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On the Mac

LinguaMorpha on the Mac is the same app, but it puts its controls where a Mac user expects them.

The window

A sidebar replaces the cards and toolbar icons of the iPhone: the Look up a form field and the chip with the flag and your level at the top, then Home, Study, Tools and Help, with the trial countdown and Unlock at the foot (see The main screen). Choosing a row shows that area on the right.

The menus

LinguaMorpha

  • About LinguaMorpha — opens the About window.
  • Unlock… — opens the store.
  • Settings… (⌘,) — opens the Settings window. See Settings.

File

  • Practice Sets — Import… (⌘I) and Export… (⌘E) for a full backup, and Share Selected… and Import Shared… for sending sets to someone else. See Sharing: export and import. These work wherever you are in the app.

Study history is exported and imported in Settings → Progress, as on the iPhone.

Edit

  • Find (⌘F) — puts the cursor in the search field of the screen you are on, or in the sidebar's Look up a form field when the screen has none.
  • Look up… (⇧⌘F) — opens Look up in a window of its own. See Look up.

Study

  • Home (⇧⌘H) — back to the start page from anywhere.
  • The courses, with a tick by the one you are studying. ⌘1, ⌘2 and ⌘3 switch between them in the order listed.
  • Previous lesson (⌘[) and Next lesson (⌘]) — in a lesson, go to the lesson before or after it on the path; greyed out elsewhere.

Help

  • User Guide (⌘?) — opens the guide in its own window, which you can keep open beside the app.

The menu bar follows your App language. Because macOS builds it when the app starts, changing App language offers to restart the app.

Working differently from the iPhone

  • Settings is a separate window, with General, Study, your course and Progress as tabs along the top, and the voice menu and speed slider directly in the course tab.
  • Row actions are on the ⋯ at the end of the row, and on the right-click menu: a practice set offers Edit, Rename, Duplicate and Delete, a folder Rename and Delete.
  • Grading buttons always sit under the flashcard.
  • Lesson exercises open in a sheet over the lesson.
  • Import and export of practice sets are in the File menu rather than on the screens.
  • A verb's reference sheet has a share menu with Copy and Save as… (⌘S) to save it as a PDF.
  • Dictionary lookups open in your web browser.
  • Swipe hints are not shown, so Settings has no Show swipe hints again row.