the app learned what time it is. a new door on home asks "what kind of night is it?" — or day, before five. seven honest answers, each opening something real: reaching out, your room, one small thing, a night off, or quietly asking to be seen. "being seen" is new: on a night you feel like not enough, one person in your room is privately asked to say hi. they see your name, nothing posts publicly, and if the room stays quiet a human is guaranteed anyway. the one small thing now remembers itself — "done: put your phone in another room" — and your look back keeps the list of what you actually did. also: triggers can be deleted again, sealing a capsule stamps SEALED across the card the way it always should have, and the lock screen finally gets its own widget instructions (it was there all along — now the app tells you). and the biggest one: moved on before day 45? met someone, or just done? there's a door for that now — leave well, days banked, zero questions asked. and if you're steady enough to stay reachable for someone else's 2am, that door opens at day 14.

the room got warmer. react to any message with a tap — a small fixed set, counts only, never a scoreboard. your words land instantly when you send, and the newest ones stay above the keyboard. mornings: one small thing to go and do, next to your daily pledge. evenings end with the room's question — one prompt the whole pod answers, landing beside everyone's mood. when someone holds their first day, or comes back after a rough one, one podmate is quietly asked to leave them a line for the morning. milestone capsules — seal a line to your future self; it opens on the day you earn it, and it never leaves your phone. the sprout follows your eyes when you tilt the phone, and sometimes blows a kiss. plus: an on-call card that shows who's waiting, honest company on the SOS wait screen, gentler haptics everywhere, and a stack of fixes from real 2am use.

tonight's story — a few words from someone further along, one a night. the series ends; there's no feed under it. the sprout is on your home screen now, with a line for today. plus: an SOS card says how old it is before you answer it, nothing you typed disappears if a send fails, and your streak card saves straight to photos.

your pod can actually reach you now. • notifications, both directions: your pod's SOS rings your phone, and the app checks on you — morning pledge, evening check-in. never marketing. • answer an SOS straight from your lock screen: "i'm here — give me 60s." • replies in an SOS thread now notify everyone in it. nobody types into the void. • new pod chat pings — quiet, at most one per 15 minutes, never with the message on your lock screen. • wrong fit? you can now leave your pod. your streak is untouched — a new pod takes you in. • checked in already? tonight's reminder stays silent.