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Every Wordaboo update, newest first — and what is coming next.

3.0.0

Shipped · October 2026

Wordaboo 3.0: Stories, and Blip the AI tutor

MOREEvery course now reaches C1: four new chapters in all twenty courses — shades of meaning, making a case, idioms and today’s slang, then meetings, letters and talks. 48 new lessons in every course, every word spoken aloud.
MOREAnd a fourth lesson in every unit, at every level — 1,035 new lessons across the twenty courses. Already past one? It waits on the map with a New badge, whenever you want it: it never moves you back and never lowers your level.
NEWStories: twenty illustrated scenes to read and hear, with Mia, Leo and Grandma Nina, every line voiced. Tap a word for its meaning or a line for its translation, answer questions as you go and match the words at the end. They open as you move through the units, give XP and count for your streak. On your map, and in Practice → Stories.
NEWA new Chat tab, in beta for some courses on phones with enough memory: ask Blip anything about the language you are learning. It runs entirely on your phone, so what you write never leaves it, and it knows your lessons, your streak and the words you miss.
NEWRoleplay: 22 short conversation scenes, from the bakery to a job interview, marked at the end. Up to 10 XP each, and they count for your streak.
NEWAchievements, rebuilt: medals that climb from bronze to diamond as you keep going, with how far the next level is. A new one turns over right after the lesson that earned it.
NEWLook back at your 1v1 matches: every question, what you and your opponent answered, and how fast. Recorded opponents now come from players near your own rating. And a match now asks only about words your finished lessons have taught you.
NEWOn your home screen: a Word of the day widget, a quick-start widget for a lesson, Practice or Chat, and shortcuts when you press and hold the app icon. Got a Premium code? Redeem it from the Premium screen.
NEWA new start: choosing a language, why you are learning it, your level and a daily goal now take a few quick taps, with Blip asking one thing at a time, and the last one opens your first lesson.
NEWTwo new languages: English for Arabic speakers and English for Chinese speakers, from A1 to C1 — with the whole app in Arabic, right to left, and in Chinese.
NEWLearn Arabic, Mandarin Chinese and Uzbek: three new courses for English speakers, 256 lessons each from day one to C1 — Arabic from the alphabet with every vowel written in, Chinese with pinyin and the four tones, Uzbek in its Latin alphabet.
NEWFive new languages for the whole app: German, Italian, Japanese, Urdu — right to left — and Bengali, each with its own English course from A1 to C1, written around what speakers of that language find hard.
NEWNine new courses that skip English: Spanish for Russian, German and Italian speakers; French for German and Italian speakers; German for French speakers; Italian for French and Spanish speakers; and Portuguese for Spanish speakers. Each runs from A1 to C1, written against the language you already speak.
NEWWeekly raids: team up with up to three friends against the boss of the week. Every lesson any of you finishes hits it for the XP it earned — beat it before Monday and everyone gets the trophy. Every winner also gets a streak freeze and a full set of bubbles, and a new Boss slayer medal counts every boss you beat.
NEWBlip’s postcards: finish a whole level and Blip sends you a postcard from where the language lives. Keep them on your profile, or share them.
NEWThe grammar book: every grammar card you have reached, together on the Practice tab — and you can search them.
NEWLetters & sounds: train your ear on the sounds your own language blurs together, free and as often as you like. And the Word widget now shows the word you are about to forget, with a button to hear it.
NEWA crown now shows on the profile of everyone with Premium.
MOREXP now follows how well it went: a flawless lesson earns 15, a nearly flawless one 12, a good one 10 and a scrappy one 8. Stories pay the same way, by how their questions went. And a story no longer opens with an ad: it uses one bubble, and the ad waits until the end.
MOREEverything moves now: hold the tab you are on and slide along the bar to any other, with a tick under your finger at each one. Buttons press in, answers pop, cards settle into place — and it all stays smooth on older phones.
FIXEDSmoother everywhere: your progress now saves in the background instead of on every tap, and each screen redraws only what changed.
FIXEDFaster, especially on older phones: the app opens sooner, and downloading a course’s recordings no longer slows everything else down.
FIXEDNo more silent words: a recording not downloaded yet now plays straight from the internet, so phones without a voice for the language hear every word, and the pronunciation lesson has its own recordings.
FIXEDYou can sign in on the very first screen again, so your progress comes straight back on a new phone. The AI tutor only downloads when your phone has room to spare, and the Premium screen fits on one screen.
FIXEDSmoother: the daily goal ring fills in one sweep, picture answers are all the same size, and the AI tutor picks the right model for your phone.
FIXEDPolish: every game you tick now shows what it is, the chapter strip and the chat fade at their edges instead of cutting off, and a stray line on the leaderboard tabs is gone.
FIXEDThe bubbles a streak milestone gives you could be taken back the next time your progress synced.

