Wit works through the words in the packs you've taken, one at a time, in an order that is yours rather than everyone's. The Home Screen widget and the words you open in the app each keep track of what they've already shown you, and new words always come before a repeat. Nothing laps on its own: once you've met every word available to you, Wit stops there until you ask for another pass.
Wit's day turns over first thing in the morning – six o'clock, your phone's own time – rather than at midnight. If you're still awake at one in the morning, you're in yesterday's day; a new word is waiting once six o'clock passes.
On Free the widget changes once a day, each morning. Pro lets you pick twice, three or six times a day, changing every twelve, six or three hours between 6 AM and 9 PM; the evening's word stays overnight. You set the rate under Settings › Refresh rate (Settings is on the You tab). A new rate starts right away, for the rest of today, though today's morning word stays put. Later changes bring back words you've saved or already met before showing you one you haven't met yet. With Pro, the widget's arrow can still change the word at any hour.
No. The widget and the app each keep their own record of what they've shown you, so reading ahead in the app doesn't use up words the widget hasn't reached yet. Every word you haven't met on the widget stays waiting for it – words you've met nowhere else come first, and the ones you read ahead on follow behind them.
It sits on the card Wit shows you when you've reached the end, and the press starts a fresh pass through the words you've already met. If the widget has also finished its own run, this wakes it back up too; a widget still working through its first run is left alone. Anything you haven't met yet is still delivered first, ahead of any repeat.
Instead of a new word, Wit shows you a card saying so. On Free it offers Pro, or a replay of what you've already met; on Pro it offers to add another pack, and to deal everything again when there is anything left to deal again. The widget shows the same news in its own way, and tapping it opens the app to that same screen.
Yes – Wit works through the packs you've taken, and you choose which ones during setup or later under You › Packs. There are thirteen. The newest, British vs American, is a hundred everyday pairs like lift and elevator: each word plays in its own accent, and a UK / US switch on its card shows the other word. On Say It Better, a word's card crosses out the everyday phrase in its example, so you see the swap. Add a pack and its words join what you're already getting, without disturbing anything already in progress.
Interests let you pick topics you care about, and lean the words you're sent toward them without limiting you to just those. Pick none and you get a mix of all topics – the app's own line for it is Nothing picked · a mix of all topics. They're free on every plan, and you set them under You › Interests. Changing them only changes what comes next; words you've already saved stay right where they are.
Words a day is how many words you aim to save each day, not how many words Wit sends you. Today's progress shows as the small bar at the top right of Today, and you set the number itself under You › Words a day. Reaching your number offers a quick round on the words you saved that day – on Free, if you still have one of your two rounds left – and a change you make starts tomorrow, not today.
Touch and hold your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Wit. Settings › Add the widget shows these steps again.
iOS decides the exact moment a widget refreshes, so it can run a little late; opening Wit nudges it. It never changes on its own between 9 PM and 6 AM. If the widget shows Wit asleep, open the app once and it wakes up.
Tap the bookmark to save the word, and with Wit Pro, tap the arrow for another word straight away. The bookmark is there on Free too: it fills in once the word is saved, and the word joins your Collection the next time you open Wit. With Pro, the arrow works at any hour, and the word you moved past isn't marked as known: it comes back another day. When there are no more words for now, the arrow opens Wit instead. On Free, the arrow opens Wit Pro. For a word you already know, there's the ✓ at the bottom of its card in the app, I already know this.
Yes – in Settings, under Notifications: the Daily word switch turns it on or off, and Time sets when it arrives.
Yes. Choosing it for every word is part of Pro: under Settings › Pronunciation (Settings is on the You tab), choose James, American English, or Frederick, British English. With Frederick, the pronunciation shown with a word is written the British way, in the app and on the widget, and every word you play sounds British. If Pro ends you hear James again, until Pro is back. The one exception is the British vs American pack, on Free too: each word keeps its own accent, so the British word is written and played the British way, in Frederick's voice, and the American word the American way, in James's.
Practice gives you short rounds that favor the words you've saved and the ones you're still learning. Play Mixed, which includes all four kinds, or one kind at a time: Find the word, Find the meaning, Hear it or Fill the gap. In Fill the gap, one of a word's own sentences has that word left out: pick it from four, and after any answer the right word fills the gap. On Free you can practice twice a day. When you've learned every word Practice can ask, it says so instead of handing out rounds that change nothing. On Free it offers to unlock every word, and on either plan to add a pack while one is left.
A right answer earns a word a dot, at most one a day, and a miss takes one away. Three dots means the word is learned: it steps out of your everyday rounds, and comes back a few times to check it stuck.
