Terminus

Your own word list on your iPhone Lock Screen

Terminus has no built-in courses. You paste the words you want to learn, and one waits on your Lock Screen each time you pick up your phone.

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Free. For iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later. In English only.

diolchthank you

Any language you can type

Your cards are your own text. A list in Welsh, Esperanto or Arabic pastes the same way as a list in Spanish. The app itself is in English.

diolch - thank you
dankon - thank you
شكرا - thank you

One word and its meaning on each line

Put a tab or a dash between the word and its meaning. A list from a spreadsheet, with the words in one column and the meanings in the next, pastes as it is. A third column becomes a second line of the meaning.

A few words each time you look

Tap the card on your Lock Screen to see the meaning. Pick Again, Hard, Good or Easy. Words you miss come back sooner, and words you know come back later.

Study and Review

In the app, Study teaches the words you do not know yet. Review asks the words you learned that you must recall now.