Glim: Lock Screen Vocabulary

Study by glancing. A word waits on your Lock Screen, and the widget buttons let you answer without ever opening the app.

Learning that happens while you glance, not while you study.

Glim puts one word on your Lock Screen and Home Screen. You check your phone dozens of times a day, and every one of those glances becomes a repetition. Learning continues on days you never open the app.

■ The widget is the product, not a feature The Lock Screen widget holds one word and one meaning. No progress bar, no streak, no app icon. Every pixel goes to the word — if it doesn't read in one second, the widget gets deleted.

■ Answer without opening the app Tap "Know" or "Not yet" right on the Home Screen widget. Your progress is recorded and the widget moves to the next word. The app never opens.

■ A different word each time you look The app precomputes a queue that the widget simply reads. No spinner on your Lock Screen, and it works with no network at all.

■ Your vocabulary map Twelve areas — emotion, food, work, nature and more — show what you already know in one screen. A one-minute test at the start fills the map in, so you never begin at zero. The empty tiles tell you what to do next.

■ A wrong answer becomes a sentence, not a penalty Glim takes the meaning you picked and writes the sentence it would actually produce, side by side with the real one. Sentences like "I ate a bank this morning" are hard to forget.

■ Feel Card momentum, a soft tap on a correct answer, and a tone that rises a semitone with every card in a row. You'll do this hundreds of times a day, so the feel of one swipe decides everything. Sound and haptics can be turned off completely.

■ Built on concepts, not language pairs A Korean learning English and an American learning Korean read the same data in opposite directions. Switching your target language doesn't erase what you've built.

■ Counted honestly iOS never tells an app whether a widget was actually seen. So Glim labels widget exposure as "brushed past (estimated)" rather than "viewed", and never weighs an estimate the same as real study.

No account. Your progress stays on your device.