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Learn a language by reading.
Not by drilling.

Wordie puts short stories, real books and a dictionary that works offline into one reading flow. Tap any word you don't know — it explains itself, then comes back until you remember it.

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El clavo Chapter 1 · 12%

Una tarde de otoño, el viajero llegó al pueblo sin nombre.

No había nadie en la plaza. Las ventanas estaban cerradas, y el viento movía un clavo suelto en la puerta de la iglesia.

Tap a word

…and 13 more languages, from German to Arabic.

How it works

One loop, three steps

The word you looked up while reading is the word you review. Nothing comes from a stranger's list.

Read something real

A graded story or a chapter of a public-domain novel — in the language you're learning, at a level you can actually get through.

Tap what you don't know

The offline dictionary resolves the inflected form, shows the meaning and pronunciation, and lets you keep reading.

Meet it again

Saved words turn into flashcards, and anything you get wrong lands in the mistake notebook until it stops being a mistake.

What's inside

Everything the reading habit needs

Nine modules that share one vocabulary, one progress record and one mistake pool.

Stories and real books

Graded short stories with IPA pronunciation and furigana for Japanese, plus a library of public-domain novels you read inside the app — with the same tap-to-look-up flow.

El clavo A2 · 12%
Book club · 4 readers invite only

Offline dictionary

Downloadable packs that need no connection, resolve inflected forms, and plug into Spotlight search and the home screen widget.

Flashcards

Swipe-based sessions built only from words you actually met while reading.

Grammar micro-lessons

One idea at a time, ending in practice instead of a wall of rules.

Mistake notebook

Every wrong answer from every module lands in one endless review feed.

Exam prep

DELF, DELE, Goethe and TÖMER tracks with practice and full mock modes. Written and spoken tasks get evaluated and scored against the real criteria.

Task 2 · Coherence 4.5 / 5
Task 2 · Verb agreement sent to review

Speaking practice

Scenario role-plays — ordering coffee, sitting a job interview — where you speak your side of the conversation and get feedback on what you said.

“Una mesa para dos, por favor.” on-device

Start from the alphabet

Kana and Hangul from zero: stroke animations, guided tracing and free writing, then your first real words with the romanization printed underneath.

あa かka さsa 한han 글geul

Quiet by default

No name, no email, no ads, no tracking SDKs. Speech recognition runs on your device — the audio never leaves it.

Wordie

Start with one story.

Ten minutes of reading beats an hour of flashcards you'll never see again.

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