Features

Add words from anywhere. Study them five ways.

Below is every feature that ships in Lemnly today. No roadmap-as-marketing — if something is on this page, it’s in the app.

Add from the web

Paste any URL

A news article, an essay, a Wikipedia entry. Lemnly fetches the page, extracts the readable text, and turns the words you don’t know yet into proposed cards. You confirm what you want — nothing lands in your deck without a click.

app.lemnly.com / decks / italian / import
Paste a URL
https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026/05/19/news/…
Found in article:
  • struggenteC1
  • scrutareB2
  • ammalianteC1
  • scaramanticoC1

Add from a book

EPUB, DOCX, plain text

Drop in any document Lemnly can read — EPUB for books, DOCX for exported notes, TXT or Markdown for everything else. Same preview, same drip-fed cards.

il-gattopardo.epub · preview
Import preview
Il Gattopardo · Ch. 3
94% cache hit
432
new
1,247
skipped
$0.04
AI cost
struggentepoignant
gattopardoleopard
solennesolemn

Add from paper

Snap a page

For the books that aren’t digital. Take a photo, the AI vision model reads it, you tap the words you want. Works for menus, museum plaques, postcards — anything printed.

capture · IMG_4022.heic
page detected

La cordialidad era un recurso agotado, y

las postrimerías de la fiesta avanzaban como un sigilo de niebla.

Tap the words you want →4 selected
cordialidad
recurso
postrimerías
sigilo

Add from your mouth

Speak words in

Heard a word in a podcast or a conversation? Say it. Voice-to-text adds it to your bulk-add queue with the translation pre-filled — you batch the lot at the end of your day.

voice add · italian
“scaramantico”
listening · IT
Bulk add queue
  • scaramanticosuperstitious
  • quotidianodaily
  • fugacefleeting

New · the in-app reader

Reading Mode

Read the parsed text right in the app. Tap a word for the translation, tap again to add it to your deck — without leaving the page. Words you already know dim into the background so your eye goes straight to the new ones.

reading · El Señor de los Anillos · ch. 1
Page 14 of 480

Cuando el señor Bilbo Bolsón de Bolsón Cerrado anunció que muy pronto celebraría su centesimoprimer

centesimoprimer
adj. · B2
hundred-and-first
cumpleaños con una fiesta de espléndida magnificencia, hubo muchas habladurías y excitación en Hobbiton.

tapped new to you already known
+12 added today

Five ways to study

A study mode for the moment

Flashcard for fast review. Typing for active recall. Listening for the ears. Multiple-choice for the bus. Letter-jumble for stubborn spellings. The same cards, the right pressure.

study session · session-config
Pick a mode
Direction
Due today
27 cards

The scheduler

FSRS, forward and reverse

Each card has two independent FSRS schedules — front→back and back→front. Recognition and production are different skills, so they get different curves. The result: fewer reviews for the same retention.

review · forward + reverse
Card 4 of 27forward
struggente
adj. · poignant
Next: reverse direction · same card, target → source

Borrow other people’s work

Public decks, subscribe-able

Publish a deck for the community to subscribe to. Subscribe to someone else’s — their updates flow into yours until you edit a card, at which point it’s yours.

browse · public collections
Italian B2 — Repubblica regulars
by @mariap · 412 cards · 38 subscribers
German A2 starter pack
by @lemnly · 320 cards · 192 subscribers
Spanish irregular verbs
by @tobias_l · 87 cards · 24 subscribers

Make it stick

Mnemonic images

Some words don’t fit in your head. Attach an image — your own photo or an AI-generated one — and the card gets a visual hook that makes the next review easier.

card · mnemonic image
struggente
a sunset that hurts to look at
Generated · 1 of 4 options

The small stuff

Little things that add up.

  • Keyboard-first review
  • Real-time sync across devices
  • Installable PWA
  • Tags and notes on every card
  • Shared vocabulary cache
  • Multi-deck per language

FAQ

Questions, answered honestly.

The article you’d normally skim?
Paste it in tonight.

Free while in beta. Add your first source in under a minute and see the words you actually need.

Try the beta No credit card · English ↔ German & Spanish today