What's New in Palabrify

Both verbs are yours to choose.

“If I ___ my keys, I would be very annoyed.” With one form printed, the other is a guess you can make without knowing the rule. In 2.5 the sentences that turn on two forms — conditionals, tense contrasts, reported speech — leave both open, so you decide which form goes in which clause. That decision is the lesson.

The sentence comes on a different board each time, and the boards lean harder as you get to know it: early on you mostly choose the pair, then you place each form in its clause, and later you type the verbs yourself from the base form in brackets.

A session that notices.

Twenty exercises in a row can feel like a queue. Now the session reacts, briefly, above the progress bar — one moment at a time, each with its own small sound, and never after a mistake.

• Runs — a counter for answers in a row, with milestones along the way.
• Comebacks — when the word you just missed comes back and you get it.
• A flawless halfway, a new personal best, and the last word — with a reminder when it's the one that keeps today's streak.
• Confetti bursts from the trophy when you finish above 80 %, and the summary shows your longest run.

Every course, one tap from the dashboard.

The ready-made courses used to arrive all at once during setup — every level, every set — and after that there was no way back to them. 2.4 replaces that with a library: tap ＋, choose Find or create a set, and every course for your language pair is there, sorted by level from Beginner to Advanced. Every one of them was reviewed by people — the words, the example sentences and the grammar.

Vocabulary and grammar sit in their own sections. Each card says what's inside before you add it — a few of its words, a grammar example with the gap marked — and what you already have is marked Added, so nothing lands twice.

The hardest exercise, without the friction.

Type-In asks you to write the whole word yourself, which is exactly why it's worth doing — and why every extra tap in it hurt. Three of them are gone.

• Return checks your answer. No more closing the keyboard to reach the button.
• Show answer when it just isn't coming. It counts as a miss — honestly — so the word comes back soon, instead of you typing nonsense to get past it.
• Every right answer counts. When a card means “to go” and lists iść, jechać, writing either one is correct — not only the whole list.

Show it working. Don't explain it.

The old first launch opened with six pages on the theory of spaced repetition — delivered to someone who had no account, owned no words, and had never seen the product do anything. One of those pages explained what an average ease of 2.5 meant, for a workspace that did not exist yet.

2.3 replaces it with three screens that simply show the thing happening. A word becomes a card and turns over to reveal its own example sentence. A Letter Fill board solves itself, with the sentence sitting above it. Five dots fill in while the interval stretches from one day out to a month.

One card, two schedules.

Every card now splits into the direction you're reading — the foreign word in front of you, the meaning to recall — and the direction you're producing: your own language in front of you, the foreign word to summon. Each side keeps its own review history, its own interval, its own row of bucket dots.

The practical effect is that the easy half stops carrying the hard half. Recognition usually runs weeks ahead of production, and under one schedule that gap was invisible: a card you could only recognise still looked mastered and still drifted out to a month. Now the producing side stays on the short intervals it actually needs while the recognising side moves on without it.

Nothing to switch on, and nothing lost: your existing progress becomes the recognising side, and the producing side starts fresh. A seventh How It Works page walks through it the first time you open the app.

Decide how long you've got.

Tap Start on a grammar set of more than 20 cards and a chooser unfolds: Short, Medium or All. It asks every time and remembers nothing, because how long you have today has little to do with how long you had last Tuesday.

Each tile carries a time estimate, and it's yours rather than an average: the median pace of your last five grammar sessions. If you work slowly through sentences, the estimate says so.

For the word that keeps winning.

Miss a word once and that's just learning. Miss the same word twice in one session and something about it isn't sticking — so the “not quite” panel grows an extra row offering to build you a mnemonic for it.

You ask for it; it never happens on its own. Tap the row and the hook is written, shown in place, and kept on the card — so the next time that word comes round, it's already waiting behind the lightbulb.

Spelling, without the answer on screen.

The sentence is in the language you're learning. The word you're after stands in it as a row of slots — some letters already there, the rest blank — and a short tray holds what's missing plus a couple of decoys. Each tile goes into one particular slot, so where a letter belongs is part of the question.

What makes it different from Word Builder is what isn't there: the translation. It sits behind a hint you can buy. That's the whole exercise — recall the spelling from the sentence around it, and pay if you'd rather be told.

Put a set down without losing it.

A unit you've finished, a course you're not taking this term, two weeks away from it all — and the same words keep arriving in your daily reviews. The only ways out were to archive the set, which takes it off your dashboard, or delete it, which takes it away for good.

There's a third now. Pause a set and its words stop feeding your Inbox, your due count and today's Learn and Review lines. Everything else stays exactly as it was: the set is still on your dashboard, every card keeps its progress, and resuming picks up from the day you stopped rather than starting you over.

One card that answers “what do I do today?”

The dashboard used to show a learner everything they own and nothing about what to do with it. Now the first card above the folders holds exactly two lines — and a finish line.

Two lines, one finish line

Start the step, clear the reviews

A count you can trust

Only what's really due today

It works offline, too — on a train or a plane, the card still knows what's left to do today.

Link each pair with a cable. Keep the streak.

A tile turning green said only that something happened — never what. Ten green rectangles was a finished board with no sense of having got anywhere.

• Pick a word and a slack cable drops into the channel between the columns. The right pair pulls it taut and runs a light down it. A wrong one over-stretches until it snaps into two recoiling stubs.

• Collect the streak. Each solved pair pops out of the link as a chip and flies up into a Streak strip with a ×N badge. One miss empties it — a run you can lose is a reason to be careful with the next tap.

• Nothing jumps around. Solved tiles stay exactly where they were and fade to a thin outline, so the choices you have left never move under your finger.

• Faster than it looks. You can start the next pair while the chip is still flying, so eight pairs feel like one quick round. And every cable stays faintly drawn: a finished board looks like a circuit you built.