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Oct 5 – 11, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesThe Today card's word goal reads "Mark 5 words as Learning or Known", with the two status names in the same colors as the reader's status buttons, so you can see that setting a word to Learning or Known while reading counts toward the goal.Oct 8
Old EnglishOld English texts of up to 5,000 words now end with a five-question quiz written in Old English, with A, B, C and D options; after each answer you see a one-sentence explanation in Old English and the supporting line from the text, and "Show in Modern English" reveals the Modern English. Question 1 is free, supporters get the full quiz, and every quiz is checked before you see it.Oct 7
All LanguagesMy quizzes lists only the quizzes for the language you study, and its header has the language picker.Oct 7
Ancient GreekReading quiz answers now show the verdict, a one-sentence explanation, and the supporting line from the text in Ancient Greek, with a "Show in English" button on the question and in the feedback box. Quizzes made earlier show the English explanation until their Greek one is added.Oct 6

Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read Theophrastus, Characters as a collection with a separate prologue and 30 sketches; the Reader shows citations such as 0.1 and 30.1, the collection credits Hermann Diels’s 1909 Oxford edition and the Perseus Digital Library, and you can click any word to look it up.Sep 30

New Features

All LanguagesThe top menu link or logo you click shows that it is loading until the page opens, and on a phone the menu stays open until the page changes.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe Settings page uses switches for email updates and credits, and the language lists work with the arrow keys.Oct 3
All LanguagesKeyboard and screen reader users can open the word menu with Shift+F10 and move through it with the arrow keys, and words announce their status and selection.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe "not signed in" bar is now a quiet note that appears only where your progress is saved on this browser (library, search, flashcards, dictionary and the reader), and the Sign in and Sign up pages say why an account helps.Oct 3
All LanguagesVisitors see About in the menu, the phone menu has an About Kevilex group, the footer links to the Library, For educators and Sign in, and a Skip to content link helps keyboard users.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe feedback button is a small icon on phones that no longer covers text, it is hidden in the reader and flashcard review, and the form is titled "Send feedback" with an optional subject.Oct 3
All LanguagesEveryone can see the support amounts and what supporters get, you sign in at the last step with your chosen amount kept, and supporters see one thank-you.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe landing page is shorter, starts with "Choose your first text", mentions Old English throughout, and says no account is needed to begin.Oct 3
All LanguagesWhat's new shows the latest 8 weeks with a "Show older updates" button, and visitors to the roadmap see the board before the supporter note.Oct 3
All LanguagesFlashcards keep the answer hidden until you reveal it, show translated review intervals that are exact below two weeks, and end each session with a summary of how it went and what to do next.Oct 3
All LanguagesA flashcard review of one text keeps that text in the link, shows its name, and Exit takes you back to where you started.Oct 3
Ancient GreekThe dictionary accepts Latin letters and beta code (logos finds λόγος), keeps your search in the link, and lets you mark a word New, Learning or Known.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe progress page has a word forms and dictionary words toggle, a chart legend, and a single empty state.Oct 3
All LanguagesCollection pages now have a "Start reading" card (or Continue / Next up) under the title, chapter rows show word count, difficulty and a read mark, and the page shows how many words you have to learn.Oct 3
All LanguagesEmpty collections now explain what to do next, Add texts lists which of your texts it can add and links to Import and Search, and the sharing options say who can see the collection.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe Texts tab in Search finds texts by collection name, and Greek searches match without accents or breathings.Oct 3
All LanguagesSearch results that come back empty now say why and what to try, new learners with no marked words start on the Beginner first sort, remembered filters show a "Showing your last filters" note with a Clear button, and long lists have a page jump.Oct 3
All LanguagesLibrary rooms sit two to a row on phones, lobby, room and shelf cards share one style with author, difficulty, text count and "N of M read", empty rooms link to Browse and Search, and By genre opens on Graded.Oct 3
All LanguagesImported texts now start as Private, the Import button says what is missing when it is disabled, and signed-out visitors get a clear sign-in prompt and a back link.Oct 3
Ancient GreekAt the end of a Greek text, "Take the quiz" opens five multiple-choice questions in Greek at the text's level, each with a "Show in English" button, an instant right or wrong, and the line from the text that answers it.Oct 3
Ancient GreekSupporters get all five quiz questions, a score with a review of every answer, retakes that keep your first and best score, and a new "My quizzes" page under Progress; everyone can try the first question for free.Oct 3
All LanguagesPages look and read the same across the app. Buttons and headings use sentence case, About, Credits, What's new, Roadmap, Privacy and Terms share one page header, and the Dashboard, Search, Progress, Flashcards and Dictionary tabs share one width, so the title and language picker stay put when you switch tabs.Oct 3
All LanguagesLibrary room, collection and import pages have one Back to link that names its destination, Back after Up next returns to the collection, and finishing a collection shows a card with next steps.Oct 3
All LanguagesA personal definition now has a clear Remove button, and an unsaved draft stays in place until you save or cancel it.Oct 3
All LanguagesThe Kevilex owl icon appears when you add the site to your iPhone Home Screen or macOS Dock.Sep 29

