Hello everyone! We have a LOT to tell you all about (about three months worth!) so I’ll skip the preamble and get right to the juicy stuff.
Where did we go?
We didn’t go anywhere! The team has been hard at work on new courses, updates to existing courses and the apps. However, there were a few bumps in the road that slowed us down.
iOS and Android parity
When we started Lingonaut, we promised feature and polish parity between iOS and Android. That’s because the other app typically prioritised the iOS platform first meaning Android users don’t get features for weeks or even months. Some learners have compared it to being a ‘second class citizen’.
Unfortunately, we hadn’t foreseen that developing for Android is significantly more difficult than for iOS. Some features were too difficult at add for now and I burned too much time trying to figure out how.
That mixed with us being a volunteer team with responsibilities outside of lingonaut like day jobs, university and more meant that what was supposed to take one month as per our roadmap, has taken close to three.
Going forward
Regardless of why, going relatively silent for 3 months is not the level of communication and transparency we think is good enough for a project of this scale. To that end, we’re reviving the Trello so instead of just seeing macro-level updates on the roadmap (more on that later), you’ll be able to see minute-to-minute changes to our to do lists!. You’ll be able to find that at todo.lingonaut.app.
Secondly, we’ve got a new contact chain that makes sure that instead of news starting from the top and trickling down when it does, everyone is kept in the loop at the same time and there is no longer disconnect between what different people know. So if you ask a lingonaut team member about anything to do with the platform, they’ll be able to tell you.
The goal is to make sure lapses in communication regardless of the reason don’t happen. Even if some people in the team are busy, others will always be able to update you all!
The Big Updates
We’ve been hard at work and are pleased to announce Lingonaut Build 150 and Lingonaut for Android Build 30! There is an absolutely massive changelog which you can find below, but what you need to know is the feedback regarding clunkiness and jankiness has been addressed with dozens of massive quality of life fixes as well as over hundred more miscellaneous bug-fixes.
What you do need to know is, we’ve managed to squish every bug in every single bug report submitted! Lingonaut will look better and work smoother, crash less with fewer bugs and generally stay out of your way when learning!
Secondly, we’ve made a bunch of adjustments that should mean you have a nicer experience learning too, things like the correct language keyboard showing up, autocorrect will no longer try to correct already correct spellings in your target language and more. Correct answers should also be marked as correct more often now with the question engine being able to correct for small mistakes in the course files.
This is the big update that (should) fix this big pile of steadily gathering bugs that have been introduced since the launch of lingonaut
Lingonaut Build 130/Android Build 30 Changelog
- Audio effects volume slider now affects all audio effects
- Instance variable no longer shown instead of ID when copying question ID
- PickOneMeaning correctly shows answer instead of source word when something is correct or incorrect.
- Fixed Registration failed message, it tries again after 5 seconds
- Now Accepts answer as correct
- Now plays audio
- ImagePick Questions now play sound
- English words no longer have an option to play audio
- Nothing at all text on setup shrinks dynamically to fit low res screen sizes
- Fixed streaks not saving across different devices
- Fixed inaccurate vocabulary in Italian
- Progress is no longer reverted when switching across devices
- Lessons now cannot be started in a skill which has been completed
- Reduced padding on Trophy lottie so the next button shows when star is aquired.
- Earlybird pin is no longer awarded to new users.
- The keyboard will now switch to the target language when doing TL questions.
- Fixed vocabulary issues in Finnish course
- Fixed vocabulary issues in Italian course
- Klingon now available in language selector
- Fixed ImagePick images being larger than the screen
- PickWords and PickMissingWords questions now play audio correctly
- PickWords buttons cannot be infinitely tapped even when grayed out anymore.
- Italian answers reverified
- Czech answers reverified
- Sign Up/in with google fixed
- Tap the bubble reminder made clearer and added a way to dismiss it manually
- iPhone SE background being solid black fixed.
- Android users can now pass almost there screen
- Empty row and row with 1 word box should be the same height.
- Animations should start at their first frame.
- The list now includes the bottom margin to take into account the occupied space of the navbar.
- Select matching words question type UI elements now spaced more organically across the display.
- Android app now responds to hardware/software back buttons. The app doesn’t just close on back, you can navigate it properly.
- Lesson description toast accommodates description texts longer than one line
- In the “Lesson complete” page the now filled progress bar hidden as it unnecessarily clutters the UI.
