Roost Social
Old school messages, by pigeon
Only for iPhone
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPhone
Every message takes flight. Watch your pigeon cross oceans and cities in real time to reach your friends. Collect birds, train your flock, and stay in the moment.
Roost brings back old school messages. You send a note, a bird picks it up, and it flies across the world to your friends. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird in the air, carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Watch yours and your friends birds fly in real time around the world. Be in the moment. Send something and go live your day. When your bird lands, it lands.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Catch birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes. Every one has its own speed based on their real speeds. Feed them, level them up, watch your flock grow.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Every delivery flies a real route across a real map. Track your bird as it goes. See where it is, how far it's come, when it's landing.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scroll. Just your people and the birds that carry your words. Add friends by username and keep your circle small and good.
TRAIN YOUR FLOCK
Quick mini games boost speed, have fun. A faster pigeon means a faster message. A better flock means a better rookery.
WEEKLY REWARDS
Log in for daily drops. Claim new birds from rotating events. Hunt for mythic birds in limited time releases.
Slow your messages down. Send them by pigeon.
Download Roost and launch your first flight.
more So fun, unique, and well made for an early-stage app. Recommended if you love birds/slow mail.
So fun, unique, and well made for an early-stage app. Recommended if you love birds/slow mail.
Very fun and different. I love collecting my rookery and I think the snails are hilarious for snail mail
Very fun and different. I love collecting my rookery and I think the snails are hilarious for snail mail
i like the concept and i enjoy sending messages to friends, but all the birds are AI slop. are you telling me its that hard to find a real picture of a bird? why do the snails have two sets of eyes and human feet?
i like the concept and i enjoy sending messages to friends, but all the birds are AI slop. are you telling me its that hard to find a real picture of a bird? why do the snails have two sets of eyes and human feet?
- Another fix for missing pigeons
- Rename fix where sometimes users can't edit their bird's name
- Edit bio fixes where sometimes bird bio didn't save
- Pigeon leveling fixed. Displayed incorrect experience gained
- Various random fixes including crash fixes
1.4.4 1d ago
- Fixes Energy not showing as filled up
- Fix lost birds
- Improved privacy for penpals
- Fix crash and issue related to petting your bird
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.3 3d ago
- Fixes Energy not showing as filled up
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.2 Jun 12
- Fixes stale cache on bird detail page making it seem like your bird lost a level/speed
- Fixes practice mode seeming like it couldn't be turned off
- Added Care Game (slow rollout)
- Added new mode for the training games (slow rollout)
- Various ehancements
1.4.1 Jun 12
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version
- Privacy fixes for penpals being rolled out
- Fixed crash from people with too many friends
- Added filter to compose message
- Support for reordering messages
- Longer games supported without crashing the app
1.4.0 Jun 9
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version (long messages were getting cutoff again! - I hope this is the full fix)
- Privacy fixes for penpals being rolled out
- Auto-Recall support slow rollout to automatically get your birds back
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.5 Jun 5
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in the last version (long messages were getting cutoff again!
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.4 Jun 2
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in 1.3.0
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.3 Jun 2
- Another Hotfix for some bugs introduced in 1.3.0
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.2 Jun 1
- Hotfix for some bugs
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.1 Jun 1
- One of our most requested, birds are right side up now when going west to east
- Voice notes now can be sent to your friends!
- A scratch pad for drawing little messages for your friends
- Update to Pen Pal Privacy to no longer show names, just username
- Added a leaderboard for games, win free birds every week!
- 100+ new birds added (including some Hall of Famers)
- Update Shop to show claimed offers
- Passport Stamps Added to users profiles so you can see where in the world people have been
- Fix to game difficulty curve and rewards
- Fix for messages that are too long getting cut off
- Shrunk app size with some optimization
- A new FAQ section (tutorial will be added next update)
- Fix in Rookery where you could double tap a bird and it would cause an error when recalling
1.3.0 May 30
- Pen Pals have landed. Make new friends with pen pals around the world
- Renamed and redesigns the Friends tab to Flock tab (Join the Flock)
- Auto hide birds that are coming to you from your rookery
- Fixed Reply cutting off long messages
- Fixed speed leveling up. Sometimes users wouldn't see a level up
- Added accessibility for users with larger font can scroll on codex view now when looking at bird details.
