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Nothing to sign up for, no password to invent. Open the app and start hauling. Private iCloud sync across your devices is on the way.
word·haul /ˈwərd ˌhôl/ noun — a personal bank of words worth keeping.
Hold onto the words you love.
You meet a wonderful word in a book, an article, a late-night rabbit hole — and by morning it's gone. WordHaul is a calm home for every word worth keeping: save it from anywhere on your iPhone, understand it properly, and actually remember it.
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Capture
Save them from anywhere.
No app-switching, no typing words into a list you'll never open again. WordHaul lives in the share sheet, so a word goes from the page to your bank in three taps.
Long-press a word
In Safari, Books, News — any app where words live.
Tap Share
In the pop-up menu, like you'd share anything else.
Choose WordHaul
Your word lands in the bank — with the app and page it came from.
Understand
Every word, properly.
The moment a word arrives, WordHaul looks it up — so your bank isn't a list of spellings, it's a shelf of little specimens.
- Real definitions — every sense, not just the first one.
- Pronunciation you can hear, plus phonetics you can read.
- Etymology — where the word has been before it met you.
- Your own examples & tags — make each entry yours, and remember the source it came from.
Definitions, pronunciations and etymologies from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, with example sentences from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary.
Remember
Make it stick.
Saving a word is the easy part. WordHaul quietly tracks how well each word is sticking, and nudges the wobbly ones back in front of you — gently, never like homework.
A stickiness score
Every word earns its score from real encounters and recall — watch it climb from “just met” to “learned”.
Twenty-second check-ins
Quick “which meaning is right?” quizzes — with a little confetti when it sticks.
Reminders that respect you
A calm daily rhythm, quiet hours, and a weekly digest of what you hauled in.
Lambent
Nice — that's sticking!
relating to or consisting of a system
playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering
the ability to find valuable things not sought for
Stickiness +15 ↑
On your Home Screen
Words that come to you.
A Word-Spotlight widget keeps one wobbly word in view all day, and lock-screen reminders arrive with the full meaning — no unlock required.
The Word-Spotlight widget
Choose what it shows — the word that needs you most, a word of the day, your latest catch, or your own picks. Tap it and you're on that word's page.
WORDHAULEphemeral
• lasting a very short time
“Their viral fame proved ephemeral…”
Reminders with the whole word
The meaning and a real example, right on the lock screen. Tap through to the word — or snooze it for later. A daily cap and quiet hours keep it kind.
Private by design
Your words are yours.
No tracking
No analytics, no ads, no third-party trackers. Lookups send only the word itself to the dictionary — never your sources, tags or notes.
Yours to keep
Export your whole bank as JSON any time, or delete everything with two taps. Your collection never becomes someone else's data.