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Sort by swipe, quiz on the spot — 4,208 words TOEIC actually tests, fully offline
The biggest waste in a vocabulary app is spending the same effort on words the exam will not test. The second biggest is learning a word properly, then having it scheduled for review on the wrong day — by the time it comes back, it is gone.
YUE TOEIC solves those two things and little else.
**Words are ordered by whether they get tested.** 1,250 TOEIC-core words from frequency analysis of a TOEIC corpus, 2,809 general-English words, and 149 phrasal verbs and set expressions — that last group is heavily tested in Parts 5 and 6 and is missing from almost every word list on the market. All 4,208 entries ship inside the app; studying makes no network requests at all.
**The method is sort-then-quiz.** Ten cards per round: swipe right for "know it", left for "not yet". The moment you finish sorting, the same words come back as 20 questions. Words you claimed to know skip the easiest format; words you did not get one baseline question guaranteed. Wrong answers go to the back of the queue and keep returning until answered correctly once. Seven question types — pick the meaning, pick the word, Part 5-style gap fill, hear a word, hear a sentence, spell it, and spell it from the meaning. Each can be switched off.
**Review timing is computed, not fixed.** Every answer re-estimates how strongly you hold that word, and it returns on the day you are about to lose it. The schedule calibrates to your own forgetting rate, so it sharpens the longer you use it.
shipped on iOS, feature-complete. Japanese, Chinese and English interfaces, and switching never mixes one into another. Every learning feature works without an account — an account exists only for backup and moving to a new phone, and by default your records never leave the SQLite database on your device. When you delete your account you separately choose whether the on-device records stay or go.
Free. No in-app purchases, no ads.
An honest word to anyone already using a vocabulary app: this one is not trying to have more features than yours. It does two things properly — order the list by exam frequency, and land each review at the edge of forgetting. Everything else serves those two.
Published on Epoch 0 · by kenn