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by voisin 1818 days ago
> Secondly, how they promote their Plus plan. You are limited in how long you can access their platform by how many hearts you have. Miss enough questions, your hearts run out. Run out of hearts, you're restricted from proceeding further in your studies. You must buy hearts to stay on their platform. This feels counter intuitive, as you are now kicking users off of your platform and lose the ability to sway them towards other things you have to offer.

This is incorrect. You don’t need to buy hearts - you can do some practices and get more hearts to do more lessons, which is (IMO) a huge part of the learning. When you are weakest you lose hearts so you practice more in order to keep working through lessons.