1,460 words and phrases a year, on autopilot. English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean or Turkish.
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Every time you plug in to charge, you hear a word and see it on screen. You pick up a lot of it, almost without noticing.
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Then the words just come to you… cordially, forever.
A1–C2 vocabulary in seven languages, plus practical phrases in Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Russian. Start free on the English starter, switch pairs anytime.
We guide you through the 15-second setup.
Then your charger does the rest. A phrase every plug-in — no app, no streaks.
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No lessons to schedule. No streaks. No guilt. No... owl. 🔫 One phrase, every time you plug in.
Research places conversational fluency at ~3,000 high-frequency words
— one year of charging gets you halfway there.
The trigger is already in your day. One phrase from your selected pack plays automatically, and a notification shows the word. You never need to open the app.
Phrases you’re about to forget surface more often. Ones you know cold drift back. No quizzes. No tapping. Just listening. Studies show spaced repetition improves retention by ~25% over traditional study.
Add the widget to your lock screen and home screen. After a plug-in, one glance reinforces what your ears just caught.
I built it because it’s magic. It’s a magic no-think moment that happens a few times each day, and if we can stack it with being exposed to new words in a language we’re learning, to just literally “be connected with it” in everyday life…
Weirdly, it also repositions you for presence. If only for that brief moment, you remember your intention to keep learning. And you broaden your horizons by a new color, a new greeting, or a new way to ask the way.
42,000+ phrase entries for everyday life, travel and work.
Get all 17 Vocabcord 500 collections, four Specialist 200 collections for work, and A1–C2 vocabulary. Download your packs and listen offline.
English for Thai speakers, German for Czech speakers, Polish for Ukrainian speakers and Russian for Polish speakers are included. Find your collection →
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Free starter pack and language samples included. No account or card needed.
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On iPhone, wired chargers (Lightning / USB-C) and Apple MagSafe trigger Vocabcord automatically. Some third-party wireless chargers and MagSafe-style powerbanks don’t fire iOS Shortcuts automations because they negotiate power as generic Qi devices, which iOS doesn’t always classify as a charger event. If yours is one of those, set up an alternate Shortcuts trigger using Battery Level — when your battery crosses any specific level (e.g. above 80%), the Vocabcord shortcut fires the same way. On Android, enable charging playback and complete the background-permission setup in the app.
No. Vocabcord runs only when iOS launches it via your Shortcuts automation — it plays one short audio clip (3–8 seconds) and exits. There’s no background process, no location tracking, no network listening. Energy cost per plug-in is comparable to opening Safari for one second.
Yes by default — Vocabcord uses iOS’s playback audio session, which respects the silent switch only if you opt in via Settings. If you prefer phrases to be muted alongside everything else, toggle Respect silent mode in Vocabcord’s settings and the audio session switches to ambient mode.
Yes. Tap the pack switcher in the top-right of the home screen to change the active pack at any time. Your spaced-repetition state is per-pack, so switching back later picks up exactly where you left off — phrases you’ve heard a lot drift toward the back, ones you’re about to forget surface more often.
No accounts, no sign-in, no email required. Your spaced-repetition state lives entirely on your device — Vocabcord doesn’t run a backend that stores user data. You can use the app fully without ever touching the network beyond the initial pack download.
Manage your subscription in the store where you subscribed: Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on iPhone, or Google Play → profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions on Android. Refund requests are handled by the relevant store.
Download a pack once and listen offline. Premium packs require active premium access. The free English starter is included with the app.
B1 English starter free. One subscription unlocks every language.
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