Vokki
Learn German with stories
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Vokki — learn German from your language. Full support for English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian — with more languages on the way.
Speak German with AI
Live role-play conversations with an AI tutor: 96 real-life scenarios — from ordering coffee to a job interview. Rehearse your oral exam and get a personal debrief with corrections after every call.
Tap-to-explain
Tap any word while reading — AI explains the form, the case, and why it's used that way.
200 bilingual stories (A1–B2)
Learn German with parallel German text and an English translation side by side. Three audio modes: German only, bilingual (German + English alternating), and 3x immersion. Sentences highlight as you listen — follow along in real time.
4 reading modes
Parallel text, split screen, full text, or hidden translation — pick the mode that fits your level.
128 grammar lessons + 6 tests
Theory, tables, and exercises from A1 to B2. Articles, cases, conjugations, Konjunktiv and more — all explained in plain English.
8 vocabulary trainers
Word-translation, constructor, listening, sprint, word catcher, crossword, Brainshtorm, and others. Varied and effective.
14,500+ words with flashcards
Learn vocabulary with the SM-2 spaced repetition system. Progress saves automatically.
Your own content
Import YouTube videos with German subtitles, paste your own texts, load Anki decks (.apkg/.colpkg) or CSV files. Export to CSV anytime.
Pronunciation & recording
Practice your pronunciation — record yourself and compare with a native speaker.
Grammar podcasts
"Sprechen mit Jonas" — dialogues that go with each lesson, with a built-in mini-player.
Progress system
XP, streaks, achievements, and CEFR sub-levels keep you learning every day. Dashboard with skill scores, weak topics, and a content shelf.
Made for learners worldwide
The app speaks your language: English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian — and the list keeps growing.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more • Smarter AI conversations — more natural tutor replies and reliable call transcripts.
• Low-balance alert and quick top-up right from the call receipt.
• Fixed a rare crash when closing the app, plus minor improvements.
2.0.2 1d ago
Vokki 2.0 — now you can SPEAK German!
• New "Speaking" tab: live voice conversations with an AI partner. 96 role-play scenarios from A1 to B2 — café, doctor, job interview, travel and more.
• Goethe-style oral exam: practice the speaking part with an AI examiner.
• "My own topic": start a free conversation about anything you like.
• Hints during the call + tap any German word for an instant explanation.
• After each call — mistake review with corrections, and new words go straight to your flashcards.
• "AI breakdown" while reading: tap a word or phrase in a story, video or your own text to get its form and grammar explained.
• Create your own stories: AI writes a personalized German story at your level.
• Improved German speech recognition and call audio quality.
2.0.1 Jul 31
• Crossword rebuilt: a wrong word clears with a single tap — or fades on its own. Fixed unsolvable puzzle words.
• Sprint: mistakes review shows the word pair and your Yes/No answer.
• Word constructor shows your letters and the correct answer.
• Listening trainer reveals the word after you answer.
• "Practice mistakes" works reliably again.
• Stability improvements.
1.2.24 Jul 11
• Fixed rare crashes: saving a tapped word on a slow connection no longer closes the app.
• The "Continue reading" card on Home now works reliably even after a video or your own text.
• Improved background progress sync.
1.2.23 Jun 21
• Tap any German word while reading to get an instant translation — with its article (der/die/das), other meanings, and the option to type your own. No login needed.
• More accurate translations for thousands of dictionary words.
• Minor stability improvements.
1.2.22 Jun 18
• Fixed: the Brainstorm listening trainer was silent — words are now read aloud correctly.
• Dictionary import limit raised to 100 MB, so you can bring in large Anki and CSV collections.
• A live counter now shows how many words have been imported as it runs.
• Minor stability improvements.
1.2.19 Jun 16
• Fixed: podcasts sometimes failed to load on the first tap — they now open reliably with an automatic retry.
• Fixed: tapping a locked lesson's podcast now shows the upgrade option instead of an error.
• Minor stability improvements.
1.2.18 Jun 15
• Smart reminders: your daily reminder now arrives around the time you usually learn, instead of a fixed 19:00.
• If you already set your own reminder time, it stays unchanged.
• Small stability improvements.
