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Settings

The Settings screen is where you set up the app to fit your study style — pick your interface and native language, choose a Spanish voice, decide how big each session should be, control which external dictionaries appear in the Look up row, and manage your study data.

Open it from the gear icon at the top-right of the LinguaMorpha main screen.

Settings vs Setup

"Settings" here refers to global app preferences — things that apply everywhere. Inside Verbs, Nouns, Phrases, and Words you'll also encounter a Setup phase, which means something different: it's where you pick the word pool (which verbs / nouns / phrases / words can appear in a session). The two are unrelated and live in different places.

Language

A single Language picker (🇬🇧 / 🇳🇱) controls both the language of the app's chrome (titles, menus, buttons) and the language Spanish words are translated into on flashcards and word lists. Pick English or Dutch; everything else flips with it. Earlier versions had two separate switches for these — the simpler single picker replaced them.

Study Session

The Study Session sub-screen groups the per-session controls.

  • Session Size — how many words appear in one sitting: 10, 20, 30, 50, or All. Affects all Test screens.
  • Learning Pace — Relaxed, Balanced, or Intensive. Biases how aggressively the app introduces new vocabulary versus reviewing words you've already seen. Relaxed front-loads review; Intensive front-loads new material.
  • Auto-advance — when on, a correct answer moves to the next card after a short pause. Saves a tap per card but takes away your re-read time, so leave it off if you like to dwell on each word.

Speech

iOS has built-in Spanish voices at three quality tiers — Standard, Enhanced, and Premium. Enhanced and Premium are free downloads from iOS Settings and sound dramatically better than the default. Set this up once and you'll never want to go back.

  • Voice — pick from the Spanish voices installed on your device. Choose the regional accent you prefer (Spain, Mexico, Latin America, …).
  • Speed — drag the slider to slow speech down. Useful for listening practice when a voice talks faster than you can parse.

See the Getting Started guide for step-by-step instructions on downloading the Enhanced or Premium voices.

Dictionary Services

Verb and noun detail views show a Look up row with chip buttons for four well-known online Spanish dictionaries:

  • Linguee — bilingual example sentences pulled from real-world translated texts.
  • WordReference — comprehensive Spanish ↔ English entries with usage notes and forum discussions.
  • Reverso — contextual translations and conjugation tables.
  • RAE — the Real Academia Española, the authoritative monolingual Spanish dictionary.

Tap a chip and the lookup opens in an in-app Safari sheet — you don't leave LinguaMorpha.

The toggles in Settings → Dictionary Services let you choose which of the four appear in the row. All four are enabled by default, and we suggest leaving them all on initially — every one of these sites is free to use and requires no account, so there's no cost to keeping the full set available. Once you've used the app for a while and you know which one or two you actually reach for, switch off the rest to keep the row compact. If you disable all four, the Look up row hides entirely.

Data

  • Export Data — produce a copy of your local data. Useful for personal backups.
  • Reset Progress — wipe your answer history. You can reset Verbs only, Nouns only, or everything at once. Your word-selection filters (Select Verbs, Select Nouns, Select Tenses, etc.) are kept — only the answer-history database is cleared.

All study data lives on your device only. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.