WC Predictor is now Rivory: the same app and the same account, with more seasons to play. If you played the 2026 World Cup with us, your brackets, standings and World Cup recap are still here. If the app asks you to sign in after this update, use the same email, Apple or Google account you used in WC Predictor. Passwords are retired: email sign-in now uses a one-time code. New in Rivory: Today: one page for what's due next, what's in play and how your crews are doing. NFL: Weekly Picks, Probability Picks, Season Predictions, Season Lab, Power Rankings, Almanac and Score History. NBA: Season Predictions, Power Rankings and tier lists for the 2026–27 season. Champions League: Matchday Picks and the league-phase predictor. Europe's top leagues: Matchday Picks and final-table forecasts. Crews: play games together with standings for each, one chat with photos, polls and reactions, and direct messages in your Inbox. Rivory Plus: an optional subscription for unlimited Season Lab scenarios and custom Power Rankings and tier list names and colours. Core gameplay and entries stay free. The World Cup home-screen widgets and Live Activities have been retired.

Tournament Wrapped — your season, told as a story: - When the final's scores settle, Wrapped opens from Home: your boldest calls, your scoring peak, your season identity, and the verdict on the predictions only you made. - Every group gets its own Wrapped: the final podium, the title race, the biggest late climb, and the boldest call among the leaders — private to members. - Share your recap as a printed-almanac card, straight from the story. The final, treated like the final: - The championship match gets its gold dressing across Home, the Schedule, and your widgets. - A one-time celebration crowns the champion the first time you open the app after the result — their badge earns its new star. - The third-place and final matchups now show the real nations everywhere the moment the semifinals decide them. Plus: - Match tips open only when a matchup is truly set — no more tipping placeholder fixtures. - Reliability and analytics fixes across Home, Schedule, and the auth flow. Know your rivals: - Tap any predictor on the Match Tips boards for a redesigned profile: filter their record by matchday or knockout round, see their recent form, their boldest calls, and how the crowd voted on every match. - "Vs You" shows where a rival's picks split from yours, and who won each split. - Your Position now finds your best bracket on every global board, even thousands of ranks deep, with your percentile of the field. - Smoother boards: tapping to stop a scroll no longer opens a row by accident, and load failures offer Try Again instead of an empty screen. Your brackets, front and center: - Bracket cards now show live numbers in every game mode: banked points, max points left, and your global standing (Top N%). - See where each bracket ranks inside your groups, right on the card — one group inline, several behind a tap. - Eliminated nations grey out in your Champion and Final Four picks, so a bracket's health reads at a glance. - Tapping a locked bracket opens its score breakdown first — accuracy, category points, and your knockout run — with your full picks one tap away. - Filter the bracket list by game mode, any time. v1.6.2 is built for the knockout rounds: - Home follows the tournament: a live hero with the match in progress or tonight's kickoff and your stake in it, plus per-mode Global Rank boards — your best bracket in every game mode with rank, percentile, and points. - Group pages, restructured: your brackets lead, a podium tops the leaderboard, and the Group Forecast shows every bracket's chance to win the group (with top-3 / top-5 odds and best path to win) — now in every group mode. - Tap the match-impact banner to see which brackets are riding on each side of tonight's match, and how far they need their nation to go. - Fairer scoring visuals: modes scored on how far nations advance now show a check when your nation got there — no more red X for a correct call — plus a per-round knockout results matrix with flags. - The Almanac follows the knockout: reach odds for the nations still alive, current-round opponent paths, and group-stage history tucked into an archive. - Eliminated nations' flags retired from the Home ticker and the launch splash. - Live Activities now start automatically at kickoff — no need to open the app first. Everything's still free — unlimited brackets and groups, full scoring, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Know your rivals: - Tap any predictor on the Match Tips boards for a redesigned profile: filter their record by matchday or knockout round, see their recent form, their boldest calls, and how the crowd voted on every match. - "Vs You" shows where a rival's picks split from yours, and who won each split. - Your Position now finds your best bracket on every global board, even thousands of ranks deep, with your percentile of the field. - Smoother boards: tapping to stop a scroll no longer opens a row by accident, and load failures offer Try Again instead of an empty screen. Your brackets, front and center: - Bracket cards now show live numbers in every game mode: banked points, max points left, and your global standing (Top N%). - See where each bracket ranks inside your groups, right on the card — one group inline, several behind a tap. - Eliminated nations grey out in your Champion and Final Four picks, so a bracket's health reads at a glance. - Tapping a locked bracket opens its score breakdown first — accuracy, category points, and your knockout run — with your full picks one tap away. - Filter the bracket list by game mode, any time. v1.6.2 is built for the knockout rounds: - Home follows the tournament: a live hero with the match in progress or tonight's kickoff and your stake in it, plus per-mode Global Rank boards — your best bracket in every game mode with rank, percentile, and points. - Group pages, restructured: your brackets lead, a podium tops the leaderboard, and the Group Forecast shows every bracket's chance to win the group (with top-3 / top-5 odds and best path to win) — now in every group mode. - Tap the match-impact banner to see which brackets are riding on each side of tonight's match, and how far they need their nation to go. - Fairer scoring visuals: modes scored on how far nations advance now show a check when your nation got there — no more red X for a correct call — plus a per-round knockout results matrix with flags. - The Almanac follows the knockout: reach odds for the nations still alive, current-round opponent paths, and group-stage history tucked into an archive. - Eliminated nations' flags retired from the Home ticker and the launch splash. - Live Activities now start automatically at kickoff — no need to open the app first. Everything's still free — unlimited brackets and groups, full scoring, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Introducing Second Chance: - When the group stage locks, start a fresh knockout-only bracket — call the entire knockout run on a projected Round of 32, with its own leaderboard. - Fill it your way: pick by hand, or let GAFFER (our model) simulate the bracket for you, then set your knockout-goals tiebreaker. - Clearer results: the group-stage score breakdown now shows the points each pick earned, plus a total for every group. - The schedule fills in knockout matchups as the nations lock into them. - Leaderboard and launch-screen polish throughout. Still free — unlimited brackets and groups, full scoring, no ads, no in-app purchases.

