Product updates
What’s new
Small releases. Real improvements. Here’s the journey of the alt app — from first light to right now.
2.5.0
September 2026
New altitude
Most of this release lived in Account — the bit you open when you just want things to work. Cards, bank details, settings. We cut the waiting so you can get back to hiring or earning. Then we opened the wallet a little wider.
Faster Account, Alipay & WeChat Pay alongside Afterpay and Klarna, travel currency, and a pile of everyday polish.
Account got a speed pass
Cards, bank details, and settings load faster. Less waiting room. More doing.
Alipay & WeChat Pay
Big ones. They join Afterpay and Klarna when you hire — pay the way you actually pay.
Travel mode
On the road? Flip market currency without rebuilding your whole setup.
Notification prefs
You choose what lands. Offers, jobs, updates — skip the rest.
Offer templates
Write a strong offer once. Reuse it next time without starting from scratch.
Hair, shopping & fitness
New categories for the jobs people already ask for around town.
Clearer hire-time payments
Post free. Pay when you hire. No surprise hold just for listing.
Snappier chats & reviews
Avatars, typing, read receipts, proper sounds — and reviews that show up when the job’s actually done.
2.4.2
September 2026
Built for trust
This one was about feeling safer and finding the right job faster — without the blank-page stare when you’re trying to post.
Better search and filters, smarter posting help, app lock, identity verification, and cleaner profiles.
Find the gig faster
Search nearby tasks, filter by budget, and skip ones that already have offers.
Smarter posting
Suggestions when you list a job so you spend less time staring at an empty screen.
Offer assist
Stuck on what to say? We’ll help draft something that still sounds like you.
App lock
Face ID / PIN when you step away. Your wallet stays yours.
Identity verification
Prove it’s you — trust isn’t just a vibe on a profile.
Safer chats & Apple Maps
Stronger moderation so the weird stuff stays out, and Apple Maps where it counts.
Profile glow-up
Clearer trust signals, easier edits, and a little help rewriting your bio.
2.3
September 2025
Dark, sharp, ready
We made the app feel calmer after dark and clearer when you’re moving fast. Same alt. Sharper coat of paint.
Dark mode by default, theme polish, and update flows that don’t get in your way.
Dark mode by default
One consistent look for late-night browsing and early-morning posting.
Theme & icons
A visual tidy-up so screens feel related — not stitched together.
Easier updates
When there’s a new build, getting there is frictionless.
2.2
2025
Payments that hold up
Hiring only works if money moves cleanly. This release put Stripe under the hood and put fees where you can see them — before you tap confirm.
Modern card and payout plumbing, fee clarity, and onboarding that knows if you’re here to hire or earn.
Stripe in the app
Cards and payouts on a stack built for the way people actually pay and get paid.
Fee clarity
See what you pay — and what you earn — before you confirm. No fine-print surprises mid-hire.
Why you’re here
Hire or earn? We start you in the right place from day one.
Tips on release
Happy with the job? Saying thanks with a tip got simpler.
2.1
2024
Stay in the loop
A marketplace feels dead if you never know when something’s happening. So we made alerts smarter and chats feel like someone’s actually there.
Job alerts, typing indicators, richer profiles, and shortcuts back into the action.
Smarter alerts
Hear about jobs that match what you’re looking for — not every ping in the postcode.
Typing & presence
See when someone’s there. Chats feel less like shouting into the void.
Richer profiles
Stats, bios, and trust signals that help you choose who to hire — or offer to.
Quick actions
Jump back into posting or browsing from the home screen.
2.0
Late 2023
The rebuild
After landing on the App Store, we rebuilt the foundations — the maps, messages, and offer flows that still power alt today.
Nearby browse on a map, questions before you hire, onboarding that sticks, and eyes on crashes.
Task maps & browse
See work near you — not just a long scroll of titles.
Questions & offers
Ask before you hire. Offer with a price that makes sense for both of you.
Onboarding that sticks
Location and permissions set up so nearby jobs actually show up.
Crash reporting
When something breaks, we see it — so the next build is quieter.
1.0
2021 – 2023
First light
It started as a prototype called Worbby, grew into Taskzilla, and shipped to the App Store for Australia. The idea never changed: people helping people, nearby.
Post and offer, in-app chat, early payments, and the first public launch.
Post & offer
List what you need. Send what you’ll charge. Meet in the middle.
Chat & reviews
Talk it through in the app. Leave a review when it’s done.
Early payments
Cards and wallet flows — the start of pay-when-you’re-happy.
App Store launch
Live mid-2023. Same mission as now — just a lot more altitude since.
Get the latest
Download alt on iPhone or Android — free to join, free to list, pay when you’re happy.