What's new

0.5.61 30 September 2026

The newer Maestra pages now open on desktop and tablet browsers too.

• Web app: Today, Library, Progress and practice use the same updated pages across screen sizes. On a larger screen, they sit in a comfortable reading column.
• Admin: sign in through the regular Maestra app, then open the admin page with that same account. You can use the usual Apple, Google or email options.

0.5.60 30 September 2026

The conversation heading and progress bar have room to breathe on iPhone.

• Conversation: the back label stays clear of the progress bar on an iPhone 13 Pro. On smaller phones, a long label shortens instead of covering your place in the lesson.

0.5.59 30 September 2026

Speaking during guided practice is clearer from the first answer.

• Listening: Maestra waits until the microphone can hear you before showing that it is listening. Tapping Stop switches to Checking right away while it finishes recognizing your words.
• Try again: if no words were heard, the card offers a Try again button, including on the first attempt.

0.5.58 30 September 2026

The new web layout now opens on tablets and touch-screen computers too.

• On the web: phones keep the new phone layout. Tablets and other larger screens now show the new desktop layout, with its navigation folded when space is tight.

0.5.57 30 September 2026

A story or a reading is now read in one voice from start to finish.

• Stories and readings: when a story's recordings were still downloading, the first lines could be read by your device's own voice and the rest by Dalia. Now the whole passage is read by one voice.
• On a new install: the first line of a story may take a moment to start while its recording downloads.

0.5.56 29 September 2026

“Turn on listening” no longer appears when listening is already on.

• In a review: with listening on, the drill showed Turn on listening, and tapping it turned listening off. It now shows only when listening really is off, and turns it on.
• When you open Maestra: the note about turning listening on in Settings appears only while listening is off.

0.5.55 29 September 2026

Quitting the terminal app is instant again.

• In the terminal: pressing q now quits at once, even while lessons are still downloading. A lesson’s audio that didn’t finish downloading is fetched when you open that lesson.

0.5.54 29 September 2026

Signing in on the iPhone works again, and the terminal has one look.

• On the iPhone: signing in with Google or Apple now brings you back to Maestra, signed in.
• In the terminal: Maestra always uses its new look now. - turns the sound on and off, and j turns the microphone on and off, on every page. You can click the arrows on the key line to move through a reading.
• Reviews due tomorrow: the count on the first screen now ends at midnight where you are.

0.5.53 28 September 2026

Accents in chat, one address for Maestra, and the new look for everyone.

• Chat in the terminal: the accent shortcuts now work while you type to María, as they do everywhere else: e' → é, n~ → ñ, u: → ü, ?? → ¿, !! → ¡. The arrow keys and the usual editing keys work in the line too.
• Maestra lives at maestra.sh: the app always opens there now, and if you land on an older address it sends what you practised and moves you there. Sign in once at maestra.sh and you’re set; signing in from the terminal opens maestra.sh too.
• The new phone and desktop layouts are on for everyone, signed in or not.
• Feature changes reach the web app on their own: when something is switched on for your account, the app picks it up within a few minutes, without signing in again.

0.5.52 27 September 2026

Slips are fixed sooner, cards say who's talking, and plans chosen during the free period wait for it to end.

• Your notebook: a slip now moves to Fixed after 3 right in a row, on two different days (it was 5). If you already had one at 3 or 4 right across two days, it moves to Fixed straight away, with the day you got there. A device still on an older version keeps asking for 5 until it updates.
• Who's talking: a card now names the person you're answering, like “(Tío Goyo)” or “(Don Neto)”, when the scene doesn't already say.
• Choosing a plan during your free period: it starts when the free period ends, and nothing is charged until then. The Plans page says so.
• In the terminal: if your sign-in expires, Main says so in one line, because your practice isn't syncing until you sign in again; d hides it. In the coming new look, / opens the search line in lists.
• Coming soon on the phone: each lesson opens on a map of its parts, with where to continue, and every part has its own page. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.51 27 September 2026

Small improvements behind the scenes.

• Coming soon in the new phone and desktop look: when your device checks an answer itself and it takes a moment, Enter moves you on after 3 seconds and the score is kept with that card when it arrives. It isn’t switched on yet.
• In the terminal: changes to your account’s features now take effect when you next go back to Main, without restarting.

