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