About Brill
Brill is an iPhone app that turns the home screen into a language-learning surface. Instead of opening a course each time, you see a new word and its translation in a widget every day, which makes short, repeated exposure part of ordinary phone use rather than a separate study session.
The app is built around widgets plus features intended to help users remember more of what they see, and it offers courses for a range of languages. The homepage lists German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay and Hokkien among them, with example words shown in widget style, including romanized pronunciations for languages written in non-Latin scripts.
Brill is a commercial iOS app with a pricing section on its website, though specific plan details are not given in the available description. It suits learners who want low-effort daily vocabulary practice to sit alongside a fuller course or classes.
Key features
- Home screen widgets showing daily words
- Courses for multiple languages
- Translation shown beside each new word
- Romanization for non-Latin scripts
- Features aimed at vocabulary retention
Good fit for
- →Daily vocabulary practice between lessons
- →Learners of Asian and European languages on iPhone
- Tags
- language-learning
- vocabulary
- ios
- widgets
- flashcards
- education
Brill: questions and answers
- What is Brill used for?
- Brill is an iPhone app that puts a new vocabulary word and its translation on your home screen widget each day for the language you are learning. It is a good fit for daily vocabulary practice between lessons, and learners of Asian and European languages on iPhone.
- Is Brill free?
- Yes. Brill has a free plan.
- Is Brill open source?
- No. Brill is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Education & LMS category, open-source options include Anki, AnkiDroid and freeCodeCamp.
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