What's new & what's next

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Full release notes

The complete record of every public update, newest first. Tap Details on a card above to jump straight to a release, or tap a version number here to grab its direct link. All dates are Central European Time (CET).

v7.729 Sep 2026

A much more capable, more reliable PhoneRig

Take your home connection with you. The Travel proxy now works phone to phone, so a paired phone can use your home connection from anywhere. You can also share that route with a laptop connected to the travel phone's hotspot.
Run more than one site. Create and manage several sites on one phone, switch between them, and give each its own address. Setup now shows its progress, says what it is doing, and lets Basic mode get straight to a free address.
Site management keeps getting better. Recent updates improved blog moderation, album handling, Gitea setup, site switching and address changes. Visitor counts run without storing visitors' addresses.
Support that stays with you. Troubleshoot can include a screenshot and the setup state you choose to share. The in-app support chat works like a messenger, and replies can reach you even if setup is not finished.
Know when the server is really down. PhoneRig checks the public tunnel as well as the web server on the phone. The status history explains outages, Android process stops and recovery; alerts are now free for everyone.
Backups and privacy got sturdier. Backup and restore flows are clearer, cloud backups require a passphrase, and restoring no longer takes the address from another phone. Visitor counting does not store visitor addresses.
Updates no longer leave your site stopped. When PhoneRig updates, the server starts again by itself instead of waiting for you to reopen the app.
This build improves tunnel recovery. If the connector stays alive but loses its internet connection, PhoneRig now restarts it after repeated failed checks and tries to bring the site back online. A blocked or unavailable network can still prevent reconnection.

v7.0 (code 90)15 Aug 2026

Newer phones stop missing out

Why this release exists. Newer phones will not run the small Linux system PhoneRig normally uses, so on those phones PhoneRig serves your site directly. That mode could put a site online, but a lot was missing from it: no SSH, no terminal, and none of the ready-made apps. This release closes all of it, WordPress included. It is a major version because the newer phones stop being the ones that get less.
SSH works on these phones. PhoneRig now includes its own SSH server, so you can connect from a computer and copy files straight into your site with scp, FileZilla, Cyberduck or anything else that speaks SFTP. It only ever reaches your site's folder, and nothing outside it, however the path is written. Building a site with AI needs SSH, so that works on these phones again too.
A terminal, in the app. Tapping Terminal on one of these phones now opens a real shell on the phone. Being straight about what it is: this is Android's own shell, not Ubuntu, so there is no apt and none of the Linux packages. The app says so on screen rather than letting you find out by typing a command that does not exist.
WordPress runs on these phones. The big one, and the last thing that was missing. WordPress is written in PHP, PHP came from that Linux system, so it was the one thing these phones could not do. PhoneRig now carries its own PHP, built for Android itself. Install it from Ready-made apps and you get the genuine article: your own admin area, themes, posts, pages, media. Updates and plugins from WordPress.org work too, which took the most doing, because a phone has no built-in way for software like this to check who it is talking to.
WordPress's database component is now a fixed version. The piece that lets WordPress run without a database server used to be fetched fresh each time you installed it, so two phones set up on different days could end up with different code. It is now pinned to a specific tested release, and that release is about a year and a half newer than what was arriving before.
Syncthing runs on these phones. Sync your phone's site folder with a laptop and edit it there. Like WordPress, it downloads only if you install it, so nobody pays for either in app size otherwise.
Syncthing's public address was broken for everyone else, and is fixed. On phones that do run the Linux system, Syncthing has been rejecting every visit that arrived at your public address since the day the app was added, while working perfectly on your own Wi-Fi. That is why it may have looked fine to set up and then not worked from anywhere else. The fix applies itself the next time your server starts; you do not need to reinstall anything.
File Browser has been withdrawn. Not because it stopped working, and not because of your phone: its authors are ending the project, it carries a long list of published security problems, and they tell people not to put it on the internet without separate protection in front of it. Putting your site on the internet is what PhoneRig is for, so we were shipping it in the one configuration its own authors warn against. It is no longer offered. If you already have it, it keeps running and nothing is deleted, but we would not start a new one, and PhoneRig's own SSH now does the file side of the job better.
New: PhoneRig Bot. Ask your phone how it is doing from Telegram or Discord, and get an answer with charts: whether the server is up, what is published, visitors today, storage, memory, battery, when the last backup ran. It is your own bot, running on your phone and talking to Telegram or Discord directly, so there is no PhoneRig service in the middle and nobody here ever sees a message. It pairs to one chat with a short code and refuses everyone else, because a bot that told a stranger your storage was full would be a leak rather than a feature. Restarting the server or running a backup from the chat is possible but switched off until you turn it on. You can add commands of your own, from the app or from the chat, answering with fixed text or with whatever a small script on your phone prints.
Fixed: backups that were counted but not there. The storage card counted archives that had already been deleted, so it could tell you that you had backups when the folder was in fact empty. It now checks that each one is really on the phone before counting it. Nothing about your actual backups changes; what changes is that the number is now true.
For the record: the app is v7.0 (code 90). The SSH server is our own, written for this and tested against real clients; the terminal talks to it rather than adding a second service to your phone. WordPress runs on PHP 8.4 with SQLite behind it, so there is no database server to keep alive on a phone, and the write settings are tuned to be gentle on the phone's storage. WordPress on these phones needs Android 11 or newer, which excludes nobody in practice: a phone older than that runs the Linux system and reaches WordPress the original way. Gitea and code-server still need that system, and the app says so plainly where that is the case. The database component is the official WordPress SQLite integration, pinned at 2.2.23; both the newer-phone and Linux-system paths install the identical files.