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2.1.2

Shipped · October 2026

Small fixes for the games

FIXEDFixed: in dark mode, the Picture Rush tile showed a plain white palette when it was not ticked. Its paint dots are back.
FIXEDFixed: the games you were searching with could be ticked and unticked halfway through a search, which changed nothing. They now stay put until you cancel.

2.1.1

Shipped · October 2026

Rematches, a weekly league, and challenges anywhere

NEWA challenge or a rematch now reaches you anywhere in the app: a card drops in at the top with a Play button. With the app closed you get a notification — and one when a match is found while your phone is in your pocket.
NEWRematch: after an online match, challenge the same player again — friend or not, winner or loser. If they asked first, the button accepts theirs.
NEWA weekly league for games: 3 points a win, 1 a draw, a fresh board every Monday. The top three win a trophy for their card.
NEWNobody searching? After a short wait you can play a real player’s recorded match instead: their answers arrive exactly when they gave them.
NEWTry three lessons before making an account. The app now opens on your language, not on a sign-in screen.
FIXEDFixed: in online matches a right answer was sometimes marked wrong — "it was une femme" when une femme was what you tapped. Quick answers were being refused for arriving a moment before the question opened.
NEWChanged your mind? Tap another option to change your answer any time before the reveal.
NEWMatches are quicker and livelier: a shorter clock, a combo for right answers in a row, a final question worth double, and a rope across the top that shows who is pulling ahead.
NEWGames: tap as many of the three games as you like before you search. You play whichever finds an opponent first, so you wait less.
FIXEDIf the other player leaves a match, it now ends straight away and the win is yours, instead of carrying on against nobody.
MOREWhen the two of you are at different levels, you each now get questions at your own level, on the same clock.
FIXEDYour next lesson is always one tap away: a Continue button now waits at the bottom of the Learn tab whenever the lesson itself is off screen.

2.1.0

Shipped · October 2026

Games, Russian, and French for Russian speakers

NEWFriends is now Socials, and it has a second half: Games. Play a friend or anyone at all 1v1, live, in Picture Rush, Sound Rush or True or False: whatever language the other person is learning, you both get the same ten pictures at the same moment and each answer in your own. Every match moves your rating, and the leaderboard shows ratings, wins, win rate and accuracy. With Premium, two people can also play face to face on one phone, no internet needed.
MORESocials, Practice and You have a new look, the same on every tab. Your username and code are a name tag now, shared in one tap; requests and challenges arrive as notes at the top; you find somebody by telling Blip who you are looking for; and every leaderboard shows how far each person is behind the leader.
NEWFinishing a lesson is a celebration now: your streak turns over to the new day, today’s goal fills up, you watch yourself overtake people in your league, and new badges flip over one by one.
NEWPremium now belongs to your Wordaboo account, not to your phone. Sign in on a new phone and Premium is there. If the subscription on a phone was bought for another account, the Premium screen says whose it is and can move it over.
NEWOut of hearts in the middle of a lesson? A short video now gives you one back, once per lesson, so you can finish. After a lesson you can double its XP twice a day, and same-screen play can be tried with a video before you go Premium.
NEWRussian for English speakers, from the alphabet to B2.4: 156 lessons, every word recorded. It opens with the Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones and are not — В, Н, Р, С, У, Х — and every reading shows the stress, which Russian never writes and which decides how the other vowels sound: молоко is read molokó.
NEWFrench for Russian speakers, to B2.4, with every explanation written in Russian and against Russian. Past-tense agreement, the genitive as a partitive and ты/вы are things you already own, so the cards confirm them and move on; they spend their time on what Russian has no model for — the articles, a verb "to be" you cannot drop, and ne… pas.
FIXEDIn German for Russian speakers, every translation prompt said «по-немецкий» where Russian needs «по-немецки», and the Russian welcome line used the wrong case. Both are fixed, and a check now catches it for any course with a Russian interface.

