A meaning question has one correct answer The options could include a pattern meaning exactly what the question asked about – 「〜ことができます」 (“can, be able to”) next to 可能形 (“can, be able to, be possible”), or 「から（理由）」 next to 「ゆえに」 (“because of, owing to”). Both glosses were true, so the question had no answer, and picking a good one could count as a mistake. Those pairs are now recognized and never stand together. Options still come from related patterns – that is what makes this question worth asking – but related is not the same as interchangeable. A sentence written in kanji where the pattern uses kana now counts In writing tasks the pattern 「もう少し時間がほしいです。」 keeps 「ほしい」 in kana, because that is how the catalog stores it – while 「欲しい」 is just as correct and just as natural. Until now such a sentence went to self-assessment, so the app asked you about something it already knew. A matching reading is now enough, in both directions. Your sentence stays on screen exactly as you wrote it – it is never swapped for the pattern. Romaji is still a different matter: there, spelling is judged by you or by the AI check. The percentage at the end of a session counts correct answers Under “Correct 8 of 8” stood the average mastery score – a different quantity, with a percent sign, three rows below. Both numbers were true, but it read as “eight out of eight, so 99%”, and a session with even one writing task could never reach a hundred, because self-assessed “good” has a ceiling of its own. That row is now accuracy: eight out of eight is one hundred percent. The mastery score has not disappeared – it stayed where it means “how much of this you know”, on the pattern's own screen. The highlight now appears in both places on the check screen The sentence shows up twice on that screen: in the question card and, below it, in the card with the translation. The pattern being practiced was marked only in the first one, so two identical sentences one under the other differed in color for no reason and looked like a glitch. Both now point at the same place. The progress bar fills up on the last question At “7 / 7” the bar sat at six sevenths – exactly where it sat at “6 / 7”, because the label and the bar were measuring two different things. The bar now shows what the label says. The price is a bar that is no longer empty on the first question, and that is a deliberate choice: a bar is not a counter, and one seventh reads as “you are near the start”. The analysis counter tells the truth about when it resets A subscription's analysis allowance renews from the day you bought it, not on the first of the month – bought on the 20th, it runs from the 20th to the 20th. The screens said “this month” next to it, which simply was not true, even though the renewal date beside it was right. They now speak about the period. The free allowance still renews on the first of the month, and the wording for it is unchanged.

Options in a gap differ by form, not by vocabulary Until this version, a wrong option in a gap question came from another pattern's example sentence — and the verb of that sentence came with it. A sentence about reading a book would get 「飲みません」 among the answers, so you could rule it out with a dictionary alone, knowing nothing about the form being practiced. Measured across the catalog: 1,112 of 1,438 questions had at least one such option, and 168 could be solved outright without any grammar. Every option now carries this sentence's vocabulary — only the form differs, which is exactly what the question asks about. The pattern in question is marked in the sentence In a “what does this mean here” question the prompt named the pattern, but finding it in the sentence was on you — even though the answers are meanings and test nothing of the sort. The practiced fragment is now marked in your accent color, the one you picked in Settings, with an underline added when the system “Differentiate Without Color” setting is on. Readings above kanji stay where they are. Gap and contrast questions get no marking, because the spot is already visible; writing tasks get none by design — marking would hand over the length and place of the change to someone who has yet to write it. The dot and the count now mean “there is work”, not just “there are reviews” The marker on the app's row and the count on the Today tab asked about reviews only. So the first day of study looked exactly like a finished one: no reviews, because there is nothing to review yet, while a full session of new patterns waited on the Today screen. Both now count the whole day's plan. The Review button stays with reviews alone — it says what it will unlock, not whether there is a reason to go in. The “Got it, ask me” button spans the full width After a new pattern is introduced, the button that moves you on was a narrow pill in the middle of the bar, while the other two buttons in the same place in a session — Next and Done — span the full width. It now looks like them.

