• Story problems now have 16 levels and 320 stories: missing numbers, tricky comparisons, two-step problems, multiplying, sharing and remainders. • Every story shows its characters and the things being counted, and after a wrong try your child can tap the pictures to count. • "What will you do?" asks which operation a story needs before the answer. • More room to read: the number pad appears when you tap the answer box. • A warmer, more natural voice reads stories aloud (iOS 26). • Small fixes, like "1 acorn" instead of "1 acorns".

Small improvements and fixes.

New for grown-ups: • A daily reminder, only on days nobody has practised yet, timed to when your family usually practises. It names your child's latest win, such as a fact learned by heart or a new personal record. • A weekly progress note at the end of the weekend: days of practice, new facts learned and personal records. • At the end of each session, Owly shows what's next: the rest of today's challenge, the next badge or tomorrow's streak. Turn each one on or off on the For parents page.

Plus is now described as costing about the price of a paperback, which matches what it costs in the UK.

When your child beats their own record, Owly's words now stay on screen until Owly has finished saying them, in every language. Japanese, Thai, Arabic, Swedish and German lines are shorter, and Owly hovers a moment longer. The For parents page now explains story problems: there are 200 in every language, 20 at each of the 10 levels, the numbers change every time, and a story doesn't come back until your child has seen all 20 at their level.

NEW: Try OwlyMath Plus free for 7 days. Division, word problems, extra players and Progress Details all unlock for a week, and the days left are shown at the top of the screen. Nothing is charged automatically: when the week is up, a grown-up chooses to buy Plus once or keep the free version. "Show me!" is slower and easier to follow. Counters are laid out in rows of five, like in the classroom, so a child can count what is left at a glance. Subtraction crosses out the counters it takes away instead of whisking them off screen, with a soft scratch for each one. A replay button runs the hint again as often as needed. Word problems no longer repeat: every story at a level comes up before any returns. Smaller fixes: players nobody has named yet are now called "Player 1", "Player 2" in your language, and the grown-up check accepts answers typed in any digits, including Arabic and Devanagari numerals.

Owly now speaks its praise at a natural pace. It used to sound rushed.

Beat your own record and the message saying so now stays on screen long enough to read. It used to vanish in under a second.

No change to the app itself this time. The App Store page now shows screenshots taken in more languages — Czech and Hungarian have joined the list.

- YOUR LANGUAGE IN THE STORE TOO: OwlyMath has always spoken 37 languages. Now its App Store page does as well, so you can tell what you are getting before you install. - PERSONAL BESTS, SOONER: Owly celebrates a new record on a fact after three tries instead of five. Same celebration, far more often - which was rather the point of it.

Owly now notices when your child gets better - not just when they turn up. • PERSONAL BESTS: Answer a fact faster than ever before and Owly celebrates it on the spot, with its own sound and its own colour. • WHAT GOT BETTER: Every finished session names one real thing that improved, or says nothing at all if nothing did. • COMEBACKS: A fact your child used to get wrong is remembered until the day it is fixed. Then it gets its own moment - once. • LEARNED: A new screen collecting every fact they know cold, counted, so progress is something they can go and look at. Also: OwlyMath now runs on iOS 18 and later, so it installs on a lot more iPhones and iPads - including older hand-me-downs.

Fixed a minor issue with confetti effect freezing on the first text to speech generation.