Handy 990
TOEIC reading and listening
Free · In‑App Purchases
Handy 990 helps you practice for the TOEIC Listening and Reading test with focused reading questions, listening questions, and timed mock-test sessions.
Practice by TOEIC part, answer realistic question formats, and review missed questions after each session. Handy 990 is designed for short study sessions that fit into daily routines while still supporting full-length mock-test practice.
Key features:
- TOEIC reading and listening practice
- Part-based drills for targeted study
- Timed mock-test mode
- Immediate or end-of-test review
- Score summaries and weakness analytics
- Multilingual instructions and explanations
- Compact interface for one-handed practice
Handy 990 is an independent practice app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ETS, IIBC, or any official TOEIC administrator.
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more - Redesigned home screen — everything easier to find
- Parts 3 & 4: hundreds of new conversations, talks, and chart questions
- Part 2 & 6 difficulty now matches the real exam
- Drill your User Library collections; match-quiz results open as flashcards
- New: idiom origin stories, word families, detailed grammar lessons
- Supplemental drills count toward daily goals; Smart Practice resumes mid-set
- Fixes: a bookmark crash, clips that read the choices aloud, iOS silent-mode audio
1.33.0 1d ago
- Answer reveals highlight the evidence in the passage or transcript
- My Library: save any word, phrase, or sentence and drill it with flashcards, spelling, and dictation
- A word-meaning match game between flashcard batches, with a listen-only mode
- Smart review scheduling for flashcards, plus a daily recall quiz
- Tip cards teach the app's hidden features
- Clearer word meanings, shown in accent training too
- Confusing-word mistakes join your notebook; score goals sync across devices
1.31.0 Aug 1
- Topic Mind Maps: 145 maps grouping vocabulary by theme
- User Library: save your own words and sentences in one place
- Reveal practice translations with a tap
- Message board reactions; read it without signing in
- Bookmark notes, session sizes, and vocabulary level progress
- Mock history: section scores, balanced difficulty, review audio
- Fixed Android reminders, first-question auto-play, new Part 1 hard tier
- Capitalized sentence-initial options; dozens of content fixes
1.30.0 Jul 30
- Includes 1.28 and 1.29 changes; 1.28 was delayed in App Store review
- Word Sweep, smarter vocabulary review, and clearer meanings
- Five synced Home badge tiers reward problem reports
- Switch Part 1 photos to black and white
- Part-based Settings, exact reminders, better word sheets, and theme accents
- Study Buddy alerts; scores and session progress survive sync
- 60 graphic sets, clearer option letters and voices, and reliable audio retries
1.29.0 Jul 29
- Pinned listening controls, correct idle timelines, and stale retry protection
- Transcript word lookup with better inflection and word-sense matching
- Three new Part 7 exams and an optional single-page layout
- A clearer vocabulary journey with smarter review and visible progress
- Progress syncs before launch streak checks
- Clearer dark-mode quotes and dashboard completion marks
- Fixed 662 mixed-script translations, speaker voices, distractors, and answers
1.27.0 Jul 26
- Pinned, compact listening controls with correct idle timelines
- Transcript word lookup with better inflection and word-sense matching
- Optional single-page Part 7 layout
- Separate vocabulary replay controls by pronunciation
- Progress syncs before launch streak checks
- Clearer dark-mode quotes and dashboard completion marks
- Fixed reported playback, translation, distractor, and answer-key errors
1.26.0 Jul 26
- New Decayed Beta posterior score estimation: https://handy990.happysaur.com/en/docs/score-estimator
- Smart Practice adds exam order; Part 7 shows passage length and question type
- Listening adds auto-advance, prerecorded leads, speaker names, and smoother navigation
- Six full Part 7 exams have been freshly regenerated
- Examples added to every collocation and accent quiz
- Fixed synonym navigation, translations, and vocabulary errors
- More Study Buddy encouragement and clearer weekly vocabulary counts
1.25.0 Jul 24
- Added 776 Part 7 questions in 200 exam-length passage sets
- Mocks use exam-length Part 7; resumed results save and sync
- Listening adds optional manual start and Part 3–4 navigation
- Added Phrase bookmarks, focused retries, and correct audio switches
- Cleaned up answers, restored 225 Part 2 translations, and highlighted target words
- Study Buddy exchanges and Billboard cooldowns are clearer
- Fixed Android crashes, silent audio, and iOS update checks
1.24.0 Jul 23
- New global Billboard for template-based study check-ins
- Concentrate mode adds Training, Status, and Study Buddies dashboards
- Study Buddies shares vocabulary progress and curated encouragement
- Listening adds question numbers, optional directions, longer Part 3–4 prep, and visible Next
- Swipe choices to strike out distractors