An answer that reads the sentence correctly no longer gets “Not this time” In a question about meaning, one of the options can be a pattern that contains the one being asked about — 「ても構わない」 next to 「ても」, for instance. Its meaning is a true reading of the sentence on screen, so choosing it was sound reasoning, and the app counted it as a miss. It now has an outcome of its own: it says the sentence was read correctly, and shows what the question was about. It counts as neither a hit nor an error — it leaves mastery alone, does not move the review date, and stays out of your accuracy. The question simply comes back. Contrast questions stop coming back with the same pair A hundred and sixty-eight patterns out of a hundred and eighty-eight have exactly one contrast pair, and nearly every pair has two sentences. Question choice followed your weakest skill, so while contrast sat low it kept returning to those same two screens. The weight of that question type now fades after each pass through all the material there is. Contrast questions do not disappear: they get rarer and spread out over time. The same pair no longer asks twice in one session A session used to make sure the same screen did not come back. That was not enough, because what is being practiced is the distinction, not the sentence: 「は」 against 「が」 in a second sentence is still 「は」 against 「が」. When both halves of a pair fell due on the same day, the same distinction could be asked twice in a row. Answer buttons of equal height Height followed the length of the option, so an answer wrapping onto two lines made a tile twice as tall as its neighbor. Size means nothing here, and it looked as though it did. Tiles in one question now match the tallest, while still growing with the text at larger type sizes rather than clipping it. An announced level and an untouched level stop looking alike An empty progress bar meant two different things at once: “there is no material yet” and “the material is there, nobody has touched it”. The first has no scale on which zero would say anything; the second does. Review intervals written the way the language writes them The “Interval” row on a pattern's page showed a fraction of a day with a point that ignored the language of the interface. Every other number in the app followed the local convention. Now this one does too. A faster start The Today screen recomputed a fingerprint of the whole catalog more than a hundred times per launch instead of once per pass — five hundred and sixty-three patterns each time. After the fix: eight passes instead of a hundred and nine to two hundred and seventeen.

A sentence from the example no longer gets “Not this time” With 〜をおねがいします the prompt demanded a construction the model answer could not contain: を does not follow まで, and a note in the very same entry said so. Type the sentence from the example and you were told you were wrong, with the screen then suggesting the Japanese it warns you against. The example comes back as a fill-in-the-gap task — where it teaches exactly the thing that を drops out. The review button no longer stays off once a review is due Left in the background, the app aged along with the number of reviews waiting: the dot on the icon could show a figure while the button underneath sat dark. Anyone who trusted the button missed the review and had no way of knowing it was a fault. The Today screen now watches the clock the same way the badge does — and wakes by itself the moment a review comes due. Without a connection, AI analysis says so All the learning works offline: the material is in the app, your progress is on the device, the phone schedules the reviews. Only AI analysis needs a connection — and its button looked the same in every condition, failing only once you pressed it, like a fault. It goes dark now, with a line underneath saying why. A service switched off and an allowance that could not be read get their own sentences, because those are three different things. Similar patterns now show up in sentences, not just in prose A pair of patterns used to be a title and one paragraph. The material had shipped from the start and sat unused: a hundred and seven pairs, each with at least two sentences where one form is natural and the other is not — with the context and the reason. The only way to reach those sentences was to get an exercise wrong. Now you open the pair from the pattern's page and see them side by side.

KANJI IN A JAPANESE TYPEFACE, NOT A CHINESE ONE On a phone with an English or Polish interface the system substituted a Chinese typeface, and some kanji are shaped differently in it. Every Japanese line now tells the system what language it is in — and looks the way it looks in Japan. YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH OF THE SESSION IS LEFT The progress bar runs the full width below the navigation bar, instead of sitting in the title at the width of a thumb. In a 25-question session one step used to be thinner than a hairline. VoiceOver reads it as "Question 7 of 25". ANSWER CHOICES ARE VISIBLE IN THE LIGHT THEME Answer tiles and the typing field were white cards on a white screen, held together by nothing but a hairline border. The question screen now has a gray background, and the cards look like cards. YOU CAN TELL WHY THE ICON HAS NO NUMBER If badges are turned off for Kaname in the system Settings, the app's Settings now say so and lead you to where you can turn them back on. Before, the number was simply missing with no way to guess why.