0.5.50 27 September 2026

Groundwork for teachers.

• Coming soon for teachers and study-group organizers: teacher mode. Look through any lesson with every answer showing, try a card to see what the answer checker accepts, and nothing is added to your own practice. Organizers can switch it off to take their own class. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.49 26 September 2026

Small fixes to the new terminal look, which isn’t switched on yet.

• For the terminal’s coming screen-reader mode: settings and plans are read in plain words, and the keys for sound and the microphone work the same way they do on screen.

0.5.48 26 September 2026

A truer count of what you said right, and the rest of the new terminal look behind the scenes.

• “Phrases said right” is more honest. A phrase whose score came in low after you had moved on no longer counts as said right in This week, on every device.
• Coming soon in the terminal: Progress with fourteen days of bars and your mistakes notebook; Settings with a page for each choice and a page for this Mac; plans explained in words, and a change of plan that always asks you first; grammar explained in English or Spanish, with the Spanish you can play; a clean sign-in page; and a screen-reader mode that speaks one line at a time. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.47 26 September 2026

A tidy start page on the web, and more of the new terminal look behind the scenes.

• The web app’s start page shows its first line again. The “Maestra” version line at the top no longer slips out of view when the page opens.
• Coming soon in the terminal: a Library with Lessons, Readings and Courses side by side and a reading shelf that picks what to read next; each lesson as a page with a map of its parts and where to continue; and Main as your day, with today’s plan and Enter to start it. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.46 26 September 2026

A faster start, and review that follows you to every device.

• Maestra opens faster in the terminal. The first screen no longer waits while your Mac checks its microphone and its own answer checker; those finish in the background.
• A low score that arrives late is kept everywhere. If you pressed Enter before an answer was scored and the score came in low, that phrase comes back for review on every device you use, not just this one. Your totals count it the same way everywhere.
• Turning listening off stays off, even if you switch it off while Maestra is still starting up.
• Coming soon in the terminal: a new answer card. It shows what you said and a clear correction right under it, and it tells you when your Mac is checking an answer and for how long. After 3 seconds of that, Enter moves you on and the score is kept with the card. It isn’t switched on yet.

After this update, each device downloads your practice history once more to pick up these review marks. Your progress is kept.

0.5.45 26 September 2026

A steadier sign-in, and more of the new terminal look behind the scenes.

• Signing in from the terminal. Esc leaves the sign-in page at once, and no browser page opens after you’ve left. If your approval arrives just as you quit, it is kept, so that Mac won’t ask you again.
• Keys over SSH. Option-] followed by a number no longer loses the number.
• Coming soon in the terminal: a cleaner frame with the keys on one line, a ? list that always opens, and answers and feedback typed right where they belong, with full line editing and safe pasting. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.44 26 September 2026

Scores you can count on, and a steadier terminal app.

• Every answer gets its grade. If checking an answer takes too long, your Enter still counts as got it and is saved. A score that comes in later is kept with that answer.
• No score lost on a slow connection. When Maestra’s server is slow, your device starts checking too, and whichever answers first gives the score. A slow server reply is no longer thrown away.
• The end of a lesson says what you did. If you paged through a lesson, the last page says how many parts you finished and that nothing was skipped.
• Clearer sign-in messages. If signing in fails, Maestra says why in one plain sentence: offline, slow, too many tries, and so on.
• In the terminal: a first run asks you to sign in, and once you have signed in on a Mac it never asks again just to practise, even offline. Escape answers at once. Maestra opens faster. Esc in part 1 goes back to part 1’s page. Over SSH, sound starts off for that session. Commands like maestra list no longer start a practice session.

0.5.43 26 September 2026

Fixes for the terminal app.

• Typed answers are always scored. With listening off, a typed answer’s score could be lost and the card left ungraded. Now the score shows and your grade is saved.
• Paging through a lesson changes nothing. Turning the part pages no longer marks parts as skipped or says a lesson is finished when it isn’t.
• Faster start. Maestra opens in about half a second, even before your Mac has listed its voices.
• Editing an answer. Ctrl-U clears it and Ctrl-W deletes the last word. b on Main opens your plan.

