Lokas - Learn Spanish words

• BUG: This small update fixes a bug that had happened to 2 users. Sorry about that and thanks for letting me know! :-)

Ratings and reviews are incredibly valuable to independent developers like me, as they really help climb the charts. I would really appreciate if you left one! You can do that by going in Settings and tapping “Rate the app“.
Thank you so much,
Kevin

Version 3.2.1: slightly improved the time needed to load some components.
Version 3.2:
• VOSOTROS: I am proud to announce that you can FINALLY ignore the ‘vosotros’ person when studying verbs. Vosotros is used in Spain for You (plural), but not in Latin America, where Ustedes is used instead. From now on, by default, Vosotros will NOT be shown in the app. So if you want to study Vosotros form, just enable it in the Settings. Thank you everyone for your patience about this feature. It was not a small task, and I wanted to take the time to get it right.
• USERNAME: changing your username would not always work. Fixed!
• RATE THE APP: when you tap that option in the Settings menu, it now directly opens the review panel in the App Store. Thank you!
• LOADING: small detail, but the empty home view is now hidden while content is loading.
• PREMIUM: Lokas Premium is now a monthly or yearly subscription, and I am preparing to add a lot of new verbs and tenses to the app for Premium users. Thank you for your support from the very first day!

More features coming very soon. Please keep sending me feedback and suggestions, it really helps.
Thank you,
Kevin

• VOSOTROS: I am proud to announce that you can FINALLY ignore the ‘vosotros’ person when studying verbs. Vosotros is used in Spain for You (plural), but not in Latin America, where Ustedes is used instead. From now on, by default, Vosotros will NOT be shown in the app. So if you want to study Vosotros form, just enable it in the Settings. Thank you everyone for your patience about this feature. It was not a small task, and I wanted to take the time to get it right.
• USERNAME: changing your username would not always work. Fixed!
• RATE THE APP: when you tap that option in the Settings menu, it now directly opens the review panel in the App Store. Thank you!
• LOADING: small detail, but the empty home view is now hidden while content is loading.
• PREMIUM: Lokas Premium is now a monthly or yearly subscription, and I am preparing to add a lot of new verbs and tenses to the app for Premium users. Thank you for your support from the very first day!

More features coming very soon. Please keep sending me feedback and suggestions, it really helps.
Thank you,
Kevin

Hi all! Hope you all enjoyed the summer (well, or winter). Here’s what’s new:
- A notification is sent to you when your first word is ready to be reviewed (this is a one-time notification, don’t worry). Old users might also receive that notification once, sorry in advance.
- Haptic feedback: if your phone supports haptic feedback, it will slightly vibrate when you enter a correct or incorrect answer. Would love some feedback on this.
- I changed the way you can contact me (now using Mail app or copy my email to clipboard), because I suspect many of my answers were landing in your spam folder.

Keep sending me feedback! I’m able to spend more and more time every month improving my apps, so I can finally get started on implementing many ideas you sent me (including the option to remove “vosotros”…).
Thanks for your patience,
Kevin

No visible changes in this update, it simply improves performances.
Kevin

Hi everyone, I hope many of you are traveling this summer and practicing your Spanish skills! Here’s what’s new in this version:

- I’ve created and added new vocabulary lists for Lokas Pro users!
- I’ve fixed a few places in the app where the text could sometimes not appear in its entirety, especially on smaller screens (iPhone SE). There is still work to do, so please contact me if you see anything you’d like me to fix in priority for those screen sizes.
- Improvement to the review algorithm: hard to explain in a sentence, but to simplify, when you fail in review mode, the same word won’t appear that often anymore.
- When showing you the answer, the field is now called “Correct answer” rather than just “Answer”
- I made some improvements to the Lokas Pro purchase page based on your feedback, to make the benefits clearer.

