Anki is the standard spaced-repetition tool language learners reach for, and for good reason — its scheduling algorithm is well proven and it's infinitely customisable. Fluir's own flashcard feature, Refresh, is also built on standard spaced repetition (SM-2, the same well-established algorithm family), so this isn't a comparison of two different memory-science approaches. It's a comparison of where the cards come from.
A typical Anki setup for Spanish means either building your own deck by hand, word by word, or downloading a pre-made deck built from a frequency list or someone else's course. Pre-made decks are convenient, but the words in them have no connection to anything you've actually read or said — you're memorising a stranger's list, and the example sentences (if there are any) are generic, not the sentence you actually met that word in.
In Fluir, every single Refresh card exists because you tapped to save that exact word while reading a real article at your level. The card's example sentence is the authentic sentence from that article — the actual context you first met the word in, not a generic textbook line. Nothing in Refresh is seeded from a frequency list or a pre-made deck; the deck is, by construction, entirely your own reading history.
If you already have a large existing Anki deck and want full manual control over card creation, Anki remains the more flexible general-purpose tool. If you'd rather your flashcards be generated automatically from words you've genuinely encountered — with real context attached, and connected to a spoken-conversation feature that can promote a word further once you've actually said it — that's what Fluir is built around.
Every article is pitched to your personal 90-98% comprehensible zone — enough new words to grow, never a wall of unfamiliar text.
Tap any word while reading and it's saved into your vocabulary graph, with the real sentence you met it in.
Saved words become spaced-repetition flashcards automatically — never a generic pre-made deck.
A word only counts as truly learned once you've actually said it correctly in a spoken AI conversation.
No. Signup asks for no card and takes you straight into a real, full article — free. A card is only ever requested if you choose to start the 7-day trial after that first article.
Every article is checked by an automated CEFR difficulty gate before it's published, so it's genuinely pitched to the stated level — not simplified into unnatural textbook Spanish, and not native-speed text that outruns the level.
Each saved word enters your personal vocabulary graph, which also feeds your flashcard reviews and your AI conversation practice — one connected record of what you know, not three separate tools that don't talk to each other.
No card to start · one full narrated article, on the house
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