Play incredibly slow chess on Raven! Online chess these days is insanely addictive. Whatever happened to just playing a game with a friend, sending a move, waiting for their response, having a sip of coffee, or watching a whole week go by, maybe your favorite band comes to town and you go see their show, maybe you meet someone fascinating in the ticket line, and you meet up the next day and start to feel the first pitter patters in your tummy, those flutters of early potential romance, and then suddenly—you're in check, wait, what? Also app links! Extra egg drops and more! CAW CAW

Invite Links! Now you can send a personalized invite link and connect with friends even if you don't have their phone number. When you become friends through a link your location is safely hidden using your Outpost to receive and deliver mail (just like how PenPal works). Also now you can message new PenPals even as you wait for others to respond. Also many styling fixes and other Raven silliness. Perhaps some hidden gems around the app, who knows... CAW CAW

You can now collect couriers from farther away! Frogs, bunnies, and other timid little couriers were sometimes hiding inside buildings, making them hard to reach from outside. They should be much easier to collect now! Also, feathers in letters are now all about reciprocity: whenever you reply to a friend—or they reply to you—that letter contains feathers. CAW CAW!

From the start Raven has always been about slowing things down and being intentional in the world — well now you can literally walk around your neighborhood and enjoy Raven as you go. A turtle in a post office? A pigeon in a library! Check out the map to see where collectible couriers are, then go outside and collect them! *Caw caw

PenPal is here! Join the PenPal pool and make a new friend :) All safe, anonymous, with smart matching, and as always — SLOW. Also some fun flourishes and style upgrades. Keep flying! *Caw caw

It’s a Raven revolution! We’re trying something new: exact travel times are now visible. So yes… that penguin really will take 5 hr 16 min to deliver your letter. C’mon, he needs snack breaks! Also a lot of design changes including 'Follow' mode where you can watch your carriers travel across the map hands-free. Attachments are easier too. Sending an audio message or adding a polaroid is now just one tap away. We’ve also added a new intro flow to help new Raveners learn their way around the app. Enjoy all the silliness of Raven, and please send a letter to the Nest with your thoughts... or bird jokes. *Caw caw

Clouds! Clouds! Clouds in the map! Also link previews in letters — whenever you send any kind of link in a letter you'll see a cool (raven-styled) preview for it. So it's much more fun to share songs and videos and whatever you want with friends. Also see which friends are already on Raven in the Search page + the option to invite new friends. Also some new backgrounds! And some bird fixes :) - Got rid of some jitteriness in the Chat page - Some cleanups in the Compose page - Update initial zoom in the World page - Fun image/video loading (like the old DVD screen!) - And more! *Caw caw

Clouds! Clouds! Clouds in the map! Also link previews in letters — whenever you send any kind of link in a letter you'll see a cool (raven-styled) preview for it. So it's much more fun to share songs and videos and whatever you want with friends. Also see which friends are already on Raven in the Search page + the option to invite new friends. Also some new backgrounds! And some bird fixes :) - Got rid of some jitteriness in the Chat page - Some cleanups in the Compose page - Update initial zoom in the World page - Fun image/video loading (like the old DVD screen!) - And more! *Caw caw

New Speed Chart + Raven Passport! Get rewards for sending to/from different countries, cities and continents. Also some new cool backgrounds. And some bird fixes :) - Got rid of some jitteriness in the compose view - Cleaned up the Map - Cleaned up carrier Naming/Trading View - Fix images when sending to multiple people - Fun image/video loading (like the old DVD screen!) - And more! *Caw caw

FRIEND MODE! Make your world a little more fun by watching your friends' carriers move across the map (anonymously) wherever they're going. And GOLDEN EGGS! Golden eggs have new special characters only available there. And there's a new currency GOLD to go along with the golden eggs! Have too many chickens? Trade some in for gold (in the carrier naming view) and get a new special carrier. And lastly, we've added the ability to read the last letter sent to you while you're in compose mode so it's easy to respond fully to your friends' letters. Just open the + icon and then click on the chat bubble. *Caw caw

