Learn languages with AI, spaced-repetition flashcards
Learn foreign language vocabulary with AI-powered, spaced-repetition flashcards. Study high-frequency words or add words from your favorite content—YouTube videos, web articles or text. Cards are automatically created with images, sentence examples and audio.
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I'm Petr, the founder of Vocabuo - The vocabulary app. After trying almost all of the language learning apps on the market and not being satisfied with any of them, I've decided to lock myself in a room (nice co-working space in Prague 🇨🇿) and create one I'd be satisfied with.
If you have tried Anki or any other spaced-repetition flashcard apps, you'll find yourself at home. The concept is very similar with one crucial difference: The cards are dynamic and automatically created for you!
You can add words from collections, youtube videos, websites, search for the word in the app or just learn them by their frequencies in the language. Vocabuo will then create the cards for you with audio, image (DALLE-3, I'm not cheap 🥲) and sentences!
I've also tried to address all of the issues I've had with other language learning apps:
- Marking the words you already know is extremely fast and you can immediately skip to the level you're at.
- You can add words independently of any course/level/deck.
- Words are shown in sentences (cloze cards). Most other apps try to work with 1:1 translations, which often times do not exist and are context dependent.
- There is no time wasted with gamification, XPs, levels etc. (Yes, that's a feature 😝)
- The idea is to go through as many words as possible in a practice session - no time wasted. I got very frustrated with other apps, when I knew the answer and had to type it out, either on my phone keyboard, or worse case, randomly shuffled letters 😩
- Customizable - From the feedback that I'm getting, there does not seem to be the perfect SRS intervals settings or the perfect card type, so you can adjust it to your preference.
There is still a lot more work to be done: I'd like to add voice input, make the algorithm a little smarter, add more languages etc., but the app is quite usable at this point. I myself improved my German vocabulary size from 3000 (words I knew from 6 yrs of German in highschool) to 5800 (in a few months).
Would love to hear all the feedback!
