Introducing the new List Widget: view cards that are ready to study, check on study progress of the list, and even create cards or start a study session right from the widget. New Features: - New List Widget for glancing at your cards from the home screen, with many customization options. Improvements: - In study sessions, longer cards that scroll used to disable the reveal and scoring swipe gestures to prevent conflicts. Now you can swipe from the corner of the screen to perform these actions. - Added many missing voiceover labels across the app and fixed some broken ones. - Advanced Learner: The Create Card shortcut action now transcribes audio if passed an audio file. - Improved the text detection UI in the annotation editor. Fixes: - Fixed question/answer text blocking other voiceover regions in the card editor - Fixed scanning text from photos not working correctly in photos taken via the in-app camera.

This update surfaces helpful information to various screens: Studies display your progress, and all lists of cards and calendar days show the number of cards on each section (upcoming, available, and finished cards). In addition, Shortcuts actions like Study Card and Get Card play back recorded audio. New Features - Study progress is now visible when studying - Card lists and calendar days now display section counts - The Study Card and Get Card shortcuts action can now play audio in cards that have audio. Improvements - Hidden regions are easier to see in Get Card and other card-previewing Shortcuts actions. - Hidden regions now better match search results in Shortcuts Fixes - Fixed hidden regions not honoring the "hide answer" setting in Shortcuts.

Fix poor study animations frame rate in folders and improve reveal and scoring gestures when cards are scrollable. 1.8.2 updates: Say hello to a new Advanced Learner feature: Audio Transcripts. Now you can read your recordings in studies and in lists whenever it's inconvenient to listen to them. In addition, you can now attach audio to new cards from Shortcuts, study performance is snappier on Mac and iPad, and the UI looks more solid (specially selection / inactive states) on Mac and iPad. New Features - Advanced Learner: Transcribe speech to text in flashcards, keeping the original audio file for reference. This works automatically on new recordings, or manually for anything imported. - You can now attach audio files in the Create Card Shortcut - record audio in your flashcards without entering the app. Improvements - [Mac, iPad] Brought some Study Session performance / battery usage improvements from iPhone to Mac and iPad. Fixes - [Mac, iPad] In Calendar, Don't highlight multiple rows when the same folder appears more than once. - [Mac] Fixed overlapping text in Study Progress on Mac - [Mac] Fixed layout spacing issues in Quick Entry on Mac - Fixed an issue where invalid cards could be imported or exported in certain edge cases. - [Mac, iPad] Fixed window inactive states, which were not graying accent colors and dimming content as expected. - Fixed losing typed in text if you add an image without dismissing the keyboard first. As always, thank you for using Benkyo Box.

Say hello to a new Advanced Learner feature: Audio Transcripts. Now you can read your recordings in studies and in lists whenever it's inconvenient to listen to them. In addition, you can now attach audio to new cards from Shortcuts, study performance is snappier on Mac and iPad, and the UI looks more solid (specially selection / inactive states) on Mac and iPad. New Features - Advanced Learner: Transcribe speech to text in flashcards, keeping the original audio file for reference. This works automatically on new recordings, or manually for anything imported. - You can now attach audio files in the Create Card Shortcut - record audio in your flashcards without entering the app. Improvements - [Mac, iPad] Brought some Study Session performance / battery usage improvements from iPhone to Mac and iPad. Fixes - [Mac, iPad] In Calendar, Don't highlight multiple rows when the same folder appears more than once. - [Mac] Fixed overlapping text in Study Progress on Mac - [Mac] Fixed layout spacing issues in Quick Entry on Mac - Fixed an issue where invalid cards could be imported or exported in certain edge cases. - [Mac, iPad] Fixed window inactive states, which were not graying accent colors and dimming content as expected. - Fixed losing typed in text if you add an image without dismissing the keyboard first. As always, thank you for using Benkyo Box.