- Some other random fixes
1.2.0 May 23
- Added ability to react to messages
- Added ability to swipe to reply to message
- Fixes group chat sending showing up on the map
- Fix for sorting your birds when you pick which to send
- Updated game to have easy, medium, and hard mode
1.1.3 May 20
- Urgent Hotfix on Group Chats not actually sending to the group
- Group chats are finally here! Add up to 10 friends to your nest
- Better messaging flow with bird selection after typing a message instead of before
- Adds notification toggles for users to decide what notifications they want to receive
- Adds bird bios, to allow users to give their favorite bird friend's their own bios
- Adds ability for users to see bios on other profiles by tapping bird for view
- Fix where mythic and epic birds not showing Codex logs
- Fixes recall for users bird's that are sent by other friends
- Fix for game modes not properly giving speed and wasting an energy
- Fix for gifts so users from older versions can obtain missed gifts
- Fix for flight paths for Australia to the US showing across Europe instead of the Pacific Ocean
1.1.2 May 18
- Emergency fix for location updating
- Fix for daily streak reward counter
- Send GIFs now in chat
- Updates how free birds are gifted to users
- Adds some optional chill music to the map screen to listen to while you watch your birds fly
1.1.1 May 15
- Daily rewards fix
- 350+ new bird species
- Leveling experience updates
- Crash fix from flight experience coming in too fast
1.1.0 May 13
- Major crash fix on messages
- Your couriers now collect stamps as they visit new countries
- Your couriers get experience for their flights
- Earn rare birds with streak rewards for doing certain actions every day (be careful, you have to do one every day)
- Big bug fix on Messages and Conversation List where sometimes messages don't appear
- Redesign on the Bird detail page (more coming)
- Other big bug fixes!
1.0.9 May 11
- Fixed issue with onboarding where users have to tap Finish twice to finish onboarding
- Fixed issue with Messages not appearing when app is closed or when you are not in the messages page
- Fixed crashes reported from too many birds on one map (INSANE)
- Fixed bird delivery animations to display more consistently
1.0.8 May 7
- Added some animations for your birds arriving ;)
- Fix links from Notifications to open conversations and map when tapping notification
- Updated some things around how invites work
- Bug fixes
1.0.7 May 6
- Track your pigeons with Codex (in My Rookery)
- Submit feature requests (in My Profile)
- Upvote and downvote feature requests and track whats next!
- New look and feel for your Rookery cards
1.0.6 May 5
- Fixed crash from unsend function
- Refer 3 friends and earn a free legendary bird. Tap Settings → Referrals to grab your code.
- Adds mutual friends in search
- Adds ability to add close friends, to choose who sees your location or not (better privacy for everyone)
- Updated Message tab to show a blue dot for when a flight arrives
- Squashed some other bugs
1.0.5 May 4
- crash fix for when you are in privacy settings
- removed level indicator on shop so the chicken's speed doesnt get cut off
- Fixed location updating in the same city (thank you who reported this bug)
- Added done button in some views that were hard to know that you can swipe down
- no longer can unsend birds when others send your pigeons (prevents people's) message to unsend
- fixes mini game enemy off screen
1.0.4 May 2
- share profile button added
- species name added to bird detail page
- privacy setting change to hide city to non-friends
1.0.3 May 1
-fixed recall for when users send a bird short distance back to you
-critical bug causing crashes with the app when backgrounded for extended period of time
1.0.2 Apr 30
- Fixed crash if you backgrounded the app for too long.
- Fixed issue with recall birds
1.0.1 Apr 28
- Another fix for missing pigeons
- Rename fix where sometimes users can't edit their bird's name
- Edit bio fixes where sometimes bird bio didn't save
- Pigeon leveling fixed. Displayed incorrect experience gained
- Various random fixes including crash fixes
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