Farâbân فرابان

• Victory screen keeps the header and fits every phone (smaller reward pills); glowing wisps now twinkle around the chest and the open chest keeps shining; no more gift-box flash while it loads; cleaner nav bar

• Victory screen now fits on every phone with no scrollbar and nothing overlapping (header hidden for focus, pet no longer covers the buttons); chest glow swirls instead of pulsing and keeps shining after opening; removed a stray mark above the gem; fixed the ghost nav bar on iPhone

• New fun icons for each lesson type (letters, words, speaking, numbers, writing, review, quiz, games) — no more Farsi glyphs as icons on English; chest glow now moves and is centred around the chest

• Fixed the "Tap to open" text overlapping the stars on the victory screen; the chest glow is now bigger, brighter and centred on the chest, and keeps shining after the chest opens

• Fixed the ambiguous letter question in quizzes too; diamond on the chest now sits at the chest's angle and is smaller; added a living glow around the chest; victory screen now fits on one mobile screen

• Bottom navigation bar no longer leaves faint ghost duplicates on iPhone — it's now a solid app-shell footer instead of a floating fixed bar

• New "tap all the letters in this word" exercise after each new word; fixed the listen-and-pick-a-letter question so it clearly asks which letter a word starts or ends with (no more two right answers)

• Chest no longer disappears after it opens, now has a diamond gem emblem on the front, and the finish screen shows your rainbow-gem progress (e.g. 2/3)

• Treasure chest is now rusty-brown wood with no logo; it stays open after you collect the loot, the reward sticker stays on screen the full time, and the chest sits higher on the screen

• Reward chest is bigger and sits higher, stays open after you collect the loot, and the sticker now stays on screen longer before fading

• New rich 3D gold treasure chest with coins and light rays; sticker reward now appears at the base of the chest and fades over 3 seconds

• Style updates now take effect immediately after an update on iPhone (fixes the big gold chest and other visual changes not appearing)

• App now always loads the latest version right away after an update (no more seeing an old cached version)
• Reward chest is much bigger, its light is now gold, and the sticker banner stays up longer

• Journey map nodes now flow smoothly along the DNA strand (no more jumping sides)
• Reward chest is bigger, its trim recoloured brown, the light is now gold instead of blue, and stickers show as a bigger banner for longer

• Reward chest is now a real 3D animated treasure chest — it swings open in proper perspective with coins and light rays bursting out

• Reward chest rebuilt: it stays at one angle, the lid actually swings open, gold light peeks while closed then bursts out and stays, and stickers pop up big for 2 seconds

• Moved the number stickers node to the end with the rest of the numbers section, and updated the quiz map labels to 20 Q

• Numbers lesson (and its number memory game) moved to the very end of the journey, after Word-It
• Quizzes are now 20 questions, no numbers, and you need 80% to pass

• Speaking short words (آب, نان, سَر) is much more forgiving now — a correct native pronunciation is accepted even when the recogniser mishears the ending
• Reward chest: the closed→open swap is now fully hidden behind the light flash, so it no longer looks like the chest suddenly flips

• Speaking: short words like آب, نان, سَر are recognised more easily, and a wrong attempt now shows what was heard
• Reward chest opens in a much bigger burst of light (a bright flash covers the moment it opens)

• Letter و lesson now teaches the "oo" sound with او as the main example, plus the fruit words آلو · اَنگور · توت from the textbook

• Reward chest is now a real illustrated 3D treasure chest that swings open in proper perspective, with gold light and sparkles

• Home-screen app: reworked how pages scroll so the bottom bar no longer ghosts/doubles on iPhone (the bug only happened in the installed app, not in Safari)

• Letter shapes: each example word now has its own 🔊 button, so you can hear a letter's sound in each position — e.g. و is "v" alone but "oo" inside توت
• New happy sound for Luna the cat when you answer correctly

• Reverted a change that made the iPhone bottom-bar ghosting worse, and removed the bar's blurred shadow (a known iOS cause of that trailing)

