Meeting a word once isn’t enough — you’ll forget it by tomorrow. So every word you save in Hinto goes into a review system that brings it back at the right moments, using spaced repetition.
Spaced repetition is a well-established method: you review something just before you’d forget it, then a bit later, then later still. Each successful recall pushes the word deeper into long-term memory, so a handful of quick reviews does what hours of cramming can’t.
Two things make Hinto’s review effective:
- Words are saved in context — the sentence you found them in — so you learn how the word is actually used, not just a bare definition.
- The timing is automatic. You don’t decide when to review; the app surfaces each word at the moment it’s most useful.
The whole loop is: meet a word in real content → tap to understand it → save it → see it again at the right time. That last step is what turns “I’ve seen that word” into “I know that word.”
Related: How to save words · How tap-to-translate works
