What is new in Axo.

Axo 1.0 is out for iPhone. It is free to download.

• Axo 1.0 is on the App Store for iPhone, on iOS 16.4 or later.
• The app is free to start. Plus and Pro are in the app.

Paths made from a book now look like the book, and the Paths tab is sorted.

• A Path made from a book shows the book’s cover on its card.
• The Paths tab sorts your Paths onto three shelves: Topics, Books and Your documents. An empty shelf does not show.

A Path you share with friends now shows who is in it at this moment. Axo can remind you to learn, and you can sign in without an email code.

• On a shared Path, you see which friends have it open now. Their faces stand on the trail where they are.
• Path cards show the faces of the friends you learn with. More than three faces fold into a count.
• A daily reminder at the time you choose, on days you have not learned yet. It names your next Bite.
• A streak alert in the evening when a streak of two days or more is about to end.
• A Notifications screen with one switch for each kind of notification.
• Sign in with Apple or Google. It is the same account that the email code makes.
• Connected accounts in Settings: every way into your account, with a row for each one.
• You can block a person and report a person.
• On an iPad or a wide screen, the app keeps one column that is easy to read.

Three things to earn and one thing to share: badges, a level, endings that grow, and friends you can learn with.

• Badges: seven ladders of five badges each (Bites, Streak, Paths, Keep Sharp, Perfect Bites, Stream and Burrow), and five secret badges that you find by doing.
• Levels. Your level comes from all the XP you have earned, and each level asks for a little more than the last.
• Your profile is a scoreboard: your level, your numbers, your last 12 weeks and your badges.
• An avatar that you build for your profile.
• Three endings. A Bite, a unit and a Path each end with their own moment, and each one is bigger than the last.
• Friends. Everyone gets a username. Two people are friends only when both say yes.
• A friends board for the day and the week, with nudges and kudos. A nudge or a kudos reaches your friend’s phone when Axo is closed.
• Learning together: invite a friend to a Path, and each of you gets a copy to learn side by side.

A Bite is no longer one fixed shape. It is built from a bank of blocks, so the lesson fits what you learn.

• A Bite is seven blocks from a bank, built to one of eight recipes. No two Bites in a row have the same shape.
• Scenes. Axo presents an idea with a picture while his voice says the words. Every Bite has a scene and a read.
• The method follows the subject. Axo names what kind of learning a Path is, one of twelve kinds, and picks the blocks that fit it.
• Axo reads your goal from what you typed, and tells you what the Path leaves out on purpose.
• Flashcard piles on Keep Sharp. The cards come from your Bites. Quick piles are always there, and you can make your own.
• Stream clips are reels now: one clip for each teaching block, 30 seconds or more, at normal speed.
• Onboarding is three steps: the topic, how much you know, and your goal.

A feed you swipe, made of short clips from what you are learning. It has its own tab.

• The Stream: a full-screen feed of short clips in Axo’s voice, built from the Bites you have heard.
• Every clip is one complete thought that makes sense without the lesson around it.
• A part of each day’s clips is new ground: a term from your Burrow or a Path that Axo offered you next. Each plan has a daily amount of these fresh clips.
• The Stream has its own tab.

When a word in a lesson makes you curious, you can follow it.

• Hold a word in any read to pick it up. Hold and drag to take a phrase.
• Save the term to your Burrow for later, or build a Path from it.

A question you see again is not the same question. This is what makes review a test of memory and not of recognition.

• A question that comes back is asked another way: new words, new wrong choices, another question type, or an answer that you type.
• What you have mastered follows your account to a new phone.
• Every Keep Sharp card has “I don’t know”. It opens a quick reteach from the lesson, and it works with no connection.
• A Path made from a document teaches toward the goal of the document: what the reader must be able to do, decide or avoid.
• The voice says money in full: “$2M” is read as “2 million dollars”.

Axo has three plans. Free stays free.

• Plus and Pro plans, with a paywall and a Plan card. Free has limits on new Paths, Keep Sharp and voices.

More ways to bring your own material, and a review session that asks before it tells.

• Teach me a book: name a book, and Axo finds it, researches it and builds a Path from it.
• Links and photos work as sources. EPUB files and scanned PDFs work too.
• A long document continues: Axo can build the next part of it as a new Path.
• Keep Sharp is rebuilt: one short session, drills that ask before they tell, and practice by Path.
• Nine narration voices to choose from. The warm voice stays Axo’s own.
• Path settings: delete a Path, build it again, or change its reading level.
• Axo checks a topic before it plans a Path, so a one-fact question gets an answer and not a course.
• The voice says symbols as words: “212°F” is read as “212 degrees Fahrenheit”.
• An Appearance setting: Auto, Light or Dark.
• You can delete your account in the app.

Axo offers you what to learn next, and a topic Path opens one unit at a time.

• Next for you: Axo suggests new Paths from the ones you already have.
• A topic Path plans four units, shows the first, and adds the next one when you tap.
• Your first and last name on the You tab.

The first build of Axo for iPhone: ask for a topic or bring a document, and learn it in Bites.

• Ask Axo for any topic, and Axo builds a Path of short lessons called Bites.
• Axo checks what you meant before it builds.
• Unit checks, a capstone at the end, and a Path complete moment.
• Axo reads each lesson in his own voice, and the words light up as he reads.
• “Help me learn this” on every question.
• The second door: paste or upload a document. The Path is built from the document alone, and it cites the document.
• A Bite saves your place, and the answer choices change order on each attempt.
• Sign in with a code sent to your email. Your progress syncs to your account.