• Added translations • Bug fixes

• Bug Fixes • New exclusive themes synced across apps • Fixed storage issues • Performance updates

Fresh Design & Smoother Experience: • Brand new overall app design and a newly added logo animation. • Updated Game Center support and reliable cloud syncing for your themes. • Resolved bugs related to store purchases and restoring currency. • Fixed sound glitches, ensuring app audio no longer interrupts your background music.

Massive Expansion:  • 400 new campaign levels  • 15+ new unlockable themes. • Sign in with Apple to securely sync your progress across all your devices • Game Center support with synced achievements and leaderboards • Upgraded star counter, smoother button UI after wins, and better sound effects. • Fixed audio glitches and visual bugs for iOS 17 users.

• iOS 17 compatibility added

• Sound effects are now cleaner and crisper • Added haptics to star collection • Fixed some minor visual bugs

Bug fixes for leaderboard and profile sections

BIGGEST UPDATE SINCE RELEASE Leaderboards & Social: • Global Leaderboards: Introducing Leaderboards that track Weekly Stars, Daily Challenge times, and Campaign progress. This replaces our stats tab as it is moved to settings. • User Profiles: Introduced a new Profile tab where username can be configured, customizable avatars, and a stats list. • Friends System: Added a unique 6-digit friend code system, allowing you to directly send requests, view all friends, and remove friends via a dedicated popup. Users can be previewed in leaderboards UI & Visual Polish: • Header Changes: Currency and Shop moved to top right while Profile, Settings, and Theme-picker moved to top left. • Layout Improvements: Massively improved visual layouts, featuring increased margins for landscape mode and proper card scaling for iPad users. • Unified Design: Standardized UI elements with consistent card sizing, added borders around all cards, and adjusted spacing for a much cleaner look. • Visual Tweaks: Icons and text are now tinted to match theme, added new splash text, and increased theme pattern frame rates • Updated Tutorial: Enhanced the tutorial text and layouts across the app, and added a "Skip Tutorial" button. Gameplay & Mechanics: • Precision Timing: Time is now stored and displayed in milliseconds, giving you absolute accuracy for tracking your daily challenge. Progression & Stats: • Achievement Overhaul: Completely revamped the achievement system, renamed to "Feats" with achievements having brand new icons and cleaner visuals. Achievements have dedicated popup for tracking progress • New Quests: Longer quests for bigger rewards Stability & Cloud: • Cloud Saving: Progress now automatically saves to the cloud every time the app is closed, complete with a visual popup option to restore cloud data. • Bug Fixes: Resolved multiple major crashes related to bottom-bar sound effects, thread errors, and database initialization to ensure a much smoother gameplay experience. Accounts & Safety: • Verification & Moderation: Added a new age verifier at the start of the app due to leaderboard displaying usernames

Campaign & Modes:  • Campaign Mode: Added a brand new mode featuring 100 levels and 5 exclusive unlockable themes.  • Landmine Update: This mode is now more lenient, accepting up to three mistakes before losing, and features new visual indicators when a life is lost.  • Enhanced Hints: Updated hints to provide text explanations and board highlights that pair directly with current hint. • New Achievements: Added a new set of achievements specifically for Campaign progress. Themes & Customization:  • Theme Control: The theme picker now allows you to Favorite and Hide themes to better organize your collection.  • Shuffle Option: Added a new shuffle feature that rotates through every theme currently visible in your picker. Stats & Audio:  • Expanded Stats: Campaign data is now tracked in stats, and a visual bug has been fixed which prevented content being displayed properly. • Audio Refresh: Added new sound effects for earning stars, completing boards, and the win screen.

Visual Overhaul: • Theme Update: Almost every background theme has been overhauled with huge visual improvements, including new animations. • New Default: The "Sea" theme is now the default experience for new players. • Glassy Bar Setting: Added a new setting that makes UI bars transparent/glassy, allowing you to see the animated backgrounds behind them. Shop & Quests: • Shop Categories: The shop is now sorted into categories to better display different animation styles. • New Visuals: Updated the visuals for locked themes and reworked the Quest Claim animation. Stats & Improvements: • Better Tracking: Fixed stats to accurately track games won and started. • Broad Categories: Added tracking for All, Small, Medium, and Large. • Bug Fixes: Fixed a crash related to the sound not loading.

