Practice experience - Added dynamic practice expansion after mastery, offering up to five new kana or vocabulary items at a time. - Added progression through kana rows and JLPT vocabulary chunks. - Added “Today’s Practice” selection restoration, preserving newly expanded items when configured. - Added expansion banners, continuation actions, and “practice again / choose more items” flows. - Improved answer normalization, alternate answers, parenthetical answers, kanji display, romaji display, and stable item serialization. - Removed the old practice session-limit and adaptive-difficulty implementation. - Improved minimum session sizing and smart-banner behavior. Selection and progress UI - Improved the practice growth journey in selection screens and session summaries. - Added clearer progression through kana and JLPT content. - Improved selected-item practice actions and expansion choices. - Refined JLPT and kana level layouts, including mobile behavior. - Added reusable section headers, selectable chunk cards, and shared decoration helpers. - Simplified and consolidated repeated selection and item-resolution logic. - Improved lazy list usage and reduced unnecessary widget rebuilds. Data, sync, and security - Hardened local/cloud deserialization against malformed or incorrectly typed data. - Fixed cross-account contamination risks when switching users on a shared device. - Bound delayed uploads to the account that scheduled them. - Debounced cloud settings/statistics writes while flushing pending writes on lifecycle changes. - Added safer sync merging for lists, statistics, settings, and spaced-repetition data. - Improved consent data validation and handling. Performance and platform work - Reduced rebuilds using Selector, ValueListenableBuilder, and more focused state subscriptions. - Improved spaced-repetition lookups and item resolution. - Parallelized Firebase, accessibility, and learning-content initialization during startup.

- Added handwriting practice in the continuous practice loop for basic hiragana and katakana - Added a todays practice banner to support you to pick the most important items to practice - Bug fixes and code improvements

- New grammar lessons and reading practice for JLPT learners - Improved design with a clean, minimalist interface - Improved progress sync across devices - Bug fixes and performance improvements

[+] Added Flashcards for all word groups and kana [+] Adapted the design [+] Improved performance [+] Added the option to delete your account. [-] Removed Ads!

What's New in Zen Kana We’ve completely redesigned the app to make learning Japanese more intuitive and effective than ever! - Redesigned Layout: A more logical and user-friendly interface, so you can focus on learning without distractions. - Thousands of New Words: Expanded our vocabulary library to fully support the official JLPT language path, covering N5 to N1 with comprehensive word lists tailored for each level. Whether you’re just starting or aiming for fluency, Zen Kana now provides an even smoother and more structured learning experience. Update now and take your Japanese skills to the next level!

(+) Fixed an issue where the old app name was still shown as the app name

The app has been completely rebuilt and given a facelift, and is now called Zen Kana! In addition to Hiragana and Katakana, you can now practise over 500 words and access powerful analytics to gain insights into which words or kana you need to practise. I would love to hear your feedback and am excited to adapt and improve the app further in the coming weeks and months!

Improved Stability: We've fixed the pesky macOS crash issue, ensuring a smoother experience. iPad Support: Sakura Kana now shines on iPad, making learning hiragana and katakana a breeze on the big screen! Ad-Free Experience: We've bid farewell to ads, providing an uninterrupted learning journey. Thank you for choosing Sakura Kana. Enjoy learning Japanese characters with ease!