v1.6.0 is our biggest update yet — your tournament, live: - A live Home matchday hub: the in-progress match, all of today's fixtures with scores, your global leaderboard rank, and a scrolling ticker of the nations still in it. - The Almanac: tournament history, records, and forecasts in one place. - Richer match previews: probable starting lineups on the pitch, plus recent head-to-head meetings. - Smarter goal alerts for the matches you follow — braces, hat tricks, and scoring milestones — with a one-tap "follow every match" toggle. - The R32 Knockout Simulator, right from Home: play out any path without touching your real bracket. - Group qualification badges (clinched / qualified / eliminated), pinned favorites, and plenty of polish. Everything's still free — unlimited brackets and groups, full scoring, no ads, no in-app purchases.

New in v1.5.1: • A smoother Groups "Discover" tab • The Matchday widget now flips to live matches automatically • Refined follow + notification confirmations • Visual polish across the app v1.5 brings a redesigned match experience and a more social group stage: • A redesigned match center — preview, live, and post-match in one place, with lineups, stats, and player ratings. • Match-by-match comparison: see how everyone in your group called each fixture, side by side, marked right or wrong as results land. • Smarter Quick Standings: during the group stage the global leaderboard waits until every group finishes before showing rankings, so early all-square tables don't mislead. • A live Max that drops as teams are eliminated, so your ceiling stays honest. • Owners can post Group Notes as an announcement to every member. • Tap any group or profile photo to open it full-screen. • Pick the teams you're rooting for and get notified when they play. Plus a schedule that opens on today, refreshed standings cards, and lots of polish and bug fixes.

v1.5 brings a redesigned match experience and a more social group stage: • A redesigned match center — preview, live, and post-match in one place, with lineups, stats, and player ratings. • Match-by-match comparison: see how everyone in your group called each fixture, side by side, marked right or wrong as results land. • Smarter Quick Standings: during the group stage the global leaderboard waits until every group finishes before showing rankings, so early all-square tables don't mislead. • A live Max that drops as teams are eliminated, so your ceiling stays honest. • Owners can post Group Notes as an announcement to every member. • Tap any group or profile photo to open it full-screen. • Pick the teams you're rooting for and get notified when they play. Plus a schedule that opens on today, refreshed standings cards, and lots of polish and bug fixes.

The World Cup is underway — and you can still get in. • Late Brackets: Missed kickoff? You can now start or finish a bracket after the tournament begins and compete in private groups that allow late entries, through the end of Matchday 1. • Live tournament experience: Follow real-time group standings and knockout results as the action unfolds. • Smarter Match Tips: Calls now come with betting-market odds and personalized insights into your prediction record. • Clearer Results: Your accuracy now reflects how you're doing on the games played so far, with a full per-stage breakdown. • Plenty of performance and stability improvements.

v1.4 adds two new ways to play before kickoff: - Match Predictor mode: choose a bracket path where you pick each group match outcome and WC Predictor derives the tables for you. - Match Tips: make quick picks on individual fixtures from Schedule without creating a bracket. - My Predictions: review upcoming tips, finished results, and your accuracy stats. - Schedule controls: hide tip sections when you want a cleaner fixture list. We also tightened group and leaderboard compatibility by prediction mode and polished match preview context.

Fixes a bug that could list the same team twice in a group-stage prediction. If any of your brackets were affected, you'll see a 'Re-check your group picks' prompt on your dashboard — please give it a quick look before predictions lock. Plus minor stability improvements.

