See which items have been stuck in apprentice the longest. Your leech list has a new section ranking the apprentice items you have carried the longest without reaching Guru, so the slow ones that never quite pass are easy to spot and drill.
July 18, 2026
A finish date for level 60. Your items keep burning for months after you reach 60. The projection page now estimates when the last one reaches Burned, from your own review accuracy and the SRS schedule, with the remaining items counted by stage. The dashboard shows the date too, and its journey bar switches from level progress to percent burned.
July 17, 2026
Copy the level chart as an image. The Time per level card on the level-up page has a copy button now, so you can paste the chart straight into Discord or the forums without a screenshot.
Accurate daily review counts. A device that had not synced for a few days could pile earlier answers onto one day and inflate its review count on the study heatmap, and the wrong number then spread to your other devices. Counting now stays within the day the reviews actually happened.
July 16, 2026
Writing mode grades alternatives like WaniKani. Numeral answers count where WaniKani accepts them (8 for eight), "hundred" and "one hundred" are the same number, and blacklisted near-misses no longer slip past the typo tolerance.
Review a whole type across every level. Filter the Items page to Kanji, Vocab, or Radicals and new pills quiz you on all of it, or just the weak Apprentice items. Active stage chips and search narrow the session to match.
Focus your writing reviews. When you pick Writing mode in the trainer or a level review, you can drill just the meaning, just the reading, or both. Reading-only sessions skip radicals, which have no reading to type. Your choice carries over to next time.
July 12, 2026
Per tier view on the SRS chart. The SRS distribution card on /reviews has a second mode: one line per stage, each scaled to its own range, so a week of movement is legible. On the stacked view a tier that gained thirty items moved about three pixels, and Burned was a sliver too thin to read. Each line now shows its current count and how much it has changed.
A time range for the SRS chart. Once you have a month of history, 7d / 30d / All buttons appear on that card. Skipped days also draw as real gaps now, rather than being squeezed into a single step.
July 11, 2026
Reviews per day. The Study activity card on /reviews has a new Bars view: how many reviews you completed each day, on a real axis with month labels, plus today, 7-day average, and best-day stats. WaniKani deleted per-review history in 2023, so exact counts build from this update onward - older days show net stage moves in a muted tone instead.
Heatmap months. The activity grid shows month labels above its columns, so you can tell which week is which.
July 6, 2026
Projection chart. The what-if pace card now draws your path to level 60 on a dated chart, and it redraws as you drag the slider - with a faint line marking your real pace so faster or slower is easy to see.
Retired the Kanji Odyssey. The cinematic 3D replay is gone, replaced by the new live projection chart. The app is noticeably lighter to load as a result.
July 2, 2026
Projection page rework. Milestones are now a journey rail showing what you'll know at each stop ("N4 kanji complete", "half of all Joyo"), and the what-if slider re-projects the dates live as you drag.
Share page rework. Two tabs - Image card and Public profile - with a live preview of your public page, and your link always visible once published.
Burn chart. The burned-items view now charts your burns over time and estimates your final burn date.
Clearer level-up page. Blocking kanji carry WaniKani-style progress bars, and your earliest possible level-up is front and center.
Quieter onboarding. Achievement unlocks wait until the welcome tour is done, and signing out no longer causes a badge burst on the next sign-in.
First sync shows everything. No more half-empty dashboard right after your first sync.
June 28, 2026
Take the guided tour. A quick interactive walk through wanilog's main features, zooming into each one and back. New here? You will be offered it on arrival, and you can replay it anytime from Settings.
June 24, 2026
11 new achievements. A study-streak ladder (7 / 30 / 100 days) in a new Consistency category, Joyo sweeps (all of Grade 1, all of elementary) and a top-100 frequency-kanji sweep, deeper SRS milestones (5,000 at Guru, 1,000 at Master, 1,000 at Enlightened), a Tortoise badge for grinding through a slow level, and Going Public for publishing a profile.
