Roost Social Downloads & RevenueRoost Social: Penpal & Friends · App Store & Google Play
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends by Logan Mendelsohn is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends update history & changes
Last change · 94 events since 27 Apr 2026Full timeline ↓🌟iOSFeatured by Apple🌟iOSFeatured by Apple📈AndroidCharting in a new country✏️iOSNew screenshots📦iOSUpdated to version 1.5.67⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings📦AndroidUpdated to version 1.4.67✏️iOSNew screenshots📦iOSUpdated to version 1.5.66⭐iOSPassed 1K ratings📦AndroidUpdated to version 1.4.66📈AndroidCharting in a new country📈iOSEntered the top 100📈iOSCharting in a new country✏️AndroidDescription updated✏️AndroidShort description updated💰AndroidIn-app price range changed🆕AndroidFirst spotted by AppInsider🆕AndroidReleased on Google Play
Full timeline · 94 events
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new countryAndroidIndonesia
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · ID
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.67iOSRoost is a one-man show built for this community. Every update I release comes from your ideas, feedback, and requests. Thanks for telling me what you love, what’s broken, and what you want next.
Here’s what’s new:
- IRL bird identification! Get your birding hat on. Rolling out to Roost Supporters first.
- Multi-page letters!
- Sea Battle in messages rolling out with this update.
- More stamps to collect! Collect state, region, and prefecture stamps from 23 more countries.
- New skins for Stormpost.
- New envelope animations to make opening your letters a little more fun.
- Smoother scrolling in messages.
- Fixed an issue with custom skins appearing on the map.
- Other small fixes and improvements.
If you’re enjoying Roost, please consider becoming a Roost Supporter. Your support helps me keep building for this community. Thank you for supporting me and the birds!… more - 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.67Android- Stormpost Roguelite Bullet Hell Mode
- Safari Zones
- Stamp collection by region
- Dinos are here
- Misc Fixes - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · AR
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · AU, MX
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.66iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Fix for longer messages not opening for some users
- Safari Zone Beta Testing for Pictures of Birdies in the wild
- Stamps fixed for Events showing in Passport
- Halloween Skin added
- New way to track Games (Chess/Four In a Row)
- Collect regional stamps (yes, more stamp collecting!)
- Dinosaurs are in the Rookery
- New Trail types added to show off the beauty of Fall weather
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Achievements starting roll out
- New Animation for the Field Guide
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fixes
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.66Android- Stormpost Roguelite Bullet Hell Mode
- Safari Zone
- Secrets
- Stamp collection by region
- Dinos are here
- Misc Fixes - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.65iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Fix for longer messages not opening for some users
- Collect regional stamps (yes, more stamp collecting!)
- Dinosaurs are in the Rookery
- New Trail types added to show off the beauty of Fall weather
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Achievements starting roll out
- New Animation for the Field Guide
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fixes
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.65Android- Stormpost Roguelite Bullet Hell Mode
- Stamp collection by region
- Dinos are here
- Misc Fixes - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.64iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Fix for iPhone Duo Letter Animation
- Messages fix for longer messages
- Collect regional stamps (yes, more stamp collecting!)
- New Trail types added to show off the beauty of Fall weather
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Achievements starting roll out
- New Animation for the Field Guide
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fix
- Feathers will appear again soon
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.64Android- Fix for android loading times
- Stamps for states and regions
- New trail types
- Achievements starting to rollout
- Stormpost Bullet Hell Rogue Lite rollout starting
- New animations for field guide sightings/adoption.
- New animtation for level ups… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.63iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Fix for iPhone Duo Letter Animation
- New Trail types added to show off the beauty of Fall weather
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Achievements starting roll out
- New Animation for the Field Guide
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fix
- Feathers will appear again soon
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · FR, DE
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.63Android- Fix for android loading times
- New trail types
- Achievements starting to rollout
- Stormpost Bullet Hell Rogue Lite rollout starting
- New animations for field guide sightings/adoption.
- New animtation for level ups… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · NL
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: app got biggeriOS204 MB → 250 MB (+23%)
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · RU, ES
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · IT
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.62iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Scratchpad improvements (shrink and expand stickers, eraser resizing is more precise, zoom into the art)
- iPhone Duo Support with some fun iPhone Duo Animations (Try opening a letter!)
