What's Coming To Linguapon In 2026
Posted on 1/24/2025
10 minute read
Hello Linguaponearners! I hope you've all had a great start to 2026 so far. I have been busy quietly making plans for the year ahead, and today, I'll gladly share details on Linguapon's 2026 roadmap.
Firstly, what is Linguapon's focus for 2026?
Linguapon is looking to continue to improve its product offering, with guidance from user feedback. 100% of the feedback so far has led to changes that have already been made, or are part of the roadmap in one shape or form.
I also see potential with what Linguapon can do to help tutors and students in classroom environments. Growing a community is already a major goal, and so we want to help foster collaboration between more people.
To round off the high-level summary, Linguapon is aiming for the skies. Linguapon will gradually evolve into a powerful personalised progress tracking engine, capable of answering the question: 'so, what do I learn now?'
Without further ado, here is the roadmap:
1. The reading toggle
Starting off with a simple one.
This is our suggestions and translation card UI today (at time of writing):
If you're reading a book, or you're in a foreign country trying to interpret the wild and confusing signs you see, you're not going to see the English all the time. So what's wrong with this UI is that if you wanted to focus more on honing your reading skills, it's hard to ignore the English there. You don't need to work out what it means yourself. That is the problem.
Reading mode replaces the 'show word-by-word toggle' and does the following, when enabled:
- Hide the English
- Show suggestions in the target language
This is a concept prototype of the feature.
When reading mode is enabled, you'll still have the option of hovering or clicking on each word to uncover the English.
2. Sharable social profiles
You create an account with us, your profile gets created. You can set profile details and view a useful dashboard detailing your progress. It is already loaded with information about what you get up to on Linguapon.
As the header suggests, you'll be able to share your profile with others. Friends already using the platform can be added to your friends list, so you can tease them because you're doing a lot better than they are.
This is a concept mock for a friends list screen.
3. Study groups
Building on sharable social profiles, premium users will be able to create study groups and add others, also using the platform, into them. The owner of that group can then:
- See the progress of everyone within the study group.
- Create study group collections that can be viewed by everybody in that study group, at any time. A collection is a subgroup of items in your Translation Bank.
- With Test Me, allow anybody in the study group to test themselves on all items in the shared study group collection.
- Feel good about saving others some money, as both free and premium users can be added into a study group.
#1 is a concept mock for a study group members list screen.
#2 is a concept mock for a shared study group collection panel inside the Translation Bank
I hope to actively try out this feature with teachers; feedback will be used to help make study groups as useful as they can possibly be. Stay tuned - teachers, this one's for you.
4. Dark mode
Do I need to say much here? I'm personally a dark mode advocate - it matches my personality. This will gradually be rolled out, and when it does, I'll celebrate it too.
Here is what the dashboard page could look like:
This is a concept prototype for dark mode (profile dashboard shown)
5. Knowledge vault expansion
Learners, you all know as well as I do that learning a language takes a long time. It feels never-ending.
Knowing where you actually stand is tricky to do; your brain doesn't automatically summarise for you. You collect words from Explore, you review them in Translation Bank, you get tested in Test Me, but it's not always clear which words are truly solid, which are shaky, and which ones only feel familiar.
The premium-only Knowledge Vault of today honestly lacks the execution, from what I thought I wanted it to be to begin with. It was supposed to resemble a dictionary, comprising every word you've seen before, from which you can draw from. So, it only made sense to address the problem space by expanding it.
The knowledge vault today
As Linguapon continues to collect info on how well you roughly know a word, that'll also include more granular pieces of info. So each word will carry clearer information about your progress; smarter ways to aggregate that data would then highlight areas where you consistently perform well and where you tend to struggle. And hopefully, present that information to you in a coherent, approachable package.
There are also many other improvements I'd like to make over the course of the year, so this roadmap is only a guideline for what to expect. For example, I'd like to integrate Linguapon with other services. I think that being able to bring over your progress from Anki (or carry things over to your Anki) could be very useful if people wanted it.
But I am just a single developer, so let's take things slowly and carefully.
With that all being said, I would like to thank you for checking out the blog, or even the rest of the website. Thank you to all who have given feedback and helped shape Linguapon's path.
Linguapon will hope to continue to grow, and I personally hope more people will recognise Linguapon as a learner-centric platform.
Until next time!
Written by Elvin, Linguapon Admin