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Getting Started with LinguaMorpha

This page gets you from "just installed" to "running your first useful drill" in a few minutes. For a deeper tour of every screen, see the User Guide.

1. Install the app

LinguaMorpha is available for iPhone and iPad.

Download on the App Store

Requirements: iOS 16.0 or later.

LinguaMorpha stores all your data on the device — there is no account to create, no sign-in, and no sync to the cloud. You can start using it the moment it finishes installing.

LinguaMorpha speaks Spanish words and forms aloud using iOS speech synthesis. iOS includes Spanish voices at three quality levels — Standard (installed by default, sounds robotic), Enhanced, and Premium. The Enhanced and Premium voices are free to download and sound dramatically better.

  1. Open the iOS Settings app.
  2. Go to Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Spanish.
  3. Choose a region (Spain, Mexico, Latin America, …) and tap the download icon next to any voice marked Enhanced or Premium. The download is a few hundred megabytes — use Wi-Fi.
  4. Back in LinguaMorpha, tap the gear icon → Speech and pick the voice you just downloaded.

3. Decide: Self Study or Guided Grammar Lessons?

LinguaMorpha offers two modes.

Self Study is for when you know what you want to drill — a specific tense, a vocabulary theme, a grammar group. You decide which words and tenses are in play, then run the test that fits.

Guided Grammar Lessons is for when you want a structured curriculum that decides what to study next for you. Lessons unlock in order and combine vocabulary and grammar progressively.

If you're new to Spanish or unsure where to start, begin with Guided Grammar Lessons. If you have a specific goal — say, getting the pretérito indefinido automatic — Self Study is the right tool.

4. Run your first Self Study session

Here's a concrete first session that's hard to get wrong:

  1. From the home screen, tap Self Study → Nouns.
  2. Tap Select Nouns and set CEFR Level to A1.
  3. Set Session Size to 20.
  4. Go back and tap Test word meaning.
  5. Work through the flashcards. After each card, rate yourself Correct, Difficult, or Incorrect.

Every answer is recorded locally. The next session will give you 20 more — prioritising words you haven't seen, then words you got wrong.

5. Filter precisely as you grow

Once basic vocabulary feels solid, broaden your selection step by step:

  • Add A2 nouns to your pool.
  • Open Self Study → Verbs → Select Verbs, switch to the Verb Groups tab, and tick Regular -ar only. Set the tense filter to Present.
  • Get the regular present tense automatic before adding stem-changing or irregular groups.

For verbs, the Select Verbs screen has two tabs: filter by Criteria (CEFR / frequency / topic) or by Verb Groups (regular, stem-changing, go-verbs, strong preterite, reflexive, …). Pick whichever matches what you want to drill.

6. Check your progress

After a week or two of regular practice, tap the chart icon on the top left of the main screen to open My Progress. You'll see a calendar-month activity heatmap (darker squares = more answers that day), a Coverage view showing how much of each catalogue you've touched, an Accuracy breakdown by exercise type and tense and verb group, a Word Performance list of weakest words to focus on, and time-series Trends.

You can also share a full progress report as a PDF from the share icon on that screen. See the My Progress page for the full tour.

Next Steps

Help inside the app

Most screens have a ? icon at the top right that opens a short, screen-specific help sheet. A book icon on the home screen opens the full user guide — the same content as this website, but bundled into the app so it works offline. And on most controls, a long-press gives you a quick in-place explanation without leaving the screen.