v6.814 Aug 2026

Newer phones get their web address

Why this release exists. Newer phones will not run the small Linux system PhoneRig normally uses, so on those phones PhoneRig serves your site directly instead. That mode arrived recently, and the part of it that puts your site on the internet did not work. Not intermittently: it had never made a single connection, on any phone, on any network. Your site was live on your own Wi-Fi and unreachable everywhere else. It works now, and it was proven working before this note was written.
What was actually wrong. The piece that links your phone to the internet had no way to look up where to connect, because that lookup relies on a system file Android does not have. It gave up before it ever dialled out. Nothing about your network, your phone or your address was at fault, so nothing you could have changed would have helped. If you were told to check your router or your Wi-Fi, that advice was wrong and we are sorry for it.
Backups work on these phones. Backup and restore used to run inside the Linux system, so on a phone without it they failed at the moment you pressed the button. They now run directly, and a backup made on one kind of phone restores on the other, which matters when you move to a new phone: the new one is usually the one that cannot run Linux.
The app stops offering what it cannot do. Where a feature genuinely needs the Linux system, PhoneRig now says so plainly and points you to what does work instead, rather than letting you tap it and fail. Ready-made apps, SSH and the terminal still need that system. Building a site with AI needs SSH, so it is unavailable on these phones for now, and the browser editor in your web panel does the same job today.
For the record: the app is v6.8 (code 86). PhoneRig now builds its own copy of the tunnel program with a one-file change that supplies the missing lookup; the change and the build that reproduces it ship in the source, and the licence notices record it.

