About Swiftlit

"Flock" Memorization for the Bible

This app is an outgrowth of my own specific need. Many of the verse memorization tools I tried seemed clunky and slow, as I was trying to memorize large chunks of text, not individual verses. 

I discovered that memorizing with my Bible open with a ranged random number generator to "flock" verses worked really well for me. I can memorize, if I set my mind to it, a page out of my Bible in about three hours (roughly 30 verses).

The Readrunner

When in grad school, there were times I was assigned a 350 page book for the following week and I could only allocate 6 hours of homework to that specific class, making it so that, if I were to be honest in reporting my reading, I would need to read at 60 pages an hour to complete the assignment.

I tried to accomplish the pace by looking at a stopwatch occasionally, but that directed my eyes away from reading and was exhausting to keep up. I eventually created an audio loop one minute long that had a very annoying beep at the beginning. The "Readrunner" uses the same pacing concept, but with much nicer sounds!

The best way to use this tool is to dot a page with a writing utensil when you hear a cue and see where you are at when the next cue sounds.

Flashcards

Aside from Bible memorization, I wanted to review languages I had studied in grad school, learn new languages, and provide study guide tools for friends still in school. 

Learning new languages is best by immersion, but I figured rote vocab acquisition would be helpful for myself. [I hope to add free language flashcard sets in the future!]

The standard study mode in the app I made with my test prep notes for grad school in mind; these study guides were often around 30 pages.

Budget Friendly

Other apps do similar things, like flashcards or language study, but they charge about $5-10 a month for premium features. Some of the apps that have AI are as much as $50 a month. 

I have friends still in college and grad school, and I'd say most of the serious students I know are budget conscious. Swiftlit will work without a subscription, and can be useful to someone who doesn't want to pay for the pro features.

As a side note, I am also very frugal and don't even pay for music or video streaming services. If Swiftlit were $10 a month, I myself probably wouldn't pay for the premium features. Given that, I hope you get some benefit from my frugality and the affordability of the app's premium tools and features.