New: Emoji, GIF and sticker picker now on iPhone too
New: Stickers and GIFs send as real stickers and play animated in chat
New: Live member counter when creating a group or adding members
New: TikTok-style Live viewer with guests and a mini player
Improved: Full-screen media viewer actions and share icons
Fixed: Reply bar stays visible on dark statuses
Android 1.0.1 (163)Android
TikTok-style lives and Sika rewards
New: Follow the host right from a live, and see how many people are watching and how long it has been live
New: Live chat stays on screen with supporter badges, top-gifter ranks (No.1-3) and @replies
New: Top gifters leaderboard for every live
New: Ask to join a live on screen; the host can bring up to 8 guests
New: Swipe up or down to jump to the next live
New: Minimize a live into a floating window and keep watching while you chat
New: Hosts can remove comments, mute viewers and filter words in their live
New: Automatic Sika coin rewards for chat streaks, invites that join, and daily activity
Improved: Sending gifts quickly in a row now counts every gift
Android 1.0.1 (161) · Windows 1.0.0 (36)AndroidWindows
Business tools, Sika payments, privacy controls and many fixes
New: business catalog. Business owners can add and manage products, and share the full catalog or a single product in chats and groups.
New: save your payment methods once and send them in one tap as ready-made payment details.
New: "Pay N coins" requests from bots. Confirm, pay or cancel right from the chat.
New: business pages with opening hours, directions, product grid, a Message about this item button, a business directory and a share link with QR code.
New: global search in chats finds public channels and business accounts.
New: privacy switch to hide your phone number from strangers. Your @username shows instead.
New: chat theme page with theme cards and a preview, plus a default wallpaper in Settings.
New: reorder labels and quick replies by dragging, and a Mail filter chip.
New: Spotlight badge on World with an explanation, and new interest icons.
New: Settings is now translated into 16 languages, with a compact category page and search.
New: group info has chat lock, disappearing messages, share, export and clear, and leave or report.
Improved: after you leave a group it stays listed as read-only, and owners can leave with ownership passed on.
Improved: broadcasts explain the free allowance limit instead of a generic failure.
Improved: messages that were refused stay marked as failed with a resend button.
Improved: contact cards are shared as a .vcf file with the text as caption.
Fixed: long or multi-line text that mentions a call is no longer shown as a call bubble.
Fixed: sign-up no longer crashes after you allow contacts access on Android.
Fixed: group info shows a friendly message instead of an error after you leave the group.
Fixed: 1-1 profile pictures are cached and only refresh when the person changes their picture.
Android 1.0.1 (155) · Windows 1.0.0 (32)AndroidWindows
Notifications, calls, chats and a lot of polish
Fixed: notifications now arrive when the app is closed or in the background.
Fixed: sign-up no longer skips the profile step, and the app no longer freezes after you allow notifications on Android.
Fixed: the attachment panel opens instantly and no longer opens several times when you tap repeatedly.
Fixed: the "switch to video" prompt no longer appears twice, and calls no longer show duplicate entries in the chat.
Fixed: after a call ends the app no longer says you are still in a call.
Fixed: the small call video box now responds to taps and drags on its whole area.
Fixed: the filter row no longer appears twice when you search, and the offline send spinner is gone.
Fixed: a view-once setting no longer sticks to the next message you send.
Fixed: saving a contact no longer says the phone number is unavailable when it is on screen.
Improved: starting a Live broadcast checks camera and microphone first and cleans up if it fails to start.
New: "Start chatting" suggestions show people from your contacts who are already on GekyChat.
New: contact cards shared from your phone contacts into GekyChat now arrive as contact messages.
New: reply to a voice message with your own voice using the mic button, with the original shown while you record.
New: long-press (right-click on desktop) the comment button on World to send a quick emoji comment.
New: search inside a chat now happens in the chat itself, with up and down arrows between matches.
New: type your locked-chats secret code in search to jump to your locked chats. Secret codes can use emoji.
New: App Lock protects the app with your phone lock or a PIN.
New: many more chat wallpapers, including solid colours.
New: a pen icon on your profile picture opens profile editing, and profile changes show on World straight away.
New on desktop: hover a message to react, forward images with the arrow, and a button to jump to the latest message.
Desktop: reactions and view-once media from your phone now show correctly on desktop.
World feed shows a purple gradient while it loads instead of a black screen.