0.5.42 26 September 2026

Groundwork for a new desktop look.

• Coming soon on the computer: a side rail for Today, the Library and Progress, keyboard hints that stay on one line, and a switch to turn single-letter shortcuts off. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.41 26 September 2026

A late score finds its own answer.

• Scores that arrive after you move on. When Maestra finishes checking an answer after you’ve gone to the next card, the score is now always kept with the answer it belongs to.

0.5.40 26 September 2026

Groundwork for plans on the phone.

• Coming soon: your plan in Settings. Maestra is getting ready to show your plan, when it renews and your choices in one place on the phone. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.39 26 September 2026

Groundwork for a mistakes notebook.

• Coming soon: your own notebook of slips. Maestra is getting ready to collect the mistakes that keep coming back, with short practice for each. It isn’t switched on yet.

0.5.38 26 September 2026

Safer sign-in with Apple and Google.

• Sign-in links only work where you asked for them. Signing in with Apple or Google now uses a one-time check tied to the browser you started in, and an email sign-in link signs in only the browser that asked for it. Opened anywhere else, Maestra asks you before it signs anything in.
• Clearer approval page. The page that signs in another device now says it will ask you first.

0.5.37 26 September 2026

Plans in plain words.

• No more token counts. Maestra no longer shows balances or numbers of tokens anywhere. The Plans page says what each plan includes in words, at the same prices.
• When this month’s server extras run out, Maestra says what is paused and when it comes back. Practice goes on as usual.

0.5.36 26 September 2026

Reading with the sound off works again.

• Finish a reading in silence. With the sound off, Enter and the down arrow now take you through to the end of a passage, so it can be finished and counted.
• Maestra remembers where you stopped. Every reading now notes the sentence you reached, ready for picking up where you left off.

0.5.35 26 September 2026

The microphone switch tells the truth.

• Listening without scoring. If you turned scoring off but kept listening on, the microphone switch now shows it as on, and opening Settings no longer turns listening off for the rest of your session.

0.5.34 26 September 2026

Nothing is sent for answers you didn’t give.

• Changed your mind mid-answer? If you ask for help, start again, switch to typing or press Esc while Maestra is listening, that recording is dropped on the spot: when Maestra’s server is hearing you, it is never sent there and never charged.
• Silence isn’t an answer. If nobody speaks before the microphone’s time runs out, Maestra says it didn’t catch anything instead of guessing at a word.

0.5.33 26 September 2026

Getting ready for the Maestra apps.

• Clearer sign-in approvals. When another device asks to sign in to your account, Maestra names it only when it knows what it is; anything else is called “another device”, so a device can’t describe itself as something it isn’t.

0.5.32 26 September 2026

The web app remembers more of your practice.

• Pick up where you left off. The web app now keeps a record of your practice on this device, so it can take you back to where you were and count your minutes spoken and pages read.
• Lists remember your place. The lessons and readings lists open on the one you last chose, so going back takes you to where you were.
• Updating with several tabs open. If Maestra is open in another tab while it updates, it now tells you to close that tab instead of waiting quietly.
• Clearer terms for classes. The terms and privacy policy now say, word for word, what a teacher can see when you join a class.

0.5.31 26 September 2026

Safer sign-in on other devices.

• You approve every new device yourself. When a sign-in link would let another device into your account, Maestra now shows what asked and waits for you to press Approve. If you didn’t start it, press Don’t approve and that device is turned away.

0.5.30 26 September 2026

Clearer answers in Héctor’s course.

• Every suggested reply answers its question. 32 replies in the A1 course were rewritten so they respond to what was asked, each with a new recording.

0.5.29 25 September 2026

Maestra everywhere, a fairer bonus for saying more, and English that matches the Spanish.

• It says Maestra everywhere. Messages, settings, the help pages, the sign-in email and the course names now say Maestra. Your first course is Maestra Spanish A1; your progress is unchanged.
• A fairer bonus for saying more. Going beyond the question still earns 10 extra points, even if the rest of your answer has a slip. If the extra part itself has a mistake, the bonus is not added, and the mistake is underlined as usual.
• English that matches the Spanish. In the Héctor lessons, the English under many replies now translates the whole Spanish line, not just its first sentence.
• Simpler help pages. The help, student and What’s new pages no longer talk about tokens or plans.

