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.
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