What's new

Walls now have weight: a flick carries on and slows to a stop, photos trail a moment behind the words as you drag, the wall dips under your finger where you press it, and it ends where its squares end, with a little give. Zoom out and every square shows just a hint of itself; zoom in and you get the rest. Open a drawing and it draws itself again, the way it was made, and a voice note's wave moves as it plays. A small note names the people whose squares you haven't opened yet, a video and a drawing wait half in view at the edges of a new wall, and the reveal ends on a quiet card that says everyone is here. Short lines are set big and long ones small, photos sit in a white border like prints, and every wall takes reactions once it has opened. A square can now say what year it's from: rest on one and every square from that year shows it. And if you'd like, the wall can now make a few quiet sounds, like paper and fingertips, as you move around it, and voice notes murmur as you pass them, clearer the closer you come.

A wall with weight

Moving a wall now feels like moving something real. Flick it and it carries on after you let go, slowing to a stop. Two fingers on a trackpad, or a mouse wheel, glide it rather than jump it, and zooming happens around your pointer.

Heavier things move later. As you drag, the squares move in three weights. Lines of words and voice notes are light, like paper, and stay with your finger. Photos and drawings trail a little behind, like prints. Videos and tall photos are heaviest: they hold still until the wall is really moving, then trail the furthest. When the wall stops, they settle home in that order, with no bounce.

It dips where you press. Press the wall to drag it and it dips under your finger, like a sheet of paper pressed with a fingertip: the squares right under it sink a little and draw in toward it, the ones around them less, and the rest of the wall not at all. The lighter squares dip first and the heavier ones a beat later. Let go and it smooths back out.

Left alone, it drifts. If nobody touches a wall for 20 seconds and nothing is open, it starts to drift slowly on its own, turning gently now and then and never running off the edge. A small note at the top says Drifting · touch to stop, and any touch, click, scroll or key does.

If your device is set to reduce motion, the squares don't trail, the wall doesn't dip or drift, and a flick still carries as it always has.

The wall has an end

A wall now stops where its squares stop. Past the last square there's a short strip of empty ground, and then the wall pushes back: keep dragging and it moves at about a third of the pace of your finger, and when you let go it springs back into place. Nothing is drawn there, no line, no shadow and no message. The give is how you know you've reached the end.

Flicks and scrolls too. Flick a wall toward its end and it slows hard as it gets there, then comes back. A trackpad or a mouse wheel goes only a little past and settles back once you stop. Wherever you leave a wall, there are squares on screen, so you can't lose it.

A wall smaller than your screen sits in the middle and gives the same way if you drag it. When new squares arrive at the edge, the wall's end moves out to take them in.

More the closer you look

What a square shows now depends on how close you are. Zoom out and the wall becomes a field of hints: a line of words shows only its first few words and a mark that there's more, and no names pop up as you pass. Photos, voice notes and drawings sit still.

Zoom in and you get the rest. A voice note's wave starts to move, and under it are its first words, when they've been written out, and how long it is. A drawing draws itself again, stroke by stroke, the way it was made. A photo that came with a line shows it on a small card across its bottom, and a line too long for its square shows all of it, set smaller to fit.

Each change fades in as you zoom past it, and it won't flicker if you stop right at the point where it happens. Every wall opens in between, where drawings now rest as finished pictures until you come closer. If your device is set to reduce motion, the change happens at once and nothing moves.

Drawings that draw again

Open a drawing and it draws itself again, stroke by stroke, in the order and at the pace it was drawn, sped up so it never takes more than a few seconds. A small dot leads each line like the tip of a pen, the finished drawing shows faintly underneath, and a grey Drawing it again sits in the corner. When the last line is in, the drawing settles and the note goes. Seeing it made reminds you someone sat down and made it for you.

It plays once each time you open it. Tap the square to skip straight to the finished drawing.

Voice notes move as they play. An opened voice note's wave now rises and falls with the voice as you listen, and stands still when you pause it.

There's never a timer, and nothing says how long anything took. If your device is set to reduce motion, the drawing opens finished and the wave stays still.

Who you haven't opened yet

Once you've opened a few squares on a wall, a small note over the Unseen and All pill says who is left: how many you've seen, then the names of the three nearest people whose squares you haven't opened yet. Names are easier to act on than a number, so you're less likely to skim past someone.

