Skilario review: who runs it, what it costs, and what the terms say

Editorial note: Iro AI is our app. Where it appears below we say so, and it has to earn its spot by the same criteria as everything else.

The short verdict

Skilario is a legitimate company selling a real product, and its terms make it very hard to get money back. Both halves matter. The lessons are a familiar format: short daily sessions on ChatGPT, Claude and other tools, prompts you can copy, and a certificate at the end. The risk sits in the purchase. Skilario appears to sell mainly through its website, with plans that renew automatically, promotional prices that apply only to the first payment, and a refund policy that excludes the most common reason people ask for one: they signed up and never really used it.

If you have not paid yet, the safest way to try it is through the App Store, for reasons explained below. If you already have and want out, go straight to how to cancel Skilario.

We make Iro AI, a competing app, so read this as an interested party. Every claim about Skilario below comes from its App Store listing, its published terms or a public company registry. Prices are US figures at the time of writing and change without notice. Last reviewed September 2026.

Who makes Skilario

Skilario's terms name its operator as Cherry Entertainment Limited, a private company in Cyprus. The Cyprus company registry lists Cherry Entertainment Ltd as registered on 18 August 2025, with its office in Nicosia. The same developer publishes CherryShort, a short-drama streaming app, on both app stores.

Skilario itself is newer still. The iPhone app, listed as Skilario: Learn AI Skills, was first released on 24 July 2026, and there is an Android version on Google Play. Support runs through support@skilario.com.

None of that counts against it. Every company is new once. It does mean there is almost no track record to judge it by, which is exactly when the fine print deserves the most weight.

What you actually get

According to its App Store listing, Skilario teaches AI through daily lessons of about 10 minutes, covering ChatGPT, Claude and other popular tools. It promises real prompts you can copy and adapt for work, interactive lessons rather than videos, and a certificate when you finish a course. It pitches itself at beginners who feel overwhelmed by AI, professionals who want practical skills for their current job, and students.

That is a reasonable product, and it is the same promise most apps in this category make. We have not paid for Skilario, so we are not rating the lesson quality here. The honest test takes one session: are you writing prompts and getting feedback on them, or reading examples and copying them? Both have value. Only one of them builds the skill.

What it costs, and how it renews

On the App Store, Skilario lists two subscriptions: $19.99 a month and $79.99 a year. Those are billed by Apple and behave like any other App Store subscription.

The website is different, and it appears to be where most customers buy. At the time of writing the iPhone app has too few ratings for the App Store to show a score and the Android app sits in Google Play's lowest install band, while Skilario's Trustpilot page, which covers the website, has more than a hundred reviews. Skilario's terms describe website plans that are weekly, monthly or annual, and set out how the pricing works:

• Promotional prices cover the first payment only. Unless the offer expressly says otherwise, renewals are charged at the regular rate.
• Plans renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. A cancellation made inside that window may not take effect until after the next charge.
• Renewal reminders are sent where the law requires them, which is not everywhere.

This is the same structure used by Coursiv and similar AI course apps: sell on the web, open with a low first payment, renew at the regular price. None of it is illegal, and it is all written down. It does mean the number you remember agreeing to may not be the number on your next statement. Before you pay on the website, find the renewal price and renewal date on the checkout page and screenshot them. Our guide to spotting an AI subscription trap walks through that check in about a minute.

The refund policy, read closely

This is the part to read before paying, because it is stricter than most. Skilario's terms say it does not offer refunds:

• where you have changed your mind,
• where the subscription has not been used, or
• on the basis of dissatisfaction alone.

A refund is considered only for a confirmed technical fault that stops the service working as described and cannot be fixed within a reasonable time, and you have to supply enough technical detail for Skilario to reproduce it.

Compare that with Coursiv, whose money-back guarantee at least pays out if you used the app enough (see how to cancel Coursiv). Skilario's terms rule out the unused subscription entirely. The person who signed up, opened it twice and forgot about it, which is the most common story behind a refund request, is exactly the case the policy excludes.

Three more clauses worth knowing:

• Cooling-off rights by location. The terms list statutory exceptions: residents of California and Connecticut can cancel within three business days of purchase for a full refund, Brazil and Quebec have seven days, Argentina ten, and Mexico has an immediate cancellation right. Other statutory rights where you live can apply too; the terms say local cancellation rules take priority where they exist.
• A 14-day window to dispute a charge. If you think a charge is wrong you must tell Skilario in writing at support@skilario.com within 14 calendar days of the transaction, and the terms say missing it may forfeit your right to dispute the charge with them. Your card issuer runs its own dispute process under its own rules and deadlines.
• Binding arbitration. Section 18 of the terms sends disputes to individual arbitration rather than court.

What the ratings do and don't tell you

Skilario's Trustpilot page rates it Excellent, and some reviewers praise lessons that show you how to do a task and then let you try it yourself. That is worth something. Two cautions before leaning on it:

• Timing. Reviews of a new subscription app are mostly written in the first days after signup, before the first renewal lands. Billing complaints, when they come, arrive weeks later. Sort by newest and read the lowest ratings as well as the highest.
• A second source. The app stores have almost no ratings for Skilario yet, so there is nothing to check Trustpilot against. The developer's only other public track record is its short-drama app, and Cherry Entertainment's own Trustpilot page was rated 3.3 out of 5 at the time of writing.

If you still want to try it

1. Buy through the App Store, not the website. Apple bills it, you cancel in Settings in two taps, and if something goes wrong you ask Apple for a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com. Apple decides under its own rules, not Skilario's refund policy.
2. If you buy on the website, screenshot the checkout page showing the renewal price and date before you pay.
3. Set a reminder three days before the renewal. The 24-hour cutoff is where most unwanted renewals happen.
4. Turn off auto-renewal straight away if you only want the first period. Skilario's terms say you keep access through the end of the period you have been charged for.

The alternative we make

Iro AI is our app, so weigh this accordingly. If what drew you to Skilario was learning to use AI in a few minutes a day, Iro does it by practice rather than reading: you write real prompts in the Prompt Lab and get them scored, learn to spot AI mistakes, and keep the habit going with streaks, ranks and timed duels against a skill-matched opponent.

On price, since that is what brings most people to a review like this: Iro is free to start, with a battery that gives you a full lesson every day and recharges overnight. Pro is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year, the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial, and it is billed by Apple, so cancelling is the same two taps in Settings. That is about half Skilario's App Store monthly price, and $30 a year less on the annual plan. There is no intro rate that converts to a higher one.

For scale: 34 learning paths, 522 lessons and 3,000+ exercises across 23 exercise types, covering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, prompting, agents and automation, with every path open on the free tier. See exactly what the free tier includes, or take the two-minute AI rank quiz first. For the wider field, see the best Skilario alternatives.