eachday
Now on the App Store · Free

A German word a day, quietly brilliant

German gets caricatured as harsh and endless, but it's secretly the most playful major language in Europe: it builds words the way children build with blocks. Fernweh — distance-ache. Kopfkino — head-cinema. Eachday hands you one of these small machines every morning and shows you how the pieces snap together.

One word a day sounds slow until you do the arithmetic — and until you notice that words learned calmly, with a story attached, actually stay. The widget keeps your word on your home screen all day, so it greets you every time you pick up your phone.

Words you'll actually remember

das Fernweh

an ache for faraway places you've never seen

die Gemütlichkeit

warm, unhurried coziness among friends

das Kopfkino

the involuntary movie that plays in your head

A taste of the German pack — a new one arrives every morning.

How Eachday works

Pick German in the app, add the widget, and that's the whole setup. Each morning a new word appears on your home screen — with pronunciation, a real example sentence, and the story behind the word. Read it in ten seconds or linger; there's nothing to complete and no streak to lose.

Eachday is free on the App Store. All-Access unlocks everything across every language for $6.99/month, $14.99/quarter, or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial.

Or get the daily word by email.