About Wrenshoe
Wrenshoe is a passive flashcard system. Cards cycle automatically
in your peripheral vision — no interaction
required. It's designed for background, low-effort language study
while you do other things.
Two modes
Ambient cycles cards slowly on their own. Dock
your phone on a charger in landscape and glance at it throughout
the day.
Flashcard lets you quiz yourself. Space = know,
any other key = don't know. You get a score at the end.
Installing on iPhone
- In Safari, tap the Share button.
- Tap Add to Home Screen.
- Launch Wrenshoe from the new home-screen icon — it opens full-screen.
- Rotate to landscape and dock on a charger for nightstand use.
Deck credits
Wrenshoe's decks are built on generous open-licensed work by
many people and projects:
Japanese
- JMdict & KANJIDIC2 — Jim Breen / EDRDG (Monash University)
- JLPT word lists — Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), compiled by jamsinclair
- Kansai-ben vocabulary — Keiko Yukawa (kansaibenkyou.net)
- JMdict JSON conversion — scriptin / jmdict-simplified
Chinese
- CC-CEDICT — the CC-CEDICT project
- HSK vocabulary — drkameleon / complete-hsk-vocabulary
- Chit-Chat Chinese — Rachel Meyer et al. (Far East Book Co., 2010)
- Boya Chinese Elementary Starter II — Li Xiaoqi et al. (Peking University Press)
- Short-term Spoken Chinese: Threshold — Ma Jianfei et al. (BLCU Press)
Original Wrenshoe decks
- Hiragana, Katakana, Pinyin, Jamo, Korean Hangul, Morse Code, and the Chinese textbook hand-entries above — kltm
Licenses
Wrenshoe code is BSD-3-Clause. Each deck carries its own license
in its JSON file — a mix of CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0,
CC-BY-SA-4.0, and MIT. Most derived decks are CC-BY-SA-4.0;
original Wrenshoe decks are CC-BY-4.0.
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