Some things are meant to go together: Hot chocolate & marshmallows 
, Nara deer & bowing for biscuits 
and Bunpro & an annual Lifetime Sale! 
From now through roughly the 7th of January 2025, all Lifetime subscriptions will be on sale for $120 (down from their usual price of $150). As always, if you are currently subscribed and decide to upgrade, you will be prorated for any unused time on your current subscription.
We’d like to split this post into three categories - Past, Present, and Future. Let’s start by taking a look at an overview of additions and adjustments we made to the site in 2024!
Content Updates:
- Practice reading Japanese: New and improved Reading Passages for all levels
- Expand beyond the JLPT: New every-day grammar like ～やがる and おおよそ.
- Fully immerse: N1 grammar explanations entirely in Japanese.
- Improve your reading comprehension: Over 40,000 new Vocab example sentences for words of all levels.
- Built in Dictionary: JMDict information is now integrated into our Vocab definitions.
- Hone your Pronunciation: Pitch accent audio for Vocab.
Platform Updates:
- Better first experience: Revamped our onboarding and added a new user tour.
- Control what and how you learn: Our new Learn Queue & Daily Goal lets you set up your study flow and pace to fit your needs.
- Vocab Cram: Improved Cram’s interface and options to Cram Vocab & Decks.
- GoKana Arcade Game: A fun way for new (and old) learners to test their kana skills.
- Create and Share Custom Decks (Beta): Build your own custom Grammar & Vocab Decks to learn from or share with friends. This includes a text import tool, allowing you to import from sources such as Anki.
- Optimize your Learning: Improved SRS intervals and big quality of life improvements such as Ghosts and Self-Study reviews for Vocab
- Improved mobile experience: Expanded functionality and improved the UI with plans for a full release in 2025.
After a busy year last year, we kept our foot on the gas and pushed out a lot of updates to the site this year! Our theme this year was 進化（しんか）- “evolution/progress/improvement”, as a lot of the work this year revolved around changing and improving the existing experience of using the site. Things like overhauling how and what you study, improving the SRS algorithm, adding a bunch of QoL improvements like JMDict info and Vocab Ghosts/Self-Study.
As is tradition now, last year we laid out for you what we had on our horizons for 2024 to get you excited as a Bunpro user - let’s see how we did!
Looking back on our goals for 2024 from one year ago:
- Release 75-100 new Grammar Points from our list, including some N0 content.
- We only fully released about 20
But we have a lot more in varying states of completion and have also been adding new ones to our list of Grammar we want to add. - We will be focusing more effort toward getting that Grammar released this coming year.
- We only fully released about 20
- Full overhaul of Decks including but not limited to: adjustments to the content in existing Decks and a “Bunpro order”, ability to create and share your own Decks.
- Done, plus Custom Decks are in Beta!
- A better search
- Done!
- Finishing and releasing N2 and N1 Vocab sentences, translations and fill in the blank/reading reviews.
- Done!
- New Reading Passages and an update to existing ones (rewriting to reflect and obey the new Grammar ordering).
- Done!
- A full release of the mobile app.
- Done for Android, quite close for iOS (only waiting on supporting in-app subscriptions)
- While we have been teasing it for a long time, maybe 2024 will actually be the year of the Bunpro Merch store.
- 2025 for sure!
- 2025 for sure!
- With all the requests we get to add kanji info to the site, we might begin to explore what that looks like.
- Maybe 2025
- Maybe 2025
- Start adding the additional Vocab lists as study-able Decks with cloze translations, aiming for at least 5 new decks of 1000 words each translated in 2024, each with 8 example sentences.
- Made good progress on adding a lot of sentences (over 100k currently on the site) but no specific Decks yet for the additional lists.
- Add tense/similar information for ever single Grammar Point on the website (almost done!)
- Done
- Re-recording of all female audio on the website with a far better microphone! (N5 will be finished very soon!)
- We have newly recorded audio for grammar by professional voice actors/actresses. This is in post production.
- Have already begun the beta production of a relatively large scale project that will integrate students even more with their external teachers and forms of study… More info coming!
- Released the Teacher Dashboard!
- Japanese/English hints for N3, N2, and possibly even N1 Vocab!
- Currently in progress!
Our Goals for 2025
- Finish and Release 50-75 new Grammar Points from our list.
- A Profile overhaul to make it a more useful and fun part of the site.
- N1 Reading Passages
- New professional audio for Grammar and real audio to replace the TTS that Vocab has.
- A full release of the mobile app followed by some design overhauls and changes to take advantage of app-only functionality.
- The future might finally be hear and 2025 may actually be the year of the Bunpro Merch store.
- Explore adding some sort of kanji aspect to the site, if only the information and ability to see Vocab that share kanji.
- Japanese/English hints for Vocab from N3 on.
- Explore translating Bunpro into other languages (currently we offer a Spanish translation of N5 that hasn’t been officially released yet).
And that’s it! Another year in the books for Bunpro! We say it every year but everything we do is shaped by your feedback, both positive and negative. Bunpro would not be anywhere close to the site it is today without all of you, so thank you for everything you do! All of us here at the team hope that no matter how you are spending the holidays, you are having an enjoyable time.
See you in 2025!
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under my 
. This was my first year on bunpro and seeing all the improvements to the site in real time was awesome! Here’s to another good year of studying!! 
Hoping to get through N3 and N2 grammar this year!