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Learn words with a swipe.

One card fills the screen. Tap to flip it. Swipe right — you know it. Swipe left — it comes back sooner. Cardavela turns English and Russian vocabulary into short, colorful sessions on iPhone, Apple Watch and the web.

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42,000+: cards in free decks
8: cards per session
5: interface languages

Everything you need to remember words

Built around one simple loop: see a word, recall it, mark it honestly. The schedule does the rest.

Flip and swipe

A 3D flip shows the answer with an example and native speech. Know / Hard / Don't know — three buttons or one swipe.

Know and don't-know lists

Every word lands in Don't know, Hard or Know. Train only the words you don't know, or play Pairs and Ring with them.

Colorful statistics

Streaks, marks per day, words by list, returns for the week ahead and a 12-week study calendar.

Free word decks

Frequent English words and phrases from films and series with Russian meanings — over 42,000 cards in both directions.

Your own decks

Type a card, import an Anki .apkg, or a TXT/CSV list: word — translation. Share your deck as one file.

Spaced repetition

The FSRS scheduler brings each card back right before you'd forget it. Sessions are short: up to 8 cards.

Apple Watch

Study cards on your wrist with Know and Don't know. Answers sync to your iPhone automatically.

Study online

No iPhone at hand? Study the same decks right here in the browser. Progress stays in your browser.

How a session works

1
See the word
One big card. Say the answer to yourself before you flip.
2
Flip
Check the meaning, the example and the pronunciation.
3
Mark it
Right — know it. Left — don't know. Up — easy. Hard — a button.
4
Come back later
Cardavela schedules the next review. Short sessions, every day.

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On Apple Watch

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Blog

Learn Vocabulary 5 Minutes a Day and Make It Stick

How to learn vocabulary five minutes a day and keep going, with streaks, 8-card sessions, Apple Watch reviews and online study at cardavela.dev in a browser.

Know, Hard, Don't Know - Rating Flashcards Honestly

What the Know, Hard and Don't know flashcard ratings mean, why honest self-assessment drives spaced repetition, and how to train only your Don't know list.

How to Import an Anki Deck into Cardavela

Step-by-step guide to moving an Anki .apkg deck or a TXT/CSV word list into Cardavela on iPhone, which formats work, and why your review schedule starts fresh.

Questions

›Is Cardavela free?

Yes. The app and all current decks are free. Paid decks may appear in the in-app deck store later; free decks stay free.

›Do I need an account?

No. Your cards and answers stay on your device. On the website, online progress stays in your browser.

›Which languages?

Cards are English ↔ Russian in both directions. The interface is in Russian, English, Hebrew, Spanish and Arabic.

›Can I import my Anki deck?

Yes: .apkg packages and plain TXT/CSV/TSV word lists. The schedule is not copied: memory starts fresh.

›Does it work on Apple Watch?

Yes. Open Cardavela on iPhone once and the next cards appear on the watch. Answers from the watch return to iPhone statistics.

›Are the meanings checked?

The published pairs come from a frequency count of film and series subtitles. They are not a checked dictionary; the app marks this on the card.