v6.613 Aug 2026

It stops wearing out your phone

Why this release exists. Someone on r/selfhosted made the point that flash memory in a phone wears out by being written to, and that PhoneRig's Linux stack was not set up with that in mind. They were right, and this release is the answer. Note that rotating a log file caps how much space it takes, not how much gets written - the fix had to be writing less, not keeping less.
WordPress writes a fraction of what it did. The database now runs in a mode that stops forcing a physical write to storage on every single change, and batches them instead. Same site, same speed, far less wear. The trade is the standard one: a phone that loses power abruptly can lose the last few seconds of changes, but the database cannot be corrupted by it.
The visitor count stopped writing to your phone. It used to work by having your server write a line to a file for every single request, then reading that file back to produce one number per day. So a page of numbers cost a write per visit, and every visitor's address sat on your phone's storage to get there. Your server now hands each visit straight to the app as it happens. The numbers are identical, nothing is written per request, and no visitor address is ever stored at all - the log file and everything already in it are deleted when you update. All that reaches storage now is a small running total per day.
The terminal asks who you are. The built-in terminal was listening on the phone without a password, which meant any other app on the same phone could have reached a root shell inside your server. It now requires your server password, like everything else.
Restoring a backup is fussier, on purpose. A backup carries server files and login keys, so restoring someone else's can hand them your phone. Restore now says so before you continue, and it only unpacks the parts a real PhoneRig backup is made of instead of trusting whatever the archive contains.
Web panel tightened. The panel no longer accepts requests from any website that asks, and two places that built pages from text you supply now escape it properly.
For the record: the app is v6.6 (code 82). The storage changes apply going forward, so an existing WordPress site gets them the next time its server starts; nothing needs re-installing.

v6.57 Aug 2026

Photo albums, served by your phone

Shared photo albums, free. Create an album in the app, send one link and a short passcode, and your guests can view, download and add photos from any browser - phones, laptops, anything. The photos live on your phone and land in your own gallery; nothing is uploaded to us, and nobody but the people you let in can see them. Guest uploads are off unless you turn them on, per album.
Everyone signs their name. Guests type a name at the passcode gate, so every photo shows who added it and you can filter the album down to one person's pictures. Photos can be given a thumbs up or down, and dates appear in each visitor's own timezone. Nobody's browsing is recorded - names are attached to what people add and how they vote, never to what they look at.
Tidy up from your laptop. Open an album from the app with Manage in browser and you arrive as its owner - no passcode to type - where you can select photos and delete the ones that don't belong. Guests can select and download in bulk too; only you can delete.
Links you can say out loud. An album called wedding answers at /wedding, and every album can take a passcode you choose - memorable beats random when it goes out to forty guests by voice.
More than one website. One phone can now serve several sites, each with its own name, photos, style and address. Before you add one, the app shows honestly whether the phone has room: what the phone uses, what your sites use, what a new site needs, and what stays free - and it says so when the answer is no.
See who's visiting. The My app tab counts your visitors - views this week, day by day. The counting happens on your phone, from your own server's log: no cookies, nothing sent to us, bots excluded.
Visitors get asked first. If you connected your own Google tag in the builder, your published page now shows a consent bar and loads nothing until a visitor agrees. Pages without a tag are untouched - byte for byte.
An address that heals itself. If your phone ever loses the link to its address, it now proves ownership and reconnects automatically - no support email, no new address. The address field also gained a Clear button.
Your server, your content. A one-time note now says plainly what was always true: what this phone serves is yours, and the terms apply. Agreeing takes one tap.
For the record: staged internally as v6.4 and v6.5 and shipped here as one build; two release-note languages that shipped in English now speak all 58; the app is v6.5 (code 81).

v6.31 Aug 2026

It tells you when your site is down

The outage PhoneRig could not see. The app used to ask only the server on the phone whether your site was up. It now checks the tunnel to the internet too, so an outage there finally reaches you: in the log, in a notification, and on your lock screen.
A bell for what happened. Every tab carries a notifications bell with an unread count, and the log behind it records every message PhoneRig sends you - restarts included, which used to be silent.
Your site, without leaving the app. Tap the thumbnail on the My app tab and your site opens in a sheet over the app. View live still hands off to your browser.
The backup chart counts every backup. Backups made the same morning used to collapse into one pixel and read "0 MB". They now stand apart, and a tap shows how fast they are growing and roughly when the space runs out.
No more selling you what you own. The Address tab used to offer a custom domain even when you already had one connected. It now shows the state you are actually in.
A switch that told the truth. "Uptime monitoring" measured no uptime, and switching it off never stopped the watching. All it ever controlled was whether you got a notification, so it is now called Alerts.
For the record: warning and playback marks are drawn as symbols again on some phones, unread log entries stand out, day headers stay put as you scroll, and the Recent activity clock stops overwriting itself. Staged internally as v6.2.1-v6.2.6 and shipped here as one build.