2.0.0

Shipped · September 2026

Every course now goes to B2

NEWAll eighteen courses now run to B2.4. Eleven of them stopped at B1.7 before — Italian, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese among them — and each has gained twelve units written for its own pair of languages: reported speech, the relative pronouns past the easy one, the passive, and the idioms you cannot work out from the words. That is 396 new lessons, 2,818 in total.
FIXEDOn iPhone, a lesson could start to stutter and the voice could turn robotic partway through. Speech recognition takes the audio session when you speak an answer and nothing was handing it back, so every clip after that fell through to the phone’s own voice instead of the recorded one. It is returned now, whether the microphone closes normally or fails.
FIXEDYour league score could show your lifetime XP instead of what you had earned since joining your group, which put long-standing learners at the top of a group they had barely played in. The app was treating "a group is running" and "the server has told me where you started" as the same fact; they are not, and it now waits for the second.
FIXEDSmaller fixes. Some unit icons on the map were blank. The reminder that your league closes soon now comes on the day your league actually ends, not every Sunday. Taking the placement test no longer asks you to sign in before your first real lesson. And if you start choosing a new course from the map, you can now go back.

1.9.10

Shipped · September 2026

Tiles that follow, numbers that are true

FIXEDDragging a word to reorder it works again. In the sentence-building exercise the tile would lift, follow your finger for a moment and then stop dead while you were still moving — so the only way to fix a word order was to tap every tile off and put them back in order.
FIXEDThe friends board no longer shows a flame or this week’s XP for somebody who has not opened Wordaboo in days. Those numbers come from their device and stop at the last time they used the app, but they were shown as though they were today’s — so a friend last seen a fortnight ago could sit second on the weekly board.
FIXEDA shared streak can only be started between two people who have added each other. Before this an invitation could arrive from anyone who could open your profile — including a stranger who had your friend code.
FIXEDThe league now shows the number it ranks by. Rows were ordered by the XP you have earned since joining your group but labelled with this week’s XP, so the list could read as out of order — and that score was sometimes published as a lifetime total, which sent long-standing learners straight to the top of a group they had barely played in.
FIXEDReminders behave themselves. Switching them off now switches them off — an update still running in the background could quietly put them back, up to fourteen of them. Allowing notifications in your phone's settings is noticed the moment you return, instead of the app insisting it is still blocked. And a streak warning no longer promises a longer streak than the one you have, or turns up three times on a Sunday.
FIXEDNothing you have earned disappears when your progress syncs. A seven-day milestone paid out bubbles that the very next sync took back, and a trouble word you had finally got right came straight back the moment the cloud copy arrived.
FIXEDBlocking somebody reliably ends a shared streak now, even when the first attempt fails — it is tried again instead of being given up on. And if any part of deleting an account does not finish, the rest is picked up the next day rather than quietly forgotten.
MOREThe B2 chapters teach words people actually say. A native speaker pointed out that the advanced vocabulary had drifted into newspaper and legal register — words you meet in a contract and never in a conversation. Fifty-four of them have been swapped for everyday ones across Spanish, French, German and English, and every replacement has a proper recording. The grammar is unchanged.
NEWJapanese. Thirty-three units from your first hello to B1: greetings and the particles, the て-form everything else is built on, comparing things, family, shopping, asking directions, what you can do, weather, the body, a day at work, experience, opinions, the first kanji you will meet on a sign, keigo, the potential form, the verb pairs that decide whether anyone did it, and how people actually talk when they are not being careful. Seven hundred and ninety-four words, all spoken. The three newest units are the small verbs that attach to て and change what an action is for, the distance between what ought to be true and what turned out not to be, and the three different words Japanese uses where English only has "while". It is the first course written in a script the app could not previously draw, so it brings its own font — trimmed to the characters the lessons use, which is why it costs a quarter of a megabyte instead of five. Every word shows how it is said, and answers are built from word banks rather than typed, because asking a beginner to install a Japanese keyboard before lesson one is not a lesson.
MOREThe rest of the B2 vocabulary. The pass that started in Spanish now covers French, German and English too — ninety-four words in all, swapped for ones people say. Words that a lesson is genuinely ABOUT were left alone: French explains confirmer and infirmer as a pair, German teaches gleichwohl as the formal word it is, and a course is allowed to do that on purpose.
NEWPractice now knows what you are about to forget. Every word you meet gets a place in a schedule: get it right and it comes back later each time — a day, three, a week, a fortnight, five weeks — get it wrong and it is back tomorrow. The practice tab opens with what is due today and how many words have stuck so far, and a review round leads with the shakiest ones rather than a handful drawn at random.
MOREEvery button answers back. The app had a full vocabulary of taps, clicks and little impacts, and 84 buttons — of which 40 used it, because making the noise was each button's own job to remember. Forty-four did not, and among the silent ones was every multiple-choice answer in the app. They all speak now, from one place, on the way down rather than on release.
MOREEvery button is the same size now. A button used to be as tall as its own label needed, so a screen of them came out ragged — eight different heights across the app, from 49 pixels to 73, because twenty-one screens had each quietly reached for their own padding. They share one height, measured from the font rather than guessed, and the short ones no longer look squat next to the long ones.
NEWJapanese now shows how a whole sentence is said, not just a word. All 794 words carried a romanisation; the 293 phrases and 199 grammar examples carried none — so you were given a reading while learning a word and nothing at all the moment that word turned up in a sentence, which is where reading is actually hard. All 492 are there now. They also fade: the romaji under a multiple-choice question goes first, because that is the moment you are being asked to recognise something, then the grammar sentences, then the answers. A word you are meeting for the first time keeps its reading for ever. Auto, always, or only-new-words, in You.

