Jabberblocky Release Notes

Latest update: November 6, 2026

Version 1.0.19

New Clear FX (celebrations for clearing sections): Gyre & Gimble uses sheet music style curves and dots to draw the melody as it plays
New playback instrument: Steel String Guitar
Drag and drop fixes
Added debug reporting option
Layout and color fixes for older iPhones
UI polishing, including tidier Settings, Help, and Audio pages
New app icon
Softer harp in Woodblock/Harp sound setting

New Music ClearFX (celebrations displayed when you clear columns, rows, and boxes): Disco Troupe and One Lap
ClearFX selector supports one-tap picks: ♪ Visualizations or Understated
New What's New screen, via the newspaper button on Home
Game Over lists your points and where they came from
Bug fix: Difficulty on Home now works as intended for both saved games, Solo and vs Bot

Two new Music ClearFX, celebrations displayed when you clear sections on the board: Time Combs (still workshopping the name) and Tiny Troupe.
ClearFX playlist -- choose your ClearFX.
New music: Bach playlist and the Can-Can. Because yes, you can-can.
Bug fix: no more Copy / Look Up pop-ups
Settings screen usability improvements
More scoring details displayed after your games
Guitar and music fidelity improvements
Additional support for Reduce Motion users

iPhone Game Center Leaderboards now supported! Access via the High Scores screen
New game mode architecture supporting distinct solo and pvc games. Also supports upcoming new game modes
New colors and improvements to contrasts
Auto-pause. If you leave the game screen during gameplay, the audio and/or game bot will wait for you to return
Ad banner removal bug fix

Improvements to drag and drop UI
New nylon guitar audio source
New experimental feature: toggle the game board surface to a single visual pattern rather than sudoku-style checkerboard
Two new Freeform generative guitar packs, customizing folk and warm acoustic guitar sounds based on your gameplay
Added Experimental Features section to Settings
New experimental feature: slider for in-game messages, such as scoring, bonuses, and glorious puns
UI improvements to audio controls

Cats! The Cats sound pack, bringing real meows, yowls, and occasional purrs to your gameplay, is now available alongside the Dogs and Ducks packs
New infrastructure for visual fx triggered by clearing sections
Enhancements to drag and drop handling
Help content revisions

New secret bonus, aka bonus bonus
Infrastructure improvements for section clear fx
Puns now display intermittently instead of every time a game piece is placed on the board
Polyomino shapes occasionally identified by name, because why not