🆕 New Home Screen List Widget: view cards available to study in your favorite lists, start studies and create cards in them. They match your color theme choice of the app as well. Alongside the Today widget, they are great to create a little study dashboard in your Home Screen. #studytips #iosapps

💡Shortcuts in Benkyo Box are extremely useful but it can be hard to figure out how to use them. Here’s some ideas and examples to get you started: www.reddit.com/r/studytips/... #AppleShortcuts #Shortcuts #iosapps #studytips

🧪 By popular request, now in Test Flight: A Live Activity of your study session. Convenient for checking how many cards you have left in your session, and for continuing your study where you left off. #apps #ios #edtech

🚀 1.7.1 is out - improvements to Hidden Area flashcards, and now it's easier to set the folder of new cards. Full release notes: www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/re... #flashcards #apps #iOS #mac

Study hidden regions of an image in 1.7.0, now out in beta for iOS (Mac is still in beta review). As always open to feedback, or any other annotation features you'd like. Test Flight: testflight.apple.com/join/eHBWUu1u #flashcards #edtech #apps

🔜 Coming soon: hide areas of an image to study them. Text recognition makes finding these areas faster!. Perfect for studying images that are already annotated. #flashcards #apps

🧪 Now in TestFlight builds: We've polished the Mac, study card creation and significantly improved import speeds in 1.6.0: - Mac: Settings were re-designed to be Mac-like - iPhone: Press the + button to discover new ways of quickly creating cards (from clipboard, from files, etc) #edtech #macapps

🚀 Benkyo Box 1.5.10 is out now in the AppStore with: - Import study cards from Anki (export coming up next) - Revamped the Import UI, which now shows a preview of the contents being imported before you do import it. - Fix for music playback stopping in the study view - Fix iPad windows not resizing

🧪 Now in beta builds is our first update of the year: 1.5.10 brings importing decks from Anki (.apkg files) Simple, reversed, and "Cloze" (fill-in-the-blanks) templates are supported. Of course, a #Shortcuts action was added for this. Lots of little and not-so-little fixes as UI cleanup as well!

New Advanced Learner feature: Extract #flashcards from text or urls. It uses #AppleIntelligence to extract cards from content, so your cards stays local and private. We are still improving it, but it's already a great way to get started with a deck!

🧪 Internal 1.5.7 builds focus largely on #Mac improvements – highlights: 1. Shortcuts and Continuity are better at opening lists and cards in the right window 2. Menu bar and context menus disable/enable available options more reliably 3. Shortcuts views look nicer on Mac #updates #apps

Shortcut actions for Benkyo Box is now out in the AppStore, version 1.5.5 🚀. I also wrote some things I learned while working with the AppIntents framework, in case it's useful to someone: www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/bl... #iosdev #shortcuts

🧪 TestFlight builds are now starting to feature "create flashcard" Shortcuts, so that you can automate adding them. You can see other upcoming features in the board (anything marked 1.5.5) benkyoboxapp.notion.site/29803e90dab1... as always, beta builds at: testflight.apple.com/join/jZXFDA46

📒 If you need help getting started on studying with Benkyo Box, or just want to learn more about what it can do, our manual is now available: www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/ma... Happy studies - for us is back to feature development 💪

Benkyo Box is out for Mac 🚀 It's a native #Mac study app with plenty of features to study, import, organize and clear your study queue. apple.co/42QuGt6 Known bugs (fixes in Apple review): - Some cards are not included when exporting using drag/drop - State restoration breaks selection in calendar

We are proud of our Liquid Glass update, now available in the AppStore 🚀. And as always, hold on tight for the Mac update, coming soon! #liquidglass #apps

🎴Adding multi-select previews and better multi-actions in the next beta build (macOS and iPad)

💻 An early beta of Benkyo Box for macOS (1.5.0) is available for beta testing - lots of kinks to iron out but it’s starting to take shape! Feel free to download it in TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/jZXFDA46 It’s more solid in macOS 26, less so in 15, but we’ll get there. #flashcards

Our developer took a short vacation, took notes in the #ComputerHistoryMuseum, then realized we didn't have an obvious feature: a notification badge with the number of remaining studies. Notification badges available in the upcoming 1.4.5 release (in review) 🔔

1.5.0 is out in beta with the new #liquidglass ui. Enjoy! testflight.apple.com/join/jZXFDA46 It’s still with the old icon due to some last minute issues, but a new one should be coming in a later beta.

Quick preview of Benkyo Box Mac version (pre-Tahoe). We customized the Study View specifically for Mac using trackpad gestures and plain ol' buttons.

1.4.1 is out! some highlights: 1. You can see each card's progress when viewing a card. 2. Theme color previews in Settings 3. Study button is easier to tap And from 1.4.0: 1. Long cards scroll in the study view 2. More flexible column selection in CSV import 3. Faster startup time #apps #updates

Some of you import #flashcards from CSVs that have more than 1 column that is relevant to the question/answer, for example: The hiragana in one column, definition in the other. Next update will allow you to select more than 1 column (see the video to see how it works). #BenkyoBox

I am aware that 1.3.2 broke image annotation creation. 1.3.3 is in review with a fix. Sorry for that!

Those a great apps, thank you for including me 🧡

Took a break from our upcoming liquid glass 🫧 and macOS update to ship a few fixes in 1.3.2: 1. Home Screen Stats widget now correctly updates 2. The study scoring control has been refined to be easier to interact with 3. Lists are more data dense 4. Other smaller refinements apple.co/42QuGt6

A small quality of life improvement coming up

First pass at glassifying the icon 🫧 #liquidglass

I've began my iOS and iPadOS transition to Liquid Glass - you can download the next beta with it (currently in review) using this TestFlight link: testflight.apple.com/join/eHBWUu1u #flashcards #apps #liquidglass

🥇 Benkyo Box by @benkyobox.bsky.social An elegant, private, and performant app for truly remembering anything in your life. Crowned #1 Daily and #1 Monthly on Firsto! firsto.co/projects/benkyo-box

A preview of image annotation flashcards on macOS. It's taken a little more time than expected, but it's starting to take shape! #flashcards #edutech

🐞New bug fix release is out (1.3.1): Improves performance of creating and resizing annotation #flashcards. It also fixes a bug that prevented them from being resized. Annotations now also move to the top when selected. These are improvements for the upcoming macOS app that the iOS version received.

🔊 The next version will be packed with audio to make everything feel more alive. The sounds come in subtle but satisfying themes that you can choose from. Also: custom notification sounds 🔔 (do turn up the volume a bit in this recording to hear it). #benkyobox #apps #flashcards

Some of you like the flashcard score control going from left to right, others like it right to left. I like left to right, but I'll let you pick your favorite in the next release 😊 #flashcards #BenkyoBox #apps

The text editors in the #mac version of #BenkyoBox are starting to take shape. You can edit simple cards, embed images, swap questions and answers, etc Porting some of the UIKit editor code (embedded in SwiftUI) to AppKit was made easier with @massicotte.org 's github.com/ChimeHQ/Glyph #flashcards

Mac development update: I finally can run on Mac (not as a "designed for iPad / Catalyst" app). A lot will have to be rewritten natively for Mac, but it'll be worth it in the end. #BenkyoBox

1.2.2 is available now with new languages, optimized app size, and shorter study sessions by default, so that you can finish your sessions more quickly. apple.co/42QuGt6 Afterwards, our focus is finishing the Mac app, and other polishing releases while that bakes. #BenkyoBox #apps #flashcards