It follows you round the wall. The names are always the people nearest the middle of your screen. Drag the wall and they change to whoever is close by now. Open one of them and, when you close it, the next nearest takes their place. On a phone it names two.

When you've opened every square, it says "Everyone, seen." for a moment and then goes. It never turns red, never sends you an email and never puts a dot anywhere. It doesn't show on walls with fewer than six squares, or on the big screen.

Something at the edges

When a wall opens, its first video sits at the right-hand edge of the screen, half in view, and its first drawing at the left-hand edge. Seeing something cut off makes you want to look, so there's a reason to drag the wall right away.

How it works. This happens on new walls, for the first video and the first drawing that arrive among the first twelve squares. On a phone they sit at the phone's own edges. Nothing is labelled and nothing moves once it's placed. Every square after them fills in from the middle as before.

A quiet end to the reveal

When the person a wall is for closes the last square of the reveal, nothing happens for a moment. There are no pills and no buttons, and the wall stays still, so the room goes quiet. Then the wall fades back a little and a card comes up in the middle: "That's everyone.", with how many people are on the wall underneath.

One thing to do next. On the device that opened the wall, the card's pill is Say thanks to everyone, until a thank-you is on the wall. It used to sit under the last square. Anyone else watching the reveal gets Replay. Tap or press anywhere else and the card goes, and the wall is yours to wander.

Short lines big, long ones small

A line of words on a wall now takes its size from how much it says. Under 40 characters it's set big and bold, like a shout. Up to 90 it's a little smaller, and anything longer is set small and quiet, like a letter, so it stays easy to read. You don't choose it; it just fits what you wrote.

You see the size while you write. As your line passes 40 and then 90 characters, the words in the square fade to their new size, so what you see is how it will sit on the wall.

How it works. The size is set when you add a line and never changes after, so nothing on a wall moves. Lines that were already on a wall keep the size they had. If one word in a short line is too wide for its square, the line takes the next size down so the word isn't broken. The printed book and the share pictures use the same sizes.

Photos like prints

Photos and videos on a wall now sit in a thin white border with a fine edge, the picture rounded inside it, like a print you could pick up. Lines of words, voice notes, drawings and songs stay as they were, because they aren't photos.

A little tilt. With a mouse or a trackpad, rest on any square and, as well as lifting, it tips very slightly toward your pointer, like a card in your hand. It doesn't happen on a phone, or if your device is set to reduce motion.

Rather have them edge to edge? In Settings, under You, switch off Photos as prints. Photos and videos fill their squares again on every wall you see while signed in. The tilt stays either way.

The year on a square

A square can now say when it's from. Just after yours lands on a wall, you're asked once, "When was this?", with a field for the year and one for the place. A photo fills them in itself when it knows: the year it was taken, and the nearest town to where. Answer with either or both and press the arrow, or simply carry on and it stays undated.

Rest on a square to see its year. On a computer, rest the pointer on a dated square and a small black year shows in its top corner, and every other square on the wall from that same year shows its year too. Move away and they go. It's an easy way to spot the squares from one summer, or one trip, without anything being sorted or moved.

On a phone, open a dated square and the year and place sit under the name, as in 2008 · Lisbon. When you make your version of a wall and two or more of the squares you picked have a year, a By year pill puts them in the order of their years, and the printed book shows each square's year beside its name.

Sound, if you want it

A wall can now make a few quiet sounds, soft and close, like paper and fingertips rather than anything that beeps. They're off until you press Sound off at the bottom right of a wall, and the wall remembers your choice on that device. On a phone it's a small round button in the same corner.

What you hear. Each square turning over at the reveal sounds like a sheet of paper, and so does a new square landing while you watch. Opening a square makes one small wooden tap, with a light buzz on phones that can. Dragging, flicking or zooming the wall brings a soft brushing that follows your hand: louder and brighter the faster you go, from the side the wall is moving to, and quiet a moment after it stops. Each sound comes from where its square is on the screen, and zooming in brings them closer, as if right by your ear.

And when it's quiet. Nothing plays until you've touched the page. The wall stays silent while a voice note, video or song is playing, when you close a square, and when it drifts on its own. Pills, typing, the countdown and the big screen never make a sound.