Tournament kickoff is just weeks away — bracket lock is June 11. This update sharpens our behind-the-scenes review tools so the community team can keep featured groups fresh and curated as the field rounds into form. Your bracket, group standings, and matchday tracking are exactly where you left them. If your picks aren't locked yet, head to your bracket and seal them up. Good luck.

Knockout scoring now rewards round-by-round advancement — every round your pick survives adds to your score. Plus stability fixes and behind-the-scenes polish.

v1.3 — the prediction flow, choreographed. Two big additions and a top-to-bottom rhythm pass. NEW: Embroidered nation badges All 48 qualified teams now have heater-shield embroidered crests. When you crown your champion, the badge swoops in from center screen, stitches a fresh gold star, and lands on the bracket. Confetti optional. (It's not optional.) NEW: Group stage, redesigned • Tap-to-place: tap a team, tap a slot — both sides talk to each other now. • 12-dot progress strip across the top so you can see all of A–L at a glance. • Tap the footer pill to jump between groups in a full-grid switcher with per-state coloring (active, in progress, complete). NEW: Cinematic autofill Tap "Fill Bracket" and watch your knockout picks resolve match-by-match — hero travel between matchups, per-card commits, Best Third resolving last. Skippable; respects Reduce Motion. NEW: Bracket detail, redesigned A cohesive preview with fully-connected lines from R32 to the Final, refined connector treatment for unresolved paths, and the champion badge carrying through every reveal. NEW: Featured-group requests Spot a group worth featuring in the community carousel? Request it from inside the group — admins handle the rest. CHOREOGRAPHED: every transition retuned • Direction-aware slides between groups and between knockout rounds. • Per-card flashes on every commit; a heavier "stage complete" beat at each milestone. • Round chips show per-round progress and pulse on completion. • Connector lines fade for unresolvable matchups; "Awaiting prior picks" cards now name their upstream matchup. • Stage-complete edges fire a distinct haptic so you feel the milestone. UPDATED SCORING The point model now totals 2,640: 720 from group standings, 80 from Best Third, 1,840 from knockouts and your champion pick. Leaderboards reflect the new weights everywhere. POLISHED • Live kickoff countdown in the Bracket Complete tray. • Best Third footer: pick count, reset, continue. • Submit-to-Group empty state fits in one tap-friendly screen. • Confirmation before any cascading clear. • Sharper bracket share exports and a more polished full-bracket sheet. • Champion badge no longer flashes when you change your pick — smoother hero travel between matchups. Catching up from v1.1? v1.2 brought Matchup Preview v2 with Elo forecasts, live match scores, the redesigned bracket flow, leaderboard Forecast bar, and link-first group invites.

v1.2.2 — polish across the surfaces you use most. • Schedule filters redesigned with a unified sheet and a steady sticky header. • Match preview refined — smoother tab switching, sharper Squad and H2H tabs, seeded matchups load without flicker. • Group invites hand off more reliably from link to join sheet. • Empty Groups state now offers a one-tap "Enter join code" path. • Bracket prediction flow tightened end-to-end, with better draft saving on the compact layout. Catching up from v1.1? Here's what landed in v1.2: • Redesigned bracket prediction flow with vintage flag stamps, state rails, paper texture, and a persistent footer on every iPhone size. • Matchup Preview v2 — tap any fixture for an Elo-based forecast, H2H, squads, and form. • Live match scores during the tournament, with minute-accurate progress (1H, HT, 2H, ET, PEN). • Knockout polish: Elo odds, compact ProbabilityCard, runner-up stamp, refined Best Third explainer. • Leaderboard pre-tournament Forecast bar showing how likely each team is to win it all. • Featured community groups and link-first invites that open the app in one tap. • Faster bracket tab, custom tab icons, denser groups layout, and a new launch animation.

v1.2 is a big polish-and-power release — everything feels faster, cleaner, and more shareable. • Redesigned bracket prediction flow with vintage flag stamps, state rails, paper texture, and a persistent footer on every iPhone size. • Matchup Preview v2 — tap any fixture to drill into a full detail sheet with Elo-based forecast, H2H, squads, and form. • Live match scores during the tournament, with minute-accurate progress (1H, HT, 2H, ET, PEN). • New Knockout polish: Elo odds, compact ProbabilityCard, runner-up stamp, and a refined Best Third explainer. • Leaderboard pre-tournament strip plus an equal-weight Forecast bar that shows how likely each team is to win it all. • Faster bracket tab, Schedule filters, and a 3-format share system. • Featured community groups — browse and join active fan leagues from the Groups tab. • Link-first invites that open the app in one tap. • Refreshed dark-forest theme, custom tab icons, denser groups layout, and a new launch animation. • Under the hood: privacy-safe analytics with opt-out, crash reporting, and dozens of small fixes.

WC Predictor is now 100% free! Unlimited brackets, unlimited groups, no catches. Create as many brackets as you want and compete with friends.