Archie 3.16 has new designs for almost every screen. • Results: your photo fills the screen with the building's name on it, and the page slides up over it. The story comes in chapters, with one player for all of it and a play button on each chapter. It keeps playing with your screen locked, with controls on the lock screen, and a ring fills on the play button while the audio is being prepared. • Identifying features: the photo stays in view while you scroll, and each feature is ringed and zoomed in turn, with a card that explains it. • Questions: "still curious?" suggests questions about the building, its style and its architect, and with Archie Unlimited you can ask your own. • Feedback: when a result is off, you can say what's wrong, including the identifying features. • Sharing: new cards sized for Instagram Stories and posts, and Messages adds a link to Archie. • Library: your newest shot up front, then your shots by month, style, architect or city. Search filters as you type, and every card opens its result in one tap. • LifeList: a drawing for each of the 146 styles, grouped by era, your latest finds, and the 50 architects you can spot. • Map: black points, filters for landmarks, hidden gems and the places you've collected, and place pages laid out like a result, with the story to listen to and a link to your own photo of a place you've collected. A place page opens half-way, so the point you tapped stays in view. • Plans: a new Archie Unlimited sheet with the same two plans: a yearly plan that starts with a 7-day free trial, and a one-time lifetime unlock. • Stories keep playing when the narration voice is slow: your iPhone's own voice reads that part, and the narrator comes back as soon as it can. • The scan screen shows the archie name above your photo, and two Settings answers are shorter.

Archie 3.14 knows more buildings and is stricter about the names it gives. • The building database now holds 1,755,352 buildings, with the statewide historic inventories of Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Maryland and Washington. The welcome tour and the FAQ give the new count. • For a photo without a location, Archie now looks for other photos of the same building on the web, reads which building those pages name, and checks that building against your photo before it names it. • A name found on the web now has to appear next to the building's town or address on the page that gives it, so a lookalike in another city doesn't get through. • Inside photos without a location are named only when several separate websites agree on the building.

Archie 3.13 shows its work while it reads a building, and asks for your location where it helps. • The scan screen is now a checklist. Each step ticks off as Archie reads your photo, checks its building database, compares reference photos and matches the style. When it has to look further, a new set of steps shows the city records or the web search, and the style appears as soon as Archie knows it. • The welcome tour has a new last step about location. With location on, Archie checks the buildings in front of you, so lesser-known buildings get named and answers come faster. Location stays optional. • When a photo went without a location, the end of its result says what location adds, with a button to turn it on or to open Settings. • Haptics: a tap when the answer lands, and light ticks as you pinch through the zoom stops, scroll the feature cards, or browse places on the map. • The "you found" banner on results is gone. Photographing a building from the map still collects it. • If you create an account in the EU, the UK, Switzerland or Canada, the box for news and research emails starts unticked. • Privacy links in the app now open our privacy policy at thearchieapp.com. • Fixed: closing the plan screen in the welcome tour could leave you stuck on its last page.

Archie 3.12 names more buildings, and reads every part of a page aloud. • When Archie can't name a building from your photo right away, it now looks it up before showing results: first in its database of 826,291 buildings (landmarks across the US and Europe, plus the building registers of New York and 44 other US cities), then on the web. It names a building only when pages about that building, and its photos or address, match yours. • Buildings without a Wikipedia article get a history too, written from pages about them and their city's records. The page says which site it came from. • When a building's official record gives its style, Archie goes with the record. • The scan screen shows what Archie is doing at each step, and about how long is left. • Every section of a result has its own play button: the building and its history, the architect, and the style with its history. They're read in a new voice. • New FAQs in Settings: how Archie identifies a building, where the histories come from, how accurate it is, and what happens to your photo. • Suggested questions on a result you reopen from your Library show up at once. • Fixed: the scan screen could stall after finding a building.

Archie 3.11 is one of the biggest updates Archie has had. • 46 new styles, 146 in all. Many are local to a city: Brooklyn brownstones, Chicago bungalows and two-flats, Charleston single houses, Miami Modern. Others widen the map: Czech Cubism, the Amsterdam School, Manueline, Mughal, and more. • When Archie names a building, the page now opens with that building's history and its architect, written from their Wikipedia articles, before the style. • Identifying features are circled on your photo. As you scroll, the photo stays in view and zooms to the feature you're reading; tap a circle to jump to its card. • Every style, architect, and feature description was rewritten around dates, people, and real buildings you can go and see. • Tell me more, rebuilt: the building, its style, the style's history, and the architect each get their own suggested questions, and every answer offers the next ones to ask. • Group your Library by style, architect, place, or date, and select several photos at once to delete, with undo. • With location on, Archie now sends where you're standing and which way the camera faces along with the photo, to help work out which building on the street you photographed. Neither is stored. • Quicker from shutter to answer. If the connection drops mid-photo, Archie offers to try again or queue it for later. • A new welcome tour. • Plans are simpler: yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime unlock. • With an account, we may email you now and then about new features or research. Turn it off in Settings, Account. • The keyboard closes with Done, the send key, or a swipe when you type your own question.

