What's new

5 September 2026

Your words are on screen while the rest is still catching up

Fixed

• Opening Words shows the list at once and fills in the explanations behind it. On an account of 5,000 words the names took about a second to appear; they now take a quarter of that, and a collection’s name shows immediately instead of waiting on its count.
• A word whose explanation has not arrived yet shows a placeholder line rather than claiming there is no explanation.
• Signing in on a new device brings your whole review history down again. It was being cut to the most recent 5,000 grades, which quietly dropped the history of every card you had not reviewed lately.
• Downloading a large account no longer scans the whole word table for each word it writes.
• A routine background sync no longer replaces your library with a spinner. It keeps the last successful sync on screen and only speaks up when something actually fails.
• Re-sync always checks your account anew. Tapping it while a background sync happened to be running could previously be answered by that older check, so a word added on another device a moment earlier would not arrive.

5 September 2026

Setting up the app, without the dead ends

Fixed

• Setting up with no connection says so and lets you carry on, instead of leaving you at a spinner.
• A collection built from a book you added is no longer deleted moments after it is filled.
• Going back during setup moves back one step instead of leaving the flow.
• The setup screens hold together at the largest text sizes, so the button at the bottom stays reachable.
• Asking to sync while a sync is already running waits for that one instead of starting a second.

5 September 2026

Adding a word by hand, on the site

• The web app has an “Add a word” button. It opens a dialog that takes the word and, if you have it, the sentence you met it in.
• The browser extension tells you when your store has released a newer version of it, and the phone extension when the App Store has a newer app.

Fixed

• A word the site refuses to add now says why — the week’s limit, an unreadable language, a lost connection — instead of showing the raw error.
• Saving a word from a page no longer loses the collection you picked when the page refreshes its highlights at the same moment.
• Switching browser tabs no longer repaints every highlight on the page.
• Signing out of the extension clears the previous account’s words from the browser’s storage.

2 September 2026

Signing in stays signed in, and signing out no longer crashes

Fixed

• Signing in no longer throws you back to the sign-in buttons while your words are already arriving. The sign-in screen was reappearing over an app that had already signed you in.
• Signing out no longer takes the app down. It was deleting the library off disk while a sync was still writing to it; the files now go at the next launch, and the account cannot reach them in the meantime.
• Signing out straight after signing in no longer offers to sync. A device that has only ever downloaded has nothing of its own to send.

2 September 2026

Thirty-three languages, each under its own flag

• Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew and Vietnamese join the languages you can learn in.
• Every language shows its own flag now, even one the picker never listed. A book that turns out to be Icelandic flies the Icelandic flag.

2 September 2026

Being offline is not a sync error

Fixed

• Being offline no longer reads as “Couldn’t sync. Some words or collections may be missing.” Nothing has gone wrong and nothing is lost.
• Your place in a book reaches your account when you close the book, not up to five minutes later.
• Signing out no longer takes the account’s library off disk while a sync is still writing to it.
• On iPhone and iPad the word stack follows the system appearance, so it is no longer a dark panel on a light screen.

2 September 2026

Transcription leaves, and a book you add is filed in its own language

• A book whose file and whose prose disagree about its language now asks you which one it is, instead of guessing. Harry Potter in French declares itself English and was filed as Indonesian.

Fixed

• Transcriptions are gone from every word, in the apps, the extension and the account. They were wrong often enough to be worse than nothing — French words came back with Chinese characters in them.
• A phrase now takes the form a dictionary would print when the dictionary-form setting is on. “espionner ses voisins” reads as “espionner les voisins”.
• Opening the app on a full account no longer flickers through a spinner, an empty screen and a progress bar.
• Signing out no longer flashes an empty Words screen before the sign-in screen.
• “Sync, then sign out” no longer fails the first time and works the second.
• The same sentence is translated once. Asking for it again in the same book is free and instant.

