Features¶

LinguaMorpha is a focused practice environment for four areas of the language: verbs, nouns, phrases, and words. Every feature is designed around the same idea — make the rules of Spanish explicit, then drill them until they are automatic.

Verbs¶

Practise conjugation across all the major Spanish tenses for around 630 verbs.

Conjugation Drill — given a verb, tense, and person, type the correct form or pick from multiple choices. Switchable on the fly.
Recognition — given a conjugated form, identify the verb, tense, and person using three scroll wheels.
Word Meanings flashcards — Spanish ↔ your language, both directions.
Past Participle, Gerundio, and Indefinido drills — focused flashcard decks for the forms that carry the most irregularity. The decks always include all irregular members of your selection, plus a sample of regulars.
Conjugation tables — full tables for every verb, with irregular forms colour-coded: red on just the parts of a form that deviate from the regular pattern (stem changes, irregular yo forms, y-verbs, irregular future stems), and the whole form in red where it's entirely irregular — including strong preterite verbs and forms of ser, ir, haber.

Verbs are filterable by CEFR level (A1–C2), frequency, topic (travel, food, work, …), and verb group (regular -ar / -er / -ir, stem-changing e→ie / e→i / o→ue, go-verbs, zco-verbs, j-verbs, guir-verbs, y-verbs, uir-verbs, strong preterite, reflexive, impersonal, gusto-type, stative). You can also toggle individual tenses on or off.

Nouns¶

Around 1,100 Spanish nouns, with practice for gender, plurals, and alternate-gender pairs.

Pick the correct article — el or la?
Singular / Plural — produce the correct plural from the singular form.
Alternate gender pairs — practise nouns whose meaning changes with the article (el capital = money/capital, la capital = capital city; el orden = order/sequence, la orden = command).
Meaning flashcards — Spanish ↔ your language.
Reference notes — gender rules and an explainer for alternate-gender pairs.

Filter by CEFR level, frequency, or topic (home, food, body, technology, …).

Personal topics¶

In addition to the bundled topics that ship with the app, you can add your own topics to any verb or noun. Open a word's detail view, tap + in the Topics row, and either type a new tag (like exam, tricky, or kitchen) or pick from one you've used before. Personal topics live alongside the bundled topics in the same filter and behave the same way — you can mix them freely with CEFR level, frequency, and the standard topic categories.

The data is stored locally on your device. There is no cloud sync; tags survive app updates but stay on the device they were created on.

Phrases and Words¶

Vocabulary that isn't a verb or a noun lives in two separate sections.

Phrases is the largest drillable pool in the app — around 6,000 entries. It combines ~240 curated set phrases (greetings like buenos días and mucho gusto, time expressions like en punto and de vez en cuando, conversational chunks like a pesar de and sin embargo) with ~5,700 example sentences synthesised from the verb and noun catalogues. Every example sentence you'd see on a verb or noun detail card is also drillable here as its own phrase. Toggle the Example topic to switch the synthesised layer on or off as a single bucket.

Words covers single-word vocabulary that isn't a verb or noun — adjectives (with masculine/feminine pairs merged into one entry), adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and numbers. Filterable by grammatical category.

Both sections follow the same Setup / Study / Test pipeline as Verbs and Nouns. Practice is via flashcards in either direction (Spanish ↔ your native language, or a random mix).

Adaptive learning¶

Every answer you give is recorded in a local database on your device. Sessions are built using a strict priority order:

Unseen words first, ordered by significance — A1 very-common words before C2 rare words.
Previously-seen words, ordered by correct rate, weakest first. Ties broken by oldest last-seen date.

A Learning Pace setting (Relaxed / Balanced / Intensive) adjusts the balance between new vocabulary and review. Within a single session, each word appears exactly once.

Guided Grammar Lessons¶

A structured curriculum that combines vocabulary and grammar progressively. Lessons are tagged with CEFR levels and must be completed in order — each unlocks the next. Each lesson has a Study phase (browse the verbs, nouns, and expressions covered) and a Practice phase (run the relevant flashcards and drills). An Include previous toggle lets you mix in earlier lessons to keep older material fresh.

Speech¶

LinguaMorpha uses iOS speech synthesis to read words and conjugations aloud. iOS includes Spanish voices at three quality levels — Standard, Enhanced, and Premium. The Enhanced and Premium voices are free to download from iOS Settings and sound much better than the default. See the Getting Started guide for step-by-step instructions.

A speed slider in the app lets you slow speech down for listening practice.

Example sentences¶

Every verb and noun in the app comes with three Spanish example sentences — about 5,000 sentences in total across the full vocabulary — each with translations into both English and Dutch. Open any verb or noun's detail view and the Examples card shows the sentences as one prominent Spanish line per example, with the translation in your selected display language underneath.

The sentences are picked to illustrate typical, everyday usage rather than to be encyclopedic. A noun like abrigo (coat) gets sentences about buying one, packing one, or the weather; a verb like abrirse shows literal openings, figurative ones, and a reflexive idiom. The goal is to reinforce meaning in context — handy when a one-word translation feels too thin.

External dictionary lookups¶

Every verb and noun detail view has a Look up row with chip buttons for four well-known online Spanish dictionaries: Linguee, WordReference, Reverso, and RAE (the Real Academia Española). Tap a chip and the lookup opens in an in-app Safari sheet — you don't leave LinguaMorpha. Useful when you want a fuller definition, real-world example sentences, or contextual translations.

You decide which services appear in the row. The toggles live in Settings → Dictionary Services. All four are enabled by default — there's no cost or sign-up for any of these sites, so it's worth keeping them all on while you find your favourites. Later, once you know which one or two you actually reach for, you can switch off the rest to keep the row compact. If you disable all four, the Look up row hides entirely.

Settings¶

A few settings let you tune how the app fits your study habit:

Language — a single toggle (🇬🇧 / 🇳🇱) flips both the app's chrome and the translations on flashcards between English and Dutch.
Session Size — how many words appear in each session: 10, 20, 30, 50, or All.
Learning Pace — Relaxed, Balanced, or Intensive. Biases the balance between new vocabulary and review.
Auto-advance — when on, a correct answer moves to the next card after a short pause.
Speech — pick a Spanish voice and adjust the speaking speed.
Dictionary Services — choose which of Linguee, WordReference, Reverso, and RAE appear in the Look up row on verb and noun detail views. All four are free; keep them all on initially and prune later.

You can reset your study history from Settings → Data → Reset Progress — verbs only, nouns only, or everything at once. Your word-selection filters are not affected.

Privacy¶

LinguaMorpha stores everything locally on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, no cloud sync, and no analytics that personally identify you. The full Privacy Policy has the details.

Pricing¶

LinguaMorpha is free to download from the App Store and free to use for 14 days — full access, no restrictions, no card required up front. After the trial, a single one-time purchase of €14.99 unlocks the app for good. No subscriptions, no renewals, no ads, no in-app upsells.

The price is per Apple ID, so it covers your iPhone and iPad together if both are signed in to the same account. Currency and exact amount may vary slightly by App Store region — the App Store listing is the source of truth for your country.