Swipe through clips
Short sketches, street interviews and cartoons in Spanish, picked for your level. Subtitles follow along word by word.
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Learn Spanish from funny clips.
Aprende español con vídeos que te hacen reír.
Capiñol turns short Spanish YouTube clips into lessons. Tap any word in the subtitles, see idioms and slang flagged, and keep what you learn with swipe flashcards.
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- Real Spanish, not textbook
- Spain and Latin America
- English or Russian UI
ESechar de menos · to miss
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The idea
You don’t learn a language from lists.
You don’t learn a language from lists.
You learn it from people.
Capiñol puts you in front of real Spanish, the way people actually speak it, and makes every word one tap away.
1 tap
for any word: its meaning in this sentence, the dictionary form, the tense and person, and how it sounds.
7 regions
of Spanish: Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, the Caribbean, Chile and Peru. Regional slang gets a flag.
3 min
a day of swipe reviews keeps the words you saved. The schedule adapts to what you remember.
How it works
Watch. Tap. Keep it.
Ten minutes a day, and the clips start to make sense.
Tap what you don’t get
The clip pauses and the word opens: meaning in context, verb form, gender, examples. Idioms light up as one piece.
“¿qué significa?”Swipe to remember
Tapped words become flashcards. Swipe right if you know it, left if not; spaced repetition brings each one back right before you’d forget.
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Features
Everything a clip can teach you.
Tappable subtitles
Every word explains itself.
Tap a word and Capiñol tells you what it means here, not just in a dictionary: “echo” is echar, present tense, first person, and in this line it’s part of an idiom.
- Meaning in context, dictionary senses and pronunciation
- Idioms and slang flagged, with the region they come from
- Words you know fade out; new ones stand out
Flashcards
Swipe right, it sticks.
Saved words turn into cards with the sentence and the clip they came from. A modern spaced-repetition scheduler (FSRS) decides when you see each one again.
- Know it, swipe right. Don’t, swipe left
- Hear the word and replay the exact moment from the clip
- A few minutes a day, never a wall of cards
Verb forms
Irregular verbs, on autopilot.
See every form of a verb in one table, with the irregular ones marked, then drill the forms you actually met in your clips.
- Present, past, future, subjunctive and more
- “Why this form?” in plain words
- Drills built from your own words
Your own videos
Paste any link. Get a lesson.
Found a Spanish video you love? Paste the YouTube link and Capiñol builds the same interactive lesson from its captions in about a minute.
- Works with any public video that has Spanish captions
- Private to you, never shown to anyone else
- Your words from it go straight into your cards
- Start learning without an account. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want your words on another phone.
- Videos you add from your own links are private to you: never in anyone’s feed, search or examples.
- No ads, no tracking across other apps, and we never sell your data.
- Clips play in YouTube’s official player, so creators keep their views.
FAQ
Good questions.
What level do I need?
Any. Beginners lean on the tap-to-translate and the English line under each sentence; advanced learners hide translations and hunt for slang. Clips are tagged from A1 to C2.
Which Spanish does Capiñol teach?
Both. Clips come from Spain and Latin America, every clip is tagged with its accent, and words that only some countries use get a regional flag.
Are the translations made by AI?
Yes, the explanations are generated with AI from each clip’s captions and checked for consistency. They’re very good, but use them as a study aid, not a certified translation.
Which languages is the app in?
English and Russian. Translations and explanations follow the app’s language.
How much does it cost?
Capiñol is free to use with daily limits. Capiñol Pro removes them and adds your own videos, verb forms and rewatch mode, with a free trial first.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. Capiñol is iPhone-first; write to us if you’d like Android.
Capiñol for iPhone
Coming soon to the App Store.
Want in early? Write to us and we’ll add you to the TestFlight beta.
Join the beta