Fill-in-the-Blanks Exercises

Practice and tests help you learn words one at a time. But that is not how language actually works -- words live inside sentences, paragraphs, and real stories. Fill-in-the-blanks exercises close that gap.

Pick a handful of words from any deck, and Snap to Learn writes a short, original text in your target language that weaves those words into it naturally. The words you chose are then blanked out, and you fill them back in -- by handwriting or keyboard, just like practice. It is the on-demand version of a teacher's gap-fill worksheet, built around exactly the vocabulary you are studying.

Where to find it

Open any deck. Alongside the Practicing and Mastered tabs, you will see a third tab: Exercises. This is where every exercise you generate for that deck lives.

Each exercise card shows its title, a difficulty badge (Easy, Medium, or Hard), how many blanks it has, and the date it was created. A green check appears on exercises you have already played. Tap a card to play it again, or tap the trash icon to delete it.

If you have not made any exercises yet, the tab shows a short explainer and an empty space waiting to be filled. Tap the orange + button in the bottom-right corner to create your first one.

Creating an exercise

Tapping + opens the Create an exercise sheet. This is where you choose what goes into your text.

1. Pick your words. Scroll the list and tap any word to select it. Each selected word will become one blank in the finished text. You need to choose between 4 and 15 words -- enough to make a real paragraph, but not so many that the text becomes a wall of gaps. A live counter at the bottom (for example, "10 of 15 selected") keeps you on track. In a hurry? Tap Pick 15 at random to let the app choose for you.

2. Choose a difficulty. The Easy / Medium / Hard toggle controls how challenging the text is -- not how many blanks it has. Every word you picked becomes a blank regardless of difficulty.

• Easy -- simpler vocabulary and shorter, more direct sentences. Best when you are newer to the language or just want a confidence-builder.
• Medium -- a natural, everyday register. A good default for most learners.
• Hard -- richer, more complex prose closer to what you would meet in real reading. Most challenging to fill in.

No matter which difficulty you choose, the in-exercise help tools (a hint and a reveal-a-letter button) are always available while you play -- so a hard text never leaves you stuck.

3. Tap Generate. The button is enabled once you have 4 to 15 words selected. Below it, you will see how many generations you have left. (More on that in What it costs below.)

While your exercise is being written

Generating an exercise is not instant -- the app writes a brand-new, coherent text around your specific words, which takes a moment. You can leave the sheet right away; a banner on the Exercises tab keeps you posted.

It usually takes around 30 seconds. When it is done, the new exercise appears at the top of the list, ready to play. If something goes wrong (for example, the words could not be woven into a sensible text), the app tells you and automatically refunds the generation -- you are never charged for an exercise you did not get.

Tip: Generation needs an internet connection. Once an exercise exists, though, you can play it anytime, even offline.

Playing an exercise

Tap any exercise to open it. You will see the full text with your chosen words replaced by numbered blanks. The blank you are currently on is highlighted, and your answer appears right inside the text as you write it.

Typing or handwriting

Just like practice and test mode, you can answer either way:

• Keyboard -- type your answer and it fills the active blank live.
• Handwriting -- write the word with your finger or a stylus, and the app recognizes it.

Tap the pencil / keyboard icon in the control bar to switch between the two at any time. (Your choice carries over from the rest of the app, so if you usually practice by hand, exercises start in handwriting mode too.)

Checking an answer

When you have written something, tap Check.

• If you are right, the word turns green in the text and the button becomes Correct -- continue. Tap it to move to the next blank.
• If you are wrong, your answer is struck through and the correct word is shown in green right next to it, so you learn the right spelling immediately. Tap Continue to move on.

Snap to Learn is forgiving in a sensible way: it accepts both the exact form used in the text and the dictionary form of the word you are studying. So if the story uses an inflected form but you type the base word you have been learning, you are still marked correct.

The control bar

Along the bottom of the screen you have everything you need to work through the text at your own pace:

• Skip -- jump to the next blank without answering. You can always come back to it.
• Hint (the lightbulb) -- opens the word's translation, definition, and an audio pronunciation, the same hint you get in practice.
• +1 (the eye) -- reveals one more letter of the answer, one tap at a time. A small peek is free; lean on it for more than a couple of letters and that blank is counted as "assisted" rather than a clean win.
• Pencil / keyboard -- switch input modes (described above).
• Finish -- reveal all remaining blanks and jump straight to your results.
• Progress bar -- the row of segments shows every blank's status at a glance (answered, correct, current). Tap any segment to jump directly to that blank -- you are never forced to go in order.

If you try to leave an exercise partway through, the app asks you to confirm, since your progress on that play-through is not saved until you finish.

Your results

When every blank has been answered (or you tapped Finish), you reach the completion screen. It celebrates a strong run and encourages you on a tough one -- either way, every attempt counts.

Tap Review answers to see a full breakdown: every blank, the correct word, and how you did on each one (correct, revealed with a hint, what you wrote, or left blank).

From here you can:

• Replay the same exercise -- free and unlimited, as many times as you like.
• Tap Done to return to the Exercises tab.
• Use the Share deck card to send the whole deck to a friend so you can tackle the words together.

A few things worth knowing

• Exercises never change your mastery. Filling in blanks is pure practice -- it does not affect a word's "7 correct spellings" progress or move anything to your Mastered list. It tracks its own separate stats (exercises completed, words right and wrong).
• Replaying is always free. Only creating a new exercise uses a generation. Once it exists, play it as often as you want at no cost.
• Exercises travel with shared decks. When you share a deck, the exercises you have generated come along with it -- whoever imports the deck gets to play them for free, without spending any generations of their own.
• Delete anytime. Use the trash icon on an exercise card to remove one you are done with.

What it costs

Creating an exercise is the one part of this feature that uses credits, because each one is written fresh for you by AI.

• Everyone gets 3 free exercise generations to try the feature -- a one-time allowance, not monthly.
• After that, exercise generation is a subscriber benefit. A Monthly or Yearly subscription includes 50 generations every month, which refill at the start of each billing month.
• When you run out, the app explains what happened -- whether you have used your 3 free tries or your monthly allowance -- and points you to the right place to continue.

Note that scan packs do not include exercise generations -- they only add scan credits for creating decks. Exercise generation comes with a subscription. For the full breakdown of plans and pricing, see Settings and Account.

As always, playing and replaying existing exercises is completely free -- the credit is only ever for writing a new one.