Turn your drive into a conversation class. Hear the meaning, say it yourself, then hear the answer. Steering-wheel buttons and your voice are all you need.
Stop freezing up when someone starts a conversation.
Choose a reply, hear it, say it out loud, and get real small talk into your mouth in Indonesian, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish or Korean.
Malmun began as an Indonesian small-talk app and now teaches six languages. Tap the flag on the home screen to switch what you are learning. Your phrases, scenarios and vocabulary are kept separately for each language.
CONVERSATIONS THAT BRANCH
Every reply you pick sends the conversation somewhere different
See what each reply means, how the other person might react, good or bad, and your score
Text mode: tap a reply and hear it read aloud
Voice mode: say it, and speech recognition finds the closest reply
Indonesian comes with coach tips on how locals actually talk
COMMUTE MODE
Practice by ear while you drive, no screen needed
Plays through your car speakers over Bluetooth or CarPlay, with the current sentence shown in Now Playing
You hear the meaning, a chime gives you time to say it, then the answer plays slowly and again at normal speed
Steering-wheel controls: next track for the next sentence, previous for one more time, play and pause as usual
On your turn it tells you when you got it right, and understands "next", "again", "slower", "faster", "next scene" and "stop" in your own language
It only listens during your turn, through the phone mic, on your device
Ask Siri to "Start commute practice in Malmun", or set up a Shortcuts automation to start when your car connects
Navigation prompts? It pauses for them
SITUATIONAL DIALOGUES AND COURSES
Every language has 53 dialogues for real situations: basics, casual chat, restaurants, getting around, the airport, hotels, shopping, sightseeing and emergencies
Indonesian has even more: 5 hand-made small-talk scenarios, 3 Day Courses of 6 scenes each (a travel day in Bandung, your first day at a Jakarta office, a weekend in the neighborhood) with a weekly timetable, and a 100-word business-trip vocabulary deck
PRACTICE TOOLS
Pronunciation practice with a score, highlighting the words you nailed and the ones you missed
Script view: read the whole dialogue as a chat, tap any line to hear it, play it all, or hide the meanings to test yourself
Import a dialogue just by pasting text
Practice history with your streak
MAKE IT YOURS
Save your own phrases and study vocabulary flashcards with audio
Phrase keyboard: tap a meaning and the sentence in your learning language is typed into any app
Add your own scenarios and replies, and share them with friends through iCloud
Generate new scenarios with AI using your own Anthropic API key
MALMUN PRO
Everything is free except two things
Situational dialogues: Basics and Casual chat are free, the rest unlock with Pro
Commute Mode: 3 scenes a day for free, unlimited with Pro
Pro is a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, and it covers all six languages
PRIVACY
No account. Your learning data stays on your device and in your own iCloud, and speech is recognized on device. No ads, no tracking. Only anonymous usage statistics and crash diagnostics are sent to the developer's iCloud.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
The yearly plan renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Lifetime is a single one-time charge.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://m1zz.github.io/IndonesianSmallTalk/en/privacy.html
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Version 1.0.5
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
hyunho lee
Size
13.3 MB
Category
Lifestyle
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.