- Peak Inside Factum, Before You Dive In: A new interactive walkthrough lets you explore the app's core features — creating groups, watching stories, browsing events, and connecting fitness apps — all in a guided demo mode. Jump back in anytime from Settings with "View Tutorial." - Smoother Sign-Up Experience: Getting started is now easier than ever. A beautiful intro carousel walks you through what the app offers, and the registration flow is faster with real-time email verification and clearer steps along the way. - More Reliable Notifications: Push notifications are now delivered more consistently, even when the app is running in the background — so you never miss an important update from your groups or events. - Stories That Just Work: Fixed an issue where stories could briefly show a black frame when swiping through. The story carousel now loads more reliably and transitions feel smoother. - Refreshed Look & Feel: Subtle design updates across buttons, screens, and the terms agreement page give the app a cleaner, more polished appearance. - Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements: Profile updates, activity loading, event displays, and location screens all work more reliably. Overall stability and speed have been improved across the app.

- Peak Inside Factum, Before You Dive In: A new interactive walkthrough lets you explore the app's core features — creating groups, watching stories, browsing events, and connecting fitness apps — all in a guided demo mode. Jump back in anytime from Settings with "View Tutorial." - Smoother Sign-Up Experience: Getting started is now easier than ever. A beautiful intro carousel walks you through what the app offers, and the registration flow is faster with real-time email verification and clearer steps along the way. - More Reliable Notifications: Push notifications are now delivered more consistently, even when the app is running in the background — so you never miss an important update from your groups or events. - Stories That Just Work: Fixed an issue where stories could briefly show a black frame when swiping through. The story carousel now loads more reliably and transitions feel smoother. - Refreshed Look & Feel: Subtle design updates across buttons, screens, and the terms agreement page give the app a cleaner, more polished appearance. - Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements: Profile updates, activity loading, event displays, and location screens all work more reliably. Overall stability and speed have been improved across the app.

- Peak Inside Factum, Before You Dive In: A new interactive walkthrough lets you explore the app's core features — creating groups, watching stories, browsing events, and connecting fitness apps — all in a guided demo mode. Jump back in anytime from Settings with "View Tutorial." - Smoother Sign-Up Experience: Getting started is now easier than ever. A beautiful intro carousel walks you through what the app offers, and the registration flow is faster with real-time email verification and clearer steps along the way. - More Reliable Notifications: Push notifications are now delivered more consistently, even when the app is running in the background — so you never miss an important update from your groups or events. - Stories That Just Work: Fixed an issue where stories could briefly show a black frame when swiping through. The story carousel now loads more reliably and transitions feel smoother. - Refreshed Look & Feel: Subtle design updates across buttons, screens, and the terms agreement page give the app a cleaner, more polished appearance. - Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements: Profile updates, activity loading, event displays, and location screens all work more reliably. Overall stability and speed have been improved across the app.

- Faster App Experience: The app loads quicker and feels more responsive. Images and videos load instantly, and stories appear right away with improved prefetching—so you spend less time waiting and more time in the flow. - Background Music in Stories: Background music no longer stops unexpectedly, ensuring soundtracks play smoothly from start to finish. Leaderboards: Display issues have been fixed so rankings and competition standings show correctly. Sharing leaderboard results is now more reliable and seamless. - Instant Group Home Events: Events on the group home screen now load instantly, allowing users to jump in without delay. - Blur Effects in Stories: Story videos and images now use subtle blur effects for a smoother, more polished viewing experience. - Enhanced Profile Screen: A cleaner layout with general UI improvements for a better overall experience. - Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements: Overall stability and performance enhancements across the app.

