Lernity
Lernity is a German browser-based vocabulary trainer that grades open answers with AI, schedules reviews through spaced repetition and imports words straight from a textbook photo. Built for pupils, self-learners, teachers and whole schools, hosted in Germany.
What is Lernity?
Lernity is a vocabulary learning platform that runs in the browser without installation, published by Samixone Digital Solutions in Wuppertal, Germany. Three mechanisms sit at its core. A spaced repetition algorithm plans each word individually, putting new, due and difficult items first rather than making the learner grind through everything at once. An AI layer grades open answers semantically instead of comparing strings, so typos, synonyms and related forms are recognised and the feedback explains what was missing rather than returning a bare right or wrong. And a photo import reads vocabulary straight off a textbook page, which removes the transcription work that usually stops people practising regularly.
Three training modes are offered: Type-In on every plan, with Multiple Choice and a five-second Speed Mode carrying a twenty percent XP bonus reserved for Premium. A separate inflection trainer drills declensions and conjugations against real paradigms, and each inflected form keeps its own learning state, so a single stubborn ablative plural is repeated as often as it needs to be. Latin, French and German are named for this, and the publisher presents Latin as a particular strength. Content is not limited to languages: the terms list mathematics, science, history, biology and chemistry as supported subjects. CSV import is available on every plan, photo and OCR import only on Premium, where it is advertised as ten times faster than typing; scans are deleted once imported. Gamification runs throughout, with XP, levels, achievements, daily challenges, streaks and opt-in leaderboards.
The school side models a real institution: roles for administration, teachers and pupils, plus classes, year groups and subjects, with separation enforced at database level so no school ever sees another's data. Teachers build units from their own coursebook, assign them with due dates, reuse and share templates, and follow progress per class and per pupil. Positioning rests on data sovereignty, with hosting exclusively on German servers, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The interface is available in German and English. An internet connection is required; there is no offline mode.
What it does
- Photograph a textbook page and let OCR turn it into a ready learning unit
- Grade open answers semantically, accepting typos, synonyms and related forms with graded feedback
- Schedule every single word individually through spaced repetition, surfacing what is about to be forgotten
- Drill declensions and conjugations form by form, each inflected form carrying its own learning state
- Import CSV lists with preview and duplicate detection on every plan
- Assign learning units to a class or a whole year group with a due date and track progress per pupil
- Export all personal data as JSON and delete the account without contacting support
When to use Lernity / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Lernity is the right fit.
When to use Lernity
- Secondary-school pupils working through set vocabulary, with Latin singled out by the publisher as a particular strength thanks to per-form drilling of declensions and conjugations
- University students preparing the Latinum or any exam that rewards steady, spaced revision rather than last-minute cramming
- Self-directed language learners who want to train their own word lists instead of a ready-made catalogue, since the trainer is deliberately independent of any given coursebook
- Teachers who want a class practising within minutes on words taken from their own textbook, assigned to a class or year group with a due date
- German schools bound by strict data-protection expectations, which get German-only hosting, an ad-free service and an Article 28 processing agreement on request
When not to use Lernity
- Anyone who needs to study offline: an internet connection is required and the publisher lists an offline mode only as future work
- Anyone wanting a native mobile app, since Lernity is a browser-based web app with no iOS or Android release
- Learners looking for ready-made decks the way Anki and Quizlet offer them, because Lernity expects you to bring or scan your own lists
- Teams needing an API, connectors or a link into an existing learning management system, none of which the product offers
- Businesses and children under 13, the first barred by the terms without written permission and the second by the contractual minimum age
How to use Lernity
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Register free at lernity.de with no payment details; private accounts automatically receive 30 days of Premium
- Verify your e-mail address and complete the first login to reach the dashboard
- Create a subject, then a learning unit inside it
- Add vocabulary by hand, by CSV import using the documented template, or by photographing a page
- For a photo import, scan with the camera or upload an image, then review the recognised pairs before confirming
