What's new

Every build of Stakes so far, newest first: 61 of them. TestFlight shows only the newest few, so the whole story is kept here.

Build 66 No banner over game over

A banner from the last move (a bonus, a bust, a last card and the like) no longer pops up over the Game Over card.

Build 65 Quieter iCloud

Unfinished online games are checked with iCloud less often as they age, all at once rather than one by one, and not at all after a month unplayed. A game someone left or finished elsewhere still clears from your list, sooner for recent games.
For testers: Settings › Beta also counts the game's iCloud requests and any slow-down iCloud asked for.

Build 64 Switching apps

Switch to another app mid-game and the game is saved exactly as it stands, so if iOS closes it while you're away, Continue picks up where you were, not at the start of the hand.
An online game stays connected for about half a minute after you switch away, long enough to answer a message.
For testers: Settings › Beta shows how your saved games are syncing with iCloud, and Send Feedback includes it. If deleted games come back, send feedback from that game.

Build 63 Hints

Your hand's name under your cards ("Two pair, queens and eights") is now a hint: turn on Show hints in Settings to see it.

Build 62 Glass buttons

The round buttons over the table are clear glass again, as before the last build.

Build 61 Title centred

The dealer button is a gold D, easier to spot.
The buttons over the table stand out from the felt: dark circles with light symbols.
The rules button is a question mark, and the close button is a quieter outline set a little apart, so it isn't hit by mistake.
The title at the top of the table (whose turn it is) is centred on the screen, not pushed to one side by the buttons.

Build 60 Screen stays on

The rules are a tap away at the table: the book button beside the close button.
On an iPad held sideways, the players' column fits with bets out and your panel in it; it ran off the top.
Your panel in the players' row is the same height as everyone else's, with "Your turn" at the end of your name.
The screen stays on while you're at the table, so it no longer dims and locks while you wait on someone else's turn.
If your saved games ever can't be opened, the app still starts and plays rather than closing straight away.

Build 59 Your picture in practice

Your place in the players' row is a panel like everyone else's: your name, your chips, and "Your turn" in gold when it is.
With no name typed for practice, you play under your Game Center name, so your avatar shows your initial, not a Y.
Your Game Center picture or Memoji shows on your seat in practice games too, not just online.

Build 58 Your Game Center picture

You're in the players' row (or column) with everyone else, in the order of play, lit up gold on your turn, so you can see who goes before and after you.
Players show their Game Center picture or Memoji where they have one, you included; anyone without one keeps their initial.

Build 57

Jacks, queens and kings: the letter and suit in each half sit clear of the gold line across the middle; the upside-down half's suit ran into it.
Aces: the gold ring sits behind the big suit, not over it.

Build 56

Turning an iPad no longer deals the cards on the table all over again.
Cards flying across the table land in the right place after you turn an iPad.
The banner for a big moment (a hand or round over, and the like) is solid instead of see-through, with bigger, brighter text under it.

Build 55

Deleting your last saved game: "No games yet" fades in once the list has gone, instead of on top of it.

Build 54

The other players' cards are bigger the fewer of them there are: with one or two others, their panels no longer sit mostly empty.
No gold ring where a card lands: on a pile that cleared as the card landed, it outlined empty places.

Build 53

Card motion in Settings: Fingertip is gone, now that its fingertip dot is. Lift and place is the new default, and anyone who had Fingertip gets it.
Join with Code is a shorter sheet: the table is looked for as soon as all six digits are in (no Join button), and Paste and Scan QR Code sit side by side under the code.
Cards other players play no longer carry a grey dot as they fly.

Build 52

The home screen, Saved Games, Stats, How to Play and Settings are now shared by all six LivingRoom games, so they look and read the same in each.
The home screen matches the other five games: the same logo size, column and buttons.

Build 51

Tap a finished game in Saved Games to see how it went: where everyone finished, and the hands you played in it.

Build 50

Small wording fixes on the home screen and in Settings, so they match the other LivingRoom games.
On a Mac, resizing the window during a game keeps everything as it was, such as the row of players' scroll position.
Easier to read: the explanations in Settings, Help and elsewhere are a little brighter.

Build 49

On a Mac, text and cards are sharp in large windows and fullscreen.

Build 48

Played on a Mac, the table fills the window at any size, fullscreen included, and cards, text and buttons scale up with it.
In landscape and on a Mac, Fold, Check and Raise sit under your cards. The other players' cards grow with the space, and their bets stay inside their panels.

Build 47

On a phone, the other players share one row across the top that scrolls sideways, instead of stacking in two rows, so the cards are bigger.
On an iPad in landscape, or a wide Mac window, the other players sit in a column down the left and the board and your cards take the rest of the screen.
On bigger iPads the cards grow larger.
Saved Games now says how to delete a game: swipe left on it, or right-click it on a Mac.

Build 46

On a Mac, right-click a saved game to delete it. On iPhone and iPad, touch and hold works as well as swiping.
On a Mac, Join with Code no longer offers to scan a QR code.
On small phones like the iPhone SE, a table of seven to nine players now uses the whole screen, so the buttons, names and chip counts are no longer cut short.