30 August 2026

Sign in on the site and the extension follows

Fixed

• Signing in on the web app now signs in the browser extension too, in the tab you are already looking at, without reloading anything. Words you saved before signing in move into the account.
• Signing out on the web app signs the extension out with it, so it stops saving into an account you have left.

29 August 2026

A word you delete stays deleted, on every device

Fixed

• Deleting a word, a collection or a book now reaches your account, so your other devices put it away too instead of sending it back.
• A word you delete and then save again stays saved through the next sync.
• An illustration that stands on its own in a book gets its own centred line, instead of a line of text wrapped around it.
• The flashcard walkthrough dims the whole screen rather than just the card underneath it.
• An MCP token can be copied again after you close the sheet that created it. Tokens made before this update cannot be shown again, and say so.
• The MCP token screen reads as one list on a phone instead of a table squeezed into columns.
• A book cover is the same shape wherever it appears: in the shelf grid, in a list, and on a book's page.
• Words, the Shelf and a book's page had grown a wider gap under their section headings than More and the reader's settings. They match again.
• A word's columns on iPad sit a normal distance apart instead of half a screen.

28 August 2026

Your plan comes from your account, wherever you bought it

Fixed

• Monmot Plus bought on the web is recognised on your phone, so the app no longer offers you a subscription you already have.
• Your plan is remembered on the device, so opening the app without a connection no longer shows a subscriber the purchase screen.
• Restoring purchases tells you where your subscription is actually billed instead of saying there is nothing to restore.
• A word you look up is never filed under the wrong language when the app cannot reach your account, so translations stop disappearing after a bad connection.

28 August 2026

The first run after signing in tells the truth

Fixed

• Signing in to an account you already use no longer walks you through setup again. Your language and your plan come from the account, not from questions you have already answered.
• While your words are coming down, the screen says so instead of telling you that you have none saved.
• The progress bar stands down when the words are in, rather than sitting at the end while the rest arrives.
• Changes made on this device are never marked as sent when sending them failed, so nothing can be dropped on the way out of an account.
• Confirmations are centred on the screen instead of appearing over the tab bar with a corner cut off.

28 August 2026

Signing out empties the app, and signing back in brings it all back

Fixed

• Signing out now actually empties the app — your words and books leave with the account, and you land on the welcome screen instead of keeping the last account's library behind on the phone.
• Signing in as a different account starts genuinely clean. Signing back into your own brings everything back: your words sync down again and your books come back from iCloud.
• Anything you saved before you ever signed up moves into whichever account you sign into.
• Words left on the phone by an account that signed out on an older version no longer slip into the next account. The app asks you first, and adds them only if you say so.
• Your books in iCloud are never touched, however many times you sign in and out.
• The Recent / A–Z chips above your words used to sit close enough to touch the first card. They now keep the same gap as every other heading in the app.

27 August 2026

Collections stops crashing, and everything opens faster

Fixed

• Opening Collections could crash the app, most often with several languages saved. It doesn't anymore.
• Opening a word and grading a card are instant now, even in a library of thousands of words.
• The "saved from this book" list on a book's page used to get slower the more you had saved from it. Now it opens at the same speed however long the book is.

27 August 2026

One distance under every label

Fixed

• Every section heading — on Words, on Collections, on the Shelf, on a book's page, in More and in the reader's settings — now keeps the same distance from what it heads and starts at the same left edge. They were up to eight points apart.
• The labels inside a word's cards did the same thing on one screen: MEANING, MET IN, FORMS and SCHEDULE each kept their own distance from the value under them, up to fourteen points too far. They all keep one now, and MET AGAIN IN no longer starts four points to the right of the sentences it names.

25 August 2026

A heading that matches the rest of the app

Fixed

• The "Saved from this book" heading on a book's page had a different colour and a different gap underneath than every other section heading. It now matches the one on Words.

25 August 2026

The same word card, wherever you saved it

Fixed

• A word saved from a book now looks like the same word on the Words screen, with room to breathe between rows, and it still shows the chapter it came from.
• The Monmot Plus screen no longer offers you a plan to pick once you already have one. It says how Plus arrived — the App Store, the web, or a grant — and only offers to manage what can actually be managed there.
• A subscription status missing one field used to sign you out of Plus. It no longer does.

