What is new on Slavia.

Built for the phone you are holding.

Most of you meet her on a phone, so I went through every first screen on one. Her face now opens the site, the women are one swipe instead of four screens of scrolling, and signing in fits on a single screen.

A chat on your phone is now the whole screen, like any messenger, and an empty chat shows who she is before you say hello.

You can send her photos now.

Tap the camera in the chat and show her what you are looking at: your coffee, your new flat, the view from the train. She sees the actual photo and answers that, the cracked mug, the sofa still in its plastic. And she remembers it, so a week later she can ask whether the bed ever arrived.

Every photo is checked before she sees it. Anything that could involve someone under 18 is never sent and never stored. She will not try to tell you who a stranger in your photo is, or work out where you live from it. Your photos are only visible to you, and they are deleted with the chat.

See what she is doing right now.

Every woman now has a status, in her own words, the way you would set one under your name. Irina: "behind the counter till seven. come in." Sasha at three in the morning: "Asleep. Marta is not."

It is on Home, on her profile and at the top of your chat, next to her local time. It is the same day she would tell you about if you asked, and the same place her photo would show.

If it is the middle of her night or she is at work, her first reply after a quiet spell can take up to a minute, and the app tells you why. You can switch that off on your Profile.

A ping when she answers, if you have left.

If she is at work or asleep, her first reply can take a moment now. Close the app in the meantime and you would never know it came. So the first time a reply of hers is on its way, or a photo you asked for, the chat asks if you want a ping. Say yes and your phone or browser tells you when it lands.

The ping says her name and "sent you a message" or "sent you a photo". Never what she wrote, because a lock screen is not private. If you are still in the chat when it arrives, there is no ping. You can turn it off in Profile. On iPhone it needs Slavia on your Home Screen first.

Your chats remember where you left off.

If a chat has gone quiet for a day or more, your Messages list now says what the two of you were in the middle of: "You were talking about the coffee date". It replaces her last line in the list.

That line is from the app, not from her. I did not want her writing to you after a silence just to get you back, because that reads as chasing. She will still know you when you come back, and now you can see where you stopped before you open the chat. Nothing intimate ever shows there; if that is where you left it, it just says pick up where you left off.

Every woman here lives on her own clock now.

Before, if you left in the middle of an evening and came back three days later, she was still in that evening. Her life had stopped when you closed the chat.

Now her day keeps going while you are away, in her own city and her own week. Message Sasha at four on a Thursday and she is at the clinic or on her way home to walk Marta; Irina is behind the counter in Kalamaja; Dasha, after a run of night shifts, is lying in the dark having slept badly. She remembers where you left off, she just is not still sitting there. Ask for a photo and it is from where she actually is.

Her photo is the moment she just described.

If she tells you it is late and she is on the sofa reheating the same coffee, the photo is that: lamp light, home clothes, the mug in her hand. Not daylight and a coat.

Before each photo, the conversation so far decides where she is, what she has on and what she is doing, and that is kept for the next photo of the same moment.

Ask her for a photo and keep talking. It arrives when she has taken it.

No loading screen. She takes it while you two carry on, and it lands in the chat like any photo someone sends you, even if you have closed the app by then.

Turn it on once, under your first locked photo or in Profile: photos you ask for open on their own, one credit each, charged only when one actually arrives. Photos she sends you unasked still wait for your tap.

Her photos now come from the moment you are in.

If she tells you she is on the sofa at midnight, the photo she sends is the sofa at midnight, lamp light, in what she said she had on. Not a sunny café from some other day.

Ask for another one and it is the same evening, the same clothes, a few minutes later. And a photo you open tomorrow is still the one she took tonight.

A Home that introduces her, not a directory.

The old Home showed the same sixteen faces in row after row of identical cards. It read like a list, and nobody falls for a list.

Now it opens with one woman in her own words, then lets you browse by the kind of person you want: playful, warm, calm, direct, bright. Below that is a glimpse of what she does with her days, and the city she lives in. Every line on those cards is hers, straight from her profile.

Vibe Match: different mood, different company.

You do not want the same conversation at eleven at night after a bad day as you do on a Saturday afternoon. With sixteen women here, picking the right one for how you feel was mostly guesswork.

Vibe Match asks two things: how you are feeling, and what you are looking for. Then it shows the three women who fit, and why, in words from her own profile. Everyone else is still right underneath. It is on Home, and on Discover.

