Press and mentions
Learn It is a free iPhone and iPad app where students practice vocabulary and homework questions. It is used by more than 300,000 students and has been around since 2016. Here is a selection of what has been written and said about Learn It and about Hugo Falk, who built the app.
Press and TV
- 99mac (Teknikveckan): Plugg-apparna du inte kan vara utan Learn It is included in 99mac's list of study apps you can't do without.
- Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco & Silicon Valley: Happy National Day Sweden The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco welcomes 14-year-old Hugo Falk to Silicon Valley, writing that he built a successful app at 12 and has been compared to Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
- 99mac: Hugo Falk packar för en ny resa till WWDC 99mac on Hugo Falk packing for another trip to Apple's developer conference WWDC.
- Dagens industri: 13-åringen gjorde läxan till en app Dagens industri on 13-year-old Hugo Falk, praised for his homework app Learn It, who received a scholarship to attend Apple's developer conference.
- Göteborgs-Posten: 13-åringens app gör läxan enklare Göteborgs-Posten on 13-year-old Hugo Falk from Gothenburg, who found no good app for his homework in sixth grade and built his own.
- TTELA: 13-åringens app gör läxan enklare TTELA on 13-year-old Hugo Falk, who solved the problem of boring, time-consuming homework by building a homework app for the phone.
- Bohusläningen: 13-åringens app gör läxan enklare Bohusläningen on 13-year-old Hugo Falk, who built a homework app for the phone to make homework less boring and time-consuming.
- Feber: Ny version av läxhjälpsappen Learn It Feber reports that 13-year-old Hugo Falk has released a new version of his homework app Learn It, where you type in questions and answers and get quizzed on them.
- Nyheter24: 13-årige Hugo Falk jämförs med Bill Gates och Mark Zuckerberg Nyheter24 profiles 13-year-old Hugo Falk, who has released his first app, started programming at five and was a scholarship recipient at Apple's developer conference that June.
- SVT: Skavlan Jr, avsnitt 8 Hugo Falk, 13, appeared on SVT's talk show Skavlan Jr, told how he programmed his own homework app and gave a live demo of Learn It on TV.
- Dagens Nyheter: Uppfinnaren DN Junior's interview Uppfinnaren (The inventor), which opens with how the idea came during a spring full of homework, tests and vocabulary quizzes.
- CIO Analytics (Voister): 12-åring kodade egen läxapp Voister (now CIO Analytics) on 12-year-old Hugo Falk from Gothenburg, who found no good app for learning vocabulary and built Learn It himself.
- 99mac: Hugo Falk kodade egen app för läxhjälp 99mac on how Hugo Falk coded his own app for homework help.
Podcasts and talks
- #ensakidag 325: Livslångt lärande FTW An episode of #ensakidag whose summary opens with Hugo Falk, 12, telling an audience that the most important skill is being able to learn on your own, then turns to lifelong learning.
- #ensakidag 216: Nu är det dags för en revolution mot skolans läromedel An episode of Joakim Jardenberg's podcast #ensakidag; its summary tells how Hugo Falk, at Apple's developer conference for the second year, built Learn It, as a case for open, shared school materials.
- #ensakidag 126: Vad vi kan lära av Elvis Chidera, app-utvecklare från Nigeria An episode of #ensakidag whose summary opens with Hugo Falk building his own homework app at 12, then turns to the Nigerian app developer Elvis Chidera.
Awards and scholarships
- Entreprenörden: Benny Awards 16, entreprenörpris för barn och ungdomar Entreprenörden names Hugo Falk the winner of Benny Awards 16, an entrepreneurship prize for children and young people, for his app that helps students with vocabulary homework.
- LinkedIn, Claes Magnusson: Stipendium till 12-årige apputvecklaren Hugo Falk Claes Magnusson, principal of Malmö Yrkeshögskola, announces a scholarship to 12-year-old Hugo Falk for Learn It, his app for simple homework quizzes, built in Swift.
Schools
- Norrköpings kommun: Plugga språk Norrköping's page on language study for pupils lists Learn It as a tool for making vocabulary quizzes and practicing them many times.
- Norrköpings kommun: Om Learn It – öva på glosor Norrköping's list of learning tools allowed in the municipality has a page on Learn It, describing it as an app for learning vocabulary in any language.
- Grundskoleförvaltningen Göteborg: Appar för språk Gothenburg's primary school administration lists Learn It among the language apps in the schools' app catalog, as an app where you type in your vocabulary to practice it.