Yes. A word you've learned comes back in Practice a few days later, then after a week, then after three weeks, to check it stuck. A miss sends it back to Learning; get all three right and it earns a Witproof stamp. The checks come inside your usual rounds, so they work on Free too.
It's a word's graduation. A learned word that gets all three of its checks right earns a stamp dated the day it passed. It shows at the end of that round and beside the word in your Collection, and Practice doesn't ask that word again.
It's the ✓ at the bottom of a word's card, free on any word. On a word you saved, it moves the word to Learned in your Collection and counts it as learned, and Practice still checks it later. On a word you didn't save, the word goes to Already known and stops coming to you: it doesn't count as learned, and it isn't added to your Collection. Once a word is learned, the ✓ becomes an arrow, Practice this again, which brings it back.
If you hadn't saved them, to You › Your setup › Already known, along with the words you picked in the level check. Swipe one and tap Bring back to return it to the words Wit sends you. A word you had saved goes to Learned in your Collection instead, and Practice checks it like any learned word.
The words you save, split into Learning and Learned, with a search to find any of them.
In Learning, the dots show how close a word is: a third dot makes it learned. In Learned, the three dots join up as the word passes its checks – the bottom two after the first, all three after the second. After the third, they give way to the Witproof stamp and its date.
Twenty words in every pack you take, delivered one at a time, with nothing to buy. You can practice twice a day, and your Home Screen widget updates once a day. Progress draws your packs in full and the week you're in; the month grid and the curve behind it are part of Pro.
Every word in every pack you've taken, not just the free twenty. It also unlocks the faster widget rates, the widget's arrow, Frederick's British voice, Practice without the daily cap, and the rest of Progress – the month grid and the curve, instead of the week alone.
It runs seven days, on the yearly plan only. If you have notifications switched on, Wit reminds you before it ends, usually the day before. If you don't cancel, it turns into a paid year automatically, and you'll see the price on screen before you're ever charged.
Apple bills you through the App Store, on whichever plan you chose – monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel it. Wit's own Settings carries a Manage subscription row that opens Apple's panel for it; you can also get there from your iPhone's Settings app, under your Apple Account.
Wit has no account to sign into – your purchase is tied to the Apple Account you paid with, not to a login of ours. On your new phone, sign in with that Apple Account, open Settings inside Wit, and tap Restore purchases.
No – Wit's plans aren't shared through Family Sharing right now. Each purchase covers only the Apple Account it was bought with.
Everything you have stays: your saved words, your learned words, your Witproof stamps and your progress. New words come from the free twenty again, the widget goes back to once a day and its arrow opens Wit Pro, Practice goes back to twice a day, and you hear James again, except for British vs American's British words, which keep Frederick. Progress keeps your record; the month grid and curve go back to Pro.
No – Wit is iPhone only, for now.
Your level comes from the short level check at setup, where you picked the words you already knew from three lists, each harder than the last. It places you as Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, and it shapes the words Wit brings you each day. You can see it under You › Level, and retake the check from there any time with Take the level check again; the level it finds applies at once. If a word turns up that you already know, open it and tap the ✓, I already know this.
Yes, when your iPhone can translate into it: tap Translate on a word and the definition is shown in your language. If your iPhone is in English, Wit uses the next language in your iPhone's list; if there is none, the button reads Translate… and lets you pick one. Your phone does the work, through Apple's own translation framework, so the definition never reaches us and never reaches a translation service. The first time you use a language iOS downloads it; after that it works offline. To change the language or turn translation off, go to Translation in Settings.
No. Wit has no sign-up and no login – you open the app and it works. The only account involved is your own iCloud, which keeps your saved words in step across your devices if you use it.
Yes, through your own iCloud – Wit doesn't run a sync service of its own, it just keeps its records where your iCloud already keeps things. Your saved words, the record of which words you've already been shown, when you first and last saw each one, and a couple of small settings that keep your place move between your devices that way. We never see or hold a copy of any of it.
A little: some usage information so we can see what's working, with no name and no account attached; your subscription status so a purchase can be checked; and whatever you send to your own iCloud or share out of the app yourself. The full list, in plain terms, is in our privacy policy.
It clears what Wit keeps on this phone and in your iCloud – your saved words, the record of what you've been shown, your notification settings, and your onboarding answers – so the app starts over as new. It doesn't touch an active subscription, the warning before a free week ends, the random identifier our analytics counts this install by, or a few small notes our privacy policy names. It can't reach into our analytics or payment provider to erase what was already sent there either; write to us afterwards and we'll remove that too.
Yes – the words and their audio live on your phone. Translation needs a one-time download of your language, and buying or restoring a purchase needs a connection.
Tell us through the contact form and we'll fix it in an update.
