Make a list, hand out a code, and thirty students practice tonight.
Use it for spelling lists, sight words, this week’s vocabulary, or the pairs your ESL class keeps mixing up. Build it once, print the page of codes, and every student who scans one gets the same drill on their own iPhone or iPad. A scanned code opens the words in any phone’s browser, so nobody is left out of the list itself.
No app accounts or roster to maintain. Scores stay on each student’s device, with no teacher dashboard. Speech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts. Follow your school’s approval and consent requirements before classroom use.
The app is free for teachers on iPhone and iPad while promotional codes last. Take one now and set it up whenever you have ten minutes. On Android you can add your name to the list instead; the word lists below work on any phone either way.
Your word lists are never uploaded. The words travel inside the link itself, after the #, which browsers never send to a server. Choose a file on this page and it is read in your browser and never leaves your machine. That is why the maker below has no upload button: there is nowhere to upload to. The educator form separately sends the details you enter and stores them to handle requests. Hosting and form-security logs are described in the privacy policy.
Teachers get Misheard free
Misheard is free for educators on iPhone and iPad while promotional codes last. First name, school email, and the code is on the screen with instructions for redeeming it. No account and no sign-in, here or in the app.
On Android? There is no Android app available. Choose Android below to join the interest list. This helps us decide whether to build one; there is no announced release date.
This form stores your name, school email, platform choice and request details to issue an iOS code or record Android interest. It also uses a short-lived IP record for rate limiting. It does not ask for student information. See the privacy policy.
Grade word lists
Standards differ by state, so they are kept separate rather than blended into one list that is wrong everywhere. Each set opens as a page of codes to print.
Make codes from your own lists
Drop in as many word files as you like: .txt, .csv or .xlsx. A spreadsheet with columns for the word, how to say it and what it means gives the best result, and a workbook of several sheets gives one code per sheet. Everything lands on one printable page.
Email it instead
A code is for a room. For homework, send the link: it opens the same list in a browser, and a tap puts it in the app. The link carries the words itself, so it keeps working after you send it and does not depend on us keeping a page up.
Build one at misheard.app/l, or use a card above.
Questions teachers ask
Half my class is on Android.
There is no Android app available and no announced release date. The interest list helps us decide whether to build one; it is not an app-store review or a queue for an existing Android code.
Android students can read the shared word lists in a browser, including pronunciations and meanings. Listening practice and scoring currently require the iPhone or iPad app.
Do students need accounts?
No. There are no accounts in Misheard at all, for you or for them. A code carries the words; nothing carries a name.
Do I find out how they did?
No. Scores stay on each student’s device; there is no teacher dashboard or automatic progress reporting. Students can choose to show you their screen.
What do I tell the school about privacy?
The app has no Misheard backend, sign-in or analytics. Speech recognition runs on your device by default. If you turn off “Keep speech on device,” audio may be sent to Apple for recognition. Misheard does not receive your practice audio or transcripts. Shared-list contents travel in the URL fragment rather than being uploaded to us. The educator form and hosting logs are separate. Review the privacy policy and follow your school’s approval and consent requirements.
Does it cost the students anything?
Free for 14 days with everything unlocked, then $4.99 once. Today’s challenge word stays free either way, and Family Sharing means one purchase covers a whole family.
What if my list is very long?
The whole list rides inside the code, so a very long one stops being scannable from across a room. The maker tells you when that happens. Around a hundred words is comfortable; split anything much past that.
My lists are in a spreadsheet. Can I use them?
Yes. Drop the .xlsx straight on the maker above. A workbook of twelve sheets comes out as twelve codes, each named from the sheet, and columns for how to say the word and what it means come through with it.