Hey Product Hunters! 👋 I’ve been working on Lokas in my spare time for 3 years while learning iOS development, and 2 weeks ago I quit my job to try and become an indie iOS developer 😱. So I think it’s time to show it to the community! 👨‍💻 💡 Idea I live in Barcelona, and studying Spanish vocabulary requires a lot of motivation. So I decided to build a vocabulary-learning tool myself, that would use spaced-repetition. Since I recently realized that I still had difficulties conjugating verbs after 2 years in Spain 🇪🇸, I also added that to the app! 🤔 What sets Lokas apart? There are tons of great language apps out there, so here are maybe a few good aspects: 1. It’s not easy. This sounds like a flaw, but it is actually great for anyone that doesn’t need to be babysitted with images to click or simplified keyboards: you have to translate the word perfectly, without any help, using the normal keyboard, and you can’t forget an accent or type “un” instead of “una“ -word gender is important in Spanish. 2. It focuses on what really matters: about 2,000 words make 80% of all texts, so the lists I created contain the most frequent words. Yes, it is less fun to learn how to translate “however” rather than “the giraffe” 🦒, but you will rarely see the latter in newspaper articles or books. 3. Oh and also, I spent hours on those color gradients 😎 😇 What do I get for free? The app is free and everyone can learn all vocabulary lists, and review them with the spaced-repetition algorithm. Those who can afford to upgrade to Pro (9$) and support my indie dev challenge get access to the conjugation feature (and more soon). 👨‍💻 What’s next? Over the next few weeks, I’m gonna add the possibility to create your own lists, add many more tenses (past, future, conditional, subjonctive…), add vocabulary lists and much more. I’ve got tons of ideas but am super interested in yours! Thank you PH! Kevin PS: To anticipate the dreaded question, it is unfortunately not available on Android. As a solo developer with limited time, I have to focus on one platform at the moment.

I already speak Spanish but this might be a good way to keep learning since I don’t use it often anymore.

Kevin - my fiancé is from Barcelona and we're getting married there this September. Needless to say, I'm trying to be as fluent as possible by the end of the summer. Just downloaded the app so excited to check it out. Heading to Barcelona in two weekends in case you're around from an Estrella!

Great app. That the way that I like learning a language. Simple, but effective. I only miss the translation of the example sentence. It’s helpful if you put the example sentence In Spanish bellow the sentence in English without the word we’re trying to learn. If the English sentence for the word time (vez) is “It’s my first time here”, you can put “es mi primera _____ aquí” bellow that. I think it is a good way to learn sentences and not only words. Also, I would love to use your app to learning English. Please think about make it available in other language or let us make our own flashcards. Congrats!!!

Would be great to have an android version

Thanks for this - will check it out! I've done a bunch of Duolingo and spent more time in Mexico to learn my girlfriends native language. Hoping this can help me pull through the final stretch 😅

Hey there, Really digging this app! Already used it for the last two days. What I am still missing though is some kind of list with all the words I already know. Cheers Ferdi

Hey, Kevin! Great app, really like UI and the idea. I wanted to learn Spanish from a long time. Please tell if you are going to release the app for 9 iOS (not only 10 iOS)?

I’m really enjoying this, thank you @kevinquisquater I love the transparency vs Duolingo. And that it feels more useful

@kevinquisquater just found this but now it's showing that the app is not in the US app store. Is this app still available and in which App Store geographies?

So where can I download the app?