Big Tick makes Apps for ESL learners.

Big Tick is a Hong Kong based developer of apps designed to help learners with their English. We want to make apps which are cheap and useful for learners.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/big-tick-productions-limited/id963006134

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Big+Tick+Productions

There are plenty of apps out there on both iTunes and Google Play that will help you with your English. But most, if not all, really try to replicate English as it is taught it books or in classes. This of course is good, but  teaching a grammar or language point and then moving on after a few examples is probably not enough for most learners.

So our apps try to fill this gap. We take one language point that can be a problem for non-native speakers of English and give hundreds of questions using this language. The learner can go through the app until things become second nature. Practice through repetition is a very effective way of correcting mistakes and creating good habits. Remember, language is a habit. When a native speaker (of any language) speakers or writes, they rarely think about grammar. They simply speak or write from habit, repeating words, phrases and sentence structures that they have learnt and used many times before.

Apps are actually a great tool for this type of learning. The fact that smartphones are portable means that an app can be used anytime, anywhere. They can be used on the bus, on the train, while waiting in a restaurant, or anywhere else where you have a few minutes of time. If you use an app in this way each day you will start to improve in the problem area of English that you are working on.

Apps are also good because they do not get used up. Attend a class and it finishes. Complete a work page in a book and it's done. But with an app you can repeat the process over and over until you are happy. 

Apps are also cheap. You can purchase out apps for 99c or use them free with ads if you like. That makes them cheaper than books and classes. That is not to say that apps like ours can replace a class or a workbook. They simply make effective and cheap supplements to these existing tools to learning and improving your English.

Good luck with your English learning.