Lernkartei: German Flashcards

Lernkartei (German for a flashcard box) is a German dictionary with flashcard training, built for learners of German. Everything works offline: the dictionary lives on your phone, nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account. The interface is in German, which is the point: you learn the language in the language.

DICTIONARY

Over 160,000 entries with short English meanings, German definitions, examples, articles, plural and conjugation forms, and pronunciation. Search understands inflected forms ("ist" leads to "sein", "Häuser" to "Haus") and English ("house" finds "Haus").

CARDS THAT GET TO THE POINT

The back of a card shows what you actually want to know: "Haus" means "house", "gehen" means "go, walk". No long explanations, no rare senses in the way.

SIX WAYS TO PRACTISE

Flip the card and swipe right if you knew it, left if you did not. Pick the English meaning out of four, or type it. Type the German word for an English meaning, where a small slip does not count as wrong. Only hear the word and choose its meaning. Or find the word missing from an example sentence. Switch modes any time in the settings.

READY-MADE DECKS

Eight levels from A1.1 to B2.2 with 300 words each, ordered by real-world frequency, plus topic decks (travel, food, work, family, home, health, weather, shopping, body, clothes, feelings, nature and more) and decks by part of speech: the most common verbs, adjectives, and nouns by gender. Also the words of the Goethe-Zertifikat A1, A2 and B1 word lists and the 4000 most frequent words. One tap and you can start.

GRAMMAR

Der, die or das? Which plural? What is the past tense? Three drills ask for articles, plural forms and verb forms, with the words from your own decks.

SPACED REPETITION

A proven scheduling method plans every card individually: what you know comes back less often, what you struggle with comes back sooner. You decide how many new words a day come in. A daily goal, a streak and statistics with a forecast, a calendar of your practice and your hardest words show where you stand.

BACKUP AND ANKI

A backup takes your decks and progress to a new phone, also between iPhone and Android. Existing Anki packages import with front and back, and your decks export as .apkg files.

LIGHT AND DARK

Follows the system setting, or stays fixed to light or dark.

Dictionary data comes from the German Wiktionary under CC BY-SA 4.0.