1.9.9

Shipped · September 2026

Your streak, your account, your block

NEWTap the level badge above the chapters and the app now explains what the levels mean — including why B1.7 is followed by B2.1. The number after the dot counts chapters inside a level and starts again at 1 when the level changes, so those two chapters are next to each other and nothing is missing between them. Your course is drawn out band by band so you can see the whole shape of it.
NEWThe language screen now has a shelf of your own languages along the bottom. Tap it and every course you have started is there — how many lessons you have finished, the XP you have earned in it and the level you are on — so getting back to one is a tap instead of a hunt through seventeen cards.
FIXEDChecking an answer used to fade every button on the card to under half strength — including the right one, at the exact moment you are trying to read it. They stay readable now, and the right answer carries a tick while a wrong one carries a cross, so the verdict no longer depends on telling green from red.
FIXEDTrouble words now drills the words you actually got wrong. A round built around one of them left it out about a quarter of the time, because the questions were shuffled and then trimmed to twelve. And a word leaves the list once you get it right in a later round — before, nothing ever came off it, so the count only went up.
FIXEDThe app now does what your phone asks of it. Switch on Reduce Motion and everything arrives where it was going without the bounce; switch on a screen reader and the replay button, the answer buttons and the sentence tiles all say what they are and can be used. Counted sentences say "1 day" rather than "1 days".
FIXEDBlocking somebody now ends the streak you shared with them even if your phone never manages to say so. The app deletes it the moment you block — but that is a network call, and if it failed, with no signal or the app closed mid-tap, the other person carried on seeing which days you studied, from a card your own app had stopped showing you. A block now ends it on the server too, and the server keeps trying until it has.
FIXEDA day streak you had actually broken could come back from a phone you had not opened in weeks. Syncing merged the two counts by keeping the larger one, so an old thirty-day run overwrote the single day you had just restarted with. The side that practised most recently now owns the count.
FIXEDSigning out in the middle of a sync could write the progress of the account you left into the one you signed into next. Every step of a sync now checks that it is still working for the account that started it, and stops if it is not.
FIXEDSwitching course while the words were still downloading kept downloading the language you had just left. The new course got its voice late for no reason; the old one is now dropped the moment you switch.
FIXEDTwo small ones together: the reward for watching an advert could be refused on the very first tap after opening the app, because the app gave up before it had finished asking your consent; and Premium could look inactive for a moment right after you signed out.
FIXEDDeleting your account now finishes even when a step has to be retried. The record that tracks the retry was being deleted before the work it tracked, so a deletion interrupted halfway had nothing left to resume from.

