Nagi answers sooner. The moment you start a message — opening the microphone, typing the first letter, or arriving at the chat — the connection is readied in the background, so the reply begins about a second earlier once you have finished. Nothing else changes: the same voice, the same pause before Nagi speaks, the same care with what you say.

Nagi now replies out loud as the words arrive. Voice replies begin within a couple of seconds and continue sentence by sentence, rather than arriving all at once. Tap the microphone while Nagi is speaking to cut in and say more. Hands-free listening is better at telling a pause from the end of what you wanted to say: it waits a little longer when you trail off, and no longer speaks over a pause mid-thought. Faster, clearer voice in New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada.

Nagi now opens a conversation differently. If you begin with something small — "I don't know where to start", or just hello — Nagi answers by making room, rather than putting a question straight back to you. Start wherever you like, and take as long as you need to get to it. That is the only change in this version.

You can now switch from monthly to annual from Settings — you'll be charged the annual price straight away, with whatever is left of your month credited against it. Managing your membership now opens right inside the app instead of sending you out to a browser. Prices show in your own currency up front, and we've added two more support lines: 13YARN in Australia and the Suicide Crisis Helpline in New Zealand. Plus fixes to how membership access is handled if you've cancelled but still have time left.

More room to talk Your first 15 messages are now free, up from 5. Enough to have a real conversation and find out what Nagi is actually like before deciding whether it's for you. A way in Nagi now says hello first rather than leaving you with an empty box, and offers a few openers if you're not sure where to begin. "I don't know where to start" is one of them, because that is usually the honest answer. Nothing gets lost If a conversation is ever paused to show you support options, your messages now stay exactly where they were. Nagi picks up where you left off, and you can carry on whenever you want to. Support, whenever you want it The support options are no longer only shown when the app decides to show them. They now sit in Settings, so they are there if you want them — for yourself, or for someone you are worried about. Nagi can speak Nagi can read replies aloud. If you are new to the app this is on from the start; if you have been here a while it stays exactly as you had it, and you can switch it on from the speaker at the top or in Settings. Either way, one tap mutes it, and Nagi tells you the first time it speaks — so it is never a surprise in a room with someone else in it. Smaller things - Prices now show the currency clearly - You can leave the membership screen without signing up - Fixed replies that occasionally didn't arrive

A small housekeeping update. Our App Store age rating is now 18+, which matches the age check that has always been in the app and the wording in our privacy policy. Nothing inside Nagi has changed.