Release Notes
9.0
What’s New:
- In-transit Edit: Made a mistake or want to tweak a letter? Now, Plus users can edit letters while they’re still in transit.
- Pick Uncollected Stamps: Easily see which stamps your pen pal has collected while choosing a stamp to send.
- Sent:Received Ratio: Choose to show or hide your Sent:Received Ratio for more privacy.
- ID Verification (Blue Badge): The blue badge on Slowly lets others know that your account is ID-verified. It builds trust while allowing you to remain private behind a nickname and avatar. Plus users only.
- New Achievement Stamps: Unlock all 12 and celebrate your Slowly journey.
- Emoji Status: New emojis to personalise your status even further.
Improvements:
- Bug Fixes and Performance: We’ve fixed bugs and made general improvements for a smoother experience.
8.0
What’s New:
- Open Letters: Share open letters with more people and boost your matching potential!
- Writing Tools: Ignite creativity with a 4-step guide, offering abundant writing prompts and samples.
- Anniversary Stamps: New achievement stamps to honour our long-term supporters.
Improvements:
- Enhanced UI: Enjoy a clearer category grouping in your profile settings.
- Bug Fixes and Performance: We’ve also addressed other bugs and made general improvements for a smoother experience.
7.4.18
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Mitigation for Android devices text input hang
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.4.9
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed a permissions issue that prevented Android 13 from reading photos
- Mitigation for Samsung devices ( Android 13 with Grammarly keyboard ) text input hang
7.4
What’s New:
- My Stamps: Added hide stamp and keyword search functions
- Stamp Selection Bar: Redesigned UI with shortcut and search function, more consistent with the My Stamps interface design.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Improves device camera compatibility for QR code scanning
- Optimises performance on iOS 16 & Android 13
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.3
What’s New:
- Top up Plus bonus: 100 monthly free coins
- Stamp Store revamp, including:
- Current and coming Exclusive Stamps for your location
- Coming Special Day Stamps with reminder function
- New interface for Random Stamps with full listing and drop rate
- Indicator for owned stamps
- New product: Stamp Series
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.2.10
What’s New:
- Upgraded AdMob SDK to support the latest ad formats
- Added Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK to comply with the latest IAB standards (for EEA and UK users only)
- Added on-device language detection for the first letter to prevent language mismatch
- The default stamp for new users changed to one of their regional stamps (if available)
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.2
What’s New:
Enhanced Profile – For finding your perfect pen pals!
You can now:
- Add custom Subtopics
- State your preferred Letter Length and Reply Time
- Show your Favourite Stamps & Stamp Collection
Other Improvements:
- Reduces app start-up time
- Improves performance when reading letters
- Improves cross-platform UI alignment
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.1
- (7.1.9) Improved compatibility with iOS 15
- Allows drag and drop to re-order My Stamps Bookmarks ( long press to start dragging )
- Supports split screen and rotation on iPad / Tablets
- Supports screen change on foldable devices
- Optimizes performance on different screen sizes
- Reduces memory usage on Stamp Collection
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
7.0
What’s New:
- My Paragraphs: Write anytime and insert into letters later
- Shortcut Bar: Make it easy to get started with usage tips
- Reply Reminder: Assist you to become a consistent pen pal
- Word Counter: Count your words and make every word count!
Bug Fixes & Improvements:
- Improves font scaling in drafts
- Addresses an issue when editing remarks
- [ Android 9 ] Addresses an issue when scrolling in drafts
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.6
- New Free Gifts
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.5
- World Explorer: Get to know over a thousand world heritage and top destinations in Slowly
- QR code scanner on home screen (top right corner). Quick shortcut to log into Slowly Web
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.4
What’s New:
- Show Weather & Local Time of your penpals ( Optional On/Off )
- Attachment filters for Letter Search; searching letters with photos, audio notes or gifts
Bug Fixes & Improvements:
- Upgraded the Facebook SDK for better privacy control
- Upgraded the Google Sign-in SDK
- Fixes an issue when saving Auto-match’s preference
- Fixes an issue when synchronizing drafts
- Fixes an issue when recording audio notes
- ( iOS 14 ) Addresses stability issues when selecting text in drafts
- ( Android ) Addresses stability issues when using specific virtual keyboards
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.3
What’s New:
- Letter Search – Swiftly find your old letters by keywords
- Save For Later – Shortcut to save profiles from Explore Manually
Bug Fixes & Improvements:
- ( Android ) Optimizes for faster startup time
- Allows unhiding hidden matches from Explore Manually
- Divides Drafts screen into Friends and Matches
- Improves user privacy controls for personalised ads
- Fixes an issue when saving avatars
- Fixes an issue when downloading photos
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.2
What’s New:
- Birthday Reminder – Never forget your pal’s birthday again!
- 20+ New Achievements – Be the first to unlock them!
