• Fixed a crash when opening Apple Music features while running on a Mac • Fixed a crash while uploading a profile photo • Players who left a league no longer keep a place in the standings • Push notifications are now retried when they hit a temporary failure, instead of being dropped • Added App Attest attestation for a more secure connection to our servers

• Learn BandJam by playing it: the six-slide tutorial is now an interactive one that plays a real round in a demo league. Submit a song, vote, see your results, and read the analytics, all before you sign up. Replay it any time from Settings, under Support. • Change your mind about a guess: guessing a player on one song no longer hides them from every other song's picker. Players are grouped into ones you have and haven't guessed, and picking someone again just moves your guess. • Scroll back through chat: league and crew chat now load older messages as you reach the top, so your history stays reachable instead of stopping at the most recent messages. • Wrap up a bucket league: admins can now set a round limit on a running Theme Bucket league, so you can plan a finish without emptying the crew's shared bucket. • Fresh themes: Theme Bucket leagues now prefer themes your crew hasn't played yet, so a second bucket league doesn't replay the first one's rounds. • The submit screen now describes the rules actually in force, instead of telling every league that songs can't repeat across rounds. • The same recording off a remaster or reissue is now caught as a duplicate. Live and acoustic versions are still allowed. • A player who leaves during voting no longer breaks the round. • Fixed the results Interactions list reordering itself on every load. • Fixed push notifications never arriving for some users, invite counts that never cleared, duplicate playlists when players submitted at the same moment, and YouTube submissions failing after a token expired.

• GIFs in chat: League and crew chat now have a built-in GIF picker. Search for one, tap it, and it sends. • Know before you open the app: A count of what's waiting on you now appears on the app icon, covering songs to submit, votes to cast, and unread chat. It clears as you catch up. • Longer chat messages: Chat is now 500 characters instead of 280, matching the limit already used for comment replies. • Sharper deadline countdowns: Countdowns now show hours and minutes alongside days, so a deadline 47 hours out no longer reads as "1 day". A deadline that has passed says so instead of showing "0 hours". • Fast Forward explains itself: Ending a phase early now tells you what the schedule will look like afterwards before you confirm, so closing submissions early no longer quietly widens the gap before voting. • Clearer submission rules: Leagues that don't accept YouTube links no longer mention YouTube on the submit screen, instead of advertising it and explaining the restriction only after a paste was rejected. • Read state that follows you: Chat read state now syncs between your devices instead of living only on the device that read the message. • Fixed leagues that could never be started. • Fixed crew unread counts not appearing until you visited the Crews screen, and a quiet league's unread indicator being crowded out by chat-heavy leagues. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• See what needs you at a glance: new indicators point you to leagues with a song to submit, a vote to cast, or unread chat, plus a badge on your waiting invites. • Tap links right in chat: URLs you paste into league or crew chat are now tappable, so you can open them with a single tap instead of copying the text. • Hear every song during listening time: in scheduled leagues, songs submitted as YouTube links now appear during the listening period, so Spotify and Apple Music members can play them too. • Clearer "Generating playlist" status while a round's playlists build, instead of buttons that aren't ready yet. • Fixed a Scheduled "Generating playlist" card that could hang after a missed round transition. • Fixed tick stranding and a phantom listening phase in Scheduled leagues. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Fast Forward a Round: everyone already submitted? League admins can now end the current phase of a Scheduled league early instead of waiting on the clock. Skip an inter-round break, close submissions, open voting, or wrap up voting. Choose whether the rest of the schedule stays put, shifts by whole days to preserve your cadence, or pulls back by the full time saved. • Sign In with Email: sign in with just your email address. We send you a link, you tap it, and you're in. No password to remember. • Fixed: Scheduled leagues now tell members when voting opens. Previously you were told the playlist was ready and then never heard that voting had actually started. • Fixed: Scheduled leagues now advertise their real progress. Browse, invite details, and crew league lists were stuck showing "Round 1 of N" for the life of the league. • Sign-in error messages no longer reveal whether an email address already has an account. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Change Start Date: Move a Scheduled league's start date any time before round 1 opens. Every upcoming round shifts with it, preserving your window lengths and inter-round breaks, including any per-round dates you customised. Available from the home tab's pre-start card and from Edit League. • Fixed reordering rounds in a Scheduled league: the dates now stay with the slot and the themes move between them. Previously the dates travelled with the round, pushing out the apparent start date and letting rounds run in the wrong order. • Fixed leagues created from a saved template with Scheduled pacing never starting. Their rounds were created without a schedule, so the league never advanced. • Leagues that haven't started yet now show their start date rather than "Round 1 of N", and open on the correct card instead of a spinner. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Spotify Popularity Standings — See where everyone ranks by their average Spotify popularity, with the Hitmaker and Crate Digger called out at the top and bottom of the league. • More Words of Praise — Every kind word left on your songs now shows, not just a few. Tap any comment to jump straight to that round's full results. • Editable Deadline Time — Change a league's daily submission-deadline time after it's started; future rounds re-snap automatically. • Easier Submitter Guessing — Optionally limit the "guess the submitter" list to players who actually submitted that round. • Hold Comments Until Results — Optionally keep a submitter's own comment hidden from voters until the round's results are in. Plus a batch of bug fixes and polish.

