Swapped my paid subscription for the language platform my library gives away — did anyone regret this? App Question

The nagging was the product, and that isn't a joke. A big share of what you were paying for was the machinery that made you open the app, and a library platform has no commercial reason to build any of it. Replace it with an external habit anchored to something you already do without deciding. Mine is the kettle: language happens while it boils and for ten minutes after, every morning, and I have never once had to remember.

Two years on it. The content style is genuinely different — full sentences and cultural notes rather than matching exercises. For Portuguese specifically, check whether your library's version carries both European and Brazilian, because they are separate courses and picking the wrong one is a mildly painful discovery at month three.

Access varies by library system and platforms do get dropped when contracts change, so don't build your entire routine on it being there forever. I keep my own notes and my own flashcards outside whatever platform I'm using, precisely so that a licence change is an inconvenience rather than a reset.

I went back to paying, honestly. Not because the free one was worse but because I am the kind of person who needs to have spent money on something to take it seriously. Knowing that about yourself is worth $8 a month.

Ask your library what else they carry. Mine also had a course platform and an ebook service with graded readers in six languages, and the language app was the least useful of the three.