Thank you and keep sending me feedback and features requests!
Kevin

Small update that adds an option to disable sound effects.
Thank you Matthew for the feedback!
- Kevin

This important update removes the vosotros/ustedes option introduced in the previous update, as it was not correct: "Ustedes" uses the same conjugation form as "Ellos"/"Ellas", and NOT "Vosotros" (thank you Michael for pointing it out).

Shame on me for letting that big mistake slip through. I am working on a better solution for you to remove "vosotros" from your lists, and thank you very much for your patience. Keep in mind that you can contact me at any time by tapping "Feedback" in the app.

Thank you.
-Kevin

Hi all! Many of you asked for this: when learning conjugation, you can now choose whether Lokas shows you "vosotros" (used in Spain) or "ustedes" (used in Latin America). You'll find the option with the other settings. Thanks a lot for the feedback and keep feature requests coming! Kevin :-)

PS: I very rarely send product updates but when I do, I use notifications. If those announcements interest you, make sure to enable notifications! If you did not enable them when you first watched the initial tutorial, you can still turn them on by going in Settings -> Watch a tutorial, and you'll find a button on one of the pages. Thanks!

Thank you all for your feedback and features suggestions. And welcome to the people of Reddit r/learnSpanish and ProductHunt! :-)

This version fixes a few simple things:
- Fixed the review bug: the review button would sometimes show a negative time (i.e. -8 days 23 hours) and be disabled (thank you Brad, Loretta,…).
- Changed the word “revise” for “review” everywhere in the app. If I forgot any, please let me know.
- Added Lokas’s subreddit (r/Lokas) to the links in Settings, if you want want to discuss the app with other users and myself.
- Fixed a typo in the intro tutorial (thanks Jorja)

I have tons of features ideas thanks to you, so I’ll keep pushing updates regularly.
Thank you!
Kevin

Thank you all for the feedback received, you gave me tons of ideas to improve the app. This updates fixes a bug when trying to log in with Facebook (the app would crash).
Sorry about that and thank you!
Kevin

- NEW: now you sometimes get a second chance when making a mistake. When learning, you get this second chance for any word that you already guessed at least 3 times correctly. When revising, you always get a second chance. We all makes typos from time to time, and it was frustrating to lose our progress when making one. This is now fixed!
- The correct answer is now displayed outside of the answer text field. This makes it easier to understand and to read.
- Improved the initial tutorial.
- Added a help message when first skipping a word
- Made some light changes in the design on the learning page (the word type is not shown in green anymore).
- Fixed: the loading indicator would sometimes not appear on the home page (even though data was loading)
- Fixed: the keyboard would sometimes close when switching back to Lokas other apps that use the keyboard. But only some apps. Really weird.

Thank you all, and keep sending me feedback and rating the app!
Kevin

I've made quite a few changes in this version, mainly to improve the onboarding experience:
- Added a FAQ and release notes to the settings menu.
- Fixed: when guessing correctly the last word of a list, its status was not animating.
- You can now just tap on your username to change it.
- Replaced the emojis that indicate a list is completed by a checkmark.
- Added an interactive tutorial for new users (before creating an account).
- Improved how the help messages are displayed (bye-bye, ugly alerts that close the keyboard!)

Thank you all for your feedback (MinJi and Ed in particular),
Kevin

Introducing Lokas Conjugation! A new section for Lokas Pro users that lets you study the most common Spanish verbs in all their conjugated forms (ex: I went, you eat, he should think, etc.). I am gonna be adding more verbs and tenses over the next few weeks, and I’ll send a notification once in a while to let you know.

Other cool changes (big thanks to Ed, Marley and many others for their suggestions):
- Revision feature: it was not clear enough that the revision feature is accessible for free, forever. I changed the flow and the wording to make it clearer.
- Shorter lists: each vocabulary list now contain 25 word rather than 50. Your progress in each list will be calculated when you first open the app.
- Made mode obvious which lists you finished learning (using emojis, of course).
- After watching an ad to revise, the revision page now automatically opens. One less click needed from you!
- Sometimes, the ad would not play and you could not revise your words. Shame on me! I’ve changed that to make sure that you can always revise your words.

