WatchieBesti: Watch Pet

- Classify workout bursts properly to make sure your pet recognises your hard work! - Complications should update more frequently and reliably. - General stability fixes.

Brain Boost is here! Five mini-games now live on your watch — challenge your pet to Sprite Sequence, Pair Match, Spot the School Pet, Ember Hunt, or Odd One Out and earn a Brain Burst bonus. Win a game to unlock a Brain Burst: a special boost that turns your pet into a star student, complete with a glowing aura and a bonus to its activity score. Your pet won't play while sleeping — they need their rest! Fixes and improvements to mood ring accuracy, morning glow timing, and background activity tracking.

Brain Boost is here! Five mini-games now live on your watch — challenge your pet to Sprite Sequence, Pair Match, Spot the School Pet, Ember Hunt, or Odd One Out and earn a Brain Burst bonus. Win a game to unlock a Brain Burst: a special boost that turns your pet into a star student, complete with a glowing aura and a bonus to its activity score. Your pet won't play while sleeping — they need their rest! Fixes and improvements to mood ring accuracy, morning glow timing, and background activity tracking.

Tweaks and fixes to keep your Besti looking their best! Brain Burst game offers now appear correctly — random offers were silently blocked since the feature launched. Tap the new ⓘ button on your Besti's info screen to re-read the hints and tutorials at any time. Fixed the watch complication showing the wrong day count — it now shows calendar days since your egg was granted. Improved the Settings screen layout and scroll speed in the Kingdoms list. Fixed untranslated text keys.

We dug deep on this one (literally — meet Digger, your new dirt-obsessed pet) New Pet - A new Besti has rolled in: Digger joins Rabbit, Bonsai and the others, bringing burrow-loads of personality with animations, colours, and its own encyclopedia spotlight. iPhone App Glow-Up - The iOS home screen got a complete makeover — your pet now lives inside a gorgeous mood ring that matches your Apple Watch ring style, with activity stats, achievements, and burst badges all within thumb's reach - Introducing the Besti Encyclopedia — 13 articles covering everything from How to Play to deep dives on mood rings, evolution, brain games, and more, with cross-language search so curious kids (and parents) can read in their own language - Quick-action buttons on the home screen put settings, encyclopedia, family sharing, and brain boosts one tap away Brain Games, Now Friendlier - Minesweeper learned to let you unflag a cell (turns out commitment anxiety is real) and now shows a hold-to-flag hint for first-timers - Bounce got a spring-burst jump nudge so new players don't pancake into the first obstacle, a second pip to save your tail, and difficulty that scales up properly - SpotSchoolPet now uses coat-colour doppelgängers as distractors — trickier but fairer - A "Play Again" button on brain game results means less tapping to get back in the action - Brain Boost offers no longer get stuck in limbo forever (the app now plays fair) Polished to a Shine - 32 translation gaps filled across all locales, plus fixed wonky formatting for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese achievement strings - A few gremlins evicted: pet names won't collide with stats, graduation copy shows at the right time, and CloudKit clock skew won't spiral your pet's age into the negatives

New Brain Game: Squiggle! A new game joins Brain Boost on Apple Watch: guide your Squiggle through the grid, gobbling up pills to grow longer. Three difficulties keep it fresh — easy lets you wrap through every edge, medium adds top and bottom walls to dodge, and hard walls you in completely with just a tiny gap to squeeze through. Your best score is saved per difficulty. How long can you grow? New & Improved - Dark App Icon: a sleek dark variant is now available for those who prefer a more dramatic home screen - Thai language: WatchieBesti now speaks Thai — fully localised across all screens Fixes & Polish - Pet activity now registers more reliably after a workout or walk - Fixed a bug where a pet could get stuck in a permanent graduation loop - Fixed Brain Boost occasionally showing its overlay when the app was in the background - Fixed Ember Hunt double-toggle when long-pressing to flag a cell - Fixed evolution celebration headline missing in some languages - Fixed sleeping sprite appearing mirrored in certain layouts - Corrected number formatting bugs in Thai and several other locales

Fixes & Polish - Graduation: the farewell screen now shows the correct number of days you were together - Graduation: text on the farewell screen no longer gets cut off on smaller watch faces - Graduation: your new egg's step counter now always starts fresh after graduation - Squiggle: your snake now starts facing up — left and right turns work as expected from the first move

Fixes & Improvements - Pet Memories now shows workout stickers from all your previous bestis, not just your current one. - Tapping Details while your pet is still an egg now explains why it isn't available yet, instead of appearing greyed out. - The tap-to-start hint in the squiggle mini-game is now easier to spot. - Support Hub opens faster.

