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October 2026

  1. Anyone can now download the Android app

    New

    The download page has the app and five steps to install it. Links to it are on Home, in the menu and at the bottom of every page.

  2. Speaking names the right refill time

    Fixed

    When today's share of speaking units runs out, the card says they refill tomorrow at 07:00 WIB. When the month's units run out, it names the 1st.

  3. Counts and plan names that read right

    Fixed

    Counts take the right form, so a single card reads 1 card, and a locked lesson names the plan that opens it. Plus members see a Plus badge. The Free collection cap and other limits show today's setting, and the Terms and Privacy Policy list Xendit among payment providers.

  4. Cards without outlines on Learn and Settings

    Improved

    On Learn, Settings, the Dictionary, Help and your account pages, a card now sits on the page as a lighter sheet with no outline. Home and the practice screens stay as they were for now. Turn on High contrast in Appearance settings to bring the outlines back.

  5. Error messages in your language

    Fixed

    The app now asks for Indonesian when you use Indonesian, so match refusals and server messages arrive in it. A slow server, a lost connection and an ended session each say what happened. Versus names why you can't join, like the Ranked gate or a level your plan doesn't include.

  6. Romaji passages and your own study numbers

    NewFixed

    Reading passages can show romaji in place of the Japanese script. On Plus, Advanced scheduling takes your own new cards a day, learning steps, retention and difficult-card limit. A tour replayed from Settings runs next time you open its page, and Audio recall stays on.

  7. Working invite links and cancellable requests

    FixedImproved

    In an Invite only class, Copy join link now makes a link that works for 14 days. A request to join that's still waiting shows on the Juku page with a Cancel button. A task the Sensei marks done keeps its real progress and gets a Marked done tag.

  8. Block or report someone from their name

    New

    The menu beside a name on a profile, a friend row or a match result now has Block and Report. A moderator answers a report in your feedback history. In a Juku you can report the class, an announcement or a member, and the class isn't told who did.

  9. More bot matches every day

    ImprovedFixed

    You get 10 bot matches a day on Free, 15 on Plus, 25 on Premium and 5 without an account. Forfeiting counts as a loss, whatever the score. Matches only include questions the app can show.

  10. Clearer words across the app and Help

    Improved

    Buttons, notifications, emails and every Help article are rewritten and checked against how the app works today. Plans are called Free, Plus, Premium and Ultimate on every screen. When something fails, the message says what happened and what to do next, in your language.

  11. Karasu's friends, redrawn

    Improved

    Kitsune, Tanuki, Neko, Kappa, Tsuru and Tengu are redrawn in Karasu's style, in flat color with no outlines, and they wear all sixteen of his faces. Kitsune turns golden, Tengu gets a cream robe and open wings, and Kappa wears the okappa bob, the haircut named after him.

  12. Sixteen new faces for Karasu

    Improved

    Karasu is drawn again from scratch, round glasses and all. He screams when you miss a card, gets heart eyes the first time you finish something new, and sulks with his wings folded when you drop a tier.

September 2026

  1. Week one of kanji, taught the Sensei's way

    New

    Kanji N5 starts with days 1 to 3 of the Sensei's first week, in handout order. Each day has a kanji card, a worksheet where you read every word before the key shows, and a bonus page of words whose kanji come later. Each reading you find fills its slot on the card.

  2. Say it aloud scores every word

    Fixed

    The Say it aloud step scores everything a lesson asks you to say, including phrases like あの ひと and mixed spellings like 木よう日. A word you practiced in a lesson also comes back under Review due in Speaking practice.

  3. New cards keep to your study pace

    Fixed

    Gentle brings in 5 new cards a day, Standard 20 and Intense 50, on the web and in the Android app. The count on the review screen and on the home screen widget reads from the same setting.

  4. Open your daily pack on Android

    New

    Tanuki brought the daily pack to the app. Each card gives you two tries at its meaning, and a rare find gets its own stamp. If the connection drops mid-answer, tap again and the answer you gave still counts, without using up a try.

