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Wokabulary Changelog

What's new in Wokabulary 6.5.0

Apr 16, 2024
  • We have improved the tag management, so you can now have your tags sorted by date, frequency, or name.
  • Also new in this update:
  • A new setting let you use a uniform blur for the flash card quiz answers, so the length does not give any hints on the answer
  • The word editing view will now update when the word is simultaneously edited on another device
  • You can now filter for words by excluding tags
  • Improved search for Hebrew, French, Italian, and Spanish
  • Comments are now shown in a larger font size
  • Fixed an issue that the interactive quiz widget would not work correctly

New in Wokabulary 6.4.0 (Mar 11, 2024)

  • You can now have a word card widget on your Lock Screen, in Stand By mode, or in the Smart Stack on your Watch. And there is also a new statistics widget that shows your learning streak and the number of words due for a quiz.
  • Also new in this update:
  • We now offer a lifetime purchase option as an alternative to our monthly and yearly subscriptions

New in Wokabulary 6.3.4 (Feb 18, 2024)

  • Much improved instructions on how to install voices for speech output
  • Added Ukrainian localization
  • Improved localizations for Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese

New in Wokabulary 6.3.3 (Feb 1, 2024)

  • Slightly adjusted font sizes in the word cards and in the quiz
  • Speech output will now ignore text in brackets
  • Hides spelling suggestion in the typing quiz on iOS
  • Improved Apple Pencil support in the typing quiz
  • Fixes a rare graphics glitch in the statistics charts
  • Fixes a bug on the iPad that made the quiz stop when switching apps

New in Wokabulary 6.3.2 (Jan 18, 2024)

  • Fixes an issue where the renewal date of subscriptions was displayed incorrectly
  • You will now be warned if you have duplicate vocabularies

New in Wokabulary 6.3.1 (Jan 9, 2024)

  • Fixes the sorting of words with brackets for some European languages
  • Fixes a rare bug that new words would not be saved correctly when using the cmd+N shortcut

New in Wokabulary 6.3.0 (Dec 17, 2023)

  • You can now have words translated directly in Wokabulary or look them up in the dictionary with just one click — in over 35 languages.
  • Further improvements:
  • The learning progress chart now intelligently adjusts the Y-Axis for more details
  • There is now an option to ignore text in brackets in the typing quiz
  • Word sorting now ignores brackets and some special characters

New in Wokabulary 6.2.1 (Dec 4, 2023)

  • Fixes a display issue with coupon codes

New in Wokabulary 6.2.0 (Nov 14, 2023)

  • This update is all about improving Accessibility.
  • Managing words and doing a Quiz using VoiceOver is now much easier.
  • Further improvements:
  • Data backups now also include images
  • Fixes a crash that sometimes occurs when the app is in background
  • Fixes a rare issue that the subscription would be reset and needed to be restored
  • Fixes a bug that the status bar would have bad contrast on iOS 17
  • When editing a word in Quiz, pressing return will now end the editing mode

New in Wokabulary 6.1.2 (Oct 11, 2023)

  • Redesigned achievement badges
  • Extended time frames for the recently added filter
  • Clearer interface and new shortcut to toggle the editing mode
  • Improved interface layout when using split views on iPad
  • Significantly improved performance for very large vocabularies
  • All buttons now use the system's accent color on macOS

New in Wokabulary 6.1.1 (Sep 27, 2023)

  • Bugfixes in this update:
  • Streak achievements are finally granted correctly
  • Improved text display in the Quiz widget and on watchOS
  • Fixes a crash occurring when Wokabulary is in the background

New in Wokabulary 6.1.0 (Sep 18, 2023)

  • New features for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and watchOS 10
  • Interactive quiz widget for your home screen
  • Re-designed Watch app
  • Re-designed Statistics

New in Wokabulary 6.0.7 (Sep 12, 2023)

  • Adjusted keyboard shortcuts for adding and deleting words
  • The setting to ignore letter case in the typing quiz now works correctly
  • Achievements for sharing and receiving word lists will now be granted
  • Fixed an issue that the usage streak would reset incorrectly
  • Empty words will now automatically be discarded
  • Fixed a bug that adding new words would not work correctly while a search was active
  • Adjusted some text layout issue

New in Wokabulary 6.0.6 (Aug 27, 2023)

