Learning now starts with words, and the situations come last. The first level used to be nothing but scenes: you picked one of four Japanese sentences built from forms the app had not shown you yet. It now starts with です/ます and the twenty irregular forms, and all twenty-seven situations sit together at the end of the ladder — where choosing a register is a matter of judgment rather than guesswork. Every level says what you will be able to do, and opens with an introduction. The levels used to be named after what was in them. They are now named after what you take away from them, and each one opens with a few paragraphs about what it teaches and why it sits where it does. The free version now covers the first two levels of the new order. Without a purchase you get です/ます, the twenty irregular forms and the productive patterns — the whole of levels one and two. The situations moved to the last level and are part of the paid material. If you had already studied them, your progress is kept and comes back in full after a purchase. The situation card shows what each register looks like in Japanese. Next to the name of a register there is now a pair from the catalog — 行く → 伺う, 行く → 行きます — so before the question you can see not only how the registers differ but what they look like. The example never comes from the answer you are about to pick. A new question: which form is the higher one, and which the lower. You get the plain form and choose the right one among those easiest to confuse with it — いらっしゃる, 伺う, まいる for the same 行く. The instruction says which side is being asked about.

An interrupted session no longer costs an item the rest of its daily allowance. A single correct answer moved the item's due date into the future and took everything it still had coming today out of the queue. Leaving a session four questions from the end left the Today screen showing one. When the untouched material runs out, the Today screen says so the same day. On the day you took the last items, the screen promised more for tomorrow and only admitted there was nothing left the next morning. Revealing readings now follows the system Reduce Motion setting. The readings appeared with an animation that ignored the setting, so turning motion down in the system changed everything except this one place.

The check screen says why your answer was not the one. Every choice in the catalog carries a sentence about itself, in Polish and English. Until now you could only reach them from the expression card; now the one you picked explains itself right where you picked it. New material comes in order, from the earliest. Some forms assume you already know earlier ones — お〜になる rests on the 内/外 axis from level one. The order you meet them in is no longer decided by chance. Reviews are untouched: they come back when they are due. The counts follow the clock, not the last time you opened the app. Coming back from a notification left the review count showing yesterday, and statistics kept yesterday's buckets after the study day rolled over. Reminders speak for the same queue as the button. A reminder could call you back to expressions you had suspended or marked as known — the button had already stopped counting them. Three new situations, and these ones are formal. Level one only ever asked “how much keigo is right here” in relaxed situations, so the answer tended to be the shortest one by default. A customer at the counter, a boss in the morning and a lecturer in the corridor now join them — there too little is as wrong as too much. Links to the sister app land on the word, not on its home screen. When a note says that Kaname explains the grammar behind a form, tapping it now opens that entry. The reference was in the catalog from the first day and the link opened the app and stopped there. Tiles grow with the text size you chose. The space for the answer scaled with accessibility type sizes from the start; the writing inside it did not.

The icon shows how much study is waiting today. Keigo used to ask for badge permission and never put a number there. The badge now carries the whole plan for the day: reviews together with new material. The icon badge has a switch of its own. If you would rather your phone stayed quiet but still want the dot, you can have it. The switch sits in Settings next to reminders and works independently of them. The cards on the session screens are no longer white on white. In the light theme a hairline was the only thing holding a card, because the session screens stood on the plain background instead of the grouped one. You saw it after every answer. Readings come back wherever the material has them. Furigana over the parts of a trap and over the model answer was in the catalog and never reached the screen. Answer choices fit on the screen and are read in the right voice. A choice reserved room for readings even when there were none, so the fourth one slipped below the edge. The screen reader also read interface text in a Japanese voice.

Situations tell you what is being weighed. Before the question you see which registers are in play and what each of them does to the people involved. New material comes from your level. The ladder of stages now decides what you are shown, so nothing arrives from four levels ahead. Reminders keep watch over your reviews. The queue is rebuilt every time you open the app, so a longer break no longer leaves it empty. From a check straight to the item's card. The answer screen leads to the full card, and a note about a sister app is something you can tap. A short introduction on first launch. The guide now opens itself the first time, instead of waiting to be found in Settings. The week chart counts what you would count. Situations and traps share a schedule, and the chart now shows how many of them a day will actually bring.

New scenes in the first and last level. Six more situations to practice, and the level test built on Keigo now draws six sheets instead of four. The same question no longer comes back the same day. A slip still brings the item back, but with a different screen: the same picture never shows twice in one day. Large type sizes work on the whole screen. The question screen scrolls, and the type size control in Settings finally does what it promises. The progress bar says which question you are on. And it reaches the end exactly when the session does. Your Japanese now covers all ten apps. Onomatope, Kifuku and Shindan joined the family section, and your own row is back in its place in the list.