El blog de Wordify
Un espacio tranquilo dedicado al vocabulario, a cómo se aprende y al oficio de construir un software sin prisas.
Construí una pantalla del tamaño de una caja de cerillas que está en mi escritorio y muestra mis palabras de Wordify todo el día: la palabra, cómo se pronuncia, su traducción y una imagen. Aquí cuento por qué, cómo funciona y qué me enseñó sobre aprender a base de vistazos.
Point your camera at an object and get its name in the language you're learning, with a translation and example sentences. How photo-based vocabulary works, why it sticks, and how to use it well.
La pantalla de inicio es la pantalla que más ves. Aquí va cómo convertirla en un entrenador de vocabulario con dos widgets, uno de palabra y otro de racha, en iPhone y Android, y qué hace que un widget de aprendizaje funcione de verdad.
Wordify's streak widget now shows your week at a glance, today's goal, and a countdown when your streak is at risk. And a streak day now takes a daily goal of 10 to 50 words, not a single card. Here's what changed and why.
Testing yourself beats re-reading. Spacing beats cramming. Context beats lists. The memorization methods ranked by a century of memory research, the popular ones that quietly don't work, and a 15-minute daily system that combines the winners.
Los pasos exactos para tener una palabra del día en la pantalla de bloqueo del iPhone, más la respuesta honesta para Android (y la alternativa que en realidad es mejor). Lleva unos dos minutos.
Every IPA symbol used in English, explained in plain words: /ʃ/ is the sh in ship, /θ/ is the th in think, /ŋ/ is the ng in sing. Full consonant and vowel charts with example words and how to actually make each sound.
1,000 words is enough for everyday conversation. 3,000 covers 95% of daily life. The real numbers for every CEFR level from A1 to C2, and how 10 words a day gets you conversational in 3 months.
Una guía paso a paso para poner vocabulario en la pantalla de bloqueo y en la pantalla de inicio: los toques exactos en iPhone y Android, cada cuánto cambia la palabra y qué hacer cuando un widget deja de actualizarse.
Wordify's widgets just got a significant update: a new streak widget with a GitHub-style heatmap, smarter layouts that adapt to widget size, and a small button rename that says a lot about how spaced repetition should work.
Reading 'forth' doesn't tell you it sounds like /fɔɹθ/. Spelling lies, especially in English. Here's why I added International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions to every word in Wordify, and how it changes the way you learn.
Six months after shipping Wordify 1.0, I redesigned the whole UI from scratch. Here's what was wrong with the original, what changed in 2.0, and the design decisions behind the new look.
An honest comparison of 10 Duolingo alternatives for 2026. What each app does well, what it doesn't, and which one is right for you.
Duolingo works for millions - it didn't work for me, and not for the reasons you'd expect. Why I quit, what I tried instead, and what I built to replace it.
La mayoría de los widgets de la pantalla de bloqueo muestran relojes, el tiempo o la batería. Unos pocos te enseñan algo cada vez que miras el teléfono: aquí va una comparativa honesta de 2026.
A practical guide to spaced repetition - how the SM-2 algorithm decides when to show you each word, plus the mistakes most learning apps make. In plain English.
The honest backstory behind Wordify - how a Spain vacation turned into a side project, and what I learned building a vocabulary app for iOS and Android.
