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Best Anki Alternatives for Language Learners: An Honest Comparison
Anki vs SuperMemo vs Quizlet vs Memrise vs Word Holder — an honest comparison for language learners: deck creation effort, SRS algorithms, reading integration, price, and who should use what.
12 Apr 2026 · Updated 13 Jun 2026Spaced Repetition Without Making Decks
The card-making tax is where most flashcard systems die. Shared decks, batch capture, export pipelines, and cards that create themselves from your lookups — the real options compared.
12 Jun 2026Anki for Reading? What to Use When Your Vocabulary Comes From Books
Six workflows for connecting reading to spaced repetition — manual Anki cards, Kindle export, Yomitan, SuperMemo incremental reading, and readers where lookups become cards — with honest trade-offs.
12 Jun 2026How SM-2 Scheduling Works (and Why Your Flashcards Come Back Right Before You Forget)
A plain-language explanation of the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithm behind Anki, SuperMemo, and Word Holder: the forgetting curve, ease factors, expanding intervals, and what FSRS and SM-20 changed.
12 Jun 2026From Lookup to Long-Term Memory: What Happens After You Tap a Word
The full journey of a word in Word Holder: tapped in a real text, captured automatically with its sentence, scheduled by SM-2, and retrieved in fill-in-the-blank reviews until it sticks for good.
12 Jun 2026What's New in Word Holder: Reading Passages, Conjugations, and Richer Definitions
A roundup of the latest Word Holder features — built-in graded reading passages (including multi-part chapter series), full verb conjugation tables on the word card, context-aware definitions that read the sentence to pick the right meaning, and definitions with synonyms, antonyms, and register badges.
06 Jun 2026From Slow Dictionary to Two-Phase Lookup
How Word Holder evolved from a paid dictionary API to AI definitions to a two-phase lookup system — fast short answers first, rich explanations when you want them.
15 Mar 2026Bye Bye Lexicala, Hello OpenAI
Why Word Holder switched from the Lexicala dictionary API to OpenAI — faster lookups, caching, and AI-powered definitions.
12 Sept 2025Why I Created Word Holder
The story behind Word Holder — tracking vocabulary while learning Italian, from paper lists to a smart personal dictionary.
27 Apr 2024