Wren
TOEFL · 1,444 words
150 HP · 15s
Everyone starts here. Show me you know the ground you stand on.
Six masters stand between you and 10,000 words.
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THE FIGHT
Every question is a round. Answer correctly and you land a hit — faster answers hit harder. Miss, and the master takes a piece of you.
You don't grind a list. You fight your way through one, and the master talks the whole time. Wren corrects you. Vex tells you which wrong answer she designed for you. Kore charges you for hesitating.
THE ROUNDA definition, four words, and a clock that decides how hard your answer lands.
THE DOJOWhere you left off, what's due, and the word the app is showing everyone today.
THE GRADINGA dojo ends in a belt. Six of them stand between white and the elite lexicon.
THE VAULTAll 10,000, searchable, with the ones you owe a review marked.
THE CARDEvery word opens: how to say it, a sentence it lives in, and what it sits next to.
THE RECORDWhat you've mastered, and how many days in a row you've shown up.
THE SIX
Not a difficulty slider. Vex builds wrong answers from the same subject as the right one. Ora asks you to produce the word rather than recognise it. Kore starts charging for hesitation at 45% of the clock — everyone else waits for the buzzer.
Everyone starts here. Show me you know the ground you stand on.
Five options. One is right. The other four are designed by me.
Precision, not vocabulary. Anyone can recognize a word. Few can place it.
In my rooms, hesitation costs more than error. The clock is the negotiation.
These words have no English twin. You’ll need the feeling, not the translation.
Four thousand six hundred and eighty-six words stand behind me. Begin.
WHY IT STICKS
Getting a word right once isn't learning it. A word only counts as yours after three correct answers in a row, on three different days.
Every word you master comes back just before you'd forget it, and the gaps grow as you prove you know it — up to a year. A fast, sure answer pushes the next review further out. Miss one and it drops back down. You never plan a session; the dojo decides what you owe.
PRICE
Cancel any time in Settings. Every dojo, the review ladder, the word of the day, and the full lexicon are included — there is nothing else to buy.
One week free · then $4.99/month or $29.99/year
PRIVACY
There is no account and no sign-in. Your progress lives on your phone, and is backed up to your own iCloud so it survives a new device. The app has no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind.
All of it is written to a single file in the app's own storage, and mirrored to your private iCloud key-value store so a new phone can pick up where the old one left off. That copy lives in your Apple account, not on any server we run — we cannot read it, and there is nothing for us to read it with. Turn iCloud off for the app and it simply stops mirroring; everything still works.
Two things, and nothing else. Your progress goes to your own iCloud, described above — Apple's storage, your account, unreadable by us. And subscriptions are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat, which receives the purchase and a device identifier so your subscription can be restored on your other devices. Neither we nor RevenueCat receive your name, your email, or anything you do inside the app.
When you share a word-of-the-day image, it goes wherever you send it from the iOS share sheet. The app doesn't send it anywhere itself.
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Questions about this policy: augustemotherson@gmail.com