- The Nôm keyboard now gives tactile feedback as you type - The Nôm keyboard now matches the look and feel of the native iOS keyboard - Rare Hán Nôm characters no longer appear as empty boxes in the keyboard's suggestions, and the keyboard now offers the full set of candidates - The app is significantly smaller to download and install

- New Nôm keyboard: type Chữ Nôm in any app — Messages, Notes, Safari and more — using familiar Telex typing - Works fully offline with no special permissions; the dictionary is built in - Smart candidate bar with ranked suggestions — tap the arrow to see more; includes shift, numbers and symbols - Rare Hán Nôm characters now display correctly instead of empty boxes - Optional one-tap setup to use Nôm fonts in other apps like Pages, Keynote, Numbers and Mail

- Camera OCR is far more accurate now, especially for rare Nôm characters - New "Variant forms (Dị thể)" section on character pages — tap a related variant to view it - Flashcard deck lists redesigned as a grid: see more characters at once, with a quick character preview on tap - Studying the by-grade and by-theme decks now counts toward your daily streak - Fixed broken and split entries in the Countries and Vietnamese Ethnic Groups decks - Improved the Nôm text editor: proper text selection, copy/paste, and undo/redo - Smoother light/dark/system theme switching, and pages now open scrolled to the top

- Fixed Nôm IME tone placement when typing words like huấn, tuần, xuân, huệ, khuếch - Added 7 short Catholic prayers (Kinh Lạy Cha, Kinh Kính Mừng, Kinh Sáng Danh, Kinh Tin Kính, and more) to the Reader library

- New reader texts: 5 historical Truyện Kiều editions (1866–1902), Hồ Xuân Hương poems, and Chinh Phụ Ngâm Khúc - Library sidebar: live search filter, compact view toggle, color-coded categories, auto-expand on selection - Handwriting: candidate row now stays after you pick a character — tap multiple alternatives to compare - Radical search stays open and builds up multi-character queries instead of replacing - Collapsible reading-type sections on character pages

- Much better Hán Nôm character recognition in photos and handwriting, especially for rare Nôm characters - Redesigned search mode picker on mobile — easier to switch between input modes - Component search tab on mobile redesigned to match the main search layout for a cleaner, more consistent experience - Keyboard no longer pops up when tapping the search input in handwriting / voice / camera / radical modes - Variant characters now show pronunciations and a "Biến thể của …" reference to their canonical form

- New + Unihan toggle in radical and component search — find ~89K more CJK characters beyond the curated dictionary - Radical search now uses residual stroke counts (strokes after the radical) - Type any second component you remember to quickly narrow down a long list of results - Radical picker remembers your place — accidentally tapping outside no longer resets your selection - Personalized IME — characters you type often now float to the top of the candidate list - Stroke-count buttons in the radical picker render with consistent layout regardless of digit count

- Meanings and examples now organized by pronunciation — one card per reading (e.g. 木 mộc / mọc / mộc / mục) - Added Giúp Đọc Nôm và Hán Việt (Trần Văn Kiệm) — 55,000 new entries plus 156 rare Nôm characters - Added Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải (Nguyễn Quang Hồng) — 19,000 new entries with classical citations and over 2,000 new characters - Cleaner meaning layout: one source badge per dictionary instead of repeating, with definitions properly numbered - Component search now suggests sub-components when a complex character has no direct match (e.g. 陽 → 阝 + 昜) - Mobile component search: handwriting and radical chart now open inline below the input — one less tap - Dictionary preferences simplified from 16 toggles to 11 - Various polish: better display on narrow phones, alt-input buttons hidden on tabs where they don't apply, fixed search examples missing classical text - Nôm keyboard (Soạn Nôm) now covers ~1,500 more rare characters

- Component search (Ghép bộ): type or paste any character as a search component, not just the 214 Kangxi radicals — handwriting input added too - Tap any character to see how it was formed: new A1–G2 classification chip on character pages with explanations from Nguyễn Quốc Hùng's Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải - Pick which dictionaries to show: new Settings panel lets you turn off sources you don't use (Thiều Chửu, Trần Văn Chánh, Viện Hán Nôm, nomfoundation, …) - Component picker redesigned: bigger cells with Hán Việt name under each radical, selected components stay highlighted - French translation restored (accent marks were missing on FAQ and other long text)

- Photo OCR now recognizes Hán Nôm manuscripts with much higher accuracy - Added 3,500+ characters including rare Nôm-specific glyphs - Camera OCR suggests variant character alternates when applicable - Rare Nôm characters (~1,000+ Nôm-specific glyphs) now display and search correctly across all features - Quốc Ngữ - Nôm converter handles rare Nôm character input properly - Tap-to-lookup now works for all CJK extension characters in text and example phrases

- Removed extra empty space at the top of every page on tablets - Fixed line numbers not aligning with character columns in vertical reader mode - Hidden empty chapter header on short poems - Nôm IME now works on every input across the app - Suggestion popup no longer extends past the screen edge on narrow screens

- New display fonts: Hành thư (semi-cursive 行書) and Thảo thư (cursive 草書) — switch from the font menu - New Historical Scripts showcase on the Stats page — explore 8 calligraphy styles with examples and history - Smoother appearance for mixed Hán + Nôm text — characters in one line now render in consistent styles - Improved coverage for rare characters in the default Songti font