1.9.8

Shipped · September 2026

The app’s own voice, all the way to B2.4

FIXEDEvery word from B2.1 onwards was being read by your phone’s own speech engine instead of the app’s voice — so the audio turned robotic at exactly the point the B2 chapters began. The twelve B2 units in French, German, Spanish and English were added without their recordings, and 2,013 words had none. They all have one now.
FIXEDSpeaking exercises now appear in Practice. Before, there was one per lesson and only on a replay — so if you finished each lesson once and moved on, the app never asked you to say anything at all.

1.9.7

Shipped · September 2026

Drawings you can see in dark mode

FIXEDIllustrations drawn mostly in line rather than colour were invisible in dark mode — the ink and the card behind it were almost the same shade, so the sun on "good morning" lost its rays and horizon. Every drawing now sits on its own paper.
FIXEDThe dots along the top of the level check no longer run underneath the close button. The test grew from fifteen questions to twenty and the row was never re-measured.
FIXED"Coming soon" no longer lists languages that already shipped. It was still promising German and Italian, both of which you can open today.

1.9.6

Shipped · September 2026

Leagues count your whole week

FIXEDYou are placed in a league when you finish a lesson, not when you open the Leagues tab. Before, your score started counting from the moment you first looked — so a week of lessons could show as nothing, and anyone who never opened the tab was in no league at all.
FIXEDTurning Friends off now asks first. It deletes your shared card, drops everyone following you and releases your username, and none of that comes back — too much to sit behind one tap under the friends list.

1.9.5

Shipped · September 2026

Portuguese

NEWPortuguese for English speakers — Brazilian, because every other bit of Portuguese in this app already is. Forty units and a hundred and twenty lessons, built around the things that actually catch an English speaker: ser and estar are both "to be" and choosing wrong changes what you said, prepositions fuse with articles whether you like it or not, and gostar refuses to work without de. It runs to B1.7 — the same length as every other course here apart from the four that reach B2.
MOREItalian more than tripled. Twenty-eight more units take it from A2.1 to B1.7: object pronouns that go in front of the verb, the real future and the conditional, the imperfetto against the passato prossimo, and a whole unit on the filler words — boh, dai, magari — that make the difference between correct Italian and Italian somebody actually speaks.
FIXEDFixed a friend’s profile that would not load. Switching Friends off deleted your card but kept your username pointing at it, so anyone who looked you up afterwards saw a name that never finished loading — and nobody could ever claim that username again. Turning Friends off now releases the name properly, and a card that is not there says so instead of spinning.
FIXEDThe level check is now twenty questions instead of fifteen. Every checkpoint still needs a clean sweep, so the extra question at each one cuts the odds of guessing your way past it from about one in sixty to one in two hundred and fifty. It still never places you lower than a chapter you have already finished.

1.9.3

Shipped · September 2026

Italian

NEWItalian for English speakers — the sixteenth course, and the first new language taught here since German. Twelve units and thirty-six lessons, from ciao to the past tense, built around what actually trips an English speaker up: the seven different words for "the", the pronoun you are meant to leave out, and the years you have rather than are. It reaches A2.1 and will keep growing.

1.9.2

Shipped · September 2026

Opens where you left off

NEWOpen the app and you land on the unit you are actually up to, rather than at the top of the chapter with days of finished lessons to scroll past.
FIXEDFixed a layout problem in the longer languages: in Russian, settings rows like Speaking speed squeezed their title into a single column of letters. Buttons that no longer fit beside a title now move to their own line.

