The end of a game, worth watching. • Sign in with your phone number on iPhone: the code now arrives, and any problem is explained under the phone field. • Your herd celebrates the win, and the game tells its own story. • Arrive somewhere new and your passport stamps it on the spot. • Confetti for a win; your rating counts up with the change beside it, then your tier, your rank and your rewards land one by one. • New achievements and passport stamps, the moment you earn them. • Share your victory card to WhatsApp with a challenge link. • Home shows a living postcard of where you stand. • Choose the board on the setup screens.

The end of a game, worth watching. • Your herd celebrates the win, and the game tells its own story. • Arrive somewhere new and your passport stamps it on the spot. • Confetti for a win; your rating counts up with the change beside it, then your tier, your rank and your rewards land one by one. • New achievements and passport stamps, the moment you earn them. • Share your victory card to WhatsApp with a challenge link. • Home shows a living postcard of where you stand. • Choose the board on the setup screens.

A leaderboard that matches the website. • Traditional and Koti are separate ladders. Switch between them on the Rating tab, and the app remembers your choice. • Filter the leaderboard by country, search for any player, and show players rated below 1200. • Every row shows the player's picture, flag, rank insignia and full name. • See where you stand, even when you are outside the top 40.

A faster, surer online board. • Taps land where you put them. Each point now takes the touch nearest to it, so a finger slightly off centre no longer places on the next ring. • Your move shows the instant you make it. The board, the piece counts and the turn line update on the tap and the server confirms behind the scenes — if it ever disagrees, the board restores itself and tells you the rule. • Legal moves are marked, as they are offline and on the website: where a cow may be placed, where the cow you picked up may step, and which cows may be taken after a mill. Turn the markers off in Settings › Hints. • Illegal taps are refused on the spot with the rule, not after a round trip: an unconnected point, a protected cow, a Koti block you must make. • Drag a cow to move it, and see the point it will land on. • Confirm moves works online too: with it on, the first tap arms a point and the second commits it.

Sign in with your phone number. • Your number is your account. We text you a six-digit code — there is no password to remember, and a number we have not seen creates the account on the spot. • Playing as a guest? Verify your number and everything you have played comes with you: your rating, your games, your rank. If that number already has an account, we ask before letting go of your guest progress — we never trade it away quietly. • Guests can play online again: ten games a day against people, and the Grand Master three times. Guest games stay unrated and off the leaderboard. • A game that stops before both sides have moved is voided instead of scored. A single placement followed by a walkout is no longer a win on anyone's record. • Apple and Google sign-in fix: linking an identity that already had an account could fail with an unhelpful error instead of asking you what to do.

Morabaraba now speaks to you by name. • Every message addresses players by rank and name — "Victory is yours, Private NoblePebble!" — never by the colour of the cows. Even a loss gets a word of respect. • The Grand Master is here: the strongest opponent, online and always in, on Traditional or Koti. It answers more reliably, and it is called by its full title everywhere. • Military ranks: your insignia and rank on your profile, the leaderboard and after every game — from Recruit to Field Marshal, earned by playing. • Watch Games: follow live matches or replay finished ones, move by move, with the story of how each was decided. • Faster play against the AI: your cow lands the moment you tap, and the reply follows without the long pauses. • Games against the AI now count online for signed-in players: they appear in your history and earn rank XP. • Home has a daily gift and live activity. • Fixes: wins by reducing the herd now pay XP and quests, quitting a game is recorded honestly, and pass-and-play recognises a blocked herd.

Your Journey can start anywhere. • The same quieter sandstone as the web, with bigger cattle. Carved Bulls are now the default pieces. • The same markers for legal moves, captures, mills, your selection and the computer's last move, with coordinates along the top and left edges. • Every journey is open from day one, and there are new journeys for every SADC country, from Angola to Zimbabwe. • The two boards are simply Traditional and Koti.

Morabaraba now shows ads to stay free. • The strip under the board carries a banner ad, and an ad can appear when you leave a finished game: never during play, and at most once every three minutes. • Ads are limited to content rated PG or lower, and the app never asks to track you across other apps. • In Europe, the UK and Switzerland you choose how ads are shown, and can change that choice at any time in Settings under Ad privacy choices.

Morabaraba now looks and works like morabaraba.co.za on a phone. • A new logo: ironwood letters, gold wirework and the horns of the M, on the app's opening screen and in the top bar. • Home opens on the two boards. Tap Traditional or Koti and a game against the computer starts at once. • Five tabs: Home, Play, Online, Journey and More. • The Online Arena opens on the players who are here right now, each one a tap away from a game. Matchmaking, tournaments and the leaderboard are on the same screen. • Journey has its own tab: your level, your XP and the road ahead. • The end of a game says the result, what it paid and offers the next game, and nothing else. • The board is cut from Southern African sandstone, and the stone is kept quiet so the cattle stand out. • Traditional is played on the Traditional board. • Online games make a sound, and play with the phone on silent.

Recent changes - Let the release workflow start - The UI tests walk the five tabs, not the old ones - Let the result screen say the result - Let the boards be the headline - The Journey has a screen of its own, and a tab - The Online Arena reads like the website's, Challenges first - Home is the website's landing page: tap a board, the game starts - The app wears the website's chrome: dark top bar, five tabs, a More sheet - The phone website's spec and its two photographs live in the repo - The online board sits in the same room as the offline one - Testers play on the dev backend, the App Store on production - Game sounds play with the phone on silent - Online games make a sound, and settings can be found - Open a 1.0.1 train so betas have somewhere to land - Say where CI's signing settings actually go - A finger can reach the online board - Traditional is played on the Traditional board - Record the parity review that found the wrong board - A finger can reach the online board - Write down how a build reaches TestFlight and what it needs - Stop writing to production Firestore on every pull request - Build CI on the same Xcode the code is written on - A merge ships to TestFlight, a tag ships to the App Store - Say what the app actually does now - A puzzle a day, on the Learn tab - A leaderboard you can actually get to the bottom of - Quest XP adds up, the replay can be read, and the last switches work - A 401 is not always the end of a session, and the bulls stay optional - The app can be submitted, and the game has seven voices - The game stops forgetting what you told it - An iOS player and a web player can finally be put in the same queue - Tournaments get a host name, a real bracket, an invite flow, and a way to end one - Carved Bulls join the River Stones - A Discover tab, real followers/following lists, and flags on the leaderboard - Daily quests, a weekly challenge, and a post-game debrief - An online mill or capture finally looks like one - Naming: Koti (Lesotho) and Traditional (South African) Morabaraba - Every challenge was Traditional, whether you meant it or not - The invite link finally has somewhere to land, and searching stops being a dead end - A gone opponent gets a countdown, then a claim button - A draw finally says why - Forfeit finally asks first, and sometimes it isn't a forfeit at all - The rating stops calling itself ELO - Moving and dragging finally have to block too - Sign-in stops leaking across accounts, and push notifications wait for a tap - Put iOS and the web client in the same game - Consume the whole Morabaraba Online API from iOS - Consolidate scattered docs into docs/{specs,planning,history} - Fix CI: commit the shared scheme, dedupe PR runs, add caching and pinning - Add the Online Arena lobby and Google Sign-In to iOS - Record what online play on iOS is not yet proven to do - Pin two shapes a real beta game actually returns - Add online play to iOS - Stop tracking .DS_Store - WIP: online-play plan and backend reference notes - Adopt the canonical rule presets and preset ids - Add badges, difficulty progress, and quick-play settings system - Add CI workflow: build and unit test on push/PR - Ignore local screen-recording video files - Remove Test2/, an unrelated scratch SwiftUI project