Sep 21 – 27, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesThe reader's Chapters panel lets you browse a collection, find the current chapter, open the previous or next chapter, and return to the collection page.Sep 25
All LanguagesWhen you send feedback while signed in, or with an email address, Kevilex emails you right away to say it arrived, and you can reply to that email to add more.Sep 25
All LanguagesEach browser tab names its page, and the reader tab names the text.Sep 23
All LanguagesOn the Collections tab, "Beginner First" lists the easiest collections first, collections with no level last, and the same level by name; the Difficulty filter keeps one level; both are saved for your next visit, and you can use them before you sign in.Sep 23

Sep 14 – 20, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesThe Library has a "My shelf" section that holds the Create Collection and Import New Text buttons, a form to name a new collection, and up to five of your imported texts that are in no collection, each with an "Add to collection" action and a link to the rest in Search.Sep 18
All LanguagesThe import page has a "Put it in" field, so you can send a text to no collection, one of your collections, or a new collection you name; the text joins that collection once the import finishes, and the finished import links to it.Sep 18
All LanguagesThe reader bar shows the Kevilex logo at the far left, which takes you to the home page, and the vocabulary highlighting toggle reads "Vocab" with a filled dot when it is on and a hollow dot when it is off.Sep 16
All LanguagesReader display settings are saved separately for Ancient Greek and Old English, so a change you make while reading one language leaves the other alone.Sep 16
Old EnglishStyle settings offer a Macrons toggle on every Old English text, so you can hide the long-vowel marks and test yourself on vowel length.Sep 16
All LanguagesThe Library has a new "Imported collections and texts" section that lists the collections you made or were given access to, with the Import New Text button and a link to your imported texts that are not in any collection; a signed-in reader who is not yet a supporter sees the section locked with a way to unlock it.Sep 14
All LanguagesThe Library's Browse section uses For beginners, By genre, and By author tabs; For beginners lists every collection rated beginner or elementary, with graded readers first; collections with no genre appear under Other and collections with no single author under "No single author"; and a link under the grid takes you to public texts that are not in any collection.Sep 14

Sep 7 – 13, 2026

New Features

Ancient GreekWord Form Analysis now names a form's dialect when it is not Attic: Epic, Ionic, Doric, Aeolic, or Koine.Sep 10

Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read A First Greek Reader, Charles M. Moss's 1886 course of 163 short stories that start with one-line anecdotes and grow into passages adapted from Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, and Lucian, as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Sep 2

New Features

All LanguagesThe Search page has a search box above the Collections and Texts tabs that narrows both tabs to matching titles, authors, and collection names as you type.Sep 5
All LanguagesThe Continue reading card on the dashboard has a bookmark button, so you can favorite or unfavorite the text you last read without leaving the page.Sep 5
All LanguagesA Line Spacing slider in the reader's Style Settings, next to Text Size and Typeface, sets the space between the lines of a text, tight for fast reading or wide for slow reading, and the setting is saved to your account.Sep 5
All LanguagesEach collection page shows how many word forms and dictionary words the whole collection holds, under its description.Sep 5
All LanguagesA Screen Line Numbers switch in the reader's Style Settings numbers each line as it appears on your screen, so you can say which line you mean; the numbers count the lines you see rather than an edition's own line numbers, they start again at 1 on each page, and the setting is saved to your account.Sep 5
Ancient GreekThe Homeric Reading Room cover is Franz Matsch's The Triumph of Achilles, Achilles dragging Hector before the walls of Troy, and the Beginner Greek Reading Room cover is Alma-Tadema's A Reading from Homer.Sep 4
Ancient GreekEach Greek reading room shows Beginner works, Easy authentic texts, and Collections, and hides any empty shelf.Sep 4
Ancient GreekThe Library has a Beginner Greek Reading Room for LGPSI and Moss's A First Greek Reader, first among four lobby doors.Sep 4
Ancient GreekFor beginners and the homepage featured texts list Moss's A First Greek Reader second, after LGPSI.Sep 4
Ancient GreekRe-engagement emails and the educators page open the Beginner Greek Reading Room, which holds LGPSI and A First Greek Reader.Sep 4
Ancient GreekThe Library always opens on the lobby, where the reading room you visited last carries a "Last visited" mark, so a shared library link opens the page it points to.Sep 2
All LanguagesYour dashboard always shows a Library card: the reading room you visited last, remembered on your account so it follows you to every device, or the whole library when you have not visited a room.Sep 2
Ancient GreekThe Library has three reading rooms, Homeric, Attic, and Biblical Greek, each with a three-step reading path, marked Chapter or Collection, and its collections; the last reading room you used opens until you choose All collections.Sep 1
Ancient GreekEach reading room has a themed picture on its card and at the top of its page, where it fades into the page behind the room name, with a picture credit under it, and a signed-in dashboard shows a small card for the reading room you last used.Sep 1
All LanguagesWhen you read without an account, a bar at the top of the reader tells you your progress is only saved on this browser and offers Sign In and Sign Up. It fits a phone screen without cutting the message short.Sep 1