Build 45

Settings only shows Rumble on devices that can rumble: iPhones yes, iPads and Macs no.

Build 44

Fixes a crash on Mac when opening Practice, Saved Games or Stats.

Build 43

Cards now move with Fingertip unless you've chosen another motion in Settings.

Build 42

Under the hood: the table does a little less work while you wait for a turn, so play may feel a touch smoother.

Build 41

The Rules sheet now covers the blinds with only two players, when you can check, and why an all-in smaller than a full raise can't be re-raised.
Until you've looked at your cards once, they lift a little as each hand is dealt, to show you can touch and hold them to look.
With VoiceOver on, the table now says what the other players do as they do it, and when it's your turn.
On the game-over card, every name is the same size. The third and fourth used to come out smaller.
In the lobby, notices and chat lines now show at the bottom of the screen instead of over the table's name.
A reaction face now rises from the middle of the player's panel instead of sitting on their name.
Saved Games say how long ago you played. Practice games you haven't touched for a month are cleared away, but the latest one always stays.
Stats only split into Online and Practice once you've played both.
Settings shows the version of the shared engine under the app's own, at the foot of Help.

Build 40

The Rules sheet now covers the blinds with only two players, when you can check, and why an all-in smaller than a full raise can't be re-raised.
Until you've looked at your cards once, they lift a little as each hand is dealt, to show you can touch and hold them to look.
With VoiceOver on, the table now says what the other players do as they do it, and when it's your turn.
On the game-over card, every name is the same size. The third and fourth used to come out smaller.
In the lobby, notices and chat lines now show at the bottom of the screen instead of over the table's name.
A reaction face now rises from the middle of the player's panel instead of sitting on their name.
Saved Games say how long ago you played. Practice games you haven't touched for a month are cleared away, but the latest one always stays.
Stats only split into Online and Practice once you've played both.
Settings shows the version of the shared engine under the app's own, at the foot of Help.

Build 39

The Rules sheet and a few other lines read more plainly, including the note about deleting an online game and the Help line in Settings.

Build 38

Table Chat, and the note that tells others you've left a game for good, now come from the shared engine too.
The online lobby uses the same words as the other LivingRoom games for invitations ("Waiting for an answer") and for finding players.

Build 37

Under the hood, the part that runs an online table (who hosts, keeping every device in step, reconnecting, rematches, the turn timer and chat) is now one shared engine for every LivingRoom game. Nothing should look or play differently, and this build still plays with people on the previous one.

Build 36

Join with Code, Invite Friends and the players' round avatars now come from the shared engine too, so they're the same in every LivingRoom game.
Join with Code's wording and colours now match the other games.

Build 35

Under the hood, playing online (signing in to Game Center, finding a table by its code, Quick Match, invitations and the QR code) now comes from the same shared engine in every LivingRoom game. Nothing should look different.

Build 34

Under the hood, the parts every LivingRoom game shares (the design, sounds, haptics, card motion, the turn clock and the game-over card) now come from one shared engine instead of six copies. Nothing should look or behave differently; if anything does, that's a bug.

Build 33

The end of a game looks the same in every LivingRoom game: the same card, the same type and buttons, a trophy when you win and a flag when you don't, and you're called "You" in the standings.
The Reconnecting card is the same in every game too.
The game-over card now matches the other games instead of its lighter glass and larger type.

Build 32

Join with Code has its own number pad, drawn in the sheet, so swiping the sheet away takes the keys with it. Before, the phone's keyboard stayed behind over the home screen for a moment. Paste is in the bottom-left corner.
Bets sit in a fixed place: everyone else's just past their cards, never over them, and yours on the felt in front of your area.
Rumble's description no longer mentions tricks, and Try Again on the home screen matches the other games.
The deal sounds are timed to the cards landing in your hand. They used to keep going well after the last card was down.
Practice is laid out the same way in every LivingRoom game: the game first, then who's playing, then the turn timer and your name.
The big moments now appear up by the players, not over the middle of the table, so they don't hide the play they're announcing.
Buttons that can't be used right now look it, the same as in the other LivingRoom games.

Build 31

Real recordings of cards dealt and turned over, three of each, picked at random every time.
The thinking dots sit beside the player's name again, and always show: in a narrow panel the name shrinks a little to make room.
Join with Code: the Join button sits right under the code, and swiping the sheet away is smooth. Before, the sheet stretched and jumped as the keyboard slid away.

Build 30

The thinking dots on a player's picture were hidden behind the row below it. They show now, and a little larger.
New sounds, picked by ear from a set of samples: a softer card flip and fold, two soft taps on the felt for a check, and warm wooden notes for your turn and a win.

Build 29

Chips sound like clay chips: a chip settling on a stack, a bet set down, the pot pushed across.
Cards dealt to the table sound like cards on felt.

Build 28

Chips are easier to tell apart: each value is its own stack with room between them, the top chip shows its value, and there's a blue 10 chip.
The buttons under your cards no longer fade through "Waiting for…" when your turn comes or goes.
The dots that show a player is thinking now sit on their picture, so they no longer hide the player's name.

