Lingomotive - Learn Languages

Lingomotive is a vocabulary trainer for the words you meet in real life.
Point your camera at a sign, menu, or page.
Dictate a sentence you half understood.
Lingomotive picks out the parts you didn't catch, adds them to your vocabulary fully translated, and schedules every review for you.

CAPTURE BY CAMERA OR VOICE

• Camera scan. Point at a sign, menu, or page. The word lands in your deck, fully translated.
• Voice dictation. Speak a sentence you didn't fully understand. The vocabulary you needed is saved, fully translated.
• No typing. No dictionary tab. The words you meet in the wild are waiting for review.

Lingomotive's smart engine is built on decades of cognitive science: spaced repetition and active recall.
Every item is scheduled across five review intervals.
Correct answers move it deeper.
Misses pull it back.
Over weeks, the algorithm lifts the review load off your mind and onto the schedule.

WHY SCIENCE BASED LEARNING WORKS

• The spacing effect. Information reviewed at expanding intervals is retained far longer than information crammed in one sitting.
• The testing effect. Active recall strengthens memory more than rereading or passive recognition. Every prompt is a recall test, not a passive flip.

The smart engine runs cleanly.
No coins.
No streak ransom.
No dark patterns.

HOW THE SMART ENGINE WORKS

• Every new entry starts in Box 1, due today.
• Answer correctly, the entry moves up one box. Intervals stretch from one day to three days to one week to thirty days.
• Answer incorrectly, the entry falls back to Box 1.
• An entry is marked Learned only after two consecutive successful Box 5 reviews in each direction.

You see every entry's box at a glance.
No opaque difficulty score.

ADAPTIVE DAILY PACING

Cramming kills retention.
Lingomotive sets an automatic daily ceiling on new entries.
The ceiling grows when accuracy is strong and shrinks when words slip, so Box 1 never becomes a graveyard.

TWO DIRECTION PRACTICE

Recognising a word is not the same as producing it.
Lingomotive tracks both directions independently.

• Target to Native. See the foreign word, recall the translation.
• Native to Target. See your language, recall the foreign word.

An entry is not Learned until both directions are mastered.
That closes the "I understood it when I read it but I could not say it" gap.

FEATURES

• Camera scan and voice dictation. Capture words and phrases without typing.
• Build your own vocabulary in any language your device supports.
• Fuzzy match. Typos, punctuation, case, and diacritic slips still count as correct.
• Five colour coded review boxes that show every word's progress.
• Adaptive new word ceiling that protects you from overload.
• Independent graduation on both recall directions.
• 500 phrase starter pack for English, Swedish, Spanish, German, French, and Italian.
• Multiple target languages. Switch in one tap.
• Tap to hear with system text to speech.
• Daily streaks, stats dashboard, achievements.

BUILT FOR REAL USE

• Fully offline. No account. No login. No network calls. Your vocabulary stays on your device.
• iPhone and iPad universal. Dark mode. VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion supported.
• No sign up. Start the moment the app opens.

Start with a blank slate or the 500 phrase starter pack.
Add the words you meet.
Practice ten minutes a day.
Let our smart engine do the rest.

Recent changes:
Thank you for using Lingomotive!
This release expands every starter pack to 1,000 words, phrases, and sentence patterns. Existing packs get refreshed content while keeping your learning progress and notes. We’ve also made fixes and improvements for a smoother experience.