VocabFreak · changelog

What's new

The features and improvements we've shipped, newest first. VocabFreak is actively built — this is where the changes land.

Open the app →

July 9, 2026

🇸🇪 Richer Swedish cards — every one of the 1,000 Swedish words now has three example sentences (tap “+ more examples”) and a 💡 memory hook — a cognate or usage tip to make the word stick (hund = hound; på = on/at/onto).
🕘 Recently seen — a new history of the cards you've opened lately, each tagged Study or Dictionary — tap any to jump back to it.
🛡️ Streak freezes — miss a day and your streak no longer resets to zero — an earned streak freeze covers it. You earn one every 7 days you study (up to 2 in reserve), so an off day won't wipe out weeks of progress.
🌐 Cleaner language switching — languages now live in one tidy control that opens a picker — your languages up top, more to explore below — instead of a growing row of chips.
🌍 Free language tasters — 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇮🇷 🇹🇷 🇩🇰 🇵🇱 🇷🇺 🇫🇷 🇯🇵 — ten free 100-word demos to try a language before you commit, each word with three example sentences, a 💡 memory hook, pronunciation, and a real conjugation/declension table. Brand new: Persian, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Danish and Polish. And Russian, French and Japanese — which were rough early demos — have been rebuilt with the same depth. Two get extra help with their script: Japanese shows the kana reading + romaji under every example (plus a hiragana & katakana chart), and Persian shows a romanization beneath its right-to-left script (plus a 32-letter alphabet chart). It's all fresh, so if you spot something off, tap a card → “Suggest a fix.” Find them under “Explore” in the language picker.

July 6, 2026

🔄 Stays in sync across devices — study on your phone, pick up on your laptop: switching back to a tab quietly refreshes, and a card you already reviewed elsewhere is skipped instead of shown again.
👈 Swipe back anywhere — a left-edge swipe returns you home from any page (Study, Dictionary, Profile…), with a subtle slide transition.
👇 Rating buttons within reach — in Study, Again / Hard / Good / Easy now stay pinned to the bottom of the screen, so you never scroll past a long card to rate it. Each new card also opens at the top, and a left-edge swipe takes you back home.
📝 Personal notes — add a private note to any card (a mnemonic, a usage, anything). It stays with the word, synced to your account. An Ask AI button hints at what's coming next.
🔁 Reviews only / New only — a study session still does reviews-then-new by default, but when you have both you can now pick just one.
🧠 Smarter “Hard” — a card you keep finding hard now comes back sooner to relearn, instead of drifting further away.
📲 Add to Home Screen — a gentle tip for iPhone/iPad on installing the app (for reminders + full-screen access).
✨ Fixes & polish — the end-of-session cheer now matches the language you're studying (not always Finnish); Free practice is shuffled for better review; and it's now clear that reviewing just one word a day keeps your streak.

July 5, 2026

🇫🇮 Finnish noun cases — every Finnish noun card now shows its full case table, singular and plural — all twelve of talo · talon · taloa · talossa · taloon… — the signature challenge of Finnish, with consonant gradation already applied. From Wiktionary, plus a guide to the cases.
🔤 Swedish word forms — every noun, verb and adjective card now shows its full set of forms — flicka · flickan · flickor · flickorna, springa · springer · sprang · sprungit, stor · stort · större · störst — since Swedish changes word endings instead of adding “a/the”. Straight from Wiktionary, plus a short guide.
⏱ Time in app — your profile now shows both “time studied” and total “time in app”.
✨ Fixes & polish — tidier home screen (one clean grid of actions; Free practice and the grammar guides are always there); a study session now clearly shows its mix of reviews + new words, and each card is labelled New or Review (with when you last saw it); the “Skip ahead” placement test now lets you fine-tune how many words to mark as known, with a preview, before anything is applied; the activity heatmap no longer shows a stray day for placement-test words.

July 4, 2026

📊 Your Profile — a daily streak, an activity heatmap, time studied, and an estimated level (A1 → C2).
🔔 Daily reminders — opt in per language for a morning and an evening nudge in your local time, only on days you haven't studied yet.
♾️ Study at your pace — a daily pace up to Unlimited, a “Learn more” button to go past it, free practice that never touches your schedule, and a “✓ I already know this” shortcut.
🔊 Listen — tap any word to hear it spoken aloud.
🇫🇮 A bigger Finnish deck — expanded to roughly the 5,000 most common words, ranked from a balanced corpus so the order reflects real everyday usage — plus a searchable Dictionary.
🌍 More languages — Swedish (1,000 words) plus Russian, French and Japanese demos, each with spoken forms — unlocked with Pro.
📖 How it works — a page explaining the method, and the app moved to its own home at vocabfreak.com.

July 3, 2026

🎉 VocabFreak launched

Learn a language by its most common words first — starting with the 1,000 most frequent Finnish words, each with a real example and the way it's actually said out loud (mä oon, not just minä olen). Spaced repetition resurfaces every word right before you'd forget it, a placement test lets you skip what you already know, you set your own daily pace, and Google sign-in keeps your progress synced across every device.