Who's behind this

I did what most people do and downloaded Duolingo, then went through the flashcard apps, Anki and Quizlet and Vocably, and worked from the Hueber Motive textbook my tutor assigns homework out of.

Each of them did something well, but none of them connected to each other. Words I learned in one app never came back in another, and the textbook had genuinely good structure but no audio, no feedback and no way of telling me whether I was improving. My tutor would explain the dative case, I'd understand it perfectly well sitting there in the session, and a week later it would be gone again.

The problem was never that there aren't enough tools. It was the gap between them.

I used the Goethe word lists for the vocabulary database, Claude Code to build the engine, and Nano Banana for the images.

Every word gets a vivid, surreal scene instead of plain text, because my visual memory is much stronger than my verbal memory and I'd rather use the part of my brain that actually works. The genders are colour coded, so der, die and das start registering before you've read the article, and the vocabulary from each lesson queues itself for review instead of sitting in a separate app I have to remember to open.

The course structure follows the CEFR levels and the Goethe exam format rather than my own theory of how German ought to be taught, and my tutor reviewed the content.

I'm the first user of this thing, and I study with it daily, which means when something doesn't work I run into it before anyone else does and it gets fixed that week rather than sitting in a backlog.

Most language apps are built by people who aren't sitting the exam themselves, and that's probably the main advantage I have here.

Somewhere around A2 and working toward B1, which right now means prepositions and the cases that follow them, Dativ endings, and the perfect tense. Two hours a week with a tutor, four to five hours of self-study on top of that. If you want the arithmetic behind a timeline like that, I wrote it up in how long it takes to reach B1.

I'm not a German teacher and I won't pretend to be one. What I have instead is the same problem you have, a few months further along, written down as I work it out.

It doesn't teach speaking. It covers reading, listening, writing, grammar and vocabulary, which is three of the four Goethe modules plus the foundation underneath all of them, but speaking needs a tutor, a tandem partner or a conversation group. I use a tutor and I'd tell you to do the same.

Start with A1, free. No card, no time limit. If you're not sure where you stand, find your level first.