Aug 24 – 30, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesAfter you import a text, you stay on Import Text, where a list shows jobs that are still running, that failed, or that finished in the last day, and you can try a failed job again from that list.Aug 30
All LanguagesOn the homepage, the names Ancient Greek and Old English carry a highlighter-style mark in each language's color.Aug 29
All LanguagesThe homepage now covers both Ancient Greek and Old English: two language cards let you pick a language and read its starter texts without an account, and your choice follows you into the library.Aug 29
All LanguagesImport Text defaults to Paste Text, shows a Supporter perk pill in the title for supporters, and shows the form under frost for signed-out and locked viewers with Sign In or Become a supporter.Aug 29
All LanguagesThe What's New page has a News tab for new texts and new features, a Fixes tab, and All, Ancient Greek, and Old English chips.Aug 29
All LanguagesImporting your own texts is now a supporter perk, and texts already in your library stay readable.Aug 28
All LanguagesThe reader now has double arrows that take you straight to the first or last page of a text.Aug 25

Aug 17 – 23, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesA "Flashcards by text" list on the flashcards page lets you review just the flashcards from a text you have been reading: your recently read texts appear with how many flashcards are ready, and an "All texts" page lists every text you have read.Aug 23
All LanguagesWhen you reach the end of a chapter, the reader now offers to review the flashcards that come from that chapter before you move on.Aug 23
All LanguagesA text whose flashcards are not ready yet offers a Practice session, so you can go over them early.Aug 23
All LanguagesThe dashboard's word of the day now shows the word's class and, for nouns, its gender, plus a larger example sentence from a text with the word highlighted.Aug 23
Old EnglishThe dashboard now shows a word of the day when you are studying Old English.Aug 23
All LanguagesThe dashboard's reading suggestions now change from day to day, include a wildcard pick from deeper in your library, and a "New picks" button draws a fresh set.Aug 21
All LanguagesA "Continue reading" section on the dashboard takes you back to your most recent text with one click.Aug 21
Ancient GreekThe dashboard's Today card now shows a word of the day picked near your level, with a button to add it to your flashcards and a link to a suggested text that uses it.Aug 21
All LanguagesThe Study, Review, and Enjoy choices are now tabs attached to the suggestion list, and each tab shows how many texts it holds.Aug 21
Ancient GreekGenesis 1, the Septuagint creation account, is now a first-text choice on the home page.Aug 19

Aug 10 – 16, 2026

New Texts

Old EnglishYou can now read the West-Saxon Gospel of John, the Old English translation of the Gospels made around the year 1000, as a new collection of 21 chapters, with every word clickable for lookup.Aug 15
Ancient GreekYou can now read Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the eight-book Attic account of the war between Athens and Sparta, as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Aug 13

New Features

All LanguagesDeleting a collection now opens an in-app confirmation dialog that names the collection before it is removed.Aug 15
All LanguagesDiscover is now Library: browse collections with a weekly spotlight, For beginners picks, and filters by genre or author.Aug 13
All LanguagesThe Texts catalog is now Search at /search. Old /texts catalog links redirect there. Individual readers stay at /texts/….Aug 13

Aug 3 – 9, 2026

New Texts

Old EnglishYou can now read The Seafarer, the Old English elegy from the Exeter Book on exile and the longing for a heavenly home, as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Aug 4

New Features

All LanguagesYou can now delete an imported text from the Texts list using the menu on its card, with a confirmation that names the text before it is removed.Aug 8
Old EnglishOld English texts now show long-vowel macrons (ā, ē, ī) alongside the palatalization dots (ċ, ġ), so words like stān and ġēar read with their vowel length marked even when the source edition left it out.Aug 4

Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read The Alexiad, Anna Komnene's account of her father Alexios I, Byzantine court politics, and the First Crusade, as a new collection with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 31
Old EnglishYou can now read the full Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader Selections collection — 23 prose and verse texts arranged in the reader's four parts, from Alfred's and Ælfric's prose to the poems The Wanderer, The Battle of Maldon, and The Phoenix — with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 30
Old EnglishYou can now read The West-Saxon Gospel of Mark — the Old English translation of the Gospels made around the year 1000, in 16 chapters — as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 29
Old EnglishYou can now read The West-Saxon Gospel of Luke, in 24 chapters, as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup; a note on chapter 3 explains that the source shortens the genealogy.Jul 29
Old EnglishYou can now read the complete verse Bēowulf — the Old English epic, in 43 fitts across its three great fights with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and the dragon — as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 28
Old EnglishYou can now read The Fight at Finnsburh, a short Old English heroic fragment, as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 28

