Wordstock is a vocabulary you build out of what you are actually reading: you send a word, the app writes the card, and you practise what you decided to keep.
Your account
Home
Where a word starts
You are reading something, you meet a word you want to keep, and you send it from Home. A card is written for it in the background and waits in the Inbox until you say you want it. You can also send multiple words at once, one per line.
Send the word on its own, or send the whole sentence you met it in. The sentence is worth the extra second: it is what tells the app which sense of the word you actually ran into, and it comes back on the card as the example you already have a memory of.
What comes back is a word with its constructions — "tromper" arrives as "se tromper", "se tromper de + nom", "tromper qqn" — because that is the unit a word is actually used in. The one you met is the draft; the others come with it as suggestions you can take or leave.
Asking, and changing a card by asking
The box on Home is a conversation about your own vocabulary, not only a way in. It can look things up, and it can change or delete what it finds — in words, without you opening an editor.
Ask it what you have: "the last ten words I added", "do I have anything with tenir?", "what's the difference between tenir à and tenir de?". It searches your own cards, accents optional, and quotes back what it found as rows you can open.
Ask it to change something — "add an informal example to la veille", "the gloss on épater is too vague".
Talking instead of typing
The mic dictates into the box. It is for the case the app was built for: a book in one hand, a phone in the other, and a word you want to keep without typing an accent.
Tap it to record, tap it again to stop. What you said arrives as text in the box on a line of its own, and nothing has been sent yet — so you can record a word, read the sentence aloud, correct what came back, and send the lot when it says what you meant.
Inbox
The Inbox, and what the + does
Everything written for you waits here first. The + on a card is what puts it in your vocabulary and starts it being practised; nothing is learned until you tap it.
Under "Also worth learning" are the word's other constructions. Learn moves one into your vocabulary; Dismiss takes it off the offer.
Practice
Practice, and what "due" means
Practice hands you a sitting: a batch of the cards the schedule says are ready, in one direction — not everything that is due at once.
Auto follows the schedule. Shuffle is the whole lot in a random order and changes nothing — use it when you want to read through rather than be tested, since nothing you do in it is recorded. List is every card as a row to open, which is the mode for checking what is actually in a collection.
Collections, for the cards you choose yourself
A collection is a stack you put together by hand — "the ones I keep missing", "chapter four" — and then practise or read on its own.
Put a card in one with the stack mark: on a row in Words, on a card you have turned over, or on any row of the Practice list. A word with more than one construction opens so you can say which card. A card can be in several at once, and a collection holds no cards of its own, so deleting one never loses a card.
Words
Your words
All your words at a glance. Open one to see its constructions, edit any of them, or delete what turned out not to be worth keeping.
Hearing a word
The speaker next to a word reads it aloud, in the language you are learning.
If you would rather not have them, Settings → Hearing words turns the speakers off.
Your account
More than one language, if you want
A workspace learns one language and explains it in another, and holds its own vocabulary, Inbox, practice and chat. You can keep as many as you like — a second one for another language — and switch between them under the gear at the top of the screen.
A limited number of languages are supported just now — you can learn French, German, Spanish, Italian or English, and have any of them explained in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Dutch. Adding another would not be hard, so write to hello@wordstock.app if you want one.
The backup, and what is in it
In Settings, Download a backup writes the whole of one workspace to a JSON file on your device: every word, every card with its meanings and examples, and your collections.
The limits, and what happens when you meet one
Writing words, answering in the chat and transcribing speech cost the person who runs the app real money, so there is a daily limit on each and a ceiling on what one account spends in a month.
Reading your words, practising, reviewing, searching and the backup download cost nothing and are never affected by any of this.
The app is free for now. There is nothing to buy and no upgrade behind a limit. If the limits are a problem, write to hello@wordstock.app.
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Finding all of this again
The ? in the top corner opens this again from anywhere in the app: these notes, this tour, and the whole guide read end to end.