Adding Speak Greek to Your Home Screen

By the end of this lesson, you can open Speak Greek from your home screen, in its own window, without opening a browser first.

Speak Greek runs in a web browser, and it can also be added to your home screen. Once it is there it opens in its own window, with no address bar and no tabs, and it sits alongside everything else on your device.

There is nothing to download from an app store and no second account to create. It is the same site you are reading now, opened a different way.

Why put it on your home screen

One tap to your lesson. No typing an address, no searching through bookmarks.
The full screen. The browser’s address bar and toolbar disappear, which makes the most difference on a phone.
It stays in view. An icon next to the apps you already open every day makes a daily habit more likely than a bookmark does.

You will still need an internet connection to study.

On iPhone or iPad

Safari is the most reliable. In Chrome, tap Share on the right of the address bar, then Add to Home Screen, and follow step 4 below.

Open speakgreek.co.uk in Safari.
Tap the Share button: the square with an arrow pointing upwards, at the bottom of the screen on iPhone, or in the toolbar at the top on iPad.
Scroll down the list of options and tap Add to Home Screen.
Edit the name if you would like to, then tap Add in the top right.

The icon appears on your home screen with your other apps.

On Android

Open speakgreek.co.uk in Chrome.
A banner may slide up from the bottom offering to install the app. Tap it if you see it.
If no banner appears, tap the three dots in the top right, then Add to Home screen or Install app.
Confirm with Install.

The exact wording shifts between Android versions and phone makers, so expect Install app on some devices and Add to Home screen on others. Both do the same thing.

On Mac or Windows

In Chrome or Edge:

Open speakgreek.co.uk.
Look at the right-hand end of the address bar for the install icon: a small screen with an arrow pointing down into it.
Click it, then click Install.

If you cannot see the icon, use the menu instead:

Chrome: ⋮ → Cast, save and share → Install page as app.
Edge: … → More tools → Apps → Install this site as an app.

In Safari on macOS Sonoma or later, choose File → Add to Dock from the menu bar.

If you cannot find the option

Try Safari on iPhone and iPad. Other browsers can add sites to the home screen on recent versions of iOS, but Safari is the most reliable.
Let the page finish loading, then look again.
Check whether it is already there. Once a site is installed, the option disappears from the menu. Look through your home screen or app list before trying again.

To remove it later, delete the icon the way you would delete any app. Your account and your progress are untouched, and the site stays available in your browser.

Cultural note: Greek has native words for many tech terms: an app is εφαρμογή, from a verb meaning “to apply”. A computer is υπολογιστής, something that calculates. A web page is ιστοσελίδα, from ιστός, a web. To download is κατεβάζω, “to bring down”, the same up-and-down picture English uses. Set a phone’s language to Greek and these are the words waiting on the first screen you see.