Duolingo-style lessons from anything you read

Nano Learny is a microlearning app for developers, on iPhone. Paste a link to a docs site or an article, or upload a PDF, and it turns the pages into a learny: a course of three-minute lessons that end in questions, with a daily streak and key facts that come back in later lessons. Think of it as Duolingo, but for what you read.

Sort of. Most apps people find when they look for a Duolingo for coding teach programming basics from their own courses. Nano Learny keeps the short daily lessons and the streak, but the material is the documentation you choose, at its real depth.

Ask it when you have a question. But an assistant answers from memory, can lag behind the current version, and sounds just as sure when it’s wrong. Reading an answer also isn’t remembering it. Nano Learny teaches from the official source you picked and makes you recall it, days later, three minutes at a time.

Anki works well if you write good cards, and writing them is the slow part. Nano Learny writes the lessons and questions from the source for you and brings key facts back in later lessons. It isn’t a full spaced-repetition scheduler like Anki; reviews happen inside the lessons of each learny. If you already love Anki, keep it.

Agreed, build things. Nano Learny is not a replacement for that. It covers the part building doesn’t: reading the docs properly and remembering what you read, so you know what a tool can do before you need it.

Not for typing code. Phone time works well for reading and understanding, which is what a lesson asks: a few short explanations, a code snippet to read, then questions you answer with a tap or a word.

Lessons are written by a language model from the pages you chose, not from its memory. A lesson never mixes pages, code snippets are kept exactly as they appear in the source, and a learny made from a webpage links back to it. A model can still get a detail wrong. If a question looks off, report it from the lesson: I read every report, reply in the app, and return the credit when a learny came out broken. With Learny Pro, AI can fix the lesson right away, up to three times a day, and the fix can be undone.

No. It’s for people who already program and want to understand and remember the docs of the tech they use. To learn programming from scratch you need to write a lot of code; a beginner course is a better start.

Any public webpage: documentation, tutorials, articles, guides. You can also upload a PDF. A whole-course import finds the pages around your link, such as the sections of a docs site or the chapters of a tutorial, and lets you choose which ones to include. Or pick a ready-made learny from the in-app store: popular docs already turned into lessons, added for credits like your own.

A lesson is twelve small steps that take about three minutes: five short explanations, then seven questions (multiple choice, true or false, or type the answer), each with a short explanation. Two of the questions review key facts from earlier lessons. Code snippets and images from the source are kept where they matter.

Free accounts get five credits, no card needed. One credit turns up to 20,000 words into a learny: a long article, a PDF chapter or a section of docs; bigger imports use one credit per 20,000 words, and the app shows the cost before you generate. Learny Pro costs $3.99 per month, auto-renews, and adds thirty credits per month. You can cancel any time in your App Store settings.

iPhone and the web: use it now in any browser at app.nanolearny.app, with the same account as on iPhone. You sign in with Apple, Google or your email address, and you can delete your account and its data at any time from inside the app. An Android version is planned. Join the waitlist on this page, pick iPhone or Android, and we’ll email you when it’s out.

Not yet. It’s coming soon: join the waitlist to get an email when it’s live, and this page will link to the App Store.