn't work
- 🐛 Crap
- 🐛 Rubbish
- 🐛 Just Okay
- 🐛 Ugh
- 🐛 Poor Value for Money
- 🐛 Ribbish

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Incorrect audio files
- Some words incorrect
- Some words spelled wrong
- Voice doesn't match word
- Not all words are Swahili
- Sentences don't match vocals
- Audio files missing
- Recordings don't match words
- Taping audio does not work
- No sound, speaker icons don't work
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices

**Most requested features**

- Add grammar
- More conjugational words
- Include numbers, verbs, days/months
- Prioritize everyday words
- Include sentences
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Categories for specific needs
- Searchable word list
- More context for phrases

## Newest reviews (20 of 95)

### 4/5 — A Rare Resource

*2024-12-27, version 5.0*

There are not many ways to learn Swahili, so this is a precious resource. I work in a wildlife park, so the animal and nature vocabulary is gold.

### 4/5 — Going to use what I learn.

*2023-04-21*

Love the reminders and can’t wait to use when I go to Kenya in June.

### 4/5 — Inspiring Pride, layering Love

*2021-02-07*

My intended is in Tanzania and when I messengered in Swahili she was shocked, proud and appreciated my cultural growth.

### 4/5 — Great

*2019-11-21*

Great

### 4/5 — Nice App to Learn the Mother Tongue…

*2019-09-16*

Liking the app so far, learning the mother tongue of Afrika and speaking it back through voice memos makes it fun to do, tryna learn as much as possible so I can speak something other than the Queen’s English. Keep it up, much appreciated, the voice is definitely an Afrikan woman which makes it 10x better all over. Thanks again, keep up the good work.

### 4/5 — So far so good

*2018-05-13*

My Tanzanian friends tell me there is a difference

### 4/5 — So far...good

*2018-01-21*

Very easy to pronounce words with the pronunciation help.

### 4/5 — Enjoying the flash cards

*2017-11-07*

Great for learning words. Love the flash cards .

### 5/5 — Good

*2017-07-24*

Good!

### 5/5 — Easy to understand

*2017-05-29*

Wonderfully simply organized app that is helping me to learn Swahili in preparation for my safari guide schooling.  The flashcards are wonderful, and how everything is organized as long as you consistently keep up with the lessons you really do understand

### 5/5 — Paulina

*2017-04-18*

Wow the app is so helpful and well organised. Thank you so much for this.

### 5/5 — Great so far

*2017-01-20*

Just recently started to use. Helps me when I see my Swahili friends. I'm able to say a greeting in their language. Trying to add a new phrase each time I see them.

### 5/5 — Great app

*2016-12-05*

Been with this app over a month now and really love it!

### 5/5 — Review

*2016-10-01*

Great App and learning tool to help you speak and understand Swahili.

### 3/5 — New user

*2016-08-21*

I like it so far.

### 5/5 — Well worth the upgrade.

*2016-06-23*

This is a fantastic app!  Try out the free version first and I think you will agree, the $9.99 to upgrade is well worth it. Not only does it speak the word, but in many cases gives spoken common phrases or sentences using that word.

### 5/5 — DD

*2016-05-21, version 4.8*

This app is perfect for conducting business in Nairobi

### 5/5 — Catagories

*2016-04-19, version 4.8*

I love how they've made flash cards, a word of the week, and a word quiz! No wonder this app has five stars.

### 5/5 — Nice

*2016-04-03, version 4.8*

I love it and no I'm not a bot posting if you don't believe find me on Instagram @young.otacon
Seriously this app is fire

### 5/5 — The best app for Swahili

*2016-02-20, version 4.8*

This is the best app for learning Swahili hands down!!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Mbaya

*2014-04-01, version 4.1.1*

A lot of these words are incorrect.

### 1/5 — Very bad

*2014-02-25, version 4.1.1*

This app is 425MB in size with a measly 2.3MB in Documents & Data. Can anyone say "horrible software engineering"?Need to learn to utilize the space more efficiently.

### 1/5 — Crap

*2013-04-21, version 4.0*

Can't do anything at all without upgrading to the full version for $9.99.........DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!!!

### 1/5 — Wasted my time

*2012-07-28*

Why say it is free and waste people's time. It gives only one word and asks you immediately to upgrade. How can i judge the worth of the program with only one one. Your strategy ruined any goodness in the program. Deleted it and may recheck if there is an attitude change

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2012-06-15*

Waste of a download! Only one word and the audio doesn't work.

### 1/5 — I

*2012-01-05, version 3.2*

Very limited content. Poor word choices. Taping audio does not work. Would not recommend.

### 1/5 — Kenyan

*2011-05-13*

It would be better if the app sent everyday words first before phrases. 
Eg. Sit, stand, come, go... Only then can one begin to form phrases and words.

### 1/5 — Very slow to get anywhere!

*2011-03-06, version 2.4*

The app starts with zero words and you have to MANUALLY add new ones at the rate of 1 per day.
You need to start with a basic vocab and then automatically add new words phrases.

Better free apps around and this is in serious danger of being deleted from my iPad!!

### 1/5 — Word power

*2011-02-27, version 2.4*

Crap

### 1/5 — Rubbish

*2011-02-13, version 2.4*

This app has only 1 word.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Learning made Easy

*2022-07-26*

I love it!They offer flash cards.

### 5/5 — TheKyuubi88

*2020-08-07*

It’s an amazing app thank you so much

### 5/5 — Asante Sana!!

*2020-06-04*

I love this app!

### 5/5 — Good app

*2019-07-15*

Very good app very helpful

### 5/5 — So fun yay :D

*2019-04-05*

Me and my african mom practice this everyday and its so funn and a bunch of african people are coming on saturday for a party so i know how to speak swahili. Its really easy! I got past level 1 in like 1-3 hours

### 5/5 — Effective

*2019-03-22*

This app makes the learning process quite effective by combining visual, kinesthetic and auditory input to every word and phrase being presented.

### 5/5 — Communicating with my boyfriend

*2018-10-20*

If my Kenyan boyfriend can understand me this app is definitely ding some justice. I’m learning from scratch and doing very well.

### 5/5 — If you don’t use it, you lose it.

*2018-08-11*

Absolutely LOVE the word of the day! Keeps me active when I’m too busy to study. The course levels not only give me accomplishments but I feel like I’m studying and someone is teaching me in a strategic way opposed to myself. Great ‘push’ and motivation. Reminds me of when I was originally learning. It’s revived my love to it and I have something to interact with.

### 5/5 — Who Are You?

*2018-05-25*

This is a part of me. My language and I’m proud to say I’ve spoke. English all my life but this have motivated me to learn my language.

### 5/5 — Really great app

*2018-05-23*

I really like it and it’s really simple to use the app to learn Swahili for when I go to Kenya

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