Slowcial Media. Make Friends and Stay Close. Watch your pigeon cross the world in real time with your messages. 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/
Favorite app, wish it had a dedicated tablet version
HavinALark
This app has quickly become my all-time favorite way to keep in touch with my friends! My one complaint is that, because it doesn't have a dedicated tablet version, some of the app's features don't work as intended. For example, if I am using my tablet's attached keyboard to type a letter to a friend or pen pal, I'm unable to create separate paragraphs in the same letter. Because I like to write longer letters, this makes using the app a little more difficult (typing long letters on my phone isn't as easy, and I feel bad sending letters that appear like a "wall of text" to the recipient). Other than this issue, I absolutely adore this app and am so delighted by its existence.
Location selector
CubeOfRubik
Love the app, but there are a few frustrating things about it. The new location selector has potential, but it is very sensitive. It’s hard to scroll through locations without accidentally clicking on one, it took me probably 30 different tries just to scroll through options and select a location that didn’t come up right away in the search options. Also, there are 249 stamps you can get, but the Bouvet Island one and some of the other remote islands are glitched, so you’ll probably only be able to get 247 or so if that’s what you’re playing for. Also, the new location updates created some sort of bug where the app doesn’t recognize certain places that it should have available, so you’ll either get a lot of error messages if you can select a location, or you won’t be able to select a location at all, even if it was a previously available area from past versions of the app.I’ll update this review if a new update changes what I mentioned here
Great Idea, but Full of AI Garbage
Tyrannidae
This app is an incredible app from a purely functional standpoint. Watching my birds fly around and send messages to my pals is really endearing. I'm socially anxious, but the pen pals are set up to reduce a lot of the usual friction found in other pen pal apps (no photos, no real names, etc.), and the app seems like it'll be less popular to scammers due to the slow pace. I also appreciate how the pacing generally limits the number of times I'm checking for messages each day.However, and that's a BIG "however", this app is chock full of AI images. Every bird, every stamp for visiting a new country, etc. Has been AI generated. You can pay real money for these birds, and now the dev has the gall to charge $50 USD for a "supporter pack". $50. For an app full of "art" they probably spent close to nothing on. I hope the money they raise goes to replacing the assets with ones made by a real artist.As a consumer and artist, I would happily prefer fewer birds with handmade art than hundreds of AI slop birds and snails with feet. Please consider hiring an artist.
Cute concept, but some details bug me a bit
Reviewer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think this app is super cute! I enjoy collecting birds, and it’s neat they fly to people at different speeds!There are a few things about this app that irk me, though:- When trying to send a first message to penpals, I’ve repeatedly run into a bug that deletes everything I’ve written. I suppose it’s my fault for trusting that I can write messages straight into the *messaging app*, rather than drafting them elsewhere.- I dislike the system for finding penpals. Randomly showing 3 people and refreshing for new ones frankly reminds me of gambling. I wish it were possible to select penpals more intentionally and filter based on shared interests/location/etc. Refreshing over and over to find penpals I’m interested in makes me feel exhausted and fed up. I also dislike having to choose which of the three I like most while knowing that the other two will disappear.
- Nicknames are finally here! No more confusion for who you are talking to with Nicknames
- Art Contest Starts Soon, get ready artists!
- Bigger Group Chats (Nests) with 21 people in a single nest now!
- Update to Photos and Flutter for better instant messages
- Filters for Penpal searching, find penpals from all over the world
- PenPal Matching improvements
- Flappy Classic is back and tuning for Relax mode
- Update to some of the games for better gravity ;)
- Moved the little carrot on pen pal letters so you can more easily tap it
- FIxed location updating for users with location on and home mode on
- New Pen Pal Experience starts to roll out (yes, you finally can add what languages you speak!)
- Pen Pal Filters are starting to get tested in this update and will roll out slowly to Supporters
- Turn off daily challenge notification (Sorry it took so long! + Actually works now)
- Photo messaging early access for supporters and founders
- Updated Codex to set the stage for big changes (Language Support is here)
- Fix for smaller screens selecting locations
- Bug fix for shop loading slower than expected
- Duplicate fixes
- Crash fixes
Version 1.4.27
The developer, Logan Mendelsohn, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Logan Mendelsohn
Size
167.6 MB
Category
Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
