october 24, 2026

1. better

   A new app icon: momo, sewn in felt

   • yen.bio has a new app icon: momo as a stitched felt plush in the night room, on your home screen, dock and taskbar. Installed web apps pick it up on their own; the Android, iPhone and desktop apps get it with their next download.
2. better

   A step-by-step guide for the iPhone app

   • The iPhone app is ready to download, with a guide at yen.bio/download/iphone: install it with Sideloadly, AltStore or SideStore, what to tap the first time, how to keep it going every 7 days, and how to stay safe.
3. new

   yen.bio for Android and iPhone

   • yen.bio is an app on your phone now: get it on the download page. It loads the live site, so it’s always the newest version without updating.
   • Calls and listen-together keep going when you leave the app or turn the screen off. On Android, your notifications have play, pause and skip, or mute and hang up in a call.
   • Feels like a real app: the keyboard sits right under your chat with no extra bar on iPhone, long-press and swipe-to-reply tap back with real haptics, and Android’s back button closes what’s open before leaving.
   • Message and call notifications come through the app, and tapping one opens that chat. Signing in with Discord or a passkey opens a sheet and brings you straight back.
   • On iPhone you install it with AltStore or Sideloadly; the download page walks you through it.
4. new

   yen.bio affiliate spaces, and what the green check means

   • Some spaces now wear a purple hexagon with two linked rings next to their name. It means the space is a yen.bio affiliate: the team knows and vouches for it, but it's run by its own people.
   • Hover or tap the badge to see what it means. The green check is still for spaces the yen.bio team runs itself, so a space has one or the other, never both.
   • You'll see it wherever spaces show up: Discover, invite links and their previews, your chat list, chat headers, space settings and crests on the feed.
   • The green check gets the same card: hover or tap it to see that the space is an official one, run by the yen.bio team.
5. better

   Chat cosmetics play when you hover

   • Nameplates and animated name styles now sit still until you hover over them, or over the chat, message or member row they're in. Pages with lots of them load lighter and scroll smoother.
   • In momo's shop, the closet and the Pass, hover an item to see it move. The big try-on preview always plays.
   • Bubble styles keep moving on the newest few messages in a chat. Older ones hold still until you hover them, so long threads stay smooth.
6. better

   Say your game night answers out loud, and see who's muted in calls

   • In momo's call games (trivia night, quick math and smarter than a 5th grader?), the mic now listens on its own while each question is up. Say your answer out loud and it counts. There's no button to hold.
   • Say the answer, or just its letter ("b"), and you'll see what was heard as you talk. If what you said isn't one of the choices, momo keeps listening.
   • The mic opens once momo has finished reading the question, so it doesn't pick up momo's voice. You can turn voice answers off at any time.
   • Voice answers now work in the desktop app and in Firefox too. They use speech recognition that runs on your own computer, so what you say never leaves it. The first game downloads it once (about 50MB) and shows its progress. You can tap your answers until it's ready.
   • If the mic is blocked or there's no microphone, the game tells you why and you can tap or type your answer instead.
   • The call controls now fit inside the call card, even with screen sharing, games and sounds all showing.
   • You can now see when the other person in a call is muted: there's a mic-off badge on their picture and a note under their name. In group calls, everyone's picture shows it.
   • A minimized call and a minimized music player no longer pile on top of each other. The call sits neatly above the player.
7. new

   Listen: import playlists, keep as many as you like, and a cosier page

   • Paste a public playlist or album link from Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube or YouTube Music on the Listen page and it comes in as a new playlist of full songs.
   • You can watch it fill in as songs are found, and see a list of any that aren't available yet.
   • Listen now has multiple playlists: make new ones, rename them, delete them, and switch between them from the tabs above your songs.
   • Each playlist holds up to 500 songs (up from 40).
   • The Listen page got cosier and simpler: the player stays on top, and find songs, playlists, favorites and import each have their own tab, so there's one thing to do at a time.
   • The top of the page is now a little room at night: fairy lights, a window with the moon, and a mug and cassette on the shelf, with notes drifting up while a song plays.
   • momo wears headphones at the booth and bobs along to your music, then dozes off when it stops.
   • The playing song gets a dancing equalizer, songs settle in one by one when a playlist opens, the tabs slide, and imports finish with a burst of hearts.
   • Empty playlists and favorites now show you exactly where to start, and a little note pops up whenever a song is added, a playlist is made or one is deleted.
8. better

