Roost Social
Old school messages, by pigeon
Only for iPhone
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone
Every message takes flight. Watch your pigeon cross oceans and cities in real time to reach your friends. Collect birds, train your flock, and stay in the moment.
Roost brings back old school messages. You send a note, a bird picks it up, and it flies across the world to your friends. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird in the air, carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Watch yours and your friends birds fly in real time around the world. Be in the moment. Send something and go live your day. When your bird lands, it lands.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Catch birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes. Every one has its own speed based on their real speeds. Feed them, level them up, watch your flock grow.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Every delivery flies a real route across a real map. Track your bird as it goes. See where it is, how far it's come, when it's landing.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scroll. Just your people and the birds that carry your words. Add friends by username and keep your circle small and good.
TRAIN YOUR FLOCK
Quick mini games boost speed, have fun. A faster pigeon means a faster message. A better flock means a better rookery.
WEEKLY REWARDS
Log in for daily drops. Claim new birds from rotating events. Hunt for mythic birds in limited time releases.
Slow your messages down. Send them by pigeon.
Download Roost and launch your first flight.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more - Additional Language Support (and translation fixes) (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Russian, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Czech, Danish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish, Romanian, Korean)
- New Location Selector for Nests and Home (move your group chats more precisely)
- Care Game crash fix
- Home Birds not properly showing up at home fixed
- Many more improvements!
1.4.16 2 days ago
- Additional Language Support (and translation fixes)
- New Location Selector for Nests and Home (move your group chats more precisely)
- Care Game crash fix
- Home Birds not properly showing up at home fixed
- Many more improvements!
1.4.15 3 days ago
- Additional Language Support (and translation fixes)
- New Location Selector for Nests and Home (move your group chats more precisely)
- Care Game crash fix
- Home Birds not properly showing up at home fixed
- Many more improvements!
1.4.14 3 days ago
- Portuguese, French, Spanish, German, and English Support
- New way to discover training games
- Art Show starting soon
- Many bugs squashed
1.4.13 6 days ago
Roost-ers, One of our biggest updates with many under the hood fixes! Thank you for your patience!
- Introducing our Supporter/Founders Club
- Early Access for new Scratchpad features (background, stickers, brush size)
- Pin your favorite birds for easy access
- Scratchpad fix for messages that fill the whole screen
- Now you can go back to pen pals you accidentally skipped over while you were looking for your next pen pal
- Verification Badges to prevent impersonation
- Crash fixes for users having issues opening some conversations
- Game improvements for better scoring
- Optimizations for the Care game so it works more regularly
- Laying foundation for many other improvements coming over the next few weeks
1.4.11 10 Jul
Roost-ers, One of our biggest updates with many under the hood fixes! Thank you for your patience!
- Introducing our Supporter/Founders Club
- Early Access for new Scratchpad features (background, stickers, brush size)
- Pin your favorite birds for easy access
- Scratchpad fix for messages that fill the whole screen
- Now you can go back to pen pals you accidentally skipped over while you were looking for your next pen pal
- Verification Badges to prevent impersonation
- Crash fixes for users having issues opening some conversations
- Game improvements for better scoring
- Optimizations for the Care game so it works more regularly
- Laying foundation for many other improvements coming over the next few weeks
1.4.10 7 Jul
Roost-ers, One of our biggest updates with many under the hood fixes! Thank you for your patience!
- Introducing our Supporter/Founders Club
- Early Access for new sketchpad features (background, stickers, brush size)
- Now you can go back to pen pals you accidentally skipped over while you were looking for your next pen pal
- Verification Badges to prevent impersonation
- Crash fixes for users having issues opening some conversations
- Game improvements for better scoring
- Optimizations for the Care game so it works more regularly
- Laying foundation for many other improvements coming over the next few weeks
1.4.8 6 Jul
Roost-ers, One of our biggest updates with many under the hood fixes! Thank you for your patience!