  • You can now directly open CSV files you receive via AirDrop in Wokabulary
  • Improved initial syncing screen with progress information
  • There is a new setting to include comments when searching
  • The search field now gets focus correctly when using keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed an issue that progress statistics would be accounted to the wrong day when you are in a timezone far away from London (thanks to Roy from Australia for pointing this out)
  • Synonyms are now recognized correctly again in the typing quiz
  • You can now repeat a quiz with only misspelled errors
  • Fixed several display issues in the statistics graphs

New in Wokabulary 6.0.5 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Fixes several issues with tags containing upper case letters
  • Searching is now even faster for large vocabularies
  • Window size and position will now be restored on launch
  • Fixes a display issue with the tutorial bubble in the typing quiz
  • Now shows the correct renewal date for active subscriptions
  • Prevents the quiz card from overflowing in extremely large quiz sessions

New in Wokabulary 6.0.4 (Jul 10, 2023)

  • Searching and filtering is now blazingly fast!
  • Fixed an issue that words would be quizzed in alphabetic order
  • Fixed a crash in the quiz
  • Made it more clear that enhanced or premium voices should be installed for speech output

New in Wokabulary 6.0.3 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Improved Spanish localization
  • Newly imported words are now shuffled better for the quiz
  • Fixed several interface glitches related to selecting and editing words
  • Active subscriptions are now displayed prettier in the subscription view

New in Wokabulary 6.0.2 (Jun 28, 2023)

  • You can now directly add a word when you don't find it with the search
  • Fixed an issue that the quiz cards were cut off on some Apple Watch models
  • A dry run quiz will now no longer change the last-asked date of words
  • Trailing whitespaces will now be ignored in typing quizzes
  • Updated Portuguese localization

New in Wokabulary 6.0.1 (Jun 26, 2023)

  • Added Portuguese localization
  • Improved how the progress is displayed in the quiz
  • Fixed some interface glitches in the quiz
  • Updated Korean localizations
  • Quiz achievements are no longer shown multiple times when achieved
  • Fixed a bug preventing importing words from working correctly

New in Wokabulary 5.11 (Jun 26, 2023)

  • After two years of development, we are happy to announce the all new Wokabulary 6!
  • Wokabulary 6 comes with new quiz modes, more powerful filters, tag management, image support, Apple Watch support, and more streamlined interface design.
  • Wokabulary 6 is a separate download and you can continue using Wokabulary 5 as it is.
  • This update includes announcements to Wokabulary 6 and instructions on how to migrate your data to Wokabulary 6.

New in Wokabulary 5.10.4 (May 26, 2023)

  • This update fixes an issue where Hebrew words were cut off in the quiz.

New in Wokabulary 5.10.3 (Mar 26, 2023)

  • This update only contains minor improvements to the export functionality.

New in Wokabulary 5.10.2 (Feb 27, 2023)

  • This update improves the purchase dialog to make it clearer that existing customers can restore their previous purchase for free.

New in Wokabulary 5.10 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Importing of words: Now tags from the imported words will also be assigned when the imported word already exists in your vocabulary. By the way, this was a feature request from Reiner.

New in Wokabulary 5.9 (Jun 19, 2022)

  • The term “default” originally means to fail (from Old French “defaute”). In software, default values are fallback values for when the user has ‘failed’ to input a value.
  • Maybe this negative connotation is why on macOS settings were never called defaults but “preferences”.
  • In this version we add a setting so you can adjust your preferred default value for the number of words to be selected for a quiz.

New in Wokabulary 5.8.2 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • Improves handling of iCloud errors

New in Wokabulary 5.8 (Nov 29, 2021)

  • Improves VoiceOver accessibility in the Quiz and Filter

New in Wokabulary 5.7.3 (Sep 19, 2021)

  • Makes tag be exported in alphabetic order
  • Fixes display of scrollbars in tags fields when mouse is attached
  • Fixes editing of comments during a quiz

New in Wokabulary 5.7.2 (Jun 17, 2021)

  • Improves support for Apple Silicon Macs.

New in Wokabulary 5.7.1 (Mar 12, 2021)

  • Improvements on the quiz algorithm:
  • Words from unknown levels will be selected much smarter
  • Repeating wrong answered words in a quiz will shuffle the words better
  • Tag filters will now by default OR multiple tags instead of ANDing them
  • Handling of tags in filtering can be set in setting

New in Wokabulary 5.7 (Mar 5, 2021)

  • Improvements on the quiz algorithm:
  • Words from unknown levels will be selected much smarter
  • Repeating wrong answered words in a quiz will shuffle the words better
  • Tag filters will now OR multiple tags instead of ANDing them

New in Wokabulary 5.6 (Nov 26, 2020)

  • Improves the way how words for the quiz are selected
  • Adjustments for macOS Big Sur
  • Native support for Macs with Apple Silicon CPUs
  • Improved error reporting
  • Improved purchase processing

New in Wokabulary 5.5.0 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • This update brings minor under-the-hood improvements not worth mentioning here.