1.2.17 Jun 13
• Onboarding: continuing without an account and the grammar section now open your chosen activity right away — a story, a grammar lesson or a video (grammar opens the level's first lesson instead of the library).
• More reliable notifications: removed duplicates, fixed push on iOS.
• Small stability improvements.
1.2.16 Jun 8
• New onboarding: pick what to start with — a story, a grammar lesson or a video — and jump straight into learning.
• A quick tour of everything Vokki can do.
• Stories now open in split-screen by default — German and translation side by side.
• Smoother navigation and small fixes.
1.2.14 Jun 7
• Fixed adding words: no more dead-end on a "duplicate" — you can now open the word or add it straight from the dictionary
• Daily grammar: modal-verb tasks now accept every correct answer
• Story audio: fixed text-highlight drift against the narration (19 stories)
• Trainer stability: fixed a crash when restarting the article quiz
1.2.12 Jun 6
What's New
Trainers are more stable
- Brainstorm: all 3 phases now drill THE SAME words (previously each phase pulled new ones, so nothing was left by phase 3)
- Brainstorm: fixed number of words across all phases (was jumping 10/8/4)
- "Next phase" button in Brainstorm no longer gets stuck
- Across all trainers: no more red highlight or question-text change mid-highlight after a correct answer
- End of Brainstorm now shows per-phase stats and a list of mistakes
Clearer answers
- Correct answer: bold green with a check mark
- Wrong answer: bold red with a cross
- "Articles" trainer: duplicate removed ("der der Frau" became "der Frau")
- "Articles": end screen lists all mistakes - which word, which article you picked, which was correct
Practice anytime
- "Practice anyway" button (with a real word counter) in all 8 trainers, not just some
- Choosing Practice in Brainstorm is now remembered across all 3 phases - no re-asking
- Empty state explains when words come back (next review date) and links to SM-2 algorithm settings
Crossword
- Hint lightbulb is tappable right away (previously you had to tap a word first)
- As many hints as there are words in the crossword (was always 3)
- Correct word in green, wrong word in red
Word builder
- Check/cross icons right on the slots
- Letters no longer swap positions on tap
- 1.5-second pause to let you see the result before the next word
Sound
- German word audio in the "Word-translation" trainer plays automatically
- Audio button on the word card now works (previously unresponsive)
- TTS in the grammar dictation no longer throws a false "playback error" (Android bug)
Content
- Fixed 484 incorrect translations across all 4 language pairs (UA/EN/PL/RU)
Other
- Color tests (White/Yellow/...) show the level, after which lesson, and a description
- Blue test no longer crashes the app
- "Session finished" no longer shows top buttons with an empty body
- "Articles" is now named correctly
Stability
- All 9 trainers no longer hang on loading (AutoDispose race on cold start)
- Adding custom words via "+" no longer hangs forever on poor connection (8s timeout + retry)
Word counter
- "Words to practice: N" now matches what the trainer actually gets
1.2.11 May 28
- Fixed translations of 13 German words in the Russian and Polish
dictionaries (Note, Waschbecken, Zebrastreifen, Buchstabe, mögen,
einsteigen, aussteigen and others)
- "Add" button in the word popup now fits on one line on small screens
- Minor lesson corrections for Russian-speaking learners
1.2.9 May 20
- New «audio off?» hint under the ±0.5s sync buttons — clearer at a glance
- Smarter auto-scroll in Split-screen and Full text modes: the highlighted sentence stays in the top third, no more drifting off the bottom
- Video reader: «I finished watching» button moved below the text, and the sync pill is now smaller to match the language toggles
1.2.8 May 19
• Fixed duplicate push notifications: the same reminder won't pop up multiple times in a row anymore.
• Audio playback is more stable — lesson and podcast players now recover cleanly from phone calls, Siri and Bluetooth switches.
1.2.7 May 17
Fixed custom reminder text not saving: typing your own reminder and immediately leaving the settings screen no longer discards the text — it now saves automatically.
1.2.6 May 15
Made audio playback more stable: fixed rare glitches where audio could
play twice or fail to start on the first tap.
Fixed disappearing daily progress: your daily stats no longer reset
when Home and Progress screens load at the same time.
