Start where you actually are. Right after you join, five questions find your level: a kana, a sound, a kanji, and two short sentences. Hibi places you there and shows you the plan. Then trace 日 to make it a promise, pick how many days you are committing to, and turn on a reminder from Today.

A code works where you enter it. Redeem a subscription code on the welcome screen and you go straight in, no restart needed. Also a small fix to the screen you see if you ever leave.

The whole chart, yours to drill. A new Table tab shows every hiragana and katakana, and the kanji you have met, shaded by how well you know them. Pick a row, a level, your weakest, or save a set, then drill it: four choices, type the reading, or draw the character from memory and have it checked. Mix scripts, mix answer modes, go as long as you like. It never touches your daily reviews. Also: write kana from memory after their first review, a note when a new version is out, and a kinder exit if you ever leave.

Kanji. Once 96 of your 106 kana have passed, kanji begins. One a day, in levels of eight to twelve. Each kanji is built from parts you meet first, carries one reading (the one its most common word uses), and comes with a story that names its parts. Draw it, then review it like everything else. The Kanji and Parts decks join Quick Practice. Levels 1 to 3 ship now, 33 kanji. More levels follow as free updates.

One question, after your first session. Finish your first review or practice and Hibi asks how it is going. Once, and only once. If something is off, tell us and it lands straight in our inbox. If it is going well, you may be asked to say so on the App Store. New learners get a quieter start: the first screens are lighter, and the price waits for the moment you decide.

Make the widget yours. Long-press a Hibi widget and choose Edit Widget. Three colours: Sumi, the dark one; Washi, ink on paper; Hinomaru, bone on red. The large widget can also follow your track, or stay on hiragana or katakana while you work through the other. Tinted and clear home screens colour the widget themselves, so on those it stays the way iOS paints it. Also fixed some other bugs!

Your kana board, on the home screen. A new large widget shows every hiragana as a grid that fills in as you learn. Fresh characters glow faintly, ones you have passed burn brighter, and the ones you have sealed flip to white. Today's character is ringed. Long-press your home screen, add Hibi, pick the large one. The small and medium widgets were redrawn. The character is the whole widget now, with its reading under it, and a red dot until you have done today. Reviews have a ladder. Every character climbs from Seed to Sprout, Leaf, Bloom and finally Sealed, and the app shows you where each one stands. New characters wait while too many are still fresh, so the pile stays small. Reviews arrive once a day, at your reminder time, in one batch. One notification tells you how many are ready and whether a new character is waiting. Freshest characters come first in the queue.

First week fixes. Practice counts stop growing. Ten prompts means ten. Miss one and it comes back as a retry, counted on the side, not added to the end. The summary counts what you have been taught, not the whole curriculum. "0 of 104" was never fair. Closing a session halfway now asks, because those answers already counted. Tracing scrolls from the edges again, and the last stroke gets a tap and a "Traced" so you know it landed. Big text sizes keep their shape. The small red labels on dark screens are easier to read. Everyone gets the kanji check-in now, so the step counter stops jumping. And a Next button that is waiting for you looks like it is waiting.