v6.230 Jul 2026

Take your home internet travelling

The travel proxy learned to live on a phone. v6.0's version needed a computer beside you; the phone in your pocket is now enough. Scan the QR on your home phone's Travel proxy card, tap Connect, and every app on the travel phone uses your home connection.
Honest about what it is. Android asks permission before anything is routed, a notification runs the whole time, and Disconnect is one tap. Your traffic is encrypted on its way home, but websites still see your home connection: this is not anonymity.
Pairing is one scan, nothing typed. The QR carries the code in a part of the link that never leaves your phones. Codes are single-use and expire, and you can re-scan a fresh one any time.
The site editor signs you in without a password. Click Connect to this phone: both screens show a short code, and you approve it on the phone only if the two match. Your SSH password still works as a fallback.
A clearer status log, and charts with real clocks. The log opens as a full sheet with day headers and exact times, and the stat sheets now show actual clock times on their axis.
Server health, explained. Tap the health row on the Server tab to see what PhoneRig watches, with the battery line reflecting how your phone is set up right now.
Fleet explains itself. The team screens gained small info popups - including that the team code is just a password you make up, not something to fetch from anywhere.
Clearer around the shop. Change app type marks each app Free or Premium before you pick, the empty My app tab suggests things to host, and Settings ▸ Purchases separates what's available from what you own.
App lock can't lock you out. Turning it on now verifies your fingerprint, face or PIN first, so a broken screen-lock setup is caught before it shuts the door on you.
Small things that add up. The parts of your web address are tappable and jump straight to changing that part, the language picker has a search box, and the app opens with the PhoneRig rack assembling itself.
For the record: stopping the server now genuinely stops it - some phones kept serving after "Server is off", and Stop could hang the app - and a server left orphaned by a crash is reclaimed at the next start. Staged internally as v6.1.1-v6.1.15.

v6.129 Jul 2026

Build your website from your computer

A real editor, on your own Wi-Fi. Open your phone's address in a laptop browser: the form on the left, your actual page on the right, redrawn as you type. Click anything on the page and the editor jumps to the field that changes it.
Nothing goes near the internet. The editor is served by the phone, on your own network, and asks for the same password the app shows you.
A blog. Write posts with a title, a date and as many paragraphs as you like. Each gets its own page, and the newest appear on your front page.
Your story, with a photo. A new section pairs one picture with a few paragraphs - the "how we started" block nearly every small business wants. The heading is yours to write.
Ten looks, six of them new. Alongside the four PhoneRig styles: warm cream cards, a gradient page that needs no photographs, a serif blog layout, a photo-led look, and a white and a dark gallery grid. Each carries its original designers’ credit.
Your fonts, your colour. Pick a type pairing and any accent colour. If it would be unreadable on that theme, PhoneRig says so rather than shipping a page nobody can read. You can also reorder sections or hide them.
Captions, and your own files. Gallery photos can carry a line of text, and an Advanced tab lets you upload anything your site needs - a PDF menu, a font, a page you wrote by hand.
A new logo. A P whose counter is a server slot with a single amber light. It is on the app icon, in the app, in your notification shade and across this site.
Smaller things. The "x minutes ago" lines count up while you watch them, keep-alive advice names your phone’s maker instead of brands you don’t own (with a "Don’t remind me"), and the incompatibility screen links to the phone checker.

