New in Thirdplaces: • Videos in posts: up to 30 seconds, trim them and tap to play • Stories: videos from your gallery and two-finger zoom in the camera • More room while scrolling: the bars slide away and come right back • Halloween collection in the shop, for a limited time only • Clear reasons when something isn't published, plus warnings with appeals in Settings • Plus lots of improvements and fixes

Thirdplaces now speaks more languages. Plus lots of improvements and fixes for a faster, more stable experience.

Meet your pet - Pets to collect, with Lucy by your side from day one - Your pet greets you, shares tips and celebrates your wins with you - New pets in the shop, dress them up and pick their size in the wardrobe - Getting started now begins with your pet - Open pet chat commands directly with the wand Stories, rebuilt from scratch - Gallery first: post several photos and videos at once - Text stories with eight fonts, draw with pen, marker, neon and eraser - Crop and rotate photos, add filters, trim videos - Music with a waveform: pick the part, loop it, six sticker styles - Flip the camera and turn on the light while you record - Meet stickers and mentions - You decide who sees your stories - Uploads keep going reliably, even after a lost connection - Round story circles on Home - A story notification opens the story itself Home and friends - New: With your friends shows new photos and activity from your friends - Updates from your groups and spaces bundled, one card per source - Like and comment on photos in profiles - Comments with a photo - Discover new people near you and in your city - Friend requests redesigned, with an optional hello - Home loads calmer and faster - Clearer group and space cards with up-to-date meet counts Profile - Your bio as a speech bubble - Portrait photo strip, drag to reorder - A showcase with three spots for your favorite achievements - React to profile answers with one emoji - Upload time in the photo viewer Levels, achievements and rewards - New rank overview with goals and chests - Nine new rank pets and nine frames to unlock - Celebrate unlocks and equip your pet or frame right away - See pending rewards and collect them all at once - Chests open as you collect them and reveal your reward - Achievements completely redesigned - Collect places when you are really there, with a stamp and its own badge - Your login streak gets celebrated, the flame grows with it - Streak shields in the shop save a missed day - Achievements show up as a banner at the top instead of a pop-up - Shop, diamonds and wardrobe redesigned Meets - Add costs to a meet - Time filters: today, this weekend, next week - The creation preview shows the real reach and the actual meet card - New cards and details with stories, location, participants and a chat preview - Clearer start and end dates for multi-day meets - See which friends are joining in the details - Home, groups and spaces refresh after you create a meet Privacy and settings - New privacy area: turn off friend requests, who can find you, mentions, nudges, read receipts - Decide what your friends see about you in their feed - Pause notifications, quiet hours and reminders - Accessibility: reduce motion, text size, haptics, video autoplay - Better name search Thirdplaces Premium - Redesigned, with a one-time free trial week - Diamonds included every month - Many more messages in the chat with your pet - Visit profiles incognito Improved and fixed - More reliable chat: messages sent on a weak connection go out later - The app starts offline and always shows fresh data - A new update screen with help - One consistent like heart everywhere - Double taps no longer open a screen twice - Retry failed loads - Recognize the Thirdplaces team by the seal on their avatar - Clearer owned items in the shop and an all-items view in the community shop - Improved leaderboards, achievements, referral rewards and map view - Dismissed pet tips stay hidden - More stable location requests, display and crash fixes

Invite friends, both benefit Share your invite link: anyone who joins through it gets bonus days of Premium as a gift – and so do you, for every friend who joins. Find it in Settings and in the share sheet. Lucy now shows real results Instead of plain text, you get real cards for events and places – to tap, compare, save. Lucy also remembers what you were talking about last time and offers to pick it back up instead of starting from zero every time. Voice messages, tidied up The recording indicator now lives right in the input bar instead of floating loosely on screen, and dragging left cancels a recording. Android: photo pins on the map are back Profile pictures on map pins were invisible on Android – fixed. Plus several layout fixes: the keyboard no longer covers input fields, the create button sits cleanly in the tab bar, and the status bar adapts everywhere. An interrupted profile is no longer lost Close the app mid-signup and you'll pick up exactly where you left off next time.

