Short version: if you are on Pro with an IELTS goal, start with Today. The other sections help you complete the work.
If you are preparing for IELTS with Pro, Today is the main place to begin. It reads your IELTS goal, roadmap, overdue cards, recent Writing/Speaking/Reading results, and recurring mistakes, then turns them into a short task queue.
Use the app in this order: open Today, complete the first recommended task, return to Today, then continue down the queue. When all tasks are done, Today tells you that the plan is complete and that a new AI plan will be ready tomorrow.
Roadmap is the long-term plan. It shows which preparation phase you are in: Foundation, Skill Building, Exam Simulation, or Final Review. You do not need to open it every day.
Use Roadmap when you want to understand the bigger direction: why the coach keeps assigning certain tasks, which phase is active, and what should improve next.
Writing, Speaking, Reading, and Decks are the work rooms. Today sends you into one of them with a specific reason: write an essay, do a Speaking drill, practise Reading, or review cards.
After you finish practice, return to Today. The coach uses the new result in tomorrow's plan.
Decks are the foundation of voxara. Each deck is a collection of flashcards grouped by topic, book, lesson, or any way you like. Create as many decks as you need — for example, one per chapter of a textbook or one per topic like "Business English" or "IELTS Academic Vocabulary". You can rename or delete decks at any time from the main page.
If your target language is English, you will also see IELTS Ready Decks — curated public collections including the Academic Word List (AWL) and other exam-relevant vocabulary. These are ready to study immediately, and your progress in them is tracked separately from the deck itself, so multiple users can study the same deck independently.
Each card has a front (the word or phrase in the language you are learning) and a back (the translation in your native language). You can add cards manually one by one — the form stays open so you can add several in a row. As you type the front, voxara will auto-translate it to the back and vice versa, so you only need to correct if the translation is off.
Cards may also have a context sentence and its translation — these come from the Import Text feature and are used in Cloze mode. Each card has a speaker button on the front: tap it to hear the word pronounced using your device's text-to-speech engine.
Instead of adding cards by hand, paste any text — an article, a book excerpt, a study passage — and let Pro AI extract the most useful vocabulary for you. You can also paste a URL and voxara will fetch the page content automatically. The AI picks words appropriate for your level, provides translations and example sentences. You review the list, deselect anything you already know, and add the rest to your deck in one tap.
You can also import from Quizlet or any CSV file. Paste tab-separated or comma-separated rows in the format: front, back, optional context, optional context translation. This lets you bring in existing word lists from other apps instantly.
Review uses spaced repetition — a method where you see words right before you would forget them. Each card is shown as a flip card: read the front, try to recall the translation, then flip to check. Rate yourself: "Again" if you forgot (the card comes back soon), "Good" for a correct recall, or "Easy" if it was effortless. The algorithm schedules each card for the optimal next review time. Cards you struggle with appear more often; cards you know well appear less. The badge on the deck page shows how many cards are due today.
Learn mode is a relaxed way to browse through all cards in your deck without any scoring or scheduling. Cards are shuffled and shown one by one as flip cards. Navigate with buttons, arrow keys, or swipe left and right on mobile. Use this mode when you first create a deck to get familiar with the words before starting reviews, or whenever you want a quick refresher without pressure.
Quiz mode tests your knowledge with multiple-choice questions. You see a word in the language you are learning and pick the correct translation from four options. Correct answers light up green, wrong ones red. At the end you get a score and a summary. You need at least 4 cards in a deck to start a quiz. This is a fast way to check how well you remember a set of words before a review session.
Cloze mode shows you a sentence with a missing word and asks you to fill in the blank. The sentences come from the context captured during import — real examples from the texts you studied. A translation hint is shown below. This trains you to recall words in context rather than in isolation, which is closer to how language works in practice. Cloze is available when your cards have context sentences (created via Import Text).
Story mode uses Pro AI to generate a short narrative that weaves in all the words from your deck. Reading a story where your vocabulary appears naturally builds deeper associations and makes the words stick. Tap any highlighted word in the story to see its translation. You can generate multiple stories — they are saved and listed so you can re-read them later. You need at least 3 cards in a deck to generate a story.
Manage mode lets you review all cards in a deck, search by keyword, select multiple cards, and delete them in bulk. You can edit any card inline. It also runs local checks for duplicates, identical front and back, and other obvious problems.
Use Pro AI Analyze to run a deeper check — it will find wrong translations, misspellings, cards that are not real translations, and other quality issues. Each issue is labeled with a recommended action: edit or delete. Results are saved for the session.
You can export your deck to a CSV file at any time from the deck page. The file contains front, back, context, and context translation for every card — suitable for Anki, Quizlet, or a spreadsheet.
The Translate page includes a free basic translator and a Pro AI translator powered by Claude Haiku. Paste any word, phrase, or short paragraph and translate between supported languages. Your translation history is stored locally on the device so you can scroll back through previous lookups without repeating the request.
