eincard vs Soya

Less scrolling. More remembering. eincard turns the moment you open a distracting app into a chance to study. Each time you open a selected app, review a few flashcards. Then continue intentionally, or decide you no longer need to scroll. Unlike a rigid app blocker, eincard does not lock you out. It adds useful friction. Screen time becomes active recall, and the habit of checking your phone becomes a cue to learn. HOW IT WORKS 1. Create or import a flashcard deck. 2. Choose the distracting apps you want to gate. 3. Follow the guided setup for an Apple Shortcuts automation. 4. Review cards whenever you open a selected app. 5. Continue after studying or return to what matters. STUDY SMARTER • Remember more with spaced repetition. • Swipe cards into known and still learning piles. • Reverse cards to practice both directions. • Set daily study limits for each deck. • Star important cards and organize decks into folders. • Track reviews, streaks and progress over time. BUILD BETTER PHONE HABITS • Add a study gate before social media and other distracting apps. • Choose how many cards each app asks you to review. • Set an active schedule for school, homework or exam sessions. • Use a short launch pass so intentional app switching stays smooth. • Pause every gate when you need a break. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your decks and card content stay on your iPhone. No account or Screen Time access is required. Anonymous product analytics never include your cards and can be disabled in Settings. Whether you are preparing for exams, learning vocabulary or trying to reduce screen time, eincard turns a distracting habit into steady progress. Free to use. No subscription.

Soya turns the things you already want to read into reading practice at exactly your level. Paste a link, share an article from Safari, or name a book — Soya rewrites it in Chinese, Japanese or Korean pitched at the level you choose, and hands it back as something you can actually read. AT YOUR LEVEL, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S Pick HSK 1–6, JLPT N5–N1 or TOPIK 1–6. The same article at HSK 2 and HSK 5 is genuinely two different texts, not the same text with a glossary bolted on. Change your mind halfway and re-translate it at another level. FOUR LANGUAGES, INCLUDING BOTH CHINESE SCRIPTS Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Traditional is a first-class choice, not a conversion pass over Simplified. TAP ANY WORD Every word carries its reading — pinyin, hiragana or the pronounced hangul — and a tap gives you the definition, the word in that exact sentence, and examples. Tap "Break it down" and the sentence is walked through part by part. PRACTICE THAT COSTS NOTHING Five games built from the words you have actually looked up: fill the gap, pair match, sentence order, listening and a mixed session. They never call a model, so they work on a plane, on the underground, and on no signal at all. A bundled vocabulary catalogue means there is something to practise from the first minute. READ ALOUD Any sentence, any article, at your pace. NEWS, ALREADY TRANSLATED A daily corpus of short news stories, translated ahead of time, so browsing them costs nothing and opening one is instant. YOUR READING STAYS YOURS Your library, your words, your practice history and your reading positions live on your phone. There is no account to make. Sign in only if you want your library on a second device — it is off by default and always optional. FREE, OR YOUR OWN KEY Soya works out of the box with a monthly free allowance and no account. If you would rather use your own model provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — add your key in Settings and it goes straight from your phone to them. Your key stays in the keychain and is never uploaded.