Kiekko: Learn Finnish

iPhone / Education

Most language apps drill you with flashcards. Kiekko hands you a story.

You follow Alex, a Canadian kid who shows up in Tampere to play hockey without a word of Finnish. Chapter 1 is written so a complete beginner can get through it. Thirty chapters later you're reading real Finnish, and because the difficulty creeps up a little at a time, there's never a wall. Words you've already met keep coming back until they stick.

Tap any word and you get the English meaning, the dictionary form, a grammar hint, and an example sentence. Tap next to a sentence for the full translation. All of it is built into the app, so it works on a plane, in a rink, anywhere, with no connection at all.

There's audio too. The app reads the story aloud sentence by sentence with the built-in iOS Finnish voice, highlighting as it goes, and there's a slow mode for when your ear isn't there yet.

You earn XP for new words you look up, chapters you finish, and the short quiz at the end of each chapter. Streaks keep you honest. Every word you've ever tapped lands in your own searchable word list, and you climb the ranks from Fani all the way to Legenda.

No account, no ads, no tracking. Your progress stays on your phone.