ZombieUP — What's New | Release Notes

2.0July 2026Latest

🔐 Real accounts — this is the big one. Your ZombieUP account is now properly yours: locked to your Apple ID, restored automatically on a new phone, and protected so nobody else can read or change your data. You'll confirm it's you once, with Face ID. Everything — kills, streak, squads, badges, history — carries over exactly as it was.
🛡️ Stronger data protection — every request to our servers is now tied to you personally instead of a shared app key. Groundwork we wanted in place before ZombieUP grows, especially with school teams coming on board.
✨ Fixes and polish throughout.

1.8July 2026

⌚️ Add Chase to Workout — already recording in Fitness, Strava or anything else? Open ZombieUP on your watch and add the horde to a workout that's already running. It rides along without touching your recording.
📍 On my way / I'm here — tell your squad you've left, and check in when you arrive. Everyone attending sees who's arrived and who's still en route. Check-in is automatic at the meet point, with a button if you'd rather do it yourself.
🔔 Event reminders that actually show up — reminders are now rebuilt every time you open the app, so recurring events, your own events, and reinstalls never lose them.
🌙 Night-before heads-up — a 7pm reminder the evening before, on top of the 30-minute nudge. Both switchable in Profile → Event Reminders.
🏆 Weekly and daily leaderboards fixed — Week and Today now show what you actually earned in the last 7 days and 24 hours.
✨ Smoother leaderboard scrolling, and the last placeholder workout data is gone for good.

1.7July 2026

⌚️ ZombieUP on Apple Watch — start a run, cycle, swim, walk or hike right from your wrist. Live kill counter, heart rate, distance and your GPS route. Works with your phone left at home and syncs your kills on its own.
🧟 The horde chase — they're behind you, and they run at YOUR pace. Slow down and they close in — the watch taps your wrist harder the nearer they get. Pick your horde: Shambler, Runner, or Nightmare.
🏆 Watch face complication — your squad war score or your streak, right on your watch face. Tap it to start a hunt.
🔥 Adrenaline Zones — heart-rate zones on every workout. Push into the Chased zone (84%+ of your max) to trigger the Adrenaline Rush — a kill bonus that rewards how hard you actually work.
🚩 Regroup — whoever reaches the coffee shop or bar first drops a pin, and everyone on the raid gets a ping with directions.
🏁 Route records — the route your coach draws on a raid is now a leaderboard. Run it and you're timed automatically; the fastest in the squad owns it.
🏆 Records tab — personal bests, lifetime totals, the cities and states you've cleared, and your whole badge collection in one place.
🏅 Elite event badges — a tier above legendary, earned only at real events: run the route (verified by GPS) or scan the event code. You can't grind your way to one.
⚡️ Skills are real now — your survivor skill tree boosts kills up to +15% on your main activity, with tiers and endless Prestige past the top.
👍 Chat reactions — react with 👍 👎 😂 🔥 in squad, raid and commander chat. Plus: see who cheered your posts.
📈 Richer workout detail — elevation, speed and heart-rate graphs, per-mile splits with your fastest flagged, and PBs stamped on top.
🔒 Hide your home — "Hide Start & End" trims the first and last stretch of shared routes so the map never shows where you live. On by default.
🗓 Your Week — every event you're attending in the next 7 days, right on your home screen. Plus a smarter Local leaderboard based on your actual city.

1.5July 2026

🐛 Fixed points not counting — late-syncing workouts (common with watches) now always count, exactly once.
💬 Squad chat preview shows your most recent messages instead of the oldest.
✨ Behind-the-scenes fixes and polish.

1.4July 2026

🎖️ Coach Mode — squads can name a Coach (Commander in fun mode) who builds a weekly Training Plan. Your week's tasks show as a checklist on your home screen, and syncing a matching workout auto-completes them.
📊 Athlete progress — coaches tap a teammate to see progression charts, stats, plan compliance and recent workouts. Plus team announcements and a roster dashboard.
⚔️ Team matchups — challenge a rival squad to a 7-day head-to-head ("Squad War" in fun mode). Winner is whoever activates more of their roster — tracked on a live scoreboard, with a Commander chat War Room to talk strategy.
🏆 Squad vs squad leaderboard — crews ranked by total kills with Today, Week, Month and All-Time filters.
🎯 Age-group leaderboards — filter Global and Local boards by age bracket.
📤 Share your workout — a recap card with your route traced on it, ready for Messages or social.
🏅 200+ badges — the collection more than doubled: distance, elevation, streaks, seasonal, activity-specific and travel badges (new cities & states).
🔒 Per-workout privacy — make any workout private, or hide just its map. Plus private notes only you can see.
🏚 Hold the line — bases crumble faster when the squad goes quiet; repair the walls before you can upgrade.
👋 A welcome tour for new players, a second soundtrack song, and polish throughout.

1.3June 2026

📣 Followers & Feed — follow other athletes (they approve), and see their shared workouts in the new Feed tab.
🔒 Workout privacy — after each sync, choose who sees it: Everyone, Followers, or Private.
🏅 Badges & loot crates — 100+ badges and rarity-tiered loot for PBs, milestones and streaks.
⛰ Climbing pays off — elevation earns a bonus, with climb, descent and grade on every split.
😴 Sleep, expanded — a 7-night trend, recovery stats, and stand-goal streaks. Zombies eat people who sit.

1.2 — BetaJune 2026

🗺 Speed-colored route maps — see where you were fast (green) and slow (red), right on the map.
⛰ Elevation profiles & kilometer splits — every climb, your fastest split flagged.
🏆 Weekly Elevation leaders — who climbed the most this week, on Global and Local boards.
🔒 Your account now follows you across reinstalls and new phones.

1.1 — BetaJune 2026

🏆 Leaderboards tab — Global, Local, and browsable squads.
🧑‍🎤 Avatars — pick an 80's-vibe avatar for your profile.
⭐ Squad management — transfer captain, name an approver, send aid to allied squads, set a Primary squad.

1.0 — BetaJune 2026

📍 Share My Location on rides — everyone's live dot on the map.
🗺 Events tab — Your Rides, World Events, and Local Events, with recurring weekly/monthly options.
🏚 Base artwork that grows through tiers and shows battle damage as it decays.
🎬 Opening splash screen with background music — and funny placeholder names for new survivors.