GRIOT Support

GRIOT teaches Yorùbá through short audio lessons built for people in the diaspora: greeting your elders, introducing yourself and getting by with family. It also includes a translator for 14 languages, with unlimited free translations.

No. GRIOT has no accounts or sign-in. Your progress is saved on your iPhone.

Yes. On the first screen, tap Skip to translator. You can start the lessons later from the Learn tab.

Yorùbá today. Igbo and Hausa lessons are planned. The translator already supports Igbo, Hausa and 11 other languages.

Each lesson introduces a few new phrases with audio, then practises them with five kinds of exercise: listen and choose, match pairs, build the phrase, fill the gap, and repeat after the speaker. Anything you get wrong comes back once at the end of the lesson.

It’s the phrase’s tone pattern. Yorùbá is a tonal language: each syllable is high (á), mid (a) or low (à). The dots show where your voice should rise and fall. Tap the tortoise button to hear the phrase slowly.

In a “Say it out loud” exercise, tap the microphone, say the phrase, then tap again to stop. Play Native and You to compare. Recordings stay on your iPhone. If you can’t speak right now, tap Can’t speak right now to carry on.

A lesson unlocks when you finish the one before it. The starter lesson and the first two course lessons are free; the rest need Premium.

Review brings back phrases you’ve learned just before you’re likely to forget them. Phrases you remember come back less often; ones you miss come back sooner. New phrases are first due the day after you learn them. Your first review session is free; daily review is part of Premium.

Progress is stored only on your iPhone, so deleting and reinstalling GRIOT starts you from the beginning. Premium isn’t lost: tap Restore Purchases on the Premium screen after reinstalling.

Meet your daily goal to keep your streak going. Every 7 days in a row earns a streak freeze (you can hold 2). If you miss a day, a freeze is used automatically so your streak continues.

On the Learn tab, tap the bell. You can choose 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes a day, turn reminders on or off, and pick the time.

1. Check reminders are on: Learn tab → bell → Remind me to practise.
2. Check notifications are allowed: iPhone Settings → Notifications → GRIOT.
3. GRIOT skips the reminder on days you’ve already met your goal.
4. Open GRIOT once after changing settings so it can schedule the next week.

Yes. Translations are unlimited and free in Swahili, Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, Zulu, English and French. Premium adds Xhosa, Afrikaans, Amharic, Somali, Kinyarwanda, Arabic and Portuguese, plus conversation mode.

Voice input uses Apple’s speech recognition, which doesn’t support Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa or Zulu yet. Type in the box under the microphone instead. Voice input works in English, French, Arabic, Portuguese and Swahili.

The phrase is one GRIOT’s lessons teach, so you’re seeing our checked, tone-marked Yorùbá rather than machine translation. Other results are marked “Machine translation · may not be exact”.

• Every lesson, plus new units as they’re released
• Daily review
• Conversation mode in the translator
• 7 more translator languages

Premium is available monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in your currency in the app before you buy.

1. Sign in to the App Store with the same Apple ID you bought Premium with.
2. In GRIOT, open the Premium screen: Learn tab → GRIOT Premium, or Translator → 7 more languages with Premium.
3. Tap Restore Purchases.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple. On your iPhone go to Settings → your name → Subscriptions → GRIOT → Cancel Subscription. Cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date to avoid the next charge. You keep Premium until the end of the period you’ve paid for.

If you started a free trial, cancel before it ends and you won’t be charged.

Apple handles all payments and refunds. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. We can’t issue refunds ourselves.

If Family Sharing is shown for GRIOT Premium on the App Store, family members in your Family Sharing group can use it. They open GRIOT and tap Restore Purchases.

No personal information, and no account. Learning progress stays on your iPhone. GRIOT sends anonymous usage data (for example “a lesson was completed”) to help us improve the app. Read the full Privacy Policy.

Translator tab → Settings (gear) → Privacy → Share anonymous usage data, tap to switch it off.

• Turn up the volume. Lesson audio plays even with the silent switch on.
• If you’re using Bluetooth headphones, check they’re connected.
• Some phrases need an internet connection the first time they play.

Some phrases currently use a computer-generated voice while we add recordings by native Yorùbá speakers. The written phrase and its tone marks are correct, so follow the tone chart. If something sounds especially wrong, email us the phrase and we’ll look at it.

Check your internet connection and tap Try again. If it keeps happening, make sure you’re signed in to the App Store (Settings → your name → Media & Purchases).

Thank you. Please email the phrase, where you saw it, and the correct version. We check every report with native speakers.