23 August 2026

A word card you can read at a glance

Fixed

• A saved word on the web is three things now, in the order you read them: the word, what it means to you, what it means in its own language. A long expression keeps its own line instead of being squeezed into three by the transcription beside it.
• The sentence you met it in, the transcription, the part of speech, the note, the source, the collections and the two destructive buttons moved onto the word itself — one click from the card.

23 August 2026

Monmot works with a finger

• Selecting a word with a finger offers the chip, the way a mouse always did. On a phone the selection is the event — there is no mouse to let go of.
• On a phone the word stack arrives as a sheet from the bottom, over a dimmed page, instead of a sidebar there is no room for.

Fixed

• Sign in with Google and with Apple are back in the extension's settings. They were hidden whenever the check for which providers exist could not be made — which is exactly what happens in Safari.
• Safari's settings no longer offer a sidebar it does not have, and say instead how to allow Monmot on the sites you read.

23 August 2026

A lookup is not a decision

• Saving a word in the extension can put it straight into a collection: pick one next to Save, or leave it with all your words.
• The extension's panel lists every word you saved, not only the ones you sent to study.

Fixed

• A word you looked up and closed is no longer kept. It stays only if you press Save.
• Words saved earlier are highlighted on the pages you open later. The panel asked the extension for them and the extension was not listening.
• A translation written in another alphabet — “bespoleznyy (бесполезный)” — is no longer shown or kept on the phone.
• The learning steps say how many words each language holds instead of one number for everything.
• Every row in More carries its own icon.

23 August 2026

Monmot in Safari, on the phone

• The iPhone app now carries the Monmot extension for Safari: turn it on in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions, and saving a word while reading on the phone works the way it does in the browser on your desk.

23 August 2026

Newest first, and the words that stopped arriving

• The saved words on the phone lead with what you saved last, and a switch spells them out A–Z instead.

Fixed

• Words that had stopped reaching the phone arrive again. When two words are merged in your account, the card id moves to the word that kept it instead of turning every later sync into a failure.
• A card in the extension's panel says what the word means while it is shut. Where you met it is what you open the card for.

23 August 2026

A word out of a book keeps its book

Fixed

• A word saved while reading now reaches the account with the book it came from, so a book and the collection made from it stop disagreeing about how many words you saved. Words uploaded before this find their book on the next sync.
• A collection counts the words it can actually show you: members naming a word this device no longer holds are dropped instead of padding the number.
• A word put away on one device is now put away on the phone too, however the account renamed it.

23 August 2026

Hide the translation once, everywhere

• Whether translations wait under the dots is now the account's answer, not each device's: turn it off on the phone and the web app and the extension agree.
• Every word you saved is highlighted on the pages you read, not only the ones you sent to study.

Fixed

• The cover over a translation follows the shape of its words instead of hiding the line under one block.
• A saved phrase and a word saved inside it are both visible now, and each opens its own card.
• A word you met before is highlighted more quietly, so the words saved today are the ones that stand out.
• The translation sits under the plain meaning on every card.
• A word whose translation was stored in another language no longer costs a second lookup, and a translation arriving from the account is filed in the language you read in.

23 August 2026

A word, not a dictionary entry

Fixed

• Type it accepts every spelling a word is known by, so a word saved as “actuel / actuelle” can be answered with either one.
• Words added to a collection arrive as words: “actuel” with “actuelle” beside it, not a label with a slash in it, and not a headword with a note in brackets. The words already saved that way have been tidied up.

22 August 2026

More is one screen

Fixed

• The More tab no longer hides two thirds of itself behind a switcher: account, limits, language, words, books and about are one screen you scroll.
• The free limits show how much is left as a bar, and the number turns red when you are nearly out.

