Frequently asked questions

No. dailyBe is for people who are past the basics: you understand about 60% to 70% of a sentence in English and want to understand the rest. If you're starting from zero, almost everything is still a gap, and it makes more sense to build a foundation first with a course or a teacher, then come back.

The app's Stories, short texts of 30 sentences, help people closer to the beginning build vocabulary. But dailyBe is still designed for people who already have a base.

Go deeper:The words your English is missing

People who understand most of what they read and hear but live in "I sort of got it": you follow the show without catching every line, or you freeze in a meeting, on a phone call or at the doctor's office. The app helps you collect the words you're missing, one at a time, and review them until they stick.

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It helps with a big part of the problem. Often the expression is in your passive vocabulary: you recognize it when you hear it, but it doesn't come out when you need it. In speaking mode, you say the sentences out loud, the app shows what it heard and, if it doesn't match, gives you a pronunciation tip. Going from meaning to English you actually say out loud is what moves a word from passive to active.

Go deeper:I understand English but can't speak it

Maybe it is, and it's worth being honest with yourself about that. If following the story is enough, you can stop where you are. If you want to catch every line, be precise at work or get through a call without asking people to repeat themselves, what's missing is usually mid-frequency vocabulary: words too common to be rare and too rare to show up in courses.

Go deeper:Why 70% feels like enough

No, and it doesn't try to. It works alongside them: your classes give you structure and conversation, and dailyBe takes care of reviewing and expanding your vocabulary with the words you ran into and want to learn.

Beginner apps work well at the start. Once you're past that stage, they mostly review what you already know, and the points and streaks give you a sense of progress that doesn't touch what's missing. dailyBe starts from the words you don't know: you look them up, pick the sentences, and the app tracks what you've learned word by word. It does have a daily goal and a streak, but they serve one purpose: more study time on what you actually need to learn.

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You look up a word you don't know in the AI dictionary, read the meaning and the example sentences, then add the ones you want to learn to your list. The app brings those sentences back for spaced review, in 10-sentence sessions where you practice by speaking, seeing and listening.

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The meaning and at least five example sentences, with audio. You choose which sentences go into your learning list. You can look up single words, expressions and phrasal verbs like call it off, from any area: work, health, TV shows, whatever came up in your day.

Since the same word shows up in several sentences, you review it in different contexts instead of memorizing one sentence.

Go deeper:How many words you need for TV shows

With spaced repetition, on a ladder of intervals: 1, 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 28 and 54 days. Every sentence starts on the bottom rung. Get it right and it climbs a rung and comes back later; miss it and it drops a rung and comes back sooner.

For example, if you get it right every time, a sentence you practice today comes back tomorrow, then in 3 days, 5, 7, 14, 28 and 54. Miss it along the way and it comes back sooner, then starts climbing again. There's no daily cap on reviews.

Go deeper:Spaced repetition explained

It scores every word, not just the sentence: your correct answers divided by the number of times the word came up. Past a certain percentage, the word counts as learned and stops being a focus. Once every word in a sentence is learned, the sentence leaves active practice and the next ones move up.

Three: speaking, seeing and listening. In speaking mode, you say the sentence out loud; the app uses speech recognition, shows what it heard and, if it doesn't match, gives you a pronunciation tip spelled the way a Brazilian would read it in Portuguese. For example, "I should have known better." becomes "ai xúdav nôun bérer". In seeing mode, you start from the written sentence; in listening mode, from its sound.

A short diagnostic asks what you want English for: travel, work or general use. The app uses your answer to point your first words and study toward that goal.

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Short stories, 30 sentences each, to build your vocabulary. They're a good fit if you're closer to the beginning and don't have many words jotted down to look up yet.

Yes. You pick a daily goal (10 minutes, 15 minutes or more), and every day you hit it earns a star. There's also a streak for consecutive days of study. And you can add friends and compete with them on study time over the week and the month.

That gives you two ways to measure: study time and stars. Someone might have 7 stars and 1 hour of study in a week; someone else, 4 hours and 4 stars. You and your friends decide which one counts.

Not yet: for now, the app needs a connection. Downloading sessions to study offline is on our roadmap, with no date yet.

iPhone (App Store) and Android (Google Play).

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dailyBe isn't a five-minutes-a-day app. It's built for 20 to 30 focused minutes a day, over a few sessions. Each session has 10 sentences: in the tests we watched, people with more English finished one in 4 to 5 minutes, and people just past the start took close to 25. You can do as many sessions as you like, as long as there are sentences to study.

Splitting your attention while you learn hurts memory, so a few distracted minutes in line at the store do a lot less than they seem to.

Go deeper:How to study vocabulary in 20 minutes a day

At a set time, tied to something you already do every day: your commute on the bus or train, after breakfast, after the kids go to bed. Skip the gaps between meetings and the TV in the background. If a day falls through, keep the next day's slot: missing one day doesn't undo the habit.

Go deeper:Fitting the session into your day

We can't promise a timeline, and you should be wary of anyone who promises fluency in X days. It depends on how many words your English is missing and how many focused sessions you put in. What the app does give you is visibility: since it tracks learning word by word, you can see what has stuck instead of guessing.

Because a sentence shows you which words an expression usually goes with, what tone it carries and how it sounds. Knowing that swamped means overloaded is one thing; catching "I'm swamped this week" when someone says it fast is another.

Go deeper:30 alternatives to basic English words

Research shows that spacing out reviews improves long-term retention, including in language learning, and that trying to recall something locks it in better than rereading it. The method decides when to review. It doesn't choose what you should study, and it doesn't replace listening to and using English.

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The example sentences and the audio are generated by AI. That's what lets you look up almost any word and see it in use right away.

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Report it right in the app and say whether it's a pronunciation or a translation error. Reported sentences go to a person for review.

Only English for now. German, Spanish, Italian and French are on our roadmap, with no date yet.

Yes. The limit on free use is the number of dictionary lookups per day. With a subscription, that limit is 10 times higher, and you get early access to new features.

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There are two plans. Monthly is R$19.90 a month (about R$0.66 a day), and Annual is R$197.90 a year (about R$0.54 a day). Prices are listed in Brazilian reais; the App Store or Google Play bills you in your account's currency. The full math and what each plan includes are on the pricing page.

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You can already use the app without paying. The free trial is for the paid plan, and its terms are shown when you subscribe.

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Your subscription is managed in the App Store or Google Play, wherever you subscribed: that's where you cancel or switch plans. Refund requests follow App Store or Google Play rules and dailyBe's terms of use.

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Your students can use the app on their own alongside your classes, to review and expand their vocabulary between lessons. Today, the friends screen already lets you follow and compare the study time of the people you add. A dashboard to track students' progress, with consent terms, is something we can build on request. If that interests you, get in touch.

Not a ready-made one yet. We can build screens to track the progress of students or teams, with consent terms. Email contato@dailybe.app and tell us about your situation.