FASTER SWITCHING BETWEEN TABS The Today screen recalculated everything each time you came back to it, and Levels did the same on every redraw. They now do the work once, and only when something has actually changed. THE AI ANALYSIS SCREEN SAYS WHAT IS GOING ON When your allowance or the offer cannot be loaded, the screen says so and offers a Try again button. A failed purchase now gets a message instead of quietly returning to the button, and a purchase waiting for a parent's approval says that it is waiting. THE SENTENCE YOU TYPED IS NO LONGER LOST If saving fails, the editor stays open and tells you why, instead of closing exactly the way it does after a successful save. A LEVEL WITH NO REVIEWS YET SAYS NOT PRACTICED Instead of a coloured bar at zero that looked like a result. The catalog has done this for a while; now the dashboard says the same.

A SUBSCRIPTION YOU BUY NOW WORKS RIGHT AWAY After a purchase the app confirms your subscription with the server immediately instead of waiting for a restart. Restore Purchases does the same. A failed restore can be dismissed, and closing the Apple ID prompt is no longer reported as an error. YOU CAN SEE WHETHER A SUBSCRIPTION RENEWS OR ENDS The screen said it renews even when renewal was turned off. It now says it ends and warns that AI analysis will stop working after that date. A failed payment gets its own wording and its own advice. SCANNING ASKS BEFORE IT REPLACES YOUR SENTENCE Text from a photo went into the field without asking, even when your own sentence was already there. Grammar recognition now says what it did: filled empty fields, replaced them with your consent, or changed nothing. SUBSCRIPTION PERIODS IN THE RIGHT LANGUAGE The offer tiles took the period wording from your phone language instead of the language the app is set to. YOU CAN SEE THE APP ASKING ABOUT YOUR ALLOWANCE The AI analysis row in Settings went blank while the request was in flight if you had a subscription — no number and no sign that anything was happening.

N2 AND N1 — THE WHOLE JLPT RANGE The last two levels are here. Anyone who bought Premium earlier gets them at no extra cost. Levels can also be bought separately or in bundles — buying at once is always cheaper than piece by piece. SCAN JAPANESE FROM A PHOTO Take a photo of a page or pick one from your library. The text is recognized on your phone; the photo is never sent or saved anywhere. It reads vertical writing too, so a manga speech bubble can be put together from its columns. AI ANALYSIS Write your own sentence and the model tells you what exactly is off and why. It also spots patterns in text you paste in. A separate, optional layer — without it every number and every due date comes out the same. A few calls a month are free. SMALL THINGS YOU COULD SEE • A correctly written sentence checked by AI finally scores a hundred percent, not seventy- nine. • The verb form check works without AI too — a malformed て or た form no longer passes as correct. • Picking a sentence after a scan looks like buttons, because that is what it is. • Catalog search folds Polish diacritics: “okreslenie” now finds “określenie”.

