Verbamor Start 7 days free

Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian5 languages, on iPhone and iPad

Record a lesson or save a word you just met. Verbamor turns it into a card and brings it back right before you'd forget it. A few minutes a day, and the word is there when you speak.

Start 7 days free Download on the App Store

Cancel for any reason in 30 days and get all your money back.

Cards made so far
3,500+
Hours of lessons recorded
300+
Experiments behind the method
317
Reviews behind the schedule
1.7 billion

Built for moments like these

The problem

You pay for an hour with your tutor. You leave with 20 new words and three grammar fixes. By the next lesson, most of it is gone. So you spend the next hour learning the same things again.

The forgetting curve: Ebbinghaus, 1885, replicated by Murre & Dros, 2015

Outcomes

What changes when the words stick.

Four results you'll notice, each one built on research you can check.

Outcome 01

The word comes to you mid‑sentence.

You practiced pulling it out of memory, so it comes out when you speak. Fewer pauses. Less hunting for the word while someone waits.

The research

Testing yourself on a word keeps it far longer than reading it again. It holds for foreign-language vocabulary too.

Karpicke & Roediger, Science, 2008 ↗
What Verbamor does

Every card asks you to say the word before you see it. The sentence has a gap, and you fill it.

Outcome 02

What you learned in March is still there in June.

Words from your first lessons stay with you, so every new lesson builds on the last one instead of replacing it.

The research

Across 317 experiments, reviews spread out over time beat the same hours spent in one block.

Cepeda et al., 2006 ↗
What Verbamor does

A scheduler brings each card back right before you'd forget it, then tunes itself to how your memory works.

Outcome 03

You follow more of the conversation, sooner.

The first words you learn are the ones people say all day. So more of what you hear makes sense in your first weeks.

The research

A small set of words does most of the talking. About 1,000 word families cover roughly 85% of everyday speech.

Adolphs & Schmitt, 2003 ↗
What Verbamor does

Your deck starts with the 650 most-used words in your language, ready on day one. Your lessons add the rest.

Outcome 04

You catch the word when you hear it.

You know how it sounds and what it looks like, so you pick it out of fast, real speech.

The research

A picture and a word give memory two ways back in. For new foreign words, pictures beat plain translations.

Carpenter & Olson, 2012 ↗
What Verbamor does

Every card has its own picture, and audio of the word and its sentence read aloud.

Read every source on the research page

How it works

You bring the words. Verbamor does the rest.

Pick a way in. Verbamor writes the cards and plans every review, so your part is a short session each day.

See it run

The real app, start to finish.

Record a lesson, pick the phrases, watch the cards build, then study them.

The Verbamor study screen in Spanish: a photo of a market stall, the phrase '¿Cuánto cuesta?' with an audio button, the example sentence below it, and four rating buttons reading Forgot, Hard, Good and Easy.
01 · Record

Record your lesson.

Tap record on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Verbamor writes out what was said and finds the words you reached for.

02 · Or save

Save a word you just met.

No lesson needed. Type it or say it in Translate, and it becomes a card.

03 · Study

A few minutes a day.

Your cards come back on a schedule built for your memory. Study offline on the commute, audio and pictures included.

04 · See it stick

Watch what you keep.

Your home screen shows what you've kept, worked out from your own reviews. And after each recording, it tells you how you speak: what landed, and the habit worth fixing.

  • ✓Your passé composé is solid
  • !“du coup” is your go-to filler

Who it's for

Made for people with a reason to speak.

For you if
  • You have a real deadline: a move, a trip, an exam, a partner's family.
  • You take lessons, with a tutor or on your own, and want to keep what's in them.
  • Your evenings are worth more than building flashcard decks.
Skip it if
  • You're after a streak more than a goal.
  • You enjoy building and tuning your own decks at midnight. (Respect. Anki is the better pick for you.)
See how we compare

Questions

Before you start.

Will it work before my trip?

With a month to go, yes. A new card comes back within a couple of days, then about a week later, and the gap grows each time you get it right. A word saved four weeks out gets two or three reviews before you fly. One saved the week before gets one or two, which still beats none. You choose how many new words a day you take on, up to 30, so a close deadline can go faster.

Why pay when Anki is free?

Anki is free, but you build the cards yourself. Gabriel Wyner, who wrote a book on making your own cards, plans 2 to 3 hours a week for that work. Verbamor builds the cards from your lessons. The annual plan starts with 7 days free, and after that it costs less than one coffee a week. If you like building your own cards, Anki is the better pick.

Is it only on Apple devices?

For now, yes. Verbamor runs on iPhone and iPad, the iPad app runs on Macs with Apple silicon, and an Apple Watch can record a lesson. There's no Android or web version yet. You can export your words to a CSV file at any time.

Why is it a subscription?

Every card is written, drawn and voiced by AI models, and each one costs us money to make. So there's no free tier. You can cancel any month in your iPhone settings, and if you cancel for any reason in 30 days, email support@verbamor.com and get all your money back.

Your next conversation is coming.
Have the words ready.

Start with your next lesson, or the next word you meet today.

Start 7 days free Download on the App Store

Cancel for any reason in 30 days and get all your money back.

Not ready yet? Get the free post-lesson sheet and the first ~650 words in your language, by email.