How Lapicida works — the app in detail
Lapicida is more than a vocabulary app. Here you’ll find every part of it in detail — what to expect, what you can adjust, and what you’ll actually learn. Pick whatever you need right now.
New in version 1.6.5
What the latest update adds. Every detail is in the changelog.
- Read-aloud with highlighting — when a sentence is read aloud, the word you are hearing and its sentence part light up: in the sentence quiz, in Reading, in Sensus and in Unda.
- The story continues — 27 new reading texts for the fourth year, every sentence voiced.
- Unda with all authors — with a licence, also with Cicero, Caesar, Livy, the Vulgate and many more.
- Vocabulary Trainer — the new game Vorax, “Learn” on every list, and you can delete your own lists.
- Practice that follows what you know — forms, sentences and texts follow what you can already do, on our own path, the Meridian.
- Optional notifications — a short note each morning about yesterday’s practice, plus news. Turn them on under Settings → Notifications.
- On the Mac, too — Lapicida now also runs on the Mac (Apple Silicon).
Where to start
Where you begin — and where you see how far you have come.
- Unda — work through a whole text, sentence by sentence. Its vocabulary, its forms, its sentence parts.
- My Area — your progress at a glance, grouped by trainer.
Fundamentals
Words and forms — the base everything else builds on.
- Vocabulary Trainer — build your core vocabulary with 14 exercise types and spaced repetition.
- Forms Trainer — declensions and conjugations, always inside a real sentence.
Putting it to use
Grammar inside a real sentence — from recognising it to reading it.
- Sentence Quiz — recognise sentence elements and constructions in a real sentence. The heart of the app.
- Sensus — work out the right meaning of an ambiguous word from context.
- Reading — original texts by Cicero, Caesar, Sallust and more, sentence by sentence.
- Turbo — a cross-module full-screen speed mode to keep things fresh.
Together
- Learn together — four co-op modes for the whole class, without streak pressure.
Settings
- Settings — audio, dyslexia support, cloud sync and more: everything you can adjust.
Tools (free, right in your browser)
Free reference tools — no app and no sign-up needed.
- Latin Tools — declension tool (nouns, adjectives & pronouns), conjugation tool (all tenses, moods, active/passive, deponents), Roman numerals and a sentence analyzer in one place.
- Cheat sheets — all grammar cards, free: declensions and pronouns (hic · is · qui) to look up.