22 August 2026

Sync asks for what changed

• A device now asks the account what changed since it last looked instead of downloading your whole library. Saving a word on the phone used to make every other device re-read all of it; the same sync is now a few hundred bytes.
• A word you delete on one device is put away on the others too.

22 August 2026

Shuffle the deck, and take Type it with you

• Every learning session has a shuffle button: tap it and you get another word, with the rest of the deck in a new order. What you have already answered stays where it is.
• Where Type it got to follows the account, so a deck you started on the phone carries on in the browser instead of dealing the same eight hundred words again.

Fixed

• I don't know shows you the word instead of telling you that you were wrong.
• Syncing is quicker, and a device with nothing new to say no longer sends your whole library every time another one changes something.
• A word graded on two devices is no longer counted twice.

22 August 2026

Type it remembers where you were

• Type it carries on where you stopped instead of starting the deck again, and puts the words you could not spell first.
• A typo costs a try, not the answer: you get three, and only then is the word shown. There is an I don't know button for when you would rather just see it.

Fixed

• A wrong answer is marked where you wrote it: the field turns red and the word you typed is struck through beside the right one.
• The keyboard no longer offers to complete the word it is asking you for.

22 August 2026

One question at a time

• Type it asks one thing: the translation, or the word's own meaning. You pick which, the way you pick a side on a card.
• The question is the whole screen now, and Check sits on the keyboard where your hands already are.

Fixed

• A word that a device still holds under the wrong language no longer arrives as a second copy of itself.
• A book's collection with nothing left in it goes away instead of sitting there empty.
• The Learn screen no longer keeps a hand's width of nothing under its title.

22 August 2026

One heading, one bar

Fixed

• Every heading in the app is drawn the same way, so two headings on one screen no longer stand at different distances from what they head.
• Collections, a collection, a word and a book wear the system navigation bar: swiping back no longer draws two screens at once, and the search field keeps its shape.
• The language you are in is the system's own title menu now.
• A word cannot be filed under a language it is not in: the model confirms the language of the word itself and we file it under that.
• Words saved from a book before it had a collection are filed into it, without you doing anything.

22 August 2026

Write the word

• A third way to study: Type it shows you what a word means and you write the word itself. It is on the phone and on the web.
• Missing only the accents counts as almost right, and the article in front of a noun is optional either way.
• A word you could not spell comes round again in the same session. Type it never changes your review schedule.

Fixed

• Words you saved from a book before it had a collection are filed into it now, without you doing anything.
• Collections, a collection, a word and a book all wear the system's navigation bar, so swiping back no longer draws two screens at once.
• The words on the words screen have a heading that says how many there are, instead of two counters.

22 August 2026

One question per screen

• Learning asks one thing at a time: how you want to study, then which language, then which words. A question with one answer is skipped.
• A book you read gets a collection of its own. The first word you save while reading opens it, and the rest join as you go.

Fixed

• Books and covers stay put when the app updates instead of downloading themselves again.
• The words screen shows the three collections you touched last, with everything else behind See All.
• Review says how many words are waiting before you go looking.
• Renaming a collection no longer makes a second copy of it on your other devices.
• A grade that has not saved yet survives picking another deck.

22 August 2026

The language you are in is the screen

• The title of your words is the language you are in. Tap it to switch, and see what is waiting in each.
• Learn asks which words first — all of them or one collection — and only then how to study them.

Fixed

• The words screen gives the list the whole screen: the search hides as you scroll and comes back at the top.
• Choosing a deck no longer happens in the middle of a session.
• A review with nothing due stays on the deck you chose instead of quietly handing you every language.
• The same switcher is on the web, where the language menu used to open off the top of the page.

21 August 2026

Sync that stays quiet

• Books come down over Wi-Fi only, unless you tap one. The choice is in Settings and where you turn your shelf on.
• Re-sync says what it is doing and how many words are on their way.

Fixed

• Syncing no longer downloads your whole library after every change.
• Updating the app no longer downloads everything again.
• A book already on your device no longer asks iCloud for its cover.
• A book waiting for Wi-Fi says so instead of spinning.

