Lexpad
Each notebook has a page of rules for its schedule. The defaults suit most people, so you never have to open it. When you want to, every rule is one tap to change, and all of it is free.
Updated . Checked against the app on 8 October 2026.
Open Settings, then Notebooks, and choose How words come back under This notebook. You reach the same page from Settings, Practice: the first row says “How words come back in” and your notebook’s name. With several notebooks, each has its own page.
It is also one tap from where schedules show: the Next check line on any word’s page, and the line How words come back at the end of a session when a rule acted, such as “Some answers were saved as practice.”
These rules are yours. In a shared notebook, every member has their own.
You need a connection to change a rule. Offline, the page says “You’re offline. Connect to change this. Your schedule keeps working.”
Extra decks, such as Starred, a level, a topic or a drill, are for practice any time. With Only due words move on, a word that is not due yet keeps its box when you get it right. A miss always counts, because forgetting is real news. When a deck holds words that are not due yet, it says so: “Extra practice. Words not due yet keep their box.”
Why: practising your starred words every day used to push them up the boxes too fast, so they then came back too late, when they were already forgotten. Now a right answer moves the schedule only on the day the word is due. Every answer still counts for your streak and your day.
The session summary tells you when it happened: “Some answers were saved as practice.”
For a notebook on Boxes you choose what a miss does:
Either way, the word comes back today. A notebook on Smart does not need this rule: Smart shortens the gap after a miss by itself.
Two numbers keep a day the right size.
No limit (the default), 50, 100 or 200. When reviews pile up, after a holiday for example, the ones most at risk come first; the rest wait for tomorrow, and new words wait too. Today shows how many wait. In Boxes the lowest box goes first; in Smart, the word you are least likely to remember.
In Settings, Practice. It counts across all your sessions in a day, so a second session does not bring another full set of new words.
These are your own numbers, not plan limits. Not sure what to choose? How many new words a day works out the reviews each new word brings.
Back after a break? After three or more days away, with more than 100 reviews waiting and no limit set, Today asks once: “Lots to review after a break. Set a daily limit?” Set a daily limit opens this page at Most reviews a day.
Some words slip again and again. Lexpad counts the different days you missed a word, and when that count reaches your setting (Off, 4, 6 by default, or 8), the end of the session asks what to do. Flashcard users call such a word a leech.
Lexpad never hides a word by itself. It asks again only if the misses keep coming.
You miss the word on yet another day.
The summary asks: Words that keep slipping.
Pick one. Rest it for now offers Undo.
Set Most reviews a day to 50 and the hardest words always come first.
Practise your starred words as often as you like. They keep their place until they are due.
Go back two boxes keeps a mastered word from starting over after one bad day.
| Rule | Default | Choices |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | Boxes | Boxes, Smart (Beta) |
| After a miss (Boxes) | Start again from box 1 | Go back two boxes |
| Only due words move | On | Off |
| Most reviews a day | No limit | 50, 100, 200 |
| Words you keep missing | Ask after 6 misses | Off, 4, 8 |
| New words per day | 15 | In Settings, Practice |
On an older app. The Android app and the desktop app follow the same schedule, because the server works out every answer. Until they are updated they show a change after they sync, and the settings page tells you so.
Good to know
It was not due yet. With Only due words move on, a right answer to a word that is not due keeps its box; the word moves on the day it comes back. Turn the rule off on this page if you prefer the old way.
Yes. Every answer counts for your streak and your daily numbers. Only the schedule waits for the day the word is due. A miss always counts.
A miss in box 5 sends it to box 3, due today, instead of box 1.
No. Words over the limit wait for the next day, most at risk first. Set No limit to see them all again.
No. It asks you. Resting a word is your choice and can be undone from the word’s page.
No. Each notebook has its own page. New words per day is the one setting for your whole account.
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Every rule on this page is free.