BrotpanOne word · 43 languages
Where does bread stop being bread?
Pan, pain, pane. Brot, brood, bröd. Chleb, хлеб, kruh — and then kenyér, leipä, ogi. Brotpan lays one word across Europe at once, colours the ones that sound alike, and lets you run a finger along the border where it changes.
Get Brotpan for iPhoneTwo things it does
The mosaic
Pick a thing and 43 tiles turn over, each a language placed roughly where it is spoken. Words that sound alike share a colour; the largest family is green, loners stay dark.
The seam
Slide from tile to tile. Every stitch is as thick as the change in the word, the route replays letter by letter, and the thickest stitch is marked as the break.
126 words, then any word
Everyday words come built in and work offline. Find any other noun through Wikidata, the open database behind Wikipedia.
Good to know
- Families are about sound, not history.
- Tiles are languages, not countries — no borders, no flags.
- No word in the open data? The tile stays empty, never guessed.
- No account, no purchases, no analytics, no advertising.
- Notifications go through OneSignal, and only if you allow them.
- Your words and seams stay on your iPhone.
- Interface in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Portuguese.