The same questions stopped coming back in one session You reported it three times and you were right every time — the cause was different every time. The last one: a contrast exercise belongs to the pair, while the record of what had been asked was kept per grammar point, so the same task could come up once "for は" and once "for が". Measured before the fix: 26 sessions out of 60. After: none. The last gap is closed too — the one that showed the very same sentence again once the material ran out. Questions stopped running ahead of you A contrast question — "how do these two differ" — only makes sense once you recognize the first of them. The engine held that line when picking a question type, but not when it dropped down looking for material, so the third question about a brand-new grammar point let contrast back in through the side door. Measured: almost one question in four bypassed the threshold. Now none. The dashboard and the session stopped stalling Choosing an answer took 170 milliseconds; it now takes twelve. The dashboard worked out the whole session plan eighteen times per redraw, and the catalog was rebuilt on every keystroke in search. None of it looked like a bug — it looked like the app dragging its feet. A grayed-out button says why it is grayed out "Review" and "New grammar points" went gray without explaining themselves — and they go gray for different reasons, each meaning something else. Each now carries a short reason on the same line: when the button will light up, whether today's limit is used up, or whether the material has run out. A finished day means the learning goal Today's new grammar points close the day, and nothing else does. Until now closing it also required an empty review schedule — and a single review falling due in the evening held the day open when there was nothing left to close it with. Reviews have their own marker and their own path. The daily limit is a ceiling, and you can see what is left The number on "New grammar points" is what remains of today's limit, not the length of the session: with one of five introduced, the button reads "· 4". Once the limit is used up it goes gray and says so, instead of quietly adding material beyond what you set. Starting from a grammar point's page asks first Opening a grammar point from the list and starting it there went over the daily limit without a word. It now asks — once, with the number — and goes ahead only after you confirm. Material above your stage works the same way: the button does not go gray, it warns and asks. "I already know this" silences a grammar point A grammar point you know from elsewhere does not have to be walked through question by question. Marking it writes in full mastery and takes it out of the queue — as a declaration, which is what it is, so nothing pretends it was practiced. Weak spots are drawn by weight, not by order The weak-spot basket sorted until it was done and kept showing the same five. It now draws from weights, so a weak spot from the second ten gets its turn as well. The threshold at which a grammar point lands in that basket came down from 45 to 40 — the same number the color scale paints by.

Review count widget The Home Screen and the Lock Screen now show how many questions are waiting for review — and when none are, the hour from which they will be. The number comes from the same calculation as the “Review” button inside the app, so it cannot promise something that is not there once you open it. The week chart is about work, and the day section about your stage Tomorrow’s bar showed only the due dates already stored — but most of tomorrow’s reviews are created by today’s session, because the intervals start at a few hours. It understated the day by dozens of questions, and the next morning came as a surprise. It now adds what is certain: material studied today that returns tomorrow, and the points introduced along the way. Three new points a day instead of five The default pace drops from five to three. Five turned out to be too many, because every new point comes back several times and adds to the reviews for a whole week. If you have set your own pace, it stays exactly as it was — the change applies to new installs only. Sentence translation after you answer The check screen now shows the translation of the Japanese sentence. On tap by default, adjustable in Settings next to furigana. It is not shown with the question itself and will not be: almost half of the translations contain the very word that is the correct answer. After a mistake you see the difference, and each grade shows when the question returns Until now a wrong answer showed you what was right, but not how it differed from what you picked. Both now stand side by side, each with the point it belongs to — and where a contrast pair exists between those two points, its sentence about the difference comes with them. The four grades in a production task decide when the material comes back and said so by name only; each now carries the actual interval, so the choice stops being guesswork. Statistics with a 7, 30 or 90 day window The statistics screen showed a week of answers and a single number for the whole history — and “87%” does not tell you whether things are getting better. You now pick the period at the top, and below it stand accuracy day by day, answers per day, and the grammar points finished along the way. A day without study has no point on the chart: no answers is not the same as nothing but mistakes. “Your Japanese” shows where the reviews are Rows for the other apps in the family told you how the learning was going there. Now you can also see which of them has something to review right now. Content review: nine constructions split apart A construction carrying several roles under one spelling could not be learned — the question “what does it mean” had two correct answers. が, と, ところ, ために, によって, きり, だって, という and ということだ now stand as separate entries; ところ alone became three, because “about to leave”, “in the middle of leaving” and “just left” are three different things. Five entries that are names of forms are no longer asked what they mean. The whole catalog went through a sentence-by-sentence review in both languages, and pairs whose difference is one of tone got a new exercise: two correct sentences and a question about which one carries the role. A particle typed in romaji now matches itself A sentence typed in the Latin alphabet was told that “your answer does not show the grammar point you are practicing”, even when it was perfectly fine: romaji writes the pronunciation (“wa”) while the catalog writes the spelling (は). This affected は, へ and both を entries — the particles typed most often.

