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What is LinguaMorpha?

LinguaMorpha is for adults who want to master the structural grammar of a language — declension, conjugation, agreement, plural formation — the parts other apps tend to gloss over. It is morphology-first: every feature in the app is designed to make the rules visible, not to leave you to absorb them by osmosis.

Finding your way

  • Home — where you start. On iPhone and iPad it is the main screen, titled LinguaMorpha; on the Mac it is the Home row near the top of the sidebar, and the app always opens there (⇧⌘H brings you back). From Home you choose one of the ways to study below.
  • Look up — type any form you meet, dije, viendo, ceperat, and it tells you which word it is and what form: for a verb its tense and person, for a noun its number. On iPhone and iPad it is the round magnifying glass at the bottom right of every screen; on the Mac, the Look up a form field at the top of the sidebar. See Look up.

Ways to study

  • Grammar lessons — a path in level order: one new thing per lesson, explained before it is drilled. For when you want the app to decide what comes next.
  • Theory — every theory page of the course in one list, by word type: the grammar, to read in order. For when you want to understand before you drill.
  • Practice Sets — ready-made sessions on one theme or tense, or sets you build and share yourself. For a fixed piece of work.
  • Self Study — every word type with its theory, word lists and drills; you decide what is in play. For working on exactly what you need.
  • Tests — every test for your level on one page. With Only new at this level, just what your level adds. The book button beside each test opens the theory. For finding out what you already know.

They all share one vocabulary catalogue and one adaptive engine: an answer given in any of them counts in all of them. Practice Sets and Grammar lessons appear only for a course that has them, and the level scheme in use can hide a way in or a tool as well — some built-in schemes have no Traps or Linguistic analysis, for example.

One network of cards

Everything in LinguaMorpha is a card: a verb with its conjugation, a tense with its theory, a list of irregular verbs, a drill. The cards are linked wherever there is a connection between them, so most can be reached from several directions, and you never need to know where something "lives". Start from the side you know — a form you met, a verb, a tense or a drill — and the rest is a tap away.

Take the indefinido in Spanish. Its card is on the Tenses page under Theory. The ⓘ beside the tense, when you choose your tenses, opens that page at its card, and Look up finds it when you type indefinido. From the card, Irregular verbs opens the verbs that depart from it, grouped by pattern, and the graduation cap at the top of that list offers every drill about the tense. A verb in the list opens its conjugation at the indefinido, with why it departs; typing dije in Look up lands on the same page. In a drill, the book on the card opens the verb's conjugation again.

The platform shape

LinguaMorpha is one app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a companion app for Apple Watch. It holds three courses: Spanish, French and Latin. You switch between them with the chip that shows the course's flag and your level — in the toolbar on iPhone and iPad, at the top of the sidebar on the Mac: it opens Scheme and level, where you choose a course by choosing one of its schemes (see Levels). On the Mac, ⌘1, ⌘2 and ⌘3 in the Study menu switch course too. The app itself can be shown in English, Dutch or Spanish; Spanish is not offered as the app language while you are studying Spanish, because a translation into the language you are learning would only repeat the word.

Each course is a complete study system in its own right. The courses share the same machinery — the adaptive engine, the drill screens, the help system — but not a learning path: each stands on its own. This guide covers the parts of the app that work the same whatever you study; the course guide for the language you are studying covers the rest.

Buying. A 21-day free trial of every course starts when you finish the first-launch setup. After that, you unlock a course with a one-time in-app purchase, or buy Unlock all languages, which unlocks every course. There is no subscription and no auto-renewal. A banner at the top of the main screen shows how many trial days are left — Trial — 12 days left — and opens the store (on the Mac the countdown sits at the foot of the sidebar, above an Unlock button that opens it), where you can also Restore Previous Purchase or Redeem Code — a code you received, for example for a discount or a free copy, is entered in Apple's own window and applies to the product it was made for. After the trial the banner reads Unlock more languages, or Purchases once you own everything. A course you have not unlocked shows a lock in Scheme and level, and on iPhone and iPad its study screens open the store instead.

No subscriptions, no advertising, no accounts. Your answers stay on your device.

The app-wide screens

  • Home — your starting point: the main screen on iPhone and iPad, the Home row near the top of the sidebar on the Mac.
  • Getting started — a short orientation page that says which way in suits you; on the Mac it is Home itself.
  • My Progress — the reports on what you have practised and what stuck.
  • Settings — app language, appearance, questions per session, pace and grading, level schemes, speech, dictionaries and your study data.
  • Select word scope — the topic filter that narrows which words Self Study draws on, within your level.
  • Level schemes — which level everything in the course first appears at; your own level is chosen in Scheme and level.
  • Look up — type any form and see what it is.
  • User Guide — this guide, and the guide for the course you are studying.