• New users now get 3 free Part 2 practices: the first one straight away, the next two after a quick free sign-in, so your results are saved to your History. • Fixes and improvements.

• This Season's Topics now uses the full width of the iPad screen. • Mistake Bank: habits that are fading now look different from the ones that keep coming back. • Fixes and improvements.

• More reliable scoring: your answers are now assessed through CueRise's own server. • A tidier Mistake Bank. • Fixes and improvements.

• CueRise now works on iPad, with a layout designed for the larger screen. • Fixes an issue where scoring could fail on your first mock after installing. • Fixes and improvements.

• New: This Season's Topics. Practise Part 2 on the themes candidates reported this season, with a fresh cue card every time. • Cleaner Mistake Bank, Vocabulary Bank and Settings screens. • Fixes and improvements.

• Mistake Bank — your filler phrases and grammar slips are now tracked across mocks so you can see what keeps coming back. The bank is free; the "Fixed" section is Pro. • Fairer short-answer scoring — a Part 2 answer under about 45 seconds now receives a lower band that reflects the brevity, with a clear explanation of why and what to do next. • Cue card bullets and your prep notes stay visible on screen while you speak in Part 2, so you never lose your place.

- Habit Bank: track filler phrases and grammar patterns that keep coming back across your Part 2 answers - Smarter mic check: returns a quick confirmation screen instead of repeating the full test on the same day - Grammar coaching is more accurate — corrections no longer cross sentence boundaries

• New: free Part 2 practice. Try a real IELTS cue card with 1 minute to prepare and up to 2 minutes to speak, then get a Part 2 band estimate and a Band 8+ model answer. Free users get 5 practices. • CueRise Pro now offers a weekly plan alongside Monthly and Yearly. • History shows full mocks and Part 2 practices as separate trends. • Rate CueRise is now easy to find in Settings. • Clearer subscription screen and other fixes.

Small refinements to your results report, and behind-the-scenes improvements. Aiming for Band 7+? Take a full 3-part mock and find out where you actually stand.

More accurate Fluency and Coherence scoring. More variety in Part 1 interview questions. The Fluency Tracker now highlights filler phrases such as "you know" and "I mean", with more accurate counts. Plus smaller fixes to the results screen.

• A new welcome screen that explains exactly what your free mock exam includes. • Clearer, more accurate wording on the subscription screen. • Small fixes and refinements under the hood.

More accurate pronunciation scoring, and a fairer read on short answers. • Pronunciation is now measured with a new engine that tells stronger and weaker speakers apart more reliably. • If you answer only briefly in Part 1 or Part 3, your score now reflects that. An examiner can only assess the language you actually produce. • Your report now tells you when a section was too short to assess fully, so you know exactly what to work on. • Various fixes to scoring accuracy and audio playback. Some scores may read lower than in earlier versions. That is deliberate: a diagnostic is only useful if it is honest.

More accurate scoring. This update rebuilds the scoring engine so your Fluency, Lexical Resource, Grammar and Pronunciation scores track examiner judgement more closely. Also in this release: • A skipped section is now correctly identified as unanswered rather than scored. • Score Trends now shows every result on the chart, with your target band marked so you can see the gap at a glance. • Part 3 pacing refined to match real exam length.

BandLift is now CueRise. New name, new icon — same app, same account, and your history, settings and subscription come with you. We simply liked CueRise better for where we're taking this app next. A more premium look. The exam and results screens have been redesigned with richer colour and cleaner detail, so the experience feels as serious as the exam you're preparing for. • Pronunciation scoring is now reliable on full-length Part 2 answers. If we're ever unable to measure a score with confidence, we'll tell you rather than guess. • A more polished exam experience from start to finish. Aiming for Band 7+? Take a full 3-part mock and find out where you actually stand.

Sharper, more accurate scoring. We've rebuilt how BandLift scores fluency, following an extensive recalibration of the scoring engine. Stronger speakers are no longer under-marked, and genuine hesitation is still caught. • More accurate at Band 7 and above. Confident, fluent answers now score where they should. • Pronunciation is measured on its own merits. It's no longer held down by your fluency score — clear speech earns its band even when delivery is hesitant. • Better handling of natural speech. Restarting a sentence or thinking mid-answer is normal, and is no longer over-penalised. • A smoother exam. One calm tone before each question replaces the old triple beep, and playback across your report is more reliable. Aiming for Band 7+? Take a full 3-part mock and find out where you actually stand.

Better examiner voices. Every examiner now sounds natural and true to their accent — British, Australian, and American — so your mock feels closer to the real exam. Also in this update: • A poor network connection could previously produce an inaccurate score report. BandLift now tells you clearly when a mock couldn't be scored, and lets you retry for free without using up an attempt. • Fixed a rare issue where Part 2 could record silently. • Smoother transitions between exam parts, plus various reliability improvements.

• Pro now includes UNLIMITED full mock exams. • New American examiners — practise with British, Australian, and American AI voices. • Preview any examiner's voice before you start your test. • Part 1 and Part 3 answers are now timed for a more exam-realistic mock. • Save your results and track progress with a free account, right from your report. • Clearer, more natural examiner audio, plus assorted fixes and improvements.

New in this version • See the difference — your original Part 2 answer now appears as text, right alongside the Band 8+ version. Read exactly how to sharpen your delivery while keeping your own ideas. • A smoother, more reliable mock experience throughout. Thanks for practising with BandLift. Beat your band.

Added an App Store link to score sharing, refined wording, and search/discovery improvements.