Build 27

Chips move the way they do at a real table: a bet slides from a player's stack into a pile in front of them, the piles are swept into the pot when the betting round ends, and the pot is pushed to the winner. A pile only grows once its chips land.

Build 26

The chips are bigger and look like real chips, stacked in piles. A bet sits in front of the player without moving anything else on the table.

Build 25

The phone now rumbles with the game: cards landing, tricks taken, the big moments. Turn it off under Settings → Sound → Rumble.
React from the table: tap the smiley at the top right and pick a face. It rises from your seat for everyone at the table to see. At a practice table the computer players react too, now and then.
Everyone at an online table needs this build: older builds can't read reactions, so they can't join.
The big moments get a beat: the words appear on the table and the game holds still for a second.
Players who are thinking show three moving dots by their name, and your area gives a small nudge when your turn comes round.
Chips you can see. Every bet is a stack of chips in front of the player, the pot is a pile in the middle, bets slide into it, and the pot is pushed across to whoever wins it.
Bet by dragging: while sizing a bet, drag the chips up to bet more or down to bet less. Each step clicks. The slider and the quick amounts are still there.
Your two cards are dealt face down. Touch and hold to look at them, or tap to leave them face up for the hand. You can turn this off under Settings → Your cards.
The flop comes out a card at a time, and the turn and river come after a pause. At a showdown the winning five cards rise and the rest dim.
All-ins, big pots and players knocked out get their own moment.

Build 24

The picture and the name on the app icon are centred. They used to sit low, with empty felt across the top.

Build 23

The icon says Stakes, so it can be told apart on a home screen.
1st, 2nd and 3rd on the final standings, in the order players finished.

Build 22

An online table used to show "Connection problem:" followed by a line of
If it really can't get through and the message was your move, the move comes

Build 21

Touch and hold a message at an online table and there's now Report Message,

Build 20

Settings now has Help and Support, which opens this game's own page on
Feedback and support now go to [email protected].

Build 19

The dial now appears only for the last ten seconds of a decision, instead of

Build 18

Settings has a Send Feedback row while you're on TestFlight. It opens an email

Build 17

Deleting your last unfinished game in Saved Games no longer stutters. The

Build 16

A turn timer, if you want one. Choose it when you set up a table, in Practice
Smoother play, above all when cards are dealt. Every sound effect used to
The cards are cheaper to draw, and the game no longer redraws the home
Swiping a game aside in Saved Games slides the whole row, rounded at every

Build 15

The board is dealt. The flop, the turn and the river now travel from the
Choose how in Settings, under Card motion: Now (as before), Slide, Toss,
With Reduce Motion on (Settings > Accessibility > Motion), cards fade in
How to Play opens with a row of cards, as it does in LivingRoom Skip

Build 14

Sound has a volume now, not just on or off. It's in Settings, and letting go
Small design tidying so the three apps match exactly: one width for the

Build 13

The app follows Apple's new Liquid Glass design. The buttons that float
Easier to hit and easier to read. Every button is at least as big as
The app icon now has its own dark and tinted versions for the home screen.
Scanning a QR code opens the camera full screen instead of stacking a

Build 12 nine seats in practice, and no buttons over a finished hand

The betting buttons stay away from a finished hand. When your own call or check
Practice goes up to nine seats — eight computer players — as online tables always
Try Again after a slow Game Center sign-in could report that Game Center didn't

Build 11 menus that match SkipBo and LivingRoom Euchre

Every menu has the same shape. Practice, Join with Code, Saved Games, Stats, How to
Play Online is built from the same parts, still on the felt. On iOS 26 and later its
Unread chat is counted in gold, as in the other two apps.

Build 10 a quieter home screen, and sheets that open all the way

Setting up a practice game cut off the name field until you dragged the
Your Game Center name is no longer in a box. Being signed in isn't news,

Build 9 one design, instead of four

Every screen belongs to the same room. The rules, stats, settings, saved games,
The setup screen had the gold Play Online button showing straight through it, washing
Seats are no longer a rainbow. The player colours were seven saturated system
A folded seat said "Fold" twice, once across the cards and once underneath. It says
Three opponents no longer leave the third hanging off the left — a short row of
The hand rankings chart shows suits in their own colour, which is the point of a
The menu rows are all the same height, the wordmark lost a drop shadow it didn't need,

Build 8 dollar signs, a play speed, and a record of what you make

Chip amounts now have a $ in front of them. Still play money — but a table is
Play speed, in a new Settings screen on the home menu (where the Sound button was —
Stats now show what you actually make. A breakdown of every hand you've shown down,

Build 6 landscape fits, and practice gets its screen back

Landscape ran off the bottom of the screen on every iPad except the 13-inch, which
Practice games were showing the chat panel, which took a third of the screen for

Build 1 first version

Practice against computer players, on easy or normal.
Play online with friends: open a table and share its six-digit code or QR code,
Tournament or cash game. A tournament raises the blinds on a schedule and runs until
Games survive dropped connections. If the person running the table leaves, another
Cards are dealt, not just placed. Your two slide in and turn over, the flop lands
Saved games sync through iCloud, so an unfinished game can be continued on another