Changelog

New

• An Apple Watch app: flip through your words, swipe one to see its sticker, and carry on past the last word back to the first.
• A Smart Stack widget on Apple Watch with the word of the hour and its sticker.
• A Wear OS app with word cards, stickers and a Tile for the word of the hour.
• Games bring back words you missed, up to three in every ten, and rotate through the rest of your wordbook.

Improved

• Home screen widgets take their colour from each word's photo, so the sticker stands out.
• Timed games run smoothly: Pop Quiz balloons pop the moment your finger lands, and the Warp Run timer and Sky Rescue chopper glide.
• Games give a light tap when you press an answer, tick while your score counts up and play a fanfare for a new best.
• Sky Rescue ends at ten correct answers and Intercept asks about its own passage, so a big wordbook no longer means an endless round.
• The games card says your words are still translating instead of looking locked.
• Games and screens make better use of tablets.
• The app stays responsive while it saves a snap, opens a backup or starts up.

Fixed

• iPhone: reminders no longer go missing after you leave the app.
• Game sounds and haptics follow your Settings.
• Wordbook cards without a picture show the word's first letter, not the article's.
• Widgets show the part of speech in the app's language.
• Android: the navigation bar is transparent on every Android version.
• In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, the analytics choice now appears on its own during setup.

New

• Reminders arrive inside a window you choose, up to six words a day, some as a quick quiz, and the word is spoken when you tap one.
• Links to vocabloot.com/app open straight in the app.
• A third sticker style prints the meaning under the word.

Improved

• Snaps are recognised with their surroundings in view, so the word fits the scene.
• The word page opens faster and scrolls smoothly right after a snap.
• Phrases are analysed faster.
• Cloud backup pauses before a much smaller wordbook would replace a larger backup, and asks you first.

Fixed

• Android: the home screen widget shows your words instead of a loading spinner.
• Android: WhatsApp sticker packs open, and if WhatsApp declines you see its reason.
• Hiding example translations lasts one launch, not forever.
• Wordbook tiles keep their photo while a word is still translating.
• The revealed word is spoken once, after it is written.

New

• Back up to iCloud or Google Drive. It stays off until you turn it on, and nothing is stored on our servers.
• Restore on a new phone during setup, photos included.
• Follow backup, restore and translation progress from Settings.
• Share your wordbook as a file and open one a friend sent you.

Improved

• Widgets update the moment your wordbook changes.
• Photos take less space on your phone.
• The backup and widget code is now open source as BackupKit and WidgetBridge, for any Kotlin Multiplatform app.

Fixed

• Japanese words use the right font.
• Example sentences read correctly under right-to-left languages.
• The energy chip shows the right symbol for Premium.

New

• Redeem a promo code straight from Settings.

Improved

• Word games: new artwork, better layouts and plenty of fixes.
• A much smaller download than before.
• Clearer voice names when you pick a speaking voice in Settings.
• Better layout on tablets and large screens.

New

• Snap any object and get its word in the language you are learning, with pronunciation and an example sentence.
• Ten languages to learn, and the app itself in 24.
• A wordbook that keeps every word with the photo you took.
• Eight mini-games built from your own words.
• Word stickers and sticker packs for WhatsApp.
• Home screen and lock screen widgets.