   Crests are now pixel icons

   • Space crests drop the shield for a little 8-bit icon in the crest's colour, worn like a guild tag next to your name.
   • Space owners pick from a new set of pixel icons (crowns, skulls, ghosts, invaders, mushrooms and more), each recoloured with shading to match any colour.
   • Crests that already had an icon switch to the closest pixel one on their own.
   • The crest card no longer pins the icon over the Space's picture, so the picture shows in full.
9. fixed

   Status dots and the account menu, fixed on themes

   • With a dashboard theme on, your status dot shows again for every status (appear offline, do not disturb and important only too, not just online), next to your name and in the account menu.
   • With a floating sidebar minimized (like on the messages page), the account menu opens fully instead of getting cut off.
10. better

    Discord shows when you're playing

    • In the yen.bio computer app (1.0.9), your Discord status now says what you're up to: adventuring in momo's RPG, raising a momo, playing momo's word or the mini crossword, working on the season pass, checking yen mail and more, instead of just being on the dashboard.
    • The app updates itself, so you'll get it automatically.
11. new

    Smart links: different links for different phones

    • Any link or section on your page can show only on iPhone & iPad, only on Android, only on phones, or only on computers. Find it under Show on when you edit a block.
    • Put your App Store link in front of iPhone people and your Play Store link in front of Android people, or a text-me link that only shows on phones.
    • It's sorted before your page even appears, so nothing flickers.
12. new

    Link folders

    • Customize → Extra sections → Link folder: tuck a bunch of links into one tidy folder with a name and an emoji, like my socials, shop or my music.
    • Visitors tap it to open it smoothly. Choose whether it starts open or closed.
    • Clicks on the links inside count toward the folder in your insights.
13. new

    Put your page on your own website

    • Share card → put your page on your website: copy a bit of code and paste it into your site, blog or portfolio.
    • It shows a little card of your page in your colours: your picture, name, bio, a few of your links and a button to the rest, and it updates by itself when you change your page.
    • Private, friends-only and password pages just show that the page isn't public.
14. new

    A Chess.com card for your page

    • Customize → Extra sections → Chess.com: your rapid, blitz, bullet and daily ratings, each with your best and your wins, draws and losses.
    • Your title (GM, IM, FM and the rest), flag, league and puzzle highs show too, and the card links to your Chess.com profile.
15. new

    A Bluesky card for your page

    • Customize → Extra sections → Bluesky: type your handle (or paste your profile link) and your page shows your name, picture and follower count, with your three latest posts.
    • Each post links straight to it on Bluesky, with its replies, reposts and likes.
    • If you've asked Bluesky not to show your account to logged-out people, the card respects that and stays hidden.
16. new

    Download your data

    • Settings → sign-in → Download your data gives you one file with everything yen.bio keeps that's tied to your account: your page and its sections, posts, notes and stories, chats you sent, follows, coins and orders, games, music, mail and notifications.
    • Sign-in secrets stay out of it, so the file is safe to keep.
17. better

    Every RPG button matters now

    • A plain attack fills your ultimate fastest, and your class skill (power strike, arcane bolt and friends) fills it slowest. Spamming the skill hits harder but keeps your ultimate waiting.
    • Short fight? Skill away. Long fight or a boss? Attack to charge up, then drop your ultimate.
    • Once you've unlocked an ultimate, the attack and skill buttons show how fast each one charges it.
18. new

    The RPG has sound now

    • Battles beep and boom in 8-bit: sword slashes, fire, frost and sparkly spells, crits that crunch, heals that chime, and a hit when the monster lands one.
    • A jingle when a fight starts, a fanfare (and coins) when you win, and a sad little tune when you don't.
    • Tap the speaker on the battle screen to turn it off. It remembers, and fights shared in chats stay quiet.
19. new

