Discover Spixes with a new introduction: backpacker recommendations, a community map and up to three countries to start your adventure. Preview an example day-by-day itinerary, explore public places without an account and choose between monthly and annual Spixes+ plans.

• Plan your days with Gems from your destination with Spixes+. • Explore your itinerary with photos, clearer stops and more gradual animations. • See who added each place. • Invite friends to join your trip when your plan is ready. • Enjoy bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Imagine a trip your way with flexible dates, your pace, interests and editable stops. • Explore an illustrated recap with suggestions inspired by your destination. • Get a clearer view of your itinerary and its map. • See your world progress on your profile and quickly add visited countries and memories. • Enjoy a new animated launch and translation improvements. • A redesigned messaging experience with a native iOS interface. • Discover nearby travellers and shared destinations based on shared information. • See countries you have both visited and browse travel memory collections more easily. • Choose your first 3 free Gems wherever you travel. • Reveal Gems directly on the map with a new animation. • Discover the new Spixes+ experience to explore every place. • Share a clearer travel map with a fresh Spixes look. • Moment prompts now follow confirmed journeys of over 100 km. • Enable Gem discovery notifications in Settings.

More room for your adventures: • Improved map and place sheets. • Country and moment collections take centre stage in your profile. • New travel map and itinerary sharing, with optional moments. • Display fixes and translation improvements in English, French and Spanish.

bugs fixed.

Spixes is going even further in this update: • 72 new recommendations across 24 backpacker destinations; • new social hostels, nightlife ideas and must-do activities; • honest Spixes opinions and tips on place pages; • volunteer opportunities on the map and inside planned trips; • a new swipe experience for choosing trip activities; • a new “Moments first” filter; • richer destination pages; • improved map filters; • a new 3D app icon and raspberry splash screen; • onboarding, navigation and performance improvements.

Spixes gets a fresh start: the app is now a living map of backpacker travel. A map-first home Your passport and the whole traveler world on one map. Switch between Discover and My World. Your trips, upgraded Plan your route, see who will be on it, and get tips for every stop. Places that come alive Community photos and tips for every destination Your moment of the day Share a moment daily, keep your streak, Meet travelers Find the people headed where you're going, and scan them to keep them on your map. Faster, smoother, more intuitive. Safe t

- In-app QR scanner — new camera button on your profile to scan another Spixer's QR badge without leaving the app (no more bouncing through iOS Camera) - Redesigned onboarding — 5 interactive slides: passport map intro, tappable "Where have you been?", volontariat preview, encounter scan demo, role pick - Quick stamp — new "+" button next to "Log a memory" to mark a country as visited without going through the full memory flow Improvements - Public profile — now uses the same PassportCard as your own profile (rotating gradient ring, MRZ, holographic shine) - ShareMap — new aesthetic ported from the web Passport (flat violet fills, hairline borders, dynamically positioned labels, "petit point" bug killed) - Trip — country and stop names translated to your app language, collaborators preserved on edit (avatars no longer vanish when you add a stop) - LogMoment — tappable flag opens a country override picker - Cold start — single splash animation instead of two flashing in sequence Fixes - "You crossed paths" detection window 30d → 7d (less notification noise, overlaps now suggest actually meeting in person) - Trip from another user — viewers can no longer add an activity to a trip they don't own / aren't collaborating on - Moments → countries — logging a moment in a country now auto-stamps it on your map - TabBar is now more compact - iOS HIG — corrected sub-44pt touch targets - i18n — Chat, PublicProfile, LogMoment, TripPlanner: strings and dates that stayed in French/English for other locales are now properly translated - Vietnam (and any country / city beyond the curated set) is now findable in the trip stop search (Google Places key provisioned) Native deps added expo-camera, expo-task-manager, expo-splash-screen

This release, we went straight for the spine: your trips. • Chat directly with your co-travellers — one group chat per trip, for last-minute plans or quick questions without leaving the screen. • Cancel an invite you sent by mistake — yes, that happens. • The trip page got rebuilt: countdown, stops on a timeline, what's coming up — all readable at a glance. • Sharing your world map is now one tap from your profile. • Travel Stories flag who's travelling right now — LIVE badge, smarter ranking, no more wall of the same author at the top of the feed. • Destination vibes, activities as emojis, a faster app startup. A few bugs along the way: the departure date you couldn't change, the invite that crashed on "Could not create trip", missing info on Saigon, Hanoi and Da Nang. Fixed. Safe travels.

• Capture short videos (up to 30s) in your travel moments, not just photos • Redesigned Share Map — add your own photo and favorite trip for an Instagram-Stories-worthy card • Animated opening screen • Brand new booking flow • Friends you invite as co-travelers can now edit shared trips • Faster and smoother throughout

New: • In-app hostel booking with secure payment • Trip Planner v2 with suggested itineraries • Interactive shareable passport • Memories & souvenirs per trip • Follow your travel friends Improvements: • Extended sessions (stay logged in longer) • Fully redesigned backpacker experience • Improved English, French, and Spanish translations • Bug fixes and performance Thanks for your feedback — feel free to write to us.

• New Travelers tab on destinations : see who's been there, their photos and stories • Groups revamped: cleaner chat experience, private/public setting now fully works • Improved stability and crash reporting • Various bug fixes and performance improvements