v6.026 Jul 2026

A proper website, and a simpler app

Five tabs, one job each. Server, Address, My app, Backups and Settings, which is a real tab now rather than a screen buried behind a gear. They sit on a floating glass bar the page scrolls underneath. Nothing was taken away; it just has an obvious home.
A menu, with prices. The builder’s three "what we offer" lines became a proper list: a name, an optional price, an optional note. Leave the price off and it stays a plain line. Sites built earlier simply reopen as a menu.
Opening hours that answer for you. Set your hours day by day and your site shows a live Open now badge, worked out on the visitor's own phone in their own time. They also go out in the form Google reads.
Photos, a map, and a QR code for the window. Up to eight photos become a gallery, a Google Maps link becomes a map drawn from OpenStreetMap with no account needed, and your site gives you a QR code to print.
Booking requests, straight to your WhatsApp. Visitors pick a service and a time and send it as a normal WhatsApp message, or an email. No form, no sign-up, nothing posted to anyone's server.
New colors, and your own accent. The four site styles were redrawn with 2026 palettes, each offering a row of accent colors. Pick one, watch the live preview change, publish.
Travel proxy: your home connection, from anywhere. One command connects your laptop through your PhoneRig phone, so on hotel or café Wi-Fi you appear at home. Your traffic is encrypted across the Wi-Fi you're on, but this is not anonymity.
"What will you build?" The first open starts with a short tour of what people actually host - a business site with bookings, a file drive, a code server - so the first decision is about your idea, not about settings.
Fleet on this Wi-Fi (beta). Run more than one PhoneRig phone and Settings ▸ Team shows them together with their status. Local only: the phones find each other on your own Wi-Fi and nothing leaves it.
Your website makes no outside requests. A published site loads no fonts, trackers or scripts from anyone else by default. The only two exceptions are yours to switch on: the map, and your own Google tag.
The managed domain is $4.99 a year. Some older screens quoted $5 and now read the real price. Still a one-time purchase for the extras, still no subscription for the core app.
For the record: the fleet console was staged internally as v5.2 and ships to everyone here; app lock now covers the whole app from the moment you open it; the Server tab reports real session uptime and the real reason for a stop; every My app option card explains itself; and the header gear became a language switch.

v5.122 Jul 2026

Thirty-one more languages

59 languages, built in. Up from 28. The app follows your phone's language automatically, and anything it doesn't have falls back to English.
Thirty-one new this release. Afrikaans, Albanian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Estonian, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Icelandic, Irish, Kannada, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Persian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Welsh.
Every script renders properly. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu run right to left, and the Indic, Cyrillic, Greek and Georgian scripts all display correctly.
Nothing else changed about how it works. Every translation still ships inside the app: no model downloads, no on-device machine translation, no battery cost. The picker is in Settings ▸ Language, listing each language by its own name.
Every screen, every language. All 59 cover the app end to end, and the build-time test from v5.0 still fails a release if even one string is missing from any language.

v5.020 Jul 2026

PhoneRig speaks your language

28 languages, built in. Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Pick one yourself if you prefer. The picker is in Settings ▸ Language and on the welcome screen, listing each language by its own name. On Android 13+ you can set it per-app, and English is always one tap away.
No more machine translation on your phone. Anything beyond Spanish and French used to be translated live on the device, after a 30 MB model download per language, with the processor working while your phone was busy being a server. That whole system is gone.
Far more of the app is translated. The old Spanish and French files covered less than a third of the text and everything else quietly stayed English. Every screen is now fully covered in all 28 languages.
For the record: dropping the on-device translator also removed the last third-party code behind a long-standing Play Console "bitmap optimization" advisory, and a build-time test now fails any release where a shipped language is missing a string.

v4.619 Jul 2026

Updates that actually arrive

New versions download in the background. PhoneRig fetches the update while you keep using the app, then asks whether to restart. No trip to the Play Store, no losing your place. Say "Later" and it installs the next time you open PhoneRig from cold.
A firmer nudge if you're well behind. Android waits for the right moment to update - idle, charging, on Wi-Fi - and on some phones that moment never quite comes. If your copy has fallen several versions back, PhoneRig now asks more insistently.
It never interrupts a running server. Finishing an update restarts the app, which would take your site offline mid-visit. So while the server runs, PhoneRig only downloads and waits. Your site staying up beats your app being current.
Built for Android 16. PhoneRig is now built against the latest Android release, so it behaves correctly on the newest phones. Nothing changes in how you use it.
For the record: the open-source licence notices in the app were brought up to date, and v4.6 is the first build required to target Android 16 under Play's annual rules.

