This update makes it easy to share folders using iCloud links, and adds a lifetime purchase option for Advanced Learner. New Features: - Share folders using iCloud links. Anyone with the link can import a copy of the folder, and you can upload changes for them to download later. - Manage folders you've shared and received from the new Shared Folders section, including checking for updates, searching your shared folders, and stopping or removing shares. - Advanced Learner is now available as a one-time lifetime purchase, in addition to monthly and yearly subscriptions. Improvements: - Improved performance throughout: initiating a study from a folder, scrolling card content, updating scores, and other areas. Fixes: - Mac: Fixed duplicate Zoom In and Zoom Out menu items.

This update fixes a crash on launch that slipped past our tests. Sorry about that.

This update focuses on polishing the annotation experience with undo/redo, adjustable emoji sizes, easier-to-see text scanning, tap-to-zoom annotations when studying, faster image loading, and other reliability fixes. New Features: - Undo and redo changes in the Annotation Editor. - Choose from different sizes when adding emoji annotations. - Tap the current annotation answer while studying to zoom in or out. - Scoring multiple selected cards from the Card List is now available on iPhone. Improvements: - Scanned text in the annotation editor is easier to see. - Canvas answers now zoom more smoothly and accurately based on image and annotation size, while respecting Reduced Motion. - Improved image loading performance in the Card Editor, widgets, and Live Activities. Fixes: - Reduced memory use in the app and widgets, which fixes a widget crash that would sometimes happen. - Fixed thumbnails sometimes missing from widgets and Live Activities. - Fixed archive import/export changing the file type of images unnecessarily. - Mac: Fixed image loading progress and stale overlays in the Card Editor.

This update adds a new Advanced Learner feature: LaTeX equations, which make it easy to create, study, print, and share mathematical flashcards. The equation editor has easy-to-use snippets and autocomplete so that you can start creating equations without having to know LaTeX syntax.

This update is mostly bug fixes and quality of life improvements, adds a demo folder, and improves study scheduling to better handle deadlines and longer spaced repetition intervals. Improvements: - Improved study scheduling so cards remain available until their deadline instead of completing early. - Added 2-month and 6-month study intervals. - Larger emoji thumbnails make image annotations easier to recognize. - Mac: Improved the screenshot tool with side resize handles and prevented zero-size screenshot selections. Fixes: - Fixed Quick Entry resetting the text cursor position while typing. - Fixed the score context menu not appearing when right-clicking on Mac. - Fixed arrows and freeform shape colors not being preserved when archiving and restoring cards. - Mac: Fixed the screenshot overlay sometimes requiring an extra click before drawing a selection. Thank you all for your feedback and being part of improving Benkyo Box.

This update brings new free features: draw irregularly-shaped annotations and hidden regions (perfect for map regions), choose annotation colors, turn off specific study intervals (for those who prefer less frequent studies), and a new Recents section in folder pickers. Benkyo Box is also now available in German and Brazilian Portuguese. New Features: - Highlight, label, and hide irregular areas of an image with freeform shapes. - Tap on the tool button to see the options - Choose colors for annotations and hidden regions. - Customize your learning schedule by disabling individual study intervals in Settings -> Study Intervals. Tap or click on an interval to disable it. - Folder pickers now have a "Recents" section that allow you to quickly access recently picked or created folders (it appears if you have more than 5 folders). - Translated the app to German and Brazilian Portuguese. Improvements: - Mac: When adding pin annotations, clicking places the pin pointing directly where you click. - Mac: Folder pickers now restore expanded and collapsed folder state. - Mac: Badges that show remaining studies look better with larger numbers. Fixes: - Fixed shortcuts that create folders not updating the folder list immediately. - Mac: Fixed the app not activating when launching folders via the menu bar icon. - Mac: Fixed the app unexpectedly quitting sometimes after deleting items. - Mac: Fixed widget and App Shortcuts colors not always matching the selected theme.

Fixed arrows not being saved correctly when adding them to a new image on iPhone.

