Leksika

Year: 2026
Role: Solo developer
Status: active

Leksika is a Russian vocabulary app designed for passive, low-friction learning, so the words come to you through the day instead of demanding a study session. The idea came out of my own years with the language. The words that stayed were the ones I met between other things, on a sign or in someone’s mouth; the ones from Sunday drill sessions mostly left.

Leksika showing the Russian word мýха, its transliteration, the meaning fly, and an example sentence, in gold type on a dark screen. — A word, its stress mark, and a sentence. Level B2, entry 1637.

The Leksika widget screen, with the current word несообразный in a lock-screen widget preview and three steps for adding it to the Home Screen. — The widget: a new word every fifteen minutes, offline, with its stress mark.

Underneath is a dictionary of about ninety thousand words, stress-marked on the headwords, the inflected forms, and the example sentences, with CEFR levels on the five thousand most common. I built it alone in Swift and SwiftUI and carried it through every stage myself: design, development, App Store release management, localized store listings, and the business side with an optional Leksika+ subscription. It runs on iPhone with home-screen widgets and a companion Apple Watch app, so a new word is never more than a glance away.

Leksika is live on the App Store.