- Trails fix to show what they look like better in the shop
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Crash fix for users with 1000+ friends
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fix
- Feathers will appear again soon
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.62Android- Zoom into Scratchpad and have precise erasing while zoomed in (more work needed on this)
- Care Room update
- Crash fix for users with 1000+ friends
- Stormpost Beta Campaign
- New Trails shown in the shop
- Scratchpad improvements and letter improvements
- Much much more… more - 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new countryAndroidVietnam
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Social Networking · PL
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new countryiOSPoland
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.60iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fix
- Feathers will appear again soon
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new countryAndroidNetherlands
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Social Networking · AR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.61Android• Crash fix and sign up fix for some android keyboards.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• Care Room added
• Redesigned Shop - easier to navigate the shop and now can see the different art for flying/idle/profile pic
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatediOS· DE
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.59iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatediOS· NL, IN
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatediOS· FR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.59Android• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• Care Room added
• Redesigned Shop - easier to navigate the shop and now can see the different art for flying/idle/profile pic
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatediOS· 6 countries
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatediOS· GB, AU
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new countryiOSArgentina
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.58iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Social · ES
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends charting in a new country in 2 chartsAndroidSpain · Mexico
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: description updatedAndroid· US
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: short description updatedAndroid· US
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: renamedAndroidRoost Social → Roost Social: Penpal & Friends · US
- 📈Roost Social: Penpal & Friends entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Social Networking · ID
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.58AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: renamediOSRoost Social → Roost Social: Penpal & Friends · SE
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.57iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: app got biggeriOS185 MB → 204 MB (+10%)
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.55iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.56AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.57AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.55AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: renamediOSRoost Social → Roost Social: Penpal & Friends · ES, US
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.54iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: renamediOSRoost Social → Roost Social: Penpal & Friends · 10 countries
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.54AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.53iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: now updating weeklyiOS4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · SE, DE
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.53AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · 9 countries
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- ✏️Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: new screenshotsiOS7 screenshots (was 7) · FR, CA
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: now updating weeklyAndroid4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.12iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Misc fixes
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.52AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.50AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.49AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.5.11iOSA whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Classic mode is now available in Settings > Appearance
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.… more - 💰Roost Social: Penpal & Friends: in-app price range changedAndroid$0.99 - $49.99 per item → $0.99 - $59.99 per item · US
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends updated to version 1.4.48AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 🆕Roost Social: Penpal & Friends first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited Kingdom
- 🌟Roost Social: Penpal & Friends featured by AppleiOSapps · AU, BR
- 🆕Roost Social: Penpal & Friends first spotted by AppInsideriOS#70 in Top Grossing · Social Networking · Italy
- 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends version 1.4.47AndroidA whole new look for Roost. Classic mode is back too :).
• Complete redesign — a fresh look and feel throughout the app.
• Battery improvements — enjoy Roost with less battery drain.
• New themes — personalize your world with more styles, including light mode.
• And more — plenty of smaller improvements.
Thanks for being part of the flock!… more - 📦Roost Social: Penpal & Friends version 1.5.06iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Roost Social: Penpal & Friends released on Google PlayAndroid
- 🆕Roost Social: Penpal & Friends released on the App StoreiOS
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
8.8k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#24
App Store · 
Social Networking Free
Social Networking FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
313
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before (Google Play)
Measured
App Store
App details
App ID
6746680855
Publisher
Logan Mendelsohn
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Apr 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
12+
2 content notes below
Languages
23
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Size
255 MB
Also listed in
Games, Casual
Content notesLoot BoxesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rookery.courier
Publisher
Good Egg LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v1.4.30, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
2
Permissions
33
Trackers
Google CrashLyticsGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 100+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 500+ | 500k+ Measured |
| Total | 500+ Confidence | 500k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
App Store: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
Where Roost Social: Penpal & Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Roost Social: Penpal & Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | $0.99 Bird | |
| 2 | $9.99 Bird | |
| 3 | $4.99 Bird | |
| 4 | Monthly Supporter subscription | |
| 5 | $2.99 Bird | |
| 6 | 1150 Berries | |
| 7 | 2400 Berries | |
| 8 | 550 berries | |
| 9 | 100 Berries | |
| 10 | Annual Supporter Tier subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #24 Social Networking Free | 1 of 30 countries | – | – |
| Google Play | #26 Social Free | 3 of 23 countries | – | – |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisApp Store
New ratings a week
139
▼ -40% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
73/100
faster than 93% of Social Networking apps
Growing fastest in 
Australia ▲ +175% · 
France ▲ +100%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 70 | 51% | – |
| Italy | 23 | 17% | ▼ -69% |
 Canada | 7.3 | 5% | – |
 United Kingdom | 7 | 5% | – |
| France | 6.2 | 5% | ▲ +100% |
 Germany | 5.8 | 4% | ▼ -61% |
 Mexico | 4.8 | 3% | ▼ -9% |
 Spain | 3.5 | 3% | steady |
| Australia | 3.2 | 2% | ▲ +175% |
 Russia | 2.5 | 2% | ▼ -50% |
 Taiwan | 2.1 | 2% | – |
 Netherlands | 1.8 | 1% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Google Play
New ratings a week
174
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.3
Google Play
Recent ratings
5.0★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
65/100
faster than 70% of Social apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 316 |
| Google Play | 4.8 ★ | 8.5k 307 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 8.8k |
What users say about Roost Social: Penpal & Friends
From the 60 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users praise the unique slow-messaging concept and community building aspects, finding it a refreshing alternative to instant chat. However, frequent updates causing UI regressions, AI-generated art concerns, and technical bugs like notification delays are significant pain points.
