Changelog
Keep track of all the updates and improvements to Sottaku
June 27, 2025
- Your flashcards now sync better between different devices and browser windows
June 26, 2025
- Entire web app redesigned from the ground up, with support for mobile browsers! Enjoy Sottaku on the go while we prepare the mobile app
January 05, 2025
- Cloze quizzes have become slightly harder
December 30, 2024
- All ELO have been reset
- ELO now moves much faster, and especially so for words that have not been seen often
December 29, 2024
- Entire website redone in background to prepare for mobile app development
- UI redesign
- Sottaku Chat
- Pro subscribers can manage billing settings
December 05, 2024
- Upgrade to FSRS 4
- Added secold "gold" currency
- Assorted bugfixes and speedups
December 01, 2024
- Rank up quiz is now LIVE. Expect it to become harder in the near future, with more questions added and better option selection for the cloze quiz
- Moved dictionary to Toolbar up top
November 29, 2024
- Small bugfixes
- Added ability to skip question and add to flashcards immediately
November 25, 2024
- Added quizzes specifically targeted towards beginners, to give them their first vocabulary
November 23, 2024
- Reading quiz now has typing enabled in order to input answers, and this is set to the default
- Reading quiz input can be changed in profile
- Various other improvements
November 20, 2024
- Japanese course gains an additional 6000 words, for a total of 12000
- Adult content filter added, which will exclude adult words (certain body parts, etc) from quizzes and dictionary. Can be toggled on or off in profile.
November 18, 2024
- Current state of the app -- probably nearly bug-free
- Audio has been completely redone for more accuracy
November 16, 2024
- Many many bugs have been fixed!
- Many UI improvements
- Sottaku is now much faster
November 14, 2024
- Some data cleaning for words 2001-6000 (more work to do, however, and some data is causing bugs)
- All "casual" quizzes have been unified
- You will be presented words to study based on your history of answering questions right/wrong
- Front-end will be updated later to reflect this
- Expect some bumpiness until this update gets sorted out
November 13, 2024
- Shells (in-app currency) and daily quests for studying flashcards added
November 11, 2024
- Many bugfixes!
- Added 4000 new words for a total of 6000 studyable words total
- Hiragana and Katakana quizzes now have audio
November 03, 2024
- Sottaku pre-pre-alpha version
- Live with buggy and limited functionality