Skip to content- iPhone Duo & Large Screens — Spark adapts to the iPhone Duo folded and unfolded, and to large screens. See Foldables & Large Screens.
- DS Mode — Folded like a laptop, the game plays on the top half and Spark’s controls fill the bottom half, with a trackpad for the Virtual Mouse.
- Letterbox Fill — Fill the space around games that don’t match the screen’s shape with a blurred copy of the game or black. Available on every device, with a per-game override.
- On the Duo, toolbar buttons move into the column beside the status bar so games and art use the full screen.
- Game Themes — Install
.spk.theme files to restyle a game’s page, launch screen and library icon with artwork, colours, fonts, animated backgrounds and music. Themes shipped inside a game’s archive are offered after import. See Game Themes. - New Game Page — A redesigned game detail page with large artwork, your story progress on the launch button, a row of saves you can launch straight into, characters, play time and last played. The previous page is still available in settings.
- Custom Game Art — Set your own icon, hero and background art for any game from the new Customize sheet, or straight from the Gallery’s image viewer. See Customizing a Game.
- Gallery Video & Audio — The Gallery now plays WebM and Matroska videos (VP8, VP9 and AV1, with their sound) and lists the game’s music and voice files. See Gallery.
- Virtual Mouse — An on-screen pointer and scroll wheel for games written for a mouse. See Virtual Mouse.
- Translation Overhaul — DeepL (with surrounding dialogue as context), Apple Translation on iOS 18 and later, and Google Translate. See Translation.
- Play Time — Spark tracks how long you’ve played each game and shows it on the game page.
- Ren’Py 8.5.4 engine added. See Supported Engines.
- Fixed the in-game screen rotation setting not taking effect.
- Fixed a set of crashes reported through TestFlight, including crashes when importing archives with damaged Zip64 data or non-UTF-8 file names.
- Fixed archive imports failing silently.
- Fixed HTTPS requests failing inside games, and older 7.x engines failing to start some games.
- Fixed SpriteManager effects disappearing on Ren’Py 8.5.x games.
- Fixed local save folders being replaced when launching without iCloud.
- Fixed the Variable Editor losing track of saved variables.
- Fixed the keyboard sometimes not appearing for text input.
- Fixed the Gallery opening the first image instead of the one you tapped.
- Fixed the help pages re-extracting on every launch and opening in Safari.
- Fixed the home screen widget not updating after library changes.
- Redesigned alerts, Save Manager, Global Save Manager, Storage, Gallery and Log Viewer screens.
- Help now has a proper top bar.
- Supporters can restore past tips from their purchase history on iOS 18 and later.
- Removed the hardware mouse options; use the Virtual Mouse instead.