Voices as you pass

With sound on, voice notes on a wall that has opened can now be heard before you open them. Move toward one and it starts to murmur, quietly, from the beginning. The closer you come, the clearer it gets, and it fades as you move on. You'll hear two at most, the nearer one louder, like walking through a room where people are talking. Open one and it plays in full on its own, and the rest go quiet.

While you can hear a voice note, it wears a small pill at its top left: Murmuring while it's soft, Clear once you're close. Sound on at the bottom right counts how many you can hear, and on a phone the round button widens to say it.

Each note plays once as you pass. Stay by it and it finishes and stays quiet; move away and come back, and it starts again from the beginning. Nothing murmurs before a wall has opened, while a square is open or you're adding yours, or on the big screen.

Smaller changes

Reactions on every wall. Once a wall for someone has opened, anyone with its link can react to a square with one of the four emoji, and everyone sees how many each one has. The person the wall is for reacts from the same row, and their pick still counts as their reply, on the corner of the square. Tap one and it pops, and its number rolls up. On your page for the wall you can now see its squares Newest or Most reacted.

Shorter pills under a square. "Make a Moment with this one" and "Start a version from this one" are now just Moment and Version, each with a small picture of what it makes. On the device that replies they sit under the reply row, so nothing runs over the name.

Home counts the squares you can see. The number of squares under each wall on Home counts only the squares on the wall itself. Answers that sit behind a square, on its pile, aren't added to it, so the number matches the wall you open.

Three new pages in the guide. Help now explains answering someone's square, making your version of a wall and making a Moment, with pictures and short videos of each. A group with more than six pages ends in See all, which opens the rest.

Back to the square after an answer. When you answer someone's square with Add to this, you now land back on their square once yours is added, with yours in the row under it, instead of on the wall. Closing the composer without adding takes you back to the square too.

Walls open sooner. A wall shows up a moment sooner, most of all on a slow connection: what you only need once you open a square now loads just after the wall appears, ready before you tap. Very big walls also send a little less to find every square, and switching from the keyboard to the mouse no longer makes a big wall stutter.

Find steps aside for the welcome card. On a phone, the magnifier no longer sits on the corner of the card that greets you on your first visit. It comes back as soon as the card goes.

Easier to tap "the terms". The link under sign-in now answers a fingertip a little above and below the words, as every other control does.

Your name, without a card in the way. Adding from a new device, the card that asks your name no longer opens over your square. The black Your name pill beside Add it pulses instead, and Add it waits until you've pressed it and given a name. A name is all it needs: the handle field now says Optional.

Deleting a big wall works. Deleting a wall with a great many squares and people on it, or an account with many walls, could take too long and fail. It now finishes in a moment, however big the wall.

Take it there, or pick it, and say a line. A photo or a video's square now offers both: Take a photo, or Record a video, opens your camera right in the square, and Pick a photo or Pick a video chooses one you already have. A video records with one press of the circle and stops with another, or on its own at 10 seconds. On a phone with two cameras, Flip turns to the other. Once a photo or a video is in, a card across its bottom takes a line, if you like, up to 200 characters. It shows under your name when the square is opened, and on the square when someone zooms in close. Replace and Again have moved to the top-right to make room.

Your walls in your menu. The menu under your name now starts with Your walls, so Home is one press away from anywhere in Fube.

Settings opens over the page you were on. Settings, Billing, checkout and Your feedback now open over the page you were looking at, softened behind them, rather than over a stand-in wall. Close them with the × in the corner, a press anywhere outside, or Escape, and you are back where you were. Every card in Fube now has an × and closes when you press outside it.

Press a square to open it. On your page for a wall, pressing a square under On the wall now opens it. Making it the last one, removing it and linking it to a person have moved to the ⋮ beside its name.

A way back from a wall. Open a wall from Home or from your page for it, See it as included, and a white × sits before the wall's name at the top left. Press it and the wall steps back to where you came from.

Take a reaction back. Tap the emoji you reacted with again and your reaction comes off, its count going down by one.

What's new is easier to read. This page now sits in the middle of the screen, each change starts under a line with a bigger, heavier title, and the pictures and videos further down load only as you get to them, so the page stays quick however long it grows.

