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A new way to learn languages

Learn a language while reading fiction — at every level.

Stories so good you get immersed in them, while the learning happens quietly in the background.

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A world of stories, growing with you

Each story is its own world, designed to build on the last — so you learn the language intuitively, one story at a time.

Levels 1–6 · A1

KAI

A small robot wakes up knowing nothing — and wants to find the stars.

Levels 7–11 · A1+

Der Junge ohne Schatten

A boy loses his shadow in the Grauwald — and has to learn its language to get it back.

Levels 12–16 · A2

Die Bibliothek der Stunden

A library that only appears when it rains, with books that rewrite themselves overnight.

Levels 17–20 · B1

Zwei Monde

Two villages have argued for a hundred years — and two strangers are about to find out why.

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Build vocabulary through context, naturally.

Wayling uses Leitner spaced repetition to lock vocabulary in through context and plot. Words keep coming back, just as you're about to forget them, until you know them without trying.

Chapter 1
Chapter 4
Chapter 9
Chapter 15
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Learn grammar the way you learned it the first time — intuitively.

No rule comes before the feeling. Each story introduces a few grammar concepts, and a short animated lesson explains them once you've met them in the plot. You learn the pattern through the storyline, not the other way round.

03

Then play with what you just read — until it sticks.

After each chapter, a short puzzle-piece activity turns understanding into skill. Anchor the key words, practise them in small challenges, then stretch into something new. It feels like a game, and it makes comprehension stick without a single drill.

04

Burn your textbooks. Open a story instead.

Word lists fade. Characters don't. Every level is a story, and every story is written to make you want the next one.

05

Science-based. Story-driven. Built for how memory actually works.

Comprehensible input, spaced repetition, and narrative emotion — the same forces that made you fluent in your first language, applied to your next one.

06

Find the meaning without losing your place.

Tap any word and its meaning appears right where you're reading. No dictionary, no app-switching, no broken spell — you stay inside the story.

07

Read it and listen — every chapter is narrated.

Every chapter comes with its own audio, so your ear learns the rhythm of the language alongside your eyes. Follow along on the page, or put the phone down and let the story carry on.

The method

Three ideas, one reading experience

One continuous story

Not a stack of disconnected exercises — a real serialized fiction, where the same characters and world carry you from your very first word to fluent reading.

Every level is a loop, not a lesson

Meet the new words first. Read the chapter. Lock them in with a quick review, then unlock a short animated lesson on the grammar you just felt. Step into the next chapter already ready for it — and notice you're reading more than you were yesterday.

Tap, don't pause

Unfamiliar word? Tap it. A short definition appears right where you're reading — no app-switching, no breaking the spell of the story.

See it in action

This is what page one looks like.

A small robot wakes up in an empty workshop, knowing nothing — not even the words for what it sees. Every object it discovers, you discover too.

New word this chapter
Tap any word, anytime
Level 1 · Chapter 1 · A1

KAI wakes up

KAI öffnet die Augeneyes. Es ist dunkeldark. Dann — ein Lichtlight. KAI sieht einen Raumroom. Der Raum ist klein. Der Raum ist alt. Auf dem Tisch liegt ein Schlüsselkey. "Was ist das?" denkt KAI.

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First launchMid-November 2026
What's inside

German, A1-A2+

The current pack is a complete journey from A1 to A2+. B1+ and more languages are on the way, and new features keep rolling out.

23 stories included
  1. 01

    Der Junge ohne Schatten

    A 14-year-old wakes up to find his shadow completely gone, and has 24 hours to find it in the grey forest before the world notices something is wrong.

  2. 02

    Das Licht am Ende der Nacht

    A lighthouse keeper's daughter discovers the lighthouse light has gone out, and the darkness outside is not ordinary darkness. It moves, and it is getting closer.

  3. 03

    Die Wolken über den Köpfen

    A man wakes up able to see everyone's thoughts as coloured clouds, until he notices one cloud, above his quiet neighbour, that is slowly and silently turning black.

  4. 04

    Das alte Foto

    A woman who collects old photographs at flea markets finds one that stops her cold. It shows a girl who looks exactly like her, dated fifty years before she was born.

  5. 05

    Der Fahrstuhl

    Four strangers get stuck in an elevator, but instead of stopping, it keeps going down, past the basement, past the foundation, into somewhere that has no name on any map.

  6. 06

    Gärtner

    A small robot built to tend a botanical garden wanders into the city after the garden closes, not knowing what to do with itself, but unable to stop trying to help things grow.

  1. 07

    Die Nachricht

    A teenager starts receiving text messages from a number that doesn't exist, from someone who knows exactly what is about to happen and is desperately trying to prevent it.

  2. 08

    Das verschwundene Haus

    An old man wakes each morning to find another room of his house has vanished. As each room goes, he must relive what happened there, and decide whether to let the memory go.

  3. 09

    Die falsche Tür

    Two friends find a door in the forest that leads to a perfect copy of their world, but the people there are slightly wrong, and the longer they stay, the harder it is to remember which world is home.

  4. 10

    Das letzte Konzert

    A musician who lost her hearing discovers that the music she now plays, which she can never hear herself, is the most beautiful anyone has ever heard. She has one choice left.

  5. 11

    Der Brief an Niemanden

    A man has been delivering flowers to the same apartment every Saturday for twenty years. The apartment is always empty. One day, someone answers.

  6. 12

    Das Mädchen, das zeichnet

    A girl discovers that her drawings come true the next morning, but only when she draws with her left hand, which she has never used before.

  7. 13

    Die Uhr des Ungeborenen

    A clock repairman discovers that one clock he has been asked to fix belongs to someone who has not yet been born. The name on the back is dated forty years in the future.

  8. 14

    Der Fischer und sein Fisch

    A fisherman catches the same fish every morning, and every morning the fish has something different to tell him. One day, the fish asks a question he cannot answer.

  9. 15

    Klang in einer Flasche

    A boy discovers he can collect sounds in small glass bottles, and that when you open one, the sound plays back exactly as it was. He gives lost sounds back to people who need them.

  10. 16

    Die Schlossmacherin

    A locksmith discovers that one door she keeps repairing leads not to a room but to a different version of the day. She can lock or unlock different outcomes.

  11. 17

    Das Brot der Bäckerin

    A baker discovers that her bread predicts the emotional weather of whoever eats it. One morning the bread predicts something she is not ready to know.

  12. 18

    Der Wächter der Nacht

    A night watchman at a natural history museum discovers that the exhibits begin moving at exactly 2am, visiting each other in a specific order he cannot decode.

  13. 19

    Die Sprache der Anderen

    A woman wakes up speaking a language she has never learned, and discovers there is only one other person on Earth who speaks it. He lives on the other side of the world. He answers.

  14. 20

    Die Telefonzelle

    An old telephone booth in an empty field rings every evening at 6pm. A girl picks up once. The voice asks her what year it is, and sounds relieved when she answers.

  15. 21

    Die Detektivin

    A detective who solves crimes by reading the emotional residue left on objects begins a case that keeps circling back to a single object, one she recognises as her own.

  16. 22

    Die Sammlerin der Wörter

    A woman who collects words that people have forgotten discovers that the words are grateful. One of them starts following her home.

  17. 23

    Die Tür am Grund des Sees

    A boy discovers a locked wooden door standing upright at the bottom of the lake near his house. He spends a whole summer looking for the key, and what he finds is not what he expected.

German · A1 – A2+ · available now Spanish · coming soon French · coming soon Japanese · coming soon
First 500 only · 267 / 500 claimed · Launching mid-November 2026

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Scheduled to be released in mid-late November 2026