- Redesigned home screen with new icons and a cleaner layout
- Polished feedback experience — smoother animations, sharper typography, and reliable syncing
- Fresh intros for Basic Strategy and Card Counting lessons
- Bigger cards, satisfying haptic button taps, and a refined success flash in gameplay
- Swipe from the screen edge to go back anywhere in the app
- Premium tools no longer show lock icons or badges once unlocked
- Fixed an initial-assessment bug and dozens of small UI improvements
- Trainer can now grade your bets against a target bet spread, with tolerance controls, instant feedback, bet accuracy stats, and a detailed review chart.
- Strategy Charts now include deviation comparisons, so you can compare count-based strategy changes across different rule sets.
- Profile and Premium got a refresh, including an annual plan option, clearer subscription status, and easier subscription management.
- Weekly challenges and achievement shortcuts now guide you straight to the right lesson, drill, or challenge with a highlighted “GO” target.
- Support threads are smoother, with faster refreshes, better image previews, and improved navigation.
- Gameplay polish and reliability fixes, including better skip behavior around count quizzes and safer resume handling when custom rule sets need to be downloaded again.
Improved app previews
Improved app previews
* New in-session settings for Evaluator and Trainer: adjust deck resolution, speed, time limits, bankroll, and Trainer options without restarting.
* Richer Trainer feedback: tap feedback banners to review the hand, correct action, true count context, chart history, and active deviations at that count.
* Better deviation practice with an “Active at TC” filter, improved true count handling, and more stable high/low count sampling.
* Smoother counting drills: a visual tap-to-skip card sweep timer, larger skip button, cleaner hand transitions, and fewer interruptive popups.
* Improved shoe summaries with both current-shoe and cumulative Trainer accuracy/quiz stats.
* Support threads now have a refreshed design and support image attachments.
* Extra ruleset downloads now show clearer install/completion status and continue more gracefully in the background.
* iPad and setup flows have been polished to reduce accidental dismissals and improve readability.
What's New
- Now on iPad — Card Counting Academy is universal; the full app now runs natively on iPad.
- New Counting + Basic Strategy Trainer — A combined drill that tests both skills at once.
- Ruleset Explorer — Compare how different rules affect basic strategy and card counting EV, side by side.
- Modernized EV Simulator — Refreshed design, mistake tracking, and rule customization right on the simulator page.
- Strategy Chart Comparison — New tab for comparing basic strategy charts across two rulesets, with a diff list
below.
- Deviations, Everywhere — Full deviations list with EV gain and EV-vs-TC charts alongside every deviations chart.
- Currency Support — Choose your local currency with built-in search; chip values and bets convert automatically.
- Better Bet Spreads — Tap any number to customize, vertical sliders per true count, clearer strategy rules.
- 5 New Achievements — Plus smarter achievement progress and direct navigation to the challenge you need.
- Smoother Sliders & More Quizzes — Fixed slider lag throughout the app and added more true count quizzes.
- Lots of polish — Fairer feedback on deviations, fixed chart display bugs, improved state tracking, and many more
fixes.
Add restore feature
New features:
- Introducing Perpetual Practice mode for all intro and practice lesson across Basic Strategy and Card Counting: allows you to play indefinitely with the same feedback, but less hassle (no need to exit and return)
UI/UX improvements:
- Fewer popups
This release makes training clearer, faster, and more personalized.
- New users now begin with a shorter Skill Assessment and improved results guidance.
- Added chip visuals in training to make outcomes like winning, losing, doubling, and splitting easier to understand.
- Improved EV Play with difficulty settings, and better betting support.
- Added tappable EV vs. True Count charts in deviations training and reference.
- Improved contrast and size of some very small text for readability.
- Added language support for 15 other languages in addition to English.
- adjust level difficulties
- add 2 new levels per lesson for basic strategy
- add 1 new level per lesson for card counting
- improve EV Play end of shoe reports
- add bucket fill to strategy chart lessons
- make strategy chart lesson progress persistent across attempts
Various new card counting lessons, new home screen layout, streak notifications, and other improvements.
- Improve structure of the app so that the best features are easier to find
- Revamp style
- Update logo
- Minor bugfixes
- Some UI/UX improvements
Player Profile & Progression System
- New profile accessible from the home screen, merged with the streak button
- 9-tier leveling system from Novice to Casino's Worst Nightmare, powered by XP from achievements, daily logins, and weekly challenges
- 55 achievements across 9 categories with progress tracking
- Compositional avatars that grow more elaborate as you level up
- Daily login XP bonuses with a 7-day escalating cycle
- Rotating weekly challenges for bonus XP
- Stats dashboard: hands played, practice time, streaks, speed records, and evaluation scores
- Achievement unlock banners
Improved UI/UX
Minor fixes
The dealer no longer plays during basic strategy training levels, accelerating learning.