- Start a training session and choose Type-In, Multiple Choice or Speed Mode
- Let spaced repetition set the schedule and follow the statistics, XP and problem-word views over time
- Teachers: request teacher access within a school context, then build unit templates and assign them to classes or year groups with due dates
- Schools: the publisher sets up the school environment itself, then teachers join by invitation code and pupils by class code, CSV list or school e-mail domain
- Reach the Premium page from the dashboard card, the Subscription tab or the trial banner, since it has no permanent menu entry
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Exclusive hosting in Germany, no advertising, no third-party pixels and an Article 28 processing agreement on request, a combination rarely offered at this price
- AI grading that goes beyond right or wrong, which the publisher's own comparison presents as the difference against Anki, Quizlet and Phase 6
- OCR import from the textbook removes the transcription work that most often kills a revision habit
- Thirty days of Premium granted automatically without a card, falling back to the free plan afterwards with nothing deleted
- A genuinely permanent free plan that keeps Type-In with AI grading, CSV import, the dictionary, the full XP system and scheduled repetition
- Low, commitment-free pricing at EUR 2.99 per month or EUR 25.99 per year, cancellable at any time
- Faithful modelling of a school structure, with per-school isolation enforced in the database and classes carried across school years
Cons
- No offline mode at all: an internet connection is required and the publisher lists this only as future work
- No native mobile app, no API and no third-party integration of any kind
- The free plan is tight in practice, capped at three subjects, fifty words in total and the Type-In mode alone
- The privacy policy never says whether content sent to OpenAI is used to train models
- School licence pricing is quotation-only, so only the individual tariff can be assessed in advance
- The site's structured data still advertises superseded prices of EUR 3.99 and EUR 29.99, contradicting the published tariff
- A very small publisher, run as a sole proprietorship alongside salaried employment and with no published customer references, which is worth weighing before a school-wide rollout
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available at EUR 0, limited to three subjects, fifty vocabulary items in total and the Type-In training mode, but retaining AI answer grading, CSV import, the dictionary and the full XP system. The lowest paid entry point is EUR 2.99 per month for Premium, cancellable monthly; the annual option costs EUR 25.99 per year, presented as EUR 2.17 per month. School licences are quoted individually according to the size of the institution and remain free for an individual teacher. Payment is accepted through PayPal only. Every new private account automatically receives thirty days of Premium without payment details.
- three subjects
- 50 vocabulary items
- Type-In training mode
- progress tracking
- CSV import and the full XP system
- unlimited subjects and vocabulary
- AI answer evaluation
- Multiple Choice and Speed Mode
- OCR import
- detailed statistics
- XP and achievements
- everything in Premium Monthly plus priority support and early access to beta features
- everything in Premium plus school-wide licences
- teacher dashboard
- class management
- progress reports and dedicated support
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Lernity handles your data.
GDPR overview
Compliance is claimed openly and repeatedly, and the detail behind it is unusually concrete for a product this small. The privacy policy runs to thirteen sections dated 20 June 2026, names a legal basis for each processing purpose and lists rights article by article: access (15), rectification (16), erasure (17), portability (20) and objection (21), several of them exercisable directly in the account settings. Schools are offered an Article 28 processing agreement on request. Google Analytics runs only after consent under Consent Mode v2. Security measures are itemised, from TLS and salted bcrypt hashes to daily backups and rate limiting, and the competent supervisory authority is named. Two gaps are worth noting: no data protection officer is designated, and age is confirmed by a tick-box alone with no further verification. An Article 27 representative is not required, the publisher being established in Germany.
Who owns the data?
The terms are explicit that learners keep ownership of the study content they create; uploading grants the publisher only a simple, royalty-free licence limited to running the service, and the privacy policy repeats that "your data belongs to you". The controller is Samixone Digital Solutions in Wuppertal. Users can export everything as JSON from the dashboard and delete their account themselves, which the terms say erases all data irreversibly. In a school context, teachers see progress and statistics, administrators manage their own school's accounts, and a pupil's own study content stays visible to that pupil alone. School administrators can export pupil data and delete accounts outright.
