Vocare: Vocabulary from Books

Photograph a page, tap a word, and Vocare builds a flashcard - meaning, example, and spaced review. Free, on-device, private.

Vocare turns real reading into vocabulary you keep.

Photograph any page - a book, a comic, your notes - tap one word or a short expression, and Vocare makes a flashcard: a clear meaning, a natural example sentence, and multiple-choice practice. Then it schedules the card for spaced review so the word actually sticks.

CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE

• Snap a page with the camera and tap the words you don't know
• Import a highlighted PDF
• Share a highlight straight from Kindle, Apple Books, or any app via the share sheet

FREE AND ON-DEVICE Basic card generation runs on your iPhone with Apple's built-in models. No account. No subscription. It works offline.

YOUR OWN KEYS, IF YOU WANT Prefer richer cards - illustrations, natural spoken audio, a specific text model? Add your own API key per feature. Any usage bills to your provider account - Vocare adds nothing.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your decks and cards stay on your device and sync only through your own iCloud. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs.

BUILT FOR REAL REVIEW

• Multiple-choice that graduates to typed recall - with a letter-by-letter diff when your answer is close
• Spaced repetition scheduling (FSRS)
• Study themes: reading-first, speak-it-out, imagery, cloze focus
• Clean example sentences in your language pair
• A progress dashboard per language - what's due, how well words are sticking
• Deck and card management, with delete and restore
• A two-minute guided tour builds your first card with you

NINE LANGUAGES, ANY PAIR Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English.

Study packs - ready-made decks built from great books - are coming in a future update.