Message us opens Send feedback. Something not right? Message us, at the foot of your page for a wall, now opens Send feedback right there instead of your email app.

Checkout comes back to where you were. Choosing a plan in Billing, on Plans or from Make room now opens checkout over the page you were on, and its × takes you back there instead of somewhere else. Closing Settings, Billing or Your feedback after opening them from a link now goes back to the page you came from, and never opens one card over another.

You can now answer a square with one of your own, and yours goes behind it like another print on a pile. Once a wall has opened, you can also make your own way through it for anyone with the link to play, and put two or three squares that belong together side by side as a Moment.

Answer a square

You can answer a square with one of your own. Yours goes behind the square you answered, like another print on a pile, so a memory someone started can be told by everyone who was there.

On the wall. A square with answers behind it shows two edges at its corner. Nothing else on the wall changes: point at it and its name says how many are behind it.

Opening one. Open the square and its answers fan out underneath it, each with a name, ending in Add to this. Next and Previous go through the pile first, then carry on along the wall.

Adding yours. Press Add to this and write, or add a photo, a voice note or a video. It lands behind the square, the pile gets another edge, and the person you answered hears about it. Nobody else is told.

Whoever made the wall can turn this off where they look after it, under Let people answer each other's squares. Answers already there stay.

Your version of a wall

Once a wall has opened, you can make your own way through it: pick three to seven squares in the order you would show them, add a line for each if you like, and anyone with the wall's link can play it. Nothing is copied or moved, and nothing appears on the squares.

Making one. Press the wall's name at the top, then Make your version. Tap the squares in the order you want; each gets its number, and tapping one again takes it out. Next: say why lets you name it and write a line for each, or leave them blank. Make it, and it gets its own link.

Playing one. Play it, or open its link, and the wall itself moves: it glides to each square in turn, a little closer in, and brings that square forward so there is no doubt which one you mean, with your line underneath. Tap for the next one. Drag the wall to look around on your own, and Rejoin takes you back to where you were.

Only you can change or remove yours, and only you see how many times it has been played. The person the wall is for sees versions after the open, like everyone else.

Moments: two squares that belong together

Once a wall has opened, you can put two or three squares that belong together side by side, with one line over them: the same friend eighteen years apart, a photo and the words that go with it. It becomes a square of its own on the wall. The squares you chose stay where they are, exactly as they were.

Making one. Press the wall's name at the top, then Make a Moment, or open a square and press Make a Moment with this one. Tap two or three squares, then Make a Moment with these two. Write one line over them, like a title, and Put it on the wall.

On the wall. A Moment shows its squares side by side, with its line in a black pill under it that is always there, so you can tell it apart at a glance. Open it and the squares fill a wider frame with their years, the line as its name, and Made from beside it: each of the squares, which opens as it is on the wall.

Whose squares they are. The people whose squares are in it hear about it in their Activity, with Take mine out. Take yours out and it leaves the Moment; if that leaves only one, the Moment comes off the wall and whoever made it is told. The person who made it, and the person who made the wall, can remove it any time. The wall's maker can turn Moments off, where they look after the wall, with Let people make Moments from squares.

Before Fube opens to everyone, you can join the list with a square of your own, and the friends you bring sit beside it. Plans are drawn as the walls they give you, checkout and Billing show exactly what you pay for, and every email shows the wall it is about. Help is all in one place too: a guide, feedback from any screen, what's new, and your privacy.

Join the list before Fube opens

Fube isn't open to everyone yet, so the front page is now the list. Write a line or make a drawing, add your email, and press Add it.

Your square turns over and takes its place among everyone else's.

Bring your friends. Beside your square are three empty seats. Share your link, and the first three friends who join through it sit next to you. Come back later and you'll see them there.

The seats beside your square

Joining the list asks for your first name as well as your email, so the people you bring know it's you. You get an email to say you're on the list, another when friends take the seats beside your square, and one more when it's your turn.

Your friends, by name. When someone joins from your link, their square sits next to yours with the name they gave. If a few join close together, they come in one email, and each friend is only ever mentioned once.

When it's your turn. We let people in a few at a time, in the order they joined. When it's yours, the email names the friends in your seats, so your first wall already has people to add to it. Sign in with the same address and you're in. Sign in before then and we tell you you're on the list, and show you your square.

