Changelog

What changed in Infinite Stories, newest first.

v0.18.4

September 2026
Ten crossovers live, three stories continue into them, fresh print samples
  • Ten crossovers between the house stories are live
  • Three origin stories gained a "Continue in this world" chapter
  • The five print samples on the order form are rebuilt from the final export code
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v0.18.3

September 2026
The things-to-find words sit in the middle of their plate
  • Printed picture book: the things-to-find words are centred in their plate on every page
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v0.18.2

September 2026
The printed picture book, read once more: a steadier strip, a quieter back cover, no blank pages
  • Things to find: one plate box on every page, the words centred, flush with the cut
  • Back cover: only the credit lines, in the bottom-left corner
  • No blank pages before the colophon
  • Sample cards: a lone sample fills the row, download buttons line up
  • Three house courses rebuilt to explain in English, live on the site
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v0.18.1

September 2026
Better printed books, readers that fit a phone, ten crossings between the house stories
  • Comic reader: the page counter opens a grid of pages
  • Picture book: fullscreen on a phone is one compact row, and the picture edges turn the page
  • Print export: things to find as framed labels on the art, a wide landscape trim, and a behind-the-scenes section you can cut part by part
  • Sample print files to download for all three comic versions
  • Ten crossovers between the house stories
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v0.18.0

September 2026
Course quality you can choose, music while you read, stories that start keeping a ledger
  • Course wizard: two quality profiles, each line backed by a measured number
  • Background music: 30 house loops and 200 effects, a sound library page, per theme or per story, off by default
  • Scored reading: a special that reveals a chapter beat by beat with a sound cue at each step
  • Picture book: a special that turns a chapter into wide illustrated pages with a read-aloud line and things to find
  • A house roster of characters and scenes in the story wizard, and the first house courses
  • Long stories record their open threads and relationship shifts per branch, ready for a measured pay-off
  • Character timeline per branch, opened from the chapter you are reading
  • Snappier reading screens and a backend that idles near zero
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v0.17.9

September 2026
Existing passages carry the story-aware hints
  • Word hints in existing passages say what a word means in this story, not only in the dictionary
  • Commas and marks sit on their word in the reader
  • Italian and French word-form explanations naming a verb by its dictionary form are kept
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v0.17.8

September 2026
Word-form checks read the whole noun phrase
  • A correct adjective explanation is kept when its article stands a word or two before it
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v0.17.7

September 2026
Hints that read the story, a Tutor you can answer, Gemini 3.8 Flash
  • A hint gives the plain meaning and, when the story uses the word differently, what it does there and why
  • An article standing right before its noun is one hint, not two
  • The Tutor's hand button sits at the top of the passage and follows you down a long text
  • A Tutor example is a real sentence with the reason it fits, and a check is a question you can answer
  • Word-form chips no longer show a label the app's own checks refuted
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash is the default Flash model: same price, faster, better
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v0.17.6

September 2026
Every word glossed, word forms that help, the Tutor on every module
  • Reading passages gloss every content word, and a separable verb lights up as one expression on hover
  • The AI Tutor's hand button is on every course module and knows which sentence or exercise you are on
  • A grammar chip opens the cheat sheet for that term, or says in one line what the term means
  • Word-form explanations name only words that stand in the sentence
  • Notification rows show their icon and text on first open, and you choose what the panel shows
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v0.17.5

September 2026
Check-ups that would not load, and a first sweep by the persona fleet
  • A check-up draft from before the last pool update loads a real form instead of sixteen empty slots
  • The Grammar profile asks which of your languages to show instead of opening on English
  • Every page with a tutorial now links to it beside its title
  • The weekly progress e-mail toggle is back on the Grammar profile
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v0.17.4

September 2026
The Tutor always has a hint for one-word answers
  • When an item asks for a single small word, the Tutor explains that step in your native language and tells you why
  • Rich check-ups fail far less often while generating their items
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v0.17.3

September 2026
Explainers you can read in every theme
  • Every ? explainer and hint now uses the common tooltip - readable in dark mode and restyled with your theme
  • The Tutor hints at the word class and the deciding features of a one-word answer instead of stalling
  • Italian B2 adjective-position check-up items now test the meaning shift the topic promises
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v0.17.2

September 2026
Glossed words always explain themselves
  • Tapping a glossed word now always explains that word - a rendering that wires glosses to the wrong words is rejected and retried
  • Word explanations are written for the base word, so they stay right for every form in the text
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v0.17.1

September 2026
The Tutor's model list matches the real lineup
  • AI Tutor, Validator and Rich check-up now offer exactly the current model lineup, correctly priced
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v0.17.0

September 2026
A grammar profile that knows you, and an AI Tutor on every question
  • The grammar profile shows what we actually know about each rule, why we think it, and the one thing to do next
  • Grammar check-ups grew to 16 items per sitting, in all five learning languages, with a paid Rich Checkup for a deeper placement
  • An AI Validator grades written answers against the exact rules a course teaches, solo or shared in a Co-op room
  • The AI Tutor answers on any question you are stuck on, as a floating window or a docked panel, in the language mix you choose
  • Every derived number carries a ? explainer, and rule pages link straight to their cheat sheet
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v0.16.5

