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.

Bug fixes: - Fixed a crash that happened when opening a folder with only subfolders and no cards inside.

New Features - Cards now show a progress indicator around their current study frequency. This indicates how close you are to finishing a card. - The theme picker now displays the theme's main tint color besides the theme name. Bug Fixes - Increased the tap area of the study button, which was too small. - Fixed the study button blinking tint colors on initial load.

New Features - CSV import now allows selecting more than one text column for the question and the answer - Long questions and answers can now be scrolled if they don’t fit on the screen. Bug Fixes - Pad: Fixed a crash in the card list that could sometimes happen when turning on multi-select - Fixed some menu tint colors in iOS 18 (regression from iOS 26 updates) - iPad Folder Info and Import sheets have a standard size more common to iPad apps - Fix a layout issue in the study button tip Performance Improvements - Improve scroll performance on lists with simple image/text cards - Improved startup time

This hotfix release fixes image annotations no longer working due to an update in 1.3.2

This release improves the feel of the scoring control by making its interactive area more forgiving and by making the gauge pointer actually follow the drag location (when dragging on the gauge). It also fixes the Home Screen widget and includes a plethora of underlying updates related to the upcoming iOS 26 and macOS version. UI Improvements - The radial score control is easier to interact with: its drag area is more forgiving, and the gauge follows the gesture movement radially instead of linearly for a more natural feel. - Improved calendar scrolling: fixed inset issues and increased tap areas for the header. Bug Fixes - Fixes the Home Screen widget not updating - Fixed sidebar not sizing correctly in larger devices - Fixed some JPEGs not appearing with the correct size after importing them - More efficient multi-window support for iPad (windows no longer duplicate data in memory that they shouldn’t) Underlying changes - Preparations for iOS 26 with updated styles, icons, and compatibility fixes. - Controls updated for compatibility with the future macOS version: Calendar, Quick Entry and Import ported to macOS, and system menu bar support (for iPad as well).

This version brings fixes and improvements to the image annotation editor: - Performance: Resizing annotations is faster - Fix: Annotations now resize correctly at all zoom levels - Fix: When editing annotations, they move to the top so that they are easier to edit

This release adds subtle but satisfying sounds throughout the app, with various sound themes for you to choose from. It also includes many under the hood changes for our upcoming macOS version, some of which improve the iPad version as well. - New: Sound effects for scoring, card reveals, swipe actions, animations and other areas. Customizable with 5 sound themes to choose from. - New: Custom notification sound to help you distinguish Benkyo Box notifications from other apps. 5 notification options to choose from as well. - New: We heard many of you want the study control to go from right to left, so we added the option to configure this in settings. - Performance: Faster startup time with a little sacrifice in app size - Fix: Incorrect popup menu colors in iOS 18.4 - Fix: Sketching: Increase contrast between drawing canvas and background - Fix: iPad: Collapsing / Expanding folders in the library won’t do so for every window of the app - Fix: iPad: Cleanup sidebar styling and increase split view content width in larger devices

This version primarily add and improves translations. It also makes it default to not repeat cards within a study session so that you can finish them more quickly. The spaced repetition intervals stay the same, so you'll still see cards again after some time. - New translations: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French, and Canadian French - New: Cards don't repeat in study sessions by default. This can still be changed in Settings. - Fix: Annotations moved to a folder no longer disappear when you delete their original folder - Fix: Reduced app size - Fix: Reduced initial cards import time. - Fix: Improve localized dates and lists, using language conventions

This version brings Benkyo Box to Spanish (Latin America, United States and Spain), the first translation of many to come. As a positive side effect, it also brings consistency and style improvements to all English text found throughout the app.  Other changes: - Fix: Make the Onigiri theme more legible and darker in dark mode. - Fix: iPad - Add more hover effects to buttons that were missing it

This release focuses on iPad polish and bug fixes, with some of them benefitting iPhone. - New: Hiding answers on iPad also hides the answers in detail view, so that they don't spoil your studies. They can still be seen by tapping or editing them. - New: The Hidden Answers toggle is now in the toolbar, making it easier to access - New: iPad layout polish and better hover support - Fix: iPad Study View score bar doesn't lose finger tracking - Fix: Annotations would previously layout incorrectly when switching between 2 annotation cards from different images - Fix: Study button was not being centered correctly on all screen sizes - Performance: Faster pre-fetching of 3d models (still might delay on some devices) - Performance: Prevent sound effect delays

- Fix: Remove beta migration code that should not be running in production, and could result in data loss when syncing new devices