Account creation to back-up your photos, plus improved accuracy • Create an account with Apple, Google, or your email (a code, no password), and your Library and LifeList are backed up and follow you to any iPhone you sign in to. Identifying a building still needs no account. • You are asked to sign in only when you save. Your first look at a result is exactly as before. • Already have a Library? Sign in once and it backs itself up while you keep using Archie. • Settings has a new Account page: your devices, your sign-in methods, and a Delete account button that removes everything from our servers. • With location on, Archie sends where you're standing and which way the camera faces along with the photo, to help work out which building on the street you photographed. Neither is stored. • Tell me more, rebuilt: the building, its style, the style's history, and the architect each get their own suggested questions, and every answer offers the next ones to ask. • Small fixes and polish.

feedback form to get input on accuracy, saves photos taken to your camera roll, automatically saved to your library, selectable text • Every result now ends with a question: did we get this right? Tap "not quite" to say what's off (the style, the building, a date or name, or the write-up) and pick the fix. Your note and the photo go straight to the person who builds Archie. • Results save to your Library on their own. No more tapping save. • Photos you take in Archie now land in your camera roll too. • Select and copy any text on a result, the way you would on a web page. • On the Map, the "coming soon" card gets out of the way as soon as you pan to a city Archie covers. • Small fixes and polish.

3.8 includes small optimizations • Two plans, that's it: a one-time lifetime unlock, or a monthly plan. Both prices are on the plan screen. • The plan screen is now a sheet you can close with one tap, or swipe away. • Leave your email with feedback if you'd like a reply. Totally optional, and blank stays anonymous. • A refreshed welcome screen. • Small fixes and polish.

3.7 includes small optimizations to onboarding • New: three sample buildings in the camera on your first open, already identified, so you can see what Archie does before you find something to point at. • Plans are simpler: yearly with a 1-week free trial, monthly, or a one-time lifetime unlock. • The plan screen now reads every price, and the per-month math, straight from the App Store. • A friendlier welcome tour. • Small fixes and polish.

Archie 3.6 gets you the answer three times faster. • Identifications now come back in a few seconds. Same accuracy, a fraction of the wait. • The welcome tour ends on the plan screen, so you can start your free trial before your first photo. Not ready? Cancel drops you straight into the camera. • The plan screen now wears Archie's own type and color. • New installs get 3 free identifications. • Small fixes and polish.

Archie 3.5 answers your follow-up questions. • New: ask Archie about the building you just identified. Three suggested questions appear with every result, or type your own. Answers are short, specific to your photo, and part of Archie Unlimited. • The results page reads in a better order: the style name and era sit right under your photo, then the story of your building, then the full style guide. • A brand new welcome. Two pages that show Archie doing its two jobs, identifying a facade and mapping a city, in motion. • Small fixes and polish.

Archie 3.4 includes bug fixes and UI improvements • Shoot a ceiling, a staircase, a whole room, or a facade: the result now opens with several sentences about your exact subject, then the style, then the features that give it away. The feature vocabulary grew from 83 to 135, so interiors finally have words. • New in Settings: Send feedback. What you write lands directly with the person who builds Archie. • On the map, your first 3 places open free, the place you are reading is now marked on the map, and directions can hand off to Google Maps so you land on the building's page, photos and all. • Downloaded city packs now refresh themselves when their data improves. • Small fixes: the Shoot button fits on every iPhone, and buttons respond across their whole tap area.

Archie 3.3 makes the whole app feel like one thing. • Your LifeList and your Library have been rebuilt in Archie's own type, color, and grid. The 100 styles you're collecting now read like a field guide instead of a settings screen. • The map has grown to 135 U.S. cities and 5,700+ buildings, and a fresh install now knows all of them from its very first launch. • Fixed: tapping the style name on a Library card opened the record below it. • Fixed: map pins that stayed stacked no matter how far you zoomed. They now separate at street level, and tapping a stack takes you straight to the buildings inside it. • Archie can now see, anonymously, which parts of the app get used, so we can put the work where it counts. No account, no advertising ID, nothing tied to you or your photos, and an off switch in Settings under "Share usage analytics".

Archie 3.2 has a fresh face. • A new app icon, and Archie's building mark now runs throughout the app; onboarding, the map, place pages, and your share cards. • Behind the scenes: privacy-preserving measurement so we can tell which ads bring people to Archie. No advertising ID, no tracking permission prompt, nothing tied to you, your photos, or your location. • Small fixes and polish.

Archie 3.1 gets you out the door. • NEW: the Map — 3,200+ noteworthy buildings across 24 U.S. cities, from famous landmarks to hidden gems, each with photos and its story. See what's near you, then photograph a mapped building to collect it. • NEW: audio narration — tap play and hear any building's story read aloud, on results and on the map. • Every style, feature, and architect description rewritten in plain language — clear, concrete, and jargon-free. • Results now include a "this building" note about the exact building in your photo. • Faster identifications, smoother navigation

Archie 3.0 is a complete rebuild: the app I always wanted to make. • Point your camera at any building and identify its architectural style from a catalog of 100 • See the visible features that signal the style, explained in plain language on every result • Recognized landmarks include the building's name, architect, and history • NEW: the LifeList: collect all 100 styles as you spot them in the wild • NEW: your Library: every save keeps the photo and full analysis, readable offline • Offline capture queue for spotty connections, share cards for your best finds • 5 free identifications included: Archie Unlimited removes the limit

Basic event logging.

More reliable and faster performance; enhanced answers.