Every IELTS skill in one app.
Practice by day, podcast by night. By day, 16 exercise types across sentences, vocabulary and idioms, scheduled for you by smart review. By night, a sentence podcast that plays them one by one in bed, even with the screen off. Alongside: a proper shadowing tool, a personal notebook, and full mock tests for all four skills. No ads, and it never asks for so much as an email address.
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Five tabs that work as one
IELTS prep usually means a pile of separate tools: a flashcard app, a podcast, a book of practice tests, a dictionary and a notebook, none of which talk to each other. IELTS Turtle puts them in one app and connects them. The word you're learning this week is the one the sentence drill blanks out, and any word you tap mid-practice goes straight into your notebook.
More than a play button. A full shadowing tool.
Open any sentence and set the range around the exact phrase that trips you up. The app loops just that part as many times as you like, with a few seconds of silence after each pass so you can say it back.
- Set a range to the half-second, with the position shown to the millisecond
- 1 to 20 repeats, with a 0–30 second pause between each
- 0.5× to 1.5× speed without distorting the voice, plus 1 s and 3 s skip buttons
- Tap any word to look it up or save it to your notebook
- Bedtime podcast: every sentence plays back to back, hands-free, with a pause you choose
Six ways to make a sentence stick, from gap-fill to speaking
Each session deals 20 cards: whatever's due for review first, then new material. Pick one exercise, or let Mixed rotate through them all. At the end of each card you rate how well you knew it, and your review schedule adjusts to match.
- Listen & recall, fill the gap, unscramble, dictation, multiple choice and speaking
- The gaps are the very words you're learning in the Vocabulary tab
- Audio plays only when listening is the task; wherever it would give the answer away, it stays off
Learn words in context, not just their definitions
Every word comes with a short Persian meaning, all its senses in plain English, its word family, native pronunciation, and examples taken from real IELTS situations: a Part 1 Speaking answer, a Task 2 paragraph, a True/False/Not Given clue.
- Persian meanings, plus Arabic, German, Turkish, Spanish and French
- Every example is tagged by skill: Speaking, Writing, Reading or Listening
- The translation starts hidden, so you try to recall it first, then tap to check
- One tap changes a word's status: to learn, learning or learned. The badge on the tab bar updates as you go
- Pick a review day and the app reminds you on the day, at the time you've set
Idioms you can actually use in the Speaking test
Each idiom comes with its meaning, a few everyday examples, an origin story that helps it stick, and real examiner questions answered using it. So you learn where it fits, not just what it means.
- Where each idiom comes from: “sticky wicket” started on a rain-soaked cricket pitch
- Topic, question and model answer for Speaking
- Four ways to practise: flashcards, pick the meaning, pick the idiom, and guess from context
- A daily reminder that turns itself off once there's nothing left to learn
All four skills, under real exam rules
In Listening you can't pause or rewind. Speaking model answers stay locked until you've spoken. And there's no made-up AI score for your essay. The app deliberately won't teach you habits the real exam would punish, but once the test is over, it explains every answer.
One play. No pausing. No rewinding.
A briefing screen explains the rules, then the recording plays straight through to the end. The timer runs a little longer than the audio, so, just like the real exam, you get time to check your answers, and the paper is submitted automatically when time's up.
- Questions stay hidden until the audio has fully loaded, so there's no reading ahead
- Where an answer has more than one correct form, like metal and metals, either one is marked right
- Scores are converted with the official IELTS band table: 30 out of 40 is a 7.0
| Name | Sarah 1 |
| Course | 2 painting |
| Starts | 3 |
| Fee | £ 4 |
A Reading test that explains its own answers
Once you submit, every question gets two buttons. Locate finds and highlights the exact words in the passage that hold the answer, and Explain shows how the question paraphrases the text.
- Locate: the evidence, highlighted in the passage itself
- What the passage says and what the answer means, in plain English
- Why it's correct: which words in the question stand in for which words in the text
- On tablets and computers the passage and questions sit side by side; on a phone, one button switches between them and keeps your place
Every few years, a female green turtle leaves her feeding grounds and swims hundreds of kilometres to lay her eggs. Remarkably, she returns to the very beach on which she herself hatched decades earlier, a behaviour known as natal homing.
How turtles navigate so precisely was long a mystery. Researchers now believe hatchlings record the magnetic signature of their home coastline and use it as a map when they return as adults.
