✨ What's new

Recent changes to Wanilog, most recent first.

April 17, 2026

Share your progress - export a shareable card with your SRS distribution, item counts, and accuracy to flex on your friends
Effective pass rate on the Accuracy page showing the product of meaning × reading accuracy
Current level in the level-up chart as a blue in-progress bar so you can see how your current level compares
Auto-sync on tab load - fresh data is fetched automatically when you open a new tab

April 16, 2026

Live NHK articles on the Reading coverage page - fresh headlines fetched daily instead of a stale snapshot
Sort options for reading coverage: Best coverage, Best for learning (70-95% known), and Most recent
Load more button on reading coverage - see 25+ articles instead of 10
Kanji tooltips now show on'yomi and kun'yomi separately instead of a single reading
Non-WK kanji separated on coverage pages with a "Not taught by WaniKani" section that links to jisho.org
Burned items are now gold instead of grey so they are easy to tell apart from locked items
Hidden deprecated WK radicals (e.g. "worm") that were cluttering the items list
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. Hit "Try the demo" on the login page
📖 Can I read this? - a new page where you paste any Japanese text and see how many of the kanji you already know
Critical kanji card on the Projection page showing which kanji are blocking your next level-up
Hover tooltips on every kanji, vocab, and radical across the whole app with links to wanikani.com + jisho.org
Review history inside the tooltip - meaning and reading accuracy plus best/current streak for each item
Audio pronunciation button for vocab items, with a voice preference (Settings → Audio)
Accuracy by SRS stage and a leech list of the 20 items you struggle with most
Romaji search on the Items page - type "mizu" to find 水
Bottom navigation bar on mobile for quick access to Home, Projection, Items, Accuracy, and Settings
Command palette - press Cmd+K or / to search, navigate, toggle theme, refresh data, and more
Copy to clipboard button on the simulation stat card
Onboarding tour for first-time visitors - replay it any time from Settings
Stats export and a changelog page with a badge when there are new entries

April 14, 2026

Launch 🎉

🚀 Play Simulation - a ~25-second cinematic replay of your Kanji Odyssey: rocket climbing the chart, kanji at each 10-level milestone, date reveal, and a shareable stat card
Projection - finish-date forecast with a "what if you were faster?" slider and per-level outlier exclusion
Reading coverage with sample NHK and NHK Easy articles filtered to your level
Dashboard with SRS donut, accuracy breakdown, level-up history, and JLPT / Joyo / top-2k coverage
Installable as a PWA with offline support after first sync