This update adds extracting cards from PDFs (Advanced Learner), launch folders and create cards from the Menu Bar icon on Mac, and lots of little polish and bug fixes. New Features: - Advanced Learner: In addition to extracting cards from text using Apple Intelligence, you can now select a PDF file to extract cards from it. - Mac: Launch the app or specific folders from the menu bar. - Mac: Launch Quick Entry, create new cards or annotations from the menu bar. Improvements: - The current card's folder name is now visible while studying. - Mac: Smoother transition when switching annotations in the card list. Fixes: - Fixed annotation editor zooming and selection behavior after editing or deleting annotations. - Fixed the color of empty emoji annotation tool icons. - iPhone, iPad: Fixed page previews taking over the screen in landscape mode when printing. - Fixed various localization issues and added translations for new features.

This update adds sharing and exporting flashcards as PDF, printing physical study decks, and a new foldable zine format, so that you can study cards in a booklet when you are not on your phone. On Mac: now the current selection is used when exporting, sharing, and printing, so that you can only share a portion of your decks. New Features: - Export flashcards as PDF, share PDFs, and print flashcard collections. PDFs have 3 styles:  - Single page to study by occluding the paper - Double-sided to study by flipping the cards - A foldable flashcard zine format, to study questions in groups of 4. - Mac: The current selection is used when sharing, exporting and printing - Mac: Added a dedicated Page Setup screen for configuring flashcard print layouts. Fixes: - Fixed several Mac strings not being translated

Faster and more compatible Anki import, new screenshot menu bar tools on Mac, and many improvements to annotations, accessibility, and study workflows. New Features: - Import audio from Anki cards. - iOS: Added new General settings and reorganized annotation-related settings. - Mac: Added a menu bar icon to quickly create cards from screenshots. - Mac: Added a global keyboard shortcut for creating screenshots. - Mac: You can now move selected annotations with the arrow keys. Improvements: - Improved accessibility with better card list layouts at larger accessibility text sizes. - Improved performance when generating and extracting Anki `.apkg` archives. - Older Anki decks can now be imported. - Rectangular occlusions can now import from Anki. More complex shapes will come in the future. Fixes: - Fixed `.apkg` files appearing grayed out or failing to open in file pickers and app intents. - Fixed the area pointed-to by arrows not always being in view when studying.

New for Advanced Learner: Annotate images with emoji pins and arrows, a powerful and fun new way to learn from maps, diagrams, and photos. It's also incredibly effective for the Mind Palace technique of associating concepts to a familiar picture (e.g. associate the picture of flowers of your garden with a list of names). There's also a plethora of improvements around annotations and new card creation that we think you'll love. New Features: - New Arrow annotations for Advanced Learner: point to specific parts of an image with arrows customizable with eight colors. Perfect for remembering areas of an image with more irregular shapes. - New Emoji Pins for Advanced Learner: Place emoji markers anywhere on an image to mark locations, landmarks, map regions, and more. Perfect for learning from visual associations. - Picking content to turn into cards with the (+) button is easier: - Select what you want to add first (from the camera, image picker, folder, pasteboard etc), then we'll figure out what you can create from it (image card, annotation, quick entry, etc). No more complex nested menus. - The (+) button allows you to start an audio recording now. With Advanced Learner, it'll also automatically transcribe the text for creating one or more cards using Quick Entry. - Image Playground is now available from the Add Card menu. Improvements: - A more intuitive Annotations experience: - The Annotations Editor can now open without picking an image first, allowing you to choose how to add an image after launching it. Select from different sources, including new methods like drag and drop, and Image Playgrounds. - A new floating toolbar shows you all the tools that you have available and can be tapped for more tool options. - Lasso tool has been replaced with a new Select tool that allows you to more easily pan, zoom and select annotations in an image. Long press while the Select tool is active to activate the lasso. - Tapping on the canvas ends editing on the current annotation, not the whole editing session, so that you can more easily continue editing other annotations. - The keyboard stays active while you add annotations with the keyboard active, so that you can continue typing new ones easily. - Mac: Escape key now correctly cancels editor actions. - Cleaned up Quick Entry's design on both iOS 26 and iOS 18 Fixes: - Fixed pasted Finder images only importing file icons instead of the actual image. - Fixed issues where resizing annotations could accidentally trigger taps, deselecting them.