21 August 2026

Whole sentences, and a tidier word card

• Select a whole sentence in a book and get it translated, even when it is too long to save as a word.
• A verb shows five of its forms, with the rest behind a pill.

Fixed

• Explain recovers on its own after a failed answer, without restarting the app.
• A word opened over a book closes with a swipe down, and its button is a cross.
• A phrase leads with the form a dictionary prints, the same way single words do.
• A phrase you saved as you read it shows its dictionary form among the forms.

20 August 2026

Sessions that last

Fixed

• Signing in no longer wears off: only you end a session.
• Fixed the account status and Monmot Plus after signing in again.
• The account screen no longer offers to sign you out while saying you are signed out.
• The keyboard closes from the search field: scroll, Return, the cross, Done, or a tap outside.
• Text and icons follow your iOS text size.

19 August 2026

Books in iCloud

• iCloud sync for books: a book you add on one device downloads itself on the other, cover first.
• Every cover says where its file is — going to your iCloud, coming from it, or in it — with the percentage while it travels.
• A long download can be stopped.

Fixed

• Fixed syncing for anyone who had saved a word while reading a book.
• A book sent to iCloud stays on your device.
• The same book added by hand on two devices is one book.
• Syncing is quiet until words are coming down, and then shows how many of how many.
• Seven hundred words arrive in about a second.
• Signing in no longer asks for a language your account already has.
• Show all on iPad fits as many covers as the screen holds.

16 August 2026

The words screen, and printing it

• The shelf on iPhone leads with the language and the book you touched last.
• The extension is at 0.2.0 in the stores, with the part of speech and the transcription on the card.
• Opening the connector address in a browser explains what it is for.

Fixed

• Importing words into a collection opened a blank screen.
• The printed dictionary is black on white, three columns to a sheet.
• The Print button sits with the view switches instead of on its own line.
• A language shows four collections before the words, not twelve.
• The words screen no longer slows down with a whole language on the page.
• Every word carries one term for its part of speech, in its own language.
• Copying the connector URL says “Copied” instead of throwing a banner.
• Connected assistants no longer read “expired” while they are working.
• The app no longer scrolls sideways on a phone, and its buttons are big enough to hit.
• A heading no longer runs into the sentence a captured word came from.

15 August 2026

One card for a word on iPhone

Fixed

• A word tapped in a book opens the same full card as everywhere else.
• Filing a word into a collection is a search field, and a new collection can be named from there.

15 August 2026

Transcriptions in one shape

Fixed

• Pronunciations are written the way a printed dictionary writes them, and every word you already had was rewritten to match.
• The part of speech is written in the language of the word itself.

15 August 2026

Your words as a dictionary

• A dictionary view on the web: the word, what it means, what it is in your language. The choice is remembered and travels in the link.
• Any row opens to the sentence, the forms, the source and the same actions the cards have.
• Translations stay covered until you uncover one, or all of them.
• The dictionary prints, with the column headings repeated on each page.

15 August 2026

Arrow keys answer the card

Fixed

• The arrow keys grade a card: right is “knew it”, left is “again”.
• A card never remembers being turned over.

15 August 2026

The browser extension, rebuilt

• Sign in with Apple in the extension, beside Sign in with Google.
• The extension's settings page follows the rest of Monmot and your system theme.
• The word stack opens with the words you already have.

Fixed

• Fixed the extension's settings page: the panel choice, the language, Save and the sign-in buttons.
• Links out of the extension open the web app.
• The button on a selected word carries the Monmot mark, and steps aside for other extensions.
• That button no longer runs off the right edge of the screen.
• The settings gear in the word stack works in Safari.
• A dialog on the web dims the whole window, and the language dropdown no longer cuts off its text.

11 August 2026

Reading a book on iPhone

Fixed

• Selecting text across the end of a sentence no longer closes the book.
• A word saved from a book shows its dictionary form and its paradigm.
• The words screen scrolls as one list.

