New in Spelly: share any word list with one link
Spelly can now turn any word list into a single shareable link. Build a list once, send the link, and anyone who opens it can start practicing right away in the browser. No download, no app store, nothing to retype. It is the fastest way we have found to get a spelling list from one person to another.
You know the old way. A list lives on one phone, and getting it onto a second phone means rebuilding it word by word, or snapping a photo that the other person then squints at and types back in by hand. By the time the words are entered correctly, the moment to practice has passed and everyone is tired. A link skips all of that. The words are already in, already grouped, already ready to play.
The problem one link solves
A spelling list is small, but moving it around is annoyingly fiddly. A teacher writes twenty words on the board, and twenty-five families each re-enter them at home, with a few typos creeping in along the way. A parent builds a careful list on their phone, then has no clean way to hand it to the other parent for the weekend. A photo of a worksheet is better than nothing, but a photo is not practice. Someone still has to turn those pixels into a real, playable list.
"A link carries the words themselves, not a picture of the words. That is the whole difference."
When you share a Spelly list as a link, the words travel with it. Whoever opens the link gets the real list, spelled correctly, ready to practice. No retyping, no re-photographing, no version that is slightly wrong because someone misread a smudge. One source, one link, everyone on the same words.
How it works
Sharing a list takes one tap. Here is the whole flow.
- Build the list. Type your own words straight in, generate one from a topic, scan a printed or handwritten worksheet, or pick a spelling pattern.
- Tap share. Spelly gives you a single link to that list.
- Send it anywhere. Drop it in a class chat, a group message, an email, a text, or a learning platform. It is just a link, so it goes wherever you already talk.
- They tap and play. The link opens straight into practice on any device, right in the browser, with no app to install.
The person who receives the link gets the full Spelly experience that comes with the list: all five game modes (Type It, Multiple Choice, Build It, Fill the Gap, and Picture Spell), and every word read aloud in a clear, natural voice so kids hear the word before they spell it. They can start playing free first and only sign in later if they want to save progress across devices.
Real ways people use it
Once a list is one tap away, sharing stops being a chore and starts being normal. A few patterns we see:
- Parent to parent. Build this week's list once and send it to a co-parent, a babysitter, or grandparents. Everyone practices the exact same words, whichever house the child is in.
- Teacher to family. Post the link with Friday's words and every family opens the same list at home. Nothing to set up, no logins to hand out, no rosters to build.
- Study buddies. Two kids practicing for the same quiz can share one link and race the same words instead of each building a list from scratch.
- Tutor to student. Hand a student the practice list at the end of a session so the words are waiting for them at home, exactly as you built them.
- Grandparent and kid. A grandparent who wants to help from another town opens the link, hears each word with the kid, and practices together over a call.
Made with classrooms in mind
Teachers were the first to ask for this, and it is easy to see why. A shared link means a teacher can post this week's list once and every student practices it, with nothing to install and nothing to manage. There are no student logins to create and no class rosters to maintain. The link does the work that a stack of photocopies used to do, except this version reads the words aloud and turns them into a game.
"No student accounts, no emails collected. A shared list is just a list, never a way to track a child."
To be clear about what this feature is and is not: it shares a list, and only a list. It does not track who practiced, show student progress to whoever shared it, or quietly create accounts behind the scenes. Those would mean collecting children's data, and we have chosen not to. The link carries the words and nothing about the child. That is the whole feature, on purpose.
Why one link beats a screenshot
A screenshot looks like the easy answer, but it pushes all the work onto the person you sent it to. They have to read it, retype it correctly, and hope they did not miss a word or fumble a letter. A picture cannot be practiced, cannot be read aloud, and cannot be turned into a game without a person sitting there transcribing it first. A Spelly link arrives as a working list. The recipient taps it and is practicing in seconds, on the same words you chose, with audio and all five modes already attached.
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Want this to run itself?
This is exactly what Spelly is built to do. Scan Friday's list or generate one, and Spelly reads each word aloud, groups it by pattern, makes practice a game, and re-tests only the words your child missed, in five-minute rounds.
Try Spelly free →Sharing is free, for everyone, with no limit on how many lists you send. So build the list you were going to build anyway, tap share, and let one link do the rest. The next time someone needs this week's words, you will not be retyping anything. You will just be sending a link.