Compound words in reading coverage. Multi-kanji vocabulary you know now highlights as a single word (so 東京 reads as Tokyo, not east + capital), with the word's meaning and reading in the tooltip. Words WaniKani does not teach fall back to per-kanji.
Honest achievement progress bars. Multi-requirement badges (like the accuracy medals) now show the requirement actually holding you back in real units - "94.32% / 95% accuracy" or "4,200 / 5,000 reviews" - and never round a locked badge up to a full bar.
Study heatmap polish. Finer color shades so busy days are no longer one solid block, plus a first-time hint that the squares are tappable for that day's breakdown.
Bigger share card. The Joyo grid share card is no longer clipped by the page width - it shows full-width on /share.
Refreshed medals. A softer reflective sheen and a clearer locked-state lock.
June 23, 2026
More accurate finish-date forecast. Levels 1-2 run at double speed on WaniKani, which made projections optimistic. They are now left out of the pace average by default - you can toggle this on the Projection page, and brand-new accounts keep using them until there is enough normal-speed data.
June 22, 2026
Smarter study heatmap. Tap any day on the heatmap to see what happened - the lessons, promotions, demotions, and burns, with the items themselves. Demotions and later promotions are tracked from now on; older days show lessons, Guru milestones, and burns.
Review a whole level. Self-quiz every item on a level, or just the ones below Guru, without waiting for WaniKani to schedule them. You can also drill a whole SRS stage, or just the kanji blocking your next level-up. Self-graded.
May 29, 2026
Pick your promotion window. The Reviews page now lets you switch tier promotions between the next 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days, so you can see what is graduating soon or look further ahead.
Workload at a glance. Your projected daily review load for the next 30 days now shows right on the Reviews page, with a tap-through to the full forecast.
Palette refresh. Cleaner surfaces and borders across the dark sakura, sumi, and matcha themes, plus the sumi (ink) palette reworked to a neutral charcoal-and-paper look with a sumi-e seal-red accent (no more blue cast or muddy tan).
May 26, 2026
Study activity heatmap. A year grid on the Reviews page plus current and longest streak counters. A day counts as active if you did lessons, hit a Guru milestone, or burned an item.
May 17, 2026
Knowledgebase. A new hub at /knowledgebase pulling every guide, calculator, dictionary, JLPT/Joyo list, and tool comparison into one place.
Recommended guides for you. The /guides index now picks a personalized set based on your level, accuracy, and pace.
Stroke-order diagrams. On every kanji page and on the item detail page for kanji subjects.
Sidebar dashboard layout. An alternative to the bento grid if you prefer a hub-style nav. Pick whichever in the customize menu.
May 15, 2026
Achievements. Collectable medals across 6 categories (milestones, time, velocity, accuracy, customization, and exploration) for hitting milestones on your WaniKani journey, with a new platinum tier for the rarest unlocks. Visit /achievements to see your collection, also reachable from the command palette.
Achievement cloud sync. Opt in to back up your medal collection across devices. Verified once with your WaniKani API key.
Public profile medal strip. Your top earned medals appear on your shareable /u/your-username profile, with a "view all" link to the full grid.
Public profile pages. A brand-new way to share your progress. Open /share and hit "Create shareable link" to publish a read-only page at wanilog.com/u/your-username. The page shows your rank, level, a day-of-journey counter, burns / Master+ / hours studied, your last 15 level durations, and a "one kanji per level" souvenir grid. Re-sharing always updates the same URL.
Profile links unfurl on Twitter, Discord, Slack, and iMessage. A custom preview card shows your level, rank, and headline stats.
日本語. Wanilog can now be used entirely in Japanese. Switch in Settings → Appearance.
Customize your home bento. Tap the pencil in the top bar to enter edit mode, then drag tiles into any order you like. Your layout is remembered.
Share has its own page. The old cramped modal is split into a dedicated /share page with separate sections for the public profile and the image card.
Today's promotions has its own tile. It sits on the home bento, alongside a new Vocab coverage tile.
Sync screen redesign. Watch each stage tick off (Profile, Summary, Subjects, etc) with live counts of what's loading.
