Shinobi: Read & Learn Japanese

New onboarding experience - New step "Can you read hiragana / katakana?" with a mini kana quiz to tailor your journey to your reading level. - If you can't read kana yet, romaji is revealed right in place to help you. - After signing up, a guided tutorial takes you straight into your first story. - The intro word rain now mixes kanji, katakana and hiragana. Streaks - New commitment screen: after lighting your first flame, choose your streak goal. - Smoother flame ignition animation, with a guided swipe gesture. - iOS: complete redesign of the streak Live Activity on the lock screen, with the ninja mascot in the Dynamic Island. - iOS: countdown Live Activity when your streak is about to be lost. Exercises - New exercises generated for every story: multiple choice, true/false and pronunciation. - Choose between furigana and romaji for pronunciation display, including word by word. Daily News - A new Japanese news story published automatically every day. - Double XP on the daily news for 24 hours. - The news illustration now also appears on the reading page. Profile and progression - New "My Ranks" screen: visualize your progression through all rank badges. - Display fixes on the rank card (clipped kanji, larger labels). Credits - New credit stock progress ring in the header, with a visible recharge mode. - Fix: the credit is now properly spent when launching your first story. Offline mode - Fix: images of downloaded stories show up again in airplane mode (reader and story page). Performance and comfort - Faster word loading thanks to a local cache (less data used). - Story audio served via CDN: faster and more reliable playback. - Navigation: the system back gesture (iOS swipe, Android back button) can no longer interrupt a lesson by accident. - Fixed story share links that didn't open the right screen. - Android: display fixes for italic titles and clipped handwritten labels.