I didn't even see an option to let me type the sentences (correct me if I'm wrong about that). I get that they did this because it would be exhausting to have to scroll up and down through the whole thing, but it makes it really easy to be lazy about it. It's a pseudo-random list with the characters you need at the beginning of the sentence at the top and ones at the end at the bottom. On top of that, the characters aren't even given to you totally randomly. Why not just have people type the answer? It has words that should be in katakana still given to you in hiragana all the way into the second course.
The end of Lingodeer lessons have you picking characters to write out sentences. At least with Duolingo I can force myself to conjure the answer by typing, even if I just had to translate the same sentence I had seen a moment earlier. I would read the grammar points before the lessons and because I saw that and the examples sentences, I found myself just looking at the list of options and picking the answer that matched the grammar point I knew it wanted. I found Lingodeer to be far worse in this aspect. I see people criticize Duo by saying that you wind up just filling in the answer based on what you think it should be rather than actually conjuring up the answer. I also have Duolingo set to type answers rather than using the word bank. I would never for a moment recommend anyone who wanted to start learning make either Duolingo or Lingodeer their first exposure to the language. My criticism is based on my experience with that prior baseline knowledge.
Side note, I came into both after having taken college classes years ago so make of that what you will. In every other regard I've found Duo to be the superior of the two. The only thing that Lingodeer has over Duolingo are the grammar explanations that accompany the lessons. I have to say that I was thoroughly unimpressed with Lingodeer. Last month I finally decided to pay for lingodeer and see just how much better it is than Duolingo. Duolingo has made a lot of great improvements from when it first dropped its Japanese course and I think a lot of the comparisons between the two were made before those improvements. I see Lingodeer brought up so often compared to Duolingo and how much better it is.
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