Field Updates

Photos now fly on bar wifi

Bar connections are famously terrible, and photo uploads were the thing that suffered. Photos the app sends are now about 8× smaller — with reading accuracy verified unchanged on real bar photos — so snapping a reading works in spots where it used to spin forever.

No more mystery spinner

When the connection really is crawling, the app now says so — and gives you a Cancel button so you can retry without retaking your photo. No more staring at a frozen screen wondering if anything is happening.

Browse machines by picture, not name

When you add a machine and pick it from the catalog, you now scroll big photos of each machine with its list of games — because the name on the glass often doesn't match what a machine is called elsewhere. Match what you're looking at, not what it's labeled.

Your machine isn't in the catalog? Send it to HQ

If you're adding a machine and can't find it anywhere, there's now a "My machine isn't here — send it to HQ" button. Your photo comes straight to us, we add the machine to the catalog, and it becomes trackable on a future visit. How to use it: add machine → browse the catalog → the send-to-HQ button is at the bottom of the list.

Clearer answers when you add a machine

The app now tells you exactly what it saw: "The photo read [game name] — matched to [machine] in the catalog." And when amounts weren't visible in your photo, it says so and asks you to type what the display shows — instead of leaving mysterious $0s.

The photo reader got new glasses

We upgraded the AI that reads jackpot amounts off your photos. In side-by-side testing on real bar photos, the new reader got every amount right — and even caught a couple of cents-level misreads the old one had let slip through. Decimal points matter when agents are timing a jackpot, so every photo you snap now goes through the sharper reader. Machine identification when adding a new machine runs on it too.

Fresh brains for the code-name generator

New recruits' spy code names now come from an upgraded generator. Same wit, newer brain. Existing agents keep their names — a good alias is for life.

Clearance levels arrive

The app now has two tiers. Free gets the facts: current amounts, full history, hot flames, last-hit dates, and rough timing ("due soon"). Premium gets the intelligence: exact forecast windows, the usual hit range in dollars, confidence ratings, crowd estimates, and the Hot List across every tracked bar. Tap any lock in the app to see the full comparison.

Beta pioneers keep Premium for life

If you're in the beta, you're a pioneer — your readings are building the intel network. For that, your account holds Premium for life. It's already on your account; nothing to do.

Fresh Intel — your readings pay you back

On the free tier, contributing a reading at a bar unlocks full Premium-grade forecasts on every machine at that bar for a week. Your intel, your insights. How to use it: snap or enter one reading at a spot and the whole location opens up in full detail.

Ghost Mode

A Premium perk for agents who like to work alone: flip on Ghost Mode in your Profile and your submissions become invisible to other agents — they never appear in machine histories. The predictions still count every reading, and you always see your own history in full.

Smarter machine naming

Adding a machine no longer risks it being named after words on its jackpot display (one machine briefly went by "GRAND JACKPOT" — sorry, champ). The app now recognizes prize labels for what they are and uses the machine's real catalog name.

One prize, many machines — finally tracked as one

At many bars, several machines feed the same top jackpot — one shared prize pool with one dollar amount, shown on every connected machine. The app used to track each machine's copy separately, so they could drift apart. Now they're linked: a reading on any connected machine updates the shared jackpot everywhere, and every machine shows the same number, just like the glass does.

Sharper predictions on shared jackpots

Because every connected machine's readings now pool together, shared jackpots build history faster and payouts are much harder to miss. The app even went back through past readings and caught payouts that single-machine tracking had overlooked.

The whole story in History

Open a linked jackpot's history and you'll see readings from every connected machine at that bar, each labeled with the machine it came from — the jackpot's climb reads as one story. Linked jackpots wear a small "Shared" tag so you know at a glance.

A quick question when you add certain machines

Some machines rotate through their jackpot displays, so a photo can't prove which jackpots they carry. When you add one of those, the app now asks one quick question — "does the display show the top shared jackpot?" — and links it for everyone if you say yes. How to use it: just watch the machine's screen cycle for a few seconds before you answer.

Two kinds of "hot"

Flames now come in two colors. An orange flame means the app has actually watched that jackpot hit before and it's back in the zone where it usually pays — proven pattern. A purple flame is a crowd watch: the community believes it's getting close, but no hit has been observed yet. You'll always be able to tell proof from prediction at a glance.

Crowd watch on the Hot screen

The Hot screen gets a new section listing the machines the community is watching — clearly separated from the proven ranking so the two never mix.

"Last hit" on every tracked jackpot

Each jackpot level now shows when it last paid out and how often it typically hits — for example, "Last hit Jul 12 · typically every ~9 days."

Past the ceiling

When a jackpot climbs above the point where it usually pays, the app now says so plainly instead of hiding it — that's the most exciting state a machine can be in, and the prediction adjusts to "due now."

The machine tells on itself

Some machines literally change a meter's label to "MAX JACKPOT" when it can't climb any higher. The app now reads that straight off your photo and marks the level AT MAX — the strongest "due now" signal there is.

Your target, upgraded

When a jackpot passes the personal target you set on it, its card now lights up "passed" so you know your number came and went.

How to use it: open any machine, tap "Set your target" on a level, and enter the amount you think it hits at.

Fair-play crowd estimates

Once enough agents have set targets on a level, the app shows what the crowd expects — but only after you've committed your own guess. That keeps everyone's predictions independent instead of everyone copying the first number they see.

Welcome briefing

New agents get a short briefing on first launch: what the beta is, how it works, and how to reach HQ.

Shake to report

Found a bug or have an idea? Shake your phone anywhere in the app and a report form pops up. Your note lands directly with the team, with the technical context attached automatically — no screenshots or long explanations needed.

How to use it: shake your device, or go to Profile → "Send Intel to HQ."

"Entered wrong?" — fix your own entries

Typo'd an amount? For 24 hours after any entry you can mark it as a mistake (and undo that, too). The history stays honest and the predictions recalculate right away.

How to use it: open the machine's history, find your entry, and tap "Entered wrong?"

Sturdier photo uploads

Spotty bar Wi-Fi? Photo uploads now retry automatically instead of failing on the first hiccup.

Better photo capture

A taller framing guide makes it easier to line up jackpot displays, and you can skip the cropping step entirely when the shot's already good.

Undercover mode

Prefer full anonymity? Flip on Undercover mode and your contributions show to other agents as "Undercover Agent" instead of your code name.

How to use it: Profile → Undercover mode.

Privacy-friendly timestamps

Other agents now see rough times on your contributions ("this evening," "2 days ago") — never the exact minute you were somewhere.