v4.5.217 Jul 2026

Your phone stops staying awake for nothing

The processor now rests between visitors. Serving your site means stopping Android from deep sleep, and PhoneRig used to do that the entire time the server ran - eight hours awake overnight to answer nothing. It now wakes in short windows around real activity.
You can still have the old behaviour. Settings ▸ Device ▸ "Keep CPU awake" holds the processor awake continuously the way earlier versions did. It is off by default, because most people do not need it.
For the record: this also resolves a Google Play technical-quality warning about apps holding the processor awake too long, which affects how prominently PhoneRig is shown in the store.

v4.5.116 Jul 2026

Your phone now asks permission to speak

PhoneRig now asks to send notifications. On Android 13 and newer, apps cannot notify until you say yes, and PhoneRig only ever asked from a toggle deep in Settings. So everything v4.5 announced was invisible: your server ran fine, Android just kept it quiet.
It asks once, and respects a no. The request appears on the Home screen after setup. Decline it and there is no nagging on every launch.
Saying yes takes effect immediately. If your server is already running, its ongoing notification - Stop button included - appears right away. No restart, no fiddling.
Changed your mind later? Settings ▸ Backups & monitoring shows a short line whenever notifications are off, and tapping it opens the right system settings page.

v4.515 Jul 2026

Backups that leave the phone, and a server that tells you what happened

Back up to Google Drive, an SD card, anywhere. "Back up now" and the weekly automatic backup can save to any folder your phone can reach, and there is a one-off "Back up to…" as well. If a folder becomes unreachable, backups fall back to Download/PhoneRig rather than silently stopping.
Backups can be locked with a passphrase. "Encrypt backups" seals new backups with AES-256. The passphrase never leaves your phone and cannot be recovered, so keep it in a password manager.
A notification the moment your site goes offline. The phone watches its own connection and web server, names the likely cause, then tells you when it is back and how long it was down. One notification per outage, not a storm.
A status log that answers "what happened last night?" A running record kept on the phone: starts and stops, your phone killing the server with Android’s own stated reason, reboots, connection drops, and gaps like "phone was off for about 4 h". Nothing is sent anywhere.
A proper Stop button. The server’s ongoing notification now has "Stop server". Until now the only way to stop PhoneRig was force-stopping it from Android settings.
For the record: this rolled out as one build; the backup work was staged internally as v4.4 and ships together with the monitoring work as v4.5.

v4.313 Jul 2026

One prompt to build it, and a login that fixes itself

Paste one prompt, get a deployed site. "Build a site with AI" now leads with a ready-made prompt for Claude Code, already carrying your SSH connection, deploy command and live address. The manual commands are still right below it.
The admin login can no longer be left half-set-up. On the DIY route, an interrupted first setup could leave the email login with no allowed address: it looked normal, said a code had been emailed, and nothing arrived. Setup now checks and repairs it every run.
Change or repair the admin email from Settings. Enter the address that should receive the login code and paste your Cloudflare API token - checked, used once, never stored. Previously, changing the email in the app never reached Cloudflare.

v4.213 Jul 2026

Build with AI, from your computer

The guide now points you to your computer. Designing a site with tools like Google Stitch and Claude Code happens on a computer, so the in-app page leads with your PhoneRig web-panel address and password to open there.
A "Build a site with AI" section on the web panel. It walks you through the whole workflow, then hands you ready-to-copy connect commands: an SSH config, a one-line deploy, a quick-connect line - filled in and adapted to how you reached the panel.
The web panel is easier to find. Your server's status page now links straight to the admin panel, so there is an obvious way in from a browser.

