# Gipfel: Learn German — Your Handy teacher

> Your Handy teacher (iPhone/iPad app by Matous Pikous.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gipfel-learn-german/id6815087345 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Matous Pikous](https://appshunter.io/developer/6802770475)
- Category: Education, Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-30
- Data updated: 2026-10-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gipfel-learn-german/id6815087345/reviews.md

## What is Gipfel?

Gipfel is your handy tutor on your Handy, helping you practice German anywhere and anytime you want.
-No adds
-No login
-No pawalls
-Completely free


Key features:
Structured grammar explanations
Reading exercises with True & False
Cloze completion based on grammar, vocabulary and register
Fully offline
Offline Dictionary
Offline listening exercises


User can practice at any of A1, A2, B1 and B2 levels.
Grammar exercises progress naturally from grammar explanation, spotting grammatical function to application and solidification. For practice, there many other cloze completion exercises with fill in the blanks option as well as “a,b,c,d selection” depending on the preferred difficulty. Those are of two kinds. First focuses on individual sentences the second is text reading. After a reading exercise users can learners can check their comprehension through True/False questions.
The exercises focus on typical mistakes as well as grammar and vocabulary practice.
Apart from those, there are also reading timed reading exercises focused on understanding from context.

For listening there are diktat exercises, where user tries to catch a word in a spoken text. On device Text-to-Speech model is used, which makes the app small in size and offline. User can select one of four difficulties. There are also full text listening exercises.

Vocabulary is an important part of learning new language. Apple provides high quality offline Oxford German and Duden-Wissensetz deutsche Sprache dictionaries to all iOS devices. (They can be downloaded in the Settings->General->Dictionary) Gipfel uses this feature and anytime you are not sure about a word, just tap the word and the dictionaries come for rescue. The unknown word is then stored to your Notebook, where you can explore it later.


Your Notebook stores your words with the sentence for a context. Tapping a word reveals other sentences containing it as well as other close words in other sentences across the app. (In German, many words are derived by compounding or by adding a preposition.) User gets from that the idea of the word application in contexts.
You can practice your words and sent them via e-mai, which is particularly handy, if you want to ask your real life teacher or a friend.
Your Notebook also contains words where you made mistakes. 

For now, the app contains 354 exercises, most of whicha are grammar focused. In future, more reading exercises are comming.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 0.0.5 — 2026-10-01

New exercises and content

App changes:
Turn your iPhone sideways
- Gipfel now works in landscape. The tabs become a slim column on the side of your hand, and every screen keeps its full height.
- A German keyboard sits beside the text instead of covering it: QWERTZ with umlauts, fast two-thumb typing, a space bar that moves the cursor, and a gentle tap you can feel.
- Hold a key for accents and punctuation.
- Choose your hand in Settings: tabs and keyboard move to that side.

Reading and practice
- Practise a text again straight from the library, without reading it first.
- New sentences every round for "Put sentences in order" and "A sentence from memory".
- Sentence order rebuilt: bigger pieces, tap or drag them exactly where you want, and green and red marks after a check.
- A sentence from memory: see it once more and continue from what you wrote, for half points.
- The close button inside a practice step takes you back to the steps.
- A little more time on the reading clock.

Your words
- Two new exercises on the sentences your looked-up words came from: put them back in order, or write them from memory.

You decide
- Choosing is never switched off. Gipfel tells you when writing would count more, and one tap lets you write instead.
- Switching between Choose and Type clears unchecked answers, so a choice never counts as written.

Liquid Glass
- On iOS 26, buttons, answer options, the tab column and the keyboard are tinted Liquid Glass, and the item card slides up as a glass sheet.

Clearer
- "How Gipfel works" now explains every exercise.
- In landscape, buttons float at the side of your hand, so more of the text fits on screen.

Fixes
- Two quick taps could open the dictionary twice and freeze the app.
- The weekly rest day now really keeps your streak.
- Marks earned by a session's last answer are no longer lost.
- Looking up a word from your Notebook no longer resets its training.
- A timed text without questions no longer gets stuck.
- Listen and write: retrying no longer counts a word you were shown as right.
- Reviews in Choose mode no longer come up empty.
- Many smaller fixes

### 0.0.2 — 2026-09-30

No release notes.

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