Vocabdrift: Vocabulary Builder

Word lists do not fail because they are hard. They fail because you have to remember to open something. Vocabdrift puts the word where you already look forty times a day and lets the rest happen by itself. Turn on the Lock Screen widget once. From then on a word and a short definition rotate in on their own, on a schedule you set, with nothing to open and no feed to scroll. WHAT IS IN IT - 1,383 words, every one with a plain definition and its part of speech - Written IPA pronunciation for 1,165 of them and an example sentence for 535. The app has no audio - Sourced from WordNet 3.0 and Wiktionary, with the licences and attribution shown in the app ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN - A widget shows the current word and its definition. Tap it to open that word in full - Lock Screen only, in the rectangular slot. There is no Home Screen widget and no StandBy widget - Choose how often it changes: every 4, 8, 12 or 24 hours - Optional notifications as a second way to catch a new word BECAUSE GLANCING IS NOT THE SAME AS KNOWING Seeing a word again teaches you to recognise it. Being asked to produce it is what makes it stick. The in-app quiz is multiple choice, drawn only from words you have already been shown, on your Lock Screen or on the home screen in the app, and words you have missed come back more often than words you have not. It is ready to take from your first launch. AT YOUR OWN PACE Browse every word you have seen, newest first, or read ahead to the next six queued for your Lock Screen. Star the ones you want to keep, and once four are starred you can quiz that list on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on the device. There is no account, the app makes no network requests, and nothing about which words you see leaves your phone.