• Reward chest now opens into a 3D treasure chest with gold light and sparkles pouring out
• Sticker rewards pop up as floating banners (like the games) and the lesson-complete screen fits without scrolling

• Speaking exercises: a short "Get ready…" beat before recording so short words like آب and سَر are heard correctly on the first try
• Another go at the iPhone bottom-bar ghosting (forced a clean GPU layer)

• Fancier reward chest — bigger, more 3D, with a burst of light rays on open, and stickers now appear as a Hunter-style banner
• Once a lesson's gem reward is maxed it always shows 3/3 ✓ on future finishes

• Reward chest is now a proper drawn treasure chest that opens with its lid lifting — and the reward only counts if you actually open it
• The top ⭐ now counts stars from fully-completed journey lessons (3/3), not points — a limited collection tied to your progress

• Fixed the app sometimes opening to a blank "Safari can't open the page" screen from the home icon
• Fixed sounds cutting out on iPhone after a wrong answer — audio now stays awake
• Hangman: the revealed word after a loss now shows ا correctly (was showing آ)

• New reward chest! Finish a lesson and tap the shaking chest to open it — a light bursts out, your stickers appear, and shiny rainbow gems fly up to a new gem counter (earned the first 3 times you finish each lesson)

• Hangman: a happy chime for a correct letter and a soft sad note for a wrong one, plus a new gold "Ultimate" level with every word you've learned combined with the Word-It dictionary

• Fixed the bottom bar ghosting/doubling on iPhone for real this time — removed the transform that made iOS duplicate the fixed bar

• Hangman win: the man now hops down onto the ground and does a real dance — swinging arms and legs — with an upbeat dance tune

• Hangman: hear the word spoken on a win, the man now dances (or swings, with a sad tune, on a loss), the English meaning hides behind a "Tip?" button, and Test mode unlocks every lesson

• Hangman: pick which lesson's words to play — each lesson unlocks as you complete it, and its pool includes every word learned up to that point

• "Resend verification email" now shows why it failed (e.g. too many attempts — wait a minute) instead of doing nothing

• Clearer "forgot password" message — Google accounts have no password, so use "Continue with Google" instead

• Fixed the bottom bar sometimes showing a ghosted/duplicated look on iPhone (removed a blur that glitches on iOS)

• Fixed the numbers "match the pairs" showing "undefined six" etc. — now shows the English word correctly

• Farâbân is for all ages — removed the child-specific framing from sign-up

• New accounts now get a verification email, with a "verify your email" reminder (doesn't block play)

• Fixed audio sometimes going silent after a wrong answer — word sounds now reuse one audio player instead of piling up

• Writing practice now lives inside each letter module for lessons 4–7 too (no separate "Letters Trace"); lesson-1 letter icons show both letters of the pair

• Lesson 1: each letter pair now includes its writing practice at the end of the same module (no separate "Alphabet Write"); tracing is a little easier (40% coverage)

• Fixed Google sign-in on phones — uses a redirect flow so login completes instead of bouncing back

• Added "Forgot password?" to the sign-in screen — Firebase emails a reset link

• Fixed Farsi word order when a Latin letter is embedded mid-sentence (bidi isolation); removed lesson codes (L1a…) from the lessons list

• i18n polish: Persian numerals in Farsi text, pet bubble follows the app language, localized the profile menu, and language selector shows codes (EN/IR) instead of flags

• Finished localization: Alphabet Hunter shop item descriptions/status and journey map labels — the whole app now follows the language setting

• Localized the Alphabet Hunter shop chrome and item names

• Localized Alphabet Hunter game chrome (menu, HUD, level transitions, game over, pause)

• Localized Word-It! (Match-3): all overlays, dialogs, mission/bonus, and end screens

• Localized the Memory and Hangman games (setup, victory, results)

• Localized the pets screen (cards, statuses, descriptions) and the Memory numbers-deck button

• Localized the lessons menu and sticker collection (stats, rarities, sticker rewards)

• Localized the whole lesson flow: prompts, buttons, trace/speak feedback, and the finish screen

• Localized all screen headers and the games menu (lessons, grammar, games, journey, hangman, collection, pets, about)

• Localized the dashboard menu and bottom nav; fixed the "Sign in to sync" label not following the language setting

• UI language system: choose English, Farsi, or both in Settings (default English). More screens localized over next updates.

