Story Cards
One idea at a time, on short cards you swipe through before a check.
Learn → Explain → Try
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Learn in a new way. Interactive, modern and fun.
Hostcraft turns manuals, training material and the things you know best into short lessons and games. One idea at a time, with the reason behind every answer. Microlearning for teams, attractions and families
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Help: Activity picker
Choose a format to open its demo. Use arrow keys to change tabs with a keyboard. These samples need no account and save no scores.
New learner Day one
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Help: Quiz Sprint
Choose one answer. Read why it is correct, then use Try again to reset this sample.
You’ve just learned a new idea. How do you check you understand it?
Read the sample source
“After learning one idea, put the source aside and explain it in your own words. Notice any gaps, check them, then try the idea in a small example.”
Hostcraft sample learning guideHelp: Story Cards
Use Next card and Back to read at your own pace. Finish the last card, then use Read again to restart.
Start with one idea.
A new language, a work skill, a personal interest. Pick one small idea you want to understand today.
Help: True or False
Choose True or False, then read the explanation. Try again clears your answer. This short demo has no timer.
“Recognising an idea means you can already explain it without looking.”
Help: Match Pairs
Choose a learning move on the left, then its matching action on the right. A wrong match lets you try another. Match all three to finish.
Turn learning into doing.
Choose a learning move to begin.
Help: Timeline
Drag a handle to move a step, or use its up and down arrows. Put the first step at the top, then choose Check my order.
Build your next “got it.”
Drag the handles, or use the arrows.
Help: Fill the Gap
Type the word that belongs in the blank, then choose Check answer. You can correct your answer and check again.
Explain an idea in your own ___.
Help: Sort It
Choose a group under each card. Correct cards stay matched; if a choice is wrong, try the other group. Play again resets all cards.
Which kind of learning?
Help: Listening
Choose Play phrase to hear Spanish, then select its meaning. Replay as often as you like. If audio is unavailable, open Read the transcript.
What does the greeting mean?
Read the transcript
Hola, buenos días.
Help: Speed Round
Start round begins a 30-second timer. Answer three questions; each choice moves to the next. Switching formats stops this sample round.
Three questions. Thirty seconds.
Help: Guest Scenarios
Read what the guest says and choose your reply. The best reply earns two points, a good one earns one. The feedback always shows the best reply.
Help: Image Hotspot
Tap the right spot on the floor plan. With a keyboard or screen reader, choose from the list of places instead. After each answer the right spot is marked.
Tap the right spot on the plan.
Help: Study Page
Read one paragraph, then answer its question. Every option explains why it is right or not. There are no points; finish the page to complete it.
Help: Flash Cards
Turn the card to see its meaning. Choose Got it if you knew it, or Again to see it once more at the end. No points: the round ends when you know every card.
A little Spanish: what does it mean?
Help: Compare & Explain
Read the two sides, then answer three questions in turn: what sets them apart, why it matters, and which one fits a case. Not sure? Choose I don’t know to see the answer.
Help: Estimate & Calibrate
Type the number you remember, with a decimal comma or point. Within the margin is right; the scale then shows how close you were. Closeness is shown, not scored.
The sample guide says when a short review helps most. How many hours after learning is that?
Help: Sort & Sequence
Rounds put steps in order, fix a step that is out of place, or sort items into groups. Here: find the step in the wrong place, then say where it belongs. Each answer explains why.
Help: Knowledge Rally
Each right answer moves you along the track; three in a row gives a boost. There is no clock. Your score is your right answers; the distance is just for the race.
Help: Guest Flow
Guests arrive one at a time. Send each to the right place; the buttons never move and there is no clock. Then handle what happens next. Every decision explains why.
Help: Recall & Transfer
Type the answer from memory; there are no options. A hint is there if you need it, and it is counted as help. Then use the idea in a new situation.
What do you call bringing an idea back from memory, instead of reading it again?
Help: Find All
Mark every right answer, and only those, then check. You see what you found, what you missed and any wrong picks.
Which of these help a new idea stick? Mark every one that does.
This is a sample quiz. The correct answer is B: explain it in your own words. The other formats need JavaScript; everything else on this page works without it.
From what you know to what they learn
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Your material
Start from what you already have
A manual, a training deck, a guide to a topic you love. Upload the PDF, choose the formats and the language.
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AI drafts, you approve
Every question shows where it came from
A second check compares each item with your text. Nothing is published until you say yes.
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Two minutes at a time
Learning that fits between other things
A link, no app store. People play on their own phone, earn XP and come back for the next small win.
Draft · Quiz SprintSample
How do you check you understand a new idea?
“After learning one idea, put the source aside and explain it in your own words.”
Source check passed
Waiting for your approval
One way of learning, for any topic
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Teams and companies
Onboarding, product knowledge and everyday processes as short, repeatable learning.
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Visitor attractions and front-of-house
Venue knowledge, tour routes and welcoming guests, practised between shifts.
