# NeoWords — Picture words that stick

> Picture words that stick (iPhone/iPad app by Dmytro Arekhta.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neowords/id6799895874 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dmytro Arekhta](https://appshunter.io/developer/1841123153)
- Category: Education, Games
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 35 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Polish, Russian, European Spanish, Ukrainian
- Released: 2026-08-27
- Data updated: 2026-10-10

## What is NeoWords?

Every word is a painting, and every noun has a colour.

NeoWords teaches vocabulary six words at a time — German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch or English. Each word arrives as a watercolour illustration with its article, its plural and its voice — because learning "Katze" and learning "die Katze" are not the same thing, and only one of them is any use in a sentence.

GENDER AS COLOUR
Gender is not guessable and not optional, so here it is never small grey print beside the word. It is the colour the word wears — der is blue, die is terracotta, das is green — on every card, in every exercise, from the first minute. At some point you stop recalling the article and start seeing it. Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese work the same way with el and la, un and une, il, lo and la, o and a; Dutch with de and het. English has no gender, so the English course honestly drops articles everywhere instead of drilling an empty question.

SIX WORDS, SIX WAYS
You meet six words at a time, then you are asked for them six ways: Meet the words, Flashcards, Pairs, Anagram, Write it, Mix. Recognising a word is the easy half of knowing it — four of the six steps make you produce the word yourself: pick it out, build it from loose letters, type it into its own example sentence, then do it again cold.

A PAINTING FOR EVERY WORD
39 topic packs and 1,489 words in every course — the same curriculum, painted once and rebuilt seven times. Every illustration is a watercolour made for its word — painted, not stock. Every word is read by one voice, checked clip by clip, and comes with its plural and an example sentence.

LOOK AROUND
Point the camera at your kitchen and the course's words appear on the things themselves — the article in colour, the course's own voice. Words you already know are marked as met in real life. It all runs on your device, and no picture is kept.

WORDS COME BACK
What you learn returns after 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days until it settles: recall first, then reveal, then grade yourself honestly. The listening lap turns the clip into the question — you hear the word cold and answer before you see it. And the placement check starts you where you actually are, not at page one.

A DAY THAT CLOSES GENTLY
A small daily ring fills as you learn. Closing it keeps your streak; every seventh closed day banks a mend, and a mend repairs a missed evening overnight, silently. At most one reminder a day — and none once the ring is closed.

THIRTY SECONDS OF ARTICLES
The Blitz, in every course that has articles: thirty seconds, articles only, as many nouns as you can clear. An optional weekly league runs through Game Center, with one board per language — a German score and a Spanish score are different games.

IN THE LANGUAGE YOU THINK IN
Meanings, example sentences and the whole interface in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch or Ukrainian. The only foreign thing here is the words.

FAIR UNLOCK
Five packs are free in every course, with the whole learning loop inside. One purchase opens all seven courses and the content updates that follow: monthly or yearly access, or a one-time lifetime purchase with Family Sharing. The yearly plan may include a 7-day introductory trial when your Apple ID is eligible; prices and availability are always shown by the App Store before you buy.

NOTHING WATCHES YOU LEARN
No account, no ads, no third-party analytics. Progress lives on your device and in your private iCloud storage, and the optional card report carries no account or device identifier.

Made for people who keep forgetting the article.


Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy: https://neowords.app/privacy · Terms: https://neowords.app/terms

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Yearly | $27.99 | per year |
| Monthly | $6.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Full access | $39.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4 — 2026-10-09

New: Look around. Point the camera at your kitchen, and the course's words appear on the things themselves.

• Look around: hold the phone still and everything it recognises gets its word — the article in colour, the course's own voice. Tap a word to hear it. Words you already know are marked as met in real life. It all runs on your device, and no picture is kept.
• A new Today shows only what you can do right now: the next row, Review when words are due, the Sprint when today's round is waiting — and your packs below. The tabs are Today, Packs, Around and You.
• Word of the day as a widget, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.
• Open Look around from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button, or ask Siri to continue where you stopped.
• NeoWords now runs on iPad and on iPhone Duo — turned sideways, every screen opens into two pages.
• Pairs no longer jump while you match them, and smaller fixes.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-06

Anagram shows the picture again.

• Anagram: look at the painting, pick the article, then build the word from its letters — three words in every row, chosen at random. The word is read aloud once it's built, so the article comes from memory, not from the recording.
• Flashcards show the picture and its meaning first. Recall the word, turn the card, then say whether you knew it. The cards you didn't know come back at the end.
• Write it still asks for every word, often inside the word's own example sentence.
• Mix offers four answers and brings back one word you learned before.
• And smaller fixes.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

### 1.3 — 2026-09-15

Lessons now ask more of you, in fewer taps.

• Flashcards show the picture and its meaning first. Recall the word, turn the card, then say whether you knew it. The cards you didn't know come back at the end.
• Anagram is by ear: hear the word, then build it from its letters, on three of the six words.
• Write it still asks for every word, often inside the word's own example sentence.
• Mix offers four answers and brings back one word you learned before.
• And many smaller fixes.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

### 1.1 — 2026-09-03

Four new courses: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch — 1,489 painted words each, with their articles, plurals and a recorded voice. Seven languages to learn now, and the app itself reads in ten: Italian, Dutch and Portuguese join the interface.

Also in 1.1:
• A new language picker in onboarding and settings, with every course's articles at a glance and your progress next to each one.
• Flashcards say the word the moment it is visible — and never before, so a card never pronounces its own answer.
• The app asks for a rating only after a few closed rings, and never right after you've reported a card.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

### 1.0 — 2026-08-27

No release notes.

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