Fairer duels A ranked duel now runs in real time. Leave the app mid-duel and the clock keeps ticking: when you come back, the duel has moved on without you, with your missed turns on the board and your rival's moves already made. Until now, putting the app away paused the duel Fixes and polish Lots of small fixes and improvements all over the app

New look Letters now sit on round seals. Only a letter in the right spot turns solid green, a letter in the wrong spot gets a yellow outline, and a missed turn leaves a row of empty dashed seals Play a friend Open a room, send over the four letter code or a link, and the two of you take turns at the same word. No rating on the line, just the two of you Portuguese and Russian Two more dictionaries to play in, each with its own keyboard. Together with English and Spanish, that makes four languages Friends Share your invite link or look someone up by nickname. Their streaks and ratings sit right next to yours, and playing in a friend's room makes you friends too Streak freezes You get three when you sign in, and three more for every friend who joins and plays. Miss a day and a freeze kicks in on its own, so the streak lives on Win a burned streak back Lost a streak of three days or more? Win 5 games within two weeks and it comes back, plus every day you played since Streak and rating pages Tap the flame for a calendar of your days and your next goal. Tap the swords to see how your rating moves and where you stand

Traditional Chinese is Traditional Chinese again A phone set to Traditional Chinese was quietly handed the Simplified text, because the region at the end of the language setting hid the script in the middle Signing out finishes in the right order now, so it can no longer leave a phone half signed in Accounts are harder to walk off with: it is the session that proves an account is yours, never a number somebody could type

A daily streak, and a nudge at 20:00 so you do not lose one you meant to keep Word cards: every word you finish now comes with its part of speech, its meaning and two examples, and the meaning is written in your own language Sign in with Apple, and your rating and your streak follow you to the next phone 45 seconds a move instead of 30, which is kinder to a language you are still learning The whole app redrawn, screen for screen with the web The interface now speaks 100 languages, taken from your phone Word language: Spanish alongside English