1.9.1

Shipped · September 2026

Sound is back

FIXEDSound works again. Version 1.9.0 silenced everything on Android — no sound effects, no recorded words, no speech. It was a mistake in how we packaged the app, not anything on your phone, and we are sorry it took an update to put right.

1.9.0

Shipped · September 2026

B2 — four courses go further than they ever have

NEWFrench, German, Spanish and English now run to B2.4 — twelve new units and thirty-six new lessons each. Every one was written against what the course already taught rather than from a textbook: reported speech, the subjunctive after a negated opinion, the tense Spanish uses to guess, the participle clauses English writing runs on, and the diminutive that is about tone rather than size.
FIXEDYour streak now ends when it has actually ended. It was only ever recalculated when you finished a lesson, so days away left the old number sitting there until your next one. Shared streaks had the same problem for a different reason and are fixed too.

1.8.0

Shipped · September 2026

English for Hindi speakers, and three more courses

NEWEnglish for Hindi speakers, and the first course the app changes its font for — Devanagari needs a face Nunito does not have. 120 lessons to B1.7, aimed at what a Hindi speaker actually gets wrong rather than at English grammar in the abstract: the articles Hindi has none of, the do that नहीं makes feel unnecessary, and the से that is `for` and `since` at once — which is where `I am living here since 2010` comes from.
NEWThe app speaks Hindi. Every screen, every button, every message — in Devanagari, drawn by a font that can actually form its conjuncts.
NEWGerman for Spanish speakers. A full course to B1.7, written against Spanish rather than translated from the English one — so gefallen is simply gustar, kennen and wissen are conocer and saber, and the units go instead to the two things that genuinely differ: three genders where you have two, and age, which German IS and Spanish HAS.
NEWGerman for Russian speakers, also complete to B1.7. Cases, three genders, adjective endings, reflexives and ты/вы are all things you already own, and the cards confirm them instead of teaching them. What is genuinely new is one thing, and it is a big one: the article, which Russian does not have at all.
NEWSpanish for French speakers — the first course we have written between two Romance languages. The adjective after the noun, the gendered articles, avoir faim, connaître against savoir: all of that is confirmed rather than taught, which frees the whole second half for the four places the two really part company — ser against estar, gustar running backwards, por and para where French has one pour, and the personal a, which has no French counterpart at all.
MOREFifteen courses now, and 1,810 lessons.

1.7.0

Shipped · September 2026

English for Uzbek, Turkish and Indonesian speakers

NEWEnglish for Uzbek speakers. 120 lessons to B1.7, aimed at what actually trips an Uzbek speaker up: the articles Uzbek has none of, the verb that comes second rather than last, and the prepositions standing where a case ending would.
NEWThe app speaks Uzbek. Every screen, every button, every message — in the Latin alphabet.
NEWEnglish for Turkish speakers. 120 lessons to B1.7. Turkish and Uzbek go wrong in mostly the same places, but not everywhere: Turkish has bir doing the work of a/an, so only the is genuinely missing — and Turkish -yor lines up with the present continuous almost exactly, which is one instinct worth trusting rather than correcting.
NEWEnglish for Indonesian speakers. 120 lessons to B1.7, and a different problem entirely: Indonesian is SVO like English, so the sentence frame is already right. What goes wrong is marking — verbs that never change shape, no plural after a numeral, no copula in "dia guru", and no article of either kind.
FIXEDThe placement test was putting people far further ahead than they were. Every checkpoint now takes a clean sweep, because each one skips ten units — there was no such thing as a small mistake. It still never moves you backwards.
FIXEDFriends and league boards were showing stale XP and a "last active" that could be days out of date. Joining a weekly league quietly stopped your own card from ever updating again. Fixed — and your card now refreshes whenever you open the app, not only when you finish a lesson.
NEWDrag the tiles to reorder your answer. Tapping a word still takes it back off, but getting the third word into second place no longer means dismantling everything after it.
FIXEDThe home-screen widget could repaint itself light and small after a lesson, whatever size and theme it had been. It now keeps both. On iPhone, "Manage subscription" opened Google Play; it opens the App Store. And switching language has a close button, so opening it to look no longer traps you into picking something.
MOREEleven courses now, and 1,330 lessons.