Plans, shown as walls

Fube's plans now have a page of their own. Free, Plus and Pro are each drawn as the wall they give you, so you can see the difference instead of reading a list. Every wall starts free.

Plus gives every wall room for 200 squares. Pro has no limit, and adds approval, Featured squares, asking again and the recap.

When a wall fills up. On Free, a wall holds 15 squares. When yours is full, people can still add theirs: their squares wait for you, and nobody is turned away. A card shows you the two ways forward, side by side. Make room is free: choose a square to hold back, and one of the waiting ones goes up in its place. Or start Plus, and the waiting squares go up at once.

The card comes up once, the first time you see the wall full. After that it is under More room.

Checkout and billing, clearer

Before you pay, checkout shows what you are getting: the plan drawn as a wall, its price, the day of the first charge, and where your receipts go. Your first plan starts with seven days free, and we email you two days before the first charge, so you can stop before then and pay nothing.

Billing. Settings › Billing shows your plan and how long you have had it, the walls it pays for drawn small from their own squares, and your latest receipts. Change plan and Cancel sit on the same line.

Receipts. Every payment gets its own numbered receipt with the tax on it. Open one to see it in full, download it as a PDF, or send it to your email. Download all gets every one at once.

Emails that show the wall

Every email from Fube now shows the wall it's about. An invite shows the wall with the names already on it. A reply shows your square with what they wrote back. The day's round-up shows who added today. You can see what's going on before you open anything.

A line from you, in every invite. When you send the link, you can write one line for the people you invite, right under the link. It goes at the top of every invite email Fube sends for you, and in the preview when the link is shared. It never appears on the wall itself.

What else looks different.

• Your sign-in code comes in six big boxes, with a note saying where the sign-in was started.
• When someone writes back to your square, the email shows your square, what it said and their reply.
• The email you get to keep track of your square shows the square, the day you added it and when the wall opens.
• Receipts show the wall your plan paid for that month and how many squares it got.
• Every email says why it came and how to stop it. Mail apps can also unsubscribe you in one tap, and that turns off the matching setting in Settings.

A guide to Fube

There is now a guide at fube.app/help: twenty short answers about making a wall, adding to one, question walls and your account, each a two-minute read. Ask it a question the way you would ask a friend, and the answer comes up as you type.

Ask it like a question. Type where is my code, or can I change my square, and the articles that answer it drop under the field, with the line that answers it. Enter opens the first one.

Did this answer it? Every answer ends with that question. Not quite tells us which answer missed, so it can be written better.

Find it in the menu top-left, under Help, User guide.

Send feedback from any screen

You can tell us about a bug or an idea from wherever you are in Fube, in your own words. Everything else we need comes with it on its own, including a picture of the screen you were on, so you never have to explain where you were or what you pressed.

Where to find it. Press your name at the top left, then Help, then Send feedback. It is also at the foot of the guide, under your receipts, and next to Try again whenever something did not go through. On a computer, type ? and then f.

Ring it, or blur it. Press Mark it to draw a ring round the part that matters, point an arrow at it, or blur anything private. The blur happens on your device, so what you cover never leaves it. If you would rather not send the picture at all, turn on Without the screenshot.

What goes with it. Open What goes with it to see exactly what is sent: the page, the wall and your part in it, your browser and screen size, the version of Fube, the last few things you pressed, and any errors the page hit. Never what anyone wrote, never anyone else's name, and never what you typed into a box. A person reads every one.

Your feedback, and what we said back

Everything you send us is a conversation you can come back to. Open Help and then Your feedback to see each thing you sent, everything we wrote back, and when it was fixed. Answer us there or just reply to our email: both end up in the same place, and a person reads it.

When it's fixed. When we fix something you told us about, you get one email saying so, with what changed. If a few people reported the same thing, each of you hears once.

Without an account. If you sent feedback without signing in, the link in our email opens your conversation, so you can still read it and answer.

What's new, in one place

What's new in Fube has a page of its own. Each update is written out in full, with a picture when there is something to see, so you can catch up on what is new in a minute.

Where to find it. Press your name at the top left, then Help. What's new shows the latest three updates, with a dot on the ones you haven't read yet. Press one to read it, or Full changelog to see them all.

