Brandwidth Group Employee App
Empowering your team every day
Free
The Brandwidth App is your one-stop shop for all your internal business needs.
There are a wide range of growing features including:
• People - Find colleague contact details and see which office they are currently in.
• Boost - Celebrate colleagues with points and redeemable prizes.
• Tools - Access links to commonly used systems.
• Offices - See information about your offices like how to get there.
• Device Inventory - Identify and reserve test devices.
• Amber Alerts - Receive company messages and alerts.
• Speak Out - Share with your company using anonymous feedback.
• Avatars - Customise and view your Brandwidth World character!
• Medals - Gamify the experience with a set of collectable Medals.
• Calendar - Track Holidays, Birthdays and Social Events.
• Quick Polls - Get prompt feedback from your team.
• Policies - Request and track which policies your team members have agreed to.
• News - Read timely key announcements from your organisation.
more New Features:
• Pending Holiday Alerts - A new red indicator dot will highlight when there is leave pending approval within your team.
• Enhanced Offline Mode - Offline mode returns with a much improved and performant upgrade. Now covering the People, Team, Calendar, Offices, News, and Tools sections.
Improvements:
• Introduced a data fetch queue that ensures all data is fetched as promptly as possible after a token refresh.
• The people section no longer resets to the top after each data refresh.
• Massively improved the performance of the theming code.
• Improved reliability of refreshing profile images.
• Admin users are now hidden from the calendar.
• The loading screen is skipped if cached data exists.
• Brings the News section to more brands.
• Additional large improvements to the performance of theming throughout.
• Updated BWGWorld navigation and camera frameworks.
• Improved fetching of managers to avoid brief delay.
• Many general performance optimisations.
• Updated Unity to 6.3.18 for improved reliability.
• Higher quality text rendering used for user initials throughout the app.
• Added automatic removal of white hairlines from the top of some profile images at runtime.
• Improved description for when fetching new prizes.
• Current users in the devices section now show profile photos instead of initials.
• Added Dynamic Island safe area support to the poll screen.
• Updated the Speak Out section to better reflect the company.
• Add file protection support to new cached data.
• News images are now cached.
Fixes:
• Adds missing icon tint to Bank Holiday icon.
• Stopped dropdown text flickering when refreshing.
• Added a catch for a potential crash related to TFL data.
• Added a catch for a potential crash related to GP data.
• Added protection from a crash caused by trying to view a non-existent profile picture.
• Resolved a handful of potential SSL auth errors that can be caused by poor quality networks.
• Fixed a scenario where news is fetched instead of pipelines after a token refresh.
9.5 Jul 21
New Features:
• Bank Holidays - Automatically kept up to date from official sources!
Improvements:
• The Pride logo returns once more.
• Added “Pyjama” Hat option
• Added a new “Viking” Hat option.
• Account validation now happens much faster for subsequent logins.
• Updated Unity to 6.3.15 for improved performance.
• Updated Firebase Analytics framework.
• Added support for Crashlytics reporting.
• Made selecting hats easier.
• Changed oldest supported iOS from 13.0 to 15.0
• Optimised size of AI icon.
Fixes:
• Resolved an issue where calendar headers from future years could occasionally get hidden.
9.4 Jun 4
New Features:
• Team Section - A new section has been added which collates all the core information related to your team in one place.
• What’s New - So you don’t miss out; on your first check-in to the app after an update, get informed about the newest features relevant to you! In this update managers will be informed of the Team Section with an option to enable it.
• Image Zoom - Tap on any colleague’s profile photo, test device, or tool image icon to see the Full Screen version.
Improvements:
• Added a new brand theme.
• Added a new timezone to the clock widget.
• All Calendar views now includes profile photos for each event.
• Added the ability to hide the tools section.
• The Tools section now includes logos for each entry.
• The leaderboard admin view now includes profile photos for each event.
• Expanded auto re-auth token to all data types.
• Profile photos in the people section list now load super fast and get retained between sessions and with offline use.
• Updated the Weekly email copy for use group wide.
• Replaced the email calendar icon with a more generic one.
• Replaced the old Linked Icon in the email.
• Improved date format in the calendar view.
• Simplified the phrasing in the calendar view.
