✨ Lesson notes in, flashcards out 🔗 Nothing for students to sign up for 📈 Always free for your students

Assign the vocabulary today.
Know who's ready before the next lesson.

Paste the notes from the lesson you just taught and the vocabulary is pulled out for you, translated, with the sentence each word came from. Or photograph a textbook page, paste a list, or name a topic. Native audio comes with every card, AI grammar notes whenever you want one, and you approve it all before it goes out. Students practise from one private link, with nothing to sign up for. You see who's solid, who's guessing, and who hasn't started.

Free to start · No credit card · Nothing for students to install
Helping your child? You don't need to speak the language yourself.

Works with any language pair

🇩🇪 German🇪🇸 Spanish🇫🇷 French🇨🇳 Chinese 🇯🇵 Japanese🇮🇹 Italian🇵🇹 Portuguese🇰🇷 Korean 🇸🇦 Arabic🌍 Any language
How it works

From lesson notes to tracked progress in minutes

Three steps, and a setup guide walks you through them the first time. Nothing for your students to onboard into.

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📝 Paste the lesson you just taught

Drop in your notes, a transcript, or a chat log and the vocabulary is pulled out for you, translated, with the sentence each word came from. Or photograph a textbook page, paste a word list, name a topic, or import from Anki.

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🔗 Set up a class, share one code

Create a class and send students the join code. They add themselves: no roster to type, no accounts to create. Each one lands on their own private link, where every deck you assign later shows up.

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📊 See who's actually learning

Every review is tracked per student, per card (spaced-repetition progress, struggling flags, class breakdowns), from the moment they start practising.

After the first class it's a loop, not a setup. Every lesson after that: paste what you covered, assign the deck, check the hub before you next walk in.

Who it's for

Independent tutors, classroom teachers, and homeschool parents

If you create vocabulary and someone else studies it, this was built for you. (Learning solo? A full student mode is built in too.)

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Independent tutors

Each student gets a private link and practices between sessions. Open their stats before the next lesson and know exactly where to start. A tool that's yours, with a public page carrying your name, wherever you teach from.

How tutors use it
  1. First lesson: your student gets their personal study link, the one they'll keep for every deck you ever make them.
  2. After each lesson: paste the words you covered, and the new deck appears at their link in a minute.
  3. Between sessions: they practice from that link, and when a word confuses them, they ask you right on the card.
  4. Before the next one: open their stats and start exactly where they struggled.
  5. Meanwhile: publish your best decks, and each becomes a public page with your name and contact on it, quietly picking up searches for exactly what you teach.
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Classroom teachers

Assign this week's vocabulary to the whole class in one click. Before the test, check who actually reviewed. No accounts to manage, no homework to collect.

How a school year looks
  1. First day of school: students join once with the class code, and each gets a link to their learning page they keep all year.
  2. Sunday evenings: photograph the unit's word list, and AI builds the deck with audio.
  3. Every week: assign the new deck to the class, and it simply appears at everyone's link.
  4. When someone's stuck: they ask right on the card; the question lands in your inbox, your answer lands back on their card.
  5. Before each test: the progress matrix shows who reviewed, and who needs a nudge.
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Homeschool & heritage-language parents

You don't have to speak the language to teach it. Photograph the workbook page and AI handles the translation, native pronunciation, and grammar notes. You just guide the studying. Works just as well for heritage-language weekend schools and homeschool co-ops teaching Chinese, Korean, or Arabic.

How parents use it
  1. Day one: your child gets their own study link, and every deck you add later shows up there.
  2. Homework nights: photograph the workbook page; AI translates it and adds spoken audio.
  3. Daily: five minutes of practice with audio; spaced repetition resurfaces each word right before it's forgotten.
  4. Any evening: glance at their progress. No nagging, the numbers tell you.
Why littlebignames

Built around how teaching actually works

Most flashcard apps are built for one solo student. This one is built for the person who teaches many, without asking any of them to sign up.

For everyone who teaches

The card is where you and your student meet

Every card can carry your note, the thing you'd say if you were sitting next to them. And when that isn't enough, they tap "Ask teacher" and the question arrives in your inbox with the card attached. Reply once, and your answer is waiting the next time they study.

  • Your note travels with the card: write it yourself, or edit the AI's draft
  • Threaded Q&A per card, with unread badges so nothing slips through
  • Students can keep private notes of their own, and those stay theirs
For classroom teachers

No accounts. No admin. Just progress.

Every review a student makes is tracked automatically, down to the card. See who's reviewed today, who hasn't started, and who's genuinely struggling, without ever asking anyone to create an account, share an email, or sign in.