• Hide the companion pet on the account/login screen

• Account-first welcome: log in or continue as guest; account is for any adult (13+), children learn under profiles

• Accounts + cloud sync: sign in (email or Google) to sync profiles and progress across devices — guest play still works offline

• Match-3: axe on normal tile clears all tiles of that letter; pink tiles unlock at level 11

• Match-3: "No Swaps Left" text + reshuffle scale-out/in animation

• Hangman icon updated to clean in-game screenshot

• Hangman: آ shows as plain ا everywhere — keyboard and word display

• آ romanization changed from â to a throughout

• Games menu: images fill card fully; locked cards show silvery disabled look

• Games menu: square cards, 2 per row

• Fix games menu bleeding into other screens; images zoomed out for better preview

• Games menu redesigned: 2×2 grid of large cards with game icon as full background; click to launch directly; Memory game options moved inside the game screen

• Match-3: "Out of Moves" (moves=0) now offers a one-time +7 Moves instead of Reshuffle; deadlock (no valid swaps) keeps Reshuffle; Retry always available

• Match-3: fixed bricks spawning at the bottom row on level start never falling off

• Match-3: 5+ match now creates a diagonal tile (⤡) that blasts all 4 diagonal directions; 4-in-a-row creates a rainbow wildcard; chain reactions show combo multiplier (2×, 3×…); reshuffle always resolves leftover 3-matches; fixed brick fall-off when gravity spawns a brick at the bottom row

• Fix: bricks now fall off board after reshuffle if they land on the bottom row; fix: rainbow+brick swap now works (tap rainbow, tap adjacent brick to melt both); fix: rainbow drag into brick also allowed

• Match-3: axe consumable (×4) destroys any tile and triggers its effect; bricks fall off board when reaching the bottom row; zapper now destroys bricks; double-rainbow swap converts 4 neighbours to rainbow; rainbow+brick swap melts both; hint no longer considers brick tiles

• L1 split into 4 sub-lessons (2 new letters each): آ+ب → م+ن → د+ر → س+ت, each with word intro and review
• Fixed: "which letter does this word use?" now accepts any letter that actually appears in the word

• Stickers: stack shows only owned rarities (no visual gaps), duplicates show ×N count badge

• Collection: removed Alphabet / Numbers section headings

• Journey: SU and NoSU sticker nodes now show the golden ف collection icon

• Games menu: emoji icons replaced with game screenshot thumbnails (34px, rounded)

• Journey: Hunter, Memory, Memory+, and Hangman nodes now use real game screenshot icons

• Journey: Word-It! node uses actual game screenshot as its circular icon

• Journey: Word-It! added as final node — unlocks after ALF milestone; back button returns to journey and marks node complete

• Word-It!: Moves count converted to pill matching consumable style; Level and bar text share same baseline (no misalignment); pill text centering fixed; قلب بونوس → قلب اضافه

• Word-It!: Level moved to row 2 (left of progress bar), eliminating HUD collisions; crack visuals removed from unstable tiles (shake only); tile sheen reduced; HUD fonts made thinner

• Word-It!: HUD row 1 — hearts left, level center, moves+pills right (no collision); pre-game always starts with Farsi selected; exit mid-game goes back to high-score screen; music starts only when Play Now is tapped

• Word-It!: 3D cracked tile effect (dark gap + highlight edge + darkened surface + impact vignette); ⏳ add-time is now a tappable HUD pill with confirmation (usable mid-game, not only on timeout); music now V-V-C-C structure; reshuffle grants +3 moves; score bar text vertically centred; heart bonus banner smaller; music silences on alt-tab/blur

• Word-It!: music now plays verse-verse-chorus structure (V-V-C repeating); chorus has I-VI-IV-V chords, higher-octave 8th-note melody, busier hats and synth stab for lift; reshuffle no longer resets any game state