0.5.28 25 September 2026

Reading you can pause mid-sentence, fairer scores that explain every point, and fewer interruptions.

• Pause in the middle of a line. Press space (or Pause) and the reading stops right where it is; press it again (Resume) and it carries on from there.
• The translation never pauses the reading. Press t to show or hide the English whenever you like; the reading keeps going.
• Steadier reading. The line being read is highlighted without changing size, so the text no longer shifts as the reading moves from line to line. On a device with no Spanish voice, lines without a recording are still read aloud.
• Fewer interruptions. Notes about your device (no Spanish voice, the microphone, downloads) no longer appear on lesson pages. You can find them in Settings → On this device, under This session.
• Fairer, clearer scores. Every point taken off is a mistake underlined in your answer, with a short reason. A missing accent costs only a little.
• “This correction is wrong.” If a score or correction looks wrong, tap Wrong? next to Feedback on the answer page (in the terminal, it is listed under ?) and tell us why. Every report helps make the scoring better.
• The Maestra logo now sits beside the name at the top of the app.

0.5.27 25 September 2026

Two keys for translation, calmer cards, and the terminal app is now called maestra.

• Translate either way. Press s to turn Spanish into English, and e to turn English into Spanish. The answer shows just above the buttons. (They replace h.)
• Cleaner cards. Each card has one line saying who is speaking and where, one type style throughout, and no leftover questions after you type an answer.
• A tidier home page. Your review and practice blocks read in plain English, the account line goes away once you are signed in, and each page shows only the buttons it needs.
• Esc goes back to where you were. Pages remember how you got there, so Esc takes you back one step at a time.
• Your answers stay yours. What you type or say is no longer saved as one of the lesson's model replies, and a suggested correction is shown as advice rather than added to the list.
• Phones stay upright. On a phone, Maestra keeps to portrait so the buttons stay where your thumbs are.
• The terminal app is maestra. Install it with curl -fsSL https://maestra.sh/install.sh | bash, then run maestra. If you installed it before, run lupita update one last time: it installs maestra and keeps all your practice. Your Mac may ask once more for permission to use speech recognition.
• The Copy button on the site works. It copies the install command, or selects it for you if your browser says no.

0.5.26 25 September 2026

Maestra opens in under a second, and feedback never gets in your way.

• Much faster to open. The app no longer waits on the network before showing your home page — returning visits open in about half a second.
• Feedback stays where you are. Sending feedback from any page keeps you on that page with all its buttons.
• Cleaner buttons. Each action shows once in lessons, empty spots stay empty, and the home page's buttons line up like the lesson's.
• No surprise shortcuts. Typing a number no longer jumps anywhere in the web app.
• An honest speech-model message. Maestra only says it is downloading the Spanish speech model while it really is, and tells you when it is ready.

0.5.25 25 September 2026

A new sign-in page, grammar you can read like a book, and one Héctor course.

• A sign-in page that looks like Maestra. Sign in with Apple, Google or an email link, in light or dark, and go straight back to your lessons.
• Grammar at its own pace. Grammar explanations can be as long as they need to be, and each topic starts on a fresh page.
• One Héctor course. The five-lesson preview is now part of the full 40-lesson course, with your progress kept.
• Small windows stay tidy. On a computer, shrinking the window below a comfortable size scrolls the page instead of squeezing the controls, and wider phones no longer clip the edge buttons.
• Your answers shown right. Words like mentira, cerro and papas no longer get a wrong accent in your transcript, and correct answers such as me caes bien are no longer questioned.

0.5.24 25 September 2026

Clearer practice screens and easier ways to move through a lesson.

• Type in one simple line. Enter an answer or ask for help in English above the controls. Spanish accents are added as you type.
• Sign in with Apple or Google. Or keep using an email link. Signing up confirms you are 13 or older.
• Return to the lesson you were browsing. Press Escape on a lesson page to go back to the same Lessons list, filter, and selection.
• Follow a reading with the arrows. Sentences stay unhighlighted until you move to them, and page arrows restore your place.
• Read more comfortably. Text, translations, activity labels, and the Maestra controls are easier to scan.