Mostly positive (82% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and speed. The main complaints are about recent updates, and the design.
What people like
- Fun: “really fun slow messaging app”
- Speed & performance: “really fun slow messaging app”
- Features & content: “Is there any way of bringing this feature back ?”
- Updates: “The bug was fixed with the update!”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Until the most recent update”
- Design
- Features & content: “Right now, every bird gains the same amount of speed when leveling up: just 1 km/h per level”
About Roost Social: Penpal & Friends
Roost brings back old-school messaging with carrier pigeons, snail mail, and now handwritten letters. We call it Slowcial Media.
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, play games with friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, play games with friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends App Store
Roost Social
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends is #24 in Social Networking Free in Italy and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperLogan Mendelsohn
CategorySocial Networking
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (316)
Version1.5.67
Age rating12+
First seen by us 24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.8 ★
316 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#24
Social Networking FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
139
▼ -40% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends on the App Store
App details
App ID
6746680855
Publisher
Logan Mendelsohn
Publisher country
United States
On the store since
Apr 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
12+
2 content notes below
Languages
23
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Size
255 MB
Also listed in
Games, Casual
Content notesLoot BoxesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Roost Social: Penpal & Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Roost Social: Penpal & Friends before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Roost Social: Penpal & Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | $0.99 Bird | |
| 2 | $9.99 Bird | |
| 3 | $4.99 Bird | |
| 4 | Monthly Supporter subscription | |
| 5 | $2.99 Bird | |
| 6 | 1150 Berries | |
| 7 | 2400 Berries | |
| 8 | 550 berries | |
| 9 | 100 Berries | |
| 10 | Annual Supporter Tier subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | Social NetworkingFree | #24 |
Apps near Roost Social: Penpal & Friends on the chart
Social Networking Free, around #24.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
316 ratings
Measured
Ratings
316
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
139
▼ -40% vs the 2 weeks before
Recent ratings
4.8★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
73/100
faster than 93% of Social Networking apps
Growing fastest in Australia ▲ +175% · France ▲ +100%
New ratings by country (12)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 70 | 51% | – |
| Italy | 23 | 17% | ▼ -69% |
| Canada | 7.3 | 5% | – |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 5% | – |
| France | 6.2 | 5% | ▲ +100% |
| Germany | 5.8 | 4% | ▼ -61% |
| Mexico | 4.8 | 3% | ▼ -9% |
| Spain | 3.5 | 3% | steady |
| Australia | 3.2 | 2% | ▲ +175% |
| Russia | 2.5 | 2% | ▼ -50% |
| Taiwan | 2.1 | 2% | – |
| Netherlands | 1.8 | 1% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Roost Social: Penpal & Friends
Roost brings back old-school messaging with carrier pigeons, snail mail, and now handwritten letters. We call it Slowcial Media.
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, play games with friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, play games with friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Latest updates
1.5.68
Roost is a one-man show built for this community. Every update I release comes from your ideas, feedback, and requests. Thanks for telling me what you love, what’s broken, and what you want next.
Here’s what’s new:
- Letter Drafts! For now, if you write letters, you are able to save your drafts. Feature will expand.
- Sea Battle Fixes
- IRL bird identification! Get your birding hat on. Rolling out to Roost Supporters first, with some early beta testers now.
- Multi-page letters!
- Sea Battle in messages rolling out with this update.
- More stamps to collect! Collect state, region, and prefecture stamps from 23 more countries.
