What's New

The updates worth knowing about — new ways to study, classroom tools for teachers, and improvements to how study guides are built. Smaller fixes ship most weeks and aren't all listed here.

1. September 10, 2026Everyone

   A whole second set of study games — free

   Every guide now has an Advanced Study Games section below the usual games: Concept Connect, Crossword, Concept Ladder, The Grid, Brain Feud, Hot Streak, The Big Question, Tic-Tac-Know, The Circuit, Brain Drop, and the season-long Study League. They're built for deeper recall, deduction, and strategy — and they're free for everyone. A guide needs enough interlocking terms or questions to build a good board; if one isn't ready, add a little more material.

2. September 8, 2026Everyone

   Themes — a new look for AvaStudy

   AvaStudy Unlimited now includes themes. Alongside the classic Ava look, you can switch to Focus (a calm navy and slate palette that suits older students and teachers), Ocean, or Forest. It only changes colors and backgrounds — nothing about how the app works or your progress — and it's separate from the Playful home screen setting, so you can mix and match. Pick one in Settings → Experience.

   Choose a theme →
3. September 8, 2026Students

   Find out if you're actually ready for the test

   Every guide now shows a readiness score, and you can take a Practice Test — a timed, one-pass run across the whole guide that tells you concept by concept what you know and what to fix. Set a test date and AvaStudy builds a personalized study plan, switches to Cram Mode as the day gets close, and puts it front and centre on your home screen. A short free Mini Practice Quiz gives you a taste; the full Practice Test, the study plan and the AI tutor are part of AvaStudy Unlimited. Every game mode stays free for everyone.

   Open a guide to try it →
4. September 8, 2026Everyone

   Every generated answer is checked against your notes

   When AvaStudy builds questions from your material, it checks each one against what you actually uploaded and flags anything it can't place — so you can tap a flagged item and fix it in the editor in a couple of taps.

5. September 5, 2026TeachersStudents

   Shared guides stay in sync when your teacher changes them

   Rename a class or a guide and students see the new name right away — on their homework list too, not just the guide page. Archive a class and its assignments pause with a heads-up instead of just going quiet. Rebuild a guide and everyone who has it gets told. And a few loose ends are tidied: a deleted teacher no longer leaves an orphaned class behind.

6. September 5, 2026Students

   Practice and live games count toward your homework

   Practising an assigned guide, or playing it as a live game in class, now moves you toward turning it in — it counts as playing that game, and you get a heads-up about assignments already due the moment you join a class. A score target still needs a real scored game, but "we did this in class" is no longer wasted.

7. September 5, 2026StudentsParentsTeachers

   Homework you can actually keep track of

   Assigned a guide? You get an alert the moment it lands, the homework banner shows how far along you are ("2 topics left in Needs Work") and flips to "Turned in" once you meet the bar — the results screen tells you too, right after the game. A missed deadline no longer locks anything: you can still finish it and it still counts, just marked "late". The weekly parent email now has a Homework section — turned in, late, outstanding, and anything overdue.

   Open your homework →
8. September 4, 2026TeachersStudents

   Assignments can reward finishing on time

   When a teacher assigns a guide with a due date, they can turn on a coin bonus for students who finish before the deadline. It runs itself — students get a note from the class with the coins to accept. Nothing for the teacher to manage.

   How it works for teachers →
9. September 3, 2026TeachersStudents

   Assignments say what to do — and you choose how hard

   When a teacher assigns a guide they now pick a turn-in bar on an Easy → Medium → Hard ladder: Easy is play a game, Medium adds a score to hit, Hard adds covering every topic so nothing is left in "Needs Work". Each step includes the one before it. The student sees exactly what to do in a homework banner on the guide, and the gradebook fills in as they clear it.

   How it works for teachers →
10. August 20, 2026Everyone

    A simpler way to get around

    There's now a tab bar at the bottom of the screen for the places you go most — your guides, the daily challenge, your buddy, and progress. The old gear menu was trimmed down to match.

11. August 5, 2026Teachers

    Classes, assignments, and live games for teachers

    Teachers can create a class, share a join code, assign a guide with a due date, and watch a gradebook fill in as students play. Live mode runs a class-wide game on the projector, Kahoot-style, with everyone answering from their own device.

    How it works for teachers →
12. July 18, 2026Students

    Practice adapts to what you keep missing

    AvaStudy tracks which concepts you're shaky on and quietly weights them heavier — in your daily challenge, in the "Strengthen" round, and in which game it suggests next. The study-guide page shows a "What You Know" breakdown so you can see where you stand.

13. July 2, 2026Everyone

    iPhone photos just work now

    Photos straight from an iPhone (the HEIC format) used to fail silently. They're handled properly now, whether you upload one page or several.

14. June 15, 2026ParentsTeachersStudents

    Parent and teacher accounts, and a College grade

    When you sign up you can say whether you're a student, a parent, or a teacher, and the app adjusts what it shows you. College is now a grade option, so the material and tone fit older students.