The next review time tells the truth Once today's review allowance was used up, the chart showed zero for today and marked the day as done — while the button below promised a review later the same afternoon. Both numbers were true on their own and contradicted each other together, because they counted different things. The button now answers the same question as the bar above it: when there will genuinely be something to review. Weak spots lead to the grammar point Rows in that section on the Today screen had an arrow, but tapping them did nothing at all. They now open the grammar point — its four competences, the next review date and everything else the row is talking about. The whole row responds to a tap On several lists a tap only worked on part of the row, and on Japanese expressions it was lost entirely. It looked like the app stuttering, and that is how it was reported. A row now responds across its whole surface, first time — in Grammar, in the study plan, in Sentences and in Settings. The pronunciation button is easier to hit as well. Readings no longer carry over to the next question With readings set to reveal on tap, the next question about the same grammar point could start with the furigana already showing — a hint nobody asked for. A second attempt after a mistake still keeps it, because there the reveal was a deliberate choice.

No more of the same sentence twice A fill-in-the-blank question and a contrast-pair question could show the same sentence with the blank in the same place — once with four options, once with two. It looked like a mistake by the app, and fairly so. A session now watches what appears on screen, not only what the question was built from. A reminder when reviews are waiting Turn it on in Settings, along with the hour. It arrives once a day, and only when something is genuinely waiting — a day with no reviews stays quiet. In holiday mode no reminders arrive at all. Permission is asked for only when you switch this on. The Japanese keyboard, straight away A new setting: the field for your own sentence can open on the Japanese keyboard rather than the one you used last. Off by default, because romaji counts just as it always has — turn it on if you write in kana anyway. A second attempt without a peek After a wrong answer in a multiple-choice question you get another go — but the correct answer and the explanation stood above that button, so there was nothing left to test. They now sit behind "Show the answer", and the screen keeps only the sentence from the question. Two glosses now say what they mean The translation of 「と」 now leads with a plain "and". It used to speak of a complete list and of company, but not of what と means most of the time. 〜ています in its resulting-state sense now reads "lives, is married" instead of "is in the state after…". Both were reported by a user.

Statistics for your own study A new screen under "Progress": accuracy broken down by question type, answers from the last seven study days, and how many points you have mastered — kept separate for those measured and those you marked as known yourself. All of it computed on the device, from your own history. How long to the end of the stage A range of weeks now sits beside the stage row, worked out from your measured pace rather than the limit set in Settings — and it includes the time your last points still need to settle. A break stretches it on its own, because the pace is measured across empty days too. Until there are enough measurements, the row says so plainly instead of disappearing. An interrupted review no longer loses the rest of the day A session ended halfway through used to leave the dashboard showing no reviews at all, when a dozen or more were still due that day. The remainder now returns to the button straight away, and the "still today" figure subtracts what has already been answered — so the same questions never stand in two places at once. Kanji in your answer counts the same 「〜たあとで」 written 後で used to be read as an answer without the target grammar — flagged, with the score cut. Your answer is now transcribed to kana, so the customary kanji spelling counts exactly as the kana one does. The same applies to とき, こと and ところ. You can see what you only recognize A point whose production question came up and was skipped now says so on its card. The schedule already treats it as known, while the only thing that checked it was picking from a list. The sentence is about our measurement, not about your memory — a skipped question can have reasons we know nothing about. Practice no longer eats into review A longer practice run could close out the day's reviews without a single review being done: it moved no due dates, yet it used up the daily allowance. Not any more. Practice as much as you like; reviews wait their turn. The screen says what isn't there yet A figure that cannot be worked out yet no longer disappears along with its row — the row stays and says when it will appear. The headings above "Today's study" and "Practice" now say where each one's material comes from: one is set by the schedule and your daily limit, the other you take whenever you like.

