Questions

Hours, not months, if you learn by ear and practise a little every day. Glint's course takes you up to the pace of a relaxed amateur radio contact.

You learn a couple of characters at full speed, by ear, and add one more each time you get nearly all of them right. You never count dots and dashes, so you do not have to unlearn a slow habit later.

Type your message into the translator on this site, or into Glint on your iPhone. Each letter becomes a pattern of dots and dashes that you can play as sound or light.

Everything is measured in units. A dot is one unit and a dash is three. The gap inside a letter is one unit, the gap between letters is three, and the gap between words is seven.

Three short flashes, three long flashes, three short flashes, then a pause, and repeat. A long flash lasts three times as long as a short one. Glint has a Send SOS shortcut on its Home Screen icon that does the timing for you.

Yes. Read a Signal lets you point the camera at a blinking light, or listen for a tone, and Glint reads it back as text.

Yes. Glint can drill your weak letters by ear with the phone locked, so you can practise on a walk or a commute.

Yes. Glint works without a connection and without an account. Your progress stays on your device.

Glint is free to download and you can practise every day without paying, up to a daily limit. The full Morse course is a paid upgrade: weekly, yearly, or once for life.