  5. Grammar has a home in the app

    New

    Under Learn you can see how your grammar deck is doing and add points level by level, with the pattern, how it feels and a few examples one tap away. Reviews ask you to fill the blank first, by picking or by typing, and only then turn the card over.

  6. Look up Japanese from any app

    New

    Select some Japanese in a browser or a chat and choose TanoshiGo from the menu, or share a paragraph to it. The text opens as a sentence you can tap word by word, and a word you want to keep goes into your collection from the same sheet.

  7. A proper place for your placement matches

    New

    Tap the placement bar on the Play hub to see your seven placement matches as a row of stamps. Your tier stays hidden until the seventh match, then gets a full screen of its own.

  8. Reminders tell you which card is waiting

    Improved

    Expand a study reminder and it shows the word that has waited longest, with its reading. Tapping it starts a review with that card first. The large home screen widget shows the same word, and how many new cards today still holds.

  9. A badge for reviews still waiting to send

    New

    Reviews you do without a signal wait on your phone until there's a connection. A small badge sits above the tab bar while anything is waiting or sending. If a change can't go through, tap the badge to see it with its time and throw it away.

  10. Plans, roadmap and fine print in the app

    New

    The about page, the roadmap, what each plan includes, and the privacy policy, terms and refund policy all open in the Android app, offline too. The legal pages have a contents list and remember where you stopped reading.

  11. Ride the same line with the lights out

    New

    Every Gokaido Conquest station and every Words drill has a night service, where kanji show with no reading whatever your furigana setting. The reading waits in the summary after the ride. A station taken at night is stamped on the day map too, with milestone rewards of its own.

  12. Download the Android app from its own page

    New

    The Android app isn't in a store yet, so download it from the Download page. It always carries the build we're testing, with its size and checksum, and the installed version shows in the app's Settings.

  13. Six new companions to pick from

    New

    Kitsune, Tanuki, Tengu, Kappa, Neko and Tsuru join Karasu, and you can pick any of them in Settings. Each one reacts in its own way to the same moment.

  14. Friend requests reach your notifications

    NewFixed

    Incoming friend requests, and yours being accepted, show up in your notifications. You can turn both off in Settings under Notifications, along with replies to the Feedback you send.

  15. Withdraw a friend request

    New

    A friend request sent to the wrong person can be pulled back with Withdraw. It disappears from their list, and you can send a new one any time.

  16. Point your camera at Japanese and read it

    New

    Open the camera from the Library menu, freeze a page, then tap any line to see its words and meanings. The text is read on your phone, only the words you look up are sent, and no picture is kept. Vertical text works too.

  17. Your cards, on the home screen

    New

    Add the TanoshiGo widget to your home screen to see cards due, your streak and today's goal without opening the app. Tap it to go straight into a review. There's a quick settings tile too.

  18. One reminder, only when cards are waiting

    New

    Turn notifications on for one reminder at 19.00 your time, only on days with cards waiting that you haven't studied yet. Class notices and study reminders have separate channels in your phone's settings.

August 2026

  1. Watch the words go in

    Improved

    Words you've just earned fly one by one into a counter as you add them to your collection. If fewer go in, because of the Free cap or words you already have, the counter stops at the real number.

  2. す has two strokes

    Fixed

    Writing practice counts す and ね as two strokes and の as one, the way they're taught. The numbered preview and the tracing match.

  3. Romaji sits under its word

    ImprovedFixed

    Romaji lines up under each word wherever the app shows a reading, with three levels to choose from in Settings. Kana drills, Speaking practice and Translate leave it out, because working out the sound is the exercise there.

  4. Your study pace covers grammar too

    Fixed

    Gentle, Standard or Intense applies to every card you own, including grammar and words added from a lesson or Discover.

  5. Bigger text, without a smaller layout

    New

    Four sizes in Settings, and the row shows you real Japanese with furigana at the size you are picking, so you can judge it before you commit. Everything grows together, spacing included, and a phone still gets the phone layout.

  6. Somewhere to send people

    New

    You have a profile at your username, with your level, streak, words and rank. You choose who can open it, and Settings shows what others would see before you decide.