New in Wokabulary 5.4.1 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • This update brings minor improvements:
  • The speech function will now use the default system voice (if it's the correct language) and otherwise prefer those voices where you have installed the enhanced versions. This lets you control better which voice should be used.
  • The number of words stepper in Quiz setup now behaves similar to the iPhone/iPad version and will not wrap around. At the same time you can now select up to 999 words for the quiz — in case you have no plans for the weekend.

New in Wokabulary 5.0.1 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • Fixed: filtering for levels was broken
  • Fixed: could not go back from tags editing field using shift+tab

New in Wokabulary 5.0 (May 29, 2018)

  • Complete redesign of statistics
  • Design overhaul of most other view
  • Changed quiz intervals to longer intervals
  • Quiz automatically reads out foreign words

New in Wokabulary 4.6.1 (Mar 1, 2018)

  • Fixes a display issue in the Quiz on older versions of macOS.

New in Wokabulary 4.6 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Redesigned Quiz with bigger fonts and more space for comments
  • Bug fixes:
  • Minor fixes

New in Wokabulary 4.5.2 (Dec 29, 2017)

  • Fixes an issue that syncing would not be triggered on app start

New in Wokabulary 4.5.1 (Oct 23, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Sorting now ignores articles and other grammatical prefixes (like "the" and "to" in English or "le", "la" and "les" in French)
  • When adding a new word while tag-filtering is active, the currently selected tags will be prefilled for the new word
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes an issue that tags appeared blurred on macOS High Sierra
  • Fixes an issue that error messages were sometimes not descriptive
  • Fixes an issue that tags disappear from the tag cloud after deleting a word

New in Wokabulary 4.5 (Aug 23, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Sorting now ignores articles and other gramatical prefixes (like "the" and "to" in English or "le", "la" and "les" in French)
  • When adding a new word while tag-filtering is active, the currently selected tags will be prefilled for the new word
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixes an issue that sometimes changes made on multiple devices would not be merged correctly during iCloud sync

New in Wokabulary 4.4 (May 25, 2017)

  • New features:
  • You can now add new words directly from the search
  • Comments can now be multi line
  • Bug fixes:
  • Improves the stability and reliability of the purchase process and fixes some problems with restoring previous purchases
  • Sometimes unnecessary spaces were not removed from new words
  • When editing multiple words the level and don't-ask-again status could be set wrongly

New in Wokabulary 4.3.2 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Sorting and searching were wrongly case-sensitive
  • Adding multiple words would not immediately update the word list

New in Wokabulary 4.3.1 (Mar 8, 2017)

  • Fixes a bug that two languages could inadvertently be merged together.

New in Wokabulary 4.3 (Mar 2, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Wokabulary can now send daily notifications reminding you to do a Quiz
  • Option to increase font size in Quiz and word list
  • Adds localisations for Chinese and Japanese
  • Lots of stability and performance improvements
  • Bug fixes:
  • Very large vocabularies could not be loaded
  • Number of selected words in Quiz setup would not stop at recommended number
  • Don't-Ask-Again button would not display in Quiz on El Capitan
  • Quiz now uses circle as icon for correct in Korean, Japanese and Chinese

New in Wokabulary 4.2.2 (Dec 6, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Switching languages with syncing in progress could result in different languages being merged.

New in Wokabulary 4.2.1 (Nov 30, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Quiz can now read out foreign words of all major languages
  • Quiz and vocabulary view have been redesigned for better usability
  • CSV import has been improved to recognize more format and be more reliable
  • Improved word selection in Quiz for better learning results
  • Bugfixes:
  • Don't ask again checkbox could not be selected in Flash Card Quiz
  • In Quiz editing would not clear background after completion
  • Answering Synonyms correctly would not update level icon
  • Quiz progress bar sometimes had small black lines
  • Could not switch languages without Pro Features
  • Window got bigger over several restarts
  • Changing languages would unnecessarily reorder list of languages
  • Order of foreign language and your language would not be consistent in interface
  • Switching to a language would not automatically sync
  • Selected words for quiz would sometimes not be shuffled correctly

