Yac

- Express yourself with all the emojis. We've added a full emoji keyboard in this update.
- Respond in-line while listening and Yac will timestamp your reply in the title
- Improvements to error messages
- Yac now shows sending progress for messages
- UX improvements in searching
- We now require a title for new threads so make it count

Completely redesigned tabs and compose interface
UI is cleaned up and we've reduced the steps to success
Recorder no longer takes over the entire screen for better reachability
Lots of performance optimizations and bug fixes

Better handling of background sending
Get notified when teammates react to your yacs
App now notifies you if you have no network connection
Play New Messages is now Catch Up and works even with 1 message
Messages longer than 6 minutes no longer crash the app when previewed
Fixed issues with ghost badge numbers

Conversations load faster now
Notifications will deep link to the message and auto play
The recording UI has been simplified
Threads now auto collapse after listening
Failed messages shouldn't get stuck now

Tabs now show a loader to indicate refresh state
Messages can now send in the background for up to 30 seconds
Discussions with longer names now display correctly

We've simplified our design down to two tabs, 1-on-1s and Discussions.
You can now attach GIFs to add some extra flair to your voice messages
Snooze has been removed in favor of mark read/unread
Tons of performance improvements
We've removed caching inside conversations but kept it on the main tabs
Replies now roll up when there are no new messages in them

Improved the speed of caching
Removed # and lifted lowercase no space requirement for channel naming

Channels now show their description field instead of the last message so write solid goals for your topic based discussions!
Changed Yac's Personal (Free) plan to include the last 100 messages instead of the last 7 days of messages.
CACHING! The app should feel a lot faster once you start using it more and more. Over time you'll see a lot less loading bars.

Fixes an issue where the mic would still be active in the background after sending
Adds the ability to share links from other apps into Yac
Improves UI feedback when sending messages on a low network connection

Quicker sending and improved app performance

Mention team members in subject lines and add tappable hashtags
Improvements to unread indicators in the message list
Avatars are now tappable in the group details screens

Mention team members in subject lines and add tappable hashtags
Improvements to unread indicators in message list
Avatars are now tappable in the group details screens

Hey everyone, Justin from the Yac Team here with a HUGE update to the Yac Mobile App. We've been hard at work building out new features and fixes and we are so excited to get this into your hands. As always, we value all your feedback and everything you see in this update will mold around you, our users, over time.

Quicker & easier sending of video and photo yacs
New visual identity with thinner fonts and sharper lines
Brand new preview player and visualizer
Add topics and subject lines to yacs before or after you send
Transcripts now have ML powered paragraph breaks for easy reading
Yay! Threading! You can now thread messages under other messages for context
Your tab bar no longer floats above your messages. It's clean and simple.
Brand new swiping actions for snooze, quick reply, and threading
Completely re-worked mobile network message queuing and improved support for slow connections
ML powered smart mentions in transcripts when talking about someone on your team

Record your screen along with your voice! Just tap the phone icon when sending a video yac to start screen recording.

Landscape mode for iPad!

Add hashtags to your edited transcripts and tap them to find all messages with those topics

Picture-in-Picture for video yacs
Custom notification sounds in settings
Deep linking for friend adding and web replies
Transcripts now support markdown
We've replaced the play button with the quick reply button
You can now search your friends list in the forward yac menu
You can now send yacs directly to a contact via SMS

You can now drop Yac into the background and continue recording while browsing other apps.
Attach a link to your messages now!
Bios added to profiles and channels with shareable links.
We've moved the + button to the top right so it's faster than ever to create a new channel or invite someone
The search bar is now stickied to the top of each screen

Profile pages! Tap on any face in the list or long press in the contacts list to view their profile along with their email address.
New contacts book integration. Now you can quickly add existing users on Yac or invite anyone from your contact book.

Fixes the splash screen not showing up on launch
Adds the ability to invite people to a Yac channel via their email

Groups are now called Channels!
The app is now fully iPad compatible (New UX coming soon)
Universal Links are now supported for deep linking

Emoji quick replies!
You can now edit transcripts. Great for taking notes on a yac.
Mark All as read in a thread
Selfie Camera in video yacs

Background playback is here!
We made search way way better.
You can now resume a yac if a phone call interrupts it.
We now ask you if want to private message someone or reply all

Brand new tab bar with inbox, unread messages, teammates, and groups.
Tons of performance enhancements

Brand new tab bar with inbox, unread messages, teammates, and groups.
Tons of performance enhancements