Bring your own video. Import a Japanese video from your phone or a link. Watch it with the transcript underneath and tap any word. Skip by line. The back and forward buttons now jump to the start of the previous or next line instead of 10 seconds. Files your iPhone can't play. WebM or MKV? We now prepare the audio for you, so you can listen and follow the transcript. Also: long YouTube videos now show their full transcript, and the player controls fit on smaller screens, in every language.

Fixes a bug that could make playback slow down and the phone heat up during long listening sessions.

Now in Russian. The whole app — every screen, every word card, the dictionary — in Russian, with word meanings from a dictionary people wrote. Every episode of every show. Long-running podcasts stopped at 600 episodes, which put the earliest ones out of reach — exactly the ones you want when a show is a course. The full archive is here now, and sorting by Oldest drops you at episode 1. Videos follow the words. Tap a word in a YouTube lesson and you land on that word, not at the start of the line. Videos whose only subtitles were auto-generated — the ones that drifted out of sync — are now watch-only instead of wrong. Also: pull to refresh really brings in new episodes, and a pile of translation fixes.

Bring your Anki deck. Import an .apkg and choose what comes over — the words you already know, the ones you're learning, or the ones you haven't started. We stop teaching what you've got, and the sentence on each card comes across with it. Search the dictionary the way you speak. Look up 飲んだ and get 飲む, or paste a whole sentence and we'll split it into words. Save straight from the results, and find anything you've looked up in your history. Filter your saved words by category, by how well you know them, or by where they came from. Plus credits for the dictionary data behind the app, and fixes.

Keep listening. Episodes now flow into the next one automatically, and previous/next follow the queue you're actually browsing. Ads inside episodes are detected and folded away in the transcript. Travelling, or behind a firewall? If audio or video is blocked where you are, Wakatta now tells you instead of spinning forever. Plus a tidier player and fixes.

Behind-the-scenes improvements to keep Wakatta running smoothly.

Made for your level. • Your level, your feed — and your future. Tell us your level (N5–N1) and Wakatta tailors which episodes it recommends. It also powers what's coming next — like grammar points matched to your level. • Try it instantly. Read a transcript preview and save words before you create an account — your saved words and level come with you when you sign up. • Bring your own audio. Import any Japanese clip, pick up right where you left off, and rename your clips. • Fix an unsure word. On your imported audio, press and hold an underlined word to correct it — coming to all shows soon. • Cleaner furigana and romaji for casual speech, plus polish and fixes.

YouTube channels now load reliably the first time you open them, and channel artwork looks cleaner throughout the app. Plus a few visual fixes and performance improvements.

New: Daily study reminder Set a time in Settings and keep your streak going — a gentle nudge to do your few minutes of Japanese each day. Plus stability and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and improvements.

Bring your own audio: import a Japanese audio file or link and we'll transcribe it, so you can tap any word, read along with furigana, and save what you're learning — just like with the shows. Plus bug fixes and improvements.

Word cards just got richer. Tap any word — in transcripts, in your saved words, or in dictionary search — to see the real sentences it appears in across our shows and hear them spoken, now with furigana over the kanji. Each card also shows synonyms: related words, how they differ, and when to use each. Plus a fix: words you saved from YouTube now correctly show where you saved them.

Save the exact phrase: press-hold and drag the transcript to keep just the words you want as a Moment — the surrounding sentence stays as context, and playback plays only that phrase. Copy and export full transcripts (Pro), with a quick guided tour. YouTube transcripts are more reliable and load faster, video lengths appear on channel pages, and your recently-watched channels show up on Home. Mark the exact spot you missed with "I got lost" for a focused explanation, and review saved phrases as fill-in-the-blank clozes over the audio. The dictionary now credits its source (JMdict). Plus tap-a-word-to-seek, a tighter transcript layout, and localization polish.

Share links now open right in Wakatta — tap a channel or video link a friend sends and it opens in the app instead of the browser. We also fixed a glitch where transcript words could shift as the current word was highlighted, so the text stays steady now. Plus more reliable video loading and small fixes.

Now with YouTube. The new Videos lens brings 170+ hand-picked Japanese YouTube channels — learners, vlogs, food, gaming and more — with the same tap-to-look-up transcript, furigana and saved words you use for podcasts. • Shows now holds both Podcasts and Videos — switch at the top, search channels (even in romaji) and follow your favorites. • Review a saved word or moment right from its video clip, and see which channel it came from. • Polish and fixes throughout.

Player, your way — switch the controls between Standard, Compact and Minimal in Reading settings. The smaller layouts leave more room for the transcript. Plus polish and fixes under the hood.

You can now give your account a display name — add or change it any time in the Account tab.

• Fine-tune playback speed in 5% steps, from 0.5× to 2×, with one-tap presets. • Copy any line straight from the transcript — long-press, then tap Copy. • The mini-player now shows the show’s cover art. • Quick in-app tips point out handy features as you go.

• New Japanese–English dictionary — search by kanji, kana, romaji or English, with audio examples from real podcasts. • Share a show, episode, the exact moment you’re on, or a word — links open the app right on that content. • Mastery levels on every saved word, plus one-tap copy of any word or sentence. • Reliability fixes across playback, sharing and sign-in.