• Scheduled Leagues: Run a league on a fixed schedule. Set how long submissions and voting stay open, add an optional listening period before voting opens, and put breaks between rounds. Rounds advance automatically at the times you choose. • Submit by YouTube Link: Add songs that aren't on Spotify by pasting a YouTube link. Voters tap through to YouTube to listen. On by default for new private and crew leagues. • Bucket Mode Options: Cap the total number of rounds, and optionally remove each theme from your crew's bucket after it's used. • Fullscreen Charts: Expand the points and voting-heatmap charts and rotate to landscape for a closer look. • Submission comments now allow line breaks. • Fixed notification taps sometimes leaving you on the previous screen. • Additional bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Updated YouTube buttons to use the official YouTube branding, per YouTube API Services guidelines. Added YouTube API Services references in the privacy policy and terms. • Improved push notification reliability so notifications recover automatically if your push registration is cleaned up server-side. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Fixed a layout issue where the Crew detail screen rendered wider than the screen on iOS 26, clipping tabs, stats, and buttons off both edges. • Newly-joined crews now show their avatar and banner immediately without needing an app restart.

Fixed song previews flickering and failing to play on the voting screen.

What's new in BandJam 1.8.0: • Song Previews in Voting: tap any submission while voting to hear a 30-second preview. • Compact Results View: toggle a tighter layout on enriched round results when you want to scan a long round at a glance. • Catch-up What's New: the popup now shows every release between the version you last opened and the current one, grouped by version. • Bucket leagues now show the theme-bucket count on the Rounds tab.

bug fixes

• Recent Results: A new carousel on the league Home tab gives you quick access to your most recent past rounds — tap any card to see the full results breakdown. • Rounds Tab Redesign: The Rounds tab now leads with Past Rounds, with Upcoming rounds tucked into a collapsed header for a cleaner browsing experience. • 25 new prebuilt category themes in the Category Bank. • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

• Photo Prompts: add image prompts to round categories in private and crew leagues. Edit, replace, or remove the prompt photo on upcoming rounds, and round cards now show a photo indicator so you can spot picture-prompt rounds at a glance. • Theme Bucket for Crews: a new crew-league mode where rounds are minted dynamically from a shared bucket of themes instead of being scheduled up front. • Reply Threads: reply to voting and submitter comments on completed rounds to keep the conversation going. • Hide Round Themes: a new option to hide themes on round cards. • Hide Voting Results: a new setting to hide voting results until the round completes. • Easier Crew Invites: new "Invite to Crew" entry point on profiles, and invite push notifications now deep-link straight to your Invites tab. • League Finder Toggle: toggle on full leagues so you can browse them too. • Bug fixes and stability improvements throughout.

• Smarter Apple Music playlist matching: studio recordings now win out over live versions, remixes, and covers. When a song can't be matched, you'll see a list of skipped submissions instead of having them silently dropped. • Tutorial and What's New popups now appear on cold launches when you're already signed in (e.g. after an App Store update), so you won't miss what's changed. • Guesser and guessed-player names now display correctly in enriched round results. • Fixed an issue that could push round deadlines an extra day past the configured deadline hour during phase transitions.

What's new in BandJam 1.6.0: • Richer results: Enriched results now show who guessed wrong on each submission, not just who got it right. Result labels are clearer too. • Smarter warnings: Get a heads-up before submitting a song by an artist someone else already picked, and another before submitting votes without guessing every submitter. • Cross-device vote drafts: Vote drafts now sync through your account instead of staying on one device — switch devices mid-round without losing your progress. • Voting polish: Tap anywhere on a voting row to pick your guess. Initials avatars now show for photoless guessers. Song search clears and album art loads when you enter the change-submission flow. • Support BandJam: Added a Ko-fi link in Settings if you'd like to chip in to support development. • Bug fixes & improvements: Return key now dismisses the keyboard instead of inserting a newline. Multi-line comment fields restored with return-to-dismiss behavior. Playlist buttons gray out when a playlist is unavailable. Your cached user refreshes after creating a league.

