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A vocabulary app for anyone learning a language.
Learn new words.
Remember them.
Every word comes with its own painting. You learn it by saying it out loud, and the app brings it back just before you’d forget it.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
Free to start · no ads · iPhone and Android
LanguagesSpanishMore on the way
You say it, the app listensEvery answer is spoken, the way you will use the word.
Every word is a paintingA picture of its own for each word in the gallery.
It comes back before you forgetEach word has its own date, set by memory research. The studies are below.
A real lesson, screen by screen.
The app's own screens, in the order you see them in one session. Nick is the gallery's cockatoo; he keeps you company.
Meet rojo. Say it after me!
From memory: red in Spanish?
English in -- Spanish out!
Now the other way round!
Last round: random order!
12 of 13 remembered. Nice!
Each word comes back just in time.
Your turn! Get the app.
Read the comic as text
- Home: Welcome to the Word Gallery; active vocabulary, words to work on today, streak, points; the button Begin session. Nick: «Ready? Tap Begin session!»
- Study, a new word: a painting of a red house; the plaque rojo; /roxo/; red; La casa es roja — The house is red; Say it; I know it. Nick: «Meet rojo. Say it after me!»
- Study, from memory: the painting; the plaque red; heard: rojo. Nick: «From memory: red in Spanish?»
- Forward, 7 of 18: the painting; the plaque red; heard: rojo; Skip. Nick: «English in -- Spanish out!»
- Reverse, 18 of 18: the plaque rojo; the painting turns to its face after the answer; heard: red; Skip. Nick: «Now the other way round!»
- Random, 16 of 18: the painting; the plaque red; heard: rojo; Skip. Nick: «Last round: random order!»
- Home after the lesson: Earlier words: you remembered 12 of 13. New today: 5 — you said all of them yourself. 1 comes back tomorrow, 4 later. Nick: «12 of 13 remembered. Nice!»
- Your vocabulary: 116 words; memory strength: solid 19, growing 58, new 39; la rana — in 2 days; el té — in 13 days; la muñeca — tomorrow; el pescador — in 3 days; mirar — in 8 days. Nick: «Each word comes back just in time.»
- Nick waves: Your turn! Get the app. Nick: «Your turn! Get the app.»
Why it works: four findings from memory research — used, not just quoted.
Most apps say «science-based». Here are the studies, and a page on each one says exactly how Word Gallery uses it.
Spacing
Study spread out over days is remembered far longer than the same study crammed into one sitting.
Cepeda, Vul, Rohrer, Wixted & Pashler (2008). Spacing effects in learning. Psychological Science 19(11), 1095–1102Recall
Pulling a word out of memory strengthens it more than reading it again.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006). Test-enhanced learning. Psychological Science 17(3), 249–255Pictures
Pictures are remembered better than words — so every word in the gallery has one.
Nelson, Reed & Walling (1976). Pictorial superiority effect. JEP: Human Learning and Memory 2(5), 523–528Speaking
Words said aloud are remembered better than words read silently.
MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary & Ozubko (2010). The production effect. JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 36(3), 671–685The dates themselves come from FSRS, an open-source spaced-repetition scheduler (open-spaced-repetition on GitHub). How Word Gallery uses each study
Your first 50 words are free. Premium keeps the new words coming.
Free teaches you 50 words and keeps them in your memory for good. To go further — the whole gallery, and words from your own life — there is Premium.
Free
To try the method and learn your first words.
$0
No card. No ads.
Want more? Try Premium free for 7 days — once, whenever you are ready. Then $49.99 a year, or cancel at least a day before the trial ends and pay nothing. Your words stay either way.
- Your first 50 words — each with its painting, its example and its sound.
- Daily spoken lessons until your 50th word.
- Your 50 words keep coming back for review, each on its own date, for as long as you like.
- The whole gallery on your phone to look through.
- After the 50th word, no new words.
Premium
To build a real vocabulary — and keep it.
$4.17a month
7 days free, then billed $49.99 a year
or $9.99 month to month · cancel any time — the words you learned stay yours
- New words every day, with no end — the whole gallery, more than 3,000 words, and every word added later.
- Any word you need — the gallery has the words people use most; your textbook, your job and your trips have others. Photograph the page or paste the list, and any word the gallery does not have yet is made for you: translation checked, an example sentence, its own painting. Up to 50 a month.
- Everything in Free.
Why Premium: 50 words is the start of a language, not the language.
2,000+
Words to follow a conversation
Researchers estimate that following spoken language takes 2,000–3,000 word families. Free gives you the first 50; Premium gives you the whole gallery — more than 3,000 words.
van Zeeland & Schmitt (2013). Lexical coverage in L1 and L2 listening comprehension. Applied Linguistics 34(4), 457–47910 days
How long the free words last
At five new words a day, the free 50 run out in about ten days. With Premium the new words keep coming every day, at the pace you choose.
Your words
Learn the words you actually need
A nurse needs «stethoscope», a cook needs «whisk» — words no general list starts with. Photograph a page of your textbook or a list from work: if a word is not in the gallery yet, we make it for you, with its own painting, and it joins your lessons like any other.
Free and Premium, side by side
| What you get | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Learning new words | ||
| New words to learn | Your first 50 | The whole gallery — more than 3,000 words — and every word added later |
| Daily lessons with new wordsStudy: the painting, the word, the example — you say it | Until your 50th word | Every day, no end |
| Words from a photo or a listfound in the gallery | Within your 50 | As many as you like |
| Any word you need, made for youa word from your textbook or work that the gallery does not have yet — we check the translation, write an example and paint its picture | — | Up to 50 a month |
| Try Premium freefree for 7 days, then $49.99 a year; cancel at least a day before the trial ends and you pay nothing | 7 days, once, whenever you are ready | — |
| Keeping the words you learned | ||
| Review drills, each word on its own dateyou say it in both directions; the date moves with how well you know it | Yes, for good | Yes, for good |
| Your progress saved to your account, on any phone | Yes | Yes |
| Everything else | ||
| The whole gallery on your phone to look through | Yes | Yes |
| Ads | None | None |
| Price | $0 | $4.17 a month, billed $49.99 a year after 7 days free · or $9.99 month to month |
Prices in US dollars; the stores show the price in your currency. Premium renews automatically until you cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account.
If you stop Premium, every word you learned keeps coming back for review, for good. Only new words stop.
A word made for you is checked by a person before it joins your lessons, so it can take a little while to arrive.
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