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- Vocable Box Version: v1.2.0
- Last Webpage Update: 2017/07/04
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What's Vocable Box all about
Vocable Box is an iCloud-based software solution of a box of flashcards (index cards). It's a universal app that runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad with iOS v9.3 or newer.
Learning with Vocable Box is faster, more efficient, and more customizable than the traditional
approach of using a carefully selected stack of handwritten flashcards. After translating each
vocable and rating if you have memorized the translation correctly, the trainer updates your current
state of knowledge of each prompted flashcard. When you're done with the training, the dictionary
provides you an excellent overview of all the retrieved vocables. It enables you to repeat all the
queried entries quickly, which you've translated wrong. All those entries of interest become
highlighted in red right after returning. The summary makes you see the bigger picture. It shows
you which of your word categories are well trained, and which do need more exercise.
The app offers you...
- support for one native language (base language) and any number of foreign languages of your choice.
- your language-dependent categories, which are providing further information about the topic area, the word class, word application, and learning unit.
- an efficient way to organize your translations between your native language and the selected foreign language as well as to attach any number of categories to the native part respectively foreign part of any entry (add new translations or modify selected translations, respectively all displayed entries).
- a listing of your aggregated vocabulary in the dictionary, which includes either any forward translation or backward translation available (the app handles both translation directions separately).
- for each listed translation (entry) an arrow with percentage, showing you the specified direction of translation.
- for each entry a percentage, declaring your current state of knowledge of the translation in the respective direction
of translation:
- 90% or above: almost always memorized - well learned
- around 50%: now and again known - insufficiently studied
- below 50%: rarely correct, recently forgotten, or never trained at all - a trainer to test a selected part of the dictionary (word category, random words, recently checked unit, weak words, etc.). During the training, you score each found translation regarding the solution provided. In the end, the trainer updates all the percentages of the prompted translations regarding your previous scores and the chosen direction of translation.
- a summary that shows you all the parts of the dictionary (word categories) that you have well trained, and those parts that need more exercise.
- to import / export vocabulary by copying file from a Mac / PC to iCloud Drive iCloud Drive/VocableBox/Import folder.
- to share vocabulary files between iOS devices / Mac / PC by using AirDrop, Email, or iMessage (AirDrop and iMessage aren’t available on the PC)
- to export vocabulary from the Vocable Box app to a file on iCloud Drive/VocableBox/Export directory (the selected category of the native language or foreign language)
- downloadable vocable files (DLC) to seed the dictionary with vocabulary
As a cloud-based app...
- it synchronizes your language data across multiple Apple mobile devices (using the preconfigured user account in "Settings > iCloud").
- it works offline on a single device with only a very few restrictions - the following operations need an active
iCloud connection:
- defining native language
- deleting foreign language
- installing the app (requires time to download all pre-existing data)
- deleting the entire database
- import
- export - it securely stores your valuable data in the cloud (automatic backup).
- everything can automatically be transferred to your next Apple mobile device (iCloud download).
- it doesn't need to transmit large amounts of data when synchronizing with iCloud.
- Note that a thousand translations in the cloud are about the same size of a 12-megapixel JPEG image, shot with the new iPhone 7.
The App ...
- is easy to use.
- is carefully designed.
- offers a fast and reliable architecture.
- functionality is intuitively understandable.
- uses feedback dialogs, which are providing information why the execution of any operation failed.
- Homepage is where you find all the resources (short overview, comprehensive manual, FAQ).
In-App-Purchases are designed in a way that...
- the app can be extensively tried out; offers a maximum of 50 translations for free.
- each package is a one-time in-app payment (1, 3, or infinite languages with the support of unlimited translations).
- it's all non-subscription based.
- you are free to import any number of translations until June 1, 2018. Afterwards, you need at least 1 language with the support of unlimited translations as soon as with importing that foreign language gets more than 50 translations.
List of Supported Devices
Supported iPhone Devices:
- iPhone 7 / iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone 6S / iPhone 6S Plus / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 5 SE / iPhone 5S / iPhone 5C / iPhone 5
- iPhone 4S
Supported iPad Devices:
- iPad Pro 1st Gen (12.9 inch) / iPad Pro 2nd Gen (12.9 inch)
- iPad Pro (10.5 inch)
- iPad Pro (9.7 inch)
- iPad 2017 / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air
- iPad 4 / iPad 3 / iPad 2
- iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 2 / iPad Mini
Supported iPod Touch Devices:
- iPod Touch 6th Gen
- iPod Touch 5th Gen
