Release notes

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Features, content and changes in each Psitta release, with the newest version first.

Versions: 0.1.1 · 0.1.0

Version 0.1.1

· Maintenance release

Refines study sessions with fixed, always-accessible answer controls, selectable exercise text, clearer review intervals and a simplified four-button grading interface. Also improves sentence selection and session statistics.

Version 0.1.0

· First public release

Psitta's first release brings Japanese vocabulary and sentence practice together with spaced repetition.

Learning and practice

  • 1,297 vocabulary entries and 1,380 sentence groups containing 3,452 Japanese sentences.
  • Japanese readings, furigana, English meanings and translations, with source attribution to JMdict and Tatoeba.
  • Spaced repetition for words and sentence groups, with practice across related sentences.
  • Resumable study sessions, activity statistics and progress saved locally on your device.

Available platforms

Android APK, Windows x64 installer and portable archive, and Linux amd64 DEB package and portable archive. The Linux package has been tested on Ubuntu 24.04.

Known limitations

  • The bundled exercises have no audio. Some readings and translations retain documented editorial limitations.
  • No cloud sync, in-app progress export/import or automatic updates.
  • Existing populated databases are not automatically replaced by a new bundled corpus.
  • Windows binaries are unsigned and may trigger security warnings. macOS and iOS builds are experimental, unsigned and untested on devices.

Version 0.1.0 files and checksums on GitHub ↗