Kantu
Get Kantu

A visual language app

Learn the world you’re already in.

Point Kantu at breakfast, a hotel room, a street corner, or anything else you want to name. It turns one picture into precise vocabulary you can hear, save, and practice.

Download for iPhone Download for Android See how it works

Out now on the App Store and Google Play. Free to start.

A hand-drawn breakfast table with avocado toast, coffee, orange slices, keys, and a folded map.
One ordinary table. A whole pocket of useful words.
fried egg huevo frito house keys llaves de casa

One ordinary moment becomes a lesson you can return to.

Notice. Name. Remember.

  1. Photograph what caught your eye.

    Use the camera, choose a picture you already have, or share a photo into Kantu from another app. Kantu looks for objects, ingredients, materials, details, and visible text that can become useful vocabulary.

    A hand-drawn table of colorful breakfast dishes, ready to be explored with Kantu. Daily discovery +35 points breakfast bowl fried egg orange slice
    Take a photo or open one from your library.

  2. Explore the exact words.

    Tap a label for its translation, pronunciation, evidence, confidence, and a useful example. Switch among 18 languages without analyzing the picture again.

    A hand-drawn hotel lounge with a horse sculpture, lamps, tables, and chairs. floor lamp horse sculpture wooden table
    A room becomes a vocabulary map.
    A hand-drawn home office with a desk, chair, lamp, bookshelf, and plant. 1 2 3
    Test yourself Can you name item 1?
    Then the same scene becomes a test.
    Specific
    Not just “bread.” Ciabatta.
    Grounded
    Kantu shows how strongly the picture supports a name.
    Speakable
    Hear the word and its example in the language you’re learning.
    Flexible
    Change languages without spending another picture.
    Yours
    Sign in with Apple or Google and your words follow you to any device.

  3. Turn curiosity into recall.

    Save useful words and pictures, answer quick reviews, test yourself on real scenes, play a listening round, and follow a fresh discovery prompt each day.

    A hand-drawn travel desk with headphones, camera, sketchbook, flashcards, and a city view. 3 day streak
    Daily challenge Find three travel objects. Camera · headphones · notebook
    Keep the words from the places you want to remember.

    Daily discovery

    Find one real thing. Keep a streak, with a daily reminder and an iPhone home screen widget to bring you back.

    Quick review

    Recall saved words before Kantu reveals the translation and pronunciation.

    Picture tests

    Name what you see, check the answer, and build a more useful vocabulary.

    Listening round

    Hear a saved word and pick the right one. Train your ear, not only your eye.

    Collections

    Group labeled scenes into albums you name yourself, kept with your account.

    Points and badges

    Points, levels, streaks, accuracy, and badges that mark how far you have come.

Eighteen ways to say what’s in front of you.

Learn across English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Greek, Thai, and Vietnamese.

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Start where you are

Your next lesson is already in the room.

Kantu is live on iPhone and Android. Start free with five pictures a month, then move to Basic or Premium when you want more.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play