Try Ultimate for 30 minutes on your first visit—no purchase required. Explore every feature before deciding whether you want to unlock it permanently. Improved: - The first-use Ultimate trial now lasts 30 minutes and starts from one clear button, with no purchase or payment commitment. - Cel Frame clock and stopwatch artwork has been refined. Fixed: - Restore Purchases now explicitly refreshes your latest App Store ownership, including upgrades made on another device. - Network, account, and cancellation errors now show clearer localized guidance instead of an unhelpful system message. - Temporary App Store failures keep your previously verified Pro or Ultimate access intact while you retry.

Transparent Little Monster widgets now blend naturally into your Home Screen, with the familiar dark blurred background still kept as the default. New: - Enable a transparent background separately for each Little Monster widget while preserving the artwork’s clear areas. - iOS 16 now supports static widgets that open UltraPod when tapped. iOS 17 and later continue to support layout selection, transparency, and playback controls. Improved: - New widgets show clear setup instructions instead of automatically applying a layout. - Initial setup, full refresh, and quick refresh now finish only after Apple Music library details are merged. Cold launches and foreground checks update the cache only when your library has actually changed. Fixed: - Local tracks resolved through Apple Music now transition reliably alongside streamed tracks, preventing mixed queues from stalling, playing silently, or jumping back to 0:00. - Tracks with missing album names no longer create duplicate library entries, and older affected caches rebuild once automatically.

Build your own Home Screen music widgets with the new full-screen DIY Widget Studio, independent layouts for every size, and 10 new frame styles. New: - Design Small, Medium, and Large widgets separately. Move, resize, show, or hide the frame, content area, artwork, song title, artist, and playback controls. Manage multiple configurations, copy layouts between sizes, and use undo or redo. - Choose 10 new widget frames alongside Little Monster: Street Stickers, Color Speakers, Jewel Butterfly, Yellow Submarine, Forest Red Panda, Knit Penguin, Retro Rabbit Radio, Rainbow Music Cloud, Jelly Orange Cat, and Synthwave Beach. - Cel Frame, Anime Pop, and Mecha Spec add three complete icon themes with 19 app-entry icons each. Improved: - Pro keeps 2 built-in appearance presets and can save or import 3 more, for 5 total. Ultimate content can be imported and partially applied without replacing locked themes or Watch appearance. - Now Playing has a dedicated queue entry, Settings supports 12- or 24-hour time, and the new import guide covers Apple Music and local computer sync. Fixed: - Local songs advance correctly instead of pausing when separate files share the same catalog identity.

Your Apple Music library now stays complete after a cache rebuild—even when you reopen UltraPod offline. Improved: - Cloud playlists, song details, and artwork for non-downloaded music are cached locally and remain available for offline browsing. - First launch, cold launch, library refresh, and cache rebuild no longer wait for artwork downloads. - Large libraries use less memory during rebuilds and Cover Flow browsing. Fixed: - Artwork disappearing after relaunching without a network connection. - Cloud playlists appearing empty after an offline cache rebuild. - A black startup screen after music authorization.

Notifications now keep you up to date inside UltraPod, with rich announcement details and unread badges that clear after you read them. New: - Receive in-app announcements and optional push notifications, then open the full details without leaving the player. Improved: - Your music library and artwork load from local data first. First launch, cold launch, refresh, and manual rebuild no longer wait for online artwork; full library details are completed in the background. - Apple Watch library sync, playlists, playback state, Little Monster widgets, and the onboarding Control Ring guidance are more reliable and clearer. Fixed: - Downloaded songs can play and shuffle while offline without incorrectly asking you to reconnect. - Your last verified purchase level is preserved during network or temporary App Store failures, and Restore Purchases retries identity checks. - The paywall no longer appears twice after music authorization, and confirmation taps no longer pass through to the screen below. - Local playlist sources and offline artwork remain intact during cache rebuilds.

New Little Monster widgets bring the current track, artwork, artist, and playback controls to your Home Screen. Medium and large sizes also add previous and next controls. Also new: - Apple Watch mode adds solid-color bodies and custom images, saved and synced with DIY templates. - Offline artwork is now compressed, deduplicated, and stored locally. Fixed missing artwork without a connection and empty playlists after cache rebuilds. The first launch after updating performs one automatic cache rebuild. - Now Playing scrolls more smoothly and runs cooler across queue Cover Flow, lyrics, artwork loading, and the waveform animation. - Restore Purchases, Favorites network checks, note discard gestures, widget artwork updates, and background playback controls are more reliable.

File imports are now more reliable, so Books, DIY appearance templates, and Podcasts consistently open the system file picker. Improved • Podcast subscription, import, and refresh previews now use clearer, smoother motion. • Supported podcast import formats — OPML, XML, RSS, and TXT — are shown directly in the import preview. • App review prompts now wait for a genuinely idle moment instead of interrupting playback, imports, syncing, settings, or other active interactions. Fixed • Resolved an issue where tapping Import Books or Import DIY Template could appear to do nothing on some iOS versions.

Podcasts and 16 built-in Mini Apps are now part of UltraPod’s click-wheel experience. Import your shows, resume episodes, and open useful tools without leaving the app. New: - Import podcast subscriptions from OPML, RSS, XML, or plain-text URL lists. Browse shows and episodes, keep listening progress, and control playback from Home, Now Playing, the podcast queue, and system media controls. - Use 16 local Mini Apps for calculations, unit and date conversion, shopping, focus sessions, bill splitting, energy and finance estimates, cooking, scorekeeping, random choices, breathing, reaction tests, 2048, and dice. - Keep favorite and recently used Mini Apps close at hand. Improved: - Podcast artwork, playback status, queues, and sleep-timer behavior stay consistent across the app. - Music and podcast playback switch cleanly instead of competing. - Music browsing remains responsive when offline or while artwork is loading. - Mini Apps support all nine app languages with localized dates, numbers, and decimal separators. - Appearance presets are more reliable when imported, applied, or restored.

Appearance presets make it easier to keep and revisit a complete DIY setup. Save your current look, apply it later, import or export portable presets, and restore the appearance you had before trying one. New: - New users start with Classic and Black Red built-in presets. - Pro can keep up to three reusable presets. - Ultimate removes the preset limit. Improved: - DIY preset screens now use the correct menu background. - Long selected menu titles begin scrolling after a short pause. - Music navigation uses clearer labels, including Album Flow and All Music. - Preset access and locked states now match each purchase tier.

Apple Watch playback now feels smoother and more dependable. Playlists and Up Next use native scrolling, so the Digital Crown responds naturally and rows no longer jump. Improved: - Swipe from the left edge to return from playlists or Up Next. - Playlist levels remain separate instead of overlapping. - Up Next shows the correct songs and queue position. - Album artwork remains visible when you return to playback controls. - The scroll indicator no longer changes color unexpectedly.

Local music playback is now more reliable, with more accurate position tracking, safer seeking, and better recovery after audio interruptions. Improved: - Permissions are requested only while UltraPod is active in the foreground and you open the feature that needs them. - Refined multilingual copy and in-app language behavior. Fixed: - Resolved local playback state conflicts that could cause incorrect pause or resume behavior. - Improved local-media duration and position handling when switching tracks or playback sources.

New watch mode makes UltraPod easier to use when you want a smaller, calmer player on your wrist. Improved: - Large music libraries load and scroll more smoothly. - Now Playing, Cover Flow, lyrics, and album browsing feel faster and more stable. - The player queue stays clearer while you switch playback types. Fixed: - Reduced crashes and visual overlap around Now Playing and the playback queue. - Fixed the contacts side preview issue. - Added missing watch icons and tightened several small interface details.