v1.2 Is Live
Klew for iOS v1.2 is on the App Store. v1.1 was about making your Profile feel like yours. v1.2 takes the next step: it gives your solving a shape you can watch grow.
Every Solve Now Counts
Until now, a finished puzzle was a finished puzzle. Satisfying in the moment, gone by tomorrow.
v1.2 keeps score:
- Points on every solve, weighted by the puzzle. A clean 13x13 is worth more than a quick 5x5, and solving fast earns a little extra.
- A skill rating that moves with your results, the way a chess or golf rating does. It climbs when you take on bigger, tougher grids and solve them clean.
- Tiers along the way, from Novice up to Cruciverbalist, so you always know what you're climbing toward.
The point isn't to turn solving into a grind. It's to let you see the thing that was always true but invisible: you're getting better.
A Home Screen That Shows Your Progress
The daily puzzles on the Home tab now fill with color as you solve, and turn a solid green when you finish.
Open the app in the evening and your whole day reads at a glance: what you've cleared, what's left, where you trailed off. A small change that makes the four daily sizes feel like one connected ritual instead of four separate cards.
Your Week in Klew
There's a new weekly recap: solves, points, rating change, and your streak, summed up for the week with a glance at how it compares to last.
It shows up as a card on Home at the start of each week, and you can always open it from your stats. A quiet Monday check-in on how your solving is going.
Share a Solve, Challenge a Friend
Finish a clean solve and you can share it. The link carries your time and opens to a card that says, plainly, beat it.
The most fun part of a fast solve, the bragging, made into one tap. Send it to the friend who always claims they're quicker.
Also in This Release
A few fixes worth naming:
- Daily puzzles now roll over at midnight Eastern, not UTC. If you solved in the evening and the next day's puzzle showed up early, that is fixed.
- The progress dots under your streak now count today's dailies only, so catching up on an older puzzle no longer fills them.
- Completed puzzles reliably show their solved state on Home.
Try It
Update to v1.2 on the App Store. Solve today's mini, watch the points land, and check your rating on the Profile tab. Then come back tomorrow and do it again. That is the whole idea.
Henry Pendleton is the founder and developer of Klew. He builds from Charleston, South Carolina.