    Full songs for your notes

    • The song picker in notes now searches full-length songs, not just 30-second previews.
    • Pick a song, then drag the window to any 30 seconds of it: the chorus, the drop, the bit you can't stop replaying.
    • Your friends hear exactly that part when they tap your note.
20. fixed

    yen mail reads well on light themes

    • On a light dashboard theme, yen mail's text uses your theme's own ink colour, so it's dark and readable instead of faint white.
    • When there's no new mail, the mailbox's little flag folds down along the box instead of poking out over your address.
    • Faded labels across the dashboard follow the same colour rules, so pages that pick up your theme's ink stay readable too.
21. fixed

    A safety pass on mail, calls and themes

    • yen mail's "verified sender" mark is stricter: it only shows when the email really comes from the domain in its From line, so a fake sender can't borrow it.
    • In calls, games and the soundboard, everything you see is checked against who actually sent it, so nobody can join or act in someone else's name.
    • Themes and page styles can no longer read what you type into a text box.
    • Password-locked pages slow down guessing even when it comes from lots of places at once.
22. better

    A cozier closet, and nothing gets cut off

    • The closet looks like a real dressing room: each rail has its own spot with a count, hangers hook over a proper rail, what you're wearing gets a glowing "on" tag, and a little bar under the mirror shows how full your closet is.
    • Mood, tag and style pills in Listen, the feed, Explore and Templates no longer get their edges sliced off, and rows fade out softly where they run off the side.
    • Dashboard themes no longer box in the feed: posts stay inside the column.
    • yen.bio's own slim scrollbars show everywhere, including a page's accent-coloured scrollbar and long emails in yen mail.
23. new

    Commission rates on your page

    • Customize → Extra sections → Commissions: list what you make and what each costs, written however you like ($25, from €40, 2k coins).
    • Say whether you're open, on a waitlist or closed, and how many slots are left. Open gets a little glowing dot.
    • Add your terms (what you will and won't do, payment, turnaround) and a button to ask, linking to a form or your email.
24. new

    A soundboard for your calls

    • Tap the party popper in any call for nine sounds everyone hears: ba dum tss, an air horn, applause, boing, a sad trombone, crickets, ta-da, a pop and momo's mew.
    • Each sound floats up the screen with who played it.
    • A short cooldown keeps it from becoming a siren, and you can mute other people's sounds just for you.
25. better

    A cuter, easier Listen search

    • A big friendly search bar (press / to jump to it), mood chips to tap like lofi, k-pop or anime, and your recent searches to run again.
    • The best match shows up big as a top result, covers get a play button, and the song that's playing does a little dance.
    • Browse shelves scroll sideways as album covers, hearts pop when you save a song, and a tick shows once it's on your playlist.
26. new

    Lock your page with a password

    • Settings → privacy → who can open it now has a password option. Share the password with the people you want in.
    • Visitors get a cozy locked screen with a password box. Typing it once keeps your page open on their device for 30 days, and changing the password signs everyone out until they type the new one.
    • Pages that aren't public no longer show a preview picture when their link is shared.
27. new

    Listen keeps the music going

    • Autoplay: when a song you picked from search or your favorites ends, Listen carries on with similar songs, and you can see what's up next. Your playlist still plays in its own order.
    • Skip to the next autoplay song any time, and switch autoplay off with the button next to repeat.
28. new

    yen mail: your own @yen.bio address

    • Claim yourname@yen.bio for free in Dashboard → yen mail, and read everything that arrives in a cozy mailbox: unread dots, stars, and each letter on cream paper.
    • Emails open safely: nothing in them can run, and pictures stay hidden until you choose to show them (so senders can't tell you've opened it). Senders that check out get a verified mark.
    • New mail shows up live. You can pause your address any time, and +tags work (yourname+shop@yen.bio still reaches you). It's receive only for now.
29. new

    Your GitHub year on your page

    • The GitHub card now shows your contribution heatmap: a year of activity as a grid of squares in your page's accent colour, with your total and longest streak.
    • It's on for every GitHub card, and you can switch it off in the card's settings.
30. fixed

    The crossword keeps its letters

    • Typing in momo's crossword and word game no longer sets off site shortcuts (like "align" jumping to notifications).