Spelling Stream Changelog

Bug fixes & stability improvements.

• Bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements.

An easier way to set up Real-World Prizes

• Real-World Prizes, refreshed. Setting up the real-world rewards your child works toward now feels just like your spelling lists — a clear create button, a name-first flow, a tap-to-pick star cost, and a quick menu on each prize for edits.
• Friendlier empty screens. The rewards and prizes screens now greet you with a clean, consistent start-here look instead of a bare page.
• Smoother celebrations. Your buddy's victory wave stays crisp on every screen and the confetti clears itself cleanly.
• A gentle heads-up before Pro ends. The parent dashboard now reminds you before your subscription is about to lapse, so cloud sync and extra profiles don't switch off by surprise.
• Plus a round of behind-the-scenes improvements for a smoother, steadier experience.

Bug fixes & stability improvements.

• Bug fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements.

Meet Tic-Tac-Toe — our first play-against-the-AI game — plus a calmer practice flow and parent-area polish.

• Tic-Tac-Toe. Our first play against AI. Your child claims a square on the 3×3 grid by spelling the word they hear; first to three in a row wins the match, best of three takes the series. Three skill levels — on the easier ones the AI makes believable spelling slip-ups your child can catch and steal the square.
• Practice goes at your child's pace. After each word in Practice, your child taps Next (or Finish on the last word) to move on — no more automatic skip-ahead, so there's time to see how they did before the next word.
• A gentle tap in the parent area. The PIN and math keypads give a light tap as you type, with a stronger buzz on a wrong entry.
• UI refresh across the games, tests, and throughout the app.
• Plus a round of behind-the-scenes improvements across the games, cloud sync, and the reward shop for a steadier experience.

Smoother games, smarter Snake, faster between words, multi-device sync polish.

• Snake rebalanced — two copies of each target letter, fewer wrong-letter distractors, friendlier powerups, and respawns land close so kids don't chase letters halfway across the board.
• Snake speaks the word at game start — fixed the silent countdown bug, and removed the mid-game recap so you fly from one word straight into the next.
• Connect auto-advances after each correct word — no more "Next" tap, just like the other games.
• Adaptive frame rate (Snake, Connect, Letter Catch) — the games now self-tune to your device, so budget Android tablets stay smooth and iOS games don't chop when the CPU throttles.
• Voice input keeps working offline on Android — if the network drops, dictation falls back to your phone's built-in on-device speech recognition (Android 13+ with the English model installed).
• Multi-device families: active kid stays per-device — opening the app on the iPad no longer switches you to whatever profile the phone last used.
• Bigger games-grid tap targets on phone portrait — switched to a 2-column layout that fits all the games without scrolling.
• Home-screen sticker shadow — the otter (and any sticker buddy) now casts its full shadow without getting clipped at the edge.
• Android 15 polish — cleared Google Play's deprecated edge-to-edge warning.

Profile + cloud sync hardening, smoother game opens on iOS.

• Your profile names stay exactly as you set them — fixed a bug where a lapsed Pro subscription could rename your kid's profile to "Kid."
• Lapsed Pro lands kids on a visible profile — cold boot now snaps to the first visible profile instead of stranding kids on a hidden one.
• Account deletion is final — closed several edge cases where cloud or local data could resurrect a deleted account on the next sign-in.
• Free-tier one-profile cap enforced everywhere, not just on the Profiles screen.
• Snake: easier for younger spellers — distractor letter density cut roughly in half so targets are easier to reach.
• Smoother game opens on Ocean and Galaxy themes (iOS) — resized backgrounds so they don't stutter on the first frame.
• Cleaner dev/test output and tighter crash breadcrumbs.
• Behind the scenes: new crash diagnostics (MetricKit on iOS, ApplicationExitInfo on Android) so resource-related issues surface faster.

Sign-in, account deletion, and celebration fixes.

• Cloud sync sign-in connects on the first tap — Apple and Google sign-in no longer silently fail when a separate service hiccups.
• Account deletion works even if your Pro subscription has lapsed — the deletion path no longer required an active Pro claim (a COPPA / GDPR right, never gated).
• App no longer freezes after signing in to cloud sync — fixed an infinite render loop in the profile listener.
• End-of-game celebrations no longer flicker between two emoji bursts — the per-word and completion celebrations now coalesce cleanly.
• Quieter sign-out — stray permission errors during cleanup are now silenced.

Faster cross-device sync and feel polish.

• Faster cross-device sync (Pro) — edits get one last chance to push to the cloud before iOS suspends the app, so other devices see them sooner.
• Backspace haptic on phone & tablet portrait — the leading press now ticks the same as every other key.
• Profile score ring fixed — no more "NaN%" in a rare edge case when totals were zero.
• Status bar hidden app-wide for a cleaner kid-mode look.
• Behind the scenes: tightened crash-report breadcrumbs for stricter privacy.

Cross-device sync, haptic feedback, redesigned Profile screen, cheaper stickers.