• Word-It!: pre-game screen with high scores + Farsi/English language selector; English mode uses A-Z letters and English words from the dictionary; Time's Up overlay with +1-min Add Time consumable; No Moves overlay with free Reshuffle; zapper triggers rainbow blast and line explosion on special tiles; 5+ match drops zapper (10%) or reroll (5%) consumable with fly-up animation; brick tiles fully blocked from swapping; last-heart retry now allowed

• Word-It!: background music rewritten as 80s western synth-pop (I-IV-V-I chords, square-wave lead, 16th-note hi-hats) — loops seamlessly

• Word-It!: 5+ tile straight match creates rainbow wildcard tile at center with ×N score multiplier

• Word-It!: ⚡ zapper pill beside 🔄 reroll in HUD row 1; ✦ new moves icon; reroll tappable mid-game with confirmation banner; bonus-heart banner on every 4 words; cracks redesigned as dark-grey spider-web from impact point

• Word-It!: zapper redesigned as "ZAP x2" button in HUD row 2 with large touch target; retry button wider and more tolerant of finger drift; tap threshold raised to 30px

• Word-It!: bonus words auto-resolve; glass cracks + vivid tiles; English left / Farsi right in mission panel; 2-min timer; fail banner (retry costs ♥); words don't cross bricks; zapper consumable (Z2); heart every 4 words found

• Word-It!: quest words drawn from full 14,986-word dictionary (no more hardcoded list); violet tile shifted 296°→280°, pink 326°→336° — fixes "two shades of pink" confusion

• Word-It!: full bilingual dictionary — every found word (quest or bonus) now shows English meaning; ~15k Farsi nouns translated via gpt-4o-mini into data/farsi-dict.json; removed hardcoded m3-word-meanings.js

• Word-It!: code cleanup — removed 35 dead 3-letter meanings, updated stale word-count comments, removed redundant length filter in grid scanner, cleaned BG_THEMES comments

• Word-It!: 3-letter words completely removed — not detectable as bonus words either; word scanner minimum raised to 4 letters; dictionary trimmed to 4–6 letter nouns only (14,986 entries)

• Word-It!: quest words reduced to 1×5-letter + 1×4-letter only (no more 3-letter words); score targets doubled (L1: 1050, +600/level); no-fallback tile coloring — cidx is always guaranteed valid

• Word-It!: fixed tile color bug — level builder now correctly limits levels to 8 unique letters (was allowing 9, causing one letter to always render as fallback blue); removed verb infinitives from quest words; dictionary filter excludes masdar forms

• Word-It!: fixed 3rd shade of blue — purple tile hue shifted from 272 (blue-violet/indigo) to 296 (clearly magenta-violet); L10 background also changed from plum to russet so it no longer blends with purple tiles

• Word-It!: word dictionary switched to nouns-only (~16,700 entries from hazm NLP lexicon, was ~6,000 mixed-POS words)

• Word-It!: fixed level 5+ backgrounds clashing with blue tile colors (teal/indigo/navy replaced with crimson/amber/plum); music rewritten as 80s arcade style with square-wave lead, kick+snare+hi-hat drum machine at 124 BPM

• Word-It!: full Farsi dictionary of ~6,000 words now loaded on game start — far more words are recognized for bonus scores (was ~35 curated words)

• Word-It!: words formed by swapping now auto-collect immediately (no extra tap); drag-to-swap gesture added; mixing a cracked tile with a rainbow wildcard triggers a radial rainbow explosion; max moves reduced to 20, timer to 4 minutes

• Word-It!: falling tiles now make a cascading landing sound (descending whoosh on drop + woodblock tick on each column settling); score targets increased 50% so early levels last longer (L1: 525, step: 300); score bar text is now pixel-perfect vertically centered in the bar