A great big UI update has landed in Raven. The birds have been busy... - Cleaned up the letter-writing flow - Added polaroid photos and videos - Introduced tape recorder audio messages - Redesigned gifting - Refreshed the map experience - Made it easier to tap on friends and runners in the map - Allow multiple newsletters for your different flocks Plus, as always, we ate a few bugs. *caw caw

Introducing Squawks — newsletters, but in the classic slow... Raven... way... Create a Squawk for the people you care about and send life updates to everyone at once. Share the beautiful, strange, giant, or mundane moments from your life, and keep your peeps in the loop with helpful reminders whenever you want them. + New fonts! And fixed an issue where a line of text was disappearing while writing a longer letter—if it still happens to you, please just change the font and it should work :) *caw caw

Introducing Squawks — newsletters, but in the classic slow... Raven... way... Create a Squawk for the people you care about and send life updates to everyone at once. Share the beautiful, strange, giant, or mundane moments from your life, and keep your peeps in the loop with helpful reminders whenever you want them. *caw caw

It's happening... you can now NAME your carriers, whether it's Jerry the giraffe, Betty the Bat, Pauline the Panda—pick the names, send them off with letters to your favorite people. And enjoy that sweet... incredibly... slow... life. *caw caw*

Raven eat bugs...yum. Speed enhancements + fixed issues with letter sends to new members + photo uploading *Caw caw*

Big update for dark-colored birds! We've added so much in this release, let's have a look... - We've changed the look, the style, the icon. It's Raven fashion. Hope you like it :) - Auto updating castle location: Now if you want, your castle will move with you when you change locations more than 0.5 away. Find this setting in 'Settings -> Update Castle Location' - We've added a stamp collection (view in the Castle!) of all the places you've sent letters from and all the places you've received letters from. Check how much you and your friends have traveled! - Archive friends (quietly) who you no longer wish to see in your world / messages - Have an ostrich stuck in limbo, waiting to send a letter to a friend who hasn't yet joined Raven? Easily replace your carrier in the World page so it's no longer stuck - Gifts are now sent as attachments so you can send gifts to multiple people at once! - You can now copy text while reading a letter

New mystery egg gifts + random feather bonuses for lucky Raveners! Happy flying. Caw caw.

Tired of writing in black ink? We've added lots of new pen colors to choose from! From blue to pink to yellow, write in whatever style suits you best! Enjoy :) Caw caw.

Today's Pick! Every day there will be a new character that you can unlock with feathers directly instead of just through hatching eggs randomly. Check the app each day, there might be a cat or an alpaca or an alien, who knows! There is also a new speed chart in the Castle to explain the different speeds of characters. And characters in the Castle now show how rare or common they are in tiers of Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary. Caw caw.

New fonts and backgrounds for letters! Send a letter in the style that feels like you :) Also... - Start a letter directly from the Castle by tapping a carrier - Tap on friends in the Map to write to them - The Raven ate some bugs...yum yum. Caw caw.

Send a Raven directly from the castle + some design enhancements! Also if you didn't catch the big update from before... New Characters! Hatching Eggs! We've added a bunch of new characters and changed the way that you can add them to your flock. Now you can purchase eggs with feathers, hatch them, and see what comes out! You might get a pigeon, a panda—even a vampire (mua ha ha!). Gaining feathers still works the same way by sending and receiving letters. But if you desperately DESPERATELY want more feathers, now you can purchase them. Caw caw.

New Characters! Hatching Eggs! We've added a bunch of new characters and changed the way that you can add them to your flock. Now you can purchase eggs with feathers, hatch them, and see what comes out! You might get a pigeon, a panda—even a vampire (mua ha ha!). Gaining feathers still works the same way by sending and receiving letters. But if you desperately DESPERATELY want more feathers, now you can purchase them. Caw caw.

Just a few bugs gobbled up by a very silly Raven. Caw caw. Happy flying.

Introducing: Sketching! Draw silly pictures for your friends and send them in letters...that will be delivered...incredibly...slowly. Caw caw. Happy flying.

Another big update! Send multiple photos/videos/voice messages in the same letter + now you can send links! And more: - Press on photos to save to library - Save photos you take in the app to your library Caw caw. Happy flying.