A vocabulary gallery for iPhone

Build a gallery of words that resonate.

Beautiful cards with etymology, mnemonics, and cultural context. Then spot your words in the wild — across articles, essays, and quotes.

iPhone · iOS 18 or later
Lexicon's Gallery — a serif Lexicon wordmark above a hero card showing the word Verisimilitude over a still life of a gilded mirror, plant, and wine glass with lemon.
01The Gallery

A library, set in photographs.

Every word lives as a card paired with a striking image. Browse like a magazine — scan, linger, save the ones that catch you. The longer you build, the more your gallery looks like you.

Two ways to read

Gallery, or alphabet.

Switch from the visual stack to The Alphabet — your library walked end to end, grouped by letter, with a side scrubber to jump ahead. Or group words into collections by theme, project, or mood.

The Gallery tab showing a 2x3 grid of word cards — Verisimilitude, Tautology, Facsimile, Propitious, Perfunctory, Lexicon — each over a striking photograph.

An alphabetical index of your collection — grouped by letter, with adjective / noun / verb tags. Tap any entry to open its full card.

The Index tab titled 'The Alphabet' showing entries grouped by letter — F (Facsimile), L (Lexicon), P (Propitious) — each with its short definition. A vertical alphabet scrubber sits on the right edge.
02The Card

Each entry, a complete reading.

Definition, etymology, pronunciation, usage in the wild, a cultural reference, and a memory hook short enough to chant. Built once, the moment you save.

Definition The plain meaning, written for a reader, not a dictionary.
Pronunciation ver-ih-SIM-il-ih-tood. Tap to hear it.
Memory hook A short, catchy phrase that makes the word stick.
Etymology Where the word came from, traced as far as the trail goes.
Usage A sentence that shows the word doing real work.
Seen in A cultural reference — film, lyric, headline — for context.
Photograph An image chosen to anchor the meaning visually.
An expanded Lexicon card for the word Verisimilitude — a vibrant illustrated mural in the background with the serif word and pronunciation pill, a structured Definition section below, and a memory hook reading 'Very similar to reality, that's the key!'
Built to remember

Multiple paths to retention.

A definition you read once is a definition you forget. Lexicon hands you several handles for the same word — the etymology that explains why, the example that shows it working, the reference that puts it in a scene.

An expanded Tautology card showing the italic serif memory hook 'Tautology is talking too much: telling the same tale twice.' above structured fields for Usage, Seen In, and Origin.

Tautology is talking too much: telling the same tale twice.

A Lexicon memory hook

03Sightings

The thrill of recognition.

Lexicon scans articles, essays, poetry, and quotes for real appearances of your words. Temperate in The Guardian. Incredulity in Dickens. Bewilderment in Rumi. Pull to refresh — yesterday's poem, today's headline.

Each appearance arrives with its source so you can read the original. Nothing prescribed, nothing gamified. Just the words you chose, finding their way back to you.

The Sightings tab showing a Guardian quote about 'Atlantic temperate rainforest' with the word temperate highlighted in butter yellow, followed by a Charles Dickens passage from A Tale of Two Cities ending in 'incredulity', also highlighted yellow.
Word of the Day

A daily reading, chosen for the moment.

Each morning and evening, a word picked for the cultural moment — with a photograph and a short note on why now. Save it if it lands. Skip it if it doesn't.

The Sightings hero card — a Sightings header with 'IN CIRCULATION · FEB 19, 2026' subtitle, a high-contrast photograph of a sunlit textured wall, then the word 'Truing' set in serif type with its pronunciation 'TROO-ing', a definition, and a 'THE CONTEXT' section below.
04A note on privacy

Your collection is yours.

Sign in with Apple, sync across your devices — that's the whole list. No analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no data partners. A library, not a flywheel.

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Synced to your devices
Pick up the same library on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Encrypted in transit and at rest.
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Lexicon doesn't sell anything inside the app and doesn't share your collection.
Built by a person, not a platform
Lexicon

A gallery of words that resonate.

iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free