What's new in Pimori

October 2026

October 10: a friendlier Talk, and game fixes

• Your pet says hi first. Open Talk for the first time and your pet starts the conversation with something it already knows about you, like a This or That pick or the game you just played, with a couple of easy replies to tap.
• One tap to talk. There's a message box at the top of Talk, and tapping your pet's speech bubble on Home opens the chat right where it left off.
• It shows what it remembered. When a reply uses something you told it, a small tag says so and opens the note. And if you keep a memory by mistake, you can undo it.
• Calmer notifications. At most two unprompted notes a day, all in your pet's own voice, and never the same reminder twice.
• Kinder when things are hard. If a conversation turned heavy, your pet stays gentle for the rest of the day.
• Hide and seek fixes. Long runs no longer crash at round eight, a quick double tap can't count as a first-try find, and a score of zero isn't a personal best anymore.

October 9: four simple tabs

• Home, Talk, Outside, Our Book. The app now has four tabs, each with one job. Home is your pet. Talk is the chat plus everything your pet remembers, your plans and your people. Outside is trips, the garden, visitors and events. Our Book is your pet's growth, its collection, the shop and your story together.
• Talk is always one tap away. It sits right under your pet's room, and Home shows one card for today instead of a stack.
• A gentler first week. New pets open one thing a day: games on day 2, the outdoors on day 3, visitors on day 4, the shop on day 5 and neighbors on day 6.
• Softer mornings. If you visit every day, your pet no longer wakes up running on empty.
• A kinder age check. Instead of a checkbox, Pimori asks your birth year, and on iPhone it can use the age range your phone already knows.

October 9: something waiting when you come back

• Set out a snack. Leave a snack bowl or a toy out before you go, and visitors may leave a little thank-you while you're away.
• Overnight trips. At bedtime your pet can head out for the night and come home by morning with a better find and a letter.
• Welcome back. After two days or more away, a card tells you what happened while you were gone, with a gift. Never a penalty.
• A seven-day gift calendar. One gift a day, a keepsake on day seven. Miss a day and it simply waits.
• A garden that perks back up. Leave it a couple of days and it droops; one tend and it's happy again.
• Seasonal events. Harvest moon is on now, with Winter lights in December and Spring bloom in March. Event finds come back every year.
• Rooms and keepsakes after Radiant. Fully grown pets can buy an attic nook with sparks, and keep growing keepsakes.

October 9: friends and your home screen

• Rewards for bringing a friend. When a friend says yes, you both get a friendship charm and a pen pal who visits. At three friends you get a tea set.
• Your friend on your home screen. A new iPhone widget shows your best friend's pet and their latest wave, gift or sleepover.
• Trips on your lock screen. A Live Activity counts down your pet's trip and tells you when it's home.
• Optional hungry pings. Turn them on and your pet will let you know when it could use a snack. Quiet hours are respected.
• A friendlier notification ask. Your pet asks at a nice moment, not the second you open the app.

October 8: invite friends with a QR code

• Scan to be friends. Your invite now has a QR code, with your pet in the middle, so a friend sitting next to you can scan it instead of waiting for a link.

October 6: a bigger friends update

• Friends in their real colors. Your friends' pets now show up in their own bloom and form everywhere, not a stand-in.
• Short invite codes. Invites have a short code, like MOCHI-7K4Q9-XWP2T, that's easy to type or read out.
• Friends overview. See every friend at a glance, with what their pet did today and new friendship badges.
• Visitors in your room. If a friend's pet visited or slept over today, you'll find it hanging out in your room.
• Friend notifications. If you turn them on, you'll hear about sleepovers, gifts, waves, notes and accepted invites. Quiet hours are respected.
• Invite links open the app. On iPhone, tapping a friend's invite link takes you straight into Pimori.

October 6: naps, bedtime and snacks

• Real naps. A nap lasts about 25 minutes and refills energy bit by bit. Wake your pet early and it keeps what it got.
• Bedtime. In the evening, the cushion tucks your pet in for the night, and it wakes up in the morning with a dream to tell you about. You can set an optional bedtime reminder.
• Six snacks and a secret favorite. Every pet has hidden tastes. Feed it the one it loves to discover its favorite.
• A pantry. Stock up to four snacks from Snack catch, your garden and friends' gifts. Quick feed is one tap; press and hold to choose.
• Care that means something. Caring earns sparks when your pet actually needs it, and a sleeping pet won't head off exploring until it wakes up.

October 6: daily challenge and hard modes

• Daily challenge. Today's featured game has a challenge worth 5 extra sparks, once a day.
• Hard modes. Beat your personal best to unlock Zippy in Snack catch, Tricky in Hide and seek and Expert in Pocket Treasures.
• Bad-luck mercy. After two rough rounds in a row, some games quietly slow down. One good round and they're back to normal.
• Bests that follow your pet. Personal bests are saved with your pet, not just on one phone.

October 6: a better first day

• A proper hatch. Confetti, a rarity sticker and an "IT HATCHED!" card you can share.
• Today with your pet. A stamp card for a snack, some play and one extra, worth 5 sparks once a day.
• Calmer day one. New pets start out content, and the "who should I help you with?" question waits until day two.
• A story-first Journal. Your pet's story leads, with the helpful bits after.

