β¨ 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 Γ 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
- π 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 β 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 ζ°΄
- 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 π
- π 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