Catching (new) - Taking or picking a photo goes straight to the card. There's no confirm screen: the plate is read, found in the shot, the place is filled in and the card is saved behind one spinner, then it makes its entrance as before. - It still stops when something needs an answer: a photo with no readable plate number (try again or retake), an empty tank, PL8 Bucks that need a yes, or a plate already in the collection ("Add another copy" or cancel). - Tags are no longer asked for while catching. Editing a card (new) - The card's drawer has an Edit button next to Share. - Edit lets you reframe the photo (pinch and drag over the whole original shot) and change the skin, the plate number (with the California and Texas symbols), the plate's state and where it was caught. - Save only changes what you touched. Only the skin can cost anything, and the card's writing is never regenerated. - If the corrected number is a plate that already exists, the card becomes a copy of that plate, and the screen tells you before you save. A new number creates the plate. The misread plate is removed if nothing else uses it. - Only the person who created a plate can change its state, and only while they hold its only copy. First-catch walkthrough (new) - After the intro tour, a new collector's home screen dims and the camera button glows, with a "Let's catch your first card" card. - The first time the camera opens this way, a "No plates around?" card offers a sample plate (CATCH ON), already read and set to California / Los Angeles. - Using the sample makes the card straight away. A coach then walks through three steps on the card's drawer, each highlighted with a ring: the Edit button, picking a skin, and adding a tag. It ends when a tag is tapped or on Done. - The first skin is free, because an account with only one card pays nothing for one. - The highlight ring is thick and glowing, the rest of the screen is dimmed, and only the highlighted part can be tapped. - From step 2 on there's a Back button, so someone who skipped the skin can go back and pick one. - The text on the walkthrough cards is shorter. Skins in the feed - A card wearing a color skin shows in the feed with a thick border in that skin's foil. - A card wearing a scan skin posts as the whole card: artwork, writing and foil. - Until a scan card has been generated, its preview shows the artwork and the photo but not the writing. Home screen - The top collectors strip shows today's ranking again instead of all-time. - The placeholder profile picture no longer has the brown band that looked like a smudge. Ads and Premium - Premium users don't see the ad bar while the app is loading, and they're never asked for ad consent or tracking permission. - The grey bar of error text in place of a missing ad is gone. - Free accounts get ads again. The ad consent check was failing every time and blocking all ads. - The Gas Station now opens with the Premium Pass banner, the same one as the PL8 Buck store.

What's new in Build 46 - Card skins: - On the confirm screen, tap a color dot under the photo to dress the card in a dark foil-bordered skin. The skin also sets that card's energy. Color skins cost 1 PL8 Buck. - Epic skins: lightning, ice, radioactive, smoke, flame, ghost, jungle and metal. Each is a fully drawn frame with a bigger photo window, and you can drag and pinch the photo into place. Epic skins cost 3 PL8 Bucks. - You're only charged PL8 Bucks from your current balance when the card is saved. You can also buy a skin later from your own card's drawer. - The foil is live: tilt the card and it shimmers, glares and glows in its color. New card entrance: - Some new cards now spin in face down and flip over with sparkles, haptics and sound. Every card now shows the date you caught it.

What's new in Build 42 - Delete a catch: - Your own cards now have a Delete button at the bottom of the card drawer. It asks you to confirm first. The card is removed from your collection, the feed and the leaderboard. - Short plates are rarer. Plates with one or two characters are now scored on length alone: - One or two digits or letters (7, 24, A, WY): Super Rare - A letter next to a digit (A1, 1A): Rare - Two characters with a space, dash or symbol between them (2-4, F+1): Uncommon

A full tank to start New collectors start with extra Gas and PL8 Bucks: five catches on day one instead of two, and enough to try the Gas Station. A nudge in your first days If you turn on notifications, PL8 CLLCT will remind you to make your first catch and open your first pack. Tap one and you're taken straight to the camera or the Packs tab. Share your cards A new Share button on every card opens a ready-to-post picture of it, with its rarity and date, to send to friends or post on social media. Also in this version • Level-up rewards each get their own pill. • The tour now goes straight into the app and skips the paywall.

Fill up at the Gas Station Catches now run on Gas. Everyone gets a daily tank, Premium members get a bigger one, and when you run dry you can refuel with PL8 Bucks. PL8 Bucks are a new currency you earn just by playing, or pick up in the store, and they never expire. A better feed Every catch on the feed now shows the collector's own photo, framed in the plate's rarity tier. Badges, on shelves Your three rarest badges get a shelf of their own at the top of your profile. Every badge now opens on a shelf beside the rest of its family, shared badges come with a poster, and each state has its own ladder. More boards A Friends board joins the leaderboards, and all ten boards now sit together in one row. Washington, DC DC is on the map and can be collected. Also in this version • A new card lights up when it lands, with a new animation • Level-up rewards stack in a single pill, and levels climb more evenly. • The onboarding is one scroll instead of six cards. • Fixes: a card kept from a pack no longer spends a catch, and you're no longer charged for a plate you already hold.

TOP COLLECTORS Five boards, ranking people instead of cards: Today, This week, This month, All time, and Friends. The top three stand on a podium. The three boards that end give out a trophy to whoever is standing there when they do, and you keep it. PACKS A free pack lands every day, and a second one is earned at 40 points. Drag the strip off the top to tear it open, flip through the pulls, and keep the ones you want. Premium gets extra packs. A pulled card fills a slot in your collection, it doesn't score points and it doesn't post to the feed. ACHIEVEMENTS Everything earnable now sits on one shelf: the four leaderboard trophies and twenty-eight challenges across varieties, sports, geography, rarity, patterns and habit. Every badge shows how rare it is. Pick the one that sits beside your handle, and share it as a poster. PREMIUM DAILY CATCHES: 20 → 10 Premium now saves 10 catches a day instead of 20. Free accounts stay at 2. ALSO • Home is a feed now, not a wall of rankings • Ten community boards: Funniest, Coolest, Rarest and the rest, over this week, this month or all time • Report a post, and block the person behind it • A plate you haven't caught shows as artwork instead of somebody else's photo • Catching a plate you already hold no longer pays, and each state says what it still owes you • Points land on the card, on the screen you came from • A rebuilt tour, and a home screen that draws before it has anything to say