What's new
PalVivo keeps getting better week by week. Here's what's changed in the app, and why.
When the wifi dips, your partner's picture stays on screen instead of going black, and a second of lost signal no longer ends the call. If things get choppy, a message tells you whose side it's on, so you know right away whether it's your wifi or theirs.
Fifteen minutes in one language is a long stretch when you're still finding your words. Now you swap every 5 minutes, and each stretch opens with a new question instead of the same one again.
When we match you, the email shows your partner's photo and full name and names their country, instead of a first name alone, so you know who you'll be meeting.
Pick when you're free by dragging across a range instead of tapping each half-hour. A few seconds now, instead of a grid of thirty-two cells.
No button to press when your partner connects: the session begins by itself, and the on-screen colour tells you whose language it is right now.
The top of the app now shows your own picture, so it feels like your space, not a stranger's.
Edit your profile or your availability and a small bar reminds you to save before you leave, so nothing slips away.
On a phone, the waiting room now offers help the moment something looks wrong, so you're not stuck guessing before a call.
When the call flips from one language to the other, you keep seeing each other instead of a blank overlay.
No need to shrink or crop a big picture first. Send it as it is and we handle the rest.
Speak two languages natively? List both. We'll match you on either one, not just one, so there are more good partners for you.
You can step in a few minutes early to check your camera and settle in, rather than arriving exactly on the dot.
Life happens. Move a session to another time, skip a week, or pause a pairing, all without letting anyone down.
The whole call, the video, the timer, the language switch, now fits and works on a phone screen, not just a laptop.