May 10, 2026
Today's promotions. A new page that shows what's lined up to graduate to Guru, Master, Enlightened, or Burned in the next 24 hours. Open it from the Accuracy card on the home page.
Vocabulary coverage. A new tab in the coverage section showing how much of WaniKani's vocab you've learned, with a level-by-level breakdown.
Leech trainer remembers your filters. If you toggle Hide Apprentice or Exclude recently unlocked on the Accuracy page, those choices now carry through when you start a session.
Mnemonics on the back of leech cards. Flip a card and you'll see WaniKani's meaning and reading mnemonics next to the answer.
Alternate meanings on leech cards. The flipped side now lists the other accepted meanings under the primary one.
Closing the trainer returns you to the leech list. No more being dumped at the top of the Accuracy page.
Matcha palette refresh. Cleaner contrasts and more variety so the SRS donut isn't a single-color smear.
Radical icons that were rendering as empty squares now show up. The rib cage and a few other legacy radicals were affected.
May 8, 2026
Leech trainer. A fullscreen flashcard quiz over the items you keep missing. Tap to flip, mark Got it or Needs work, and the WaniKani audio plays automatically on reveal for vocab.
Pick a session size. Practice your top 10, 25, 50, 100, or all of your leeches in one go. Each session takes the worst offenders first.
Min mistakes filter. Single-slip 95%-accuracy items no longer flag as leeches. Adjustable down to 1 if you want to see them anyway.
Keyboard shortcuts in the trainer. Space flips, Got it / Needs work, replay audio, mute, Esc to close. Listed at the bottom for discovery.
JLPT, Joyo, and Frequency share a row. The three coverage tiles sit side by side in the home bento on widescreens.
Can I read this is now part of Reading Coverage. It fits more naturally there.
What-if pace slider. It now scales the "Somewhere between" range alongside the headline finish date.
May 5, 2026
Smarter leech detection. The new default algorithm gives more weight to recent answers, so items graduate out of the list as you start getting them right. Per-axis M/R badges show whether the meaning or the reading is the real problem.
Hide Apprentice filter. The leech list can now hide Apprentice items.
Share card and coverage page agree on "learned". Both count Guru and above.
Vacation mode hides the earliest level-up forecast. The timer is paused anyway.
Item tooltips open with keyboard focus. Tab to a chip and the popover appears.
Pinch-zoom is back on iOS.
Faster coverage on big accounts.
Logout clears settings and onboarding. A shared computer no longer leaks between accounts (theme and palette are kept).
Demo no longer overwrites your settings. Your goal date, goal level, and manual kanji list survive a demo round-trip.
Skip-link for keyboard users. Jump past the nav straight to the content.
May 4, 2026
Earliest level-up forecast respects locked kanji. It now adds the wait for kanji that haven't unlocked yet, instead of pretending they're ready to lesson right away.
Grid share card optionally includes your vocabulary. Flip on "Include vocabulary" to add every learned vocab item below the kanji grid, colored by SRS stage.
April 30, 2026
Theme picker. Pick from Default, 🌸 Sakura, 🖋 Sumi, or 🍵 Matcha. Each has light and dark variants. Open it from the palette icon in the top bar.
April 27, 2026
Set a goal level. If you don't plan to reach Lv 60, set your own finish line in Settings. The home hero, projection, share card, chart marker, and coverage forecast all aim there.
Joyo grid share card. A second view of the share card with every Joyo kanji laid out by school grade and colored by your SRS progress.
Custom start date on the share card. If WaniKani has you down as starting years ago because of a few stray old lessons, override the "X days in" line.
Worked example under Unlock / First lesson. The Level-up page now shows one so the difference is clearer.
April 23, 2026
Kanji you know outside WaniKani. Paste a list of kanji you already know in Settings (from another app, class, or living in Japan). They count as learned on the coverage pages, reading card, and Can I read this.
April 22, 2026
Paginated leech list. See beyond your top 20 with Show more / Show all / Collapse, and a "Showing X of Y" counter.