0.5.23 24–25 September 2026

Your practice history syncs when you sign in, and Héctor’s complete A1 course is ready in Maestra.

• Pick up where you left off. If you sign in from another tab, the web app immediately downloads your account’s practice history and uploads any waiting activity from this browser.
• Follow Héctor through 40 A1 lessons. His story returns to Puerto Vallarta in a complete Spanish course, now available in Maestra.
• Round navigation buttons. The Maestra buttons make it easy to move between sections and see which one is active.
• Grammar you can read and hear. The lesson’s grammar section is a long-form Spanish reader with page turns, an explanation and examples. Use the arrows to read and listen, then continue to practice.

0.5.22 24 September 2026

Clearer feedback when you speak, and a few easier ways to find your way around.

• See what Maestra heard. While you answer out loud, the web app shows the words it is recognizing beside the listening meter. Your finished answer stays out of the lower input line until you reveal or grade it.
• More useful corrections. When an answer is checked by the cloud judge, Maestra can underline the words to fix and explain the grammar, alongside the score and corrected Spanish.
• Small things feel clearer. Lesson and course lists, Progress, Settings, and Usage have easier-to-follow wording and navigation; typing ñ is simpler on supported keyboards.
• Know what languages are available. The website now says Spanish for English speakers is available today, with English for Spanish speakers and more languages to come.

0.5.21 23 September 2026

More to say in Héctor’s first five lessons.

• Fifty new questions. Each of Héctor’s first five lessons has ten more things to answer out loud, with a clearer cue about what your answer should say.
• A little more story. Each opening scene has a small new twist — like Chuy bringing a bottle to the turtle release, but no water.

0.5.20 23 September 2026

Steadier buttons in the web app, and a few small things you asked for.

• Buttons that stay put. On a computer, the web app’s buttons always sit in two tidy rows under the line, lined up with the text, and the line no longer jumps from screen to screen. Nothing is cut off at the top any more.
• Feedback, one line. Press f and the box reads Feedback (Enter sends, Esc cancels):, right above the line at the bottom of the screen.
• Green ticks. A daily goal you’ve met gets a green ✓.

0.5.19 22 September 2026

Lessons are easier to move around in, and Maestra listens to your answer before it answers back.

• It hears you out first. When you answer out loud, Maestra waits for your score before it says anything. If your answer works, it reads it back to you, corrected where needed. Then Enter shows and reads the lesson’s own reply, and Enter again moves on. Settings → read my answer turns the read-back off.
• Arrows for the replies. ↑ ↓ step through the other good replies (they used to be w and s, which still work).
• A lesson is a set of pages. Every lesson opens on its title page, part 0. ← → (or the buttons) move between the parts’ pages, Enter starts a part, and esc takes you back to the page of the part you’re in. There is no more skip.
• The congratulations page now shows at the end of every lesson, even one you came back to.
• Hector moves to Vallarta is easier to find: the launch screen mentions it, and its five lessons are in the Lessons list even before you add the course. Lesson 1 has a new round of practice after the dialogue, and a clearer cue for the Chicago line.
• Fairer scores. Hola, tío Goyo, mucho gusto now counts as an answer to a welcome, and a half-heard word like …ado for sábado no longer passes.
• Your answer as a sentence. What you said shows with a capital letter, names capitalised, and a full stop when it’s a complete sentence: Me llamo Memo.
• Easier reading. The sentence being read stands out more, the translations are in their own colour, t translates the question as well as the reply, and the reader shows a small 3/22 instead of a whole line.
• Tidier screens. Word pages move with ↑ ↓; flashcards show just the word; the launch screen shows your last three sessions and no longer lists new lessons; paged screens like Settings show the ↑ ↓ they actually use.
• Progress and the launch screen’s Status show the courses you’re in. Progress stops at the parts you use every day.

0.5.18 22 September 2026

Maestra tells you what your own device can do — and sets it up with you.