• Fixed comment character count overlapping the text field • Fixed one-artist-per-round to correctly handle multi-artist tracks • Bug fixes and stability improvements

• 50+ new categories added to the category bank, including "Unexpected Collaborations", "New Song, Old Tricks", and many more • Longer comments: voting comments now support up to 500 characters, submission comments up to 1,000 • Chat @mentions now display correctly on your own message bubbles • Rounds with no submissions are now skipped automatically • Apple Music playlists continue creating in the background if the timeout dialog appears • Notification deep links now navigate back correctly

What's New in 1.5.0 Crews — Group your leagues and players together. Create private leagues that are automatically shared with your crew, and prevent song reuse across leagues with lineage protection. Bring Your Leagues — Link existing leagues to a crew from Edit League → "Link to Crew." Bug Fixes • Commissioners can now poke players • Apple Music timeout handling — see a clear error instead of a hang • Chat notification preferences persist across restarts • Songs-per-round can be changed mid-round • Fixed a bug where starting a round could silently fail

### New Features - **Optional Down Votes** — League admins can now enable down-voting for submissions. Standard up-only voting works great for casual leagues, but competitive leagues often want a way to signal that a submission really missed the mark — not just that others were better. Down votes give those leagues a sharper tool for separating the crowd favorites from the misfires, and since it's opt-in, casual leagues stay unaffected. - **Spotify Popularity Analytics** — Two new analytics cards have been added to League Analytics: *Hitmaker* (highest Spotify popularity) and *Crate Digger* (lowest Spotify popularity). A recurring question in any music league is whether members tend to submit well-known tracks to play it safe, or go out on a limb with deep cuts. These cards make that dynamic visible at a glance and add a fun meta-layer to post-round discussion. - **Voting Patterns Heat Map** — League Analytics now includes a heat map visualizing when members cast their votes across rounds. Leagues live or die by participation, and admins previously had no way to know whether members were voting early, scrambling at the deadline, or quietly dropping off. The heat map makes engagement patterns easy to spot so admins can nudge members at the right time. - **Persistent Submission Comments** — Submission comments are now stored in a dedicated `SubmissionComment` collection in Firestore, so they persist across rounds and are no longer tied to the submission document lifecycle. Comments have always been one of the best parts of a round — the back-and-forth about a song choice is half the fun — but they were being lost when rounds closed. This keeps that history around so members can look back at the conversation long after voting ends. ### Improvements - **Song Search UX** — The search field label has been updated to make it clear that searching by artist name or album is supported, not just song title. ### Bug Fixes & Performance - Fixed league and player analytics not correctly accounting for in-progress voting rounds. - Fixed image caching issues, a timer memory leak, and voting view render performance on iOS. - General performance optimizations across iOS and Android. - Firestore security rules updated to cover the new `submissionComments` collection.

New Features - Editable Max Member Count — Admins can now change the maximum number of players allowed in a league at any time. The cap can't be set below the current member count, so no one gets accidentally locked out. - One Artist Per Round — Enable this setting to ensure no two players submit songs from the same artist in a single round, keeping the listening experience more varied. - Disable Submission Comments — Admins can now turn off the optional comment field on song submissions, useful for leagues that prefer to let the music speak for itself. - Remove Rounds — Admins and commissioners can now delete rounds directly from the round editor, making it easier to clean up mistakes or restructure a league mid-season. - Sort & Search — Finding your leagues is now easier with sorting options and a search bar when browsing your league list. Improvements - League standings and stats now persist correctly when a league completes, so your profile stats and historical results are always up to date. - Round progression is more reliable, and the app now captures ISRC identifiers for submitted tracks to improve accuracy in results and analytics. Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue where the submission guess pool was incorrect in leagues with multiple tracks per round. - Fixed the league home tab not showing the updated member count immediately after saving changes — you no longer need to leave and re-enter the league to see it refresh. - Fixed a bug on Android where opening the app would overwrite your custom profile photo with your Google account picture, causing your avatar to appear differently across platforms. - Fixed member avatars getting permanently stuck on a loading spinner when a profile image couldn't be loaded — they now correctly fall back to the default avatar.

Fix small issue in editing existing league descriptions

* Added toggle via `Edit League` to disable negative metrics under the Stats tab. * Renamed a statistic from "Most Hated" to "Most neglected" song. * Increased max character count in league descriptions from 200 to 500.

* New feature: templates! Snapshot an existing league to create a template of it, and use that template to create new leagues with the same settings. * Add league settings to limit max votes per song. * Added running analytics reports to the "Stats" tab of leagues. * Add ability to edit round order & details through "Rounds" tab. * Add app version to bottom of settings page.