We’ve made major improvements to how you study annotations, along with a range of refinements across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New Features: - Annotations are now studied on a canvas with the original image in the background, instead of being cropped. This provides better context while studying. - Go back to studying cropped annotations in: Settings -> Appearance - Mac: Open cards and folders in new windows with double-click or the Enter key. Improvements: - iPad: Improved touch tracking and hover animations in the Study View - Advanced Learner subscriptions screen actually does show that you can scroll. - Widgets updated with improved styling and better use of system tint colors. - Redacted area use consistent colors throughout the app. - Various UI polish and layout refinements across the app. Fixes: - Fixed annotation text not being selectable on iOS. The system translation tool also works correctly on them as a result. - Fixed Card Editor not updating when switching themes. - Fixed issues with popover tips not appearing. - Pasted text now cleans up - Mac: Fixed the contents of cards being shifted left by a small amount after appearing in studies.

Introducing the new List Widget: view cards that are ready to study, check on study progress of the list, and even create cards or start a study session right from the widget. New Features: - New List Widget for glancing at your cards from the home screen, with many customization options. Improvements: - In study sessions, longer cards that scroll used to disable the reveal and scoring swipe gestures to prevent conflicts. Now you can swipe from the corner of the screen to perform these actions. - Added many missing voiceover labels across the app and fixed some broken ones. - Advanced Learner: The Create Card shortcut action now transcribes audio if passed an audio file. - Improved the text detection UI in the annotation editor. Fixes: - Fixed question/answer text blocking other voiceover regions in the card editor - Fixed scanning text from photos not working correctly in photos taken via the in-app camera.

This update surfaces helpful information to various screens: Studies display your progress, and all lists of cards and calendar days show the number of cards on each section (upcoming, available, and finished cards). In addition, Shortcuts actions like Study Card and Get Card play back recorded audio. New Features - Study progress is now visible when studying - Card lists and calendar days now display section counts - The Study Card and Get Card shortcuts action can now play audio in cards that have audio. Improvements - Hidden regions are easier to see in Get Card and other card-previewing Shortcuts actions. - Hidden regions now better match search results in Shortcuts Fixes - Fixed hidden regions not honoring the "hide answer" setting in Shortcuts.

Fix poor study animations frame rate in folders and improve reveal and scoring gestures when cards are scrollable. 1.8.2 updates: Say hello to a new Advanced Learner feature: Audio Transcripts. Now you can read your recordings in studies and in lists whenever it's inconvenient to listen to them. In addition, you can now attach audio to new cards from Shortcuts, study performance is snappier on Mac and iPad, and the UI looks more solid (specially selection / inactive states) on Mac and iPad. New Features - Advanced Learner: Transcribe speech to text in flashcards, keeping the original audio file for reference. This works automatically on new recordings, or manually for anything imported. - You can now attach audio files in the Create Card Shortcut - record audio in your flashcards without entering the app. Improvements - [Mac, iPad] Brought some Study Session performance / battery usage improvements from iPhone to Mac and iPad. Fixes - [Mac, iPad] In Calendar, Don't highlight multiple rows when the same folder appears more than once. - [Mac] Fixed overlapping text in Study Progress on Mac - [Mac] Fixed layout spacing issues in Quick Entry on Mac - Fixed an issue where invalid cards could be imported or exported in certain edge cases. - [Mac, iPad] Fixed window inactive states, which were not graying accent colors and dimming content as expected. - Fixed losing typed in text if you add an image without dismissing the keyboard first. As always, thank you for using Benkyo Box.