- Introducing our Supporter/Founders Club
- Early Access for new sketchpad features (background, stickers, brush size)
- Now you can go back to pen pals you accidentally skipped over while you were looking for your next pen pal
- Verification Badges to prevent impersonation
- Crash fixes for users having issues opening some conversations
- Game improvements for better scoring
- Optimizations for the Care game so it works more regularly
- Laying foundation for many other improvements coming over the next few weeks
1.4.7 3 Jul
Roost-ers, One of our biggest updates with many under the hood fixes! Thank you for your patience!
- Introducing our Supporter/Founders Club
- Early Access for new sketchpad features (background, stickers, brush size)
- Now you can go back to pen pals you accidentally skipped over while you were looking for your next pen pal
- Verification Badges to prevent impersonation
- Crash fixes for users having issues opening some conversations
- Game improvements for better scoring
- Optimizations for the Care game so it works more regularly
- Laying foundation for many other improvements coming over the next few weeks
1.4.6 2 Jul
- New sorting of your rookery grid for quicker access to your favorite birdies
- "Your Turn" in Messages so you know when you haven't replied yet
- Added a close button to the friend view for easier closing
- Upgrade your pen pal friendships
1.4.5 23 Jun
- Another fix for missing pigeons
- Rename fix where sometimes users can't edit their bird's name
- Edit bio fixes where sometimes bird bio didn't save
- Pigeon leveling fixed. Displayed incorrect experience gained
- Various random fixes including crash fixes
1.4.4 18 Jun
- Fixes Energy not showing as filled up
- Fix lost birds
- Improved privacy for penpals
- Fix crash and issue related to petting your bird
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.3 16 Jun
- Fixes Energy not showing as filled up
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.2 12 Jun
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.1 12 Jun
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version
- Privacy fixes for penpals being rolled out
- Fixed crash from people with too many friends
- Added filter to compose message
- Support for reordering messages
- Longer games supported without crashing the app
1.4.0 9 Jun
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version (long messages were getting cutoff again! - I hope this is the full fix)
- Privacy fixes for penpals being rolled out
- Auto-Recall support slow rollout to automatically get your birds back
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.5 5 Jun
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version (long messages were getting cutoff again!
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.4 2 Jun
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in 1.3.0
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.3 2 Jun
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in 1.3.0
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.2 1 Jun
- Hotfix for some bugs
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.1 1 Jun
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.0 30 May
- Pen Pals have landed. Make new friends with pen pals around the world
- Renamed and redesigns the Friends tab to Flock tab (Join the Flock)
- Auto hide birds that are coming to you from your rookery
- Fixed Reply cutting off long messages
- Fixed speed leveling up. Sometimes users wouldn't see a level up
- Added accessibility for users with larger font can scroll on codex view now when looking at bird details.
- Some other random fixes
1.2.0 23 May
- Added ability to react to messages
- Added ability to swipe to reply to message
- Fixes group chat sending showing up on the map
- Fix for sorting your birds when you pick which to send
- Updated game to have easy, medium, and hard mode
1.1.3 20 May
- Urgent Hotfix on Group Chats not actually sending to the group
- Group chats are finally here! Add up to 10 friends to your nest
- Better messaging flow with bird selection after typing a message instead of before
- Adds notification toggles for users to decide what notifications they want to receive
- Adds bird bios, to allow users to give their favorite bird friend's their own bios
- Adds ability for users to see bios on other profiles by tapping bird for view
- Fix where mythic and epic birds not showing Codex logs
- Fixes recall for users bird's that are sent by other friends
- Fix for game modes not properly giving speed and wasting an energy
- Fix for gifts so users from older versions can obtain missed gifts
- Fix for flight paths for Australia to the US showing across Europe instead of the Pacific Ocean
1.1.2 18 May
- Emergency fix for location updating
- Fix for daily streak reward counter
- Send GIFs now in chat
- Updates how free birds are gifted to users
- Adds some optional chill music to the map screen to listen to while you watch your birds fly
1.1.1 15 May
- Additional Language Support (and translation fixes) (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Russian, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Czech, Danish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Turkish, Hungarian, Finnish, Romanian, Korean)
- New Location Selector for Nests and Home (move your group chats more precisely)
- Care Game crash fix
- Home Birds not properly showing up at home fixed
- Many more improvements!
more Version 1.4.16 2 days ago
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