You don't get told the answer.

You raise the light.

Vocabulary for people who already speak a few languages — unevenly — and want the weakest one to stop slipping away.

uccello Italian · your weakest pájaro Spanish oiseau French r Vogel German bird English pták Czech · home

Every tap warms the card by one language — and costs you points.

How it works

  1. 1. A word arrives in your weakest language. Not your strongest — the one that's fading.
  2. 2. Don't know it? Tap. The same word appears one language closer to home. Tap again, one rung nearer.
  3. 3. Verify when you're ready. Three words in your own language, one correct. The fewer taps you took, the more it's worth.

Seeing uccello, oiseau, r Vogel, bird stacked on one card is how multilingual people actually learn. The comparison is the lesson.

German always comes with its article — r, e or s — because a German noun learned without its gender is learned wrong.

Twelve languages

Pick your native language and up to five to study, ranked by how well you know each. The ranking decides everything: which language a word appears in first, and what colour it wears.

What it won't do

No hearts. No lives. No energy that runs out.

Mistakes are free and unlimited — a wrong answer is a scheduling signal, not a currency.

Your streak runs on ordinary practice, and at least three rounds are free every single day — so getting back onto a streak never costs money.

We will never tell you your streak is in danger in order to sell you something.

What's free

Three rounds a day, ten words each. Three of the sixteen word packs — 300 words, a month of practice without a repeat — your own language plus two to study, every stage, every streak. That is the whole promise of the app, and it doesn't expire.

If you want more rounds on a given day, you can watch a short video for two extra — entirely your choice, only on the home screen, never during a session. Nothing is ever shown unless you tap it.

Second Light — one payment. Five rounds a day, ten packs instead of three, a third language to study, and the video offer disappears.

Lightkeeper — subscription. Unlimited rounds, all sixteen packs, and five languages from the catalogue instead of three.

Each tier opens a fixed set of packs, so there is nothing to arrange. Four seasonal packs — Christmas, New Year, Easter and Lunar New Year — open for a window around each holiday, from Second Light upwards.

Five minutes, once a day

1 320 words across twenty packs — sixteen opened by tier, four seasonal — in twelve languages, downloaded once and then available offline. Spaced repetition tracks every word in every language separately, because knowing bird in English says nothing about knowing it in Italian.

Coming to the App Store. iPhone, iOS 17 and later.