New Features

Ancient GreekIn New Testament–era texts, word lookups now open with a short, focused Koine definition from the STEP Bible lexicon, labeled "Dictionary Entry — Koine," and you can expand the full historical entry below it.Aug 2
All LanguagesThe word panel now has a "Report incorrect entry" button below the definition that opens the feedback form already filled in with the word and its sentence, so you can report a wrong dictionary entry or grammar analysis in one step.Aug 2
All LanguagesA new Credits page, linked from the footer, lists the dictionaries and text sources Kevilex builds on.Aug 2
All LanguagesOn the Settings page, you now pick your interface language from a vertical list, one language per row with its flag, that stays easy to read on a phone.Aug 1
All LanguagesThe site footer now groups its links under Explore, Project, and Legal headings beside the Kevilex logo, and lays out cleanly on phones and larger screens.Aug 1
All LanguagesThe Progress page now shows separate growth charts and vocabulary breakdowns for word forms and dictionary words, with examples that match your study language.Jul 31
All LanguagesThe word panel is cleaner and easier to scan: New/Learning/Known is a single segmented control, alternate dictionary entries appear as chips at the top so you can flip between them without scrolling, the grammar analysis reads as one line, and the sections sit flat with simple dividers instead of boxes.Jul 30
Old EnglishYou can now import your own Old English texts: the Import page follows your study language, shows the language switcher, and imports pasted or linked text in Old English or Ancient Greek.Jul 30
All LanguagesThe reader's mark-words menu now has "Mark entire text as Learning" and "Mark entire text as Known", which mark every remaining new word across the whole text at once after a confirmation, so you no longer have to clear each page as you read.Jul 30
Old EnglishOld English is no longer labeled Beta anywhere in the app.Jul 27
All LanguagesThe study-language switcher now appears on every page, so you can jump to Old English (or back to Ancient Greek) without visiting Settings first.Jul 27
All LanguagesWhen a word matches more than one dictionary entry, the word panel now shows each reading as a tappable chip, best guess first — tap one to see that entry's definition, grammar, and etymology.Jul 27

Jul 20 – 26, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read the ancient book-by-book summaries (ὑποθέσεις) of the Iliad and Odyssey — short Greek prose recapping the action of each book — as the Homeric Summaries from Faesi collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 24
Old EnglishYou can now read the Old English Gospel of Matthew — the West-Saxon Gospels, translated around the year 1000 — as a new collection of all 28 chapters, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 22
Old EnglishYou can now read the Old English passages from Henry Sweet's First Steps in Anglo-Saxon — on the natural world (after Bede), on everyday trades (after Ælfric), and Bēowulfes sīþ, his prose retelling of Beowulf's journey in twelve short chapters — as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 21

New Features

All LanguagesPress ? anywhere to see keyboard shortcuts. On flashcards, Space or Enter flips the card and 1–4 grade it; in the reader, arrows turn pages and 1–3 set a selected word’s status.Jul 23
Old EnglishWhen you look up a compound word like ealddagum (“in old days”), the word popup shows how it breaks into its parts.Jul 23
All LanguagesAfter you flip a flashcard, the rating choices are Missed it, Struggled, Got it, and Easy, with a short note that each choice sets when you'll see the word again.Jul 22
Old EnglishOld English texts now show a dot over ċ and ġ to mark their pronunciation, with a "Consonant dots" switch in the reader settings to hide them.Jul 21
Old EnglishOld English word lookups now show grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, or neuter) for nouns and pronouns.Jul 20
All LanguagesThe What's New page now groups changes by week and sorts each week into New Texts, New Features, and Fixes, with the date shown on every entry; the weekly email groups the same way.Jul 20

Jul 13 – 19, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read Xenophon of Ephesus's An Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes — a fast-moving ancient romance and the most approachable of the surviving Greek novels — as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 17
Old EnglishYou can now read Old English (Beta): the first texts are The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan and Cynewulf and Cyneheard, in a new Bright's Reader Selections collection, with every word clickable for definitions and grammar; Old English texts are marked "Old English · Beta".Jul 15
Ancient GreekYou can now read the New Testament in the Byzantine (majority-text) tradition — the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform — as a new collection alongside the existing SBLGNT edition, with every word clickable for lookup.Jul 14

New Features

All LanguagesThe Dashboard and Progress headings are now just "Dashboard" and "Progress"; your study language shows in the language selector on the right.Jul 19
All LanguagesThe study-language selector on your study pages shows a small script letter (Ω for Ancient Greek, þ for Old English) next to the language name, without a "Studying:" label.Jul 19
Old EnglishThe Dictionary page now follows your study language, so searching while studying Old English looks the word up in the Old English dictionary.Jul 19
Old EnglishThe speak button now reads Old English words and sentences aloud using a Norwegian voice, which comes close to how Old English sounded; if your device has no Norwegian voice, the button says so.Jul 19
Old EnglishReviewing an Old English flashcard now shows the word's definition, grammar, and word origin.Jul 19
Old EnglishOld English word lookups now always show the part of speech, including for prepositions and verb infinitives, and recognize more spelling variants.Jul 19
All LanguagesThe Texts page now remembers your filters separately for each study language, so a filter you set while studying Greek no longer carries over when you switch to Old English.Jul 19
All LanguagesThe dashboard's Favorited Texts and Favorited Collections sections now show only favorites in the language you're studying.Jul 19
All LanguagesYour study language now follows you across devices: sign in on a new device and it picks up the language you chose.Jul 18
All LanguagesThe "texts not in any collection" count on the Collections tab now counts only texts in your study language, so it matches the list it links to.Jul 18
All LanguagesCollection pages now show a progress bar of your known vocabulary across the whole collection, so you can see how far you've come in an entire work like the Iliad.Jul 18
All LanguagesEach item on the What's New page now shows a colored tag for the study language it applies to — Ancient Greek, Old English, or all languages.Jul 18
All LanguagesThe support page now notes that you'll be charged in your local currency at checkout, with the euro and kronor equivalents of the $10 option.Jul 17
All LanguagesIf you're in Sweden, supporter checkout now works in kronor ($10 becomes 100 kr), with local payment methods like Klarna available, and your supporter amount is shown in kronor in your settings and emails.Jul 17
All LanguagesIf you're in the eurozone, supporter checkout now works in euros — local payment methods like Klarna and SEPA Direct Debit can appear at checkout, and your supporter amount is shown in euros in your settings and emails.Jul 17
All LanguagesYou can now choose your study language — Ancient Greek or Old English (Beta) — in Settings; your dashboard, library, vocabulary, flashcards, and Discover follow your choice, and a "Studying" selector appears on those pages once you've picked one.Jul 16
All LanguagesThe Texts page now has a Language filter, including an "All languages" option.Jul 16
All LanguagesOn the Collections tab, page controls now appear above and below the list.Jul 16
Ancient GreekLooking up a preposition that takes more than one case — like πρός — now shows its meanings grouped under each case it governs (genitive, dative, accusative).Jul 15
Ancient GreekSentence explanations are now easier to scan, with each point leading with the Greek word or phrase it explains.Jul 15
Ancient GreekYou can now choose a slower pronunciation speed for spoken Greek — Slow or Very slow — from the speaker button, and your choice is remembered on your device.Jul 14
Ancient GreekSentence explanations now give more natural English translations and are clearer about which points are grammar and which are interpretation.Jul 14
Ancient GreekSeptuagint Psalm titles now show the Hebrew and English Bible number alongside the Greek one, so "Psalms 116" also reads as "Psalms 116 (Heb. 117)."Jul 13