On a computer, the months run down the right-hand side, so you can jump back to any of them. The pills at the top show only the changes to one part of Fube, like Billing or the wall.

The privacy centre

Everything about your privacy is on one page, at fube.app/privacy. It starts with five plain sentences on how we treat what you make, then the four things you can do about your data, then every document in full.

Your data, from one page. Download everything sends you a zip of your walls, the squares you added to other people's walls, and your receipts, usually within the hour. Delete the account takes you straight to the place in Settings where you confirm it. There is also a link to the guide's short answer on who sees what, and our privacy email to copy.

What changed, at the top. Each document says what changed in its newest version, right at the top, so you never have to compare two versions yourself. Earlier versions stay readable, each under its own date.

Signing in and making a wall link to the terms, and fube.app/terms opens them.

Smaller changes

Who sees your handle. When you add your square, the card that asks for your name and handle names everyone who will see your handle: the person the wall is for and the person who made it. Before, it named only the first. On a wall that everyone opens together, only the person who made it sees your handle; before, whoever opened it first could see every handle on it.

Deleting your account stops your plan. When you delete your account, a paid plan stops renewing that moment, so nothing more is charged while the account waits its seven days to go. Sign in within the seven days and you keep your account: your plan runs to the end of what you paid for, and you can start it again in Billing. Your receipts are kept after the account goes, each with its PDF, as the record of what was paid, but no longer tied to any account, so download them from Billing first if you want your own copies.

The person a wall is for can now send one square back to everyone on it. A wall can go up on a television for the room, and people can add to a wall by replying to its email.

What else is new

• A thank-you square. After the last square, the person the wall is for can make one of their own, and it goes to everyone who added.
• Their page. Every wall made for the same person, in one place for them.
• The big screen. Open a wall on a television and the room can watch it; a code in the corner lets anyone there add theirs.
• Add by reply. Reply to a wall's invitation email and your words go on the wall.
• Years from now. A wall can be set to open years out, and we remind you when it is nearly time.
• For someone who has died. A memorial wall never fills up, and the family can see it.
• Voice notes, written down. A transcript sits under each voice note, in its own language.
• Find a name. On any wall, find the square someone added.
• Report a square. On a creator's wall, anyone can report a square and it goes quiet for them at once.
• The book. Print a wall as a book and have it sent to you.

Home is now every wall you have made, in one place, and the pill top-left opens a small menu that is yours. Settings is one card that opens over whatever you were on, and any wall can be renamed or archived from its pill card.

All your walls on Home

Home is every wall you have made, in one place. A wall that needs you says so, so you never have to open each one to find out.

Your account menu

The pill top-left is you. It opens a small menu: Settings, Look with light, dark and your device's own on one row, Help, and Sign out.

Settings, in one card

You, Tell me when, Your data and Billing are one card now, with a rail on the left. It opens over whatever wall you were on and closes back to it.

Rename or archive a wall

Both are in the wall's pill card. Archived walls stay at their link, and come back from Your walls whenever you want them.

Until it opens, a wall for someone now counts down to the moment it does. Once it has opened, the person it is for can watch it open again, as many times as they like.

A countdown on the locked wall

Until it opens, a wall for someone shows a small card under the names: Your people are gathering, then the hours, minutes and seconds left, ticking. It says something is on its way without giving any of it away.

Replay the reveal

Once a wall has opened, the person it is for can watch it open again: every square turning over, the same as the first time. It is in the wall's pill card.

On an open wall, new squares now land in small groups, with one pill bottom-left to pause them. Once you have opened a square, the ones you have read dim, so what is left stands out.

Live

Before, a new square landed the moment it was sent, and on a busy wall the layout kept moving under you. Now new squares wait and land together: three at a time, or whatever has come in twenty seconds. They only land in free places, so nothing you are looking at moves.

The pill bottom-left says what is happening: Live · 41, then 3 just added as a group lands. Press it to pause; press it again and the waiting ones land together.

Seen

Once you have opened a square, the ones you have read dim on the wall. Unseen is how the wall starts; All shows it plain. What you have seen stays on your device, and nobody else's wall changes.

Where to find it. On any open wall, bottom-left. A locked wall is not Live: names still arrive there one at a time, which is the point of it.