Vocabulary Gym

Keep Your English Sharp

Not a course, and not a beginner’s app. If your English is already good and you’d like it to stay that way, this is five minutes a day that keeps it there.

Vocabulary Gym app showing a workout-complete score screen and the daily workout home screen
Workout

A daily workout, not a lesson

Twenty questions, five minutes. Meanings, synonyms and antonyms, words in a sentence, and the near-identical pairs that catch everybody out — affect and effect, principle and principal.

  • The app works out the level you can handle and asks right at the edge of it
  • Say your answer and the app hears it — hands-free, from a locked screen
  • Questions read aloud, answers spoken back, or tap instead whenever you prefer
  • Speech recognition happens entirely on your device
Vocabulary Gym progress screen showing a score of 84 out of 100 and a level trend chart over several months
Progress

Brings back what you’re losing

Vocabulary doesn’t disappear, it goes quiet. Every word you meet is tracked automatically, and the ones slipping away come back on their own — no lists to make, nothing to schedule.

  • The longer a word’s been going rusty, the more of each workout is given over to it
  • Watch your score trend over weeks and months
  • A searchable record of every word you’ve ever met
  • No streaks, no guilt — just a level that moves slowly and honestly
Vocabulary Gym level breakdown across vocabulary, synonyms, usage, nuance and recall
Where you stand

A level you can easily relate to

Your English scored out of 100, with a CEFR band quoted alongside it as an estimate. It moves slowly and honestly — holding steady is what maintaining looks like.

  • Five measures show exactly where you’re strong: vocabulary, synonyms, usage, nuance and recall
  • Each figure updates once enough answers of that kind are behind it
  • Recall shows how you do on words the app has brought back to you
  • An arrow shows which way each measure has been moving lately
Vocabulary Gym settings screen for speaking accent, voice, listening mode and licence
Settings & privacy

Nothing leaves your phone

No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising. The vocabulary ships with the app and every workout runs offline — your progress is yours, and it stays on your device.

  • Fine-tune accent, voice and speed for spoken questions
  • Choose whether answers are read aloud and explained
  • Answer by voice through your phone or headphones, or switch to tapping
  • Free to try for one week, no automatic subscription tagged on
Vocabulary Gym

Over 5,000 words, five minutes at a time

Vocabulary Gym ships with more than 5,000 words spanning CEFR levels A2 to C2, each with definitions, examples and explanations written specifically for the app. It’s free to try for one week with no automatic subscription tagged on — after that, a subscription or a one-off lifetime licence keeps the workouts going, and your progress, level and word history stay visible either way.

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