Translate is useful when you encounter a word outside of a study session and want a quick, reliable translation without leaving the app.
Notes is a lightweight notebook for everything that does not belong on a flashcard — a phrase you want to remember, a draft thesis statement, a list of linking words, or a saved AI review. Open it from the header to see all your notes, newest first. The "New note" button creates a blank note and drops you straight into the editor.
The editor has two modes. Render shows your text as formatted markdown — headings, bullets, quotes, tables, inline code. Click anywhere to switch to edit mode, where the same content shows as plain markdown in a textarea. Blur the field and it flips back to render and saves. Saving also happens automatically while you type, so you do not need a save button.
Every Writing, Speaking, and Reading review has a Save to notes button, and every row in your Translate history has a Save link. Saving captures the structured feedback — band scores, improvements, model answers — as a markdown note you can revisit and edit later. If you also write a Daily reflection inside Today, it appears in a separate Daily reflections section on the Notes page so all your study notes live in one view.
Notes are free for everyone — no Pro required.
IELTS Writing practice covers both task types of the Academic module.
Task 1 asks you to describe a chart or graph — bar chart, line graph, or pie chart — in at least 150 words. voxara generates a data prompt with a chart visualisation and a question, then evaluates your response across the official IELTS criteria.
Task 2 is a discursive essay of at least 250 words on an academic topic. voxara generates a question and evaluates your essay for task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical resource, and grammatical range and accuracy. Each criterion receives a band score from 1 to 9. You also get specific strengths, improvement suggestions, vocabulary recommendations with more academic alternatives, and a model improved paragraph.
AI feedback is a Pro feature. Free accounts can use manual flashcards and preview the workflow before upgrading.
IELTS Speaking simulates all three parts of the exam interview using your device microphone.
Part 1 — Interview: short personal questions, up to 2 minutes per answer. Part 2 — Long Turn: you receive a topic card and have 60 seconds to prepare notes, then speak for up to 2 minutes. Part 3 — Discussion: abstract follow-up questions on the Part 2 topic, up to 3 minutes.
Your speech is transcribed live using the Web Speech API in your browser. After each answer, AI evaluates your performance and provides a band score breakdown for fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. You also receive a model Band 7+ answer for comparison.
Requires a browser with Web Speech API support (Chrome, Safari). AI feedback is included in Pro.
IELTS Reading practice provides academic passages on a range of topics — science, history, environment, technology, and others. Each session presents a full-length passage with 6 IELTS-format questions. You have 20 minutes on the clock.
Tap any word in the passage to open a translation popup. Submit your answers at any time before the timer runs out. At the end you see your score, the correct answers, and explanations.
AI-generated passages are included in Pro. Free accounts can use flashcards and public IELTS decks without AI calls.
The Stats page shows your IELTS practice history at a glance.
The activity calendar marks each day you completed at least one Writing or Speaking session. Your current streak and total session count are shown alongside. The band score chart plots your Writing and Speaking scores over time so you can see your trajectory. The weekly bar chart shows how many sessions you completed each day of the past week.
Stats are updated immediately after each session and persist in your account.
In Settings you can set your name, your native language, and the language you are learning. These are used as defaults throughout the app — for auto-translate, import, and story generation — so you do not have to pick them every time. If you decide to learn another language, change the setting and the app adjusts. Your existing decks and cards are not affected.
IELTS features (Writing, Speaking, Reading, Stats) are only available when your target language is set to English.
voxara Pro adds direction to IELTS preparation.
Included in Pro: Writing feedback, Speaking practice, Reading drills, context translation, vocabulary extraction, stories, deck analysis, mistake memory, daily plan, and full activity history. Daily push reminders can be enabled from Settings.
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Decks, cards, and review progress are cached locally so you can keep studying without an internet connection. Flashcard review, browsing previously loaded stories and passages all work offline.
AI features — vocabulary import, story generation, Writing, Speaking, Reading — require a connection. Progress syncs automatically when you come back online, and a small banner appears at the top of the page when the connection is lost or restored.
Yes. The free plan includes flashcards, SM-2 spaced repetition, public IELTS decks, markdown notes, and basic translation. Pro adds AI Writing, Speaking, and Reading checks, a daily study plan, and a personalised roadmap.
Yes — an account lets voxara save your decks and review progress and sync them across devices. It is free to create.
Core study features (flashcards and spaced-repetition review) work offline, because voxara is a PWA that caches your decks. AI features such as the Writing checker need an internet connection.
voxara uses the SM-2 algorithm — the same family as Anki. It schedules each card for review just before you would forget it, so daily reviews stay short even with a large deck.
The IELTS tools (Writing, Speaking, Reading, daily plan) appear when your target language is English. The flashcards, spaced repetition, and translation work for studying vocabulary in any supported language.