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Memrise Community Courses: Login, Website and Import (2026)

Older Memrise community courses remain on a separate community website. Export a course, import its words into Polidict, and start a new review schedule.

Memrise community courses are not gone. Since 31 March 2024 they have lived on a separate site, community-courses.memrise.com, where you sign in with your usual Memrise account. This guide explains how to reach them and how to import a course's words and meanings into Polidict. Learning progress is not transferred to Polidict: reviews start again there. Try a few words before importing a large list.

Moving vocabulary from Memrise to Polidict

Moving vocabulary from Memrise to Polidict

Where are Memrise community courses now?

They have not been shut down. According to Memrise's current update, community courses left the main Memrise app and memrise.com on 31 March 2024 and moved to a separate community website. The site was first meant to be temporary, but it is still live in 2026. Your Memrise learning progress was carried over to it, and a Pro subscription still applies there.

In 2026 Memrise began bringing user-created content back into its main app as word lists, starting with about 800 converted community courses. The other courses remain in the archive on the community site. Moving to Polidict is a choice, not a requirement.

How to sign in and open them on a phone

  1. Go to community-courses.memrise.com.

  2. Sign in the way you created your Memrise account: with your email or username and password, or with the same Google, Facebook or Apple button. A password does not work for an account created with Google, Facebook or Apple. If you forgot your password, use I forgot my password on the sign-in page.

  3. Open the Courses tab on your dashboard to find a saved course or browse others.

Community courses are not available inside the Memrise app. On a phone, open the site in a mobile browser; you can add it to your home screen to open it like an app.

What you need

  • Access to your Memrise community course and its export.

  • A compatible .memrise-course-progress file containing JSON. Ordinary CSV is not supported by this importer; use batch import for that format.

  • A Polidict account with the correct learning language selected.

The Memrise Community Course Progress Exporter is a third-party Chrome extension. Its listing is available as of this article's update; exporting depends on the extension and Memrise's current format. Review its permissions before installing and keep your original file.

How to move your vocabulary

  1. On a computer, open your course on the Memrise community website. The extension developer's instructions use an Export progress button on the course overview.

  2. Sign in to Polidict, select the correct learning language, and open Memrise import.

  3. Upload the .memrise-course-progress file or paste its JSON content into the text field.

  4. Check the course name, words, and second column. In the options, choose whether that column contains meanings or translations.

  5. Select a few rows and import those first. Check the resulting group and entries before importing the rest. Review any prompts about an existing word or group.

  6. Open your group and start a short training session. Future reviews follow your practice in Polidict.

This earlier video illustrates the general sequence; the interface may now look different:

What transfers, and what does not

The importer reads words, the second column, and a part-of-speech attribute when present in a compatible export. It combines course levels into one group named after the course.

Memrise answer history, review intervals, audio, images, and usage examples are not transferred. Do not assume that exports of new word lists from the main Memrise app are compatible. If a file fails to open, check its format or try a small selection through batch import.

Where to study next

These steps use Polidict's website, but you can study the words afterwards in the iPhone app or the Android app.

If you are still deciding whether to switch, see how Polidict and Memrise compare. Check the current limits and plans before a large import. Subscription prices and terms vary by platform and are shown before purchase.

If you also keep decks in Anki, you can import them with their review progress.

For your next step, choose ten useful words, add your own examples, and return to them with spaced repetition.