How Roost Works

Eggs are your training currency. You spend them to train your birds and to unsend messages.

• Unsend a message in flight: 1 egg.
• Start a training session: 1 egg.
• Cap: 10 eggs. You refill 1 egg every 6 hours automatically.

If you're out of eggs

You can still open training in Practice Mode. No eggs needed, but you won't earn XP or speed.

Practice Mode lets you play training mini-games without spending an egg, but it grants no rewards: no XP, no speed progress. It activates automatically if you don't have an egg to spend, or if a bird hasn't unlocked full training yet.

Training is how your birds get stronger. Each session costs 1 egg and rewards XP and speed progress.

• Flappy Pigeon: dodge pipes. Small, steady payouts per pipe cleared.
• Bullet Hell: dodge bullets and beat bosses. Bigger payouts.

How often

You can train any bird any time, as long as you have eggs.

Every bird has a rarity tier. Rarer birds are harder to come by from drops, the Egg, and the Shop.

• Common (gray)
• Uncommon (green)
• Rare (blue)
• Epic (purple)
• Legendary (orange)
• Mythic (red)
• Celestial (astral blue)

No, there's no hard cap on a bird's speed. Each training session adds a little speed progress, and over time your most-trained birds will outrun the rest of the flock.

A bird is always in one of four states:

• At home: the bird is in your Rookery, ready to send.
• In flight: actively delivering a message right now.
• Arrived: message has been delivered. You can recall the bird to bring it home.
• Away / Visitor: the bird is at someone else's Rookery. From the sender's view it's "Away"; from the recipient's view it's a "Visitor".

Training mini-games have weekly leaderboards. Set a high score to climb the ranks.

• Each difficulty has its own board, so you're ranked against players on the same setting.
• Boards reset every week, so everyone starts fresh.
• Finish near the top for the week and you'll earn a bird.

They count different things, so the numbers usually differ, and that's normal.

• Your pigeon count is how many individual birds you have.
• Your Codex counts each different kind of bird you've collected.
• So if you own five birds that are all the same kind, your count shows 5 but the Codex counts them as one kind.

Press and hold any message to open the reaction bar, then tap an emoji. Tap the same emoji again to remove your reaction. Your reaction shows under the message for everyone in the chat.

Nests are group chats with up to 11 people per nest, including the owner.

• The owner adds and removes members; there's no public joining.
• Each member can pick their own nest color.
• Messages in a Nest fly to every member's Rookery.

Pen Pals are optional anonymous one-to-one letter conversations with another user who opted in.

• You build a profile (a postcard prompt, interests, a city) and verify your phone.
• Roost suggests matches; you both send a letter request, and if both accept, the conversation opens.
• Pen Pals stay separate from Friends unless one of you sends a friend request later.

It's safe to deny the request. Open the Flock tab, find the request, and tap the red ✕. They won't be notified.

How could they find me?

There are a couple of normal ways your name might show up to a stranger:

• They may have searched for your username.
• You may have matched as Pen Pals.
• Only accept requests from people you actually know. There's no penalty for denying, and it's the easiest way to keep your map and conversations private.

Open the person's profile to block or report them.

• Blocking stops them from messaging you or sending a friend request. You can unblock anyone later from Settings → Blocked Users.
• Reporting flags someone for our moderators to review. Pick the reason that fits.
• They aren't told that you blocked or reported them.

The Map shows pigeons in flight in real time. Use the filter buttons to choose which flights you see.

• Mine: your sent and received pigeons.
• Friends: pigeons from friends.
• Nests: only pigeons flying to your nests. Nest locations are also marked on the map.
• Pen Pals: pen-pal letters in flight.

You can switch filters anytime. The default is Mine.

Every bird carries a Passport. The first time it arrives in a new country, it earns a stamp for that nation, recording the date, the distance traveled, and who sent and received the message. Stamps are permanent. A second arrival in the same country won't add a duplicate.

The Codex is your collection log of every bird type in Roost. Each entry tracks two things:

• Sighted: a bird of that type has arrived at your Rookery.
• Adopted: you've owned a bird of that type that started out yours, from a drop, the Egg, the Shop, or your starter. A bird another player sent you stays Sighted.

Once Sighted or Adopted, it stays that way forever, even if you give the bird away.

The Shop is where you pick up new birds and extras for your flock.

• Specific birds: buy a particular bird you've got your eye on.
• Mystery packs (including the Egg) give a random bird, with rarer birds harder to pull. You can check the odds before you buy.
• Nest looks and extra nest slots.

When an Egg Streak is running, you get a small task each day. Finish it to crack that day's egg and keep your streak going.

• Complete the full streak to earn a bird.
• Miss a day and your streak resets, though you may get one save to protect it.
• This is different from Egg Energy, the currency you spend on training.

Yes. Go to Settings → Edit Profile and update your username there.

• You can change it once every 30 days.
• Usernames are 3–20 characters: letters, numbers, and underscores.
• If a name's already taken, you'll be asked to pick another.

Your avatar pigeon is the bird shown as your profile picture to other players.

• Set or change it in Settings → Edit Profile → Profile Picture.
• Pick any bird you own, or clear it to go back to no avatar.

Open Settings and tap Delete Account. We'll show you exactly what gets removed before you confirm.

• You're signed out right away, and your data is fully removed within 30 days.
• Changed your mind? Sign back in before the 30 days are up to cancel.
• After that, deletion is permanent and can't be undone.

Open Settings → Location Privacy to control what others see about your location.

• Close Friends: pick which friends get to see your precise GPS. Everyone else only sees your city.
• Show flights to friends: if off, your flights stop appearing in friends' map and feeds.
• Use precise location when receiving: if off, when someone sends you a pigeon they only see your city, not your exact spot.

What you always see

You always see your own pigeons' precise locations on your own map, regardless of these settings.