Brill - Language at your fingertips
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Brill is a vocabulary-first language learning app built for real life. It doesn’t teach through lessons or exercises. Instead, Brill helps you build vocabulary through repeated exposure — on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. It supports 15 languages and focuses on useful, real-world words. Customize what you see, add your own vocabulary, filter by topic, and blur translations for active recall. Lightweight and distraction-free, Brill turns everyday phone glances into steady language progress.
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Framer
Love this, such a great way to learn without noticing
DeepTagger
Congratulations on your re-launch. Are you planning to add more functionality? Or sync it in any way with existing language learning apps? I mean, how does it know which word to show, how does it track your progress?
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@avloss Great question - I want to look into adding better spaced repetition methods to the widget. But right now, you’re able to toggle on/off words in a given language (or add new ones!) to tailor the words you need to learn/already know 👍
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What I like about this app is that users can add their own vocabulary that fits their background. This makes users more proactive and engaged, which could potentially lead to faster language learning.
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@busmark_w_nika Thanks for the feedback!
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@addisonschultz You are welcome :)
Such a brilliant app! You end up picking up a language almost without trying. I find this especially useful when you’re in a foreign country - seeing the same words pop up everywhere really helps them stick.
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@raveena_prabakaran Glad you’re finding it useful! What language are you learning?
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Lock screen drip feed is my pace. Feels like something I’ll actually use between texts. Top 1000 is a solid start. The blur recall trick sounds nice. I’ll add my own words and try it with German on coffee breaks.
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@alexcloudstar Thanks for checking it out! Appreciate you stopping by, let me know if you have any feedback!
@Brill Love the micro-learning approach through daily passive exposure on lock/home screen. behavioral psychology done right. Question: how do you balance vocabulary relevance (teaching words actually used) with the complexity of different proficiency levels across 15 languages? What's your retention/daily active rate looking like?
The widget part is awesome!
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I'll definitely give this a spin over the holidays!
Best of luck this launch, I'm following closely behind on #11 so let's both make that top 10 today 🚀
Wow, Brill looks amazing! Love the idea of learning vocab right on my home screen. Super curious, how does the blurring feature work with different character-based languages like Japanese?
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@jaydev13 Thanks for checking it out! The blur feature works the same right now for all languages - it blurs out the English word when it appears - and you can tap to reveal it