• Word-It!: swapping two cracked tiles merges them — whole row+column becomes cracked, both positions turn to bricks, with epic sound; bricks destroyed by explosion have 1/10 chance to drop a reroll consumable; forming a word by swap has 1/4 chance to award a letter sticker (banner + jingle); level end explodes all remaining cracked tiles for bonus score; tiles cascade in from top at game start; discovery banners are now more transparent

• Word-It!: 8 clearly distinct tile colors (red, orange, yellow, green, sky-blue, navy, purple, pink — brighter and glassier); music rewritten to upbeat major-pentatonic (no low notes, short notes, punchy reverb); cracks on unstable tiles now radiate from corners/edges inward like cracked glass; score bar is glassy green with sheen; HUD background is semi-transparent gradient so tile colors show through; English translation always shown in word-discovery banner; word list cleaned up (removed meaningless words)

• Word-It!: swaps that form a valid Farsi word are now accepted (no match required); wildcard tiles show full rainbow gradient background (not color-cycling); timeout grants +2 min instead of full reset (banner + melody); destroying bricks scores 80pts with large gold floating numbers; word panel is 2-column grid; score bar text has stroke outline for legibility; cracks on unstable tiles are bolder; 30fps render cap reduces battery usage on mobile

• Word-It!: unstable tiles show denser cracks and explode in any combination (words, other explosions) with cascading BFS; no-moves screen pauses the timer and offers a free Reroll (×2 per game) or a heart-costing Reset; exit now asks for confirmation (Stay / Leave); HUD shows reroll count; blocked tile bricks get 3D extruded highlight+shadow edges; scrambled quest words show crossed out in red with a warning sound; words spoken aloud on discovery banner; grid changed to 8×8

• Word-It!: unstable tile shows cracks + shake instead of different colour; massive electric sound+fanfare when it explodes; blocked tile shows brick wall pattern; wildcard now cycles full saturated rainbow with glowing border; pet sounds silenced while playing; 2-letter words removed from dictionary; blocked tile spawn chance scales up 20% per level (configurable cap at 4%)

• Word-It!: 5-minute countdown timer per level (remaining time converts to bonus points); highscore leaderboard shown on game-over canvas (top 10 saved per device); extra heart only for the 5-letter quest word; score counter now visibly ticks up 1-by-1; unstable tiles shake, destroy their entire row + column when matched, and cross-shape matches create an unstable tile at the centre; blocked tiles fall with gravity but cannot be swapped — only destroyed by unstable explosions; heart display no longer shows placeholder circles above the base 3 hearts

• Word-It!: game screen background less gloomy (dark navy gradient); board has side padding, tiles have smaller gap; word bars in panel are 3D with gradient — found quest words go vivid green, bonus words go gold; golden outline drawn around found word on board before banner; wildcard tile cycling now auto-triggers match removal; initial 3-in-a-row matches from seeded words are now cleaned up before play begins

• Word-It!: word discovery banner shows Farsi word + English meaning for 1.3 s before tiles fly off; CROSS/COMBO/SUPER announcement shown large on screen; tiles have 3D drop shadow and brighter gradient; background themes more vivid; music: bass and chord pad greatly reduced so melody dominates; desktop blank screen fixed (SW auto-reload on update)

• Word-It!: 9×9 grid with 8 rainbow colors; melody loops continuously; word tiles fly off screen on tap instead of black highlight; exactly 2×3-letter + 1×4-letter + 1×5-letter quest words per level; 8 unique letters per level; bonus words get same fly-out animation; tap-based selection (fires on release, not press)

• Word-It!: fixed 10 letters per level chosen by word-graph logic; quest words seeded into grid; hearts system (3 lives, earn a heart per quest word, up to 5); 10-second idle hint; background brighter; 2-row HUD with hearts + wide score bar; 30-second Persian intro melody before ambient loop; mission panel shows quest words with checkmarks

• Word-It!: atmospheric Persian ambient music with mute toggle; 10×10 grid (bigger tiles); 8-group colour palette with varied brightness for better tile distinction; pattern markers (circle/square/diamond/dot-pair) per letter group; start with 12 random letters, +2 per level; cross-shape match gives 4× score + explosion effect + special sound; floating score popups on every match; score counter animates smoothly