October 6: calendar controls

• Pick your calendars. Choose which phone calendars your pet can see, and whether all-day events count.
• Hide events. Hide one event from Today, or every event with the same name, and bring them back any time.

October 5: all four games, refreshed

• Snack catch. Steer your pet between lanes as snacks speed up, with golden snacks and streaks.
• Hide and seek. An endless run of rounds that get harder, with three leaves to lose.
• Pocket Treasures. A bigger board, six new treasures and, now and then, a real find for your shelf.
• This or that. 36 pairs, with ones you haven't seen first.
• Scores your pet remembers. Rounds save themselves, your scores go into your pet's story, and your pet may bring up your last game when you chat.

October 1: who should your pet help with?

• Your people, made easy. If you haven't added anyone yet, the Today card asks who your pet should help you show up for, with one-tap starters like mom, best friend or partner. "Not now" hides it for good.
• Tidier chat. One "Reply options" chip per reply, and your pet's whole face in the chat header.

September 2026

September 30: name it at the hatch

• Hatch, then name. You now name your pet right on the hatch reveal, once you've seen it.
• The room is the controls. Tap the bowl, cushion and toy to care for your pet; the shelf opens the shop.
• People from chat. When your pet remembers something about someone with a date, it offers to add them to your people.
• Save a spot for a friend. Share a link so a friend can join you later.
• Fixes. Keepsakes are no longer lost from your story, and changing time zones no longer gives out extra sparks.

September 27: simpler Home and a new game

• A simpler Home. Each care item in the room shows its own need bar, and a big Talk button sits right under your pet.
• Easy first chat. Starters like "Remember a date", "Nudge me later" and "Just chat", and your pet makes a thinking face while it writes.
• New game: This or that. Six quick picks; your pet reacts to each, and you choose which picks it keeps as notes.
• Personal bests for Snack catch, Hide and seek and Pocket Treasures.
• Reminders at a glance. The Talk button shows how many reminders you have.
• Report a reply. Flag any reply that feels harmful, wrong or inappropriate.
• Delete everything. Delete your account and its data from inside the app.
• Kinder errors. If something breaks, your pet says it tripped, and "Try again" picks up where you were. A message that fails to send can be retried, edited or discarded.
• Faster start. The first screen loads noticeably quicker.

September 25: the new Pimori

The biggest update so far: a new look, and most of what Pimori is today.

• A new character. The bean-shaped pet with the curly sprout, new colors, new fonts and a new app icon.
• Six blooms. Your pet's body color is rolled at hatch: Lime, Rose, Sky, Honey, rare Aurora (8%) or legendary Prism (2%).
• Evolution reveal. At Radiant your pet blooms into Starbloom, Moonpetal or Sunburst, with a full-screen reveal and a card to share.
• A pet you can talk to. It speaks as itself, suggests things to remember and lets you keep or dismiss each one, and shows everything it knows in a notebook you can edit.
• Reminders and plans as cards. Your pet offers them; nothing is set until you confirm. Confirmed reminders can go into your phone calendar.
• Today card and your people. Up to three things for today, plus a list of your people with birthdays and big days. Birthday nudges open a draft message that you send yourself.
• Morning brief and evening check-in. Optional notifications, with an off switch and times you choose.
• Games picker. Snack catch, Hide and seek and Pocket Treasures, with a different featured game each day.
• Collections and cozy days. Finds come in six sets with keepsakes for finishing them, you can pack a snack before a trip, and a soft "cozy days" count pauses instead of resetting when you miss a day.
• Postcards. Halfway through a trip, your pet writes home.
• Sleepovers and friends. Sign in with Apple or Google, invite friends with a link, send your pet on sleepovers that end with a diary card, and send short pet messages.
• Stickers. 16 stickers of your pet, in its own bloom, to send anywhere.
• Quick capture. Start a message to your pet from iOS Shortcuts; it only fills the draft.
• Privacy switches. An 18+ check before hatching, per-friend sharing switches, and a gentle break reminder after a long chat.

September 24: Pimori becomes a pet first

• An alive pet. It breathes and blinks, and you can pat, tickle and cuddle it, with sounds and haptics.
• Growth. Sparks from care and play help your pet grow through its stages.
• Explore. Send your pet out on four routes to bring back seasonal finds, and meet the occasional visitor.
• Soft stakes. Leave it for a while and its needs drift, dust bunnies move in and it sulks. It never dies.
• Room, shop and tabs. One-tap care in your pet's room, a shop for decor, and Home, Explore, Friends and Journal tabs.
• Gifts with friends. Once-a-day gifts, snacks and waves between friends' pets.
• Home screen widget on iPhone, showing how your pet is doing.

September 21: memory, a first game and a shared garden

• A garden to grow together. Plant and look after a garden with a friend.
• First game: Pocket Treasures. A matching game played with your pet.
• Memory. Your pet remembers what you share, and you can see what it's recalling.
• Plans. Break something bigger into small steps your pet helps you keep track of.
• Backups. Save your pet to an account so it's safe if you change phones.

September 13: the first playable Pimori

• A pet to look after and talk to, right in the app.
• Follow-ups. Mention something coming up and your pet can check in about it later, as a reminder on your phone.
• Optional check-in ideas that you can turn on if you'd like a nudge.

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