Track today’s daily goal in the new Goal tab, with a live progress ring. Enjoy refreshed animations when you answer correctly.

• New Practice exercises: listen to a short cue and speak your chosen reply. • Adaptive difficulty from A1 to C2, with the option to practise at an easier level. • Review your transcription and replay your recording after each attempt. • Reveal translations when needed, without affecting your level. • Track your daily listening and speaking goals and share your progress. • Simpler navigation, with longer dialogues now in the Practice menu. • Improved audio loading and speech matching.

• Send up to four photos from Camera, Photos or Files with a voice message to Bantera AI. • Record more easily: tap to start and tap again to send, or hold and release, using one button. • Find relevant language partners: see people learning the same language or native speakers of the language you are learning. Optionally hide people with your native language; existing chats stay available. • Long-press your messages or AI replies to delete them from your AI chat history. • Ask Bantera AI to send emojis, including flags. • Reduced speaker echo during AI call startup and after pauses. • Fixed practice audio playing through the earpiece after a video call. • Improved voice-message privacy: server copies are deleted after the recipient’s app verifies and saves the message.

Fixed some issues that users reported

• Add a Home Screen widget to see today’s spoken and listened words and open Bantera AI with one tap. • Ask AI to find and share images from across the web, with source links you can explore. • Enjoy more natural AI conversations that remember previous chats and recognise when you return. • Follow voice messages with audio waveforms and read clearly formatted AI replies. • Improved voice reply reliability, chat history preservation and speaker/earpiece switching. • Answer scheduled AI callbacks through the iPhone’s call interface without automatically opening the chat.

• Practise through voice messages or real-time audio calls, with coaching tailored to your learning language, accent and level. • Ask for reminders by voice message or request a scheduled callback. • Ask AI to search the web and explore source links in chat. • Track practice history, see lesson progress and continue where you left off.

• Set separate daily goals for listening and speaking. • Track your practice progress for today, this week and all time. • Choose reminders to help you complete your daily goals. • Save and share your achievements with friends or your language group.

Added Daily Goal

Fixed some bugs

Fixed voice message notifications

Bantera now speaks your language! • 15 new app languages: Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, German, French, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Turkish, Thai, Italian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. • Learn more languages: choose from 30+ languages and regional accents, including Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi and Cantonese. • Word-by-word highlighting now follows every character in Chinese and Japanese. • More accurate word timing in AI dialogues, so playback lines up better with the words. • Smaller AI audio files that load faster. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Improved the accuracy of chatting transcription

- More accurate pronunciation practice: your recordings are transcribed on your iPhone to better match what you actually said, and words we're unsure about are now highlighted. - Fixed quoted words being marked as different by mistake during practice. - Chat: re-transcribe any message with one tap, and see each message's length and time. - Stability and performance improvements.

Fixed a rare issue where you could be unexpectedly signed out and forced to log in again, even within the normal session period. App now launches more reliably after a long period of inactivity.

Fixed an issue that could cause the app to stay on the logo screen and sign you out after being unopened for a while.

- Improved sign-in and session handling for a smoother app experience. - Clearer feedback while recording and sending voice messages in chat. - Updated “Play All” wording to “Shadowing” for a clearer practice experience. - Improved audio generation support and overall reliability. Share your practice audio You can now share any audio directly from the practice screen. Tap the share icon next to the transcript button to send a web link — recipients can listen and shadow the audio in their browser without needing the app.

Improved onboarding with a smoother profile setup flow. Added profile photo creation with avatar options for a more personalized start. Enhanced chat experience with smarter auto-scroll and cleaner conversation behavior. Added better support for direct messages and message management. Improved update prompts so version information is clearer and easier to understand. Refined audio recording interactions in chat for clearer visual feedback while recording. General performance improvements and bug fixes for a more stable experience.

Chats — connect with other learners through voice messages Send and receive voice messages with language learners from around the world. Join your language's group chat or start a private conversation directly with someone you meet on Bantera. See who's currently online, get notified when new messages arrive, and mute any conversation you'd like to silence. You can also block or unblock users to keep your experience comfortable.

Improved translation speed and reliability during practice, with smoother handling in the background and foreground. Polished translation behavior to make responses feel more consistent and responsive.

Smoother playback interaction: Tapping words during practice is now more responsive and easier to use. More reliable translation errors: Translation failures now show clearer messages and recovery is smoother when language assets are missing or downloads are canceled. Translation now saves cue by cue in the background, so finished translations are kept even if you leave before everything completes. Short-cue and long-cue translations are saved separately, so switching modes no longer clears your translated subtitles. Highlighted words in practice now have smoother rounded backgrounds. Lesson creation dates are now shown on Lesson Details, Discover, and Your Media lists.

Added a Contact us option in Settings, so you can email Bantera support directly Fixed some bugs

• Latest News fix: Stories now come from your home country, not just the country of the language you're learning. • Smarter Latest News titles: The title of each Latest News audio now tells you what the news was actually about — so you can find it again later. • Polished word highlights: The word highlight during playback now has softly rounded corners for a cleaner look.

Added ability to seek playback to a specific tapped word

Added short/long sentence mode in Practice Player. Better subtitle word highlighting for clearer follow-along reading. Added language filtering for users' media in Create Hub.

Improved playback behavior for newer AI-generated audio, with more accurate cue stopping in practice mode. General fixes and polish for AI audio and practice flows.