New Themes: • Fresh looks for your board! Added 4 new striped themes: Beetle, Mint Chocolate, Dart, and Ectoplasm. Improvements: • Daily Challenges: Completing the Daily now awards the full 20 stars. • Better Layout: We’ve tightened up the interface by moving the Header and Tools closer to the board, giving you more screen space to play. • Helpful Tips: Added a prompt to encourage earning stars in other modes once star cap is reached in Classic. Bug Fixes & Polish: • Fixed a freezing issue that could occur when navigating to the Modes tab. • Fixed a visual glitch where Hints would already be tapped visually. • Corrected text in Theme-picker to match text in Shop • Shop is now sorted by color

Smarter Hints: The Hint feature now automatically flips a previously incorrect tile, no extra input required. Better Visibility: We’ve increased the contrast of tile outlines to make them pop against darker backgrounds. UI Polish: The title font size has been increased

• Remove Ads: You can now purchase the "Remove Ads" option in Settings to enjoy an uninterrupted experience. • Premium Bonus: Removing ads automatically doubles your Daily Star Cap to 200! • Bug Fixes: Resolved an issue with incorrect Island sizing logic.

• Fixed Ad Banner (again I know) • Fixed Impossibly sized Quests

• Tutorial: Now interactive and easier to follow. • Achievements: New achievements added + fixed a bug with claiming rewards. • Shop: Items are now sorted for better browsing. • UI Update: Improved layout support for "Display Zoom" (Large Text). • Fixes: Corrected ad formatting on various devices.

• Updated Tutorial to include the Disconnected Tile rule and "Tap to Continue" indicators • Added a "Show Disconnected Tile Error" toggle to help new players learn the rules

Improved Tutorial: Rewrote text to be clearer and more consistent across slides.

Fixed:  • Resolved an issue causing duplicate boards, particularly in 5x5 combinations. Every game is now guaranteed to be unique • Updated the "Choose Size" popup in Modes to match the style of Home screen's popup on larger screens

New Features & Content: • New Board Size: Fixed a bug where the 5x9 board option would not load • New Themes: Get into the spirit with the new Candy Cane and Green Candy Cane themes! (Note: The Volt and Eclipse themes have been retired). • Quest Animations: Added a new animation when rerolling quests. Settings & Visuals: • Toggle Dim Completed Islands: Added a new setting to toggle the dimmed islands once they are finished. • Error Highlighting: Added a pulsing effect setting for 2x2 errors to help you spot mistakes faster. • Layout Improvements: Added a shop icon in the top bar for a more intuitive experience Tutorial Updates: • Updated the in-app tutorial to better explain the toolbar

• Quest Rerolls: Swap out quests you don't want to do! • Economy Update: Added a daily cap on stars per mode. • iPad Fixes: Resolved popup display issues on larger screens. • Tutorial Polish: Fixed markers not appearing correctly in the tutorial.

We’ve overhauled our tutorial!  It's now smoother, clearer, and easier to follow than ever before.

Added: • 5 New Themes: Fresh looks available in the  • Cooldown Skip: Added the option to skip wait times by watching an ad. Improvements & Fixes: • Landscape Updates: Increased the size of the board and toolbar. Adjusted the board orientation so it now rotates correctly with the screen. • Home Popup: Fixed an issue where the popup on the Home screen was appearing too high.

New Features: • iPad Support: Added full support for iPad with scaled UI, larger text, and expanded layouts for menus like Shop and Settings. • Landscape Mode: Added landscape orientation support exclusively for iPad. Fixes & Improvements: • Visual Stability: Fixed layout shifting issues to ensure the game board stays consistent when ads load. Bug Fixes: • Fixed sorting in the Theme Picker. • Resolved issues with double popups and duplicate Star rewards. • Fixed a glitch preventing some Achievements from being claimed.

• Music-friendly gameplay – Nurikabe no longer pauses your music or videos • Smoother star animations – Star rewards feel more fluid and polished, with improved motion and timing • Progress that counts everywhere – All game modes (including Home) now contribute toward board size unlocks • New themes: 80s + Hottie – Two bold new looks: retro neon vibes, plus a red-to-hot-pink theme • Medal claim sound effect – Added satisfying audio feedback when claiming medals • Stats improvement – Stats now start users on 5×5 boards instead of 5×6 for a more intuitive baseline

Fixed Tutorial sounds and haptics as well as removed repetitive themes