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Changelog

Everything we have added since Monmot started, newest first.

Word cards beside the word

  • On an unfolded iPhone Duo, a word's card opens next to the word on its own page, and the word stays highlighted while the card is open.

Pages that turn like paper

  • In Pages mode, a page curls under your finger like paper. Turn it off in the reader settings under Reading mode.
  • On iPhone Duo, an unfolded book opens as a two-page spread with the spine on the fold.
  • On an unfolded iPhone Duo, the reader settings show your page beside them and change it as you adjust.

Plus without an account

  • You can subscribe to Monmot Plus and restore it on iPhone and iPad without a Monmot account.
  • When you sign in later, Plus moves into your account along with your words.

Preview in the reader settings

  • The reader settings show a paragraph from your book in the typeface, size and theme you pick.
  • The reader settings grow with the system text size.
  • The reader uses the system navigation bar, and its settings open as their own screen.
  • Text size comes first in the reader settings.
  • One page setting instead of two: margins on iPhone, text width on iPad and Mac.

Fixed

  • In a book with one picture, tapping the text no longer opens the picture.
  • The Pages option is readable in the dark theme.
  • On iPad, the reader settings open from the Aa button.
  • The reader's top bar stays in order at the largest text sizes.
  • Chapter headings are full size on iOS 18.
  • The tab bar has its own background on iOS 18.
  • The book page has room under the navigation bar on iOS 18.
  • While a book opens, the reader shows only the loader.
  • Long chapter titles no longer run under the reader's buttons.
  • Opening a book no longer flashes the top bar before the text.
  • The book page sits a little lower under the navigation bar.
  • In Safari on iPhone, the closed word stack no longer leaves a shadow at the bottom of the page.
  • The book page keeps the whole title on its cover at the largest text sizes.
  • A scanned word keeps the sentence you selected it in, even when it appears twice on the page.

Add words with the camera

  • Add a word by pointing the camera at the page.
  • Frame it, press the shutter, and it takes a photograph.
  • Select the phrase on the photo itself. The sentence fills itself in.
  • Reading happens on the phone. Works offline.

Fixed

  • Adding a word opens on the language you are reading.
  • All 33 languages are offered, not six.
  • A word is saved in the language you picked. The dictionary disagreeing is a question now, not a silent move to another list.
  • A word that failed halfway says so instead of leaving a blank card.
  • The Mac app opens.

Faster word list and more reliable sync

  • An Add a word button in the web app.
  • The extension says when a newer version is out.

Fixed

  • The word list paints four times sooner.
  • Collection names show before their counts.
  • A word still loading says so.
  • Signing in brings your whole review history.
  • Background sync no longer replaces the library with a spinner.
  • Re-sync always checks the account anew.
  • Offline setup says so and lets you carry on.
  • A book's collection is no longer deleted after filling.
  • Back moves back one step.
  • The setup screens hold at the largest text sizes.
  • Asking to sync twice waits instead of starting a second sync.
  • A refused word says why: weekly limit, unknown language, no connection.
  • The collection you picked survives a page refresh.
  • Switching tabs no longer repaints every highlight.
  • Signing out clears the previous account's words from the browser.

17 new languages, transcriptions removed

  • Seventeen new ones, from Finnish to Vietnamese.
  • Every language flies its own flag.

Fixed

  • Signing in no longer throws you back to the sign-in screen.
  • Signing out no longer crashes the app.
  • Signing out after signing in no longer offers a pointless sync.
  • Being offline no longer reads as a failed sync.
  • Your place in a book syncs when you close it.
  • The word stack follows the system appearance on iPhone and iPad.
  • Transcriptions are gone everywhere. They were wrong too often.
  • A phrase takes its dictionary form.
  • Opening a full account no longer flickers through three screens.
  • Sync, then sign out works the first time.
  • The same sentence is translated once.

Shared sign-in for the site and the extension

Fixed

  • Signing in on the site signs in the extension.
  • Signing out signs the extension out too.

Deletions sync across devices

Fixed

  • Deleting a word, collection or book reaches every device.
  • A word deleted and saved again stays saved.
  • An illustration gets its own line in a book.
  • An MCP token can be copied again. Older ones say they cannot.
  • Book covers keep one shape everywhere.
  • Section headings keep one gap.
  • Word columns on iPad sit a normal distance apart.

