Explore, learn and research with new offline tools. • Query & Dashboard: filter countries by edition, region and numeric conditions. Build dashboards with statistics and trends, save them for later, and export results as CSV. • Border Explorer: connect countries through shared land borders. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard, play with maps or cards, and compare your route with a shortest route. • CIA Maps: browse and search 284 administrative, physiography and transportation maps covering 106 countries. Open available maps from Factbook entries and save them for use outside the app. • Country pronunciation: hear names while reading or playing. Choose English voices and optional local pronunciation where available in Settings. • Research collections: save comparisons and pin statistics and trends for later. • World Explorer: compare named distance paths, explore trade links, and move between map and globe. • Find all seven games in the new Games hub, and reach your preferences faster with searchable Settings. • Export and share Factbook entries and maps, with clearer controls and more compact layouts. The archive and bundled CIA maps work offline. Historical estimates and classifications remain tied to their original Factbook editions.

A refreshed way to explore 36 years of the World Factbook. • Corrected archive country associations and restored distinct historical entries. • A roomier World Explorer with country search, map projections, clearer controls and better portrait/landscape layouts. • Fixed map colours on first opening and unintended region filtering. • Refreshed Analysis cards, saved comparisons, source views and more precise chart labels. • Updated Mystery Country and Factbook Daily with country outlines and flags. • Rectangular flags in country entries and quieter, optional edition-change markers. • Improved Home layout and navigation on smaller screens. The complete 1990–2025 archive remains fully offline, with no account required.

1.2.2 is a quick fix-up: - Tapping countries on the 3D Globe works again — select any country to see its details, political systems, and trade-network arcs. - The World Map title is no longer cut off. Everything stays fully offline — no account, no network.

1.2.1 adds a new game, levels up Mystery Country, and makes the games accessible to everyone. NEW GAME: THEN vs NOW - Two editions of a single statistic — guess which reading is from the more recent year. Country and flag up top, big clear values, plus stats and sharing. MYSTERY COUNTRY, LEVELED UP - Difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard), tap-to-guess right on the globe, region focus to narrow the hunt, a stats page with sharing, and a fact card on every reveal. MORE WAYS TO PLAY - Guess the Year and Country Groups round out the line-up, alongside the daily challenge, with quick access to every game from Analysis. ACCESSIBILITY - Colourblind-safe colours, reduce motion, haptics, and VoiceOver support across all the games. FASTER & MORE POLISHED - Rankings and first launch are noticeably quicker. - The World Map now opens fully coloured on first load. - Cleaner, consistent titles and a tidier country entry menu throughout. Everything stays fully offline — no account, no network.

1.2.0 brings instant answers to search, a clearer reading experience, and more accessible everything. SEARCH - Direct answers: type a country and a field — like "japan population" or "germany government" — and the value appears right at the top of search. - Smarter matching: abbreviations and partial words work ("popu" finds Population), with a redesigned, easier search page. - Search from anywhere: a search icon on every screen (and Cmd-K on Mac and iPad). READING - Key facts: every country entry now opens with a quick-facts card — government, capital, population, area, GDP per capita, and life expectancy. - A new Accessibility hub: a high-legibility reading font (Atkinson Hyperlegible), adjustable line spacing, and high-contrast colours, alongside text size, colourblind, and read-aloud. - Read-aloud speed changes now take effect instantly while reading. GAMES - Pinch-to-zoom the globe in Mystery Country, an inline country picker that keeps the map in view, and clearer how-to-play on every game. FIXES - The World Map now opens fully coloured on first load, plus polish throughout. Everything stays fully offline — no account, no network.

1.1.1 polishes the maps, charts, and games — and makes the whole app more accessible. MAPS & GLOBE - Higher-fidelity world map plus every small country now appears (Malta, Singapore, Vatican, and more); French Guiana is labelled correctly. - Ocean and sea names for context; trade-network arcs are now colour-coded per partner. - Smooth year scrubbing (no more flicker), a quick "jump to edition" picker, and a reset-to-default button. CHARTS & TABLES (ACCESSIBILITY) - Every chart has a "Show data" button that opens the numbers as an accessible, sortable table you can copy or share. - VoiceOver reads a one-line chart summary, each row as a whole, and a text version of the sparklines. - Field history now groups unchanged editions into year ranges, so it's the story of what changed. GAMES - Mystery Country now shows a real globe — continents, oceans, your guesses, and the answer. IMPROVED - Jump-to-top/bottom on every page (now a subtle, embedded control). - Many readability and layout fixes throughout. Everything stays fully offline — no account, no network.

1.1.0 brings the website's full analysis suite to the app — plus games. NEW - Interactive 3D Globe: color the world by any indicator, natural resources, political systems, dissolved federations, or trade networks, across 1990-2025. - New World Map layers plus trade-network arcs, and Map Compare (two maps side by side). - Scatter Explorer, Regional rollups, a Resources deep-dive, a Development dashboard, and a richer Demographics view. - Organizations and a Geopolitical hub: alliances/IGOs, regime changes, dissolved states. - Games: Guess the Year, Mystery Country, and Country Groups. IMPROVED - Sort and search on the data lists. - Accessibility: jump-to-top/bottom, reduced motion, VoiceOver labels, read-aloud on country pages. - Many chart, layout, and readability fixes. Everything stays fully offline - no account, no network.