Vocady: Vocabulary Notebook

Vocady is a vocabulary notebook you fill in by hand.

Write a word with your finger and on-device recognition reads it. Type it instead, if you prefer. Or photograph a page and register up to 50 words in a single pass — a marked-up textbook page, a printed handout, a page of your own notes. (Photo scan is a Pro feature.)

Then the AI writes the entry for you: IPA pronunciation, meaning, part of speech, a grammar note, a natural example sentence, where the word came from, and the nuance that separates it from its near-synonyms. That second step is the one that never happens on its own — you jot a word down in three seconds and never go back to it. Vocady goes back for you.

NINE LEARNING LANGUAGES
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian.

Japanese and Chinese entries carry their readings where you need them — furigana above the kanji, pinyin above the hanzi — not just on the headword but across the whole example sentence, so you can read a sentence aloud before you can fully parse it.

Every word is graded in CEFR and converted to the scale used for that language: JLPT N5 to N1 for Japanese, HSK 1 to 6 for Chinese, TOPIK for Korean, TRKI for Russian, and CEFR itself for French, German, Spanish, Italian and English.

A WORDBOOK MADE OF YOUR OWN WORDS
Most apps hand you a deck somebody else wrote. Vocady is a wordbook that starts empty on purpose, because the words worth learning are the ones you personally ran into. You already own a dictionary; what you do not have is a record of every entry you looked up and then forgot. Vocady is that record, and it writes itself as you go.

This is not a word of the day app, and nothing is chosen for you. If you are reading a French novel, your list is that novel. If you are working through Japanese vocabulary in a workbook, your list is that workbook — kanji, readings and all. That is what makes it useful as a vocabulary builder for an exam you are actually sitting, instead of a general trivia feed.

Collect and study Japanese, Korean and Chinese words alongside French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and English. One app, nine languages, switched whenever you switch books — and the list you study from opens offline, with no signal needed.

SIX CHALLENGE MODES
Review is built as six games, and every question is generated from your own entries:

- Context puzzle: work the word out from the sentence around it
- Time attack: answer against the clock
- Handwriting quiz: write the word by hand and have it checked, which doubles as handwriting practice for kanji, hanzi and Hangul
- Word to meaning, and meaning to word: the two modes that behave like classic flash cards
- Sentence assembly: put a scrambled sentence back into order

A streak counts the days you turned up and a calendar heatmap shows the whole month at a glance. Challenge modes are part of Pro.

WHAT WORKS OFFLINE, AND WHAT DOES NOT
We would rather be exact about this. Your words live in a local database on the phone first and then sync to the cloud, so handwriting capture, browsing your list and reviewing all work offline. The AI analysis runs on a server, so that one step needs a connection — anything you save offline is analyzed as soon as you reconnect.

KEEPING IT TIDY
Color tags group words however you think — by book, by class, by trip, by "things I keep getting wrong" — and you can filter by tag or quiz a single tag on its own. A distribution chart shows how your collection sits across difficulty levels, and every word carries a mastery card that moves as you get it right.

FREE AND PRO
Free: five words a day, every day.
Pro: unlimited capture (fair-use limit of 300 analyses per day), photo registration, and all six challenge modes.
Every new account starts with a 7-day free trial of Pro.

Bring your own words. That is the whole difference.