• On this device. Settings now shows what your Mac, phone or browser can do on its own: translation for h, scoring your answers, hearing Spanish, and the voice. Each one says whether it’s ready, downloading (with how much is left), waiting to be set up, or not possible here.
• It switches by itself. When something finishes downloading, Maestra starts using it and says so once: from then on that part is free and works offline.
• Step-by-step help. Press d on Usage, or g in Settings, for the exact steps for your device: Chrome’s Spanish speech, Chrome’s on-device model, Apple Translation, Apple Intelligence, dictation and the Paulina voice. The same steps are on the website.

0.5.17 22 September 2026

Signing in that brings you back, and a clearer picture of what runs where.

• Signing in always comes back to Maestra. Open the link in the email and you land in the app, signed in; the tab you started from notices by itself, even if you opened the email on your phone.
• Where it ran. Usage now shows what ran on your device (always free) and what ran on Maestra’s server. d helps you set up your device.

0.5.16 22 September 2026

Try again at once, see what Maestra heard, and arrows that behave.

• Answer again. After the answer is shown, press a to start the same question again from the beginning. Only your new answer counts. If you scored under 40, Enter does the same; x still moves on.
• See what Maestra judged. Your answer now shows exactly as it was heard, in lower case with its accents. The part Maestra judged is in the score’s colour, and anything it set aside (an “um”, a repeated word) is grey. If it would say it differently, the corrected version sits just under it.
• When you get it right, you see your own answer. At a passing score the lesson’s replies wait until you press w/s.
• Fairer scores. “Yo quieres va a las nueve?” now scores 55 and names both slips (quiero, and ir after querer), with “¿Yo quiero ir a las nueve?”. Answering a “¿A qué hora…?” with a time always counts as an answer, and suggesting a time back is a 90.
• Arrows in a reading. ↑ ↓ move a sentence and ← → turn the page, like the buttons. Fixed: in the web app an arrow could end the reading and open Settings. In the Mac terminal the reader now has clickable ▲ ▼ ◀ ▶ buttons.
• A tidier start. No more notes about the voice or a welcome line when Maestra opens, and the web app’s footer is simpler, with its buttons in two rows on a computer.
• The web app always opens. It no longer waits for Chrome’s on-device AI check before showing the first screen.

0.5.15 22 September 2026

A new course with Héctor, lessons that open and close properly, and buttons you can click.

• New course: Hector moves to Vallarta. Héctor, sixteen and from Chicago, arrives in Puerto Vallarta speaking almost no Spanish. The first five lessons follow his first week: meeting Tío Goyo downstairs, the papelería (and María, badly), his first tacos, a beach game of soccer, and a night releasing baby turtles. Each lesson opens with his story and brings 25 new words. Find it in Courses.
• A title page for every lesson with what it covers, how many new words and phrases, and a line or two about the story. The story itself now starts in Spanish, with nothing in English above it.
• Congratulations at the end. Finish a lesson and Maestra says so. Press Enter for the next lesson, or q to go home.
• Click the keys. In the Mac terminal you can now click the keys at the bottom of the screen and the rows of a list, and the scroll wheel turns pages. (To select text with the mouse, hold ⌥ while you drag, or turn clicks off in Settings.) In the web app, the big key buttons now show on a computer too.
• Arrows read while you’re paused. With the translation up, or after pressing space, each arrow reads the sentence it lands on.
• Only one voice at a time. Fixed: in a reading, the recorded voice and the device voice could sometimes talk over each other.
• Listening keeps working. If your browser can’t turn your speech into text and you’re signed in, Maestra’s server does it for the rest of that session, and tells you how to let your browser do it free next time.
• Verb cards show all five forms, like quiero, quieres, quiere, queremos, quieren.

0.5.14 22 September 2026

A calmer drill card, a microphone that doesn’t give up, and our teacher herself.