This update makes the study view much smoother, specially when studying a folder. We also fixed several audio recording and copy/paste bugs. Improvements - Significantly increased animation performance and battery consumption when studying by preventing unnecessary work while a study session is active. - Improved error reporting when pasting unsupported clipboard content - Audio cards in lists have a slightly less prominent look Fixes - Fixed the audio recorder not playing back the whole file again after replacing an audio region. - Fixed the audio recorder waveform not updating smoothly when the file starts increasing size. Quality - Many many tests were added in the making of this release, in preparation for more ambitious future updates. Happy studies!

This update introduces a much requested feature: audio recording and playback for card questions and answers! These can be recorded within the app, from the file picker, or imported en-masse from a folder. It also includes visual refinements, and fixes to Live Activities. New Features - Record audio directly on cards and play it back while studying - Import one or more audio files via drag and drop, the file picker, or folder imports Improvements - Live Activity backgrounds now respect reduced luminance accessibility settings - Improved tap feedback of images in the CardEditor Fixes - Fixed an issue where answers could become slightly visible when the app returned to the foreground - Fixed previous Live Activities not ending correctly when a new study session is started. - Fixed starting the correct study session when re-launching the app from a Live Activity Happy learning!

This update introduces a Live Activity to keep track of your current study session, enables continuing studies on other folders when finishing a study session, adds a setting to help reduce the number of notifications coming from multiple folders, , and brings multiple stability and performance improvements across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. New Features - Keep track and resume your active study session with a Live Activity that appears in the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and in Stand By Mode when you exit a study session midway. - After finishing a study session, other folders that are ready to study can be navigated to and studied directly from the Study Completion screen. Upcoming folders can be navigated to as well. - Separating notifications by folder can be turned off from Settings, which reduces the number of notifications if various folders become available at the same time. Tapping on notifications on this mode opens "Today’s Cards". Improvements - Visual refinements to the Calendar’s Today screen for Liquid Glass - The Study Completion screen now shows how many cards are left per folder - Advanced Learner: When hiding a Folder that has subfolders, you can optionally hide its subfolders as well. - Mac: Annotation text fields now become first responder immediately after being added Fixes - Mac: Fixed context menus not appearing on all clickable areas of folders - Mac: Fixed the background of Settings in light mode - Mac: Fixed an issue where the Study view could scroll back up unexpectedly when using a trackpad

This update improves stability (Mac, specially), adds a folder picker to New card editors, and fixes notification previews of hidden areas. What’s New - The folder name field is focused automatically when creating new folders - Cards with Hidden Areas now display a thumbnail preview of the hidden areas in notifications instead of revealing the answer - iPhone, iPad: You can now change the folder new cards or annotations go to without having to navigate to it first Fixes - Dragging images on lists of cards now correctly uses the image filename as the default card answer. - iPhone, iPad: Fixed an incorrect "No cards found" message appearing after scanning and then converting scans to cards. - Mac: Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when resizing windows that display lists of cards.

We redesigned the annotation editor, adding the capability of hiding areas of an image to study them and improved its text scanning UI. There's also stability fixes for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: - Adding annotations no longer places an annotation in the center of the screen. Draw them directly in the area you wish to annotate, which is much more natural. - Hidden Regions: You can now hide labels of diagrams and other specific areas of an image to study them. - iPhone, iPad: Improvements to the Annotation Editor's text scanner: - After recognizing text, long press to activate a lasso tool to select multiple scanned regions for merging or removing them. - Select between hiding the recognized text, or converting it to annotations. - Shortcuts: The Create Annotations Action no longer requires existing annotations to launch the Annotation Editor, which will appear ready for you to create annotation cards. - Image Annotations and Hidden Areas are now rendered in Archive import previews Fixes: - Fixed duplicate card exports when exporting archives with annotations. - Fixed race conditions when adding annotations and switching cards quickly.