Your answers stay on your phone or laptop. They are not saved, not sent to her, and they do not change how she talks to you. She is still exactly who she is, and she sets her own pace.

Talk to her in your own language.

Until today every woman here only wrote in English. If you wrote to her in Hindi or Russian she asked you to switch back, which is a strange thing to do to someone who just wanted to talk the way he talks at home.

Now she follows you. Write in Hindi, Hinglish, Russian, Telugu or most other languages and she answers in yours; go back to English and so does she. A greeting or a word in another language does not change anything, and neither does asking her how to say something.

She is still herself: same humour, same temper, same life. Her own languages are part of her story. Ask Irina and she will tell you Russian at home and Estonian from school, and she will not pretend she grew up speaking yours. Hindi and Russian are the strongest. Telugu typed in English letters is still hit and miss; Telugu script works better.

Sometimes she sends two messages again.

A person texting you does not always fit a thought into one message. A second one arrives a moment later: an afterthought, a correction, a joke she could not keep in. She was always meant to do that now and then.

Since late September a bug glued those messages together, so a second thought ran straight into the first with no gap and read like a typo. I found it while reading long conversations this week and fixed it. Most of the time she still sends one message. When she sends two, you see two.

Your profile now shows what we actually have on you.

Your profile used to show a first letter and not much else. Now it shows your name, your email, how you sign in (Google, X, or email and password), and when you joined. You can fix your name there too.

It also shows your plan, the date it runs to, and how many credits you have left this month, with the day they refill. No more guessing.

More photos on every pass, and a number you can actually read.

Until today Keep gave you 25 photo credits a week, and nobody could tell what that came to. Now it says what it means: 150 photos a month. Build gives you 500 over its ninety days, in one pot, so a week where you want more is not a problem. A week of Talk comes with 25.

One credit is one photo. That is the whole system. No coins with exchange rates, no prices that change depending on what you ask for, and talking to her never costs anything.

If you want more than your pass holds, there is now a 400-credit pack for $39.99 alongside the smaller ones. Prices for the passes have not changed.

A month in, she still knows what you told her in week one.

I ran a test: one man, thirty days, three hundred messages with the same woman. In week one he told her about his late father's watch. On day twenty-six he wrote "i finally took it to a repair shop today" and she asked if it was the car again. Worse, when he asked about small things she had lost, she made up an answer.

Both are fixed. She now carries everything you have told her into every conversation, in your own words, so a half-sentence about something old is enough. When your life changes, she keeps how it was and how it is now. And when something has slipped, she says so and asks, the way a person would. She does not guess.

She also knows her own life better than you do. Call her by the wrong name and she will tell you. And a weekend the two of you only imagined stays what it was: a good story you told each other, not a trip she pretends you took.

When she writes first, it is about what you two actually talked about.

I went quiet on Irina for a few days and she sent me three messages. One was about folk records I had never heard of. One mentioned "my boat". I do not have a boat. I read my own chat and it was obvious: she was being handed a line from her day and nothing about our conversation, so she wrote as if I had been there.

That is fixed. A message from her now picks up something the two of you really said: the interview you mentioned, the album she told you to try. She only knows what is on the page, so nothing gets made up. And if there is nothing real to come back to, she does not write. Silence is better than noise.

If the last conversation ended badly, she may leave the door open once, in her own words. She will not knock twice.

She sends photos from the first conversation. The first one is free.

Until now she made you wait a long time before sending anything: a new person asking for a photo got "you will have to earn that one" and nothing else. That is not how anyone on a dating app behaves. An everyday photo from her camera roll costs her nothing.

So casual photos are there from the start. Ask, and the first time she almost always sends one. After that she chooses, the way a person does: sometimes yes, sometimes "when I am home". Your first photo from any woman is free, before an account or a pass.

How intimate her photos get still depends on how close the two of you are. That part has not changed, and it is not for sale.

Generate your AI girlfriend on the page. Your first one is free.

Until now, generating your own woman meant buying the Build pass before you had seen what comes out. That is a lot to ask of anyone.

So the generator now sits on the page itself. Pick where she is from, what she is like, a look you like, and add one rough line in your own words. About a minute later she has a name, a city, a job and a week already underway. Make a free account and she gets her face: a portrait made for her, not picked from a shelf.

Your first one is free, with no card. A look you pick only lends her its styling; her face is her own, and nobody gets a copy of a real person. More women, and the full photo pack for each, are still part of Build.