11 August 2026

Books in the language they are written in

• Open an EPUB from Files or Mail and Monmot imports it onto the shelf.
• Set a book's language by hand from its menu.

Fixed

• Words are filed by the language of the sentence, so a book with two languages sorts word by word.
• The word you just saved is translated first.
• On Plus, the account screen no longer shows free limits.
• A long headword shrinks to fit its line.
• Collections sit above the word list on iPhone.

11 August 2026

Words in their dictionary form

• Saved words can lead with their dictionary form, with the form you read kept underneath. Turning it off restores every word.
• iPhone shows what is left of the week's free words.

9 August 2026

Corrections, and a session that stays signed in

• Correct a saved word — the term, its translation, or what it means — everywhere Monmot runs.
• The language you read translations in belongs to your account.

Fixed

• The browser extension stays signed in, and says what went wrong when something does.
• An extension that lost its session keeps saving, and signing in brings across what it caught.
• Signing in keeps the words you saved before you had an account.
• A dropped connection no longer signs you out of the web app.
• Words saved from the extension are translated into your language, not your browser's.
• A long word on a practice card shrinks to fit.

7 August 2026

Collections become decks you can study

• A collection has its own schedule: studying one moves that deck and leaves your main list where it was.
• Import a word list from a file — CSV, TSV or JSON, including exports from Quizlet and Anki. Missing translations are filled in only if you ask.
• Practice on the web is a card stack you flip and swipe, with a format for each direction.
• The plan page shows what Plus costs and what is left of this week's free words before you spend them.

Fixed

• The word count above your list counts your whole library, not the page that happened to be loaded.
• iPhone showed no collections at all even when the account had them.
• Every word on iPhone froze on the first copy it ever downloaded, so a correction made anywhere else never arrived.

6 August 2026

Thematic collections, and assistants that can use Monmot

• Collections: name a theme, and fill it by hand or have an assistant seed it.
• Connect Claude, or anything that speaks MCP, to your Monmot account — it can read what you have saved, add words, and review with you.
• Words is the home screen, with your collections folded in as folders and one row per language.
• Learn is a hub: Practice drills everything you have saved, Review is the due-only spaced-repetition pass.

3 August 2026

A word on your home screen

• A home-screen widget that shows one of your words, and flips to the next when you tap it.
• Word detail lists the inflected forms of a word, and the reader highlights every one of them in a book.
• Learn on iPhone: a flashcard stack you swipe to grade, with audio and a first-run walkthrough.

31 July 2026

Sign in the way you prefer

• Sign in with Google, with Apple, or with an email and a password.
• Words you saved before signing in come with you rather than being stranded on the device.
• Monmot Plus on iPhone, with a seven-day trial.
• One chosen language everything is translated into, set once and used everywhere.

29 July 2026

Monmot for iPhone and iPad

• Read EPUB and FB2 books in the app and save words without leaving the page.
• Your library, your words, and your schedule sync across every device.
• The dictionary answer appears immediately; the fuller explanation fills in behind it.

28 July 2026

An account, and words that outlive one browser

• Accounts with sync, so your words are not tied to the browser you saved them in.
• Use Monmot without an account at all — words are kept on the device until you decide to sign in.
• Export everything you have saved, and import it back.
• Monmot Plus.
• Select a whole sentence to get a translation and a note or two on the grammar, without saving anything.
• Common words come back instantly and cost nothing, because the first person to look one up warms it for everybody.

26 July 2026

Reading, not just saving

• Every word you have saved is highlighted on any page you read, and clicking one brings its card back.
• The card is built from the sentence you actually found the word in, rather than an invented example.
• The interface speaks seven languages, and follows your system's.
• Bring your own key: use your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini account.

25 July 2026

The first version

• Select a word on any page and save it with its sentence, its meaning, and a translation.
• Review what you have saved on a spaced-repetition schedule, so words come back just before you would forget them.
• A side panel with everything you have saved.
• Chrome, Firefox and Safari.