New in Wokabulary 4.2 (Nov 23, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Quiz can now read out foreign words of all major languages
  • Quiz and vocabulary view have been redesigned for better usability
  • CSV import has been improved to recognize more format and be more reliable
  • Improved word selection in Quiz for better learning results
  • Bug fixes:
  • Changing languages would unnecessarily reorder list of languages
  • Order of foreign language and your language would not be consistent in interface
  • Switching to a language would not automatically sync
  • Selected words for quiz would sometimes not be shuffled correctly

New in Wokabulary 4.1.1 (Oct 8, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Quiz is limited to 100 words
  • Edits on words might sometimes be reset after sync
  • Sometimes quiz progress is not saved correctly

New in Wokabulary 4.1 (Sep 14, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Restart Quiz with wrongly answered words
  • Rename Languages
  • Set custom tag when importing words
  • Bug fixes:
  • Quiz progress bar fills up too quickly if synonyms where answered
  • Very long words are cut off in Quiz
  • Cannot delete common tags when selecting multiple words
  • Rare crash when activating syncing
  • Can’t edit words when word limit is reached

New in Wokabulary 4.0.3 (Aug 28, 2016)

  • The following bugs have been fixed in this update:
  • Quiz progress is not saved if restarting too quickly
  • Changing levels does not update Don’t-Ask-Again checkbox correctly
  • Export not possible for existing users
  • Newly imported words are hard to find and should be tagged
  • fixed som

New in Wokabulary 4.0.2 (Aug 19, 2016)

  • Fixed: Keyboard does not switch when editing in quiz
  • Fixed: wrong button sometimes does not disappear
  • Fixed: word limit does not get updated while adding new words

New in Wokabulary 4.0 (Aug 16, 2016)

  • A complete re-design and brings an all new, much improved interface. This major update increases usability, stability and joy of use.
  • Main improvements:
  • Easy and powerful search and filters
  • Re-designed Quiz
  • Awesome statistics

New in Wokabulary 3.6.3 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • Improves search for diacritic characters
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Wokabulary 3.6.3 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • Improves search for diacritic characters
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Wokabulary 3.6.2 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • fixes a bug where deleting a language does not delete copies on iCloud correctly
  • fixes display issues in Pro Features purchase process

New in Wokabulary 3.6.1 (Mar 23, 2016)

  • fixed display issues with Pro Features
  • fixes some seldom crashes

New in Wokabulary 3.6 (Feb 16, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed: Sometimes correct answers in the quiz are not saved correctly
  • fixed: Restoring Purchases does not give feedback on error

New in Wokabulary 3.5.5 (Dec 22, 2015)

  • Fixed: add word popover window sometimes gets cleared unexpectedly
  • Fixed: deleted languages keep getting re-downloaded from iCloud

New in Wokabulary 3.5.4 (Nov 16, 2015)

  • fixed: quiz might crash if asked more words than recommended
  • fixed: quiz sometimes selects too few or too many words
  • fixed: I-knew-it button puts words in lower level than intended

New in Wokabulary 3.5.3 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • fixes a bug where the edit popover window would unexpectedly close
  • fixes some sync issues with iCloud
  • fixes a bug that languages with diacritics in their name do not sync
  • fixes a problem with remote notifications
  • fixes a crash when starting a quiz from selected words
  • fixes a display issue with the word level selection

New in Wokabulary 3.5.1 (Aug 18, 2015)

  • New features:
  • CSV import now handles tags
  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed: problems when importing CSV files with multiple commas within words
  • minor bug fixes

New in Wokabulary 3.4 (May 15, 2015)

  • New features:
  • quiz will now display very long words / sentences correctly
  • don't ask again can now be changed in search and all-words view
  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed: shows App Store rating prompt in regular version
  • fixed: display of last asked time incorrect for 1 year and 1 month
  • minor bugfixes

New in Wokabulary 3.3 (Mar 16, 2015)

  • New features:
  • quiz for selected words
  • edit words from within quiz mode
  • now better indicates active search
  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed: quiz sometimes selected two few words when filtering by tags
  • fixed: search was not accessible in full screen mode
  • fixed: missing retina versions of some graphics
  • minor bug fixes

New in Wokabulary 3.2 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • now checks for duplicates when adding new words
  • slightly improved graphics in Quiz

