v1.1.20 – Major Update: Rosary Maker Mode, Prayer Mode with Graphics, Visual Overhaul

Release Date: 10 April 2026

🧰 Rosary Maker Mode (Hands-On Builder)

• New from-scratch rosary construction mode

• Start with a blank bead tray

• Build a rosary bead by bead, just like real-life assembly

🧺 Component Piles (Drag & Drop)

• Separate piles placed beside the tray:

  • Beads

  • Our Father beads

  • Centerpieces

  • Crosses

  • String / cord

• Drag and drop components onto the tray to assemble

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📘 Learn-As-You-Build Guidance (Still in-progress...)

• Contextual guidance during assembly:

  • What each bead represents

  • Why spacing and order matter

  • Role of the centerpiece and crucifix

 

   Online Community

• Featured rosaries every week

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🧠 Educational Prayer Focus

• Prayer mode now has background images depicting each mystery

• Prayer mode menu is much nicer and displays which mystery of the day to pray

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📿 New Content

• Lots of new beads

• New crosses

• New centerpieces

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  Online Profiles

• Account Creation/Deletion

• Username customization

• Sign-in with Apple, Google, and Facebook (still in-progress...)

 

  Visual Overhaul​

• Complete makeover for all menus and UI

v1.1.15 – Major Update: Airplane Mode, Guided Devotion & Online Community

Release Date: 26 February 2026

✈️ Offline / Airplane Mode

• Full airplane mode support

• App usable with no internet connection

• Includes:

  • One dedicated prayer background

  • Instrumental sacred / ambient music

• Optimized for:

  • Flights

  • Adoration

  • Retreats

  • Quiet, distraction-free prayer

📖 Guided Prayer Mode (Text-Based)

• New guided prayer mode with on-screen text

• Text synchronized with prayer flow

• Supported languages:

  • English

  • Spanish

  • Latin

• Designed for:

  • Silent prayer

  • Learning prayer languages

  • Accessibility and focus

🌐 Online Community Infrastructure (PlayFab)

• Introduce PlayFab backend services

• Supports scalable online features:

  • Cloud data storage (never lose rosary saves on new updates)

  • Community content

  • Future account systems (allowing for us to add usernames and profiles)

• Foundation for long-term social features

🔁 Community Rosary Sharing

• Upload custom rosary designs to the community

• Browse and download rosaries made by other users

• Preview rosaries before saving

• Creator attribution (username or alias)

🙏 Shared Prayer Intentions

• Users can submit prayer requests and intentions

• Intentions visible to others during Prayer Mode

• Designed to create a sense of shared, global prayer

• Reflect on intentions during each decade

• Optional visibility controls (on/off)

🔐 Moderation & Safety

• Basic moderation tools for community content

⚙️ Stability, Performance & Architecture

• Offline asset handling improvements

• Network fallback handling (online ↔ offline)

• Performance optimizations for mobile devices

• Improved Android & iOS parity

    New Content

• New Beads

• New string types

• New backgrounds and music

v1.1.11 – (Update) Content Expansion & UX Overhaul 

(07 February 2026)

New languages added

Tutorial

• Walk-through tutorial system on first-open

• Tutorial will guide user through customizing
  rosary, using prayer mode, and using menus

Drop-Down Menu

• Quick tap and select beads
  from easy drop-down menu

New Content

• +24 new beads

• +24 new centerpieces

• Additional string types

Organization

• Centerpiece categories:

  • God

  • Mary

  • Others

• Bead categories:
  Plain, Wood, Stone, Our Father, Misc

Editing Enhancements

• Undo / Redo system fully fixed and stabilized

• Correct handling of:

  • Beads

  • Cords

  • Cross changes

• Improved editing accuracy

Prayer Mode Languages

• Spanish Mode (male and female)

• Latin Mode (male and female)

Stability & Performance

• Smoother animations

• Faster load times

• Improved Android & iOS parity

v1.9 – (Patch) Prayer Mode Polish & Save System

(27 December 2025)

Prayer Mode Improvements

• Fixed missing prayers in multiple mystery sets

• Corrected mystery sequencing

• Improved bead highlighting visuals

• Option to change prayer highlight color

• Fixed highlight persistence after exiting prayer mode

• Background Music for Prayer mode

New Features

• Manual save system introduced

• Multiple rosary save slots

• Improved state handling between edit & prayer modes

Fixes

• Cord attachment bug fixes

• Physics cleanup

• Performance optimizations

• Controls

• Pause prayer

• Exit prayer mode

• Skip prayer (for testing & flexibility)

• Go back a prayer

v1.8 – (Major Update) Prayer Mode Introduction + Christmas Themes + Firebase Content Delivery

(14 December 2025)

🙏 Transformational update

🔥 Major infrastructure upgrade

New Feature: Prayer Mode

• Dedicated prayer experience with editing disabled

• Physics disabled for prayer flow

• Rosary highlights bead-by-bead automatically

Full Rosary Support

• Sign of the Cross

• Apostles’ Creed

• Four Mystery sets:

  • Joyful

  • Sorrowful

  • Glorious

  • Luminous

• Glory Be & Fatima Prayer

• Hail Holy Queen

• Let Us Pray

• Closing Sign of the Cross

New Features

• Firebase Storage integration:

  • Background images loaded dynamically

  • Music loaded dynamically

• App no longer requires updates to add:

  • New music

  • New backgrounds

• Local caching for offline use after first download

Security

• Firebase rules hardened

• Read-only access from app

• No user uploads allowed

Audio

• Voice-guided prayer system

• Female voice default

• Male voice option

• Voice selection saved in settings

v1.5 – (Update) Advanced Editing & Stability

(Late November 2025)

New Features

• Change all Hail Mary beads at once

• Expanded customization logic groundwork

• Early preparation for save system

Fixes

• Stability improvements

• Reduced physics glitches on mobile devices