• Improved the performance of fetching Direct Reports.
• Optimised the leaderboard admin view.
• Upgraded the handling of profile imagery to be more consistent.
• Performance updates to reduce reloading imagery.
• Improvements to avoid any delays loading imagery.
• Boost Shop imagery has been re-envisioned with a more consistent design.
• Boost Shop imagery is now significantly faster to load and cached as you scroll.
• Boost Shop detail screens now show a lower res image while the full size is loading.
• The new prize widget now states the name of the prize.
• Added a clear image cache function to the settings.
• Improved the performance of the calendar section.
• Improved the performance of the people section.
• Tweaked the order of items in the main menu.
• Improved the reliability of fetching new leave data.
• The calendar view no longer resets to the top after each data refresh.
• Updated the scroller framework.
• Made selecting app themes easier.
• Updated contacts export description text and apply it automatically.
Fixes:
• Removed an old button for changing profile image.
• No longer show the Direct Reports title if all reports are deactivated.
• Fixed an issue when tapping a bonus profile icon would open an empty profile.
• Fixed a text render issue on the admin board in light mode.
9.3 May 14
New Features:
• Password Management - The login, account activation, and password reset screens now integrate with your device’s OS, offering benefits such as password suggestions, email autocomplete, and password retrieval.
Improvements:
• Updated the holiday integration to work with the newer backend.
• Added an extra email validation clause to login, activation, and password reset.
• Added improved support for message handling for account related functions.
• Refactored and optimised validation for login, activation, and password reset.
• The Account Activation screen now matches the login screen animations for easier text entry.
• Updated to Unity 6.0.68 for improved performance.
• Updated all frameworks.
9.2 Apr 10
New Features:
• New Prize Alert! - Don’t miss out on new additions to the Boost Shop with the new info card highlight on your menu screen. Tap for a shortcut into the shop.
9.1 Feb 24
Improvements:
• Added the 2026 filter to the boost feeds.
• Made loads more secondary data require auth and/or verification to view.
• Updated the animal adoption stats.
• Updated copyright information in emails.
• Updated email social icons.
Fixes:
• Fixed the logout button on the validation screen.
• Fixed a bug with ordering userData for the group in the visualiser.
9.0 Jan 8
New Features:
• Boost Shop Organisation - It’s now easier to locate or discover your next prize!
Improvements:
• Added support for lots more Emoji.
• Added a search function to the Boost Prize Shop.
• Added a sort function to the Boost Prize Shop to change the prizes to be in ascending or descending value order.
• Upgraded BWG AI Insights to a newer more reliable model.
• Updated all frameworks.
• Added scrolling to the Boost Stats screen to fit smaller screens.
• Improved the performance of the Boost Prize Shop.
Fixes:
• Fixed an image link in app emails.
8.9 11/26/2025
Improvements:
• Added the ability to hide your mobile number in your profile.
• Added the ability to hide your character’s mood t-shirt in settings.
• Updated the header gif in app emails to use new branding.
• Updated Unity to 6.0.58 for security fixes.
• Updated all frameworks.
8.8 10/10/2025
New Features:
• Backpacks - The first addition to customising your character in a long time. Choose whether to give your character a backpack or not!
Improvements:
• People now also show up in the BW World based on their booked leave data, and with no mood assigned.
• Now refetch leave data if token had expired when requested.
• When sending weekly roundups the app will now stay away while sending.
• Optimised the character asset.
• Added a new cowboy hat variant.
• Enhanced new starter boost message.
Fixes:
• Updated the email header graphic link.
• Fixed visual glitch with cowboy hat.
8.7 09/28/2025
Improvements:
• Cleaned up ordering and filtering and people list to avoid clashes between bamboo and app data.
• Updated all Unity packages.
• Handled behind the scenes Maconomy warnings related to missing emails for better reliability.
Fixes:
• Added a quick interim workaround for duplicate boosts occurring on newer OS versions.
• Fixed missing easter eggs…
8.6 08/02/2025
New Features:
• Emoji Expansion! - Finally! Check out the additional 296 most used emoji that the app now supports for those boosty messages!
Improvements:
• Avatars from all brands are now represented together in the World visualiser.
Fixes:
• Removed the border artefacts around the visualiser brand logo
• Fixed an issue with feature activation for device inventory when opening settings.