- Featured Slowly Stories section
- Re-designed UI of Achievements
- New UI language: Filipino
Bug Fixes & Improvements:
- ( Android ) Addresses stability issues when using specific virtual keyboards
- Increases character limit for Decline’s reason
- Allows sorting My Stamps by newly added
- Fixes an issue when editing birthday
- Fixes an issue when saving avatar
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
6.1
- Added option to hide PLUS badge
- Added New Friend Suggestions
- Added Social Share function for stamps and avatars
- Improved audio note loading time
- Fixed alert box colour to follow the selected mode
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
6.0
New Features:
- SLOWLY PLUS Membership with exclusive features and bonus gifts
- Power Search ( PLUS only ): Filtering by city, exact topics, exact languages and new members
- Double Quota ( PLUS only ): Double friend limit, excluded topics, excluded regions and photo sharing quota
- High-res Photo Sharing ( PLUS only )
- Dark Mode
- Audio Note Sharing upon permission
- Decline a Letter: Declined letters will not be counted in Sent:Received Ratio
- ( iOS ) Sign in with Apple
Improvements:
- Added new avatar Items
- Added new Report a User categories
- Added new interface languages: Swedish & Thai
- Improved categorisation of stamps
- Improved stability of the draft synchronisation
- Improved performance of the text editor on specific mobile devices
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
5.2.21
- Added matching languages, including Cornish, Balochi & Inupiaq
5.2.15
- Added matching languages, including BSL, Cantonese, Manchu, Navajo & Sorani
5.2.12
- Display the distance unit based on device’s preference
- Added matching languages, including Silesian ( Ślōnskŏ gŏdka ) & Ossetian ( Ирон ӕвзаг )
5.2.8
- Improved performance for drafting function on specific mobile devices
- Fixed display error for new drafts to unmatched users
5.2
- Draft synchronisation across platform
- Permanent deletion of removed users
- Phone verification service provider changed to Google Firebase
- New interface language: Catalan
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
5.1.9
- New interface language: Ukrainian and Serbian
- New options of Emoji Status
- Improved stability of push notifications
5.1
- New Feature: Reply reminder
- New Feature: Watch videos for free coins
- Added categories to improve Stamp Store navigation
- ( Android ) Reduced APK file size
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
5.0
- New Feature: Slowly Web Version
- New interface language: Arabic
- Better UI support for RTL languages
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
4.3.3
- Added interface languages: Vietnamese
4.3.2
- Added interface languages, including Japanese & Sinhala
4.3
- Added Emoji profile status
- Added send-as-a-gift feature for products in Stamp Store
- Support receiving OTP via WhatsApp when sign in with phone number (for those who cannot receive OTP via SMS)
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
4.2
- Added Manual / Pull to refresh across different screens
- Added matching languages, including ASL, Ladino, Cherokee, Bashkir, Tsonga, Sardinian & Uyghur
- Added interface languages, including Czech, Dutch, French, Hebrew & Indonesian
- Improved sorting of Pen Friends list
- Enhanced mechanism to crack down on spams
- ( Android ) Fixed the photo uploading error on specific devices
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
4.1
- Use “Pin Letter” feature to read the letter while drafting
- New interface languages, including Russian, Turkish, Hungarian & Polish interface
- ( Android ) Allow installation on external storage, e.g. SD Card
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes
4.0
- Released the all-new avatar customisation tool
- Supporting more interface languages, including Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Brazilian-Portuguese, and Slovak interface*
- Fixed the location updating error on specific devices
- Fixed the photo uploading error on specific devices
- Enhanced mechanism to crack down on spams
- Other performance improvement and bug fixes*Special thanks to all the translation volunteers! (Credit list on the app and website)
3.2
- Add friend by Slowly ID (Friends added by Slowly ID will not affect “Sent:Received Ratio”)
- Select all countries / regions by continent
- Stamp Store: Able to enlarge a stamp inside a stamp set
- Notifications: Added “New Letter – Sending” option (Off by default)
3.1
- Stamp Store Opening
- New Languages Added: Ancient Greek, Assamese, Breton, Interlingua, Odia & West Circassian
- New Topics Added: Astrology, Aviation, Collecting, Cosplay, Dancing, Fitness, Gardening, Shopping & Singing
- Bug fixes and improvements
3.0
- Non-binary gender option
- Deleting letters from your own devices (can only delete letters from your own devices; deleting letters will not change the Sent:Received Ratio)
- Bookmarking your frequently used stamps
- Sharing your Stamp Collection via URL
- Enhancement to the stamp selecting UI
- Manually updating your zodiac sign in limited times
- Option to show joined date in profile
- Other bug fixes and improvements
2.3
- Greatly reduced the chance of session lost due to connectivity issues.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.2.7
- You can now preview your own profile.
- UI enhancement, Performance tweaks, and bug fixes.
- Landscape mode for Tablet ( You can change the orientation mode under Settings ).
- ( Android ) Re-enabled the “Back button” on the Editor screen.
2.2.5
- Faster app launching time.
- After hiding a user on the explore list, the screen will stay in the same position.
- When writing a new letter will attach the last selected stamp by default.
- Better support for RTL languages.
- Fixed a bug while emailing a copy with Emoji/Kaomoji inside.
- Fixed a bug when drafting the letter with over 50k characters.