  7. Change your name, photo, email and country

    NewFixed

    Your display name, photo, email and country can be changed straight from Settings. The photo comes from an account you've linked. A new email takes over once you open the link we send to it.

  8. Every purchase, in one list

    New

    Your purchase history lives in Settings under Plan. Each line names what you bought, the day it went through and the amount, and the list can't be edited.

  9. Replay a tour, and download all your data

    NewImproved

    Guided tours can be run again one at a time from Settings under Your data, and the first-run introduction can start over too. Beside them, the data download carries your whole account.

  10. Set how much the app moves

    New

    The Motion setting has three choices. Follow your device, keep the app calm even when the device doesn't ask, or keep it animated even when the device asks for quiet.

  11. Turn off confetti and level-up cards

    New

    Celebrations have their own switch, separate from motion. Turn it off and you still level up, without a card covering your screen.

  12. Keep the mascot, turn down the bouncing

    New

    Three separate settings decide whether your mascot companion appears, how lively it is, and whether it makes jokes.

  13. Choose what you hear about

    NewFixed

    The Notifications page has a switch for each kind of notice, Juku included. Account, security and payment notices can't be turned off, and the page says so.

  14. Choose who can find you

    New

    Choose who may send you friend requests, whether people can find you by username, and whether you appear on the leaderboards. Leave the leaderboards and you aren't ranked at all.

  15. Settings in eight pages, with search

    ImprovedNew

    Settings has a page each for Account, Study, Appearance, Sound, Notifications, Privacy, Plan and Your data. The search box at the top finds any setting by name.

  16. Your preferences follow you to a new device

    Improved

    Sound, volume, contrast, furigana, reading mode and how you answer grammar questions follow your account. Sign in on a new phone and it's set the way you left it. If the two differ, the device you're on wins.

  17. Slow the Japanese down

    New

    Set the speech speed in Settings, from half pace to one and a half times, for all Japanese audio. Press Hear it to try a full sentence before you choose.

  18. Turn off audio that starts by itself

    New

    Listening questions don't have to play the moment they appear. Turn off autoplay in Settings and use the play button instead, on a train for example.

  19. The theme you pick in Settings applies

    Fixed

    The light or dark choice in Settings and the theme button in the top bar share one setting, and your theme follows you to other devices.

  20. Control meaning count and word order

    Fixed

    Simplify meanings caps how many meanings Discover shows per word, and turning it off shows them all. Common words first puts everyday words above rare ones in dictionary search.

  21. Pick how much is enough for one day

    New

    Study pace has three choices, Gentle, Standard and Intense, and each says how many new words a day it means. All three are free.

  22. Every option names its word

    ImprovedFixed

    Each answer option in a vocabulary question shows the word's other meanings underneath, so it's clear which word it stands for. Every option, wrong ones included, gets the same limit, so the longest answer gives nothing away.

  23. Turn the explaining down

    New

    Copy density in Settings has three levels. Standard shows every explanation, Lean hides the ones you no longer need, and Guided adds walkthroughs that run on their own. Sentences that say what a button will do stay at every level.

  24. The reading comes with the word

    ImprovedFixed

    A word shown on its own, in quiz options, flashcards, the daily pack, Conquest or Versus, carries its reading above it, because 生 alone has seven. Your furigana setting still decides whether readings show, appear on hover, or stay hidden.

  25. Kanji tracing works again

    Fixed

    Writing practice loads kanji strokes from the app itself, so tracing works on a slow connection or a school network that blocks outside sites.

  26. Passages without a play button

    Improved

    Reading practice has no play button beside each paragraph, because the exercise asks you to type how the passage reads.

  27. Back goes back

    Fixed

    The passage open in Reading or Translate is in the page address. Back returns you to the passage list, and a passage stays open after a reload or when you share its link.

  28. The plans page shows the plans again

    ImprovedFixed

    The Plans page lists the four plans, the JLPT levels each opens, the caps it lifts and a comparison table, even while buying is closed. It also says which plan you're on.