• Fixed initial department selection for first time users.
• Fixed first time users first launch feature set.
• Fixed first launch info panel display.
8.5 07/10/2025
New Features:
• Filters Filters Filters - Quickly find what you are looking for the addition of new filters across many app sections.
Improvements:
• Tweaked the App Store name slightly.
• Added a department filter to the people screen.
• Added an event filter to the calendar screen.
• Added a manufacturer filter to the device inventory screen.
• Tweaked the title on the info entry screen.
• Added a new setting to hide the calendar.
• Added a new setting to hide the device inventory.
• Refined some theme colours and configs.
• Added support for hidden admin users.
• Searching for people now also includes those from external platforms.
• Rebranded BWG AI Insights, and BWG Fund.
• Added support for unique department names per brand.
• Updated categorisation of some items in the settings.
• Password recommendation now at 8 characters minimum.
Fixes:
• Fixed some buttons in the settings in light mode.
8.4 07/02/2025
• Our pride logo is back to support this year’s Pride Month.
8.3.1 06/10/2025
New Features:
• Dev Pipelines - A new section has been added allowing your dev or production team members to easily monitor the build status of their pipelines. You can toggle this on in the settings if relevant to you.
Improvements:
- Added a new total value stat to the prize haul screen.
- Added an email alert for the Speak Out feature so that feedback can be responded to faster.
- Added a confirmation popup for admins when fetching leave data.
- Updated the increased number of trees per redemption.
- Updated the leadership department name.
- Added the ability to clear the notification badge from settings.
Fixes:
• Added the missing scroll to top function to the Prize Haul screen.
8.3 06/06/2025
New Features:
• Working With Me - Share extra insights about your interests, what you like about work, and the way to get the most out of you.
Improvements:
• Added a confirmation for when closing the personal info entry screen.
• Non-Brandwidth users now have their custom themes auto applied at login.
• Moved office map images to being provided by the server.
• Migrated office maps links to a more modern standard.
• Fetching new bamboo data now triggers a refresh of the people screen.
• Added a new Boost Prize Stat that shows the total donated to appeals.
• Moved the stats section to use a more dynamic future proof configuration.
• Sorted the list of departments alphabetically.
• Added a budget line to the boost prize chart.
• Added a new chart for average company mood by month.
• Added a new chart for company mood by month.
• Added a new chart for boosts given per month chart.
• Added a new chart average mood this month.
• Added a new Company Primary Office pie chart snapshot.
• Added a new Company Department pie chart snapshot.
• Refined UI showing chart data for an incomplete period of time faded.
• Refined the y scale of several charts.
• Improved the consistency of chart axis label colours.
• Updated text package.
• Optimised third party framework performance.
• Optimised safe area debugging code for performance.
Fixes:
• Fixed a couple of newer buttons not tinting in light mode.
• Fixed a calculation in the monthly charts.
• Fixed the horizontal * line not clearing on charts.
• Stopped the stats button from flickering.
• Fixed an issue with pronoun data being overwritten when you edit your data.
8.2 03/13/2025
New Features:
• TFL Integration - For our London based users you can now see live Tube status in the Info Cards at the bottom of the screen, helping make your journey to or from the office that little bit easier.
• What3Words Integration - Office profiles now include a What3Words address that can help you locate the exact position of an office entrance. Tapping the address will open the location in the W3W app if installed.
Improvements:
• Added a Lifetime points stat to the top of the Prize Haul screen.
• Launching the app now triggers a fetch of fresh Leave data of your manager and everyone who reports into you.
• Added a button to access the Boost Shop directly from the Prize Haul screen.
• Removed the red sash from prizes when viewed in the Prize Haul as it’s not relevant.
• Update the Alert Popups so they scale to show longer content.
• Refined the Info Panel code for faster performance.
• Updated the Info Panel to allow for a dynamic amount of screens.
• Account management emails are now sent from a new more succinct email address.
• Enabled 2025 actions to unlock medals.
Fixes:
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly opened the map app when tapping the empty space above an Office description.
• Fixed the uneven randomisation of the starting Info Card.
• Fixed the Leave button in light mode.
