Ready-to-use cards
Every word arrives finished: a translation, example sentences with their translations, a picture and its forms. You never make a card. You learn.
Everything a word needs, already made
Mini-games
Pick the word or its picture, spell it from tiles or fill in the missing letters, swipe to say whether you knew it, then match words to meanings at the end of a session. Each card asks in the way that suits how well you know the word.
Learn with friends
Send a friend a link, see the sessions they finish and the words they learn, and compare your week on a leaderboard.
Progress you can see
Your CEFR level, the words you know, and the date you reach the next level at the pace you choose: set how many cards a session holds, or let it match how many you finish.
Achievements
Earned by remembering, never by just showing up: words learned, each new level, days in a row, a session without a miss, a word still known after two months. Rather just learn? Achievements, friends and the games each switch off in settings.
How a word is learned
One card at a time, and each card changes as you learn.
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Meet it
A new word starts with its hardest question. You are not expected to know it yet, and it is kept apart from the words it is most often confused with.
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Step down
Miss it, and the next card is easier: choose from options, or build the word from letters.
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Climb back
Get it right, and the card gets harder again, until you recall the word from its meaning alone.
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Keep it
Spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it: in minutes, then days, then months.
And more
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Learn from a photo
Photograph a page, a menu or a sign, keep the words you want, and they join your cards.
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Placement test
Know some words already? A four-minute yes-or-no check, or a test that closes in on your level, says roughly how many words you know and starts you there.
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Improve any card
Tap once on a card that looks wrong: AI says what was off and makes the card again in seconds.
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In your language
The app speaks 54 languages. Every translation and example is written in yours, and when a word of yours looks like the new one but means something else, the card says so.
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Every meaning
Once you know a word, its other, unrelated meanings come back as cards of their own.
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A hook for hard words
Keep missing a noun or an adjective, and the answer comes with a word of your language that sounds like it, and one vivid sentence that ties the two.
Made for each language
Word forms, sounds and everything that goes with a word, as each language needs them.
- English
- Phrasal verbs as words of their own (give up, look after), the pronunciation wherever the spelling misleads (colonel /ˈkɝnəl/), and a word's family once you have met it (decide · decision).
- Estonian
- From A2: a noun's and a verb's principal parts, each in a sentence, a word you know that inflects the same way (nagu kool), and the case a verb takes (lugema + osastav).
- Spanish
- Every noun with its article (la mano), irregular verbs' forms (tengo, tuvo), expressions such as tener que and sin embargo, and a choice of Spain or Latin America, whose words then come first.
- French
- How every word is said (femme /fam/), every noun with its article (une chose), irregular verbs' forms (faire, fais, font), and chunks such as il y a and avoir besoin de.
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Pinyin under every word and a card that asks for its tones, how each character is built (清 = 氵 + 青), a noun's measure word (一本书), and the traditional form (書).
Languages
Learn today
- English
- Estonian
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese (Mandarin)
Coming next
- German
- Japanese
- Italian
- Korean
- Portuguese
- Hindi
- Russian
- Arabic
- Turkish
- American Sign Language
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Hebrew
- Vietnamese
- Indonesian
- Norwegian
- Irish
Questions
- Which languages can I learn?
- English, Estonian, Spanish, French and Chinese today, from any of the 54 languages the app speaks. German, Japanese, Italian and more are on the way.
- How is this different from a word list?
- A list shows you words; Umbrik asks you them. Each card suits how well you know the word, and each word returns just as it is about to slip.
- Who makes the cards?
- AI writes the translation, the sentences, the picture and the forms. Learners make them better: a card someone flags is made again.
- Do I need an account?
- Yes. An e-mail address and a password keep your words and your progress.
- Can I learn the words from a book?
- Yes. Take a photo of the page, choose the words you want, and they join your cards.
Coming to iPhone and Android
- iPhone
- Android