What’s new in Shiberu

Version 1.2.57 for Shiberu has just been submitted to the appstore and playstore and should be available for download later today.

Don't lose your streak: the countdown

We have added a countdown notification in the Shiberu Forest Aestethic to help you remind to study before your streak fizzles out. The default study day ends at 4 am (unless you have changed it in your profile settings), and the notificaiton will appear 8 hours before that time.

On Android, the notification comes with Study now / Not today buttons.

Same Shiba image as you see in the in app home-screen, he is taking it chill and not stressing, and you don't have to either. (Did you know? I have a Shiba, his name is Libe and is the inspiration for the name of this app, he is taking it chill and resting next to me as I write this).

Choosing target deck for mining right in the word pop-up

Previously, it was only possible to change the target mining deck if you had the chrome extension and changed it from there. A leftover thought when Shiberu was initially developed with only mining words from Netflix, Youtube, Bilibili, etc, in mind. To fix this issue, there is now a pill selector for the deck to place your mining cards in directly inside the word pop-up.

Not limited to parent decks but works well with sub-decks too as shown in image above.

Status buttons that fit

Smaller phones had the issue with some wordings getting cut off for the status buttons. This issue has been taken care of to give a more unified Shiberu experience.

Faster on a bad connection

We had a bug where the app would sometimes freeze up on some screens if there is an exceptionally slow data connection, due to waiting for some unnecessary API calls. This issue has been rectified with the new release.

Also new since the last update

• Korean Vocabulary 10K is now on the Discovery page. A deck made using the official Shiberu Korean Frequency List. The 10,000 most common Korean words in order, with example sentences, audio, hanja and conjugations, as Recognition and Sentence Cloze cards.
• Copying big decks from Discover is a lot faster.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who is using Shiberu so far. We are proud to announce we recently hit over 100 unique users and we are slowly growing! We hope to keep making Shiberu better and better. The aim is to provide a service that is free, but feels premium and better than all the alternatives. Thank you!

-- Alex, Shiberu Developer, 2026 Nov 12.