Magoosh’s strength is the explanation
If you like a compact GRE frequency list and a paragraph that separates laconic from reticent, Magoosh-style cards are built for you. That format has helped a lot of test takers. It is still a text-first encoding.
Wordera’s strength is dual coding plus a day plan
Each word arrives with an illustration, a plain definition and a sentence. Review is pulled into Today: learn new GRE or SAT items, test the due ones, play a game that uses the same pack. You do not curate a deck.
Advanced verbal vocabulary for text completion and reading. See the GRE vocabulary list page.
Context and rhetoric words for Reading and Writing. See SAT vocabulary.
Same app for UK 11+ and IELTS Academic — exams Magoosh vocab products are not centred on.
Who should not switch
Stay with Magoosh (or Anki + a Magoosh-like deck) if you already finish those cards, you want web study, or you do not care about pictures. Wordera is iOS, illustrated, and early. Public ratings: 0 in the US store, 1 in the UK. We will not pretend otherwise.
If GRE cards keep sliding off your memory, try encoding the same class of words as images. That is the whole product thesis — explained properly on how illustrated SRS works.
Try the illustrated pack on iPhone
Wordera is on the App Store. Open a daily Learn / Test / Play plan and keep the words you actually need.