August 2026
Invite anyone into a Learning room, and every word explains its form
  • A Premium learner can invite any account into a live room. The guest reads and plays for as long as the room is open
  • Every glossed word gains a Form/Function tab: its sentence, its grammatical function with a tap through to the matching cheat sheet, similar words, and the rule behind its shape
  • The dictionary and the saved-words search let you pick which fields they cover, and paint every match where it sits
  • Saved words live on their own page with search, the sentence each word came from, the course it belongs to and a link to an external dictionary
  • Course builds show a time estimate, and typed review answers settle for a second before grading
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v0.16.4

August 2026
Italian joins every cheat-sheet level
  • Italian now has a six-level grammar ladder. Reference pages sit alongside culture notes. Dialogs cover common situations.
  • Italian examples include word-by-word annotations that expose sentence structure
  • Every reviewed Rule gives an independently usable grammatical definition or decision procedure
  • Error-spot exercises use mistakes that are genuinely ill-formed on their own
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v0.16.3

August 2026
Word reviews accept synonyms and wait for you
  • Typed word reviews accept genuine synonyms - a fitting word no longer grades as wrong
  • A wrong answer no longer jumps to the next word on a timer - you decide when to move on
  • Hints know the answer options and point at the grammar the sentence needs
  • Cheat-sheet legends explain every form label (SG, PL, person, tense, case endings)
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v0.16.2

August 2026
Situation and culture cheat sheets, audiobook specials
  • Two new cheat-sheet kinds per language: Common situations (with full dialogs) and Cultural traps
  • Audiobook specials: order a narrated version of a story, with a voice-only and a music-and-effects mix
  • Grammar exercises always have content now - practice banks step in when a chapter has nothing to offer
  • Fairer check-ups and error spotting: no more hints that give the answer away
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v0.16.1

August 2026
Older courses open all their modules again
  • Learning courses from earlier releases no longer show locked, endlessly-loading module tabs
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v0.16.0

August 2026
Grammar that tracks your progress, a premium area that explains itself, and custom specials on request
  • A free grammar check-up and a per-language mastery profile, with a weekly practice goal
  • Generate a story built around the grammar rules and words you're working on
  • Cheat-sheet breakdowns: every word carries its word class, arrows draw again, clauses group
  • A new Premium page explains what premium buys, with the learning science behind the app
  • Request a rough quote for a custom special like a comic, and premium accounts can convert between text and image credits
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v0.15.1

August 2026
Cheat-sheet examples, broken down the way you want them
  • Cheat-sheet examples now mark every part of the sentence, down to the word endings
  • Every explanation is written twice, in English and in the language you are learning
  • You choose which parts of the breakdown to show, and the app remembers it
  • Every grammatical label in all four languages re-checked against the language itself
  • Character and scene sheets use readable field names again
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v0.15.0

August 2026
Grammar courses, richer cheat sheets, your Simple view your way
  • Grammar courses: see the structure of real sentences and practice it in four graded exercise types
  • Cheat sheets grew: more examples, more mistakes, twelve memory aids per rule, and your own notes
  • Pick exactly which sidebar sections and table columns Simple view shows
  • Chapters set to 500 words or less now cost half a credit
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v0.14.10

August 2026
Designer polish: readable icon options and a fixed theme preview
  • Hover an icon element's options to read each value
  • Save Theme now tells you what is still missing
  • The theme preview screenshot renders again
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v0.14.9

August 2026
Transformation lessons finish more often
  • A sentence can be practiced with more than one transformation
  • Exact duplicate exercises are still rejected
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v0.14.8

August 2026
Reliable sentence transformation lessons
  • Grammar variety is checked across the whole exercise
  • Each batch gets more tries to produce a clean set
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v0.14.7

August 2026
More varied sentence practice
  • Catch repeated source sentences across generated batches
  • Request a corrected batch before assembling the lesson
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v0.14.6

August 2026
More reliable sentence choices
  • Keep sentence lessons available after one safe extra choice
  • Reject ambiguous answer sets before learners see them
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v0.14.5

August 2026
Broader sentence practice
  • Practice a broader mix of sentence transformations
  • Keep complete answer choices and bilingual grammar help
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v0.14.4

August 2026
Clearer lessons and saved tutor reviews
  • Browse one Learning entry per story and switch chapters
  • Reveal every saved glossary hint with Hints: All
  • Work through exercises with clearer answer layouts
  • Keep detailed tutor feedback after a reload
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v0.14.3

August 2026
Learning journeys: whole stories, one course at a time
  • Turn a whole short story into a learning journey with one price
  • Finished a course? Continue straight into the next chapter
  • Write a brand-new story just for your course
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v0.14.2

August 2026
A small reliability patch
  • Dropdown options that carry explanations are more robust to click
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v0.14.1