Say hello to a new Advanced Learner feature: Audio Transcripts. Now you can read your recordings in studies and in lists whenever it's inconvenient to listen to them. In addition, you can now attach audio to new cards from Shortcuts, study performance is snappier on Mac and iPad, and the UI looks more solid (specially selection / inactive states) on Mac and iPad. New Features - Advanced Learner: Transcribe speech to text in flashcards, keeping the original audio file for reference. This works automatically on new recordings, or manually for anything imported. - You can now attach audio files in the Create Card Shortcut - record audio in your flashcards without entering the app. Improvements - [Mac, iPad] Brought some Study Session performance / battery usage improvements from iPhone to Mac and iPad. Fixes - [Mac, iPad] In Calendar, Don't highlight multiple rows when the same folder appears more than once. - [Mac] Fixed overlapping text in Study Progress on Mac - [Mac] Fixed layout spacing issues in Quick Entry on Mac - Fixed an issue where invalid cards could be imported or exported in certain edge cases. - [Mac, iPad] Fixed window inactive states, which were not graying accent colors and dimming content as expected. - Fixed losing typed in text if you add an image without dismissing the keyboard first. As always, thank you for using Benkyo Box.

This update makes the study view much smoother, specially when studying a folder. We also fixed several audio recording and copy/paste bugs. Improvements - Significantly increased animation performance and battery consumption when studying by preventing unnecessary work while a study session is active. - Improved error reporting when pasting unsupported clipboard content - Audio cards in lists have a slightly less prominent look Fixes - Fixed the audio recorder not playing back the whole file again after replacing an audio region. - Fixed the audio recorder waveform not updating smoothly when the file starts increasing size. Quality - Many many tests were added in the making of this release, in preparation for more ambitious future updates. Happy studies!

This update introduces a much requested feature: audio recording and playback for card questions and answers! These can be recorded within the app, from the file picker, or imported en-masse from a folder. It also includes visual refinements, and fixes to Live Activities. New Features - Record audio directly on cards and play it back while studying - Import one or more audio files via drag and drop, the file picker, or folder imports Improvements - Live Activity backgrounds now respect reduced luminance accessibility settings - Improved tap feedback of images in the CardEditor Fixes - Fixed an issue where answers could become slightly visible when the app returned to the foreground - Fixed previous Live Activities not ending correctly when a new study session is started. - Fixed starting the correct study session when re-launching the app from a Live Activity Happy learning!

This update introduces a Live Activity to keep track of your current study session, enables continuing studies on other folders when finishing a study session, adds a setting to help reduce the number of notifications coming from multiple folders, , and brings multiple stability and performance improvements across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. New Features - Keep track and resume your active study session with a Live Activity that appears in the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and in Stand By Mode when you exit a study session midway. - After finishing a study session, other folders that are ready to study can be navigated to and studied directly from the Study Completion screen. Upcoming folders can be navigated to as well. - Separating notifications by folder can be turned off from Settings, which reduces the number of notifications if various folders become available at the same time. Tapping on notifications on this mode opens "Today’s Cards". Improvements - Visual refinements to the Calendar’s Today screen for Liquid Glass - The Study Completion screen now shows how many cards are left per folder - Advanced Learner: When hiding a Folder that has subfolders, you can optionally hide its subfolders as well. - Mac: Annotation text fields now become first responder immediately after being added Fixes - Mac: Fixed context menus not appearing on all clickable areas of folders - Mac: Fixed the background of Settings in light mode - Mac: Fixed an issue where the Study view could scroll back up unexpectedly when using a trackpad

This update improves stability (Mac, specially), adds a folder picker to New card editors, and fixes notification previews of hidden areas. What’s New - The folder name field is focused automatically when creating new folders - Cards with Hidden Areas now display a thumbnail preview of the hidden areas in notifications instead of revealing the answer - iPhone, iPad: You can now change the folder new cards or annotations go to without having to navigate to it first Fixes - Dragging images on lists of cards now correctly uses the image filename as the default card answer. - iPhone, iPad: Fixed an incorrect "No cards found" message appearing after scanning and then converting scans to cards. - Mac: Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when resizing windows that display lists of cards.