• Seamless cross-device sync (Pro) — set up a profile on your phone and the names, custom themes, stickers, and word lists are instantly ready on the iPad.
• Haptic feedback — subtle vibrations on keyboard taps and answer reveals make practice feel tactile and responsive.
• Stickers cost less, permanently — Common 20⭐ (was 30), Uncommon 40⭐ (was 60), Rare 60⭐ (was 100). Collecting the rares is now actually within reach.
• Redesigned Profile screen — new Score Rings visualize the latest test result, and the "Words to Practice" section highlights exactly what they missed most recently for targeted review.
• Snappier launch — reduced startup time so they're practicing in seconds.
• Better battery life — optimized loading paths cut idle drain.
• Stability polish across the Word Search word bank, the Flashcards finale, and other small corners of the app.

Per-row list menu, sticker boards that sync, a cleaner iPad Reward Shop.

• One-tap row menu on the active list — the new ··· button opens Edit, Preview Audio, and Delete in a single tap.
• Sticker Boards sync across devices (Pro). Your kid arranges stickers on the iPad, opens the iPhone, same masterpiece. Buddy drag positions follow them too — including the auto-reset when a new sticker buddy is equipped.
• Reward Shop redesigned for iPad landscape — Common, Uncommon, and Rare tiers all fit on screen. No scrolling.
• Buddy celebrations clear of the notch and Dynamic Island — the sticker pops in cleanly from the sides or bottom for a smoother reveal.
• Polished celebration preview in Settings — only the style you tap fires, with a quicker reset and a buddy cheer alongside the confetti.
• Cleaner sticker cards — retired the lock badge on un-affordable stickers; the dimmed silhouette already says it.
• Tap hints on "Real Prizes" and "Sticker Board" tiles on iPad.
• Free-tier devices self-heal a missing active list on launch — tap the home tile and you're practicing in two seconds.
• Quieter Pro restore — if the App Store thinks you already own Pro, we restore your subscription silently instead of showing an error.
• Profile polish — deleted profiles stay deleted across devices, deleting your last profile is now blocked, and switching after a delete picks the top profile.
• Layout and stability fixes across iPad and Android.

Try Pro free, scan your kid's word list from a photo.

• 7-day free trial on Pro — try every feature free for a week, then $1.99/month or $19.99/year. Cancel anytime.
• Scan word lists from a photo. Open Add Words → Scan, point your camera at a printed sheet, and we'll pull the words straight in.
• New per-word ⋯ menu — one tap for Preview Audio, Edit, or Delete.
• Polished celebrations — slot-machine star reveal and burst animation when kids earn stars.
• Cleaner, friendlier empty-list screens across the app.
• Fixes: list-deletion undo, ALL-CAPS scanned words, paywall trial copy for returning subscribers.

Stability & sync fixes for Pro families.

• Connect, Snake, and Letter Catch no longer freeze after switching apps or locking the device.
• Spelling Lists: tap the checkmark to unassign a profile from a list — it now behaves like a checkmark should.
• Pro subscribers no longer get briefly downgraded during rare service hiccups.
• More reliable cleanup of expired Pro data.

Smoother editing, deletes that stay deleted.

• Edit List screen scrolls smoothly even on long lists, and editing a row no longer makes the layout jump.
• Duplicate words are now flagged with a clear message instead of silently disappearing.
• Lists, profiles, and rewards you delete on one device no longer reappear on another — and stay gone for good.
• Practice and Final Test no longer skip words on rapid taps, and word audio plays in full before advancing.
• "Live" terminology on Spelling Lists replaced with the clearer "Assigned to."
• Word Scramble and Missing Letter now always match the spoken word to the letters shown.
• Connect orbs drift more predictably; Snake no longer feels stuck on walls.

Bug fixes & polish.

• Fixed paywall close button placement on iPhone.
• Fixed wizard freezing after switching apps and coming back.
• Fixed purchase spinner spinning forever after cancelling sign-in.
• Mic and audio now stop properly when the phone locks.
• Faster, more reliable subscription handling.
• Better screen-reader and accessibility support.
• Stability improvements across games and Parent Center.

Clearer Parent vs. Kid roles, friendlier game intros.

• New handoff slide at the end of the setup wizard makes it clear that parents add words and kids play.
• "Parent Dashboard" renamed to "Parent Center" across the app for consistency.
• Test and Practice empty states now point straight to Parent Center instead of a dead-end.
• "I'm Ready!" button on every game intro is now pinned to the bottom — no more scrolling to find it.
• Word Scramble and Word Search filter accidental unwanted words.
• Per-list voice recordings — recordings are now scoped to the list they belong to, so editing one list never affects another.
• Behind-the-scenes reliability: better star tracking, cleaner sign-out for shared devices, and improved crash diagnostics.

Reliability fixes and small improvements.

• More reliable Cloud Sync for Pro users.
• Faster game completions.
• Parent Center keyboard and "Forgot PIN" flow polish.
• Small bug fixes and behind-the-scenes cleanup.

Cloud Sync reliability.

• More reliable Cloud Sync setup on fresh installs and first-time sign-ins.
• Better diagnostics behind the scenes to help us find and fix any remaining sync hiccups faster.
• Smaller bug fixes across the Parent Center.

Quality-of-life for parents — plus a PIN safety net.

• Forgot PIN? New recovery option — solve a math problem to clear and reset your PIN from the Parent Center.
• Cloud sync reliability improvements for Pro users.
• Smoother list-creation wizard with clearer Free vs. Pro info.
• Refreshed Parent Center layout with a quick "Go Pro" upgrade path.
• Smaller fixes across the keyboard, the home screen tour, and sign-in.