- AI Story Summaries: Your groups stories now come with custom summaries of all the days action courtesy of the new story summary. - Public Story Sharing: Share your stories with anyone, even without an account! Perfect for inspiring friends and family with your fitness journey. - Enhanced Story Maps: Dive deeper into your performance with new map statistics displaying speed, heart rate, and power data throughout your route. Check it out in map flyovers. - First Ride Recognition: Celebrate new riders with a special badge displayed on their profile headshot. - Improved Event Discovery: Find exactly what you're looking for with new activity type filters for browsing previous events. - Streamlined Flows: Enjoy faster, more intuitive group and event creation with refined workflows and helpful confirmation dialogs when converting personal stories to group stories. - Fresh Leaderboards: Pull-to-refresh support keeps you updated with the latest rankings and competition standings. - Bug Fixes & Performance: Enhanced stability and performance improvements for a smoother experience throughout the app.

- You can now view your activity stories in Flyover Map mode for a more immersive experience - All personal activities imported from connected apps now support story creation, including the ability to upload photos, videos, and add awards - Story cards now wiggle when new stories are added, making it easier to spot what's new - You can close a story by swiping right on the first one in the list, giving you a quicker way to move through content - Personal activity graphs got a refresh to help you better understand your workouts at a glance - The leaderboard for small groups with fewer than six members now includes animation and an improved interface - We've improved how stories are handled on group and personal home screens to deliver better performance - Notification animations are now smoother and more consistent across the app - The story thumbnail design has been reverted to the previous version based on your feedback - We've removed outdated Zwift information to keep everything clean and relevant - The route planner now filters routes more accurately when you're setting up an event - General polish has been applied throughout the app to improve the overall user experience

- You can now view your activity stories in Flyover Map mode for a more immersive experience - All personal activities imported from connected apps now support story creation, including the ability to upload photos, videos, and add awards - Story cards now wiggle when new stories are added, making it easier to spot what's new - You can close a story by swiping right on the first one in the list, giving you a quicker way to move through content - Personal activity graphs got a refresh to help you better understand your workouts at a glance - The leaderboard for small groups with fewer than six members now includes animation and an improved interface - We've improved how stories are handled on group and personal home screens to deliver better performance - Notification animations are now smoother and more consistent across the app - The story thumbnail design has been reverted to the previous version based on your feedback - We've removed outdated Zwift information to keep everything clean and relevant - The route planner now filters routes more accurately when you're setting up an event - General polish has been applied throughout the app to improve the overall user experience

- You can now view your activity stories in Flyover Map mode for a more immersive experience - All personal activities imported from connected apps now support story creation, including the ability to upload photos, videos, and add awards - Story cards now wiggle when new stories are added, making it easier to spot what's new - You can close a story by swiping right on the first one in the list, giving you a quicker way to move through content - Personal activity graphs got a refresh to help you better understand your workouts at a glance - The leaderboard for small groups with fewer than six members now includes animation and an improved interface - We've improved how stories are handled on group and personal home screens to deliver better performance - Notification animations are now smoother and more consistent across the app - The story thumbnail design has been reverted to the previous version based on your feedback - We've removed outdated Zwift information to keep everything clean and relevant - The route planner now filters routes more accurately when you're setting up an event - General polish has been applied throughout the app to improve the overall user experience

- You’re now able to discover and join public groups, follow friends or other athletes. - Personal stories automatically generate important metrics from your activity. - Want to use a GPX, TCX or Fit file for a new event? No problems we now support importing these from your mobile device of choice when adding a route. - We added improved group permissions to allow group admins to decide on whether a group is discoverable or not. - Implemented controls to allow you to approve individual follows. - Improved appearance and performance of stories. - Updated UX on home sheet and group home.

- You can now follow other users and join public groups but with all the security controls you would expect from Factum including approving followers, setting group permissions during creation and being able to block users if need be. - We’ve improved the group navigation to make it simple to see the next event or be able to navigate to see all upcoming and past events in one place. - When syncing a missed event or personal activity we will now automatically populate the route name if it matches a previous activities route. - Like the group story but want a personal touch? You can now create personal stories with just your photos and videos including longer individual video length. - Whenever you create a personal story it automatically includes all your highlight stats as part of the story. - We’ve improved your privacy by being able to hide sensitive locations from other Factum users in event maps such as your home or office.