v4.1.612 Jul 2026

The DIY domain setup, spelled out

Setup now names the fix. On the DIY route it tells you exactly what to change - for example "your token needs Cloudflare Tunnel: Edit, not just Read" - instead of a bare Cloudflare error code. A permission problem is spelled out rather than shown as "authentication error".
Clearer token instructions. The four required permissions are listed plainly, flagging the two easy mix-ups: do not skip "Cloudflare Tunnel", and choose "DNS" (a Zone permission), not the Account "DNS Settings". That checklist now appears right where you paste the token.
A steadier "Send from computer". Reopening that dialog keeps the same pairing code instead of generating a new one, which fixes the "pairing session not found or expired" message some people hit.
Existing DNS records no longer block setup. Every domain on Cloudflare already has an address record, and setup used to trip over it. It now clears the conflicting record and points the name at your phone automatically.

v4.1.512 Jul 2026

Setup that says what went wrong

Setup errors that name the real problem. PhoneRig now checks your API token before it starts, and when something is off it says exactly what: the token was rejected, the domain is not in your Cloudflare account, or Zero Trust is not switched on yet.
The "send token from your computer" page no longer garbles your token. Some phone browsers autocorrected or auto-capitalised a pasted token, so a perfectly valid one arrived subtly changed and got rejected. Those boxes now turn all of that off.
For the record: v4.1.4 was a background maintenance build that keeps the bundled Cloudflare connector auto-updating, so tunnels stay inside Cloudflare's supported version window.

v4.1.39 Jul 2026

No more surprise stops

A background-start crash on Android 14 and 15, fixed. When the server tried to start while PhoneRig was in the background - after a reboot, or when Android relaunched it - the newest Android versions block that, and the app could stop. It now steps back quietly.
The most common crash we had. This topped our stability reports, so the app should feel noticeably steadier. Your server, apps and files were never affected; only the app itself was stopping.

v4.1.28 Jul 2026

Clearer address choices

Two ways to use your own domain, clearly labelled. They are now named as a pair: Your own domain, easy ($5/yr, we set it up for you) and Your own domain, DIY ($0.99, on your own Cloudflare account, cheaper but more hands-on).
The cheaper route is easier to spot. It used to just say "Own Cloudflare", so it was not obvious that it led to a custom domain at all. It now sits right under the free address, ready to compare.

v4.1.13 Jul 2026

An honest tunnel light

A tunnel light you can trust. On the managed address, Home could show your public address as "down" even while your site was happily online. It now checks whether the tunnel connector is really running.
Changing your domain is safe to back out of. "Change domain" used to reset your address before you had picked a new one, so cancelling could drop you to "Get started" with a running server you could no longer see. Your address now stays untouched until you confirm.
A setup it cannot lose track of. Your setup is remembered in more than one place, so if the app ever loses sight of a server that is really there, it finds it again. Your server, apps and files were never gone, only the shortcut to them.
Display polish for Android 15. Rebuilt how the app draws behind the status and navigation bars, without relying on retired system calls. Nothing changes in how it looks.
For the record: this rolled out as two same-day builds - v4.1 (the tunnel light and display work) and v4.1.1 (the safer domain changes).

v4.02 Jul 2026

A whole new PhoneRig

A brand-new look, everywhere. Home is a dashboard now: server status, your address and uptime, and live vitals with an activity graph. A bottom bar switches between Home, Create and Server.
The website builder, reimagined. Your cover photo becomes a full-width hero, each style has a signature look so a photo-less site still shines, and a sticky Call / WhatsApp / Directions bar follows your visitors.
A live preview before you publish. Step 3 of the builder shows your real site, so you can scroll and check it before it goes online.
Buttons that always work. Phone and WhatsApp numbers use a country picker that guesses from your SIM, so Call and WhatsApp work for visitors anywhere, and your address becomes a real "Get directions" link.
Your language, your choice. Switch the app’s language, or force English, right from the first screen or Settings.
Guided setup, one question at a time. Clearer progress, plus an "update available" nudge, an App info panel in Settings, and a fix for a rare startup crash.