• Word-It!: fix level-up never triggering; fix moves going negative; per-level gradient backgrounds; glossy 3D tile edges; softer colours; word tiles highlighted with black border + tap to collect; hide pet during game

• Word-It! (کلمش‌کن): fix test-mode unlock not applying to game card; rename Farsi to کلمش‌کن

• Fix Word-It! screen always visible; white tile text for readability; top-edge highlight for depth

• New game: Word-It! (کلمش‌کن) — match-3 with all 32 Farsi letters, 30 levels, word bonuses, rainbow wildcard tile, and vibrant colours

• Pet sounds now silent when app is in background (alt-tab to another app)

• Quiz: letter exercises now play audio (hear it → pick the letter); added sentence ordering and word pair exercises for variety; Hunter: energy respawn at full boosted max, correct death message for fuel-out, two new shop upgrades (Canister Boost + Power Refuel); fix silent ف audio

• 8 quiz gates (40 Q each, 80% pass rate) unlock lesson groups; expanded all lessons to 18–20 exercises with full intro → MC → listen cycles; Numbers converted to a full lesson

• Fix ف and و audio: regenerate silent ف, fix و pronunciation (vaav with /v/ sound, not "wow")

• Alphabet table: Farsi names truly centred

• Alphabet table: fix forms stuck to right edge

• Alphabet table: letter forms right-aligned to edge, no gap

• Alphabet table: hide scrollbar; fix audio for ط ظ ل

• Alphabet table: swap name/forms columns; fix silent audio for ط ظ ل; Hunter shop: speed buff correctly maxed during power-down

• Alphabet table: one letter per row with English syllable sound (be, re, khe…) on the left; Lesson 1 subtitle shows آ ب only

• Alphabet table: fixed column order to match textbook, added English phonetics (b, kh, sh…) below each letter name; journey writing lessons now show "Writing" subtitle

• Interactive Farsi alphabet table (جدول الفبا) with all 32 letters and their connecting forms; tap any letter to hear it

• Lessons 15–25: 11 new lessons covering ج چ ژ ذ ص ع ث ح ط ض غ ظ — completes all 32 Farsi alphabet letters

• Pet silent when tab is not focused (alt-tab / background)

• L14: trace review for all L9–L13 letters & words; fix per-word audio in sentence exercises

• Fix L9–L13 nodes missing from journey map

• Lessons 9–13: 5 new lessons covering letters ی ک پ گ ف خ ق ل (textbook درس ۸–۱۲)

• Hunter: cannon-at-max bonus is now 2 extra outer forward shots, not 360°

• Hunter: bombs 10% slower, dampener now −25% speed; speed buff shows At Max at cap; mobile perf improvements

• Speaking: 1 edit per 4 chars, no substring check — accepts Whisper variants, rejects baba→aab

• Speaking: same-length-only rule for short words — accepts substitutions, rejects suffix matches

• Speaking: remove substring checks, require exact match for short words (≤4 chars)

• Speaking: tighter edit-distance matching, hide "you said" on wrong answer

• Fix all failing tests — derive counts and unlock prereqs from source of truth

• Speaking: 10s countdown auto-stop, mic stops immediately on quit/navigate

• Speaking: Whisper prompt hint + looser character-similarity matching

• Uniform finish screen · skip speak costs a star · auto-return to journey after last exercise · vibrant stars in exercise list

• Journey reordered — NoSU/G1Uno earlier, Q1/G_HM/G3 repositioned

• Journey order editable in journey-settings.js · fix pulse showing wrong lesson

• Pet silent during games and alt-tab · fix shop prices (add missing SW cache entries)

• Journey refactor: nodes.js is the single source of truth for lesson order and locking

• Hunter: freeze now stops kamikaze letters · shop shows full prices · coin count-down on purchase

• Shiraz preview now shows the real Persian cat canvas

• Per-pet happiness, Try Again auto-checks, Shiraz preview, games hide nav, Farsi ! fixed