Items grouped by SRS stage within each level. See what's where at a glance; a Group by toggle also flattens the view to pure SRS-stage groups.
Kanji blocking your next level-up moved to the Level-up page. It lives next to your level-up history.
100 more loading-screen quips. The Crabigator now has plenty to say while you wait.
Install Wanilog as an app. A Settings panel walks you through pinning Wanilog to your home screen or Dock on iOS, Android, or desktop.
Splash screen in the installed app. A pulsing Crabigator before the dashboard loads, themed to light or dark.
Firefox install guide. Settings now tells Firefox users which browsers support installing Wanilog as an app.
April 21, 2026
Catch-up pace for your goal date. When you're behind, the home card and Projection page show what days-per-level you'd need to hit the goal (e.g. "needs ~13d/level, you're at 20d"). The what-if slider updates it live.
Coverage page switcher. Jump between JLPT, Joyo, and Frequency from the page header.
Smarter leeches. The new Weighted algorithm surfaces items you keep missing despite plenty of practice, instead of fresh items with one slip.
Leech filters. Hide burned and Exclude recently unlocked toggles.
Wrong count on each leech row. Shown alongside the accuracy %.
Tap-to-preview tooltips on mobile. First tap opens the card, second tap opens WaniKani. Desktop keeps hover-to-preview, click-to-navigate.
Prominent WaniKani and Jisho buttons. Item popovers now link out clearly to both.
Kanji numerals on the level-up chart x-axis. 一, 二, 三 and so on.
Optional day-count labels on the level-up chart. Flip them on to see each bar's exact days.
Clip outliers toggle. One 200-day level no longer squashes the rest of the level-up chart.
Level-up history includes pre-reset attempts. Your timings combine both runs instead of hiding the earlier one.
Choose which resets to include. A checkbox per reset.
Unlock vs first-lesson toggle. On the Level-up page, measure from when the level unlocked, or from when you started lessons.
April 17, 2026
Share your progress. Export a shareable card with your SRS distribution, item counts, and accuracy.
Effective pass rate on the Accuracy page. Meaning × reading combined into one number.
Current level on the level-up chart. It draws as a blue in-progress bar.
Auto-sync on tab load. Fresh data when you open a new tab.
April 16, 2026
Live NHK articles on Reading Coverage. Fresh headlines daily.
Sort options on Reading Coverage. Best coverage, Best for learning (70-95% known), and Most recent.
Load more on Reading Coverage. See beyond the first 10 articles.
Kanji tooltips show on'yomi and kun'yomi separately.
Non-WK kanji separated on coverage pages. Each links out to jisho.org.
Burned items are gold. Easy to tell apart from locked items now.
Deprecated WaniKani radicals hidden. The items list isn't cluttered by them anymore.
WaniKani start date. Shown on the Projection and Level-up pages.
April 15, 2026
Demo mode. Try the full app with fake data, no API key needed.
Can I read this? Paste any Japanese text and see how many of the kanji you already know.
Critical kanji card. The Projection page shows which kanji are blocking your next level-up.
Hover tooltips. On every kanji, vocab, and radical, with links to wanikani.com and jisho.org.
Review history in the tooltip. Meaning and reading accuracy plus best and current streak.
Audio pronunciation. For vocab items, with a voice preference in Settings.
Accuracy by SRS stage, and a leech list. See where accuracy dips, plus the 20 items you struggle with most.
Romaji search on the Items page. Type "mizu" to find 水.
Bottom navigation on mobile. Home, Projection, Items, Accuracy, and Settings, one thumb away.
Command palette. Press Cmd+K or / to search, navigate, toggle theme, refresh data, and more.
Onboarding tour. For first-time visitors, replayable from Settings.
Stats export and a changelog page. The changelog gets a badge when there's something new.
April 14, 2026
Launch 🎉
Play Simulation. A ~25-second cinematic replay of your Kanji Odyssey, ending in a shareable stat card.
Projection. A finish-date forecast with a "what if you were faster?" slider.
Reading coverage. NHK and NHK Easy articles filtered to your level.