Meet Vokabulo, built for expats and professionals using a foreign language every day. Capture words, phrases, and expressions from podcasts, meetings, and articles with context and translation. Use Scenes to prepare for new situations, Community Sets to see what others recommend, and Study to master them fast - even hands-free. Vokabulo is unlike any language tool you’ve used before. Because language isn’t built from words alone. It’s built on context. Vokabulo. For serious learners.

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After 8 months of designing, coding, debugging, and polishing, I’m excited to release Vokabulo into the wild. I originally built it for myself, but I suspect it may be especially useful for a very specific kind of learner: people who are no longer beginners, yet no longer improving in any satisfying way either. The ones stuck on that long intermediate plateau, with plenty of exposure to the language but still feeling strangely static. I’m deeply convinced that language learning will never go out of fashion, because language is never just vocabulary or grammar. It is a way into another culture, another rhythm of thought, another way of seeing the world — in a way no Babel fish ever will. I did consider making Vokabulo free. Unfortunately, the LLM providers powering it have not yet discovered the joys of philanthropy, and I’m not especially optimistic that their future IPO roadshows will change that. So yes, Vokabulo costs money — though less than an espresso a week. I’d love to hear what you think. This is my first app, so please be gentle.