I didn’t open a Vocabulary app this week. Still learned 100 words.
That surprised me — because I’ve tried to learn vocabulary more times than I can count.
The pattern was always the same:
Download an app → Study hard for a few days → Miss a week → Forget everything.
Not because I’m lazy. But because learning vocab requires too much effort.
10 years ago, I even had an idea called “5s English” — learn just 5 seconds a day. The design was good. The idea was solid. But I couldn’t manage the team, so it died.
Years later, a friend told me about an alarm app that won’t stop ringing unless you solve a quiz.
That hit me.
Why does learning English require motivation… but waking up doesn’t?
So I built Vocab Alarm.
Instead of asking you to open an app, It brings 3 words to you every day — like an alarm.
One minute. Repeated daily. No pressure.
If you know a word → it appears less. If you don’t → it comes back more. That’s it.
Not another “study harder” app. Just a small habit that actually sticks.
Would love to hear how you learn vocabulary — or why most apps didn’t work for you either.
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