WatchieBesti is now free to download. Your first pet is included — unlock more species with in-app purchases. If you purchased WatchieBesti before this update, all kingdoms are already unlocked for you. Nothing to buy. New - New Kingdom Store on Watch and iPhone — browse and unlock new pet kingdoms, or grab the All Kingdoms bundle - Guppy joins as a new collectible species - Choose how fast your egg hatches — pick Normal or Fast Mode after it's granted, and change it anytime in Settings - Workout stickers now show the sport type (running, cycling, swimming, and more) - Brain Boost haptics pulse at key moments during the game - Watch face shows a draining timer bar on the bezel during active countdowns in Besti Bounce Improved - Encyclopedia articles are grouped into sections with unread badges - Habitat and activity chart views slide in instead of appearing as sheets Fixed - Evolution celebration could be skipped silently if the app relaunched after a background update — celebration now always appears on next open - Sleeping gate hint text was invisible against certain mood backgrounds - Graduated pet workouts now appear in workout sticker detail - Brain Boost overlay now shows correctly for users who haven't granted Health access - Burst streaks now expire correctly

WatchieBesti is now free to download. Your first pet is included — unlock more species with in-app purchases. If you purchased WatchieBesti before this update, all kingdoms are already unlocked for you. Nothing to buy. New - Medals! earn animated tiers for your workouts, from Metal through Gem to Cosmic, with increasingly spectacular visual effects - Medal achievements: reach workout milestones to unlock special rewards - New Kingdom Store on Watch and iPhone. Browse and unlock new pet kingdoms, or grab the All Kingdoms bundle - Guppy joins as a new collectible species - Choose how fast your egg hatches. Pick Normal or Fast Mode after it's granted, and change it anytime in Settings - Workout stickers now show the sport type (running, cycling, swimming, and more) - Brain Boost haptics pulse at key moments during the game - Watch face shows a draining timer bar on the bezel during active countdowns in Besti Bounce Improved - Updated activity history checks to pick up any steps that may have been missed for a prior day - Encyclopedia articles are grouped into sections with unread badges - Habitat and activity chart views slide in instead of appearing as sheets Fixed - Kingdoms are now correctly unlocked for users who purchased WatchieBesti before it became free - Brain Boost notification now reliably opens the correct offer when tapped - Morning report no longer appears blank on certain launches - Graduated pet workouts now count correctly in workout memories - Quiet hours setting no longer shows an incorrect purple highlight - Evolution celebration could be skipped silently if the app relaunched after a background update, celebration now always appears on next open - Sleeping gate hint text was invisible against certain mood backgrounds - Graduated pet workouts now appear in workout sticker detail - Brain Boost overlay now shows correctly for users who haven't granted Health access - Burst streaks now expire correctly

Fixed - A rare issue where a pet could get stuck at the cracked egg stage and never hatch, regardless of activity - Activity burst counts not appearing on Apple Watch rectangular complications or smart stack - Purchase and subscription status sometimes failing to load on first launch - Medal celebration animation playing the wrong effect for certain achievements - Morning report occasionally not appearing when returning to the app Improved - VoiceOver navigation on the pet card and pet info screen

New - Smart Stack widget for Apple Watch — see your pet's wake, bedtime, streak, and medal-progress moments right in the Smart Stack - Share your pet — 8 new card styles including portrait, medal, activity summary, streak, evolution stage, habitat, and achievement, rendered in a real Apple Watch frame Improved - More accurate activity display on the Rect complication - Better VoiceOver support for the pet info card Fixed - A stuck-loading screen some players hit right after their first pet hatched - Egg recovery for pets that got stuck mid-hatch - Medal glow effect ordering (aurora/nebula tiers) - Morning report not refreshing correctly when reopening the app - Brain boost notifications not scheduling correctly in some cases

New - Smart Stack now shows a Recent Highlight moment — your pet's latest medal, workout, achievement, or activity milestone - Bouncing flanking pets on the habitat share card Improved - Tapping a Recent Highlight in Smart Stack reopens that achievement - Polished share card layouts — centred mood ring, corrected pet sprite sizing, fixed medal glow animation speed, and card controls stay visible throughout - Your most-shared card now appears first in the share carousel - Performance and stability improvements Fixed - Smart Stack widget getting stuck on "A new friend awaits" after your egg hatches - A crash when viewing the habitat share card - Pet's "Days this stage" counter showing an inflated number after restoring on a new device

New - Redesigned watch navigation — swipe between Store, Main, and Info; drag up for Games, down for More Improved - Activity bars now use your steps or daily activity, to make sure your besti reacts appropriately to the activity of the day - Smaller app download and update size - Major improvement to the way images are drawn to give us fun options in the future - Several readability fixes Fixed - Growth celebration sheet no longer dismisses on an accidental swipe - Kingdom picker no longer reappears after you've already picked one - Duplicate achievement popup no longer firing on first egg hatch - Pet's growth stage occasionally getting out of sync after iCloud restore or switching between watch and phone - Very, very many additional fixes