8.1 02/05/2025
New Features:
• Boost Prize Haul - Revisit all your historical prize redemptions in one place! Find this at the bottom of your profile card.
Improvements:
• Employee Contact cards and the People section list now show Leave icons for team members who have leave booked for that day.
• Boost Stats now shows plastic collected from prize redemptions.
• Better auto-refreshing layout of holiday content.
• The info panel at the bottom of the main menu now randomises start location between all 3 tabs.
• Tweaked chart sizing logic to vertically fit the labels more neatly.
• Changed the GP charts for 12 month rolling data instead of 24 months for better legibility.
• Slightly tweaked chart design removing the left border line.
• Expanded the vertical scale of the charts.
• Slightly improved the performance of the Boost Store.
Fixes:
• Fixed the News toggle colour in light mode.
• Fixed missing booked Leave data in the dynamic dashboard.
8.0 01/22/2025
New Features:
• New Branding - A new app icon, and new logos throughout the app.
• Brandwidth AI Insights - Each app launch let Brandwidth’s AI provide you with realtime insights into what is happening right now. So far this will either be about the team’s overall working location, or the weather at your office that day!
• Boost Prize Stats - See what good our team have done; trees planted, animals adopted, sustainable purchases, and team donations. Find this in the Boost Prize section.
Improvements:
• Support for regional Boost Prize stores.
• Tweaked the GP charts to only show the last 24 months.
• Increased the dynamic range of the GP chart scale.
• Deleted holidays are now correctly removed in the app.
• Employee holiday information now loads slightly faster.
• The weekly email tool now provides more information on the status of the send process.
• Weekly emails are processed faster.
• Consolidated some Boost prizes for faster performance.
• Enhanced the layout slightly on the menu info slider.
• Changed the chart month labels to letters to fit more in.
• Sped up the dynamic dashboard to show its first data in 0.3s instead of 5s.
• Support for displaying boosts in 2025.
• Updated Unity to 2020.3.53
Fixes:
• Updated all buttons that open links to work on iOS 18.
7.9 01/08/2025
New Features:
• Enhanced Holiday Integration - View enhanced and exhaustive leave information for your whole team! You can view this in every user’s profile, the company calendar, and the weekly email!
Improvements:
• Added a search function to the calendar where you can search by event name, employee name, and birthdays.
• Approved leave is now shown in the company calendar.
• Full Leave information is now shown in the weekly email.
• Added support for half days leave throughout all calendar based content.
• Added a refresh button to the calendar section.
• Added the ability to do a pull to refresh in the calendar section.
• Updated the leave integration to v2 for faster refreshing.
• Updated the weekly email to show exhaustive company leave data.
• Added extra permissions to also surface leave information for the US team.
• Holiday information is now held in the app database for significantly faster loading.
• Added a new admin button to refresh holiday data.
• Viewing a user’s profile card will sync their Leave data.
• Improved app build process to automate the encryption value.
7.8 05/14/2024
New Features:
• New Verification Process - New users are now shown extra information about their account verification status during their first login, giving them assistance and extra functions to help complete this.
• Brandwidth Group - Added a new Brandwidth Group theme, which is the default one used after first login.
• Direct Reports - Now see easily who reports into a specific person in their contact info.
Improvements:
• Subsequent logins will no longer prompt for data to be re-entered.
• News is now sorted by date order, and you can reverse the order.
• When editing your details your manager info is now retained.
• Updated the app icon.
• The list of possible managers is now sorted alphabetically.
• Updated splash screen.
• Removed old logs.
• Updated notification and text frameworks.
• Updated the email signature date.
• Added server side email enumeration protection.
• Improved position of logo on login screen.
• Even darker dark mode to take advantage of newer screen technology.
• Moved Tool & Process icons to server hosting.
• Added some new icons for tools.
• Added a user facing message for if you try to use the app after your account has been deactivated.
• Made the sort button easier to press.
• Added an option to hide the News section.
• Updated the leaderboard to use the more efficient list view.
• Updated the leaderboard screen to resize the headers as you scroll.
• The Offices section is now shown by default for new users.
• Increased the security level needed to access role data.
Fixes:
• Removed the unnecessary error message in the BW World scene.
• Toggling dark mode now updates the top nav bar colour.
