When several kana keep slipping, Settle still goes over them first, and now brings one new kana between them (two at the fast pace), so a session is never the same few kana all day. If far more are slipping, it goes over those alone, as before. The line under the button says which.

- Check and Review now ask both ways: a kana by its reading, then one by its sound, in turn. The first question is always a reading one, so a quiz never opens with a sound you didn't ask for. - Once every kana is started, Practise more goes over the ones not yet mastered, and ends with today's sheet as before. - On the 五十音 page, the chart of both scripts fits its card again, and its caption counts all 142 kana, 濁音 included. - When a screen holds more than fits above its buttons, the last line now fades into them instead of being cut in half, so it's clear the page scrolls.

A question asked by its sound now waits a moment, then plays in full, so it no longer runs into the answer to the one before. カナカナ's face on the session sheet is drawn with the same fine lines as the app icon.

Practice at your pace • Settings › Pace sets how many new kana a session brings: one, two or four. Normal, two, is the default. • Between the new kana, kana from your earlier sessions come back, so they get practice before their review is due. These answers count toward your level, but not toward 覚えた, the mark of a kana you know: only a review earns that. • When several kana keep slipping, practice brings nothing new for a while and goes over those instead. Today shows the one to settle first and how many there are. Listening and writing from sound • Some questions now play a kana and ask which one it was, out of four. • Others give you only its sound and ask you to write it. Show me lets you trace it instead, and counts as a miss. Smaller things • カナカナ says its line at the end of a session without waiting for a tap. • After answering a question, tap the kana to hear it again. • 自由帳 shows what you have written as tiles, and plays it back kana by kana; tap a tile to hear that one.

濁音 • After the 46 kana of each script come their 25 voiced kana: が, ざ, だ, ば and ぱ. They are part of 五十音, so if you own it, they are already yours. • Learn shows each one as its base and its mark, か + ゛ = が, and when you trace or follow the dots, が starts from a ready か, so you only write the two marks. The chart shows the 濁音 below 五十音. Levels • Every answer and every sheet you write now counts toward one level, shared by hiragana and katakana. A new kana counts most on its first day, and review always counts. Your level sits at the top of Today and in 記録, and you open this version already on the level your practice has earned. Practice • A session now runs in one place, from the first kana to the last question, with a progress bar along the top. Writing and choosing take turns, and the kana before comes back once you have written the new one. • Each practice and each review ends on 今日の一枚: the kana you went over, a 正 seal on the ones you read right every time, and your level filling up. カナカナ is there too, and says a word about how it went, in Fumi's voice. Writing • On Learn, each kana is now drawn the way you write it by hand. Printed type joins the last strokes of き and さ; the sheet now keeps them apart, as you will write them. iPhone Duo, opened • With the fold running across the screen, Today sits above it and the 五十音 chart below; when you write, the sheet sits below the fold, on the half that rests in your hand. • Learn, Write and the board open on the whole display, and a practice session keeps the screen to itself until it ends.

A record of your writing - Each finished sheet is counted. Under the practice sheet you can see how many times you have written the kana, and how many of those were from memory. - The 五十音 chart shows each kana's count, and its new 記録 button opens your record: sheets written, kana written, days practised, and a calendar of the days you practised. - 記録 also names a few kana worth another go, with the stroke that keeps slipping. Tap one to write it again. A gentle reminder, if you want one - After your first session, Kanakana offers one reminder a day at a time you choose. It only comes on days you have not practised, eases off while you are away, and stops after a while. - Turn it on or off, and change the time, in Settings › Reminder. Smaller things - The hiragana and katakana switch is smaller and sits beside the next character. - Every writing level now says the kana when the last stroke is accepted, not only writing from memory.