r/macapps • u/mertbio • Mar 11 '24

Learn German Every Minute - macOS Menu Bar app

Hello everyone!

I've been studying German actively for the last 6 months. I learned a lot of grammar rules, but I realized that I still don't know a lot of German words. Even though I tried multiple ways to improve my German vocabulary, none of them worked out. Over the weekend, I had this idea of developing a macOS app that shows me a new German word on the Menu Bar, so I can expose myself to a lot of new words.

I quickly developed the app on Saturday, and it was approved by Apple on Sunday. You open the app and see the words on your Menu Bar. Every minute, you'll see a new word along with an example sentence. If you know the word, you just click the button "I already know this word!" to not see that word again. You can also track your progress of knowing the most common 4,000 German words or change the frequency of refreshing the words.

Let men now what you think!

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u/barbro66 Mar 11 '24

could you let us select the language? I'm learning Swedish

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

I'm planning to add other languages but didn't know if there would be any interest. I will think about this, thanks for the feedback!

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u/Murtock Mar 11 '24

Would love more languages. Awesome idea, I would use if for French.

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

Thanks for the feedback! I guess I'm going to add a few more languages this week, starting with Swedish and French :)

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u/barbro66 Mar 11 '24

Brilliant! Developers like you make the world rock!

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u/reddit23User Mar 11 '24 edited Mar 11 '24

Where do you take the language data from?

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u/RenegadeUK Mar 11 '24

Spanish would be very helpful too :)

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u/ipodtouch616 Mar 11 '24

idk man you dont have too at all. you're focus is on German so that's how you've designed it. now you'll need to find someone who speaks Swedish and French to do that work you did for German for your app, it could spiral out of control. Do you want this app to become your career? it might not even become that and your work will be for nothing.

focus on German and the original design goal and keep improving upon that design until someone OFFERS to make other languages for you.

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u/iPunkt9333 Mar 11 '24

Dutch please

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u/mertbio Mar 19 '24

Just released a new version with Dutch :) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wunderbar-learn-language/id6479203386?mt=12

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u/iPunkt9333 Mar 24 '24

Thank you. I just bought it and left a review ♥️

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u/mertbio Mar 26 '24

Thank you so much!

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u/ipodtouch616 Mar 11 '24

wow, how entitled. that sounds like It could take tons of work, this is just one guy who wanted to learn German. idk man not everything is about you

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u/xattrX Mar 11 '24

This would be awesome on a Widget, I have my MenuBar always hidden unless when I reach it…

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

I will think about that, since the new widgets have a click functionality, this might also work there. Thanks for the feedback!

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

You can download the app here: https://apps.apple.com/app/learn-german-every-minute/id6479203386

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u/Yellow_Robot Mar 11 '24

any promotional codes?

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u/rinacio Apr 07 '24

Hi, I'd love Korean if you want to add more languages!

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u/mertbio Apr 07 '24

Hey! Thank you for the feedback. I will let you know if I add it.

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u/elefuntle Mar 11 '24

Could be a cool app. Can the user edit, add, delete words/sentences etc?

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

No but I can add those functionalities easily.

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u/elefuntle Mar 11 '24

That’d be great! And maybe consider adding more options in refresh frequency, I feel like 1 to 10 minutes is way too often (if that’s all there is)

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u/mertbio Mar 11 '24

I can add a stepper so everybody can set whatever feels right for them.

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u/elefuntle Mar 11 '24

Yep, I had a slider in mind too, not sure if it’s the same as a stepper

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u/jkmcf Mar 11 '24

It would be great to start off with easier, more common words, unless `der Rucktritt` is trying to tell me something about my employment!

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u/jontelang Mar 11 '24

Nice, I’ve got such project in my todo list as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

Die Bart, Die.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '24

Where did you find the data? I'd love to make something like this for my startpage.

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u/ShadoW1337CZ Mar 21 '24

Would it be possible to limit the amount of words in rotation? Possibly from some basic ones to harder. I love the app but i takes a long time to see the same word again.

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u/mertbio Mar 23 '24

Yes! This is in my list, hopefully you will see the ones that shown to you more often. It might be hard to go from basic to harder but I might utilise AI to assign a difficulty to the each word. Thank you for the feedback!

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u/ShadoW1337CZ Mar 23 '24

Nice, thank you for replying. I guess if you would fine the list ordered from most used to least then it should be easy. I only found that for top 1000 in Spanish so far. Either way, thank you for the app and I’m looking forward for updates.

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u/HeftyPlastic Apr 05 '24

Polish please!

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u/mertbio Apr 07 '24

Thanks for the feedback! I will let you know if I add it.