  29. Beta pricing, and a price that stays yours

    New

    During the beta every plan is about half the normal price, because the N4 lessons aren't finished. Buy the same plan or a lower one within 30 days of a pass ending and you keep the beta price. A lifetime pass is limited to 100 people.

  30. The Free plan, in numbers

    Improved

    The Free plan covers all of N5 with 60 reviews a day and up to 300 collected words, and the numbers show before you reach them. The collection cap is counted once across every way you add words. Kana is free for everyone.

  31. Four plans, starting with Plus for N5

    NewImproved

    There are four plans, Free, Plus, Premium and Ultimate. Plus opens all of N5 with no caps, Speaking practice and review stats included, Premium adds N4, and Ultimate opens up to N1.

  32. A monthly speaking allowance you can see

    Improved

    Pronunciation scoring runs on a monthly allowance, and the Speaking page shows what's left, out of how much, and when it refills.

  33. Lessons in one voice

    Improved

    The writing along the learning path was redone in one voice from start to finish. Instructions shared by many lessons are written once, and the raw markdown asterisks in vocabulary lists are gone.

  34. Fast review sessions no longer stop you

    FixedImproved

    Grading flashcards fast no longer gets you refused mid-session. When you do have to wait, the message says what ran out and for how long, and tells a daily allowance apart from a short pause.

  35. Tap your way around the Conquest map

    FixedImproved

    Tap a station to open its ride, on a phone or a big screen. Scroll to zoom the map, and stations light up as the cursor passes over them.

  36. Gokaido Conquest runs on real Japanese railways

    NewImproved

    Each JLPT level is a real rail network you take station by station, from the Yamanote ring at N5 to the Shinkansen at N1. Station names and line colors are real, and your accuracy sets the service class, Local, Rapid or Limited Express.

  37. See what we are building next

    New

    The Roadmap page shows what's being built, what's queued and everything already shipped. There are no dates, only an order, and a button to suggest what's missing.

  38. Tell your answer from the right one

    FixedImproved

    When you miss, your pick is filled in and the right answer is outlined, in quizzes, lessons, kana, word practice and Versus. The difference reads in grayscale too.

  39. The kana drill names its typeface

    New

    The kana drill uses five typefaces so you learn the kana in any style. A small label under the character names it, rounded, textbook, heavy, mincho or gothic, and the prompt and options share one style.

  40. The writing canvas fits your screen

    Fixed

    The writing canvas sizes itself to your screen and keeps your strokes when you rotate the phone. The ink follows your theme.

  41. A spent speaking allowance explains itself

    Fixed

    When your speaking allowance runs out, Speaking practice says when it refills and what a larger plan offers. Your remaining allowance also shows before you record.

  42. The quiz shows the right answer

    Fixed

    When you miss, the quiz shows the right answer, and the review at the end puts your pick beside the correct one.

  43. The Play hub puts your next match first

    Improved

    Your next match is the biggest thing on the Play hub, your rating and win streak show as results, and each shortcut opens what it names. Finished matches open your history.

  44. The guide points at the button it means

    Improved

    Every how-to step in the Help Center and the printed handbooks circles the control it means, with a number. On a phone the pictures show the phone layout, including the five navigation buttons at the bottom.

  45. A dictionary and collection built for reading

    Improved

    Search results, word pages, the kanji reference and your collection are laid out around the Japanese. Every Japanese character is tagged as Japanese so a device won't swap in a Chinese letterform, and the speaker buttons work on a phone too.

  46. A card's state looks the same everywhere

    FixedImproved

    Cards in learning, paused or often missed use the same color and mark in reviews, statistics and your collection. Each state has its own mark, so you can tell them apart without relying on color.

  47. Locked words don't look like errors

    Fixed

    A word outside your plan names the plan that opens it, one outside your chosen level range is a gentle caution, and a word that doesn't exist is plain information. Only a real failure looks like an error.

  48. Every lesson section names itself

    Improved

    Each lesson section opens with a curtain showing its Japanese name, its icon and where it sits in the lesson. A cloth curtain means the section counts toward finishing the step, and a paper one means optional practice that never blocks you.

