- Dusted off the shelves - Handwriting practice is here—learn to write kanji and kana while going through your reviews - Climb the new weekly leaderboard, show off your Penglo’s style, and see how your Study Points stack up

- Fixed a crash that would occur at the end of review sessions - Fixed a crash that would occur when backgrounding the app after changing your Penglo's appearance

- Your Penglo now feels a little more alive - Added the Inventory screen for customizing your Penglo - Introducing Cascade Reviews: one answer can now give credit for multiple due items. For example, answering 大学院 correctly can also credit 大学 when both are due. - Added support for Thai, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, Polish, and Italian - New widgets show your Penglo and stats on your Home Screen. Change Penglo in the app, and the widget changes too. - App icon now matches your Penglo's color - Many other quality of life and performance improvements

- Washed the dishes - English words now inherit the POS color of the Japanese words they are semantically linked to - Dictionary entries with many meanings are now scrollable - Fixed a bug where streaks could be lost due to a timing issue - Haptics can now be enabled/disabled in Settings - Got rid of the dashboard carousel. Your Penglo now sits on the only pedestal. - Many other quality of life and performance improvements

- Watered the plants - Fixed an issue where in app sounds would pause your music and not resume it once they finished playing (sorry music listeners!) - Fixed a case where furigana would display incorrectly on sentences that included 「暗くて」 - Added furigana above "ー". So, スポーツ is displayed as su po o tsu - this improves readability for brand new users. - Further improvements to the furigana rendering engine. - All い Adjective and る Verb questions now only ask you to fill in the stem, instead of making you guess the entire word. - Added more granular hints for certain items such as これ・それ・あれ. - Improved account creation, management and offline handling

- Made the secret society slightly more secretive - Fixed a case where the Offline Notice would appear when you were actually online - You can now join your Teacher’s/School’s study group with an invite code - Various other stability improvements and bug fixes

- Study sessions now have various sound effects - All 100 Penglo Levels are now sortable by JLPT Level, for a total of 7.5k+ vocab, 2.1k+ kanji, 900+ grammar points - Improved the tutorial - Various other improvements & bug fixes

Introducing Pragmatic Spaced Repetition Penglo's review system now adapts to how you actually study, not just what you still need to learn. Quick Reviews: - Review sessions are now split up into groups of 5 items - Prefer longer sessions? Switch back to "Run Until 0 Left" anytime in Settings Smarter Study Planner: - You can now track how much time you spend studying each day. - Penglo uses your study time, performance, and daily goal to build a personalized daily plan for you. - Your daily goal can now be adjusted anytime in Settings.

- You can now bookmark items and view your search history in the Dictionary - Various other improvements & bug fixes

- Penglo can now help you avoid doomscrolling. Pick distracting apps and block them until you complete a quick lesson. - Many improvements to the Dictionary. Searching in kana, romaji, or for full sentences is now much more reliable. - Various other improvements & bug fixes.

- App startup time now 70% faster - Various other improvements & bug fixes

- Stability improvements - Fixed an issue where example sentences longer than 1 line would overflow into the explanation area - Multi item summaries now let you tap any incorrectly submitted items to view their explanations - Added kaomoji - Improved furigana rendering - Various other bug fixes and UI/UX improvements

- Fill in the blank quiz now optionally accepts answers in kanji form instead of just hiragana - Competent items required in your current level to progress to the next level reduced from 100% to 80%  - Various improvements and bug fixes

- Pomodoro timer now works as it should (no more unresponsiveness) - Remade the example sentence/explanation screen from scratch. Should now feel much more intuitive and responsive - Home screen widget now appears monochrome when today's streak hasn't yet been achieved - Widgets now work on iPad - Fixed a crash on iPad that occurs when trying to delete your account - Furigana now appears in the feedback screen - Dashboard badges can now be tapped for an explanation as to what they represent

- Added Dark Mode - You can now customize your Penglo - Added Fullscreen support for iPad - Added external keyboard support + shortcuts - Fixed many performance issues with the dashboard - Added "Explain" button for when a question is answered incorrectly - Added manual toggle for push notifications in settings - Added more nudges/hints for various near misses - Moved position of the hint button so it doesn't block any text

Various improvements and bug fixes

- Rebuilt the learning session engine from scratch to improve UX, UI and performance. - Smarter typing hints now appear for some typos instead of marking answers wrong. - Dashboard progress now remains in sync even if you leave a lesson halfway through. - Various other bug fixes & improvements.

User-Requested Features • Widgets: Added Home Screen & Lock Screen streak widgets • Pomodoro Timer: Brought Pomodoro mode to iOS for focused study sessions • iPad Layout Fixes: Fixed Kanji/meaning buttons overflowing and clipping on iPad • "Always Show Furigana": Added a toggle setting to always show furigana readings by default • Push notifications Crucial Fixes (Stability & Critical Bugs) • Session Freezes: Fixed a critical issue where learning sessions would freeze halfway through. • Login Loop: Resolved an issue causing users to be logged out every 24 hours. • Onboarding Crash: Fixed a bug where answering a question wrong during onboarding broke the app flow. • Audio Stability: Stabilized "karaoke" text highlighting during audio playback to stop flickering/artifacts. • Text Sizing: Fixed layout issues for users with "Large Text" accessibility settings enabled. • Review session: Meaning quiz now gets highlighted when selected. • Learning session: Romaji-based furigana now correctly displays on the headers. Notable Improvements & Polish • Handwriting Search: Added handwriting recognition to the search bar for looking up Kanji. • Smart Hints: Added a tooltip for close misses (e.g., typing "desu" when "da" is required) instead of marking them wrong immediately. • UI Streamlining: Merged Check/Continue button into the bottom menu bar to save vertical space. • Visual Overhaul: Redesigned correct/incorrect answer feedback for better visibility. • Input Quality: Forgetting to turn the last “n” into ん will automatically convert it for you. • Performance: Audio playback during review sessions is now instant. • Search UX: Added search suggestions. • Improved onboarding & added tutorial. • Various other UI/UX improvements.