Jul 6 – 12, 2026

New Features

Ancient GreekWhen a word could be a noun or a verb, the other reading now appears under Alternative Interpretations — so looking up λέξεις also shows the noun λέξις ("words").Jul 12
All Languages"About This Document" now shows the collection a text belongs to, with a link to open it.Jul 11
Ancient GreekLooking up a word that could be a noun or a verb now uses the surrounding sentence to pick the right reading — so κρίνοις in "among the lilies" resolves to κρίνον ("lily") — with the other possibility shown under Alternative Interpretations.Jul 11
All LanguagesFiltering the collections list by visibility — public, private, or shared — now updates the page URL, so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.Jul 11
All LanguagesYou can now filter the texts list by favorites or visibility with one-click chips.Jul 11
All LanguagesWhen a filter returns no matches on either tab, you'll see a note saying so, with a Reset filters button to clear everything at once.Jul 11
All LanguagesThe texts page now remembers your last tab and filters, so returning to it brings you back where you left off.Jul 11
All LanguagesIn the reader, the Back button closes an open word popup or panel and keeps you on the text.Jul 11
All LanguagesWhen you hit your daily flashcard goal and cards are still due, a "Keep going" button lets you review the rest.Jul 10
All LanguagesFlashcards now have an “In context” section that shows the word in an example sentence — the one where you first met it when available — without giving away the definition.Jul 10
All LanguagesYou can now favorite collections to find them again quickly from your dashboard or the collections list.Jul 10
Ancient GreekLooking up common words spelled with an iota subscript — like σῴζω ("to save"), κωμῳδία ("comedy"), and ᾠδή ("song") — now shows their definitions.Jul 6
Ancient GreekThe etymology panel now surfaces many more English derivatives of a Greek word — εὑρίσκω ("to find"), for example, now shows it gives us "heuristic" as well as "eureka."Jul 6
Ancient GreekLooking up a Greek word now also shows the English derivatives of its close word-family, so the verb φοβέω ("to frighten") surfaces "phobia" from the related noun φόβος.Jul 6

Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2026

New Features

Ancient GreekThe word etymology panel now surfaces more English derivatives — looking up εὑρίσκω ("to find"), for example, now shows that it gives us the English word "eureka."Jul 5
All LanguagesIf you subscribe to email updates, you now get a weekly progress email with your reading minutes, words marked learning or known, flashcards studied, texts read, and the texts you last read so you can pick up where you left off — plus what's new in Kevilex, a collection to explore, and a peek at the roadmap, with one-click unsubscribe.Jul 4

Jun 22 – 28, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read PHerc. 1667 — the first Herculaneum scroll ever virtually unrolled and read end to end — as a new collection, presented as a lightly-normalized raw edition alongside two reading editions with every word clickable for lookup.Jun 27

New Features

Ancient GreekElided words now show their definitions in editions that mark elision with the Greek apostrophe.Jun 27
Ancient GreekThe Beginner level is now reserved for graded readers written for learners; authentic texts like the Septuagint are rated Elementary or higher even when their language is simple.Jun 25
All LanguagesA new Roadmap page shows what's planned and in progress, and supporters can now spend three votes on the features they most want built next.Jun 25
Ancient GreekDifficulty ratings now reflect a text's sentence structure and dialect, not just its vocabulary — so densely-constructed prose and verse or non-Attic dialects read as harder, and long but simple narrative is no longer over-rated.Jun 22
Ancient GreekThe reader's "Difficulty Factors" breakdown now groups what makes a text hard into three areas: vocabulary, syntax and morphology, and dialect and register.Jun 22

Jun 15 – 21, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read the Septuagint (Swete edition) — the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books — as a new collection, with every word clickable for lookup.Jun 20

