Clearer how-to-play screens, now split across three pages with larger text. Photo challenges: post more than one photo at each find. Add an optional team name when you register. New AR objects and a refreshed sign-in screen.

Simply updated login screen

Say hello to Blaze. Blaze is your new in-game host. He welcomes you at the start, cheers your first find, keeps you company when you are stuck, and calls it out when you are down to the last one. Also in this update: New AR characters. A jester, a jousting knight, a blacksmith at his anvil, and a wandering alchemist join the hunt. Photos work offline. Snap a picture anywhere, even with no signal. It uploads itself as soon as you are back in range instead of being lost. Your progress follows you. Reinstall the app or switch to a new phone and the objects you have already found come back with you. Clearer buttons. Every button now tells you where it actually takes you. You can also read our privacy policy from inside the app, and we ask your date of birth once when you first sign up.

Haystack 1.3 is here! • Animated creatures: new monsters come to life in AR, just in time for Halloween • Bigger, easier to read clue text when a hunt starts • A cleaner finish screen when you complete a hunt • A smoother find sequence, so every find, trivia question and photo happens in order • General fixes and performance improvements

• New animated AR objects — including a fire-breathing dragon — can now appear at event hunts • More accurate scoring as you find objects and answer trivia • Custom finish screens for events • Performance improvements and bug fixes

Thanks for playing Haystack! This update makes the hunt smoother and more fun: • A clearer on-screen compass that points you straight to your target, with steadier distance updates • Switch between missions anytime — your score and progress now save separately for each event • Share your discoveries on the Social Wall, now with options to report or block posts • A fresh, faster-loading start screen • Performance and stability improvements Good luck out there!