Rising sand temperatures, however, are skewing hatchling populations towards females in several nesting colonies.
Honest feedback, no made-up scores
Both tasks share one 60-minute timer. Words are counted the way an examiner counts them, live as you type. Task 1 charts are drawn from the data itself, so they stay sharp at any zoom, look right in dark mode, and still read clearly in black and white.
- Easy-to-read charts: lines differ by marker shape and dash style, not only by colour
- Instead of a fake score, a self-assessment checklist based on the four official marking criteria
- Sample answers at known bands, so you can compare your own writing once you're done
A Speaking test like the real thing, recorded answer by answer
Just like the real test, the interview only moves forward. In Part 2 you get one minute to prepare and two minutes to speak, and the app moves on when time's up. Each answer is saved as its own recording, so later you can replay a single question instead of the whole interview.
- How long each answer ran is shown separately. Answers that are too short or too long are one of the most common ways to lose marks in Parts 1 and 2
- Model answers at different bands, each with a note on what lifts it above the band below
- Model answers appear after you've answered, so you think it through first and compare afterwards
- No microphone? The interview carries on without recording instead of getting stuck
Tap any word, keep it in your notebook
Any word, whether it's in the sentence list, the player or the middle of a practice session, opens its own menu with one tap: the Cambridge Dictionary with UK and US pronunciation, a search across the app's sentences, copy, or save to your notebook along with the sentence you found it in. Add your own notes and examples later. Duplicates are caught automatically.
- Try it: tap any word in the sentence on the phone
to manage several activities at once: “juggle my studies and my job”
to put someone at risk of something harmful
Designed to be easy to read
Ten fonts, including Lexend, which was designed for readability. Text size from 80% to 150%, applied on top of your phone's own setting rather than replacing it. A full dark mode. Drag-and-drop category tabs. And reminders at whatever time suits you.
- Try it: change the font, text size and dark mode on the phone
- On older phones, turning off word highlighting makes scrolling noticeably smoother
Slow and steady wins the band score
Half an hour of focused practice a day, and one full mock test a week. As soon as you open the app, the badges on the tabs show what's waiting for you today.
Tap the practice button for a mixed session of 20 cards: unscramble one, fill a gap in the next, take one down as dictation, say another out loud.
Open the sentence that always trips you up. Loop the hard part 10 times at 0.8× with a 3-second pause, until it rolls off your tongue.
Hear the native pronunciation, see the word in a Part 2 answer, and spell it out. Set the tricky ones for two days' time and the app will remind you.
Anything new goes into your notebook, with your own note and example.
Turn on the bedtime podcast and let the sentences play one after another. No tapping, even with the screen off.
Listening and Reading give you a band automatically. For Writing, you check your text against the official criteria. For Speaking, you hear your own answers next to a band 8 one.
Everything you create stays on your phone
No account, no analytics, no ads, no automatic crash reports. Your progress, notes and recordings are stored only on your own phone. The internet is used only to download sentence and word audio, look words up in the dictionary, and stream test recordings.
Study content is saved to your phone the first time you open it, so you can practise on a plane, on the metro, or on a patchy connection.
Install it and start. No username or password, no profile on a server, and nothing to leak.
Start today. It takes less than a minute.
For phones and tablets. Updates arrive automatically through Google Play.
Get it on Google PlayThe full desktop app, with a standard installer. Side-by-side Reading really shines on a big screen.
Download for WindowsThe iPhone and iPad version is on its way. Until then, the Android and Windows apps have every feature.
Coming soonEvery tool in the app is open; there is just less content.
- Every exercise, the bedtime podcast and shadowing
- 120 words, 14 sentences and 8 idioms on smart review
- One mock test for each of the four skills
- Notebook, dictionary and every setting
One payment in Google Play, yours for good. No subscription.
- Every word, sentence and idiom, each with practice
- Every mock test for listening, reading, writing and speaking
- Everything added later, at no extra cost
- Tied to your Google account, so the Restore button brings it back on a new phone
Hit a problem? Report it from inside the app in a few taps
In the app, go to Settings → Help & Support → Report a bug. Choose the screen where it happened, describe what went wrong, and send it by email or Telegram. Your app version and device details are added for you. You see the full message before it's sent, and the app never sends anything on its own.