New Features

Ancient GreekYou can now see what makes a text difficult: the reader's About panel shows a "Difficulty Factors" breakdown — vocabulary, sentence length, and grammar — as bars, alongside an explanation of how difficulty is measured.Jun 21
Ancient GreekText difficulty ratings are now more accurate and span the full Beginner-to-Expert range — graded readers like LGPSI read as Beginner and Homer as Expert.Jun 20
All LanguagesYou can now filter the texts list by difficulty level, from Beginner to Expert.Jun 20
All LanguagesCollection cards now show a difficulty level — on the Discover page and the Texts page Collections tab — so you can spot collections at your level at a glance.Jun 20
All LanguagesThe About page now collects videos and articles other people have made about Kevilex, with highlights on the home page.Jun 20
All LanguagesOn the texts page, choosing one of the recommended sorts now shows a short description of which texts it selects.Jun 19
Ancient GreekSentence explanations now carry a clear "AI-generated, may be inaccurate" caveat so it's obvious the analysis can be wrong.Jun 19
All LanguagesYou can now opt in to email updates from Kevilex — your reading progress, new texts, and reading tips — and manage or unsubscribe anytime from Settings.Jun 19

Jun 8 – 14, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read Xenophon's Apology of Socrates, with every word clickable for lookup.Jun 12
Ancient GreekYou can now read three speeches of Lysias — On the Murder of Eratosthenes (1), Against Eratosthenes (12), and On the Refusal of a Pension (24) — as a new collection, each split into short passages with every word clickable for lookup.Jun 12

New Features

All LanguagesThe sign-in and sign-up pages now match Kevilex's look, with the brand color and typography.Jun 13
All LanguagesA new About page introduces who builds Kevilex and links to Kevin's "Read Greek with Me" newsletter and other profiles.Jun 13
All LanguagesA new Discover page highlights a rotating weekly selection of curated collections, each as a card you can open to start reading.Jun 12
All LanguagesThe home page now shows how Kevilex compares to other ways of reading Ancient Greek, alongside the size of its library — over a million words, the complete Greek New Testament, and works from Homer to the Church Fathers.Jun 12
All LanguagesLogged-out visitors now get a clearly separate Sign Up button, so creating an account is easier to find.Jun 10
All LanguagesThe home page now features more reader quotes about Kevilex.Jun 10
All LanguagesKevilex is now available in Modern Greek (beta) — choose Ελληνικά in Settings and the interface, including grammar terminology and dates, follows your choice across devices. (Dictionary definitions remain in English for now.)Jun 9
All LanguagesThe home page has a refreshed layout that shows the reader in action and gets you to your first text sooner.Jun 9
All LanguagesSigning in now takes you straight to your dashboard instead of leaving you on the signed-out home page.Jun 9

Jun 1 – 7, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekYou can now read Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony, each divided into passages of about a hundred lines, with every word clickable for lookup.Jun 5
Ancient GreekYou can now read Aristophanes' Clouds, organized by the play's parts, with each speaker shown as a heading and every word still clickable for lookup.Jun 2

New Features

All LanguagesKevilex is now available in Swedish (beta) — choose your language in Settings and it's remembered across devices. Dates and word forms follow the chosen language too. (Dictionary definitions remain in English for now.)Jun 6
All LanguagesThe home page now features quotes from readers about Kevilex.Jun 6
All LanguagesThe dashboard invitation to support Kevilex is now a personal note from its creator, appears once you've started learning for the day, and can be dismissed.Jun 3
All LanguagesWhen becoming a supporter, you can now choose to be listed as a Founding Supporter (your chosen name only — never your email).Jun 3
All LanguagesThe Support page now shows the list of supporters right where you contribute, listing named supporters together with a single count of everyone supporting anonymously.Jun 3
All LanguagesSupporters now see a ♥ Supporter badge across the app and a thank-you on their dashboard, and a new Supporters page (linked from the footer) celebrates every supporter — by name if they choose, otherwise as an anonymous heart. If you're not yet supporting, the dashboard now offers an easy way to start.Jun 1

May 25 – 31, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesYou can now support Kevilex with a monthly contribution of your choice, and manage or cancel it anytime from Settings.May 30
Ancient GreekWord lookup now uses sentence context to pick the right gender for ambiguous forms like αὐτοῦ, and shows when a form could be more than one gender (e.g. "masculine (or neuter)").May 28
Ancient GreekWord etymology now highlights English derivatives first — for example, looking up δημοκρατία shows "democracy" — and surfaces more of them by tracing words that pass through Latin and other languages on their way into English.May 28

May 18 – 24, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesReturning to the site after a break now takes you straight to your dashboard, without the brief flash of the landing page.May 23

May 11 – 17, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekAdded Procopius's The Wars (all 8 books, Dewing Loeb edition via Perseus) as a new Greek text collection.May 14
Ancient GreekAdded Homer's Odyssey (all 24 books, Allen 1917/1919 edition via Perseus) as a new Greek text collection.May 13
Ancient GreekAdded Homer's Iliad (all 24 books, Monro & Allen 1920 edition via Perseus) as a new Greek text collection.May 13

