For Lisbon · Porto · Coimbra

Learn Portuguese in the moments between.

Vozla teaches the Portuguese of Lisbon and Porto — not Rio. Eight words a day arrive on your lock screen during the hours you choose. Tap, hear, learn. Then practise with a real speaker across the city.

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9:14•••

9:14

Tuesday, 23 May

VOZLA now

bom dia · good morning

VOZLA now

café · coffee

VOZLA now

por favor · please

Tuesday

Aprender

87 to go

Meeting

Numbers

Social

A1 Meeting someone

boa tarde

good afternoon

Note · noon until sunset

A1 Meeting someone

boa noite

good evening

— 01

Words come to you.

Six to twelve Portuguese words appear on your lock screen during the hours you pick. Closed loop, no screen time required.

— 02

European, not Brazilian.

Every word recorded in Lisbon by native voice actors. CEFR A1 corpus. No shrugging when the waiter speaks back to you.

— 03

Speak with neighbours.

Find native speakers within a kilometre of your flat. Trade an hour of Portuguese for an hour of English over coffee.

How it works · one word

Thirty seconds. One loop.

Every Vozla word is one loop: a notification, a listen, a short quiz, a tile. The whole thing fits between a tram and a coffee. Repeated six to twelve times a day, only during the hours you choose.

01

A word arrives.

Notification · 0 s

02

You hear it spoken.

Card · ~10 s

03

You spell it back.

Quiz · ~25 s

04

A tile lands on your wall.

Tile · ~30 s

01

Notification · 0 s

A word arrives.

During your chosen hours, a single Portuguese word lands on your lock screen. Tap it — or swipe it away and we will bring it back tomorrow.

02

Card · ~10 s

You hear it spoken.

A Lisbon voice actor pronounces the word, slow then natural. You see the English gloss, an example sentence, and any PT-PT note that matters.

03

Quiz · ~25 s

You spell it back.

A three-question anagram drill. Letter tiles, audio prompt, no typing. You can fail twice — we surface the answer rather than wasting your day.

04

Tile · ~30 s

A tile lands on your wall.

An azulejo tile flips into place. A hundred tiles is enough to navigate Lisbon. No streaks, no leagues, no nag — just the wall, filling in.

How it works · day one · six loops

A Tuesday in your pocket.

Same thirty-second loop, six times across a normal day. You set the start and end of your day; we schedule the rest.

Your settings

Window08:00 – 21:00

Cadence8 words / day

VoiceLisbon native

08:00

bom dia good morning

You make a coffee. Vozla wakes you up with the word for the hour you're in.

10:14

obrigado thank you

The barista hands you your bica. You almost get it right this time.

12:32

a conta the bill

Lunch at the tasca on the corner. You ask without thinking about it.

14:45

desculpe sorry / excuse me

You bump into someone in Chiado. Reflex, not translation.

17:30

até amanhã see you tomorrow

You leave the office. The doorman smiles — you said it back.

21:08

boa noite goodnight

You close the curtains on Rua das Janelas Verdes.

✓ Six tiles earned · 5 minutes total

Why EU Portuguese

Seventy per cent of the internet teaches the wrong Portuguese.

If you live in Lisbon and study with mainstream apps, you are learning to be misunderstood in two languages. Different vocabulary, different conjugations, very different sound. Vozla's corpus is CEFR A1, cross-referenced with the syllabus Portuguese-language schools use, and ends with Lisbon-recorded audio.

"I spent eight months on Duolingo before moving to Porto and arrived speaking like a tourist from Rio. Vozla undid that in a fortnight."

Hannah K. · Software engineer · Porto since 2024

English EU · Vozla BR · the other apps

bus autocarro ônibus

mobile phone telemóvel celular

breakfast pequeno-almoço café da manhã

you (informal) tu você

ice-cream gelado sorvete

Source · CEFR A1 syllabus, in-house cross-reference

Progress · not streaks

One hundred tiles, one wall.

Every word you finish earns an azulejo tile. The full hundred is enough to survive a Tuesday in Lisbon — order coffee, ask directions, navigate the AIMA office, make small talk with a stranger. No streaks. No guilt notifications. Just the wall, filling in.

100

Words to unlock survival PT

22

Scenarios · coffee to AIMA

14d

Median to finish the wall

Sofia · Bairro Alto · Day 11 47 / 100

The other half · Voices

Find a neighbour. Trade an hour.

Twelve thousand Portuguese natives within five kilometres of Marquês de Pombal want to practise their English. Vozla matches you on language, neighbourhood and free hours. You meet for a coffee. You both leave better at the language you're learning.

12,408

speakers · Lisboa metro

0.9 km

median first match

83%

meet within two weeks

v1.1 · landing first half ships now

Within 1 km · Príncipe Real 14 people

M

Marta

Príncipe Real · 0.4 km

pt · en · es

T

Tiago

Bairro Alto · 0.9 km

pt · fr

I

Inês

Chiado · 1.2 km

pt · en · jp

Built for · three reasons to learn

Three people, same Portuguese.

Photo · 30s nomad at Pensão Amor, late afternoon light

Expat

You moved here last spring.

You can do AIMA in English if you have to. You'd rather not. Vozla is the survival kit for the next six months.

Photo · Older PT-American woman in a kitchen, soft window light

Heritage

Your grandmother is from Setúbal.

You learned a little as a child. Vozla's pace is gentle, the corpus is dignified, and the audio sounds like she does.

Photo · Student notebook on tiled café table, top-down

Serious

You're sitting CIPLE in March.

CEFR-mapped to A1 / A2 with Camões IP's syllabus. Quiz everything, track gaps. You know what you're doing.

The studio

Built solo, in Portugal.

Vozla is built by Saroar, an indie iOS developer based in Portugal, trading as "Vozla by Alif". The corpus is checked by hand. The audio is recorded in Lisbon by native voice actors. Nothing is generated.

Founded · 2026

Solo · indie

Funded by users

What we promise

— No streaks, no guilt notifications, no leagues.
— No AI-generated voices. Recorded in Lisbon by native actors.
— Account deletion in two taps. Your data goes too.
— Free for the first six months — no billing surprises.

Photo · Lisbon afternoon light

"I'm not trying to gamify language. I'm trying to make Lisbon Portuguese small enough to live with."

Saroar · Founder · Portugal

Common questions

Six honest answers.

Anything else? Write to saroarkhandoker@yahoo.com. I read everything.

Is it really just European Portuguese? +

Yes — every word in the corpus is checked against the CEFR A1 syllabus used by Portuguese-language schools, and every audio file is recorded in Lisbon by native voice actors. Brazilian Portuguese will eventually ship as a separate, clearly-marked product. We do not mix the two.

Will Vozla work without notifications? +

You can use it entirely as a screen-time app — open it whenever, run quizzes, fill the wall. But the magic is the notifications: that is where the "moments between" framing comes from. We strongly recommend turning them on after the first week.

How much does it cost? +

Free for the first six months. After that, pricing terms TBD — but the first 100 words will stay free forever. No free trial; we do not want to nudge you into a billing surprise.

Is there an Android version? +

Not yet. iOS 17+ only at launch. An Android build is planned for early 2027, once we have learned what works on iOS.

What happens to my data? +

Account deletion is two taps in Settings. Everything is wiped within 24 hours. We never sell data, we never use it to train external models.

Who makes Vozla? +

Saroar, an indie iOS developer based in Portugal, trading as "Vozla by Alif". Audio is recorded in Lisbon by native voice actors — no AI voices.