Changelog

October 10, 2026

New
  • Latin: the library grows from 13 to 98 books, each rated from Beginner to Advanced
  • Latin word lookups give the dictionary entry, the form of the selected word and its classical pronunciation
  • Latin grammar breakdown: clauses, a literal translation and the role of each word
  • Audio for Latin words and sentences
  • More accurate levels for medieval and Christian Latin texts
  • New app icon

October 9, 2026

Enhancement
  • Redesigned home page: your current book, weekly goal, languages, shelf, picks and leaderboards
  • New header, and a tab bar at the bottom of the screen on phones

September 30, 2026

New
  • New difficulty rating for every book: a score, a level, and the matching CEFR or JLPT level
  • The difficulty panel shows the words needed to read 95% of a book, its sentence length, how it compares with the other books in that language, and a vocabulary coverage chart
  • Books you upload get the same rating
  • Difficulty ratings for Korean and 15 more languages, including Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Swedish and Greek
  • Character names no longer count as words to learn in Japanese books

September 27, 2026

New
  • Sentence flashcards: save a sentence and its translation from the sentence popup, in both the EPUB and the PDF reader
  • Signed-out readers who look up a sentence are offered an account instead of an error
  • The forum is closed
  • Fixed the reader’s dark mode and grammar breakdowns loading twice

September 23, 2026

New
  • Books are stored on your device: upload an EPUB from the landing page and start reading without an account
  • Free and Reader plans, with monthly, yearly and lifetime options
  • Install prompt on iOS
  • Books still under copyright were removed from the public library

March 10, 2026

Enhancement
  • Bug report button

February 27, 2026

New
  • Statistics page

February 20, 2026

New
  • New flashcard types: cloze, listening and reading cards, with a picker to choose which to review
  • Type Japanese answers in romaji
  • Chinese books show pinyin
  • Public books are shown in the library when you have none yet

February 18, 2026

Enhancement
  • Flashcards now include example sentences
  • Flashcards are now created with verb dictionary form
  • Conjugation chains now shown in flashcards for all languages
  • Furigana displayed in Japanese sentence translations and flashcards
  • Japanese verb breakdown in grammar analysis
  • Improved Japanese pronunciation display (hiragana readings instead of IPA)

February 13, 2026

Enhancement
  • Added furigana support for Japanese text in the reader
  • Improved grammar breakdowns for Japanese and French
  • Faster grammar breakdown loading

February 4, 2026

Enhancement
  • Improved onboarding flow
  • Books now sorted by difficulty in the public library

February 3, 2026

Enhancement
  • Reduced loading time of home page
  • Added 3706 books in German to library

February 1, 2026

Enhancement
  • Improved language detection for user-uploaded books