- Today’s score persists; Phrase Builder mistakes join review
- Reworked 513 Part 7 items and repaired Part 1/3 media
- Bookmark notes hold 1,200 characters; report replies reopen tickets
1.23.0 Jul 22
- Remastered all 5,048 listening clips: cleaner sound, natural speed, shorter Part 3 gaps
- Listening adds a seek bar; Parts 3–4 show the next question
- Lookup extends to explanations and exercises, with one-tap copy
- Smart Review adds daily new-word goals and finish estimates
- Mistake Review and Daily History track corrections accurately
- Signed-in reports sync; Study Buddies shows your check-in
- Phrase, Part 6, and spelling hints appear at the right time
1.22.0 Jul 21
- Study Buddies auto-shares practice; listening voices lose hiss
- Report updates alert you and open My Reports
- Listening mocks resume from saved playback
- Supplemental practice joins Daily History with redo
- Part 7 stays visible; Part 6 review shows every choice
- Home text scales to 160%; themes sync
- Fuller localized listening, grammar, and vocabulary guidance
- Flashcard examples add lookup; prompt translations wait for reveal
1.21.0 Jul 20
- Save bookmarks with notes across every practice area and manage them from one dashboard
- New free Vocabulary Relationships module for synonyms and easily confused spellings
- Word lookup adds pronunciation, exact flashcards, localized dictionary links, and example replay
- Phrase Match adds organized lanes, offline US pronunciation, and exact-card review links
- Remove downloaded listening audio one Part at a time from Settings
1.20.0 Jul 19
- Entire listening bank rebuilt in high-definition audio with balanced American, British, Australian, and Canadian accents
- New Vocab Map tracks every word by level, pins difficult words, and celebrates level-ups
- Vocabulary practice follows your level with bulk mastery controls and smarter next-word selection
- Concentrate mode adds an image-first Focus Gallery, smoother switching, and easy PDF flashcard access
- Mock tests can pause; grouped reading scores wait until final submission
1.19.0 Jul 18
- New: Phrase Families — 200 groups of related phrases to browse, learn, and quiz
- New: Vocab Clinic finds your vocabulary level and hides words you already know
- 249 new vocabulary words with meanings, word roots, and audio (deck now 3,775)
- Theme colors: five certificate palettes, or follow your estimated score — app icon included
- New home-screen focus mode: concentrate on one practice area at a time
- Bug fixes and polish
1.18.0 Jul 17
- Supplemental practice now has its own Mistake Notebook, with module filters, cleanup, and exact-question retries—wrong answers finally found a useful home.
1.17.0 Jul 16
- Turn your bookmarks and review activity into personalized vocabulary-card PDFs, complete with sticker art, meanings, example sentences, and your chosen phonetic notation. Send the PDF to friends or print it as 10-card A4 study sheets—your study list is ready to travel.
- Vocabulary flashcards now show sense-specific collocations, pairing each meaning with the words it naturally keeps company with.
- Vocabulary and phrase Practice History lets you filter past answers and retry the exact questions—because old mistakes deserve a rematch.
- Listening review labels the current American and British audio with accent flags, with Australian voices joining gradually. We know Canada is an independent nation, but Canadian and American accents are not distinct enough for separate training sets—sorry, Canadians!
- Vocabulary practice now reveals the meanings of all four choices after you answer—no option gets to keep its definition secret.
- Bookmark words directly from reading lookups, while pinned reading timers stay visible as you scroll—save the word, watch the clock.
- Polish patrol: clearer just-now grammar guidance and the right localized app name in Founder messages.
1.16.1 Jul 15
- New Serious Mock mode brings official-style directions, strict timing, a mid-test break, one 990 score, and combined review to Listening and full tests — exam day without the commute.
- Mistake History now tracks each question's miss count, lets you filter and retry by Part, and syncs the record across devices — your nemesis questions travel with you.
- Feedback and problem reports can now include photos or screenshots, because some bugs are better at posing than explaining themselves.
1.15.0 Jul 14
- New study circles let you pair up with friends, check in together each day, keep your mutual streaks alive, and send a quick cheer when someone shows up to study.
- New Phrase Match game: a tile-flip memory game that pairs each phrase with its meaning, in three board sizes from a quick round to a proper workout.
- Smart Review found its voice — words and phrases now read themselves aloud, with accent and voice options and a replay button, on by default.
- Tap or long-press any word — in a passage, a question, or an answer choice — to see what it means in your language.
- Account sync is now merge-safe across devices, so your progress stops overwriting itself — plus smaller fixes throughout.
