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Juan Arzola @ancientbuho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reworked Benkyo Box's flashcard previews to a custom layout so that they re-layout on #iphoneduo super narrow split view content view. Similar layout they had on accessibility large size, but it animates now.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚀 1.13.0 is out ~ Now you can share your flashcards and download flashcards from others via your iCloud account. This is available in the free version. You can also unlock all features with a one-time payment now, for those who don't want subscriptions. #iosapps #apps #edtech

a screenshot of Benkyo Box's sharing sheet, where you can copy a link of a folder to share it with others.

the sheet has ATProto as title, then a status indicator that says "Latest changes uploaded", then a copy link button, date of sharing, and a "Stop Sharing" button.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Since many of my maker's notes are in physical notebooks, a lot of what I do is to make it easier to study from physical media. This is a short example of what it looks like to study from one. #flashcards #studytips #iosapps #notebooks

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🚀 1.12.0 is out - Now your flashcards can contain LaTeX equations (Advanced Learner). And many other things since we last posted here: 1. Annotate screenshots on Mac to study them 2. Hide or annotate irregular areas of images 3. Study maps and mind palace pics with emoji pins and arrows #studytips

A screenshot of Benkyo Box with an equation editor, with buttons to add LaTeX snippets.

Arrows and irregularly shaped annotations

An emoji annotation on a fantasy map.The emoji is a castle, pointing to a town, named “Wei Lin”

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🆕 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

💡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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🧪 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🚀 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🔜 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🧪 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚀 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🧪 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!

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

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!

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🧪 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

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Juan Arzola @ancientbuho.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

🧪 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

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We have more in the plans than what’s in this board. These are public tasks. Next release: 1.5.5 Request features: https://www.autorelease.io/benkyobox/support.php

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📒 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 💪

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

A promo image of Benkyo Box for Mac.

It has an import window with questions and answers for the fictional role-playing show "Fire in the Role". It has a study view with a Pomeranian picture and the answer "Pomeranian". In the back of these windows there's a Library window with the current progress and a Computer History Museum folder selected.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

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

A screenshot of 3 versions of Benkyo Box, for iPad, Mac and iPhone. They all show the main interface, with a Today View with your progress. iPad and Mac selected the Computer History Museum folder, with a card for the IBM 1401 computer selected. A badge for Mac Coming Soon is attached to the Mac. The top says "Capture and learn what matters to you, now in Liquid Glass"

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

💻 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

A screenshot of BenkyoBox for macOS. It shows the import view in the foreground, where you can import cards from multiple questions and answers in a document. It has 3 questions related to bluesky.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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) 🔔

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Those a great apps, thank you for including me 🧡

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A small quality of life improvement coming up

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Juan Arzola @ancientbuho.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

First pass at glassifying the icon 🫧 #liquidglass

A screenshot of the BenkyoBox icon after making it glassy for iOS 26

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Leo @ewalf.com · 01/06/2025

🥇 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🐞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.

a picture of tools used for learning tool names. Various tools are labeled with their names, like "caliper", "Allen wrench", "chain tool" and "cassette wrench". The name of the app is on the middle top, "Benkyo Box". Below it, it says "Annotate your pictures to memorize".

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🔊 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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Juan Arzola @ancientbuho.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

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

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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

An image of the first time BenkyoBox ran on Mac, using live data from SwiftData.

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Benkyo Box @benkyobox.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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