New Features

All LanguagesRemoved a duplicate checkmark from the dashboard's "Done for today" message after all daily tasks are complete.May 14
Ancient GreekWord lookup now uses sentence context to pick the correct gender for adjectives whose endings are ambiguous between masculine and neuter.May 14
All LanguagesThe Reader's URL now shows your current page (for example, ?page=3), so you can bookmark or share a specific page of a text.May 13
All LanguagesReopening a text now returns you to the page you were last on, scrolled to the top.May 12

May 4 – 10, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesAdded cookieless, privacy-friendly visitor analytics on the production site (no tracking cookies, no personal data).May 6

Apr 27 – May 3, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesDashboard reading suggestions now use Study, Review, and Enjoy tabs, and daily flashcard goals default to 10 while staying capped to cards available today.May 3
All LanguagesAdded "Recently Viewed" sort to Texts and Collections tabs (signed-in only) — shows only content you've opened, newest first.May 3
All LanguagesCleaned up text cards on small screens: Delete and Add to Collection are no longer shown inline on every card.May 3
All LanguagesDashboard now opens with a "Today's Goals" checklist: review flashcards, read for 5 minutes, and mark 5 new words. When all three are done, the section says "Done for today ✓".May 3
All LanguagesClicking the title in the reader's top bar or chapter header now opens the About panel (the ⓘ button still works too).May 2
All LanguagesWhen you finish the last page of a collection text, the reader now shows the next text — or a completion message at the end of the collection.May 2
All LanguagesAll text cards on the Dashboard now have a bookmark button to favorite or unfavorite without leaving the page.May 2
All LanguagesVocabulary progress bars now show "X% known" everywhere, replacing "X new words". Unstarted texts show 0%.May 2
All LanguagesThe Texts and Collections tabs now remember your last sort on this device.May 2
All LanguagesSimplified the Continue reading strip on collection pages: one label per card instead of a two-line header.May 2
All LanguagesCollection section headers now show just the chapter count.May 2
All LanguagesFavorites use a bookmark icon; Learning vocabulary uses a blocks icon — easier to tell apart.May 2
All LanguagesCollection detail pages now use compact chapter rows for less scrolling.May 2
All LanguagesSections no longer auto-expand just because they contain your last-read chapter — the Continue reading shortcut handles that.May 2
All LanguagesLarge collections now group chapters into collapsible sections with progress shown at a glance.May 1
All LanguagesAdded a "Continue reading" shortcut at the top of collection pages where you've read at least one chapter.May 1
All LanguagesCollections tab now sorts by Name A–Z by default.Apr 30
All LanguagesYou can now favorite private and shared texts, not just public ones.Apr 30
All LanguagesAdded Gentium Plus as a third typeface option in reader settings.Apr 30
All LanguagesFavorite button labels now consistently say "Add to favorites" / "Remove from favorites" throughout the app.Apr 30
All LanguagesThe save-your-progress prompt now links directly to sign in or create an account, instead of asking for an email first.Apr 28
Ancient GreekEtymology entries now show English descendants for common Greek roots (e.g. λόγος → logos, θεός → theo-).Apr 28
All LanguagesRedesigned reader controls: the top bar now shows Back, title, Vocab Status, and Aa settings. Page navigation moved inline into the text body. The title and ⓘ info button appear as a chapter header inside the text on page 1.Apr 27
All LanguagesThe reader header now has three pill buttons: Vocab Status (toggles word highlighting), About (text info and library actions), and Aa (reader style settings).Apr 27
All LanguagesMoved the favorite button into the About panel.Apr 27
All LanguagesAnonymous readers can now save their reading spot by entering their email — they'll get a one-time link back.Apr 27

Apr 20 – 26, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesAnonymous feedback can now include an optional reply email.Apr 26
All LanguagesRewrote homepage, Biblical Greek, and educator landing-page copy.Apr 26
All LanguagesDashboard recommendations split into Study, Review, and Enjoy sections.Apr 22
All LanguagesMoved "Explain this sentence" from an inline button to the word popup — the reader is cleaner, and sentence explanation is one tap away when you're already looking at a word.Apr 21
Ancient GreekParagraph breaks now count as sentence boundaries, so sentence explanation works more reliably in poetry and texts without punctuation.Apr 21
Ancient GreekLooking up dialect or variant forms (e.g. Ionic, Doric, alternative spellings) now shows the definition of the main word, with a note explaining the relationship.Apr 21

Apr 13 – 19, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesRefreshed the text-details panel in the reader with a clearer layout, separate Details and Stats sections, and a new 1–5 difficulty picker.Apr 19
All LanguagesReader settings now have a dedicated panel — open from the Aa button. Text details are in their own separate panel.Apr 19
Ancient GreekThe word popup and flashcards now show a breakdown for crasis forms (e.g. τοὔνομα = τό + ὄνομα), covering ~100 common Attic crasis words.Apr 19

Apr 6 – 12, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekAdded Eusebius' Church History as a new collection — all 10 books, organized by book.Apr 11
Ancient GreekAdded Xenophon's Anabasis (7 books), Herodotus' Histories (9 books), and the Apostolic Fathers (15 writings) as new curated collections.Apr 10