1.6.2

Shipped · September 2026

Sound, streaks and a friendlier keyboard

FIXEDTapping to the next card no longer leaves the previous word still playing, and inviting somebody to a friend streak no longer adds them to your board before they accept.
MOREThe keyboard no longer covers the username field, a shared friend code now carries a link to the app, and XP wears a star rather than a lightning bolt — which people were reading as an energy meter.

1.6.1

Shipped · September 2026

Small repairs

FIXEDThe voice clips download more reliably, and the app can now say why if they do not — Help & legal, Test the voice.
FIXEDWhen no video is available for a bubble, the app says so plainly instead of showing a technical error.

1.6.0

Shipped · September 2026

German, and English for Portuguese speakers

NEWGerman. A full course from English, all the way to B1.7 — the three genders, the four cases, and why the verb keeps moving to the end.
NEWEnglish for Portuguese speakers. 120 lessons written from scratch, aimed at what actually trips a Brazilian up: the subject you cannot drop, "I have 20 years", "people is", and the false friends that reverse the meaning — push is not puxar, pretend is not pretender, actually is not atualmente.
NEWThe app speaks Portuguese. Every screen, every button, every message.
MOREEvery course now runs to B1.7 — register, idiom, phrasal verbs, and saying a thing precisely rather than only correctly. Eight courses, 970 lessons.
FIXEDThe weekly league was showing an empty board, and a shared streak read zero for whoever practised first. Both were wrong for everybody, and both work now.
FIXEDBubbles came back after a restart, words sometimes played silently, and skipping the placement test now asks first — and tells you how to retake it.

1.5.0

Shipped · August 2026

The same voice on every phone

NEWEvery word is now spoken by a natural-sounding AI voice instead of your phone’s built-in one — four different voices, and the same audio on every device. A course downloads once when you open it, then works offline. Long-press any speaker button to hear it more slowly.
NEWEvery course now runs to B1.5, not B1.2 — nine new units each, taking you through relative clauses, the past before the past, reported speech, the news, and choosing between words that both look right.
FIXEDThe pictures were washed out in dark mode. 193 of them are fixed, and the café unit has 38 new drawings.
MOREEverything moves at your screen’s full refresh rate now, so lessons feel smoother on phones that support it.
FIXEDAnswer buttons were different sizes on the same question, and the friend-streak card never said who the streak was with.

1.4.0

Shipped · August 2026

Dark mode, and streaks you keep with a friend

NEWThe weekly league is now a group of up to 20 rather than a global top 50, so you can actually see yourself on it. Finish near the top and you move up a tier; there are five.
MOREYou only drop a tier if you earned nothing all week. Practising at all keeps your place.
NEWAppearance, in the You tab: follow your phone, or choose light or dark yourself.
NEWDark mode, and a setting to choose it. You tab, Appearance: follow your phone, or pick light or dark yourself.
NEWYou get an email whenever your account is signed in to, with the time, the IP address and the device. If it was not you, the email says what to do.
NEWDark mode. The app follows your phone’s light or dark setting.
NEWFriend streaks. Invite a friend, and once you both accept it counts the days you both practise. Your own streak stays public; this one is between the two of you.
NEWA second home-screen widget: a wide one showing how much XP is left to hit today’s goal. Both widgets follow your phone’s theme.
FIXEDThe weekly league was showing an empty board to everyone. It works now — you will see everyone playing this week.
MOREBubbles changed. You start with three, three is the most you can hold, and you can refill up to five times a day by watching a video.
FIXEDWatching a video for a bubble sometimes gave it to you and then took it back. It stays now.
FIXEDFollow requests sometimes failed, and accepting one sometimes did nothing at all. Both fixed.
FIXEDText no longer gets cut off when your phone’s font size is turned up. Sixty-one places were clipping.
FIXEDThe placement test was too easy, and put people below where they belonged. It also stops dropping you to a lower chapter than one you have already finished.
MOREFrench now runs to B1.5 — 112 lessons.
FIXEDSigning in with an email address no longer hides the fields behind the keyboard, and it is clear whether you are creating an account or signing in.