We redesigned the annotation editor, adding the capability of hiding areas of an image to study them and improved its text scanning UI. There's also stability fixes for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: - Adding annotations no longer places an annotation in the center of the screen. Draw them directly in the area you wish to annotate, which is much more natural. - Hidden Regions: You can now hide labels of diagrams and other specific areas of an image to study them. - iPhone, iPad: Improvements to the Annotation Editor's text scanner: - After recognizing text, long press to activate a lasso tool to select multiple scanned regions for merging or removing them. - Select between hiding the recognized text, or converting it to annotations. - Shortcuts: The Create Annotations Action no longer requires existing annotations to launch the Annotation Editor, which will appear ready for you to create annotation cards. - Image Annotations and Hidden Areas are now rendered in Archive import previews Fixes: - Fixed duplicate card exports when exporting archives with annotations. - Fixed race conditions when adding annotations and switching cards quickly.

This release brings major performance improvements to Anki import, adds Anki export, faster performance across editing and imports, new ways to create cards and annotations from the clipboard and Files, and redesigned Mac Settings. It also includes many stability fixes across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: - Revamped the New Card button with new ways of quickly creating cards: - Added: Create Annotation Cards from photos in the Clipboard or from Files - Added: Create Cards directly from Photos, Files, Camera or Clipboard (image or text) - Added: Open QuickEntry with an URL in the clipboard to extract cards right away (Advanced Learner only) - Mac: Preferences are redesigned to use a tab-based layout. - Added Anki export, letting you export your decks back to Anki. - Import preview now supports sorting columns, making large imports easier to review. Improvements: - Reduced import time of Anki decks by 70% in some instances - Improved typing performance and responsiveness of the card and annotation editors on iOS. Fixes: - Fixed Quick Entry card extraction not showing results immediately when opened directly in extraction mode. - Mac: Fixed a crash that would happen when opening certain folders with annotations. - Mac: Fixed Card Editor menu buttons not being in the correct place when typing longer cards

Now you can import Anki decks created with the latest versions of Anki. It supports Cloze cards and simple text/image combinations. It also brings fixes and polish across Mac, iPad, and iPhone. New Features: * Added support for importing Anki decks with supported content like Cloze, images, and plain text. There's no image occlusion card support (yet). Import is accessible by drag/dropping .apkg files to folders or via the "Import..." menu. * New Shortcuts actions for Anki imports. Other import-related shortcut actions now get better error reporting when things go wrong. Improvements: - Import views now * Import views now show a preview for all import types, not just CSV. * iPhone, iPad: Import Views now allow you to change the target folder Fixes: * Audio now mixes correctly with background music during study. * Fixed Import, when invoked from Context Menus, not figuring out the target folder correctly * Fixed a case where score controls could get stuck after the app moved to the background. * Addressed a threading issue that could lead to crashes in rare cases. * iPad: Icons and badges now visually dim when their rows lose focus. * iPad: Fixed a regression that caused iPad windows to not be resizable * Mac: Fixed menu bar items remaining disabled after canceling the photo picker.

This update add new Shortcuts actions and updates for the new Extract Cards feature, improves card extraction, and fixes several study, help, and Quick Entry issues across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. New Features - Added an option to the "Open Quick Entry" Shortcuts action for opening it in Extract Cards mode. - Added a new “Extract Card from Text” Shortcuts action to turn text into study cards in the background. - [Mac] Help now links to the web manual Improvements - Improved AI card extraction to favor shorter, more useful cards and avoid low-value results - Better error handling when extracting cards from articles. It no longer falls back to extracting from the whole page when an article isn't found because this leads to low quality cards. - Reviewed and corrected help and error messages across the app. - [iPhone, iPad] Improved legibility of icons in the import preview view - [Mac] Tip views for Quick Entry and AI Card Extraction now open in separate windows Fixes - Automatically add a number suffix to new folders created from Shortcuts when an existing folder with the same name is found. - Fixed reloading and animation glitches at the end of a study session. - Translated various untranslated strings - [iPhone, iPad] Fixed help sheets for Quick Entry not being available - [Mac] Fixed placeholder text alignment in Quick Entry.

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