New Features

All LanguagesAdded a trust section, FAQ, and educator block to the homepage.Apr 12
All LanguagesNew landing pages for Biblical Greek learners (/for/biblical-greek) and educators (/for/educators).Apr 12
All LanguagesUpdated the demo section to show a real product screenshot.Apr 12
All LanguagesThe word you're viewing in the popup is now highlighted in the reader with a darker version of its vocabulary status color.Apr 8
All LanguagesStandardized loading screens across the app with consistent layouts and messages.Apr 6

Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesAdded a floating scroll-down button in the reader on mobile.Apr 3
All LanguagesPolished the Progress page: clearer heading, better stat card styling, and a larger "% known" badge.Mar 30
All LanguagesRemoved the "Known: N forms" pill from the header to reduce clutter.Mar 30

Mar 23 – 29, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesEstablished a consistent typographic hierarchy across the app — page headings use a display serif, section headings step down in size.Mar 29
All LanguagesRefined the app's visual design with a new color system across navigation, reader, popups, and flashcards.Mar 29
Ancient GreekCompacted word form analysis — default values are hidden, person and number combined, and "unknown" fields hidden.Mar 29
All LanguagesRedesigned the app with a warm, book-like aesthetic: sienna action colors, EB Garamond serif font, polished reader, flashcards, and homepage. Word highlights use rounded shapes, reader margins tightened on mobile, and the design is consistent across all pages.Mar 28
All LanguagesAdded a configurable daily flashcard limit (default 30) with a new Settings page, accessible from the header gear icon.Mar 26

Mar 9 – 15, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesThe Back button in the reader now returns to the page you came from.Mar 11
All LanguagesThe Texts page now defaults to the Collections tab when opened from the menu.Mar 11
All LanguagesThe dashboard's "Today's Focus" now shows your 3 most recently read texts.Mar 11
All LanguagesRedesigned the anonymous homepage with a clearer value proposition and demo video.Mar 10

Mar 2 – 8, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesThe dashboard now shows curated text suggestions for new users until they reach 100 known or learning words, then switches to personalized recommendations.Mar 8
Ancient GreekWord popup now shows definitions from diacritical variant entries (e.g. χρήζω / χρῄζω).Mar 6
Ancient GreekDictionary definitions now show their source (Middle Liddell or Wiktionary).Mar 6
Ancient GreekWord analysis terminology updated: "Aorist" instead of "Past", participles listed under Form instead of Mood.Mar 5
All LanguagesVisibility states (Private, Public, Shared by Me, Shared by Others) now show an icon alongside the label throughout the app.Mar 3
All LanguagesAdded sort options to the Collections tab: Featured, Name A–Z, and Recently Added.Mar 3
All LanguagesTexts from collections shared with you now appear in your library with a "Shared by Others" label.Mar 3
All LanguagesCleaned up the collection page — edit, delete, sharing, and visibility controls moved to a gear icon menu.Mar 3
All LanguagesImproved visual design of collections.Mar 2

Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2026

New Features

All LanguagesAdded user-created collections — create, edit, and delete your own text collections.Mar 1
All LanguagesAdded a button to batch-mark all new words on the current reader page as Learning or Known.Mar 1
All LanguagesSentence explanation modal now animates closed smoothly.Mar 1
All LanguagesAdded a Vocabulary Growth chart to the Progress page.Feb 28
All LanguagesRedesigned the Texts page: simplified to two tabs (Collections and Texts) with a cleaner filter/sort layout.Feb 28
All LanguagesSort options renamed: "Recommended" (was "Best to Learn"), "Beginner First" (was "Lowest Difficulty"). Default is now "Recommended".Feb 28
All LanguagesAdded Favorites and Visibility filters on the Texts page.Feb 28
All LanguagesRecommendations now include your private imported texts, not just public ones.Feb 27
All LanguagesAdded "Recommended Next" section to the dashboard showing the top 3 texts you're most ready to read.Feb 26
All LanguagesUnified the flashcard review prompt across the Dashboard and Flashcards page.Feb 26
All LanguagesReplaced "Fewest New Words" sort with "Best to Learn" on the texts page.Feb 26
All LanguagesAdded structured attribution block on collection detail pages.Feb 25
Ancient GreekAdded warning when no Greek text-to-speech voice is available on your device.Feb 25
All LanguagesAdded swipe to change pages in the reader on mobile.Feb 25
All LanguagesAdded thumbs up/down quality voting on definitions and word analysis in the popup.Feb 24
All LanguagesAdded a button on flashcards to remove a word from your deck.Feb 23
All LanguagesAdded a banner to mark all new words on the current reader page as Learning in one click.Feb 23

Feb 16 – 22, 2026

New Texts

Ancient GreekAdded LGPSI (Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata) collection.Feb 20
Ancient GreekAdded Plato's Apology and New Testament as new curated collections.Feb 19

New Features

Ancient GreekAdded Dictionary page to look up any Greek word and add it to your flashcard deck.Feb 22
All LanguagesAdded a guided dashboard for anonymous users with featured texts.Feb 21
All LanguagesAdded text difficulty ratings (1–5 scale).Feb 21
All LanguagesAdded "Easiest First" sort option, ordering texts by percentage of new words.Feb 19

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