1.3.0

Shipped · August 2026

Friends, and a streak that survives a bad week

NEWHold any speaker button to hear that word slowly. There is also a Normal/Slow setting in the You tab.
FIXEDSpeech on iPhone was too fast, and picked the basic voice even when a better one was installed. Both fixed.
FIXEDClose buttons were a font character rather than one of the app’s own icons. Every icon in the app is one of its own again.
NEWA home-screen widget on both Android and iPhone. Your streak, and whether today is done, without opening the app.
NEWReminders. One in the evening at a time you pick, and one only if a real streak is about to break.
MOREReminders make no sound, never arrive between 10pm and 8am, and never arrive on a day you have already practised.
NEWFriends has its own tab now. Swap a seven-character code and you will see each other on a weekly board — this week and all time.
NEWThe weekly board resets every Monday, so somebody who joined today can be top of it by Wednesday.
NEWStreak freezes. Miss a day and one is spent automatically to cover it — you earn one at every streak milestone and can hold two.
NEWThe streak panel now shows four real weeks: the days you practised, the days a freeze covered, and your all-time record.
NEWStreak milestones at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60, 100, 200 and 365 days, each paying out a freeze and two bubbles.
FIXEDTurning Friends on while signed out did nothing at all, with no explanation. It now says an account is needed, and offers the way in.
FIXEDYour streak flame goes grey until you have practised today, so a streak you could still lose no longer looks the same as one already safe.
FIXEDCards with a highlighted row inside them showed square white corners poking out of the rounded card. Every card in the app clips properly now.
MOREYour best streak is kept forever now. Losing a streak no longer erases the proof you once had one.
MOREFriends is still entirely optional, still off until you switch it on, and switching it off still deletes what was shared rather than hiding it.

1.2.0

Shipped · August 2026

English for Spanish speakers

NEWA fourth course: English for Spanish speakers. 75 lessons, written from scratch — not the same course with the labels swapped.
NEWIts grammar targets what actually trips up a Spanish speaker: dropped subject pronouns, "I have 20 years", "I am agree", "listen the music".
MORE300 lessons in the app now, across four courses.
NEWThe app speaks Spanish. Every screen, every button, every message.
NEWSubscribing to Premium is now an actual moment, instead of the screen just closing on you.
FIXEDThe bubbles tab no longer tries to sell Premium to people who already pay for it.

1.1.0

Shipped · August 2026

A much bigger app

MORE225 lessons — nearly double what was here before. 25 units in every course.
NEWChapters. The map now opens on the lesson you are up to, instead of asking you to scroll.
MOREThe later units go further: past tenses, the subjunctive, and how to actually tell a story.
NEW79 new drawings — rooms, jobs, feelings, verbs and places that used to show nothing.
NEWA yearly plan at a third off, and a free trial on both plans.
FIXEDClearer speech: the app now picks the best voice your phone has, and no longer drags out whole sentences.
FIXEDBug reports now carry your Android version and phone model, so problems can actually be traced.

1.0.0

Shipped · August 2026

Hello, world!

NEWThree courses to learn from: French, Spanish, and English for Russian speakers.
NEW39 lessons in every course, each one taught before it is tested.
NEWArtwork drawn just for Wordaboo, in the same style as the rest of the app.
NEWSpeaking exercises that listen to your pronunciation and are always skippable.
NEWSign in with Google to keep your progress when you change phone.
NEWPremium: no ads, unlimited hearts and bubbles, and learning offline.

Coming soon

Here is what Blip is working on next. The order is roughly what gets built first.

On the workbench

A drawing for every single word — the common ones are done, the rest are on the way.
More course pairs for the languages already here.
Listening exercises built from full sentences, not just single words.
An AI tutor that explains why an answer was wrong, and answers the question you actually have.

Plans can change, and nothing here has a date attached. If something matters to you, say so — it moves up the list.