- Android users can always confirm lesson completion now.
- Theme PNG will no longer flicker during setup
- Replaced old Tyson image with new Tyson image
- Fixed size of czech flag on language select screen
- to teach and not to profit formatting works on smaller screens
- Removed extra white space that was breaking layout on smaller screens
- Sign up and login screens no longer cut off
- And more!
Klingon, Finnish, Italian and Czech get new content + Spanish has finally arrived!
A massive thank you to the teams working on Klingon, Finnish and Italian along with an apology for delaying things until they were ready!
The updated courses will be prompted for you to download next time you launch Lingonaut and include vocabulary and sentence fixes, as well as new skills and content depending on the course.
The Klingon course is credited to: stormcrow5819
The Finnish course is credited to: norppuwamppu
The Italian course is credited to: quisquisnaut and RataVoloira
Finally, at long last (almost a year of buildup!) our Spanish course is ready to be released to the public! This course covers the first few skills and is modelled off of the excellent Italian course, and will be added to over time.
It’s been thoroughly checked for errors and is completable from start to finish. We can’t wait for you to try it and as always if you encounter issues or bugs, you can let us know by tapping the bug icon and sending us the unique question ID.
We’re so happy to finally get it out into the wild and I know there’s been lots of Lingonauts waiting for it as well. Thank you for your patience!
The beta is now fully open for iOS and Android
It’s finally here! The beta is now open up for everyone, patrons or not! If you signed up to the waiting list, you are guaranteed a spot in the Android beta, with then space for everyone else as google allows. You won’t be getting an email for this so this is your notice! Join while you can!
As for the iOS beta, to celebrate this big release, we are bumping up the tester limit by an extra 3000 as well as removing inactive users from the beta. So if you weren’t able to join before, now is your chance.
The web client will be entering development soon, if you’re interested then keep an eye out for the alpha or beta in the next few months!
Halloo Estonia! 
We’re moving! By the end of September, Nautilus Inc will be re-registering as an EU company based in Estonia, making Lingonaut a proper European project from top to bottom. Our servers have been in Helsinki since late 2025 so our infrastructure was already there, but the company itself was still sat in London. Not for much longer. We’ll be better insulated from prodding by American based competitors who might not be happy we’re _ruffling their feathers_.
This also opens up to accessing EU grants to help reduce reliance on Patreon and increase our ability to provide resources, language and otherwise without relying entirely on volunteers, reducing the workload for them! We’re also try restructuring Lingonaut as a non-profit separate from Nautilus if we’re able to in pursuit of that.
We’ll keep you posted as the move progresses and as always, nothing will change on your end. Same app, same courses, same team, just a bit more Euro.
New status website and roadmap updates!
We’ve revamped the roadmap! Instead of just a list of things we’d like to do eventually, it now has clearer milestones, priorities and timeframes so you can actually see where we’re headed and what’s coming next. You can check it out at roadmap.lingonaut.app. You can still make suggestions on Discord and they’ll be added in-line too, the roadmap is a holistic big picture view and not set in stone, maybe you’ve got a really good idea and we’ll steer the ship towards that instead for example
Alongside that, we’re launching a brand new public status page at status.lingonaut.app. If Lingonaut, the forums (soon) , Creatonaut, the bot or our server go down or if we’re doing planned maintenance you’ll be able to see exactly what’s happening and when we expect it to be resolved instead of having to hunt around discord for answers. You can subscribe to updates there so you’ll get notified automatically if something breaks. No more “is it just me or is Lingonaut down?” in general!.
You can find these websites, roadmap.lingonaut.app and status.lingonaut.app below:
What’s next for Lingonaut?
We’ve got so many incredible features and updates in store, more languages and more features! But the goal right now is to improve the quality of changes instead of just the quantity of changes. What does that mean?
For the next few updates we’ll be focusing on further polishing the iOS and Android apps, along with adding the OCs of patrons and most importantly, adding that feature where you can tap on a word and it’ll give you the translation, Just like the other app. It should prove incredibly helpful to learners but shouldn’t take much more work from our translatonauts to implement. Plus, it’s been extremely frequently requested so we know you want it!
That’s all for now, once again i’d like to thank you for your patience and apologise for the lack of communication. We’ll be trying our best so that it never happens again.