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Changelog

Everything she has learned since August.

She first walked onto a screen on 20 August 2026, and there have been 39 releases since. Updates install themselves while she is off screen, so whatever is at the top of this list is almost certainly what you already have.

1.4.0
Papa, and the first release from fikar.app
1.3.0
Four more languages: Bhojpuri, Urdu, Odia and Assamese. Thirteen in all.
1.2.2
Windows stopped calling her an unknown publisher.
1.2.1
She says good night in her own language, not in Hindi.
1.2.0
She asks three questions on first run instead of one: language, what to call you, how much fikar.
1.1.0
The chappal. Ignore her long enough in Nani Mode and it comes off the foot.
1.0.3
The words you rewrite follow the language she is speaking.
1.0.2
The browser-based sprite maker is gone. The app builds your mother itself now.
1.0.1
Packaging fixes from the first day of people installing it.
1.0
One point oh. Everything above, on both Mac and Windows, and steady enough to hand to strangers.
0.9.28
Windows updates itself too, so the install command is a one-time thing.
0.9.27
Give her your timetable and she works around your classes and meetings.
0.9.26
Mac and Windows rebuilt to one order of thought, so both behave identically.
0.9.25
The call-home nudge stopped repeating itself, and never lands at night.
0.9.24
After bedtime the only thing she raises is sleep.
0.9.23
She stopped escalating at an empty chair. Ignoring her only counts if you are there.
0.9.22
The phone symbol on the call button stopped rendering as an emoji.
0.9.21
Updates install themselves in the background, while she is off screen.
0.9.20
Give her your mother's real number and the call button dials it.
0.9.19
Quiet hours. She sleeps from 4am to 9am, as mothers do.
0.9.18
Ghar pe call added to the summon menu, so you can ask her for it yourself.
0.9.17
One more of those, for people still using her after two months.
0.9.16
That counting reduced to nine fixed words, so it cannot ever carry anything about you.
0.9.15
Anonymous counting of whether people keep her, disclosed on the privacy page.
0.9.14
Her entrance always starts at the edge of the screen now, never halfway in.
0.9.13
Import your own Fikar: give her your own mother's face.
0.9.12
Onboarding that waits for you, and an address change you can hear her use.
0.9.11
Every line she says, read and rewritten by hand, one conversation at a time.
0.9.10
She used to greet you with everything at once when you woke the machine. Now she waits her turn.
0.9.9
The daily nudge to ring your real mother.
0.9.8
She notices what you actually did and answers accordingly, instead of saying the same thing either way.
0.9.7
Beti goes first in that question. It was the wrong way round.
0.9.6
She started remembering the conversation, and asked whether to call you beta or beti.
0.9.5
She stopped repeating herself, and her hello got a heart.
0.9.4
Sleep lectures that read the actual clock, summons that know what time it is, and Nani Mode learned to scold twice.
0.9.3
Her greeting and her first question arrived at the same moment and talked over each other.
0.9.2
She only ran on the machine she was built on. This is the release that let anyone else use her.
0.9.1
She was arriving off the edge of the screen on some displays.
0.9
The first one. She walks on, asks you to drink water, and goes away again.

Every date here is the day that version actually went out, taken from the repository as it was written at the time.

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