This release brings major performance improvements to Anki import, adds Anki export, faster performance across editing and imports, new ways to create cards and annotations from the clipboard and Files, and redesigned Mac Settings. It also includes many stability fixes across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: - Revamped the New Card button with new ways of quickly creating cards: - Added: Create Annotation Cards from photos in the Clipboard or from Files - Added: Create Cards directly from Photos, Files, Camera or Clipboard (image or text) - Added: Open QuickEntry with an URL in the clipboard to extract cards right away (Advanced Learner only) - Mac: Preferences are redesigned to use a tab-based layout. - Added Anki export, letting you export your decks back to Anki. - Import preview now supports sorting columns, making large imports easier to review. Improvements: - Reduced import time of Anki decks by 70% in some instances - Improved typing performance and responsiveness of the card and annotation editors on iOS. Fixes: - Fixed Quick Entry card extraction not showing results immediately when opened directly in extraction mode. - Mac: Fixed a crash that would happen when opening certain folders with annotations. - Mac: Fixed Card Editor menu buttons not being in the correct place when typing longer cards

Now you can import Anki decks created with the latest versions of Anki. It supports Cloze cards and simple text/image combinations. It also brings fixes and polish across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: * Added support for importing Anki decks with supported content like Cloze, images, and plain text. There's no image occlusion card support (yet). Import is accessible by drag/dropping .apkg files to folders or via the "Import..." menu. * New Shortcuts actions for Anki imports. Other import-related shortcut actions now get better error reporting when things go wrong. Improvements: - Import views now * Import views now show a preview for all import types, not just CSV. * iPhone, iPad: Import Views now allow you to change the target folder Fixes: * Audio now mixes correctly with background music during study. * Fixed Import, when invoked from Context Menus, not figuring out the target folder correctly * Fixed a case where score controls could get stuck after the app moved to the background. * Addressed a threading issue that could lead to crashes in rare cases. * iPad: Icons and badges now visually dim when their rows lose focus. * iPad: Fixed a regression that caused iPad windows to not be resizable * Mac: Fixed menu bar items remaining disabled after canceling the photo picker.

This update add new Shortcuts actions and updates for the new Extract Cards feature, improves card extraction, and fixes several study, help, and Quick Entry issues across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New Features - Added an option to the "Open Quick Entry" Shortcuts action for opening it in Extract Cards mode. - Added a new “Extract Card from Text” Shortcuts action to turn text into study cards in the background. - [Mac] Help now links to the web manual Improvements - Improved AI card extraction to favor shorter, more useful cards and avoid low-value results - Better error handling when extracting cards from articles. It no longer falls back to extracting from the whole page when an article isn't found because this leads to low quality cards. - Reviewed and corrected help and error messages across the app. - [iPhone, iPad] Improved legibility of icons in the import preview view - [Mac] Tip views for Quick Entry and AI Card Extraction now open in separate windows Fixes - Automatically add a number suffix to new folders created from Shortcuts when an existing folder with the same name is found. - Fixed reloading and animation glitches at the end of a study session. - Translated various untranslated strings - [iPhone, iPad] Fixed help sheets for Quick Entry not being available - [Mac] Fixed placeholder text alignment in Quick Entry.

This update brings a great improvement to Quick Entry: Enter any text or url, and it extracts cards sequentially using Apple Intelligence. It's a great starting point for a deck! Note: This feature is available in Advanced Learner and only on devices and regions where Apple Intelligence is available. New Features - Advanced Learner: You can now extract cards from arbitrary text or URL in Quick Entry, making it easier to turn longer passages into study material. Improvements - Mac: Quick Entry on Mac is redesigned to feels more mac-like - Restored Quick Entry help and improved layout and button alignment - Reduced visual bouncing when cards are recognized in Quick Entry

This update focuses on improving Mac and iPad: smoother Continuity between devices, better menu bar state handling, and lots of polish throughout the app. Improvements: - Continuity now works for cards and calendar dates (make sure to update all devices to 1.5.7 to get this benefit) - Mac, iPad: Continuity and opening from Shortcuts is now smarter about which window to use - Mac, iPad: Some menu bar menus that weren't useful without selection or cards now disable correctly - Mac: Refinements to default window sizes Fixes: - Fixed Quick Entry appearing on Continuity at times when it shouldn't - Fixed the truncation issues in the "Show Study Progress" and "Get Folder" Shortcuts action - Fixed search empty states not being centered on Mac - Fixed incorrect background tinting of intents on macOS - Fixed a scenario where some it wouldn't be possible to delete some folders.