- We’ve been working hard and have rebuilt your profile from scratch to make it a destination. It includes all your stats, favourite stories and all imported activities and Factum events. Tap on your profile photo on the home screen to take a look. - One of our more requested features, notification history is here! See all your notifications for event invites, mentions in group stories, missed activities and more all in one place. - We’re modernising our signup process and moving to email from phone number. If you’re an existing member you will be prompted to provide an email address if you have not done so already. - You’re now able to change your attendance in past events so if you turned up but hadn’t set your status to in you will be included in story leaderboards, event attendees and story awards. - Added details on how to have your Zwift rides and runs show in Factum!

- We’ve been working hard and have rebuilt your profile from scratch to make it a destination. It includes all your stats, favourite stories and all imported activities and Factum events. Tap on your profile photo on the home screen to take a look. - One of our more requested features, notification history is here! See all your notifications for event invites, mentions in group stories, missed activities and more all in one place. - We’re modernising our signup process and moving to email from phone number. If you’re an existing member you will be prompted to provide an email address if you have not done so already. - You’re now able to change your attendance in past events so if you turned up but hadn’t set your status to in you will be included in story leaderboards, event attendees and story awards. - Added details on how to have your Zwift rides and runs show in Factum!

- We’ve been working hard and have rebuilt your profile from scratch to make it a destination. It includes all your stats, favourite stories and all imported activities and Factum events. Tap on your profile photo on the home screen to take a look. - One of our more requested features, notification history is here! See all your notifications for event invites, mentions in group stories, missed activities and more all in one place. - We’re modernising our signup process and moving to email from phone number. If you’re an existing member you will be prompted to provide an email address if you have not done so already. - You’re now able to change your attendance in past events so if you turned up but hadn’t set your status to in you will be included in story leaderboards, event attendees and story awards. - Added details on how to have your Zwift rides and runs show in Factum!

- We’re proud to launch support for Apple Health kit! For those of you with Apple Watches you can now log all your activities and have them contribute to leaderboards, achievements, group stories and events! - Want to share a group story to folks who are not members of the group? You can watch a group story in a dedicated sheet without them needing to join the group! Never fear we continue to honour all privacy controls of the group. - When joining a new group you now get a beautiful welcome screen with an overview of the group and details of the privacy settings. - Want to sync a group event route to your Garmin? Now you can regardless of whether the route was created in Strava, Wahoo or Garmin. - Want to change the start time on a repeat event? We got you. - UX improvements across the app. - As per usual we crushed some bugs.

- We’re proud to launch support for Apple Health kit! For those of you with Apple Watches you can now log all your activities and have them contribute to leaderboards, achievements, group stories and events! - Want to share a group story to folks who are not members of the group? You can watch a group story in a dedicated sheet without them needing to join the group! Never fear we continue to honour all privacy controls of the group. - When joining a new group you now get a beautiful welcome screen with an overview of the group and details of the privacy settings. - Want to sync a group event route to your Garmin? Now you can regardless of whether the route was created in Strava, Wahoo or Garmin. - Want to change the start time on a repeat event? We got you. - UX improvements across the app. - As per usual we crushed some bugs.

- We’ve updated the Story mix so that you can like, mute, share & save to your phone. - Want to see the story mix in full screen and find dragging down the group list a realdrag? Tap the story mix and bingo, you’ve minimised the group list. - When you minimise the group list the audio in story mix will play automatically and when you show the group list again it will be muted. - Group story event maps are now based on your ride data, not the first person in the group to upload theirs. - Want to really show off those climbs and or descents? We’ve added an elevation graph to your Group Story event map. - Polished up the gif scaling in group story awards. - Fixed many bugs especially with regards to importing event data from Garmin & Wahoo.

- We’re created group story awards! Choose one from our library or create a custom award with your choice of gifs, emojis or photos. Whether it’s that one person in the group who made it happen or it was the group as whole, give them an award so they know how awesome they are. - For those of you into road cycling we’ve introduced themes in group stories. Sick of the default look and feel of a story? For the month of January we’ve got a Tour Down Under theme that is applied to your group stories. Don’t worry we will be adding plenty of more themes specific to the time of year and event type. - For those of you in Australia we’ve got a TDU challenge to win TACX water bidons. Sign up and complete the challenge and we will ship you a great looking Factum branded bidon. - We’ve improved the Story Mix look and feel so that all your great group photos and videos look as they should. - Updated the Strava integration to comply with Strava’s new API requirement.