- Added Lệ thư (Clerical Script) as a new Hán Nôm display font - Upload your own display font — signed-in users can bring a .ttf/.otf/.woff file with a size-adjustment slider - Reader: new Lục bát mode that pairs 6–8 verse lines into classical two-line columns (auto-detected per text) - Reader: new rotated Hán Việt reading style for vertical mode, matching traditional book layouts

- Classical vertical reading mode in the reader — columns flow right-to-left, East Asian scroll style - Per-character Hán Việt readings under each character in vertical mode - Reader toolbar reorganized — reading direction now appears before layout options - Character drawer title now matches the selected display font on mobile - Fixed translation size growing too large in side-by-side reader layout

- Fixed Vietnamese input in Soạn Nôm: typing "mưu", "mưa", "lưu", "mươi", "người" and similar words now produces the correct character every time - Fixed duplicate character insertion when typing with the macOS Vietnamese keyboard

- Fixed study streak and total cards studied not updating after completing a flashcard game - Fixed a rare crash when reviewing cards that had been studied many times

- New Chongxi Seal Script (崇禧篆體) font option when exporting Chữ Nôm images - Flexible Telex typing — type tone marks and diacritics in any order (e.g., "nuocws", "nuowcs", or "nuowsc" all produce "nước") - Smarter backspace — one press now removes one visible character instead of one raw keystroke - Fixed study screens rubber-banding on iOS - Fixed writing mode getting stuck after submitting an answer - Matched tiles in the match game are now clearly dimmed when cleared

- Expanded dictionary to 24,000+ Hán Nôm characters (from 20,000+) - Updated Soạn Nôm input method with nearly 5,000 new characters - Share flashcard decks with friends via a link - Fixed swipe gestures interfering with page scrolling - Fixed search input mode resetting after navigation - Fixed study streak tracking accuracy

- 5 interactive study modes: Learn (adaptive multiple choice), Match (timed pairing game), Test (mixed quiz), Recognition (redesigned flip cards), and Writing - Progress dashboard with study streak, mastery percentage, due cards, and a full-year activity heatmap - Spaced repetition now active — the app schedules reviews and shows "Due Today" badges on your decks - Study wrong cards again after completing a session - Flip direction toggle — study pronunciation-first instead of character-first - Share your decks with friends via link and clone shared decks - Swipe gestures in flashcard mode with card drag animation (swipe right = knew it, left = didn't know) - Card animations, confetti on completion, and polished transitions - Exit any study session early with the X button — progress is saved - Handwriting/voice/camera input mode now persists when navigating between pages

- Fixed an issue where using the system Vietnamese Telex keyboard with Soạn Nôm caused lost consonants, duplicate characters, and unwanted spaces

- Fix Soạn Nôm: dark mode toggle now works repeatedly - Fix color theme badges overflowing on small screens

Historical Character Forms (Dị Thể): View how characters looked in ancient times — seal script, bronze inscriptions, oracle bone, and silk manuscripts. Tap "Historical Forms" on any character to explore. Smarter Multilingual Search: Mix any scripts in one search: CJK + Vietnamese + pinyin + jyutping + kana + hangul. Everything is split and searched automatically. Bug Fixes - Fixed glyph images not loading due to rate limiting - Fixed mixed-script searches dropping kana/hangul terms - Fixed pronunciation buttons not responding to taps

Search by Pinyin, Jyutping, Kana & Hangul: Type any pronunciation — Mandarin (huo3), Cantonese (fo2), Japanese (カ), or Korean (화) — and find characters instantly alongside Vietnamese results. Bug Fixes - Theme now persists correctly on iOS after app restart - Fixed pronunciation buttons not responding to taps - Fixed search failing for pinyin/jyutping with tone numbers

- Search compounds by Vietnamese pronunciation (e.g., "quân nhu" finds 軍需) - New Mono (black & white) color theme - Fixed handwriting/voice/radical input appending to old text after clearing - Fixed inline stroke animation stopping after collapsing and re-expanding results - Fixed search failing when query contains CJK punctuation

Smarter Search - Search results now show the matching pronunciation first (e.g., search "ha" → shows "ha", not an unrelated reading) - Results sorted by popularity: common Hán characters appear before rare Nôm variants - Multi-word search works too (e.g., "an toàn" matches both readings) Nôm Input Method Redesign - Candidates now display in a compact horizontal bar instead of a vertical dropdown - Tap the arrow to expand into a full grid showing all candidates - Arrow keys navigate naturally: left/right in the bar, down to expand, up to collapse - Responsive: 5 candidates on mobile, 9 on desktop Inline Stroke Animation (Desktop) - Expanded search results show a stroke order animation beside the definitions - Auto-plays with play, reset, and practice controls - Falls back gracefully when stroke data isn't available Visual Polish - Sticky character pill appears when scrolling long entries — always know which character you're reading - All badges unified to consistent outline style and height across search, character page, and drawer - Smoother accordion expand/collapse animation - Character page "Back" button now reliably links to Search - Desktop drawer header shows the character name - Icon-only share button — less clutter