Hearoism Beta
Early beta is now open.
New — You can join our Discord server to try an early beta:
The beta is available through TestFlight, Apple's official platform for beta testing. For the installation link see How to try Hearoism in Discord:
All subscriptions are fake and the current quotas are high, so any tier is fine and you will not be charged. (TestFlight apps use Apple's Sandbox and cannot charge real money.)
All bug reports and feedback are greatly appreciated! Please freely use the #tavern channel or DM me (Jared) to share what you think.
Tester Notes
All UI and Audio playback should be working well, so please report any bug related to:
- Signing in, subscribing, deleting your account
- Creating or deleting games, switching between games
- Changing voices or adjusting any other settings
- Switching between phone, AirPods, speakers, car, etc.
- Recording your session (assuming a good mic like Airpods)
- Using large fonts (via system accessibility settings)
- Any other aspect of the UI
Known Issues:
- The over end of turn detection is unreliable.
- Dice rolls are sometimes unannounced.
- Voice installation is annoying and many voices aren't great.
- The allowed content settings do nothing yet.
- The sound library is still quite limited.
- It needs more adventures.
- iPhone Duo layouts are not yet implemented.
Release Notes
- build-0.1-15 — WIP
- Web-side support for authoring adventures
- build-0.1-14 — 2026-11-05
- Better support large text sizes
- Improve volume calibration across voices
- Fix partial line repetition on most Apple TTS crashes
- Fix several bugs around game switching
- Enlarge several tap targets to make them easier to click
- Backend security improvements (reduced dependencies by 39%)
- Reduce CPU usage by ~50% while backgrounded to save battery
- Add monitoring for memory leaks
- App-side support for authoring adventures (web-side to come)
- build-0.1-13 — 2026-10-21
- Add dice rolling
- Add 5 new voices on iOS 27 (Aaron, Arthur, Catherine, Gordon, Martha)
- Add sensible layouts on iPad
- Add account deletion, Sign in with Apple revocation
- Speed up DM responses (23% faster median first cue)
- Improve cue director reliability (benchmark: resolved 76% of prior timeouts)
- Improve error recovery for ambient sounds
- Improve accessibility for large text sizes
- Fix TTS truncations on iOS 27 due to zero-length buffers
- Recover faster from iOS TTS hangs (rare, 2 known occurrences)
- build-0.1-12 — 2026-09-25
- Add initial Chicken Rescue adventure
- Enable character creation and picking
- Enable act-structured stories and broad overview context
- Enable automatic NPC insertion triggers
- Expand location context for more coherent travel/arrival scenes
- Fix bug that sometimes caused repeated dialogue lines
- Fix bugs with TTS spelling out 'hrmn' and 'mmn'
- Reduce timeouts with better fallbacks for screenwriter/production systems
- Avoid redundant sound effects
- Avoid letting the DM voice get super pitchy
- build-0.1-11 — 2026-08-21
- Add some new spell sounds
- Show scenario and location in Now Playing (lock screen, CarPlay)
- Add tooltips to help with voice command discovery
- Add immediate 'over' acknowledgments so you know messages were sent
- Fix bug with transcript typing slowly after pause/resume
- Enrich automatic error reports to help with debugging
- Scenarios now have starting locations
- Track scene location and characters (early benchmark: 93%)
- build-0.1-10 — 2026-08-09
- Make transcript scrollable
- Game resumption now recaps and lets you continue
- build-0.1-9 — 2026-07-29
- Expand sound library (6 → 33 ambients, 38 → 63 effects)
- More appropriate ambient sound selection (benchmark: 43% -> 81%)
- Reduce DM crashes with "post processing" fallbacks
- Smarter, less repetitive writer (no benchmarks yet)
- build-0.1-8 — 2026-07-21
- Reduce lag after the DM starts speaking (76% faster cue direction)
- Improve prosody quality (7-34% better on four new benchmarks)
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
- build-0.1-7 — 2026-07-18
- Switch to production backend
- More accurate "can speak" determinations, e.g., to prevent animals or mindless creatures from talking (benchmark: 94.3% -> 98.4%)
- Better voice casting for character age (benchmark: 96.5% -> 99.3%)
- Better voice casting for androgynous characters
- build-0.1-6 — 2026-07-13
- Better voice health description
- Highlight speaker selection when volume constrained
- More appropriate sound effects (benchmark: 49% → 96%)
- build-0.1-5 — 2026-07-09
- Expand sound library (3 → 38 effects)
- Smarter suggestions for what voices to install
- Clearer errors for devices that can't run speech analysis
- Improved security and error telemetry
- build-0.1-3 — 2026-06-30
- Simpler and easier Sign in with Apple flow
- build-0.1-2 — 2026-06-27
- First release to testers