Reuse rights
Learners may reuse their own material freely: it remains theirs, the licence granted to Lernity covers only service delivery, and a JSON export sits in the dashboard as an Article 20 portability route, so no permission has to be requested. On the publisher's side the stated purposes are narrow. Account and usage data serve contract performance, security logs a legitimate interest, analytics consent, and invoicing a legal obligation. Named recipients are the OpenAI API for answer grading, Google Analytics only after consent, PayPal for payment, plus a self-hosted mail server and a self-hosted Dolibarr invoicing system. Study content, learning statistics and language settings go to OpenAI; names, e-mail addresses, account details and progress explicitly do not. AI features can be switched off in the settings, and an optional local model route keeps everything on the German server. There is no advertising use and no third-party tracking pixel. What the policy never states is whether the content sent to OpenAI is used to train models.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The publisher states that its main server is located in Germany and that all other data stays within the European Union. German hosting is repeated across the homepage, the schools page and both FAQs, alongside a "Made in Germany" claim. The self-hosted SMTP server and the Dolibarr invoicing system run on the same German infrastructure, with no external mail provider involved. The site's resolved IP address is geolocated in Germany and is not anycast, consistent with self-hosting. Two transfers to the United States are acknowledged: calls to the OpenAI API for Premium features, and Google Analytics, which runs only after consent. The safeguards cited are standard contractual clauses under Article 46, the OpenAI data processing agreement, and Google LLC's certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. An optional local model route keeps data from leaving the German server altogether. For schools, separation is enforced at database level and no cross-school view exists.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Lernity.
- The site's structured data still advertises EUR 3.99 per month and EUR 29.99 per year, a third above the tariff actually published on the pricing section, in the terms and in the app itself; price comparison sites reading that markup will quote you too high
- The pricing table promises a 30-day money-back guarantee while the terms grant no refund beyond the statutory 14-day withdrawal period, so verify which applies before subscribing
- Minimum age is 13 in the terms but the privacy policy speaks of 16 with parental consent, and age is confirmed by a tick-box alone with no further verification, which puts the burden of supervising a younger child entirely on the parent
- Study content, learning statistics and language settings are sent to the OpenAI API, and the policy never states whether they are used to train models; learners uncomfortable with that should switch AI features off in the settings or use the local model option
- Gamification is designed to be habit-forming, with XP, streaks, daily challenges and leaderboards; a streak can quietly become the reason to study rather than the subject itself, and leaderboards may add pressure for pupils already anxious about ranking
- Graded AI feedback is convincing but the terms disclaim its correctness, so a confidently worded explanation of a Latin case can be wrong and should not replace a teacher's judgement
- The publisher is a one-person sole proprietorship operated alongside salaried employment, with no registry entry, no named customer schools and no audience figures, which is a continuity risk worth weighing before committing a whole school's revision workflow to it
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for an individual. There is nothing to install: registration is free, e-mail verification and a first login are the only steps, and the publisher says a personal spaced repetition schedule is running within minutes. For a school it stays light because the publisher sets up the environment itself, matching school type, year groups and classes to the relevant state's calendar. Teachers then join by invitation code and pupils by class code, CSV list or school e-mail domain. Nothing has to be integrated, since there is no API or connector, and a bilingual help centre documents each step.
Deployment
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Behind Lernity
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Frequently asked questions
How does the 30-day trial work?
What does Lernity cost?
How does the AI grading work?
Can I import my own vocabulary?
Which devices does Lernity run on?
Is Lernity GDPR compliant, and can a school use it?
Which languages and subjects can I study?
Is my content used to train AI models?
How do I cancel?
Is there an API?
Should you pick Lernity?
Lernity is an unashamedly narrow product: a vocabulary trainer built for the German school system, with Latin claimed as a particular strength. Within that scope it does three things that its own comparison against Anki, Quizlet and Phase 6 fairly identifies as differences. It grades open answers semantically rather than as strings, so synonyms, typos and related forms are accepted and the feedback explains itself. It reads vocabulary off a photographed textbook page, removing the transcription work that usually ends a revision habit. And it keeps every byte on German servers, ad-free, with an Article 28 processing agreement available on request, which answers the objection that stops most tools at the door of a German school.
The entry cost is close to zero. A permanent free plan keeps AI grading, CSV import and the full spaced repetition schedule, thirty days of Premium arrive automatically without a card, and the paid tier starts at EUR 2.99 per month with monthly cancellation. Trying it costs nothing.
The limits are structural rather than temporary. There is no offline mode, no native mobile app, no API and no integration with anything else. The free plan's fifty-word ceiling makes it a demonstration rather than a working setup. The privacy policy, otherwise unusually detailed, never says whether content sent to OpenAI trains models. School licences are quotation-only, so the institutional price cannot be assessed in advance.
One point deserves weight before a school-wide rollout rather than a personal subscription: the publisher is a sole proprietorship run alongside salaried employment, with no registry entry, no published customer references and no audience figures. The product is well made and the data-protection posture is genuine; the continuity question is simply worth asking out loud.
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