Sapifex
Mobile software that makes learning a pleasure.
The name joins the Latin sapere, to know, with -fex, the maker. Sapifex develops and publishes apps for subjects people are already curious about, so far flying and languages, and turns the time they spend on them into something to explore and get better at. Each app is built to be fun first: the motivation to look closer comes from the enjoyment, not from a reminder.
Apps
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Pilot’s Seat
Cockpit instruments in your passenger seat. Your phone’s own sensors drive a classic six-pack panel while you fly, with a moving map and a flight log. Entertainment only, not a navigation aid.
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Anyvoc
A personal vocabulary from anything you read. Give it an article or a photo of a page, and it picks the words worth learning, translates them and trains them with you until they stick. Twelve learning languages, everything on your device.
How Sapifex builds
Artificial intelligence is the enabler behind Sapifex, and part of the reason for the name. It changes what it takes to design, build, test and support good software, and it means ideas get tried instead of shelved. Inside the apps it is used where it genuinely helps a learner, such as reading text from a photo or grading a word’s difficulty, and left out where it would only add noise.
What stays constant is a plain promise: the apps are honest about what they know. A cockpit panel marks every value it has to estimate, and a vocabulary never leaves the phone it was built on.
Contact
Email info@sapifex.com. Sapifex is run by Sebastian Schulte am Hülse in Stuttgart, Germany; the full details are in the imprint.