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Coffee Recite
Pomodoro break timer with vocabulary flashcards built in
Most break reminders waste the break; most flashcard apps need their own slot in your day. Coffee Recite merges them: your existing break becomes the study session. A menu bar break timer for macOS with vocabulary flashcards, streaks, and pronunciation. Learn Chinese (HSK), Japanese (JLPT), French, Spanish, German & English — 29 CEFR-graded decks, 23,500+ words, fully offline.
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I'm Malvin — a backend engineer who somehow ended up shipping a Flutter desktop app. Coffee Recite came out of three things colliding: I've been learning Japanese, I was already using a break-reminder tool (Stretchly) to force myself away from the keyboard during work, and I'm a serious pour-over coffee drinker who hand-brews twice a day. At some point I realized I was already taking the break — I just wasn't doing anything with it.
So Coffee Recite hijacks the break you were going to take anyway: when your Pomodoro timer ends, instead of a plain "take a break" notification, you get a vocabulary flashcard — word, pronunciation, definition, example sentence. Flip to test yourself first, tap to hear it spoken. 29 decks across 6 languages (Chinese HSK, Japanese JLPT, French/Spanish/German/English CEFR), fully offline, no accounts, no tracking.
The part I had the most fun with: instead of implementing full SM-2 spaced repetition, I used a simple weighted random draw that favors words you haven't seen in the last 7 days. Much less state to manage, and it still nudges you toward what you're actually forgetting.
It's macOS-only for now — Windows is on the roadmap, but I wanted to ship rather than keep polishing both platforms in private. Would love your feedback, especially on which language/level deck I should add next!
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About Coffee Recite on Product Hunt
“Pomodoro break timer with vocabulary flashcards built in”
Coffee Recite was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #141 on the daily leaderboard. Most break reminders waste the break; most flashcard apps need their own slot in your day. Coffee Recite merges them: your existing break becomes the study session. A menu bar break timer for macOS with vocabulary flashcards, streaks, and pronunciation. Learn Chinese (HSK), Japanese (JLPT), French, Spanish, German & English — 29 CEFR-graded decks, 23,500+ words, fully offline.
Coffee Recite was featured in Productivity (658.2k followers), Education (79k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 187.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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