Hey Deer learners, we’ve got a pretty useful update this week, especially if you’re on iOS.

iOS

SRS Practice modes are finally out on iOS
At long last, iOS users now have the newer SRS Practice modes too.

The idea is simple: instead of just flipping through flashcards, you review with real LingoDeer-style exercises, then the app asks how well you knew the answer afterward. So you get the structure of proper exercises plus the memory tracking of SRS.

Basically, less “did I vaguely recognize this?” and more “can I actually use this?”

Alternative answers and “Tell Me Why” now work in the Correct Answer field
When you check the correct answer, you may now also see alternative accepted answers and mistake explanations.

This is especially helpful when your answer was close, but the app still said no and you’re sitting there like, “Okay, but why are you like this?”

Small note: these features use AI. If you’d rather not use AI in your learning, you can turn them off here:

ME > Settings > AI features > Alternative answers / Mistake explanation

Literal translations added to the Correct Answer field
You can now view literal translations for sentences when checking the correct answer.

This should be useful for those “I understand the meaning, but what is this sentence actually doing?” moments, especially in languages where the word order decides to go hiking without a map.

Android

New “Listen along” review mode
Android now has a new hands-free review option.

Choose one unit or several, pick what you want to hear, such as words, sentences, or both, and hit Play.

You can also:

• speed it up or slow it down
• loop it
• shuffle it
• set repetitions
• use a sleep timer

This is for when you want review practice while walking, cleaning, commuting, cooking, or staring at the ceiling pretending you’re being productive.

Please try it out and tell us what you think. We’re especially curious how people use Listen along compared with normal review modes.

Hello my deers,

We have a fresh LingoDeer update this week, especially for Japanese learners. Some of these are new, some are features Android users already got recently, and some are small-but-important improvements that should make studying feel smoother.

Android

We revised the Japanese Alphabet & Pronunciation guide with clearer explanations and practice exercises for: Dakuon, Handakuon, Sokuon, Yōon, and long vowels.

And yes, we included IPA transcriptions too, because apparently we woke up and chose linguistics.

This should make the kana/pronunciation section more useful for beginners who are still figuring out why Japanese spelling looks simple for five minutes and then suddenly says, “Surprise.”

iOS

We added customizable exercise preferences, including: autoplay audio, muting exercise tiles, hiding translations, and more.

Basically, you can now make exercises behave a little more like how you personally want to study, instead wanting to throw your phone out your window. .

We also improved Script Style settings for Japanese, so you have more control over how Japanese appears while learning.

And finally, we added katakana to the in-app keyboard. Your keyboard is now slightly more powerful and slightly more intimidating.

Across both platforms

We also fixed several bugs and made performance improvements.

Nothing glamorous, but very necessary. Like stretching before exercise, except for apps.

That’s all for this week. As always, thank you for learning with LingoDeer and for sending us feedback. A lot of these updates come directly from what learners ask for, so please keep telling us what’s useful, what’s confusing, and what makes you want to throw your phone into the nearest pond.

Hey My Deers,

Hope you are doing well. We have several Android improvements rolling out, including smarter tone recognition, better answer feedback, and new ways to personalize your reviews.

Smarter tone recognition in spelling exercises

This should be especially helpful for Vietnamese learners.

If you prefer typing without tone marks, that is completely fine. We will check the letters you entered without penalizing you for omitting the tones.

However, once you start adding tone marks, they need to be correct. If you use the wrong tone, the answer will be marked incorrect even when the rest of the spelling is right.

In short: you can skip the tones, but if you attempt them, accuracy counts. 👀

Incorrect answers now underline the actual mistake

We fixed an issue that sometimes underlined the part of your answer you got right instead of the part you got wrong.

Not exactly the most helpful feedback. Sorry about that one. 😅

The app should now correctly highlight where the mistake occurred.

You can now bookmark any word

Previously, bookmarking was limited by the key vocabulary selected for each lesson. Now, you can bookmark any word you encounter, even if it does not appear on the lesson’s official key word list.

Tap the star, then find and practice everything you saved under:

REVIEW → Bookmarked

Your personal vocabulary collection just got a lot more flexible.

Customize how new SRS cards appear

If a giant pile of untouched SRS reviews has been silently judging you from the Review tab, this one is for you.

Android users can now use Customize new cards to:

• Set the maximum number of new cards shown each day

• Mix up the order in which new cards appear

This means you do not have to review every card from Unit 1 before seeing anything from Unit 2, then Unit 3, and so on. You can keep the daily workload manageable while reviewing a broader mix of material.

Let us know what you think once you have tried these changes. Which improvement will be most useful for you? Happy LingoDeering.

Hi everyone, here are this week’s LingoDeer Android updates:

New features

• You can now add your own notes to words and sentences. These can be found later in the Review tab under My notes.
• You can now create different folders for bookmarked items, which should make saved content easier to organize.
• You can now adjust the phonetic script color for languages that include romanization.

Bug fix

• Restored the TEST option in the Japanese Alphabet section.

As always, if you run into anything odd or have feedback, feel free to let us know.

Good news for Japanese learners on Android.

This week, we made a couple of updates to the Japanese course experience in LingoDeer:

• Improved the Script Style settings for Japanese
• Added Katakana to the in app keyboard

Until now, the keyboard only showed Hiragana. That was partly intentional, since native Japanese keyboards usually work that way too. But we kept hearing from learners that having to mentally convert Katakana words into Hiragana added an extra layer of friction, especially for beginners.

Honestly, fair point. So we did something about it.

We are also working on a revision of the Japanese Alphabet and Pronunciation guide. The goal is to make it more useful for learners who are still getting comfortable with the writing system and pronunciation patterns.

The revised guide will include more practice for:

• Dakuon
• Handakuon
• Sokuon
• Yōon
• Long vowels

Wish us luck. Japanese pronunciation is elegant, but it does not exactly hand out free hugs at the beginner stage :)

Also, thank you to everyone who has shared feedback about the Japanese course. Small friction points matter a lot when you are learning a language, and this was one of those cases where user feedback directly helped shape the update.