  49. The learning path shows you where you are

    Improved

    The unit you're in stands raised on the learning path. Finished units and passed exams get a stamp, and locked units say what opens them. On a wide screen the track name runs down the edge in vertical Japanese.

  50. Drills tell you plainly when you were wrong

    Fixed

    True or false cards, comic fill-ins and revealed answers in lessons use clear marks. A right answer gets a check, a wrong one gets a cross, and a revealed answer gets neither. Screen readers announce every result.

  51. Everything is one tap away on your phone

    NewImproved

    On a phone, the bottom bar holds Home, Learn, Review and Play, with everything else under More. It steps aside inside a lesson or a match. On a computer, the top bar shows which section you're in.

  52. Words that say what they mean

    FixedImproved

    Some Indonesian wording was fixed. Due reviews are no longer called postponed, flashcards use the word review, and the password strength labels match their levels.

  53. Easier to tap, easier to follow

    ImprovedFixed

    Every button has a finger-sized touch target, and keyboard focus shows everywhere, menus included. If your device asks for reduced motion the app follows it, and loading spinners still spin.

  54. Furigana shown, on hover, or hidden

    New

    Settings has a furigana setting with three choices: shown, on hover, or hidden. The sample changes as you choose.

  55. Japanese set in a Japanese typeface

    Improved

    Kanji and kana use a Japanese typeface, so a device won't swap in Chinese letterforms. Punctuation and line breaks follow Japanese conventions, and flashcards, writing practice and kana drills use a textbook face.

July 2026

  1. The companions have a sense of humor

    Improved

    Karasu, Kitsune and Tanuki sometimes react with a meme, like a chef's kiss for a perfect answer. Each language has its own jokes, and memes can be turned off in Settings.

  2. A celebration when you level up

    Improved

    Leveling up plays a three-beat celebration. Your companion winds up as the XP lands, jumps for joy at the peak, then holds a proud pose while confetti falls.

  3. The cast guides the whole app

    Improved

    Kitsune narrates the learning articles and pronunciation practice, Tengu runs the Play tour, Tanuki shows off rewards, Neko looks after the plans pages, and Tsuru welcomes you in. Every Help article and tour step has its own narrator.

  4. All seven companions have arrived

    New

    Kitsune the nine-tailed teacher, Tanuki the lucky charm, Tengu the proud rival, Kappa the gentle perfectionist, Neko the fortune cat and Tsuru the calm crane join Karasu. Pick your favorite in Settings.

  5. Meet Karasu, your new study companion

    New

    Karasu, a three-legged scholar crow in round glasses, keeps you company in TanoshiGo. He blinks, breathes and celebrates your right answers a little too hard. Pick your companion in Settings.

  6. A guide that gives the numbers

    Improved

    Help articles give the real numbers and rules, such as what a missed day costs and what a Sensei can see. Search reads whole articles, and each one links to the screen it describes.

  7. A guide for every feature

    Improved

    Every feature has a walkthrough, from grammar to tournaments, plus a glossary of Japanese-learning terms.

  8. Guided tours show you around

    New

    Short tours point out the essentials on Home, Flashcards, Learn and Play, and remember where you stopped across your devices.

  9. Step-by-step usage manuals

    New

    PDF handbooks for students and Sensei, with a screenshot at every step. Download them in Indonesian or English from the Help Center.

  10. The guide is here

    New

    A Help Center, search and printable handbooks for students and Sensei. Look for the question mark on any screen.

  11. Learn together in a Juku

    New

    A Sensei can open a class, set tasks with measurable targets and cheer students on, and students join with a code. The app checks the tasks against your own progress.

  12. Speaking practice

    New

    From the Plus plan up you can practice pronunciation with scoring and see which sounds need work.

  13. Daily rewards and drawing

    Improved

    Daily claim uses packs of words with two tries per card, and writing practice is graded on the strokes you miss.

  14. Flashcards, rebuilt

    Improved

    Words and kana are reviewed together, with Undo, cram sessions, a reverse deck and fuller stats.

  15. Sharper practice tools

    Improved

    Quiz, Discover, Reading and Translate have more content and clearer limits per plan.