Frequently Asked Questions
General
What is LinguaMorpha?
A morphology-first language app. Latin covers every declension, every adjective pattern with its comparative and superlative, the full classical verb system, macron-accurate answer checking, a sentence parser that labels every word of a Latin sentence, and an agreement drill that has you match an adjective to its noun in case, number and gender. Spanish covers full verb conjugation in sixteen tenses, noun gender and plurals, over 240 set phrases and single-word vocabulary. French covers full verb conjugation in sixteen tenses, noun gender and plurals, and set phrases. All three mark irregular forms with the same colour code. Each course is a complete study system in its own right — pick the one you actually want to learn. It is not a full language course; it is a structured, grammar-first drill tool for mastering what you have been taught elsewhere. See the Features page for what's inside.
Do I need to learn Latin first to get value out of Spanish or French?
No. The courses share machinery (the adaptive engine, the drill screens, the help system), not a learning path. If you're here for Spanish, you never need to touch Latin. If you're here for Latin, you don't need Spanish. Each course stands on its own.
That said, taking more than one is rewarding in its own right — not as a prerequisite, but as a subject. Because all three use the same colour code, learning to read one conjugation table teaches you to read the others at a glance, and the differences start to stand out: where two languages inherited the same Latin ending and kept it differently, which verbs are irregular in all three and which only in one, how a case system in Latin turns into word order and prepositions in Spanish and French. Seeing a pattern in one language and recognising its relative in another is a large part of the pleasure.
Which languages can I learn?
Latin, Spanish, and French, all in the same app. Every course can be studied on its own; there is no required order.
Is LinguaMorpha free?
It's a free download with a free trial, then in-app purchases — no subscriptions, no ads. A 21-day trial of every course and every feature starts when you finish the first-launch setup; after that, you unlock the courses you want with a one-time in-app purchase — no renewals. Purchases belong to your Apple ID. Thanks to Universal Purchase, the iPhone/iPad and Mac apps share one App Store listing, so unlocking a language on your iPhone unlocks it on your Mac too (and the other way round) with the same Apple ID.
You unlock each language — Spanish, French, or Latin — individually, or buy Unlock all languages, which unlocks every course. The App Store listing in your country is the source of truth for the current prices; we don't restate them here so they can't go stale.
Unlock all languages also covers any course added to the app later, at no additional charge.
What devices does LinguaMorpha support?
iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a companion app for Apple Watch. The App Store listing shows the minimum system version for each. A few optional extras use Apple Intelligence on the device, and need iOS 26 or macOS 26 on a device that supports it: the idiomatic sentence translation in the Latin sentence parser, and a translation of the exact form in the conjugation drills where the app has no translation of its own. Everything else works without them.
Do I need an internet connection to use the app?
No. All word data is bundled with the app, your answers are stored on your device, and speech uses the voices installed on your device. You only need a connection to buy or restore a purchase, and to open the online dictionaries in the Spanish and French courses.
Which Spanish dialect does the app teach?
Peninsular Spanish — the Spanish of Spain. The conjugation tables include vosotros and the drills ask for it, and the example sentences mostly use the vocabulary of Spain — ordenador rather than computadora, coche rather than carro, zumo rather than jugo. Latin-American Spanish is perfectly good Spanish and most of this vocabulary is understood everywhere, but the app keeps to one variety. For speech, you can still choose any regional Spanish voice installed on your device (Spain, Mexico, and so on).
What variety of Latin does the app teach?
Classical Latin. Every form is stored with its macrons, and typed answers are checked leniently on macrons by default, strictly if you prefer. Vocabulary is chosen at the level of an introductory course, so sentences from a beginner's textbook — Ørberg's Familia Romana, Wheelock — usually parse in the sentence parser, though not every word will be in the catalogue.
Which languages can the app itself be shown in?
English, Dutch, or Spanish. That choice (App language in Settings) sets the language of the menus, labels and help, and the language translations are shown in. It is separate from the course you study. Spanish is not offered as the app language while you study Spanish, because a translation into the language you are learning would only repeat the word. So with the app in Spanish you study Latin or French; with the app in English or Dutch you can take any course, Spanish included.
Accounts, sync, and data
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no account system. Open the app and start using it.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. The Mac app is the same app built for macOS — a sidebar, a menu bar, its own windows and keyboard shortcuts — and thanks to Universal Purchase it shares one App Store listing and one purchase with the iPhone and iPad app, so a language you unlock on one is unlocked on the other. The watch app is deliberately small: a reference for the conjugation tables of Spanish and French verbs, with no drills, no lessons and no progress tracking. See Where you study.
Does my progress sync between my devices?
There's no automatic sync — each device keeps its own answer history and nothing is uploaded. But you can move it yourself: on iPhone or iPad, export your study history under Settings → Study History (a dated folder of CSV files) and import it on the other device; importing adds answers and never removes any. Practice Sets move separately — export a full backup of your set library from the Practice Sets screen and import it on the other device. On the Mac both are in the File menu.
Where is my data stored?
In the app's own private storage on your device — a database that iOS and macOS keep walled off from other apps. Nothing is sent to a server.
How do I reset my progress?
In the app, open Settings and, under Reports on the General tab, choose Reset Data. You can reset verb, noun, word or phrase progress on its own, or Reset all progress at once. Your word selections and other settings aren't affected. (A separate factory reset, Erase all data and settings, deletes all your progress and preferences, including your learning-language choice, and returns the app to its first-launch state.)
Using the app
What are Setup, Theory, Study and Drills?
The four sections a Self Study hub is built from: Setup chooses which kinds of word are in play, Theory explains the rules, Study lets you browse what you selected without anything being recorded, and Drills is active practice, where every answer is recorded. You can go straight to Drills. See How you study for the full description.
