For ESL Teachers & Tutors
A pronunciation tool that gives you your evenings back
IPAtics speeds up the parts of teaching pronunciation that eat prep time: generating IPA for worksheets, building minimal-pair drills, modeling native audio live in class, and exporting ready-made Anki decks for your students.
macOS & Windows. 14 languages, native audio, CEFR-aware Anki export.
Lesson prep eats your evenings
Putting pronunciation on a worksheet means looking up each word, finding its IPA, getting the stress marks right, and typing symbols a normal keyboard does not have. For a single handout that is dozens of words, and the moment a student asks about a word you did not prep, you are guessing at the board.
IPAtics removes that lookup. Select any word in any app, press Alt+Q (Option+Q on Mac), and the IPA appears in a floating overlay with native audio — so the slow, manual part of prep stops being your problem.
Where it fits a teacher's day
The same overlay covers prep, the board, drills, homework, and exam readiness.
Handouts & worksheets
Select any word and get its IPA in the overlay — copy it straight onto a handout. No phonetic keyboard, no hunting through a dictionary per word.
Board work & live modeling
Pull up the IPA on the fly mid-lesson and play native text-to-speech audio so the whole class hears the target sound, not just your accent.
Minimal-pair drills
Generate Minimal Pair cards that place two near-identical words side by side, so students train the contrast their ear keeps missing.
Homework decks via Anki
Turn a lesson’s vocabulary into ready-made Anki cards — IPA, audio, example sentences, and translations — and hand the deck to students for spaced review.
Exam prep (IELTS / CEFR)
Cards generate at a chosen CEFR level (A1–C2), and phoneme-level speech analysis shows where a student’s production drifts before the speaking test.
For the drills specifically, see the confusing English minimal pairs worth building, and the IELTS pronunciation IPA guide for exam prep.
How it fits a teaching workflow
Prep the lesson faster
Select target words from your reading or coursebook, grab the IPA and audio from the overlay, and drop them onto your handout — no phonetic keyboard required.
Teach with it live
In class, pull up IPA on the board and play native audio for any word a student asks about. Tap a symbol to show its name and example words.
Send homework that sticks
Generate CEFR-aware Anki cards — including minimal pairs — and export the deck to students via the free AnkiConnect add-on for spaced review between lessons.
Frequently asked questions
Spend the prep time on teaching, not typing IPA
Free for macOS and Windows. Premium unlocks unlimited transcriptions, longer selections, unlimited Anki exports, and up to 3 devices.