  • Per-student, per-card review history and average quality
  • Struggling students flagged automatically: no digging through spreadsheets
  • Their reviews can't change or break your own deck's schedule
For everyone who teaches

Your lesson is already a deck

Stop retyping vocabulary lists. Paste your lesson notes, a transcript or a chat log and the words worth studying are pulled out of it. Or photograph a textbook page, paste a word list, or just describe a topic. It's one box: what you put in decides what happens next.

  • Say what you want out of it: nouns, verbs, phrases, or only words the deck doesn't already have
  • Keep the sentence a word appeared in as a note your students see
  • Preview and edit every card before importing
  • Audio pronunciation on every card, automatically
  • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cards carry pinyin, romaji, and romanization alongside the script
For independent tutors

A public page that's yours, not a platform's

Publish any deck and it becomes a clean page at your own link, carrying your bio, teaching languages, and contact email. Not hidden behind somebody else's brand. Share it from your own site, your social bio, or wherever you already point people. And since every page is crawlable and sitemapped, students searching for exactly the vocabulary you teach can find it too.

  • One click to publish: the page and URL are generated for you
  • Your name and contact info, always. Never a platform's
  • Unpublish any time, and if you republish later, the deck keeps the same link
For parents & homeschoolers

You don't have to be fluent to teach one

Photograph your child's school workbook and AI builds the deck: accurate translations, spoken audio for every word, and study notes on grammar and common mistakes. You supply the page; the AI supplies the expertise.

  • Audio for every card, even the words you can't pronounce yourself
  • AI explanations cover grammar and common mistakes, not just the translation
  • Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cards show the pronunciation in Latin letters, so you can check your child even if you can't read the script
Everything included

A complete vocabulary toolkit

Everything you need to create, share, and track. Nothing you have to configure.

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Progress tracking, included

A per-class progress matrix shows reviews per student per deck, plus struggling flags, streaks, and last-active times.

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Real spaced repetition

The proven SM-2 algorithm resurfaces each card at the right moment across sessions: maximum retention, minimum review time.

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Native audio

Every card can be read aloud in a lifelike voice, so students hear correct pronunciation from day one.

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Lesson notes into cards

Paste the notes, transcript or chat log from a lesson and the vocabulary is pulled out of it. Tell it what you want (nouns, verbs, phrases, or only what's new to the deck) and untick anything you don't before a single card is added.

Smart AI translation

Type a word and the translation fills in automatically. Choose Automatic, Formal, or Colloquial register. And when a word has multiple meanings, selectable alternatives appear so you pick the right one.

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Classes & individuals

Assign a deck to a whole class in one click, or give extra practice decks to the students who need them.

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A public page of your own

Publish any deck to a clean page at its own link, carrying your name and contact info. Turn it off any time.

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Anki import & export

Bring your existing Anki decks in with one click, and export any deck back out. Your content stays yours.

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AI word explanations

One tap generates a note your students actually see: grammar, register, and common mistakes, skipping the trivia that doesn't help them use the word.

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A student seat of your own

Assign any deck to yourself and review it like a student would, to check how it lands before it goes out, or to keep your own vocabulary sharp. Tracked separately from your students'.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The things teachers, tutors, and parents ask before their first deck.

Is it really free?

Right now, yes. The whole tool is free for teachers while we're in the early days. And it stays free for your students, always. They never need an account, a subscription, or even an email address, and that won't change.

A paid teacher plan is coming later. Early adopters will get a special offer when it does, and we'll give plenty of notice well before anything changes. Your students' side stays free either way.

What data do you hold about my students?

A display name. That's it. No email, no password, no account. Students type their own name when they join with the class code, so you're never entering a roster of minors into a third-party tool.

If two students in the same class share a first name, they're asked for their last initial, and only if that's still ambiguous, their birth day and month. Never the year.

Which languages are supported?

Any language pair. AI translation and native audio work across all major languages. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cards automatically carry their reading alongside the script (pinyin, romaji, and Revised Romanization), so a learner is never stuck on characters they can't yet pronounce.

I already have Anki decks. Do I have to start over?

No. Import your existing .apkg decks in one click and share them with your students immediately. You can export decks back to Anki format any time.

What if a student loses their link?

Copy it again from your class roster, or just re-share the join code. When they enter the same name they land back on their existing account with all their progress, not a blank one.

How do I stop sharing a deck?

Unassign the deck or remove the student, and their link stops working for that content instantly. You stay in control of who sees what.

If I publish a deck, can people see my students or their progress?

No. A public deck page shows only the deck's words, your bio, and your contact email if you choose to add one. Never student names, activity, or review data. Publishing is entirely optional and reversible any time.

Your first deck (and real progress data) is two minutes away.

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