- New skins for Stormpost.
- New envelope animations to make opening your letters a little more fun.
- Smoother scrolling in messages.
- Fixed an issue with custom skins appearing on the map.
- Other small fixes and improvements.
If you’re enjoying Roost, please consider becoming a Roost Supporter. Your support helps me keep building for this community. Thank you for supporting me and the birds!
1.5.67
Roost is a one-man show built for this community. Every update I release comes from your ideas, feedback, and requests. Thanks for telling me what you love, what’s broken, and what you want next.
Here’s what’s new:
- IRL bird identification! Get your birding hat on. Rolling out to Roost Supporters first.
- Multi-page letters!
- Sea Battle in messages rolling out with this update.
- More stamps to collect! Collect state, region, and prefecture stamps from 23 more countries.
- New skins for Stormpost.
- New envelope animations to make opening your letters a little more fun.
- Smoother scrolling in messages.
- Fixed an issue with custom skins appearing on the map.
- Other small fixes and improvements.
If you’re enjoying Roost, please consider becoming a Roost Supporter. Your support helps me keep building for this community. Thank you for supporting me and the birds!
1.5.66
A whole new look. A lot more under the feathers + any fixes (scratchpad colors, recallable birds, auto-select courier, clutter, and more)
- Fix for longer messages not opening for some users
- Safari Zone Beta Testing for Pictures of Birdies in the wild
- Stamps fixed for Events showing in Passport
- Halloween Skin added
- New way to track Games (Chess/Four In a Row)
- Collect regional stamps (yes, more stamp collecting!)
- Dinosaurs are in the Rookery
- New Trail types added to show off the beauty of Fall weather
- Care Room fixes (large font fix, more to come)
- Less intrusive berry earning
- Achievements starting roll out
- New Animation for the Field Guide
- Stormpost Beta (A Roost Social Campaign is here... yes, really)
- Misc fixes for berries and new letter UI (you can now edit your handwriting your settings)
- Crash Fixes
- Trail locker fix
- Slowly rolling out your own custom room for where to take care of your little birdies
- Redesigned Shop for better/more clear sections
- Fix for users that lose connection randomly and app does not recover
- GIF Picker Fix
- Pen-pal visibility fix
- Sending... bug fix where it shows perpetual sending
- New art for our bird pals from the Art Challenge!
This is one of our biggest updates yet. We’ve redesigned Roost throughout, introduced new themes, improved battery efficiency, and worked through lots of the little frustrations you’ve helped us find.
• A complete redesign
Explore refreshed Messages, Flock, Rookery, Map, and Profile screens, along with redesigned bird details, shop pages, settings, and more. New layouts and clearer controls make your birds, letters, and friendships easier to keep up with.
• Themes that follow your day
Light mode is here! Choose Light, Night, or your device’s appearance, or let Roost change with your local time. Watch the sky move gradually through dawn, day, dusk, twilight, and night, with softly drifting clouds.
• Battery and performance improvements
We’ve reduced unnecessary loading. We’ve also improved loading and caching, including passport stamps, to make everyday browsing feel smoother.
• Quicker sending and a more organized inbox
Choose a default courier, see which bird will carry your message before sending, and set what happens when your usual courier is away. The refreshed inbox brings waiting activity into focus, adds sorting options, and makes hidden conversations easier to restore.
• A refreshed bird Codex
Explore redesigned collection progress, filters, and field-guide pages, with clearer distinctions between birds you’ve discovered and adopted. New discovery reveals give your collection’s milestones a little more celebration.
• Better protection for unfinished messages
Improved draft recovery helps you pick up where you left off after an interruption, including supported photo and drawing drafts.
• Training fixes that matter
Training eggs are now spent when you press Start, so opening a game to look around won’t cost you an egg. We’ve also improved reward submission and recovery, and corrected daily XP tracking.
• More control over sound and feel
Updated Sound & Haptics settings let you tailor feedback for message sends, bird care, and games. We’ve also refined feedback throughout the app and improved behavior with reduced-motion settings.
Plus fixes and polish across pen pals, Nest invitations, message arrivals, larger text, and navigation.
Thank you for every bug report, suggestion, and bird you’ve sent. You’ve helped shape this update. We’re excited for you to explore it.