• Enter is “got it.” After the answer is shown, Enter counts it as right; x is not yet. When a score is on screen, Enter takes the score instead, and the key bar says so.
• Translations sit under the Spanish they translate. Press t and each phrase on the card shows its English right under it, including the alternatives you move to with w/s. Press it again to hide them.
• Corrections come first. When Maestra corrects what you said, you see the corrected sentence, with the changed words marked and the grammar under it. The lesson’s replies appear when you press w/s.
• Accents count, kindly. “No se todavia” still passes, and now shows “No sé todavía” with the accents it needs.
• “I couldn’t hear you” now appears right under the question. When Maestra can’t make sense of an answer, it says so and points you to the replies below.
• Quieter keys. A key that does nothing does nothing, with no message.
• The microphone keeps trying. One missed answer no longer turns listening off. The microphone test in Settings now really tests again, every time.
• Text size. Settings → text size: smaller, normal, larger or largest. Every screen pages properly at the largest size on a phone. In the Mac terminal, use your terminal’s own ⌘+ / ⌘−.
• Meet our teacher. The app, the browser tab and your home screen now show our teacher in big glasses. On an iPhone, remove Maestra from the home screen and add it again from Safari to see her.
• Your data, your call. Settings now lets you export your data or delete your account (deleting also cancels any subscription). Signing in asks you to confirm you are 13 or older.

0.5.13 21 September 2026

Easier on a phone.

• Buttons under the screen. On a phone or tablet, every key the screen offers is also a big button under it. In a reading, ▲ ▼ move a sentence back or forward and ◀ ▶ turn the page; translation, pause, skip and menu are right below. The buttons step aside while the keyboard is up.
• Tap a row to choose it. In Lessons, Readings, Courses and Settings, tap a lesson, a reading, a course or a setting instead of typing its number.
• Nothing cut off. On a narrow screen a lesson's or a course's details go on the line under its name, rather than ending in “…”.
• Courses keep the search above the line and the keys below it: d then a course makes it your default, l then a course leaves it.
• Opening a list on a phone no longer brings up the keyboard, so the list stays in view. Tap the screen when you want to search.

0.5.12 21 September 2026

Courses: choose what you study.

• Courses. Press o on the start screen to see the courses in the language you are learning. Enroll in as many as you like; each one's recordings download in the background, and its lessons and readings appear in Lessons and Readings.
• Your default course decides what Start does next. Type d and a course's number to make it your default, or l and its number to leave it. Leaving pauses its reviews and keeps your progress.
• You start in Maestra Spanish A1. If you have already practised, you are in the courses that hold your lessons, so nothing disappears.
• Progress shows a line for each course.

0.5.11 21 September 2026

Stories read the way people write them.

• What people say in a lesson's story is now in quotation marks, and each line of speech starts its own paragraph, so it is clear who is talking. The recordings were remade to match.

0.5.10 21 September 2026

Maestra fits a phone, and you can tap the keys.

• Small screens. On a phone or in a small window, every screen fits: the keys you need stay at the bottom, lines break between words, and the reader keeps its place on a short window.
• Tap the keys. On a phone or tablet, tap a key at the bottom of the screen, like r repeat, and it works as if you had pressed it. A mouse click works too.
• ? shows every key. When there isn't room for them all, the last key says ? more. It opens a list of every key on that screen.
• The text is sized for your phone, and the on-screen keyboard no longer covers the keys.
• The note on the launch screen now says press d to hide this.

0.5.9 21 September 2026

A daily reminder; web pages, books, scans and audio in My files; and this page.

• A daily reminder, if you want one. In Settings, pick daily reminder, choose the days and a time, and Maestra reminds you which lesson is next and about how long it will take. There is no reminder on a day you have already practised. In the browser it arrives as a notification once you are signed in; on a Mac it comes from the Mac itself. It is off until you turn it on, and signing out of the web app turns it off.
• Web pages in My files. Paste the address of a Spanish article and Maestra keeps only the article: no menus, adverts or sidebars. You need to be signed in.
• Audio for your own files. Choose text and audio and each sentence is read in Dalia's voice. On a Mac, your files now get their English lines too.
• Books and scans. My files now takes EPUB books, with their chapters and pictures. On a Mac it also reads scanned PDFs, on the device and for free. In the book, press o to see a picture.
• What's new, once. After an update the start screen says so once. Press w to open this page.
• The privacy policy, terms and refund policy on this site now describe Maestra as it is today.