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Families
Your children’s worksheets and books as short games, with a profile for each child and a parent view of their progress.
Explore learning games for families
Twenty ways to learn, from a first read to a timed round
All twenty are playable above. Each takes two to five minutes, and you choose which ones a module uses.
Learn
Introduce an idea through short explanations and listening.
Listening
Hear a phrase, replay it, choose its meaning. Uses the voices on the device.
“¿Dónde está la entrada?” → Where is the entrance?
Try itStudy Page
Read a page one paragraph at a time, with questions that explain every answer. No points.
A handbook, page by page
Try itFlash Cards
A word or a picture on the front, the meaning on the back. Cards come back until you know them. No points.
la salida → the exit
Try it
Practise
Build recall and understanding with feedback after each decision.
Quiz Sprint
Multiple-choice questions one by one, each with the reason it is right.
How do you check you understand it?
Try itGuest Scenarios
What a guest says, and your reply. A good answer earns part of the points; the feedback shows the best one.
“A friend asks why the sky is blue. Your reply?”
Try itCompare & Explain
Two things side by side: spot the difference that matters, say why, then use it for a real case.
Rereading or recalling? → Recalling, because it makes memory work
Try itEstimate & Calibrate
Type a number from memory, with its unit. Within the margin is right, and a scale shows how close you were.
Tempering temperature → 31 °C ± 1
Try itSort & Sequence
Put a process in order, fix the one step out of place, or sort items into groups. A point for every step in its place.
Learn → Explain → Try (one step was out of place)
Try itGuest Flow
Guests arrive one by one: send each request to the right place, then handle what happens next. No clock.
“My child feels sick” → First aid
Try itRecall & Transfer
Answer from memory with no options, a hint only if you ask, then use the idea in a new situation.
The stirring machine? → Conche
Try itFind All
Mark every right answer among the wrong ones, then check. You see what you found, missed and picked wrongly.
In white chocolate? → Cocoa butter, Sugar, Milk
Try itMatch Pairs
Terms and meanings, products and features, phrases and translations.
Hola ↔ Hello · Gracias ↔ Thank you
Try itTimeline
Put a tour route, a process or a bit of history in order, by dragging or with arrows.
Draft → Review → Publish
Try itFill the Gap
Recall the word yourself: type it, or build it from scrambled letters.
Buenos ___ → días
Try itSort It
Put each item in its group and learn the distinctions that matter.
Take it in · Put it to work
Try itImage Hotspot
Tap the right spot on a photo or floor plan, or pick it from a list of places, then say what it is for.
Emergency exit → the door by the stairs
Try it
Challenge
Revisit familiar facts in a short timed round.
True or False
Decide before the timer runs out, and spot the common myth.
“Reading it twice means you know it.” False.
Try itSpeed Round
As many questions as you can answer before the time runs out.
Three questions, thirty seconds
Try itKnowledge Rally
Right answers move you along a track against your own best run. No clock: the score is your right answers.
3 in a row → boost
Try it
Why they open it again tomorrow
- XP and levels
- Every lesson counts. Replays later in the day earn less, so nobody grinds.
- Streaks that know about days off
- Two freezes a week bridge the days you can’t play, automatically.
- A weekly board and season prizes
- Weekly boards for people and for teams. Anyone can hide from public boards and still win a prize.
- 1Noemi412 XP
- 2Luca388 XP
- 3You351 XP
- 4Mara297 XP
- Hidden from the public boardstill in the prize draw
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Pricing
For companies
Up to 100 users
First month free. Choose monthly or yearly billing for your company.
- Billed monthly or yearly
- Secure payment through Stripe, by card or invoice
- Cancel with 90 days’ notice, for the end of a billing period
Details: Terms · Refund policy
For individuals and families
For one household: parents and their children. Try it free for 7 days, no card needed.
- Billed monthly through Stripe
- Cancel any time
Questions people ask
Do people need to install an app?
No. Hostcraft opens in a phone or desktop browser from a link. People can also add their learning space to their home screen.
Does AI publish content automatically?
No. AI-generated activities start as drafts. Source quotes and automated checks help the review, but a manager decides what gets published. You can also write activities yourself.
Can we use our own branding?
Yes. Each site has its own address, app name, colours and content. Choose an invite-only space for your team or open signup for a public learning community.
What can managers see?
The Studio brings together content editing, review, invitations, module completion and scores, commonly missed questions, and season prizes.
Which languages are available?
The learner interface supports English, German and French. AI can draft content in English, German, French and Italian for your reviewers to check.
How do we get started?
Tell us who you want to teach and what they need to know. We’ll talk through your content, learning space, and a suitable pilot. Email info@hostcraft.ch.
What do you know that others should?
Send us a manual, an idea or a topic you love. We’ll set up a pilot space with your content and your colours.
Talk to us
info@hostcraft.ch
Help: Contact
Talk to us opens your email app. Send us your training topic or questions. You can also copy info@hostcraft.ch into your usual email service.