This update includes showing checkmarks on folders when they are finished, accessibility improvements, color/contrast refinements, a new shortcut action and a rotation fix. New Features - To make it easier to identify which folders you are done with, they appear with a checkmark over them when all of their cards are finished. - Added a new “Delete Folders” Shortcut action to help clean up old Folders in your library Improvements - Improved accessibility on larger text sizes for the study progress view (it scrolls if it doesn't fit) and final interval picker - Refined theme divider colors and updated some button styles. - Added a few extra accessibility labels for icon-only buttons Performance & Reliability - Fixed a leak when calculating study status in the background - in some cases, restarting it would keep the old calculation running. Fixes - Fixed hide/show answers button having poor contrast when it's showing answers - Fixed an issue in Plus/Max devices where the Study View could appear blank after rotating the device. - Removed incorrect background mode from the Open Calendar shortcut (it's a foreground-only action).

This update brings powerful new automation capabilities with Shortcuts, Siri integration, improves typing performance on mac and makes it easier to swap questions and answers on cards. New Features: - Benkyo Box now works with Shortcuts and Siri, unlocking powerful automations. You can do almost anything that you can do in the app within Shortcuts: - Check your current study progress for the day - Study cards (even outside the app! - just use the Get Card action with the answer hidden) - Score, swap questions and answers, move, and delete cards. - Get filtered lists of cards (ready to study, all completed and all in a folder/list). - Launch most screens of the app, such as a date on the calendar - Import cards from text or CSV (with or without launching the app for confirmation) - Change any Setting, such as theme, sounds on/off, etc - Change properties on folders, such as hiding them from studies - and more :D - Folders and various useful pre-defined App Shortcuts now appear in Spotlight results Improvements: - Mac: Significant typing performance increase on the Card Editor. Fixes: - Fixed the edit button not working correctly on iPhone/iPad when activating multi-select - Improved reliability of running in the background, the system should not close the app in the background as often.

This update mainly fixes Quick Entry syntax highlighting, widget/notification background update reliability and other bug fixes. Fixes - Fixed a crash in Settings -> Appearance - Fixed an issue where syntax highlighting in `QuickEntry` would not work correctly - Reworked widget updates to stay within the daily refresh system quota. - Improved reliability of notification and widget updates triggered by silent push notifications - Mac/iPad: Fixed deactivating some menu bar items when they can't be used - Mac: Fixed the widget not refreshing reliably on Mac (depended on app being active) - Mac: Show calendar days in the day view, since the toolbar is too small to show it - Mac: Hide the app badge on when the app is not running, similar to apps like Mail.

Benkyo Box 1.5.3 This update includes performance improvements, fixes for macOS-specific issues, and better stability when importing and exporting content. Fixes - Fixed a widget crash when loading non-cached data from SwiftData. - Fixed the card list not updating after changing calendar selections when restoring a previous window session. - Fixed a crash when exporting unsorted cards via drag and drop. - Fixed exported archives missing rectangles when using drag-and-drop. - Fixed annotation pointer curvatures when rectangles are short. Improvements - Optimized several database queries to improve import speed and overall responsiveness. From 1.5.2: Benkyo Box 1.5.2 is here — and with it, the very first Mac release of Benkyo Box! While these notes describe the iOS version, we’re excited to share that Benkyo Box is now available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New Features - iPad, Mac: Added support for dropping text files, folders, CSVs, and images directly into lists of cards and folders. - iPad, Mac: Expanded menu bar options, including a new Cards menu, import/export menus, and a shortcut to study today’s cards (Command + Shift + P). - iPad, Mac: Drag and drop now works more broadly: across different apps and within the app. The current selection can also be dragged into other apps as a shareable archive. - The score control (and other miscellaneous buttons) now have Liquid Glass style applied to it. Improvements - Darker annotation canvas color in the Onigiri dark theme. - Renamed some sections such as “Progression” -> "Study Intervals" for clarity. - Mac: Tooltips for most buttons - iPad: The “Add Card” button is now consistently in it's own group and separate from other buttons so that it's easier to find. Fixes - Fixed an issue in Quick Entry where the cursor would reset to the first position after typing the first few characters. - Fixed some Library context menus not appearing until several long-press attempts. - iPad, Mac: More reliable edit mode management across multiple windows, both on iPad and Mac. - iPad, Mac: Do apply the menu bar actions to the topmost window - Improved import reliability: temporary files are now cleaned up more robustly.

