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What each release brings, and the thinking behind it. Follow along with the RSS feed, or see every change in the changelog.
Shijro in Spain's Spanish and Portugal's Portuguese
Shijro has Spanish for Latin America and for Spain, and Portuguese for Brazil and for Portugal. What changes between them, and how the app picks one.
Translating Shijro into 19 languages, and what the AI could not fix
I translated Shijro with AI models and read the Urdu and Sindhi myself. The model mattered less than I expected. Most of what went wrong was in my own code.
What do you call your mother's brother? Relatives in 19 languages
English has one word for four different uncles. Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese and Thai do not. How Shijro names your relatives in each language it speaks.
What’s new in Shijro 3.0: your language, and a family that opens on its tree
Shijro 3.0 is in 19 languages, opens straight on your family tree, colours and labels your close relatives, and lets you add a parent, partner, child or sibling from anyone on the tree.
What’s new in Shijro 2.2: an easier tree to read, and relatives named properly
Shijro 2.2 redraws the family tree so couples, brothers and sisters are easy to tell apart, names relatives the way people say them, and tells you how anyone in the family is related to you.
Why I built Shijro
A family history written by hand over years, passed from house to house until the original was lost, and children who can no longer read their grandparents' language. Why Shijro exists.