Small fixes and polish.

New: an optional email list. Get a word worth knowing, tips and news about once a week at most. Sign up in Settings › Email, and unsubscribe anytime.

A new welcome tour shows what WordVale does and how it fits your reading. Unlock it right away, or start your free trial. If you tried WordVale before, when some words arrived without meanings: that's fixed, and WordVale is fully unlocked for the next 30 days as an apology.

Fix: new words could get stuck without a meaning, showing "Offline" even when you were connected. When our dictionary source is slow or unavailable, WordVale now writes the definition itself within seconds.

• New packs from the press: words and expressions that keep turning up on the front page, the business pages and the opinion pages, plus headline expressions — 219 in all. • Tell us what you read in English and WordVale starts your notebook with matching words. • Small bites: pack words arrive five a day, and finishing today's five completes your daily goal. • Badges: 12 milestones to earn, from your first saved word to a 30-day habit. Your progress is on Today.

Tell us what you think: a short, one-time feedback card now appears on Today. Two quick questions, sent anonymously — your answers decide what we build next.

Newly saved words now appear at the top of My Words. Prefer the old order? Tap the arrow button to show oldest first — WordVale remembers your choice.

Open a word from wordvale.com and, if it isn't in your vault yet, WordVale now offers to add it in one tap. Also new: an option in Settings › Privacy to share anonymous usage statistics (daily counts only, never your words) that help us improve the app.

A fresh look. WordVale now has one calm colour scheme across every screen, serif type for the words you save, a clearer daily goal card and easier review buttons. Dark mode got the same care.

• The word list now has a working search field on iPad. • Better contrast in the vault quiz in Dark Mode. • Statistics no longer clip at larger text sizes. • Small wording fixes.

Bug fixes and reliability improvements, including purchase restore and the paywall at larger text sizes.

Built for iPad • On iPad, your word list and the word you're reading now sit side by side, and Today and Statistics use the full screen. Everywhere you are • Your vault now syncs across your devices with iCloud. • Find your words in Spotlight, and start a review with Siri. Better practice • Hear the pronunciation on every quiz card. • Practise saying a word out loud and get told how close you were. • Quiet chimes for right and wrong answers, a lift when you mark a word learned, and confetti when you finish a session. More languages to translate into • Five more translation languages: Arabic, Korean, Indonesian, Turkish and Vietnamese — fourteen in all. Also: import a word list from a .csv file, faster and more reliable translations, a shortcut to vocabulary packs in Words, and a long list of small fixes.