All 26 NATO code words spoken, plus listening and speaking drills. Offline.
Spelling a booking reference over the phone, a tail number on the radio, a VIN at the counter? The NATO phonetic alphabet exists for exactly that moment. This app keeps all 26 code words in front of you — and lets you train them.
WHAT YOU GET
- All 26 code words: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie through Yankee, Zulu
- Each entry shows the letter, the word and a plain pronunciation guide (AL-fah, BRAH-voh, CHAR-lee), so you can say it correctly, not just read it
- Tap any entry to hear the word spoken aloud
- The whole alphabet on one screen: no scrolling, no paging, nothing to hunt for
- Letter practice: your device speaks a code word and you tap its letter from four choices. Ten rounds, then your score with every round marked right or wrong, so you can see which words to work on
- Registration practice: your device spells out an aircraft registration such as D-KABC in code words and you pick it from four near-identical look-alikes, just like a callsign heard over the radio
- Speaking practice: the app shows a letter and you say its code word. Your phone's own speech recognition checks it on the device; after the first tap it keeps listening round after round, hands-free
- A progress line in every practice fills green or red as you answer
- A start screen with one large button for the alphabet and each practice mode
- Reflows for phones and tablets, in portrait and landscape
- Opens instantly, closes with one tap
BUILT FOR REAL CONDITIONS
- Works fully offline; airplane mode is fine
- No account, no sign-in, nothing to configure and nothing stored — your scores disappear when you leave the screen
- Cannot reach the network: the app ships without the internet permission; speech is synthesised and recognised on the device
- The only permission is the microphone, asked for when you first tap the mic in speaking practice. Your voice is processed by your phone and never recorded, stored or sent
- No ads, no trackers, no analytics, no data collection
- Small install, clean Material interface
GOOD TO KNOW
Spoken playback uses the text-to-speech voice already installed on your phone, so the accent varies between devices, nothing is downloaded and no audio files bloat the install. If a tap stays silent, add or enable a TTS voice in Android's system settings. Practice needs sound: the prompt is spoken rather than written, because showing the word would give the answer away. Speaking practice needs Android 12 or newer with on-device speech recognition; on other phones its button stays disabled and says so. The list is the international spelling alphabet used by aviation, maritime, military and emergency services; this app is an independent reference and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NATO or any standards body.
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New: speaking practice. The app shows a letter, you say its code word, and your phone's own speech recognition checks it on the device, round after round, hands-free. Your voice is never recorded or sent, and the microphone permission is asked only when you tap the mic. Every practice now shows a progress line that fills green or red as you go. Still all 26 NATO code words with a plain pronunciation guide, spoken by your device voice, fully offline, no account and no ads