Subscription and sign-out fixes

Fixed

  • Plus bought on the web is recognised on the phone.
  • Opening the app offline no longer shows a subscriber the paywall.
  • Restore says where your subscription is billed.
  • Offline, a word is never filed under the wrong language.
  • Signing in to an account you already use skips setup.
  • The screen says your words are arriving.
  • The progress bar stands down when the words are in.
  • A failed upload is never marked as sent.
  • Confirmations are centred.
  • Your words and books leave with the account.
  • Another account starts clean. Your own comes back whole.
  • Words saved before you signed up move into your account.
  • Words left by an older version are added only if you say so.
  • Books in iCloud are never touched.

Fix for a crash in Collections

Fixed

  • Opening Collections could crash the app. It doesn't.
  • Opening a word and grading a card are instant.
  • A book's saved words open at one speed.
  • Every section heading keeps one gap and one edge.
  • The labels on a word's cards do too.

Words from books use the standard word card

Fixed

  • A word from a book looks like every other, and keeps its chapter.
  • The Plus screen stops offering a plan you already have.
  • An incomplete subscription no longer signs you out of Plus.

Safari support and touch selection

  • Selecting a word with a finger offers the chip.
  • On a phone the word stack arrives as a sheet.
  • Save a word straight into a collection.
  • The panel lists every saved word, not only studied ones.
  • Hiding translations is the account's answer, not each device's.
  • Every saved word is highlighted, not only the ones you study.

Fixed

  • A saved word is three lines: the word, your meaning, its own.
  • Sentence, note, source and collections moved onto the word.
  • Google and Apple sign-in are back in the extension's settings.
  • Safari's settings say how to allow Monmot.
  • A word you looked up and closed is not kept.
  • A translation in another alphabet is no longer kept.
  • The learning steps count each language separately.
  • Words that had stopped reaching the phone arrive again.
  • A shut card in the panel says what the word means.
  • A word saved while reading reaches the account with its book.
  • A collection counts only the words it can show.
  • A word put away anywhere is put away on the phone.
  • The translation cover follows the shape of the words.
  • A phrase and a word inside it are both visible.
  • An older word is highlighted more quietly.
  • A translation is filed in the language you read in.
  • Type it accepts every spelling a word is known by.
  • Words arrive as words, not labels with slashes.

Type-it practice mode and lighter sync

  • A device asks what changed. A sync is a few hundred bytes.
  • A word deleted anywhere is put away everywhere.
  • Type it carries on where you stopped, hardest words first.
  • A typo costs a try. Three, then the word.
  • Type it asks one thing: the translation, or the meaning.
  • The question is the whole screen; Check sits on the keyboard.
  • Type it: a third way to study, phone and web.
  • Missing only accents counts as almost right. The article is optional.
  • A misspelt word comes round again. Your schedule is untouched.
  • The title of your words is the language. Tap to switch.
  • Learn asks which words first, then how to study them.

Fixed

  • Account, limits, language, words, books and about are one screen.
  • The free limit is a bar, red when nearly out.
  • I don't know shows the word instead of calling you wrong.
  • A device with nothing new no longer sends your whole library.
  • A word graded on two devices is counted once.
  • A wrong answer is struck through beside the right one.
  • The keyboard stops offering the word it is asking for.
  • A word under the wrong language no longer arrives twice.
  • An empty book collection goes away.
  • Every heading is drawn the same way.
  • Swiping back no longer draws two screens at once.
  • The language you are in is the system title menu.
  • A word cannot be filed under the wrong language.
  • Words saved before a book had a collection join it.
  • Books and covers survive an update.
  • The words screen shows the three collections you touched last.
  • Review says how many words are waiting.
  • Renaming a collection no longer copies it.
  • An unsaved grade survives picking another deck.
  • The search hides as you scroll.
  • Choosing a deck no longer happens mid-session.
  • A review with nothing due stays on the deck you chose.

Sentence translation and Wi-Fi-only book downloads

  • Books come down over Wi-Fi only, unless you tap one.
  • Re-sync says how many words are on their way.
  • Translate a whole sentence, even one too long to save.
  • A verb shows five forms, the rest behind a pill.

Fixed

  • Syncing no longer downloads the library after every change.
  • Updating the app no longer downloads everything again.
  • A book waiting for Wi-Fi says so instead of spinning.
  • Explain recovers on its own after a failure.
  • A word opened over a book closes with a swipe.
  • A phrase leads with its dictionary form.