Fixed saving of reminder preferences — no more server error when
updating notification settings.
Fixed the player bottom bar on Android: audio mode chips no longer
get hidden behind the system navigation buttons.
1.2.5 May 14
- Improved German/Russian audio sync in bilingual mode
- Smart reminders with three modes: daily, per weekday, auto
- Custom reminder text
- Fixed deleted words reappearing across devices
- Stability and performance improvements
1.2.3 May 14
• Words I/O: import vocabulary from Anki decks (.apkg/.colpkg), CSV files, or paste a word list. Export
your dictionary to CSV anytime.
• Audio sync pill: now adjustable up to ±60 seconds to fix any audio drift. Smaller, right-aligned,
works in every reading mode.
• Smoother audio sync: rewritten engine with binary-search seek, watchdog auto-recovery, and
ground-truth word-level timestamps for 137 of 200 Ukrainian-pair stories (de-uk) — sentence highlight is
far more precise. 63 stories remain to align in upcoming updates.
• iOS file picker: Anki .apkg files no longer greyed out.
• Lots of small reliability fixes.
1.2.2 May 11
Fine-tune sentence highlight to match audio.
If the highlighted sentence runs ahead or behind what you hear, tap the − / + buttons to shift the text by 0.5s. The audio stays untouched. Your offset is saved per story, language and mode, and the same control works in stories, your imported texts, and YouTube videos.
1.2.1 May 6
• Brand-new "Me" tab — 3 screens: dashboard, grammar mastery, vocabulary
• GitHub-style year activity heatmap (XP + grammar)
• Library redesign — stack-card collections, redesigned detail screen
• "Continue reading/watching" hero per tab, smart resume across stories, videos and your imports
• "Today" tab now picks a random video of the day and resumes where you left off
• Free curated video collections built right into Library
• Vocabulary screen redesigned in Paper style, with per-word source
• Settings hub redesigned
• New Paper sign-in screen
• Inline "next video" banner when a playlist finishes
• Many fixes: audio race conditions, heatmap labels, video progress saving, training animations, paywall layout
1.2.0 May 4
• Fixed the "Sign in" button — it now works everywhere (iOS, Android, macOS)
• Smoother podcast playback and clearer onboarding summary
• Fixed Google/Apple sign-in on macOS
• Crash fixes and stability improvements
1.1.7 May 2
• Vokki Subscriptions — Free / Starter / Pro / Ultra (manage in Settings)
• Your own content — add YouTube videos or paste your texts, get German translation + audio
• Collections — group your stories, videos and YouTube playlists
• Guided first session — softer onboarding for new users
• Push notifications — streak reminders and story drops
• Library — new "My" tab with level/type filters and search
• Sepia — new default theme, easier on the eyes
• Fixed: bilingual / 3x audio modes, cross-device sync, MIUI Xiaomi/Redmi video color-stripes, clearer error messages
• Hundreds of UX polish fixes and crash repairs
1.1.5 May 1
Guided First Session
• New! After sign-up, the app guides you through your first story, grammar lesson, and vocabulary training
• Experience the real app from your very first session
• Rate the app after completing the tutorial
Push Notifications
• Daily reminders to keep your streak alive
• Notifications when flashcards are due for review
• Full iOS and Android support with customizable schedule
Reading Improvements
• Restored story completion flow with redesigned congratulations screen
• Stories now properly marked as read after completion
• Fixed search in library (no more infinite spinner)
• Fixed font size in reading mode
Analytics & Stability
• Comprehensive event tracking for all features
• Fixed audio playback crash in training
• Fixed logout flow — properly resets to onboarding
• Removed old coach marks for cleaner interface
1.0.12 Apr 10
- Completely redesigned reading screen: text flows continuously like a book
- New compact audio player at the bottom with transport controls
- 5 reading modes via convenient tabs at the top
- Bottom navigation hides during reading — more space for text
- Add words from grammar lessons to flashcard training
- Font size setting now applies to reading views
- Flashcard cards stretch to full screen width
1.0.11 Apr 8
• Smarter AI conversations — more natural tutor replies and reliable call transcripts.
• Low-balance alert and quick top-up right from the call receipt.
• Fixed a rare crash when closing the app, plus minor improvements.
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