I already know this Know a point the app still asks about from scratch? Mark it on its card. It stops waiting to be introduced and stops blocking the next level, so you don't have to grind through all of N5 to reach N4. It does not write in mastery: a review comes back in a week to check whether you really know it. The decision can be undone. Points can be suspended A suspended point drops out of sessions and out of today's reviews, and its progress waits untouched. Useful for material you don't need right now — unsuspending puts it back exactly where it was. Holiday mode Switch it on before you travel, off when you return. Review dates stay frozen in the meantime and come back in the same order and with the same intervals, so two weeks away won't leave you facing a wall of hundreds of overdue reviews. Settings → Break. Your own note, and favorites On a point's card you can add your own explanation, association or example, and star the ones you keep coming back to. The Grammar tab has a new "favorites only" filter. Progress can be cleared by group In the study plan you can clear a whole topic group or a whole level, not just a single point or everything at once. Useful when material was clicked through without understanding and sits on a score nothing can back up. Your sentences and notes stay. Your session score counts correct answers The summary is led by how many answers were right, not by an average score. Thinking time no longer costs you points: a flawless session shows a hundred percent, including when you took a while over the first question after a new card. The clock affects your score only if you switch it on — Settings → Speed affects your score. Readings in the explanations too Furigana above kanji now appear in point descriptions, in the notes beside sentences and in the explanations of contrast pairs, not only in the sentences themselves. Your reading setting — never, always or on tap — applies everywhere alike. Descriptions and answers reviewed Answer choices have been rewritten so that closely related points can be told apart without going back to the explanation; with particles, every choice used to open with the same word. The Polish catalog also went through a full editorial pass: syntax, terminology and the way the text addresses the learner. Practice apart, the week in bars Reviews are set by the schedule and come back on their own, at their own time. Practice on your weakest points now has its own section, two lengths to choose from, and it never moves a due date. The dashboard shows the whole week as bars — you can see which day is heaviest — and the time of the next review, even when it falls several days out.

Today's material comes back today A pattern you met today used to get its next review days away — and after a few answers even a month away, by which point it was already forgotten. The first review now falls a few hours later, and the intervals start denser and reach further: 4 hours, a day, four days, a week, two, a month, three, half a year. Review tells you how much is left The button shows the number of questions next to the time, and today's reviews can be finished in a single sitting instead of tapping session after session. A pattern you are still learning gets several questions of different kinds during the day; a settled one comes back once. Mastery within reach of every pattern More than half the patterns in the catalogue have no contrast pair, so there is no way to test telling them apart — and yet mastery demanded it. Those patterns are now scored on the skills that can actually be tested for them: they can be mastered, and level bars reach a hundred. Answer choices respond right away The first tap on an answer now picks it instead of going nowhere — it used to look like the app was stuttering. While we were there, the "on tap" mode started applying to answer choices too: they used to show readings up front, in the very place where the setting matters most. Settings → Appearance. Japanese out loud On a grammar point's page, when a point is introduced and after your answer is checked, you can hear the sentence. A Japanese voice reads it from the catalogue's readings — not guessing the reading from the characters. It works offline. Answer without switching keyboards In tasks where you write your own sentence, romaji counts just like kana and kanji. You no longer need the Japanese keyboard just to be able to answer at all. You can see how much of a group is done A group header under Grammar now shows a percentage instead of a count, and the checkmark appears once the group stops holding you back. A level row on the dashboard is no longer dead — it opens the study plan at that spot. One grammar point's progress can be undone A grammar point's page has a button that clears its progress. Useful when its state drifted under the old schedule, or when you want to go through something from scratch. Your Japanese in one place The Today screen has a new section with the progress of the whole family of apps. The Katsuyokei and Joshi rows light up on their own once you install either. The data stays on your device — the apps exchange it between themselves, nothing goes to the network, and there is still no account and no sign-in. Kana readings above kanji Furigana is on from the start, but its setting is easy to miss. In Settings → Appearance you can hide it, or reveal it only when you tap a sentence. "Today" and "tomorrow" instead of a date The next review now says "today at 12:51" or "tomorrow at 9:00". When everything is overdue, the row no longer disappears — it says "now". Japanese read in Japanese VoiceOver used to pronounce Japanese sentences in the interface voice. It now reads them in Japanese, using the kana readings.