Benkyo Box 1.5.2 is here — and with it, the very first Mac release of Benkyo Box! While these notes describe the iOS version, we’re excited to share that Benkyo Box is now available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New Features - iPad, Mac: Added support for dropping text files, folders, CSVs, and images directly into lists of cards and folders. - iPad, Mac: Expanded menu bar options, including a new Cards menu, import/export menus, and a shortcut to study today’s cards (Command + Shift + P). - iPad, Mac: Drag and drop now works more broadly: across different apps and within the app. The current selection can also be dragged into other apps as a shareable archive. - The score control (and other miscellaneous buttons) now have Liquid Glass style applied to it. Improvements - Darker annotation canvas color in the Onigiri dark theme. - Renamed some sections such as “Progression” -> "Study Intervals" for clarity. - Mac: Tooltips for most buttons - iPad: The “Add Card” button is now consistently in it's own group and separate from other buttons so that it's easier to find. Fixes - Fixed an issue in Quick Entry where the cursor would reset to the first position after typing the first few characters. - Fixed some Library context menus not appearing until several long-press attempts. - iPad, Mac: More reliable edit mode management across multiple windows, both on iPad and Mac. - iPad, Mac: Do apply the menu bar actions to the topmost window - Improved import reliability: temporary files are now cleaned up more robustly.

This update focuses on polish of the App Icon, annotation Edit mode, windowing, glass usage on more areas and a handful of important fixes to Folder management. Improvements - App icon is more refined for Liquid Glass (specular highlights match the system) - When editing annotations, buttons not related to editing are hidden so that it's easier to see which ones are relevant. - Added helpful tooltips to all the buttons (mainly for the upcoming macOS version) - The score overlay is glass in iOS 26 - Folder picker refinements, especially to removing folders from parents. - Hidden annotation icons are more visible Fixes - Prevented selecting invalid folders in the Folder Picker. - Corrected the height of the Progress label on smaller devices. - Improved edit-mode management across multiple windows, ensuring only one edits at a time - Fixed incorrect aspect ratios in thumbnails for images with drawings.

A fluid and clean Liquid Glass redesign brings a new look to your daily studies. Many features have also been incorporated from the upcoming Mac version into the iPad app as well, making it even more capable. New Features - Beautiful new Liquid Glass redesign - iPad: Open folders and cards in new windows for easier multitasking (use the context menu in the card list). - iPad: Drag and drop images into the Text Editor to quickly set the question or answer to an image. - iPad: When selecting multiple cards, a multi-card preview and context menu actions makes more intuitive to work with multiple cards at once. - The application badge now shows the number of cards left to study. - Background refresh for study counts - Faster performance when resizing windows with Card Editors open. Bug Fixes - Smaller drawings are easier to see in the Card Editor - Fixed crashes related to multi-card selection, annotations, and the feedback screen.

Bug Fix: - Fixed a performance issue that could cause the study view to slow down.

New Feature: - Show the number of cards left to study in the app icon's badge.

Bug fixes: - Fixed an issue where dragging on the score control didn’t work when cards couldn’t be scrolled.

While hard at work porting Benkyo Box to macOS, we added new features and fixes that improve the iPad experience. These are included in this release: - On iPad, you can now open cards in new windows, great for multitasking. - Better overall multi-window support, with card editors updating in real time when other windows update. - The import sheet on iPad now automatically sizes itself to its content. - Pressing Return or Escape can now exit the study view.