Chat polls - Create one from the plus menu in a meet or bubble chat - Live results with bars, percentages and avatars Planning meets - Preview at the end of creation, invite friends right there - Join requests handled right on the meet page - Date or venue can go back to undecided at any time - Open meets sit at the top of My World in their own planning section - Type the participant cap instead of dragging a slider - Category can be changed after creation My World and home - A calendar with your meets month by month - Nudges: say hello with one tap - Announcements as pinned cards in the chat - A new row on home shows what you missed - Login streak counts from the background, with an evening reminder Improved and fixed - Meet changes show up everywhere right away - The invite preview shows open dates and venues honestly - Invite codes are six characters now, old ones keep working - Stories upload in the right order, even after being offline - The keyboard no longer covers input fields

Golden Hour design - Warm gradient, new typeface, light paper, dark graphite - Unified buttons, chips and badges Meet Boost - Features your meet in Explore for 72 hours - Premium gets one boost free every month, more in the shop for diamonds Chat polls - Create one from the plus menu in a meet or bubble chat - Live results with bars, percentages and avatars Planning meets - Preview at the end of creation, invite friends right there - Join requests handled right on the meet page - Date or venue can go back to undecided at any time - Open meets sit at the top of My World in their own planning section - Type the participant cap instead of dragging a slider - Category can be changed after creation My World and home - A calendar with your meets month by month - Nudges: say hello with one tap - Announcements as pinned cards in the chat - A new row on home shows what you missed - Login streak counts from the background, with an evening reminder Improved and fixed - Meet changes show up everywhere right away - The invite preview shows open dates and venues honestly - Invite codes are six characters now, old ones keep working - Stories upload in the right order, even after being offline - The keyboard no longer covers input fields

Detail pages rebuilt from scratch - Meet, bubble, space and event pages now run in one single scroll. The title no longer sits on top of a photo but in its own banner card - Each page keeps its own signature: a date block on a meet, the avatar on a bubble, a ticket edge on an event - Chat, invite and bookmark moved into the top bar, so there are never more than three actions below - Actions appear in a fixed order and only when they are actually available - On a meet, the description now leads, stories move up right under the facts, and Leave sits at the very bottom instead of among the actions Dates that finally add up - Date and time now sit on two separate lines, so a range across midnight no longer breaks in the middle of the date - An evening from 7pm to 2am is one evening, not two days - Multi-day meets show start and end on one connected line, even across ten days - Rating and props only appear for the session you actually attended. On a weekly series the app no longer asks you about an evening that happened before you joined Plan a meet before everything is settled - Date and venue can be set to undecided and filled in later - The description is optional now, the 50 character minimum is gone - Open meets do not expire and show no countdown - Co-organizers can manage a meet, a bubble or a space. Deleting stays with the creator My World and stories - Bubbles and spaces look exactly the same in My World as in Explore, including type, rank, badges and how many members are near you - Event rows now show who is going, who is interested and which groups are heading there together - Stories upload in exactly the order you posted them - You can download your own stories, and pending ones stay visible on your profile even without a connection - Get a push when friends post a story, jumping straight to the right place Improved and fixed - The chat header stayed on a loading placeholder when you opened a conversation from your inbox - A bubble claimed "4 members" above a list holding a single person - A meet without a participant limit showed "2 of -1 spots" - Co-organizer invites are now treated as invitations everywhere instead of join requests - Badges were clipped inside banners, and month names sometimes appeared in English - Pull to refresh in My World looks like everywhere else, with no second spinner on iOS 26

My World, rebuilt One timeline instead of four tabs: everything you said yes to, grouped by day – plus your bubbles and spaces, open invitations, your saved items and an archive for everything that's over. Explore, tidied up The map is no longer its own screen – it now lives right inside Explore. New: overview pages per section and a dedicated page for official spaces. The same cards everywhere Spaces and bubbles in My World now show what they show in Explore: type, level and how many members are near you. For events you can see how many are going, how many are interested and how many groups are heading there together. Light theme reworked Cards stand out more clearly from the background, counters are colour-coded, and the logo adapts to the mode.