0.5.8 21 September 2026

Listening, redone, and a daily goal that matches the lesson you are on.

• Listening, on one line. When Maestra listens to your answer, a single line shows what is happening: Paulina speaking, then listening with a level meter, your words appearing as you say them, then the score being worked out. Nothing blinks, and the countdown only shows in the last few seconds.
• r now repeats the phrase a little slower, so you can catch every word.
• A new motion setting. Choose reduced and the listening line says what it is doing without anything moving on screen.
• Your daily goal, when it is set to auto, is now the new words in the lesson you are working on.
• Long values in Settings wrap neatly in their own column.

0.5.7 21 September 2026

Read your own texts in Maestra.

• My files. Press m on the launch screen to bring in your own Spanish: a PDF, a text file, or text you paste. Maestra tidies it up and lets you read it like a book, with a title page, chapters and contents, and it remembers where you stopped. The English for each line is made on your device.
• Export a file, fix it anywhere, and import it back. Delete a file when you are done with it.
• The lessons and readings lists have their search at the top.

0.5.6 21 September 2026

Your practice now moves reliably between the terminal and the web app.

• Sync fixed. When you are signed in, practice from your other devices now comes down every time. Maestra brings it down first, then sends what you did here.
• Syncing happens in the background, so quitting Maestra is instant. Maestra also checks for new practice as it opens.
• maestra sync syncs right now, if you do not want to wait.
• Last sessions on the launch screen says where each session happened: in the terminal or in the web app.

0.5.5 21 September 2026

A long list of fixes and polish, most of them from the people testing Maestra.

Practising

• The practice card is clearer. Who is speaking is in italics, the score is in colour, and when your answer was close, a Corrected: line shows the better version and the grammar reason.
• After you see the answer, w and s step through the other good answers, one at a time.
• Corrections and the other good answers are read aloud in Maestra's recorded voice. You can turn this off in Settings (live voice).
• p (what to say) and t (what it means) turn on and off.

Moving around

• < and > turn pages on every screen.
• [ and ] jump to the previous or next part of a lesson.
• In a reading, space pauses on the sentence being read, the arrow keys move around, and space again carries on from there. t pauses and shows the English.
• The launch screen's keys are in two rows. In a list, Enter clears a search, and Enter again goes back.

Settings

• speak aloud turns Maestra's voice on or off.
• Scoring your answer now runs on Maestra's server first, with your device as the fallback. The text of your answer is sent, never audio. Change it under judge runs.
• h (help me say it) uses your device's translation first, then Maestra's server, so it still works offline. Change it under h answers with.
• A speech to text choice for listening. The microphone test's result stays on screen until you press a key.
• If you are signed in, Progress shows how much of this month's allowance you have used, and u opens the details.

0.5.4 21 September 2026

The first version that syncs.

• Sync between your devices. Sign in on the terminal and in the web app with the same account. After each session, Maestra brings down the practice from your other devices and works out your progress from all of it.

0.5.3 21 September 2026

Grammar pages, lesson ratings, and a way to start a lesson over.

• Grammar pages inside lessons: short explanations of things like ir a + infinitive and the simple future.
• At the end of a lesson you can say how interesting and how hard it was.
• Restart a lesson from part 1 without losing your progress: in the lessons list, type r and the lesson's number.
• A speaking speed setting.
• Every screen is centred, and colours work in Safari and Firefox as well as Chrome.
• maestra web opens the web app from the terminal, in its own window.
• The web app now sends your practice to Maestra's server, as the terminal already did, so it can sync.

0.5.2 21 September 2026

A quick fix for the web app.

• Fixed a black screen in the web app.
• The web app no longer says it is downloading the Spanish speech model again when you already have it.

0.5.1 21 September 2026

A new look in the terminal.

• A full-screen Maestra. Maestra now uses the whole terminal window, with the phrase in the same place every time and the keys always at the bottom. When you quit, your terminal comes back exactly as it was.
• Readings show as pages of prose. t shows the English for the highlighted sentence and pauses the reading.
• Long screens such as Progress turn page by page, and the screen shows where you are.
• b goes back to the phrase before, with all its keys still working, so you can hear it again or change its grade.