- We’re created group story awards! Choose one from our library or create a custom award with your choice of gifs, emojis or photos. Whether it’s that one person in the group who made it happen or it was the group as whole, give them an award so they know how awesome they are. - For those of you into road cycling we’ve introduced themes in group stories. Sick of the default look and feel of a story? For the month of January we’ve got a Tour Down Under theme that is applied to your group stories. Don’t worry we will be adding plenty of more themes specific to the time of year and event type. - For those of you in Australia we’ve got a TDU challenge to win TACX water bidons. Sign up and complete the challenge and we will ship you a great looking Factum branded bidon. - We’ve improved the Story Mix look and feel so that all your great group photos and videos look as they should. - Updated the Strava integration to comply with Strava’s new API requirement.

- The group story event map now has animated elevation metrics based on the location of the polyline. - Updated the video trimming logic so you can now return to the media picker and it maintains the previously selected photos and or videos. - Resolved an issue where the group story was not ordering the photos and videos in oldest to newest order to tell the story from start to finish. - Updated the media picker language and colours.

- Been a little confused as to how many photos or videos you could add to a group story? Us too so we refactored the group story so that you can add up to 45 photos and 5 videos of 20 seconds can be shared to each group story. - As part of refactoring the group story we updated our media picker to show how many photos and or videos can still be uploaded to the group story. - Of course we fixed some bugs and made some minor quality of life improvements.

- Ever forgot to schedule an event in Factum and wished you could just travel back in time so you contribute to an awesome group story? Us too. Initially we tried really hard to create a time machine but when that didn’t work we pivoted and built the Missed events feature instead. As soon as you upload your activity to Garmin, Wahoo or Strava you’ll be notified and have the option to create a missed event for an existing or new group. It’s been our most requested feature so far and we’re stoked to finally make it happen! - We came, we saw, we squashed some bugs.

- Whilst our event map looked great in a group story it was based on the event route or activity which was pretty boring so we’ve updated it to use connected activity data from Strava, Garmin or Wahoo to give you an animated view of your route and the key metrics from the event! Thank you, thank you, i know it’s wonderful. - The Monthly Group Achievements are now distinct with a with a custom leaderboard theme. - We refactored profile pictures so that no matter where in the app you see them you can tap on them to take you to the user’s public profile. - We improved some corner case connected fitness app data bugs that were causing issues and squashed some bugs that really should have been caught earliy.

- Anyone up for a challenge? We’re shipping group leaderboards where you can compete with your fellow group members for most distance and elevation over the week and month! - Like group stories and events but wish you could see who went the fastest or put out the most Watts per kilo during an group ride? Us too so we’ve built in live leaderboards into group story. - No doubt you will want to give a like to the winner of the top speed story leaderboard or your favourite photo in a group story. You can now tap the thumbs up to show your appreciation. - We updated the story playing experience to improve handing out likes and made adding photos and videos a breeze. - If you haven’t connected Wahoo or Garmin to Factum we display a tip when viewing Leaderboards or Story Leaderboards to help you connect them up so you can always take part in the fun.

- Wahoo!!!! For those of you using Wahoo devices we now support them natively in Factum. You can create new events using your Wahoo workouts. - Onboarding now includes the ability to connect your favourite Fitness App to Factum, be it Garmin, Wahoo or Strava when you first sign up. - As per usual we kept crushing those bugs to keep things running smoothly.

- Wahoo!!!! For those of you using Wahoo devices we now support them natively in Factum. You can create new events using your Wahoo workouts. - Onboarding now includes the ability to connect your favourite Fitness App to Factum, be it Garmin, Wahoo or Strava when you first sign up. - As per usual we kept crushing those bugs to keep things running smoothly.