Spanish · Español
Polygloat is a comprehensible input app for Spanish. You watch short videos in Spanish, tap any word in the subtitles to see what it means, and the app tracks the words you have met so it can pick videos you are ready for.
No flashcard decks, no grammar drills. You get better at Spanish by understanding Spanish.
Coming soon to the App Store
Spanish has around 500 million native speakers and more video made in it every day than anyone could watch. That abundance is exactly the trap. A telenovela, a YouTube vlog or a podcast made for native speakers moves at native speed with native vocabulary, and watching it before you are ready feels like work with nothing to show for it.
The usual advice — put on Spanish TV with Spanish subtitles — only works once you already understand most of what is said. Below that point you are reading, not listening, and almost nothing sticks.
Polygloat closes the gap by measuring difficulty against your vocabulary rather than a generic A1–C2 label. A video is right for you when you already know most of its words, and that threshold is personal.
Subtitles are word-by-word, timed to the audio. Tapping a word pauses the video and shows what that word means in this sentence — not a dictionary entry listing every possible sense.
If a whole line goes past you, one tap translates it. The point is to stay in the video rather than open a translation app and lose the thread.
The app records which words you looked up and which you watched past. That word-by-word picture of your vocabulary is what it uses to pick what you see next.
A word you are due to see again comes back in a different sentence from a different speaker, days later — the spacing of a review schedule without a deck to work through.
Spanish verbs carry a lot of endings. Tapping tuviéramos shows you the word in the sentence and the verb it comes from, so you are learning tener rather than collecting forms one at a time.
Yes. The feed starts from the most common Spanish words and moves up as your vocabulary grows. Beginners tap a lot at first, and that is the point — every tap is recorded and shapes what you see next.
Both. Videos come from creators across the Spanish-speaking world, so you hear a range of accents rather than one studio standard. Word meanings are shown for the sense used in that sentence, which is what matters when regional usage differs.
Yes. Word meanings and sentence translations are available in English, Spanish, Dutch and Chinese, in both Simplified and Traditional script.
There is no target and no streak to protect. Comprehensible input works on volume over time, so more input is better — but the app is built to be watched the way you would watch any short-video feed, not scheduled like a study session.
Polygloat is free to download and use on Google Play. The iOS app is in App Review.
Coming soon to the App Store