Store changes
What Roost Social: Penpal & Friends changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots 
7 screenshots (was 7)
New screenshots 
7 screenshots (was 7)
New screenshots
7 screenshots (was 7)
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends Android
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends gets 500+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends is #26 in Social Free on Google Play in Italy and charting in 3 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperGood Egg LLC
CategorySocial
PriceFree
Released
Installs500k+
Rating★ 4.8 (8.5k)
Updated
Content ratingTeen
Rating
4.8 ★
8.5k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#26
Social FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
174
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.rookery.courier
Publisher
Good Egg LLC
Publisher country
United States
Content rating
Teen
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v1.4.30, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Trackers
2
Permissions
33
Trackers
Google CrashLyticsGoogle Firebase Analytics
Full permission listProSee plans
Roost Social: Penpal & Friends downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Roost Social: Penpal & Friends's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Roost Social: Penpal & Friends before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Roost Social: Penpal & Friends makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchasesAds
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | $0.99 Bird | |
| 2 | $9.99 Bird | |
| 3 | $4.99 Bird | |
| 4 | Monthly Supporter subscription | |
| 5 | $2.99 Bird | |
| 6 | 1150 Berries | |
| 7 | 2400 Berries | |
| 8 | 550 berries | |
| 9 | 100 Berries | |
| 10 | Annual Supporter Tier subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | SocialFree | #26 |
| Russia | SocialFree | #190 |
| Spain | SocialFree | #168 |
Apps near Roost Social: Penpal & Friends on the chart
Social Free, around #26.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
8.5k ratings
Measured
Ratings
8.5k
Measured
Written reviews
307
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
174
▼ -23% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
2.3
Google Play
Recent ratings
5.0★
vs 4.8★ lifetime
Review momentum
65/100
faster than 70% of Social apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Roost Social: Penpal & Friends
From the 60 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users praise the unique slow-messaging concept and community building aspects, finding it a refreshing alternative to instant chat. However, frequent updates causing UI regressions, AI-generated art concerns, and technical bugs like notification delays are significant pain points.
Mostly positive (82% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being fun, and speed. The main complaints are about recent updates, and the design.
What people like
- Fun: “really fun slow messaging app”
- Speed & performance: “really fun slow messaging app”
- Features & content: “Is there any way of bringing this feature back ?”
- Updates: “The bug was fixed with the update!”
Common complaints
- Updates: “Until the most recent update”
- Design
- Features & content: “Right now, every bird gains the same amount of speed when leveling up: just 1 km/h per level”
About Roost Social: Penpal & Friends
Roost brings back old-school messaging with carrier pigeons, snail mail, and now handwritten letters.
We call it Slowcial Media!
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, send letters to your friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
We call it Slowcial Media!
Write a letter in your own handwriting, choose a courier, and send it across the world. Your bird picks it up, flies to its destination, and delivers it when it gets there. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Make pen pals around the world, send letters to your friends, collect birds, and build your own little rookery along the way.
YOUR HANDWRITING, YOUR LETTERS
Turn your handwriting into your own font and write letters that actually look like yours. Personalize your letters with animations and make something a little more special than another text bubble.
PEN PALS AROUND THE WORLD
Meet people from other countries, make new friends, and learn about life somewhere else. Send a letter halfway around the world and see who writes back. You never know who you'll meet.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS
Watch your birds and your friends' birds fly across a real globe. Every delivery has a journey. See where your bird is, how far it's traveled, and when it's expected to arrive.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY
Collect birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes, and plenty more. Each bird has its own speed and abilities. Feed them, train them, and watch your flock grow.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Challenge your friends to chess, Four in a Row, and other games while you wait for your letters to arrive. Play mini games to train your birds and help them fly faster.
FRIENDS, NOT FEEDS
No algorithms. No endless scrolling. Just your friends, your pen pals, and the birds carrying your words. Add friends by username, meet people from around the world, and stay in touch without feeling like you need to be on your phone all day.
NEW BIRDS & REWARDS
Collect daily rewards, discover new birds, and take part in special events. From limited-time birds to new ways to personalize your experience, there's always something happening in the rookery.
Roost is a place to slow down, make friends, and have a little fun along the way.
Send a letter. Let it fly. Go live your day.
Subscription EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What's new in 1.4.67
- Stormpost Roguelite Bullet Hell Mode
- Safari Zones
- Stamp collection by region
- Dinos are here
- Misc Fixes
- Safari Zones
- Stamp collection by region
- Dinos are here
- Misc Fixes
Store changes
What Roost Social: Penpal & Friends changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Short description updated
Renamed
Roost Social → Roost Social: Penpal & Friends