New in Wokabulary 3.1.3 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • adjustments for OS X Yosemite
  • reduces sync time
  • improved merging in case of sync conflicts
  • fixed: crash when editing languages with non-latin names

New in Wokabulary 3.1.2 (Oct 27, 2014)

  • fixes display issues with app icon
  • minor interface fixes

New in Wokabulary 3.1 (Aug 22, 2014)

  • You can now select 'Clean Duplicates' from the File menu. This will delete all duplicate words (not synonyms – real duplicates).
  • When importing words from a Quizlet List, the list name will now be added as a tag to the words
  • fixed: Synonyms are not recognized correctly if there are more than 2
  • fixed: Synonyms not calculated correctly for freshly added words
  • fixed: Shows wrong warning in Quiz Setup when no words recommended to be asked
  • fixed: re-starting Quiz does not update Quiz Setup view
  • fixed: Flash Card Quiz does not show status text
  • fixed: Popup-Quiz does not move to active Space
  • fixed: Merging with Dropbox behaves inconsistently with recently quizzed words
  • fixed: Sometimes crashes when using Quizlet search
  • fixed: Sometimes crashes when saving very large vocabulary collections

New in Wokabulary 2.2.2 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • fixed: some users need to restore IAPs after each restart

New in Wokabulary 2.2.1 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • updated Dropbox API
  • reduces Sync time after startup
  • fixes dragging of tags

New in Wokabulary 2.2 (Jan 29, 2014)

  • much improved Syncing
  • fixes sometimes not displayed comments
  • several bugfixes

New in Wokabulary 1.6.3 (Sep 3, 2012)

  • now code signed to comply with Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion
  • adjusted about box
  • fixed bugs in included vocabulary

New in Wokabulary 1.6.2 (Mar 14, 2012)

  • fixed: issue exporting in German version

New in Wokabulary 1.6.1 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • Only two fixes:
  • fixed: exported vocabularies are damaged (sorry for that)
  • fixed: importing ppy files would not merge correctly with existing words

New in Wokabulary 1.6 (Feb 28, 2012)

  • no PPC Support any more
  • opten to filter exported words
  • quiz now shows what level words come from and go to
  • much improved tagging system
  • now code signed for Mountain Lion
  • shows number of selected words in status bar
  • added shortcut for editing (cmd+e))
  • fixed: included wordlists are sometimes inserted in wrong level
  • fixed: @ are not handled in import and edit
  • fixed: already existing word pairs are added anyway
  • fixed: pop up quiz someteimes crashes with synonyms
  • fixed: jumps to unknown after edit
  • fixed: shows conflicted languages
  • fixed: sometimes would not import tab separated csv files
  • fixed: other minor bugs
  • minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.5 (Aug 4, 2011)

  • no PPC Support any more, the PPC-Version 1.3 can be downloaded here
  • now includes vocabulary lists inside the programm with easy import
  • option to count wrong answerd words as correct
  • option to enter synonyms with delimiter @
  • option to set font and font size
  • don't-ask-again words now displayed in gray
  • fixed: popup quiz would not ask the word levels that are manually set
  • fixed: don't ask again does not work for last word in quiz
  • fixed: papapapaya would swich when changing words in search results
  • fixed: restricting quiz to certain tags would crash Papapapaya
  • fixed: crashed when loading damaged file
  • fixed: bugs with languages delete in preferences
  • fixed: import problems with words that contain commas
  • minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.4 (May 20, 2011)

  • synchronize multiple Macs/iPhones via Dropbox
  • no PPC Support any more
  • automatic language switching also in comments and topic tags
  • keyboard shortcuts for quiz, pop-up quiz and statistics
  • improved synonym quizzing
  • several minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.3 (Mar 3, 2011)

  • full support for synonyms in the quiz
  • option to display all synonyms (View Menu)
  • all windows are resizable so you have more space for your words
  • comments are now displayed in the learning mode, too
  • several minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.2 (Feb 8, 2011)

  • comes with basic vocabularies for German, French and English
  • improved Quiz display
  • option to change where comments shall be displayed in the Quiz
  • several minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.1 (Jan 23, 2011)

  • search
  • option to hide "Don't ask again" words
  • fixed display issues in statistics
  • minor bugfixes and improvements

New in Wokabulary 1.0.1 (Jan 9, 2011)

  • fixed display issue in statistics total-view when having used Papapapaya for over 30 days
  • improved text rendering
  • speed improvements when switching the memory levels
  • minor bugfixes + spelling corrections