Etch vs Mnemo

Note: Etch's interface and its AI-generated definitions are in Chinese. It is built for Chinese speakers learning English. I built Etch because vocabulary never stuck for me. Words I looked up were gone the next day. My dictionary app held hundreds of saved words and not one of them had become mine. What I eventually understood is that the problem was not recall — it was writing. Reading a word ten times does less than writing it once. Psychologists call this the generation effect: producing the answer yourself leaves a far stronger trace than reading it. So Etch does one thing well. It makes you write the word. Capture without leaving what you're reading A Shortcut pulls the selected word in along with the sentence it appeared in. The sentence where you met the word is the sentence you'll see again at review time — words stripped of context are the hardest to keep. The entry fills itself in Pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, morpheme breakdown and common collocations arrive a few seconds after you add the word. Senses are ordered to fit the sentence you captured, rather than copied from a dictionary in fixed order. Review by writing, not by recognizing Write with a finger or Apple Pencil, get judged the moment you finish, and see letter by letter where you went wrong. Three modes: write from the meaning, write from the pronunciation, or fill the blank in a sentence. Recognizing a word is not the same as being able to write it — that difference is the whole point of Etch. Scheduling is handled for you Etch uses FSRS-5. It schedules each review from the word’s difficulty, stability, and current retrievability, aiming to bring it back as memory weakens rather than promising an exact moment of forgetting. One vocabulary across Mac and iPhone Capture on the Mac, review on the iPhone, progress syncs both ways. A home screen widget keeps today's words in front of you, and the ink darkens as you finish them. Etch is free, carries no ads, and does not sell your data. You can export your whole vocabulary at any time, and delete your account from inside the app.

Mnemo helps you memorize anything with flashcards: foreign words, terms, dates, formulas, capitals. Your first module takes just a couple of minutes. Go through the deck with a swipe, or let Mnemo quiz you in different ways and bring back whatever hasn’t stuck yet. No sign-up, no ads. Works offline. FOCUS ON WHAT’S HARD • Cards you get wrong come back more often until they stick. • Different tasks: flip a flashcard, type the answer, choose the correct answer or decide if it’s true or false. • Typos are forgiven: Mnemo tells you the answer was correct, just misspelled. • Several correct answers? Separate them with commas, and any of them counts. • Mnemo got it wrong? Tap “My answer was correct”, and your answer counts. • Learn both ways: the definition from the term and the term from the definition. • Review learned modules so you don’t forget them. FLASHCARDS WITH A SWIPE • In Flashcards mode, flip a card and rate how well you knew it: Again, Hard, Good or Easy. • Swipe in one of four directions or tap a button. Each rating shows when the card comes back: in a few minutes or in 2–3 days. • Undo a rating, shuffle the deck or choose which side faces up: the term or the definition. • Flashcards and Learn work together: cards you already know from Flashcards aren’t introduced again in Learn. TEST YOURSELF • Before an exam, take a test: choose how many questions and which types — true or false, multiple choice or a written answer. • At the end you get a score and a review of every answer: what you answered and the correct answer. • Want to know right away? Turn on “Show answers right away”. • The test doesn’t affect your progress: it’s just a check. CARDS IN MINUTES • Type terms and definitions or paste a ready-made list, one card per line. • Don’t want to type? Mnemo gives you a prompt for any AI chat. Send it with your notes or a photo of a textbook page, then paste the answer, and the cards are ready. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • See how many cards in each module are learned, in progress and not started. Flashcards and Learn both count. • Turn on reminders for a module, and Mnemo will tell you when it’s time to start, continue or review it — once a day at most. SHARE WITH FRIENDS • Send a module as a link, QR code, file or plain text. • Show the QR code on a projector, and the whole class gets the module. • No app yet? The link opens a page with the cards and a link to the App Store. • Got a newer version of a module? Update it and keep your progress. LEARN ANYWHERE • Study without internet: on the subway or on a plane. • Modules and progress sync between your iPhone and iPad via iCloud. • Light and dark appearance. • English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian. Switch the language right in the app. Privacy Policy: https://mnemo-app.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://mnemo-app.pages.dev/terms Support: https://mnemo-app.pages.dev/support