v3.42 Jul 2026

Steadier setup

Setup now runs in the background, so it keeps going even if you leave the app or lock the screen.
"Install an app" opens the app chooser directly, and every pop-up got the rounded, card-styled look.

v3.31 Jul 2026

Address setup that just works, and a community to join

Fixed the "address setup" error that stopped some new installs from creating their free PhoneRig address. Genuine Play Store installs are no longer blocked.
Clearer messages everywhere: when something can't be set up, the app now tells you exactly what happened and what to do, instead of a technical code.
Fixed the on-screen keyboard covering the box while you type your address.
New: join the PhoneRig community on Discord for help and to share what you've built - phonerig.app/discord.
For the record: this rolled out as two quick builds, v3.2.9 on 30 Jun and v3.3 on 1 Jul.

v3.2.830 Jun 2026

Address setup fix, and purchases that follow you

Fixed an error some people hit when setting up their PhoneRig address just after the public launch. Setup now completes reliably.
Got a new phone? Move a feature you already purchased over to it with one tap.
Reliability fixes for unlocking and restoring purchases you already own.
For the record: the security-configuration correction behind the address error landed first in v3.2.7 earlier the same day; v3.2.8 folds it in with the purchase improvements.

v3.2.629 Jun 2026

Open to everyone

PhoneRig is out of closed testing and live on Google Play - anyone can install it.
Behind-the-scenes reliability and licensing hardening for the public release: stronger install-integrity checks so purchases and free addresses stay tied to genuine Google Play installs.

v3.2.528 Jun 2026

Settings, security, and your language

A new Settings screen: theme, app lock, backups, battery care and more, all in one place behind the gear.
Stronger security: your fingerprint, face, or PIN now guards the riskiest actions: factory reset, restoring a backup, and turning the app lock off.
PhoneRig now follows your phone's language, with Spanish and French built in and other languages translated automatically, on your device.
Also along the way (v3.2.1 to v3.2.4): open-source license notices in the app and at phonerig.app/licenses, edge-to-edge display fixes for Android 15, and the groundwork for the language support above.

v3.222 Jun 2026

Light mode arrives

New Light theme: pick Dark, Light, or follow your phone. The whole app follows, even the terminal.
Setup now checks your phone can run the engine before it starts, so you get a clear heads-up instead of a mid-setup failure.
Reliability and polish fixes.

v3.1.320 Jun 2026

Smoother & sturdier

Reliability improvements for free .phonerig.app addresses.
Behind-the-scenes hardening of how addresses are set up and cleaned up.

v3.1.218 Jun 2026

Know before you start

Plain-language message when a phone can't run the engine.
New "Supported phones" page with a one-tap on-device check.

v3.1.114 Jun 2026

Runs on more phones

Smarter setup that adapts to more devices.
Built-in diagnostics when a phone needs a closer look.

v3.1.013 Jun 2026

Make your site yours

Add a logo and cover photo to sites you build.
An "edit the details" step in the builder.
The build version is now shown on-screen.

v3.012 Jun 2026

The "night-street" redesign

The Welcome, Home, and Site Builder screens, rebuilt with smooth animations.
Clearer pricing throughout the app.
For the record: a v3.0.1 hotfix the same day fixed setup failing partway while installing the web server on some phones.

v2.111 Jun 2026

Easier from the first tap

A beginner-first Home screen.
The first guided Site Builder, to set up a site step by step.

v2.011 Jun 2026

A fresh new look

The night-street design system arrives across every screen.
A cohesive, more branded feel throughout the app.

v1.0.05 Jun 2026

Testing begins on Google Play

PhoneRig's first build goes out to invited testers.
Early access while we polish toward launch.