And some other small changes (Devil is in the details!):
- Centered the progress text that is shown when you are about to leave a list.
- Made the exit button easier to tap on the learning page.
- Changed the color of the gradients of the home page (two sets of gradients for the two modes: vocabulary and conjugation). Devil is in the details.
- Better word status images: some of them were a bit confusing, as they made new users think that the correct answer should have 5 letters or syllables.

Keep hitting that “Contact” button to let me know what you need from the app!
Kevin

- You can now enable notifications (to know when new words have been added, or remind you of words to revise, etc).
- When opening the app, the cards automatically scroll to the last list you were studying.
- I’ve added an in-app rating/review prompt, so that you can easily leave a rating (thank you!).

Your feedback and app ratings are very welcome, as usual!

Thank you all,
Kevin

BIG NEWS: access to the revision feature (for long-term learning) is now FREE!

If you still want to support my work, you can upgrade to Lokas Pro to remove ads. I'll keep adding new premium features and exclusive vocabulary lists to Lokas Pro over the next few weeks.

Keep sending me feedback, it is super helpful. Your ratings on the App Store are also very useful to climb app rankings :-)
Kevin

Thanks to your feedback, I’ve got a long of ideas to improve the app while I keep adding lists of words. Thank you! Here’s what’s new in this version:

Features:
- For new users: the tutorial won’t re-appear when entering the app for the first time, if it has already been opened on the login page.

Bug fixes:
- Various important bug fixes: sign-up date and initial level was not always saved to the database + not all data was reset after logging out.
- Login page: the email field was sometimes not pre-filled.
- Login page: the email field won’t be pre-filled if you previously used Facebook to log in.

Keep the feedback coming through the app or via Twitter (@lokasapp)!
Kevin

Since the sun is back here in Barcelona, let’s celebrate with a small update that focuses on convenience!

- New users can now log in with Facebook, in one click!
- If you’ve added a space or a punctation mark ( ,./‘?!”) by mistake at the end of your answer before pressing return, that character will be ignored and your answer will be accepted (e.g. “la manzana,” will be accepted even though it ends with a comma). Thanks Marley!

Keep sending me feedback to improve your leaning experience!
Kevin

In this update, I focused on helping you understand what’s going on as you learn and revise words! Here’s the list of changes:

Features:
- I added tons of help indications that appear after doing certain actions for the first time (thank you Edouard, Anatole, Vital and Marley).
- Also added a small text that describes the status of the word you are studying (for instance: “this is the third time you revise this word”). This should make even clearer what’s going on with each of the word you are currently learning or revising.
- Words that achieve an important milestones (being learned, revised or skipped) stay on screen a little bit longer. As Leonardo Da Vinci said: “Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail”.
- Everything you do on the keyboard between the moment your answered starts processing and the moment the next word is displayed and ready is ignored. This prevents you from entering empty or false answers by mistake during the animation (thanks Marley).

Bug fixes:
- In come cases, It was possible that you couldn’t click the buttons of the alert for new updates available. Fixed! (thank you Máté)
- The keyboard on the studying page would sometimes be close when you came back to Lokas after switching to another app.
- In some cases, after coming back to the home page, the “revise” button background color would not be the correct one.

To fix:
- If the revise button shows a negative time interval (welcome to the 4th dimension) and is not clickable, just enter any list and then come back to the Home page. I am working on a fix, but didn’t want to wait for it to push the rest of the new features and bug fixes.

