Sabiowl Release Notes
Last updated: 11 August 2026
What changed in each version of Sabiowl, newest first. What we are preparing next is at the end.
v1.0.5 (released 30 July 2026)
Adjustments so that less of what you build up goes to waste.
📝 Search in Quick Notes
- A search field at the top of the notes screen narrows down what you have written
- Matches are highlighted in yellow
🎟 Much higher ticket limits
- Daily: 5 → 30
- Weekly: 4 → 10
This came from hearing that tickets could quietly disappear when you went a few days without drawing. There is now enough room that a month away costs you nothing 🪶
🗓 Calendar improvements
- Events imported from Google Calendar now appear on the calendar screen’s timeline as well
- You can turn off automatic creation of default events all at once
✨ Other
- New entries now default to the “Other” category, which spreads experience evenly across all six stats
- Fixed a case where challenge rewards could sit unclaimed
v1.0.4 (released 29 July 2026)
📝 Quick Notes
Somewhere to write down what you have thought of but not yet decided what to make of. Sorting it into an event, a to-do or a habit can wait.
- Voice input, so you can write by speaking. The transcription is done by your device’s operating system; the audio itself is never sent to our servers
- Deleted notes go to the trash, so you can restore them afterwards
You can turn the feature on and off under Settings → Quick Notes.
v1.0.3 (released 25 July 2026)
🌙 More life in the sleeping world
- Clouds drifting over the castle town at midday
- A new campfire for the forest camp at night
- The fragment pop-up now draws a cut-out of the scene itself
🎁 Gifts to friends
- What used to be an XP boost alone is now a set of three: an XP boost, coins and a battle ticket
✨ Better to use
- The bottom menu now slides between screens in the direction you are moving
- A separate screen for connection and server problems, so they are no longer confused with maintenance
- You can change your name and your character from the stats screen
- Fixed weapons won from the gacha not appearing in your shop inventory
v1.0.2 (released July 2026)
🌙 The sleeping world
A place where what you build up day by day takes shape as a scene.
- Your first completed habit of the day creates one outline fragment (grey)
- Winning a battle that day turns it into a colour fragment
- When every fragment has colour, the scene is complete and starts to move
📖 User Guide
- You can now read how each screen works from inside the app (at the top of the ☰ menu)
✨ Other
- Reorganised the ☰ menu so the screens you use most are two taps away
- Titles you have entered once are remembered on your device and offered as suggestions next time
v1.0.1 (released 7 July 2026)
The first public release. This version pairs the core loop of keeping a habit going with RPG-style growth.
✨ Main features
🌱 Habits and to-dos
- Habits (count-based and checklist-based) and to-dos, managed on one screen
- 11 categories mapped across 6 stats: Fitness, Learning, Health, Spirit, Creativity and Contribution
- Streaks, and a streak protection stone that is spent automatically the moment a streak would break, so you can keep going without forcing it
⭐ RPG-style growth
- Completing a habit earns experience and stat points
- Levelling up gives you points to spend, and you decide which of the six stats to grow
- Reaching a streak milestone earns diamonds
🎴 Characters and gacha
- 14 characters and 14 jobs (characters are released in stages, roughly one or two a month)
- Three gacha types: daily, weekly, and monthly (guaranteed SSR)
- Gacha tickets come from completing habits. The guaranteed SSR ticket is granted automatically once you have completed 21 days in a month
⚔️ Guild (battles)
- An ATB battle system, with 24 enemies to choose from
- Your weapon, job modifiers and character HP combine into a real choice about how to fight
- Winning earns coins, experience and diamonds
👥 Friends
- Add friends with an 8-digit friend ID
- Send and receive requests, and view a friend’s profile
- Send one XP boost (1.5× for 15 minutes) to a friend each day
📅 Timeline
- Lay out a day from a template
- Google Calendar integration (import)
- Completed events earn experience and coins
🦉 Sabi (the mascot)
- Sabi, a gentlemanly owl, watches over your habits quietly
- He speaks up in the morning, at night, when you keep something going, and when things stall
🏅 Achievements
- 30 badges that make your accumulated effort visible
- Earning a badge earns diamonds
💎 Diamond packs (iOS)
- ¥120: 120 diamonds
- ¥600: 660 diamonds (10% more)
- ¥1,200: 1,440 diamonds (20% more)
Payment goes through the standard App Store flow. For the full terms of sale, see Legal & Consumer Information.
💎 New user bonus
- Day 1: 500 diamonds, 3 daily tickets, 3 weekly tickets
- Days 2–7: 100 diamonds a day
- Day 8 onward: 20 diamonds a day
All of these arrive the moment you complete your first task of the day. They are a reward for taking a step, not simply for opening the app 🪶
⚠️ Known limitations
- The job mastery system (switching jobs across characters) is planned for v1.1 and later
What comes next (v1.1 and later)
We are preparing the following while we watch how the app is used after launch. The contents and timing may change, so please read this as a rough guide.
🎴 More characters
- Released in stages, roughly one or two a month, from the characters not yet available
- We will announce the timing in the app beforehand
⚔️ Job mastery
- Moving on from the v1.0 design where each character is tied to one job, toward switching and mastering jobs across characters
- Skills you have built up in a job should carry over to other characters
💎 Crystal inventory
- Equip the crystals you have collected to draw out their effects
- Six kinds, one per category: Fitness, Learning, Health, Spirit, Creativity and Contribution
✨ “NEW” banner on the gacha screen
- Makes newly added characters easier to spot
- Tap to go straight to the character’s page
🌍 A world you can explore
- More NPCs with distinct roles, such as a weapon shop and a gacha stand, added in stages
- Growing from “a habit app with rewards” into “a habit app with a world you can explore”
💎 More purchase options (under consideration)
- A monthly subscription
- Details and pricing will follow as we see how monthly active use develops
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