Lingora vs DecksMD

The most thorough language course you'll find in an app. 20+ languages, 500 lessons each, every single word of every sentence explained as thoroughly as you care to follow. One sentence might keep you busy for twenty minutes. WHAT'S IN A COURSE Each sentence gets a full lesson wrapped around it. 500 English sentences in all, hand-picked to cover every grammar structure and the full A1 vocabulary. Each word comes with its own full dictionary entry: definition with examples, any conjugation or declension it takes, the grammar topics behind it, and stroke-by-stroke guidance for new scripts. If you want to know why a word looks the way it does, the app can tell you. HOW A LESSON WORKS Each lesson opens with the intro. You hear the sentence before you see what it means. Slow it down, replay as often as you want. Then the Word Breakdown. Tap any word to see what it means and the grammar behind it. Then the literal, word-for-word translation. Then the grammar topics sitting inside the sentence. After the intros, the main session starts. Words and sentences from the current lesson get mixed with whatever's due for review, chosen by the spaced-repetition algorithm so you're practicing what you're closest to forgetting. Your own chosen exercise mix prioritizing reading, writing, or listening. Premium users can even further fine-tune exactly which exercises appear. 25+ WAYS TO PRACTICE Six word games and six sentence games. Flashcards you design yourself, picking what goes on each side. Quick-review tables. Multiple-Choice. Context-clue fill-ins where the wrong answers are similar on purpose. Character stroke practice with real-time validation. Typing exercises with a virtual keyboard. A speech trainer with per-word, color-coded feedback. An AI chat that stays on the lesson's topic and corrects you as you go. And so much more.. REFERENCE A dictionary that searches in native script, in transliteration, or in English. It finds base forms and inflected forms alike. A grammar guide covering every topic that appears in the course. Each has a thorough write-up and example sentences, plus the words and lesson sentences that show it in use. A pronunciation guide covering every consonant and vowel in the language. Tone guides for tonal languages. Script courses for writing systems you haven't learned yet. Conjugation tables for every verb and noun. Character breakdowns for CJK languages. WAYS TO FINE-TUNE Three sliders to weight reading, writing, and listening in each session. Silent mode for studying in public. Transliteration style where more than one exists (Jyutping or Yale, and so on). Diacritics on or off. Full control over what the app does. PROGRESS You'll see progress word by word and lesson by lesson. There's a streak counter, stars on completed lessons, and a weekly leaderboard if you want one. None of it is forced on you. Lifetime users can also export anything they've learned as an Anki deck. LANGUAGES Arabic · Cantonese · Catalan · Dutch · Filipino · French · German · Hindi · Indonesian · Italian · Japanese · Khmer · Korean · Malay · Mandarin · Polish · Portuguese (Brazilian & European) · Russian · Spanish (European & Mexican) · Thai · Turkish · Ukrainian · Vietnamese (Northern & Southern) No hearts. No energy. No cartoons. Just a proper course.

DecksMD turns the notes you already have into flashcards — no syntax, no second copy. Point it at your markdown vault and every heading becomes a card: the heading is the front, the text beneath it is the back. Nothing to import, nothing to maintain twice. Edit the note and the card changes with it. STUDY WHAT'S DUE Scheduling by FSRS-6 — the same algorithm Anki uses — so you review what needs reviewing and stop when you're done. Cards, cloze deletions, tables, image occlusion and exams, all from plain markdown. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Share a paragraph from Safari, Mail or any other app and it lands in your vault. The first line becomes the front, the rest becomes the back. Or file it as a plain note and come back to it later. TURN A CHAPTER INTO A DECK Attach a PDF, pick the sections you actually need, and get cards from those pages — including scanned chapters and lecture slides, transcribed first so the maths survives. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS A real markdown editor with properties, tags and a toolbar. Everything lives as plain files in a folder you choose — no database, no lock-in, works offline. Compatible with Obsidian vaults and any folder of markdown. MAKE IT YOURS Fifteen palettes in light and dark — Nord, Gruvbox, Solarized, Catppuccin, E-ink and more. COMING FROM ANKI? Import an .apkg and your decks, cards, media and full review history come with you. Your cards resume on FSRS-6 right where Anki left them. ONE-TIME PURCHASE No subscription for the app itself. AI card generation and PDF transcription are optional and require DecksMD Pro (sold separately at decksmd.app) — or bring your own API key from Anthropic, Google or a local model, free. Everything else — reviewing, scheduling, statistics, capture, import — works without either. SUBSCRIPTION DecksMD Pro — €9.99/month, auto-renewing. Includes AI card generation from your notes and PDFs. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel it in your device settings. Terms of Use: https://decksmd.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://decksmd.app/legal/privacy