Keep sending me feedback, you rock! And if you have a minute, ratings and reviews really help me :-)
Kevin

Thank you all for your feedback! Here's what new in this version:
- I added an explanation of what XP, levels and statistics are. To see it, just tap those sections on the home page.
- Fixed: on your first session, if you tried to contact me, you had to type in your email (thank you Clarence and Benoit for telling me)
- iPhone X: the revision button height was a bit stretched; it now has normal shape. Normal for a button, that is...
- Various small tweaks in the texts and UI.
- Erratum: the screenshots of the previous version mentioned that each word had to be revised 5 times before being considered learned forever. This is incorrect, each word goes through 4 revisions: the first one occurs 1 day after learning the word, the second one 10 days later, then 30 days and 60 days later. That’s a cycle of 101 days per word. Wow!

Keep learning and sending me feedback through the app!
Kevin

- Brand new design for Lokas 3.0! I hope you will love it.
- I added a system of levels, based on the XP you have earned.

I will add a ton of new word lists and features over the next few weeks, so please contact me through the app to let me know what you would like me to add to the app!

Thank you all for your support and enjoy this new version!
Kevin

(Version 2.1.2: Bug fixes. Oops. Won't give any details, it's top secret –and very boring to read.)

Version 2.1: So many updates to share with you!

Major changes:
- We have added accounts. If like us, you do not like creating accounts, let us assure you: the inconvenience of taking 10 seconds to sign up will be replaced by the joy of being able to study from any device and having your progress saved online! Just so you know, we are resetting everyone’s learning progress -which should be ok since there was only a 100 words available.
- We are introducing Lokas Pro: for a fixed one-time fee, you will unlock all current and future Pro features FOREVER! Oh, and of course, you can still use the app for free! Thank you for being our early users.
- And the first Lokas Pro feature is there: the revision tool! The secret to long-term learning is to revise words at specific times after learning it. Each word will be available to revise after 1, 10, 30 and finally 60 days! You will LOVE this feature.
- The app now runs on iPad! It is not *very* beautiful, but at least you can use your account on any device.

Other changes:
- If you are listening to music, Lokas won’t pause it anymore when entering a list!
- We've adjusted the difficulty: more time will pass before you are being asked the same word again.
- You can now edit your username. It was about time!
- We’ve added a short tutorial.
- We’ve added links to contact us through the app or by email, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, etc.

Thank you so much again for using Lokas. Contact us for any feature request or to signal any bug!

And any rating or review means the world to us, so please don’t be shy! :-)

So many updates to share with you!

Major changes:
- We have added accounts. If like us, you do not like creating accounts, let us assure you: the inconvenience of taking 10 seconds to sign up will be replaced by the joy of being able to study from any device and having your progress saved online! Just so you know, we are resetting everyone’s learning progress -which should be ok since there was only a 100 words available.
- We are introducing Lokas Pro: for a fixed one-time fee, you will unlock all current and future Pro features FOREVER! Oh, and of course, you can still use the app for free! Thank you for being our early users.
- And the first Lokas Pro feature is there: the revision tool! The secret to long-term learning is to revise words at specific times after learning it. Each word will be available to revise after 1, 10, 30 and finally 60 days! You will LOVE this feature.
- The app now runs on iPad! It is not *very* beautiful, but at least you can use your account on any device.

Other changes:
- If you are listening to music, Lokas won’t pause it anymore when entering a list!
- We've adjusted the difficulty: more time will pass before you are being asked the same word again.
- You can now edit your username. It was about time!
- We’ve added a short tutorial.
- We’ve added links to contact us through the app or by email, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, etc.

Thank you so much again for using Lokas. Contact us for any feature request or to signal any bug!

And any rating or review means the world to us, so please don’t be shy! :-)

- New app, new look, new beginnings for Lokas!
- Currently focusing on learning Spanish for English-speakers, new languages coming soon.
- This is a VERY simple version. We'll frequently update the app over the next few weeks to bring you interesting features. Stay tuned!

Shameful bug fixed: there was a problem with some words coming back non-stop... Fixed!

Visual transformation initiated!
- New logo (that nobody likes, except myself)
- New login page with a nice animation
- Same ugly pages after the login page

I will progressively design all the pages, thanks for your patience!

If you have problems or suggestions, as usual: kevinq.developer@gmail.com