New learners get their first words on day two, alternating with kana. Each session ends by showing what you learned and when you will review it. After a session you can choose a time for your daily reminder. When you trace a character, arrows now show the direction of every stroke. News notifications stay off until you turn them on. Clearer translations, and better support for large text and screen readers.

New words in a lesson now come from one scene, named right under the word, so they hold together as you learn them. Notebook opens with Saved to learn: every word you save yourself, from any level, on top. Listen tells you when pronunciation audio is off and offers to turn it on. A lesson after a break stays a lesson: never more than forty steps. Finishing a session fills your day, and practice counts toward it. Reminders and sync recover on their own on a slow connection.

Notebook now holds only what you've already seen in lessons, plus the words you saved, as compact chips with the newest first. Progress focuses on how you're doing. Text follows your phone's text size up to 200%, and study tips fit small screens. In Discover stories, tapping a conjugated word like います no longer plays a different form on its own: the dictionary form now sits next to the play button. The answer that Show me reveals is easy to read, and the tanuki on Today is bigger.

Every kanji reading now has audio: tap one on a kanji card to hear it. Discover has thirteen new graded stories, N4 to N1, in all ten languages. The month calendar in Progress now shows every date and what each mark means. Japanese words inside explanations stand out the same way everywhere, and never break mid-word. Answer cards and keyboard keys have clearer outlines, every replay button looks the same, and there are small fixes in Notebook, Settings and Tanuki Pro.

The Discover tab now opens on a story picked for you: the one you stopped halfway, the next one you can already follow, or one you finished a while back for a second read. Finished stories get a small 済 seal on the cover, and your reading history is saved on your device. Reaching a new level now comes with a short celebration, and if the next level is part of Tanuki Pro, the level card says so before you tap.

Some of the most basic words in Japanese were missing from the decks: ある, いる, です, 日本 and fifteen more. They are in now, each with audio, a memory hook and a translation in every language. The reader got a furigana correction pass too, so 私 reads わたし and 何 reads なに where the sentence calls for it. And three word recordings that could come back silent now play, including for anyone who had already downloaded them.

The kana module now teaches を the way Japanese actually says it, and typing a long kanji reading can no longer fail you early. Review counts now invite you to one day of practice instead of showing the whole backlog. Add a faster start on slow networks and plenty of translation polish across every language.

New: a pitch accent drill in Practice. Read the contour, pick the shape, then hear the word. Translations polished across all ten languages, and a data credits page added under Help. Fairer grading for one-kana words, a faster first launch, and small fixes throughout.