What's new in Thirdplaces DISCOVER & EVENTS • New Events tab: events nearby or across the country — filter by date, category and distance, sort by "Soonest", "Newest" or "Popular". • "Interested" and "Going" right on every event, with counts — plus "X groups going". • Multi-date events now show the next date and every date in the details. • Share events by QR code or link and go together. PLACES I'VE BEEN • The cities you've visited are now shaded as real city areas on the map — no more rough circles. PLANS & CHAT • Propose a date: offer up to 5 options and let people vote, poll-style. • Online status in direct messages. • Export meets & events to your calendar. • Share meets and saved events straight into a chat. • Avatar frames now show up in chats. RATINGS & PROPS • After a meet: rate it and give the people compliments — anonymously. • Your props appear as chips on your profile. PHOTOS & COMMENTS • Profile photos can be liked and commented on. • Comments reworked: reply, like, delete and report. PREMIUM • Premium now shows your premium months as a streak. ACCESS • The invite screen now explains why there's a code and where to get one — with direct links to TikTok & Instagram. IMPROVEMENTS • Profile picture loads instantly (no more waiting for a refresh). • Friend requests: "You're now friends" with accept/decline right in the list — no more duplicate notifications. • Map markers now show the category. • Many more fixes and polish.

Chat becomes your hub for making plans - Share meets and events right in chat and line up a night out with one tap to "go together" - Propose a date with its own full-screen composer - Lucy suggests great venues with Google ratings - vote on them together - Reply with quotes, @mentions, saved drafts and personal name colors - Scrub back and forth through voice memos - Send photos straight from the camera - Read receipts as you'd expect (blue only once everyone has read) plus a sheet showing who saw and reacted - Search friends in your chat list - start new conversations with one tap A tidier home - "Home" now puts your friends and communities first: stories, upcoming meets, open actions and who is coming along - "Explore" gathers everything to browse - with a location picker and an endless feed Bubbles and polls - Redesigned bubble overview: everything in one scroll, no more tabs - Edit polls, multi-select voting and expandable options Improved and fixed - Verified check is now visible for everyone (no longer Premium-only) - Many fixes to chat previews, push notifications, shared meets and story links - Faster, more stable on Android 15

New - Brand-new story-style Discover feed to find people and moments. - Meet stories now appear in the Discover feed. - Tag people in posts & stories + Instagram-style story repost. - Unified privacy & visibility settings for meets, bubbles and spaces. - Location privacy: share your exact spot as a privacy circle instead of a precise pin. - Lucy (AI) now works in group chats. - Friend requests show when they were sent and friendship status is now consistent everywhere. - "View more" for spaces & bubble meets, plus smoother feed loading. - Tappable weekly-streak chip with a how-it-works info sheet. - Birthday greetings and gallery zoom. - In-app review prompt and localized store content. Fixed - Sending a friend request works reliably again – the button no longer snaps back to "Add friend". - You stay signed in when opening the app from a notification. - Notifications now always open the correct screen. - Meet invites accept instantly; correct location labels. - Wider, more natural camera view (no longer over-zoomed) + smoother story preview. - Fixes to group invites, pull-to-refresh, story visibility, and messaging, reposts & quests.

Bubble- & Space-Level jetzt getrennt - Bubbles und Spaces haben eigene Rang-Welten: Bubble Crew → Legacy, Space Spot → Institution - Eigene Level-Badges direkt auf Karten und im Profil - Eigener Community-Shop, Bestenliste & Erfolge pro Bubble/Space Quests & Streaks überarbeitet - Tägliche Quest-Rotation – jeden Tag frische Ziele - Neue Real-Life-Wochen-Streak: bleib aktiv, indem du wöchentlich an einem Treffen teilnimmst oder eins hostest (inkl. Freeze-Schutz) - Neue Quests: neue Orte besuchen, neue Kategorien entdecken u. v. m. - Level-up-Konfetti Verbesserungen - Klarere Benennung „Bubble-Level" / „Space-Level" - Feinschliff an Texten in allen Sprachen - UI-Politur (Glass-Buttons, Header, Abstände) „Wo ich war" - Deine besuchten Orte als eigene Profil-Karte + Vollbild-Karte - Übersicht über Städte & Locations mit Besuchszähler und Foto-Strip - Sieh auf einen Blick, wo du überall warst Behoben - Abmelden funktioniert jetzt zuverlässig - Belohnungen & Quests werden korrekt gutgeschrieben (keine doppelten oder verlorenen Punkte) - Layout-Korrekturen (u. a. „Wo ich war"-Liste, Bubble-Verwaltungs-Titel)