What's the difference between word pool and session size?
Your word pool is the full set of items eligible to appear, decided by a hub's Setup choices together with the level and topics you set under Select word scope. Your session size is how many questions a single sitting asks: Questions per session in Settings → Study — 10, 20, 30, 50 or ∞ (until you stop). Each session puts the words you got wrong last time first, then mixes new words and words you find hard.
How do I answer a flashcard?
Tap the card to turn it over and check the answer, then swipe right if you knew it, left if you didn't — or tap Correct or Wrong (always shown under the card on the Mac, and on iPhone and iPad when VoiceOver is on). The next card appears straight away. A card you get wrong stays in the deck and can come round again in the same session, and the adaptive engine puts it first next time.
What is the sentence parser?
A Latin-only feature in Look up. Switch the toggle from Word to Sentence, type or paste a Latin sentence, and tap Parse. Each word becomes a chip showing the word and its most likely lemma; tap a chip to see every possible parse — the lemma, what the form is (case, number and gender, or person and tense) and the translation. The parser ignores macrons and capitals, so you can paste text without macrons, and it splits off the enclitics -que, -ve, -ne and -cum. It draws on the app's Latin catalogue of more than 2,000 lemmas; a word it doesn't know is marked unknown.
What is the concordance drill?
A Latin drill, called Agreement drill in the Adjectives hub. It shows a short Latin sentence with a blank where an adjective belongs. The noun is already in its inflected form; you pick, from four options, the form of the adjective that agrees with it in case, number and gender. It practises the agreement that paradigm tables alone don't.
What is the Dictionaries row?
It appears on verb and noun detail screens in the Spanish and French courses: buttons that open well-known online dictionaries for the word — Linguee, WordReference and Reverso for both languages, plus RAE for Spanish. On iPhone and iPad a dictionary opens in a browser sheet inside the app; on the Mac it opens in your web browser. The sites are free to use, and you can switch any of them off under Dictionary services on the Spanish tab of Settings; the choice applies to French too. Latin has no dictionary row.
Why is part of a verb form shown in red?
The conjugation tables in Spanish, French and Latin use the same marks. Red on part of a form marks the part that departs from the pattern (a stem change, an inserted letter, and so on). A fully red form has no regular connection to the pattern and has to be learned whole. An underline marks the ending the pattern predicts, on regular and irregular forms alike. Blue is used only for the endings of the Spanish strong preterite (-e, -iste, -o, -imos, -isteis, -ieron), a set of their own; the irregular stem in front of them is red. See the Spanish Verbs guide for the full key.
How does the adaptive learning work?
Every answer is recorded on your device. Words you got wrong last time come first. The remaining places are shared between new words — verbs and nouns in order of importance, by CEFR level and frequency — and words you have met before, weakest first. Learning pace in Settings → Study (Relaxed / Balanced / Intensive) sets the mix of review and new words. All three courses work this way, and an answer given in Self Study, a Practice Set or a Grammar lesson counts in all of them.
Speech
Why does the speech sound robotic?
Your device comes with Standard voices, and they sound mechanical. Better ones are free to download: on iPhone or iPad, Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices; on the Mac, System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System Voice → Manage Voices. Look under Spanish for the Spanish course, French for the French course, and Italian if you study Latin — Latin is read by an Italian voice (see below). Then, for Spanish or French, select the downloaded voice in LinguaMorpha: open Settings, switch to the tab for your course, and choose Voice.
Choose Enhanced. It sounds much better than Standard, and is the one to pick if you are unsure.
For Latin there is nothing to select inside the app — it chooses the Italian voice for you — so downloading a better Italian voice is all you need to do.
Which voice reads Latin?
An Italian one. No system has a Latin voice, so rather than leave Latin silent the app reads it with one of the Italian voices installed on your device; Italian spelling rules are closer to Latin than those of any other voice you are likely to have. Latin is always read at about half the normal speed, so each syllable is easier to follow. The Latin tab in Settings has no Voice row: the app picks the voice for you. If no Italian voice is installed, Latin stays silent. Treat it as an approximation rather than a model — an Italian voice reads c before e and i as ch, reads v as v rather than w, and does not make long vowels longer, so the written form with its macrons remains the authority on pronunciation. See Latin speech.
Can I slow the speech down?
Yes, for Spanish and French. Open Settings, switch to your course's tab and use the Speed slider (on iPhone and iPad it is on the Voice screen). One speed applies to both courses. Latin always plays at its own slow speed, which the slider does not change.
Feedback and bugs
How do I report a problem or suggest something?
Email feedback@linguamorpha.nl — bug reports, feature ideas, and general feedback all go straight to the developer. Inside the app, press and hold a Help button or ? to start an email about that screen, with the app version and the screen's name already in the subject. Say what you were doing when it happened, and attach a screenshot if it helps.
The app is crashing — what should I do?
Try these in order:
- Force-quit and reopen the app.
- Check for an app update in the App Store.
- Restart your device.
- Reinstall the app. Export first: because data is stored only on your device, reinstalling deletes your answer history and practice sets — so export them (Settings → Study History and the Practice Sets backup on iPhone or iPad, or the File menu on the Mac) before you delete the app, then import them afterwards. Do this only as a last resort.
If the issue persists, email support@linguamorpha.nl with your device model, your system version, and the LinguaMorpha version and build — a line like 1.4 (102), found under ⋯ → About on iPhone or iPad, or LinguaMorpha → About LinguaMorpha in the Mac menu bar.
Privacy
What data does LinguaMorpha collect?
Nothing personal. See the Privacy Policy for the full statement.
Does LinguaMorpha share my data with third parties?
No — there is no server to share data with. Your study data stays on your device unless you export it yourself.