August 2026
Comic specials follow their branches correctly
  • Going back in a branching comic lands on the chapter you came from
  • Chapter lists show each chapter's parent path on hover
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v0.14.0

August 2026
Learning: study a language through stories you already like
  • Turn a chapter you already read into a language course
  • Glossed reading plus eight exercise types, progress saved per module
  • Spaced-repetition vocabulary review with sentence context from the story
  • An AI tutor reviews your whole course on demand
  • Two-player study rooms, peer-to-peer with automatic relay fallback
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v0.13.0

August 2026
Specials: an infinite branching story, drawn as a comic
  • A new Specials area with a premium comic reader
  • The comic keeps branching where you choose
  • See the cast and locations that keep it consistent
  • A behind-the-scenes look at how each page was made
  • Choice images: a picture for every path you can take
  • Honest production costs shown on every special
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v0.12.1

August 2026
A live achievements page, your all-time numbers, and dark mode that keeps up
  • Unlocks announce themselves the moment you earn them
  • Rarity, completion and your all-time numbers
  • Gold tiers are worth bragging about now
  • Dark mode covers every text and dialog
  • Creator titles show in search and every table
  • An open-beta welcome, wishlist filters, tables that fit
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v0.12.0

August 2026
Achievements, earned credits and a map of everything you've discovered
  • Your discovery map: achievements, tiers and titles
  • Earn credits from what you actually do
  • 55 achievements and daily quests to find
  • Gentle hints point at features you haven't tried
  • Pages load with a fraction of the files
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v0.11.4

August 2026
Dark mode covers every corner, and short stories open from everywhere
  • Dark mode reaches the last light spots
  • Short stories open from Recently viewed
  • Cleaner choice lists under chapters
  • A steadier, more deliberate creation guide
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v0.11.3

August 2026
The creation guide walks every field with you
  • The creation guide goes field by field, menus included
  • Continue a guided draft with one click
  • Guides highlight exactly the control they talk about
  • The story language shows as frozen once writing starts
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v0.11.2

August 2026
Continue a fresh chapter with one click, and phones get a real phone view
  • Choices on a freshly generated chapter are clickable
  • Landscape phones now get the phone layout
  • Guides no longer trap you on a phone
  • A simpler creation wizard for new writers
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v0.11.1

August 2026
The guide button asks before it guides
  • The first click on the guide button asks instead of starting
  • Twenty public Infinite stories roughly doubled in depth
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v0.11.0

August 2026
A focused start, with optional guidance in the real app
  • A focused Simple experience for new and unset browsers
  • Chapters stream into your themed reading view as they generate
  • Seven Designer tours rebuilt around doing instead of reading
  • Every account gets a readable name, and names filter stories
  • Bounded onboarding analytics with no story content or entity IDs
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v0.10.1

July 2026
Word-by-word text animation, and a story others wrote in stays readable
  • Animate chapter text word by word from a one-click example
  • A story other people wrote in can no longer be made private again
  • Chapter length and language moved to the wizard's Config step
  • Fewer background requests while you read
  • Chapter length lands closer to the number you pick than 0.10.0 said
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v0.10.0

July 2026
Choose how long your chapters are
  • Set chapter length per story: 500, 1000, 2000 or 3000 words
  • Shorter chapters by default, in existing stories too
  • Change it whenever you like, mid-story is fine
  • Every length still costs one credit
  • The numbers are targets rather than guarantees
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v0.9.0

July 2026
Write in your language, and find what you want to read
  • Pick your story's language, and every chapter keeps it
  • Filter any library page by language, signed in or not
  • Most viewed and best rated, for every kind of story
  • Your reading settings follow your account across devices
  • Discuss any wishlist item, not just vote on it
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v0.8.0

July 2026
Longer chapters, outlines that steer, and a wishlist
  • Chapters now reach their full length, at the same price
  • A planned outline actually steers the story
  • Suggest and vote on features in the community wishlist
  • Characters, scenes and research can join a running story
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v0.7.0

July 2026
Guides, image placement and an easier Designer
  • 26 guides, now with full-text search
  • Choose where chapter images sit, per device
  • The Designer got far easier to find your way around
  • This changelog
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v0.6.0

July 2026
First public beta
  • The app went public, free during the beta
  • A library of classic stories to read straight away
  • Illustrated guides for every feature
  • A security review, with everything it found fixed
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v0.5.0

July 2026
A new writing engine, and much more
  • Rewritten writing engine, and you choose the model
  • Crossovers: merge two of your own stories
  • The Designer: restyle every part of the interface
  • Text credits, comments, research briefs and a scene builder
  • A full pass for phones and tablets
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v0.4.0

October 2025
Pictures and a memory
  • Chapter images, with click-to-zoom
  • Automatic content screening for images and text
  • Continuity work so long stories stop contradicting themselves
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v0.1 to v0.3

April to October 2025
Early development
  • The first branching stories: pick a choice, get a chapter written for it
  • Branches ran deep, past 50 chapters on a single path
  • A private prototype, never publicly reachable
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