Question 1

What is Brevlex?

Accepted Answer

Brevlex is a website for learning English words: words for exams like the Psychometric, SAT, GRE and GMAT, for work and for daily life. You pick topics you follow, and you meet new words in sentences about them instead of in lists or flashcards. A quick quiz asks you to fill in the missing word, and each word comes back for review just before you'd forget it.

Question 2

Do I have to sign up to try it?

Accepted Answer

No. You can try it as a guest, with no account. To get words back for review, sign up with Google or email.

Question 3

Is Brevlex free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The free plan has no time limit and includes 3,000+ words, up to 4 topics of your choice, daily practice and reviews. Pro costs $5.99 a month and lets you study for up to 3 goals at once, for example the GRE and business English.

Question 4

How is this different from Anki or Quizlet?

Accepted Answer

With Anki, you write your own examples. With Quizlet, you often study cards other people made. With Brevlex, each word comes with a dictionary definition and a sentence about one of your topics.

Question 5

Which exams does it cover?

Accepted Answer

You can set your goal to the GRE, the GMAT, the SAT, the ISEE or the Psychometric (PET). There are also goals for tech, finance, legal and medical English, two ESL levels, and everyday or advanced English. The goal you pick tunes which words you get and how hard they are.

Question 6

Where do the definitions come from?

Accepted Answer

The English definitions come from published dictionaries, like Open English WordNet. We edited some of them. They are stored in advance, not created while you study. The example sentence is written by Brevlex, not taken from a dictionary. Behind the app is a bank of 15,000+ example sentences. Translations into Hebrew (in the no-account trial on the Hebrew site, for most words) or into your language (once you turn it on in Settings) are made by a computer. If a word looks wrong, you can report it.

Question 7

Does it work on my phone, and offline?

Accepted Answer

You can add Brevlex to your home screen from your browser menu — there is no app store download, and it opens like an app. Studying needs an internet connection: offline you get a short page instead of a card.

Question 8

What language is the interface in?

Accepted Answer

English or Hebrew. The Hebrew version is at brevlex.com/he, and the language link sits at the bottom of the page. The words you learn are English either way, and in Settings you can turn on translation into another language while you study. On the Hebrew version, the no-account trial also usually shows a short Hebrew translation of the answer options before you answer and, after you answer, a Hebrew definition and a translation of the sentence, for most words.

Question 9

What do you store, and can I delete it?

Accepted Answer

We store your email, your study history and your topics. Your password is stored only as a hash (a one-way code), never as the password itself. We never sell your data. Usage stats go to PostHog only if you say yes; page-speed timings go to our own server. You can download or delete all of it in Settings.

Learn English words. You pick the topic.

Your topic, your sentence.

Reviews come just before you’d forget. Until the word stays.

Pick your topics

Meet each new word in a sentence

Fill in the missing word

Review it just before you forget

For exams, for work, and for everyday English.

Everyday English

Exams

Work

Common questions.