1.14.0 Jul 13
- Reading practice now has a per-question stopwatch: it freezes when the answer is revealed and rates your pace, from blazing all the way to too slow.
- Sent us a problem report? Settings → My Reports now shows what happened to it — feedback no longer disappears into the void.
- Finished today's Smart Review? Infinity Mode lets you keep drilling vocabulary and phrases past the daily cap.
- Flashcards leveled up: every example sentence is translated, synonyms are tappable links, and part-of-speech tags swap language when tapped.
- Clearer answer reviews: Part 6 shows per-paragraph translations with your answer inline, and Part 7 explanations now appear in your language.
- The home screen got a calmer, single-accent redesign — same content, fewer colors fighting for attention.
- Lots of polish: listening transcripts synced word-for-word to their audio, sharper drill explanations, score estimates that ignore redo rounds, and a goal-wizard crash fix.
1.13.0 Jul 12
- Already know a word by heart? Mark it as known and it stops turning up in your drills and flashcards — with an undo for when you jump the gun.
- New Smart Review mode uses spaced repetition to bring each word back just before you'd forget it, then schedules the next review from how well you knew it.
- Interrupted partway through a Mock or Diagnostic test? You can now pick it up right where you left off.
- Five more Part 1 photo exams — thirty extra photographs to size up and describe.
- Your end-of-session summary now shows how many questions you reviewed out of the total, breaks down by grade when you tap it, and adds a table for your whole question bank.
- Odds and ends: bigger Part-number badges on the home cards, more answer glosses in Part 3, a tidier Part 6 options panel, and a few filled-in translation gaps.
1.12.0 Jul 10
- Not up for a full mock exam? Take a smaller one instead — anywhere from a sixth of the test to the whole thing — with a time estimate shown before you begin.
- A new score-trend chart plots your estimated Listening and Reading scores day by day, so you can watch your progress climb.
- A new “Best Way to Study” guide ties the app's many tools into one clear routine — no more wondering where to start.
- Spotted a problem in a drill or flashcard? The “Report a problem” flag now appears on every practice screen.
- Odds and ends: the “hear it in real videos” link now covers phrases and opens inside the app, spelling drills give you a head start, your toggles and history stay put between visits, plus assorted wording and dark-mode fixes.
1.11.0 Jul 9
- New Smart Practice mode: name your target score and it builds each session around your weak spots — step away and it picks up right where you left off.
- Practice history: revisit any past day and redo those questions — a rewind button for your studying.
- Part 7 now shows every question right under the passage, so there's less scrolling back and forth.
- Every vocabulary word now comes with its origin story, cultural notes, and a one-tap link to hear it spoken.
- More ways to build vocabulary: a Roots & Affixes browser, synonyms revealed with each answer, and a new Phrase Builder drill.
- Polish throughout: a strategy-tips badge on each Part, an optional tap-to-advance, and cleaner grammar drills.
1.10.0 Jul 8
- Vocabulary flashcards leveled up: every meaning gets its own example sentence (read aloud), plus pronunciation, synonyms, and word forms
- New arcade game: Word Invaders — defend the planet by shooting the right word
- Smaller download: listening audio now arrives on demand and pre-loads on Wi-Fi
- Need a breather? Set a countdown pause before each listening audio starts
- Save tricky questions to a Review Later list, and choose when your answers get checked
- Hundreds of new questions across Listening Parts 2–4 and Reading Parts 6–7
- The info page grew into a tidy four-page guide
1.9.0 Jul 7
• Listening Parts 1–4: after answering, see translations of what you heard and every answer choice
• Reading Parts 5–7: after answering, see translations of the passage and every answer choice
• Part 2 now uses three separate voices, matching the real test
• Refreshed home screen with color-coded practice sections
• A fresh new app icon
1.8.0 Jul 5
• Wrong-answer notebook: your mistakes now have a home (and a revenge arc)
• Vocab flash cards got stickers — tiny art that makes words stick
• Accent Training: hear US, UK and Aussie English argue over the same sentence
• Every vocabulary word now talks. Politely.
• Parts 3 & 4 show the options before the audio — just like the real test
• New skill radar shows exactly where to aim
• Hundreds of new questions across Parts 1–7. You're welcome.
1.7.0 Jul 4
- Redesigned home screen — everything easier to find
- Parts 3 & 4: hundreds of new conversations, talks, and chart questions
- Part 2 & 6 difficulty now matches the real exam
- Drill your User Library collections; match-quiz results open as flashcards
- New: idiom origin stories, word families, detailed grammar lessons
- Supplemental drills count toward daily goals; Smart Practice resumes mid-set
- Fixes: a bookmark crash, clips that read the choices aloud, iOS silent-mode audio
more Version 1.33.0 1d ago
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