Capture

Step 1: Getting Material

There are several ways to bring material into Yadger. Pick whichever fits what you're working from.

• Take a photo or video — tap the camera icon to photograph text (a sign, a book page, a screen) or record a short video. Yadger reads the text or audio and brings it in.
• Record — tap the microphone icon to record audio directly through your phone. Use this for speech you want to capture live — a conversation, something playing nearby, or your own voice.
• Paste — tap the clipboard icon to paste text you've already copied from another app, like a browser, Notes, or a messaging app.
• Upload from your photo library — tap the image icon to choose an existing photo or video from your phone. This is useful if you took a picture or screenshot earlier and want to bring it in now.
• Upload a file — tap the document icon to upload a file directly: an image, a video, a sound file, or a CSV of word pairs.
• Add word directly — tap the + button at the top left to open a menu with Add word, New deck, New collection, and Import word pairs. Add word lets you enter a single word or phrase without capturing a full piece of material — see below for the two ways to fill it in.

Add word — two ways to fill it in

When you tap + → Add word, you get a blank entry. There are two ways to complete it:

1. Type it and translate — type the word directly (in either language) and use the translation tools described in the Extract Words section below.
2. Use "What did you hear?" — if you only caught a word by ear and don't know how it's spelled, tap the ear icon. Type your best phonetic guess (spelling doesn't matter), optionally add a rough translation or the situation you heard it in (a movie, a song), then tap Get suggestions. Yadger returns a list of likely matches, each with the correct spelling, meaning, and a short explanation of why it fits what you typed. Tap the one that's right and it fills in the word automatically.

Step 2: Extract Words

Once material is in Yadger, this is how you work through it and build your vocabulary from it.

Reading and listening to the text

• Tap any word in the transcript to save it — this opens the word tools described below.
• The playback controls at the top (skip to start, restart, stop, repeat, play) let you hear the text read aloud.
• The original text and its translation are shown together — the original above, the English translation below. As it plays, the sentence currently being read is highlighted in both places at once, so you can follow along in both languages simultaneously.
• Tap directly on a sentence to bring up play, edit, and remove controls for that sentence — this lets you replay just that one sentence instead of the whole piece.
• You can edit the original text and its translation if something was transcribed or translated incorrectly — tap edit on a sentence to open the editor, adjust either language, and save.

The wizard stick — finding expressions

The wand icon at the top right scans the whole text for set expressions and idioms — phrases that mean something different from their individual words. It shows a checklist of expressions it found, each with its meaning; you can select the ones you want and save them all at once, the same way you'd save a single word.

Saving and exploring a single word

Tapping a word in the text opens a panel with five tools, each represented by an icon:

1. Translate (globe icon) — translates the word. This normally goes from your learning language to your known language, but it works in reverse too, so you can start from either side.
2. Wizard stick (magic wand icon) — gives you five alternative translations to choose from, instead of just one. Useful when a word has more than one common meaning.
3. Listen (speaker icon) — plays the pronunciation of the word out loud.
4. "I heard this" (ear icon) — the same phonetic-guess feature described above, available here too. Type what you think you heard and get matched suggestions. This is especially useful when a word in the transcript looks unfamiliar or possibly mistranscribed.
5. Explore word (root/branch icon) — goes deeper: Root, Synonyms, Word family, Similar spelling, and Conjugation. You can also type a specific question about the word. Whatever it explains gets saved to the word entry automatically, so you don't lose the explanation once you close the panel.

Everything you look up through any of these tools — a translation, an alternative, a pronunciation, an explanation — is saved with the word, so it's there later when you review it in Solidify.