Ten languages
Every word arrives with a hook.
Most language apps show you a word and hope. This one hands you a picture that makes it stick, then works out the exact day you are about to lose it and asks again.
Thirty days, no card. Free for students when a teacher brings a class.
gato
cat
sounds like gateau
A cat sits in the middle of a birthday gateau, licking icing off its paws. The candles set the whole cake alight, so the word is masculine.
15 of 145 hand-written hooks. The rest are in the app, and you can rewrite any of them.
The three parts
A memory technique, a scheduler, and a library that unlocks itself.
Take any one away and it is an ordinary app. Together they are the reason a word you met on Tuesday is still there in March.
The hook
A real word in your own language that sounds like the target word, plus one vivid picture tying it to the meaning. Gender rides inside the picture, so the article comes back with the word.
Read the hooksThe schedule
Every card carries how long your memory of it lasts and how hard it is for you. The next review lands on the day recall falls to your target, which is roughly a third fewer repetitions for the same retention.
See the mathsThe stories
The library reads your card states and tells you what share of each story you already know. Cross eighty percent and reading starts teaching you on its own.
Open the libraryWhy a picture
A word you have only seen is a word you are about to forget.
Reading a translation once puts a word nowhere in particular. A keyword hook gives it an address: a thing you can already picture, joined to the new meaning by something absurd enough to stay put.
The technique is old and it is boring in the best way. It has been studied since the seventies, it works across languages, and it is almost never built into software properly.
- A hook you write yourself beats a better one somebody hands you, so yours always wins in your own reviews
- Your teacher can write one hook for the whole class in thirty seconds
- Joining words like el and de get an honest usage note, because a picture cannot hold a joining word
gato
cat
sounds like gateau
A cat sits in the middle of a birthday gateau, licking icing off its paws. The candles set the whole cake alight, so the word is masculine.
Why the timing matters
The review lands where you are about to lose it.
This is the real curve the scheduler uses, not a picture of one. Recall for a single card falls away over time, and the review is placed at the moment it crosses your target, which is ninety percent by default.
Ask sooner and you waste the repetition. Ask later and you are relearning from scratch. Everything else in the app exists to make that one decision well.
Recall for one card, drawn from the scheduler's own formula. The review is placed where the line crosses ninety percent, not on a fixed ladder. Answer it well and the whole curve stretches; miss it and it steepens.
Reading, sooner than you think
A story you can actually read on day nine.
Every story reports what share of its words you already carry. Tap anything underlined.
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Tap an underlined word. In the app the same tap also tells you whether that word is already in your collection and when it is next due.
For classrooms
The report that changes what you teach on Monday.
Most classroom language platforms tell a teacher how far a student got through a lesson. This one tells you which twelve words the class is losing, ranked by how often each student forgets them.
Classes in one code
Six characters, no vowels, so nothing mistypes into a real word. Students join from their own account and keep it when the year ends.
Mastery, not completion
Per student and per word: held, learning, leeches, weekly reviews, accuracy, streak, last seen. Completion tells you somebody clicked. This tells you what they know.
Fix it once for everyone
A word near the top of the trouble list usually has a weak hook, not a lazy class. Write one class hook and it lands for all thirty of them.
Pick a language
Ten languages, each handled properly.
Readings for Japanese and Mandarin, transliteration for every non-Latin script, and right to left throughout for Arabic. Not an afterthought bolted onto a Spanish app.
Before you ask
The questions people actually send.
Is this flashcards with extra steps?
Flashcards are in here, and so is the scheduler that makes them worth doing. The difference is what happens on the first meeting. An ordinary deck shows you a word and a translation and leaves the remembering to you. This one hands you a picture first, which is the part that decides whether the card is easy or miserable for the next six months.
Do I have to use the hooks you wrote?
No, and you probably should not for long. A hook you write yourself is remembered better than a better one somebody handed you, which is why yours always wins in your own reviews. The shipped ones are there so your first week is not homework.
How long does this take a day?
Ten new words a day is the default and it is about fifteen minutes once your reviews build up. You can raise or lower it whenever you like, and the progress screen shows a thirty day forecast so you can see a heavy week coming and slow down before it lands.
What happens to my students at the end of the year?
They keep the account and the schedule. That is the whole point of putting the memory model in the student rather than in the class. A year of work does not evaporate when a licence rolls over.
Is there an app to install?
It installs from the browser onto a phone or a desktop and runs in its own window. On Android and desktop use the install icon in the address bar; on an iPhone use Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Start with ten words tonight
Thirty days free, no card. When the trial ends the account drops to the free limits and nothing is deleted.