- ( Android ) Fixed a bug causing the app frozen on the splash screen.
- Other UI enhancement, performance tweaks, and bug fixes.
2.2.3
- Added Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and other RTL languages.
- Sent: Received ratio now available on user’s profile.
- Friend list sorting improvement on alphabetical & delivery time.
- Avoid unexpected session timeout.
- You can now check the profile when writing to a new friend.
- Fixed a bug that causing auto-match & user explore list with duplicated results.
- Friend list yellow dot reminder is back.
- ( Android ) Editor font size is now aligned with the letter’s font size.
- Other UI enhancement, performance tweaks, and bug fixes.
2.2.2
- 10 new topics added.
- Friends screen now have a better indication of “Sending out” and “Receiving“.
- Option to turn off “Confirm to send” reminder.
- Fixed a bug when calculating the total number of friends on the client side.
- Word count requirement with a better indication when sending out the first letter.
- Report user profile when browsing.
- Improved accuracy on push notifications.
- Text on user’s profile now able to copy by long press.
- Interested Topics now limited to 30.
- Performance tweaks and other minor bug fixes.
- ( Android ) Fixed a bug causing timeout when renewing location on some models.
- ( Android ) Fixed a bug of freezing or unable to sign in when some stored data corrupted.
2.2
- You can now exclude up to 5 Topics.
- Exploring users now combined into a single list and filters are memorized.
- New filters: Last online within 24 hours; Users with ‘About Me’ only.
- More options for sorting pals: Alphabetical.
- Auto-match will now wait for your confirmation before sending out.
- Auto-match will try to match with users from different regions.
- More options to display Birthday & Age.
- Big improvement on auto-saving drafts.
- Sending the first letter to a new user requires a longer message.
- Applying the “Confirm to send” alert to avoid pressing the “Send” button by mistake.
- “Request photo-sharing permission” will now wait for your confirmation before sending out.
- Corrupted Stamp can be re-downloaded by a long press on “My Collection” Screen.
- Better error handling and data sync.
- ( Android ) Back button disabled when composing.
- ( iOS ) Landscape Mode for iPad.
- ( iOS ) Fixed a few bugs caused the freezing screen when sending a letter.
2.1.5
- Letter composer performance greatly improved.
- Letters now available to copy to clipboard & Email a copy.
- Fixed a bug that changing stamps require to tap twice.
- Auto-match now with auto-save.
- Improved the loading time when browsing manually.
- (Android) Fixed a bug that when auto-complete a double-bytes Emoji lead to a crash.
2.1.1
- Introducing the age filter.
- Added an option to show your age publicly without showing your birthday.
- Attached Images can be saved to Camera roll more easily.
- UI enhancement for Tablet.
- Drafts are now auto-saved.
- iOS & Android version is now in sync.
- ( iOS ) Swipe left to go back enabled.
2.0
- SLOWLY for Android Public Beta released.
1.3.4
- Fixed an issue where some users not able to receive push notifications.
- UI Enhancement on iPad.
- UI Enhancement on iPhone X with iOS 11.2+.
1.3.3
- UI fine tune for iPhone X.
- Fixed Birthday display issue for some timezone.
1.3.2
- You can now set your Birth Date and control how to display it.
- Allow copying a paragraph when reading a letter.
- Explore users with Zodiac Sign filter.
- Christmas Background with Hidden Stamps.
- Fixed Dashboard & Google Maps Bugs.
- Enhanced UI on iPhone X.
- Minor Bug Fixes and Performance Enhancement.
1.3.0/1.3.1
- Photo-Sharing Feature. ( Learn More )
- Fixed friend list bug.
- More accurate notifications.
- Sign in with phone number now powered by AccountKit.
- Performance tweaks & other bug fixes.
1.2.2
- Add remarks to your friends.
- Option to sign in with Phone Number ( Powered by Digits ).
- Setup Password for Email sign in.
- More topics.
- Performance tweaks & other bug fixes.
1.2.1
- Bug Fixes for iOS 9.x
1.2
- You can now hide inactive friends.
- Increased the maximum number of friends to 100.
- Manual Explore now able to filter by Topics & Countries.
- Tips and rule for writing the first letter to new friends.
- Added “Accepting Auto-match” option.
- Added “Show Last Online” option.
- Able to exclude users from up to 5 countries.
- More topics.
- UI Enhancement & bug fix.
1.1.0
- You can now check previous conversations without leaving the editor.
- Friends / Letters now with better indications – Unread, Not replied yet, Replied.
- Friend list now able to sort by Frequently Contacted.
- Auto-match & Manual Explore now able to filter users by last online within 48 hours.
- Auto-match now able to specify Proficiency.
- Auto-match now only able to run every 24 hours.
- You are now able to update your nickname and gender for one time after registration.
- Release notes now available inside Settings Version.
- More topics & more languages.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
1.0.1
- Fine-tuned the editor experience.
- Manual exploring now includes sorting by Farthest & Closest.
- Auto-match & Manual exploring now able to exclude the same country.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
1.0
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