Flashcards & spaced repetition

Your cards, in your language, graded like a teacher who reads Hebrew.

Every other flashcard app renders a Hebrew card with an English gloss in the wrong order, and fails a whole answer over one slipped letter. Shinun stores a direction per face, isolates every mixed run, forgives final letters and quotes, and shows you exactly which letters differed.

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Free: one deck, five cards in it, two study sessions a day. Inside that, every study mode works, forever.

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A Shinun study session: the Hebrew word להתמודד on a card, a typed answer reading “to ope”, and underneath it the expected answer “to cope” in green with the missing letter underlined in red and the note “Almost: check the spelling”.

The card is the interface

Not a learning platform and not a developer tool. A good set of index cards, that happens to know which twelve you should see today.

Type the answer. Get it marked.

The signature mode. You type, and in under a fifth of a second you see exact, almost or not this time, with the expected answer shown and the differing letters underlined, the rest in green. Anki’s answer to this is a hidden preference.

Hebrew that reads in the right order

Each face carries its own direction: RTL, LTR, or guessed from the first strong letter. Mixed runs are isolated, so שלום (hello) and “3 / 12” never scramble, and punctuation lands on the side it belongs on.

The small stuff is not a mistake

מלך typed with a plain kaf, צה״ל typed with the keyboard’s quote mark, café typed as cafe: all right answers. What a phone keyboard makes awkward is never counted against you.

Real spaced repetition, on the phone

FSRS, the same scheduler Anki ships, decides what you see and when. Retention, a fourteen-day review chart and a thirty-day forecast are on the Stats screen, and none of it is gated.

Bring your cards with you

Paste straight out of a Quizlet export and the separators are sniffed for you. Or a CSV, a TSV, or an Anki .apkg with text cards, in both formats. Everything previews before it commits, nothing is overwritten, and you can export all of it back out in one tap.

Notes to cards, on eligible iPhones and languages

The due count where you already look

A home-screen widget says how many cards are due, with your streak under it. Ask Siri “how many cards are due?”, or start a session from Spotlight. Nothing needs the app to be open.

Send a deck as a link

Share a deck and you get a shinun.benbasha.com/d/… link. Whoever opens it sees a read-only copy and can take it into their own library. No account on either end, and the snapshot never changes under them.

Fifteen languages

Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. The Hebrew is written by hand, in Israeli register, not machine-translated.