Fixes for unexpected sign-outs

Fixed

  • Signing in no longer wears off.
  • The account screen stops contradicting itself.
  • The keyboard closes from the search field.
  • Text and icons follow your iOS text size.

Books sync through iCloud

  • A book added on one device arrives on the other, cover first.
  • Every cover says where its file is, with a percentage.
  • A long download can be stopped.

Fixed

  • The same book added on two devices is one book.
  • Seven hundred words arrive in about a second.
  • Signing in no longer asks for a language your account has.

Printable dictionary and a faster word list

  • The shelf leads with the language and book you touched last.
  • Extension 0.2.0 in the stores.

Fixed

  • Importing into a collection opened a blank screen.
  • The printed dictionary is black on white, three columns a sheet.
  • The words screen no longer slows with a whole language.
  • Every word carries one term for its part of speech.
  • The app no longer scrolls sideways on a phone.

Dictionary view on the web and a rebuilt extension

  • A dictionary view on the web, remembered in the link.
  • Any row opens to the sentence, the forms and the source.
  • Translations stay covered until you uncover them.
  • The dictionary prints.
  • Sign in with Apple in the extension.
  • The settings page follows your system theme.
  • The word stack opens with the words you have.

Fixed

  • A word tapped in a book opens the usual card.
  • Filing a word into a collection is a search field.
  • Pronunciations are written the way a dictionary writes them.
  • The part of speech is in the language of the word.
  • The settings page works: panel choice, language, Save, sign-in.
  • The button on a selected word steps aside for other extensions.
  • The settings gear works in Safari.

Dictionary forms for words from books

  • Saved words can lead with their dictionary form.
  • iPhone shows what is left of the week's free words.

Fixed

  • Selecting across a sentence end no longer closes the book.
  • A word from a book shows its dictionary form and paradigm.
  • The words screen scrolls as one list.
  • Words are filed by the language of the sentence.
  • The word you just saved is translated first.
  • A long headword shrinks to fit.

Edit saved words

  • Correct a saved word anywhere Monmot runs.
  • Your translation language belongs to the account.

Fixed

  • The extension stays signed in, and says what went wrong.
  • An extension that lost its session keeps saving.
  • Signing in keeps the words you saved before.
  • A dropped connection no longer signs you out.

Per-collection schedules and import from Anki and Quizlet

  • A collection has its own schedule.
  • Import CSV, TSV or JSON, Quizlet and Anki included.
  • Practice on the web: a card stack you flip and swipe.
  • The plan page shows the price and what is left this week.

Fixed

  • The word count counts your library, not the loaded page.
  • iPhone showed no collections at all.
  • A word on iPhone froze on its first copy. Corrections arrive now.

Collections and Claude integration over MCP

  • Collections: name a theme, fill it by hand or by assistant.
  • Connect Claude, or anything that speaks MCP, to your account.
  • Words is the home screen, collections folded in as folders.
  • Learn is a hub: Practice drills everything, Review is due only.

Home screen widget

  • A widget with one of your words, flipping on a tap.
  • A word lists its forms, and the reader highlights them all.
  • Learn on iPhone: a flashcard stack you swipe, with audio.

Sign in with Google, Apple or email

  • Google, Apple, or email and password.
  • Words saved before signing in come with you.
  • Monmot Plus on iPhone, with a seven-day trial.
  • One language everything is translated into.

iPhone and iPad app

  • Read EPUB and FB2, saving words without leaving the page.
  • Books, words and schedule sync across devices.
  • The dictionary answer appears at once; the explanation fills in behind.

Accounts and sync

  • Accounts with sync.
  • Or no account: words stay on the device until you sign in.
  • Export everything, and import it back.
  • Monmot Plus.
  • Translate a whole sentence with a note on the grammar.
  • Common words come back instantly and cost nothing.

Saved words highlighted on every page

  • Every saved word is highlighted on any page you read.
  • The card is built from your own sentence.
  • The interface speaks seven languages.
  • Bring your own key: Claude, OpenAI or Gemini.

First release

  • Select a word on any page; it saves with its sentence.
  • Review on a spaced-repetition schedule.
  • A side panel with everything you have saved.
  • Chrome, Firefox and Safari.