How this works

The big idea: spaced repetition

You don't learn a thousand words by drilling them all every day. You learn them by seeing each word again right before you'd have forgotten it. Cards you nail move into higher boxes and come back less often. Cards you miss come back tomorrow. That's it.

Practically: pick a chapter, work through Flashcards, then come back the next day and hit Daily Mix. The app picks what's due. You don't have to plan anything.

The six modes — when to use which

No rule says you have to use all six. Many people stick with Flashcards + Daily Mix and do fine. Add Type when you want to push spelling, Articles when noun gender is your weakest area.

Daily Mix, Mistakes, and Starred

Three shortcuts on the home page that pull cards from across all chapters:

• Daily Mix — whatever the spaced-repetition engine says is due today. The right thing to do once you've studied for a few days. Tap the card on home, pick any of the six modes, go.
• Review Mistakes — words you got wrong in the last 7 days. Appears on home once you have any mistakes. Good when a specific word keeps tripping you up.
• Starred — your own hand-picked tough-words list. Tap the on any word's detail page (or on the back of a flashcard) to add it. The home CTA appears once you've starred at least one word.

Word pages and example sentences

Tap any word in a chapter list, in search results, or in the Daily Mix breakdown to open its detail page. You'll see the article and plural for nouns, the conjugation for verbs, your SRS box / right/wrong counts / next-review date, and two hand-written example sentences with English translations, so you see the word used in different contexts. Adjacent-word arrows and "More from this section" chips let you keep browsing.

Hints (when you're stuck)

In Type and Cloze, the Hint button reveals progressively: length, then first letter, then article (for nouns), then more letters, then a sentence with the answer blanked. Using a hint won't penalise you, but it also won't promote the card — it'll come back sooner.

Streaks and goals

The streak counts consecutive days where you reviewed at least one card. Miss a day, it resets. The daily-goal ring on the home page fills as you study; the default goal is 20 reviews — change it in Settings. Hit the goal and a celebration burst fires once that day.

Stats

The stats page (top-right) shows words seen vs mastered, your current and longest streak, total reviews, a 30-day mastery-over-time line chart, and a per-box distribution bar so you can see where your vocabulary sits in the 5-box system.

Keyboard shortcuts

Settings — what each toggle does

• Direction — German → English (recognition), English → German (production — harder, what exams ask), or Mixed. Applies to Flashcards and Quiz.
• Session length — 5, 10, 15, or 25 cards per round.
• Theme — follow your device (default), or force light / dark. The dark theme is OLED-friendly and picked up automatically across pages.
• Sound effects — gates the small chime + confetti on correct answers and the big celebration when you hit your daily goal.
• Haptics — short vibration tick on right/wrong answers on phones.
• Speech speed — how fast German is spoken everywhere; "Hear a sample" previews it.
• German voice — picks which installed German voice to use for the speak button. If your device has no German voice, the OS default voice is used with a de-DE language hint (works on most Windows / macOS / iOS / Android devices).
• Strict typing — off (default) accepts muede for müde and strasse for straße. On forces exact spelling with umlauts/ß.
• Daily goal — the number the ring on home fills toward. Set whatever's realistic.

Your data, backup, install as an app

Everything lives on your device — no account, no upload, no analytics. Progress is saved after every card, so exiting a session early never loses your reviews — only the round summary. The trade-off: progress is per-device. Two ways to handle that:

• Backup — Settings → Export progress saves a JSON file with every box level, your streak, history, and settings. Save it to your cloud drive of choice. Import on any other device to restore. Do this weekly as habit.
• Install as a PWA — on mobile: Share → Add to Home Screen (iOS) or ⋮ → Install app (Android). On desktop: address bar → install icon. It launches like a native app, and pages you've visited keep working offline.
• Reset — Settings → Reset all progress wipes everything. Two confirms before it does anything.

A few learning tips

• Short sessions beat marathons. 15 cards a day for two weeks > 200 cards in one Saturday.
• Say the word out loud. The speak button is right there. Even whispered, hearing yourself helps.
• Be honest with "Try again". If you only sort-of knew it, mark it wrong. The algorithm needs honesty.
• Switch modes occasionally. Recognition (Flashcards/Quiz) and production (Type) use different brain muscles.
• Star aggressively. If a word feels stuck, tap the star. Revisit your Starred list once a week — that's the bottleneck cleared in 5 minutes.