Vocamemo User Guide

With Vocamemo, you learn words and phrases in real sentences, practise them out loud, and repeat them on a schedule that the app draws up for you. When you don't understand something, you ask ExplAIn, your AI tutor. This guide walks you through the app.

1. Sign in

Vocamemo needs an account, so that your progress is saved and available on all your devices. Tap Get Started and sign in with Apple or Google. If you use the same email address with both, they open the same Vocamemo account.

2. Choose your course

After you sign in, pick the language you want to learn. The current courses are:

• German and Spanish, with English translations.
• English, German and Spanish, with Polish translations.

You can learn several languages. To switch between courses, tap the flag at the top of the Study tab.

3. Set your level

Next, the app asks how well you know the language. Your answer decides which words and phrases you get first, and how ExplAIn explains things to you.

You set your level for each language separately, and you can change it at any time under Study Profile in the Profile tab.

4. Choose your daily goal

Choose how much time you want to study each day: 5, 10 or 15 minutes. The times are estimates. Sessions start short and grow as your repetitions build up.

If you prefer, set the number of new items and repetitions per day yourself under Daily Study Goals in the Profile tab.

5. Vocamemo Premium

The courses need a Vocamemo Premium subscription, which starts with a 7-day free trial. You choose a plan in the App Store, and you can cancel at any time.

• To change or cancel your subscription, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then Subscriptions and Vocamemo.
• If you already subscribed and the app doesn't show it, tap Restore purchases.
• A subscription belongs to the Vocamemo account that bought it. Sign in with the same account on every device.

6. Your daily study

Open the Study tab. At the top you see your set for today:

• New Items: words and phrases you haven't learnt yet.
• Repetitions: words that are due today.

Tap either one to start a session. After the session, you see your progress.

Below, the course is organised by topic, from greetings and shopping to work, health and dealing with the authorities. Open a category to study it. Many categories are divided into lessons, which you start, continue or practise again.

The number at the top of the Study tab is your day streak. Tap it to see the days on which you studied.

7. Exercises

In the exercises, you recall a word or phrase, in most of them as part of a real sentence. There are three ways to answer:

• Out loud: you say the answer, and the app checks it straight away.
• Typing: you type the missing word or phrase.
• Choosing words: you build the answer from the words given.

When an exercise offers more than one way, you can switch between them at any time, for example when you're on the bus. After your answer, you hear how the whole sentence sounds, so you can compare your pronunciation.

Speaking and privacy. The first time you answer out loud, your device asks for access to the microphone and to speech recognition. Only your device listens to you: your voice is not recorded and not sent anywhere. If you don't allow the access, you can still type or choose words.

8. Repetitions

Every word you learn comes back for repetition. Words you remember well come back less often: after days, then weeks, then months. Words that give you trouble come back sooner. The app does the scheduling, and you only need to open it each day.

In your repetitions, you see the words you've learnt in new sentences, so you learn to use them in different situations.

9. ExplAIn, your AI tutor

After each exercise, you can ask ExplAIn what a word means, how a sentence is put together or how the grammar works. Choose one of the suggested questions or ask your own. ExplAIn replies in the language of your question, and its explanations match your level.

• Your conversations are kept in the ExplAIn tab, so you can go back to them and carry on.
• Before your first question, the app shows a short notice: to write its replies, ExplAIn sends your messages and what you're studying to an AI provider. Don't share personal or sensitive information.
• You can use the suggested questions as much as you like. Your own questions are covered by a fair use limit.
• ExplAIn needs an internet connection.

10. The Vocabulary tab

The Vocabulary tab lists every word in your course. Use it to:

• Search for a word in either language.
• See the forms of a word and read its example sentences.
• Check your progress with a word: new, in progress, due for repetition, learned or known, and the day of its next repetition.
• Bookmark a word, so that you learn it soon.
• Ask ExplAIn about a word.

11. The Profile tab

In the Profile tab you manage:

• Your study settings: your level (Study Profile) and your daily study goals.
• Your subscription: its status, and Restore purchases.
• Your account: sign out, export your data, reset the progress of a course, or delete your account. A deleted account can be restored by signing in again within 21 days.
• App language: Vocamemo is available in English and Polish, and follows the language of your device by default.

12. Devices and offline use

Vocamemo works on iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple silicon. Your progress is available on all your devices when you sign in with the same account.

Your daily study works without an internet connection. You need to be online to talk to ExplAIn and to download the audio of new sentences.

13. Tips

• Study every day, even briefly. Five minutes a day brings more than an hour once a week.
• Trust the schedule. If a word feels easy, the schedule works: the word comes back shortly before you would forget it.
• Answer out loud when you can. Saying whole sentences prepares you for real conversations.
• Ask when you're unsure. A short explanation from ExplAIn helps a new word stay with you.

14. Need help?

If something doesn't work or you have a suggestion, email support@vocamemo.com. We read every message.

See also the Privacy Policy and how to delete your account.