For urges
The Spanish pause-button for urges.
The urge moves on autopilot — faster than thinking, straight past any intention you had. Saying one rehearsed sentence in barely-remembered Spanish forces your whole attention onto the words. Your brain can't run the autopilot and decode the foreign sentence at the same time. The wave passes, and you chose what came next.
How it works
Four beats. Under two minutes.
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The urge hits. It comes fast — before thinking, before intention. This is the moment the app is for.
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Open the app. Your starter sentence is waiting: something like Este antojo es una ola. Puedo quedarme aquí mientras pasa. — This craving is a wave. I can stand here while it passes. Or write your own when you're steady.
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Say your sentence. Karaoke mode lights each word as the voice reads it aloud. A phonetic line underneath keeps you from guessing. Say it with the voice, then alone. The effort is the point — it takes your whole attention.
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The wave passes. A star drops in the jar. The urge doesn't need to disappear — ten seconds was enough to choose. Each rep banks a star. The jar fills slowly, and that slowness is honest.
Why it works
Familiar words don't land.
Read a coping sentence in English and your brain can skip past it. It's seen the phrase before. Say the same sentence in a language you barely speak and every word needs you present — and that noticing is where the pause lives.
What's in the app
Small. Private. Yours.
Six languages, on-device
Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, German — translated by Apple's framework. Nothing leaves your phone.
Karaoke + phonetics
Each word lights up as the voice reaches it. The phonetic guide sits underneath so you always know how to say it — no language knowledge needed.
A star jar that fills slowly
One star per day you show up. The jar fills at the pace of the practice — no guilt-streak machine, no daily lock-out.
Fully private
No account. No subscription. Everything stays on your phone — and the screen shows only a language practice view, so no one glancing over can infer anything.
Get Sottosay
Your pause button, in your pocket.
Free on the App Store. Your sentence is ready in under a minute — no account, no subscription, fully offline.
iPhone · Free · Offline · No account