Milestones in Polidict: day streaks and words learned
After a practice session, Polidict now shows new milestones: your day streak and the number of words you’ve learned. Each one opens as a story card you can share.
Polidict now celebrates your milestones. The first time you finish a practice session that brings you to a 7-day streak or your 100th learned word, you’ll see a big number, confetti and a short recap. You can share the milestone straight away as a story card.
A “14-day streak” milestone after practice: a big orange number, a progress bar showing the previous and next milestones, and a Share milestone button
What milestones are in Polidict
A milestone is a point in your learning that Polidict marks after a practice session. There are two kinds:
day streak: how many days in a row you’ve practised;
words learned: how many words in the dictionary for the language you’re studying have moved to learned.
A word counts as learned once all of its practice tracks — meaning, writing, listening and speaking — have moved to spaced repetition. So “100 words learned” doesn’t mean 100 saved cards. It means 100 words you’ve already recalled on your own more than once.
Which milestones Polidict celebrates
| Milestone | Thresholds |
| Day streak | 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 100, 150, 180, 200, 250, 300, 365, 500, 730 |
| Words learned | 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000, 5000 |
Early milestones come often, so your first weeks don’t pass unnoticed. Later they spread out: a year of daily practice or 1,000 learned words doesn’t happen every day, and that’s how it should be.
What it looks like after practice
The milestone appears on the results screen as soon as your session is saved. You’ll see:
a big number and a label, such as “14-day streak”;
a short line about what it means;
a progress bar with the previous, current and next milestones, so you can see where you’re heading.
If one session gets you to two milestones, Polidict shows them one after the other: first the day streak, then words learned. Tap Continue to see the next one.
On your phone, the milestone comes with a short vibration that fades out with the confetti. If Reduce Motion is turned on in your system settings, Polidict skips the animation and confetti and shows just the milestone.
How to share a milestone
Tap Share milestone to open a progress card with your new milestone as the big number. From there, it works as usual:
Choose a card style: Paper, Activity, Night, Words, Signature, or Sticker with a transparent background.
Choose what else to include: This week, Recently learned words, Language.
On your phone, tap Share image. On the website, you can also download or copy the card.
The card is 1080 × 1920, just right for Instagram or Telegram stories. When you close it, you go back to the same milestone, not on to the next one.
Two screens: the “14-day streak” milestone and the Share progress window with a Paper-style card, a week of activity and recently learned words
You can also open the progress card without a milestone: go to Statistics and tap Share progress.
How Polidict counts milestones
Each milestone appears only once. Polidict remembers the highest milestone it has already celebrated, separately for each language, and shows only new ones.
A few details worth knowing:
Past milestones aren’t repeated. The first time you practise after the update, Polidict takes your current progress as the starting point. If you already have 300 learned words, you won’t be congratulated on 10, 25 and 50 — the next one will be 500.
One milestone of each kind per session. If you jump past several milestones at once, Polidict celebrates the highest.
A broken streak starts over. Miss a day and your streak resets, so 3, 7 and 14 days become milestones again. Learned words don’t reset.
Milestones don’t appear during the introductory practice session in the mobile app, so nothing interrupts your first look at Polidict.
Why a day streak matters
For building vocabulary, regular practice matters more than long sessions once a week. Spaced repetition is designed for short daily sessions, and a daily habit takes time to form: in a study by Lally et al. (2010), it took participants 66 days on average for a new daily action to become automatic.
Milestones won’t make you practise, but they help you notice that the habit is taking hold. And the progress bar with the next milestone shows that a 30-day streak may be closer than you think.
Where milestones are available
Polidict website: milestones appear after practice on polidict.com.
iPhone and iPad: in version 1.2.12, which is now in App Store review. The same version brings progress cards to Statistics.
Android: in version 1.2.12 for closed testing participants.
See everything each version changes in the changelog, and what we’re working on now on the roadmap.
Milestones are counted separately for each language, so if you’re learning two languages, each one has its own streak and its own learned words.
Summary
After practice, Polidict celebrates new milestones: your day streak and the number of words you’ve learned.
Each milestone is shown once, and several at a time appear one after the other.
You can share a milestone as a story card in six styles.
Start a practice session in Polidict — your next milestone may be closer than it seems. And to find out how to pick the words worth learning, read our post on vocabulary mastery.