• Prevent error when showing boost redemption popups.
• Fixed title font in Tools section.
• Fixed a potential error when setting a notification for the last Boost Monday of the month in the past.
7.7 04/12/2024
Improvements:
• Updated Bamboo integration.
• Filter out users by division.
• Updated the calendar icon on the Home Screen to always show the current year.
7.6 02/13/2024
Improvements:
• Updated the Boost Feed to include 2024.
• Updated to Unity 2022.3.17 for unity bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Implemented a big upgrade to the notifications system.
• Updated text packages for improved performance and reliability.
• Tweaked the positions of menu bar buttons.
• Changed the Bamboo warning to only show once per session.
7.5 02/06/2024
Improvements:
• Add new profile in the feed for Bruce.
• Add safe area support to the Boost Leaderboard.
• Improve spacing of Boost Shop title.
• Enhanced the bonus points email subject.
• Enhanced the birthday points email subject.
• Enhanced the monthly bonus points email subject.
• Enhanced the starter points email subject.
• Improved performance of opening the Brandwidth Fund profile.
• Slightly improved the performance of the Boost Feed.
• Updated frameworks for improved performance and compatibility.
• Removed old legacy experimental packages to reduce app size.
• Show the offices section by default.
• Prevented the people screen from jumping back to the top when new location data is fetched.
• Prevented location markers and profile photos flickering once loaded.
Fixes:
• Updated to the new Maconomy API versioning to fix the Holiday data fetch.
• Fixed a small glitch with the “1 left” banner in boost shop.
7.4 10/04/2023
New Features:
• Dynamic Islands support - App designs have been refined for devices with islands and notches.
• Bonus points - A chance to receive a bonus 25 points from Town Call challenges.
Improvements:
• Increased the darkness of Dark mode.
• Updated the Honey icon.
• Made it easier to see boost full givers.
• Updated to Unity 2021.3.21 for improved performance.
• Improved spacing for devices with notches.
Fixes:
• Fixed an issue causing the office map button to not hide when required.
7.3 04/12/2023
New Features:
• New People Section - View the most important area of your organisation in a more personal way.
Improvements:
• Changed the DE&I feedback recipient's group.
• Updated the font for one of the themes.
• Changed the reset password field to use the email keyboard.
• Refactored the boost shop for improved performance.
• Improved the layout of the boost shop.
• Made Boost prize images now load significantly faster.
• Refreshed the calendar icon, boost feed, and leaderboard for the year.
7.2 02/08/2023
New Features:
• Pending Holiday Alerts - A new red indicator dot will highlight when there is leave pending approval within your team.
• Enhanced Offline Mode - Offline mode returns with a much improved and performant upgrade. Now covering the People, Team, Calendar, Offices, News, and Tools sections.
Improvements:
• Introduced a data fetch queue that ensures all data is fetched as promptly as possible after a token refresh.
• The people section no longer resets to the top after each data refresh.
• Massively improved the performance of the theming code.
• Improved reliability of refreshing profile images.
• Admin users are now hidden from the calendar.
• The loading screen is skipped if cached data exists.
• Brings the News section to more brands.
• Additional large improvements to the performance of theming throughout.
• Updated BWGWorld navigation and camera frameworks.
• Improved fetching of managers to avoid brief delay.
• Many general performance optimisations.
• Updated Unity to 6.3.18 for improved reliability.
• Higher quality text rendering used for user initials throughout the app.
• Added automatic removal of white hairlines from the top of some profile images at runtime.
• Improved description for when fetching new prizes.
• Current users in the devices section now show profile photos instead of initials.
• Added Dynamic Island safe area support to the poll screen.
• Updated the Speak Out section to better reflect the company.
• Add file protection support to new cached data.
• News images are now cached.
Fixes:
• Adds missing icon tint to Bank Holiday icon.
• Stopped dropdown text flickering when refreshing.
• Added a catch for a potential crash related to TFL data.
• Added a catch for a potential crash related to GP data.
• Added protection from a crash caused by trying to view a non-existent profile picture.
• Resolved a handful of potential SSL auth errors that can be caused by poor quality networks.
• Fixed a scenario where news is fetched instead of pipelines after a token refresh.
more Version 9.5 Jul 21
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