The light and the weekend. • Legal shooting light — every season page now shows first and last light for opening day (or today, once the season's open), calculated for your location under your state's own rules. • The Weekend Brief — a Friday rundown of your weekend: openers, last days, and deadlines, on your Home screen. • A cleaner season page: the season's facts, opening-day light, and the fine print, each in its place. • "Buy your license" reminders on season, draw, and regulation pages. • 26 new launch quotes — Muir, Thoreau, Roosevelt, Kephart, Fred Bear, and company. • Polish and fixes throughout.

A new look and a bigger reach. • A new icon and launch screen — Open Season, spelled out. • Federal permit hunts are now followable: find managed hunts on refuges, national forests, and Corps of Engineers lakes in search, tap + to add them to your follows, and get reminders when dates are posted. • Google sign-in is now a native account picker — faster, clearer, one tap. • Fresh season data: New Jersey's new digest, Montana goose, Kentucky dove, and more — verified against official sources, as always.

Find your hunt. New search covers every season, draw deadline, and — for the first time — federal permit hunts (Army Corps lakes, National Wildlife Refuge hunts) across all 50 states. Type a species, a state, a month, or just "open now." Plus: tap any season to set reminders for exactly the hunts you hunt — archery-only folks stop hearing about rifle dates. A cleaner "What you follow" page and more voices in the opening quotes round it out.

Your profile got the field-book treatment: a cleaner layout with your name, home state, and everything you track organized into simple sections. Plus small polish throughout — better spacing on Home and quicker paths to what you use most.

Every species page now opens with a voice from the field — Roosevelt on the elk, Twain on the coyote, Audubon on the turkey, and a few lines from closer to home. Plus engraved artwork for more than 40 species, clearer season names (like Colorado's 1st–4th Rifle seasons), and season-date fixes across several states.

Open Season is going free-to-browse! This update introduces Open Season Pro. • Browse every state's season dates and draw deadlines — free • Open Season Pro ($9.99/year): opener and deadline reminders, draw results alerts, hunting parties, application tracking, and preference points • Forgot-password: reset your password right from the sign-in screen • Everyone who bought the app keeps full access — forever. Thank you for being early.

Hunting Parties — apply for draws with your buddies. Start a party from any draw, share your invite code, and see who's applied as the deadline counts down. Everyone in the party gets the deadline reminders automatically. Also in this update: • Seasons screen now organized by month, so you can see your fall at a glance • Fixed: Add to Calendar now works • Draw notes now shown on application windows • Polish throughout