Getting the app

Ruxpin is on the App Store, free to download, with your first 30 days open. If you're reading about a build you don't have yet, that's explained here too.

Putting it on your phone

Get Ruxpin on the App Store. Open that on the iPhone you want it on and it installs like anything else.

On a computer, the same badge and a code to scan sit on the Ruxpin home page, and on your account page once you're signed in. Point your iPhone camera at the code. The home page also offers to email yourself the link, so you can open it on your phone instead.

Ruxpin needs an iPhone running iOS 16.4 or later. Everything is open for your first 30 days from the day you sign up, and nothing is charged until you choose to subscribe.

Reading about a build you don't have yet

What's new is one page for everybody, and new work reaches a small group of testers before it reaches the App Store. An entry describing a build that hasn't shipped yet wears an In TestFlight chip.

If you're on the App Store version, a chip means that part isn't in your Ruxpin yet. It arrives with an update, and there's nothing to do but let the App Store update the app.

The page is also a feed, if you'd rather it came to you. Point any RSS reader at ruxpin.app/changelog/feed.xml and entries arrive with their full text.

If you're testing through TestFlight

TestFlight is Apple's own app for handing out test builds. A beta build is Ruxpin a few weeks early: new work lands there first, gets used by people who are actually reading, and gets fixed before it goes out to everyone.

There are a limited number of places. If you'd like one, tell us.

A few things work differently in a beta:

• Builds expire. A beta build stops working about three months after it's made. TestFlight asks you to update well before then, and updating is a tap.
• You have one Ruxpin, not two. A beta install replaces the App Store version on your phone, and installing from the App Store replaces the beta. Your record lives in your account rather than on the phone, so it's the same thoughts either way.
• Purchases aren't real ones. Anything bought in a beta build runs through Apple's test system: it doesn't charge you, and it doesn't become a subscription. If your trial runs out while you're testing, tell us and we'll sort it out.

To stop, open TestFlight, tap Ruxpin, and choose Stop Testing. Nothing happens to your record, and installing from the App Store puts you back on the public version.

Telling us what you find

Rough edges are worth hearing about either way, and the doors are the ordinary ones. Send feedback in the Ruxpin menu at the top of any tab, or shake your phone unless you've changed that under Shake action on your Profile. Either way the version you're running comes attached, so you never have to say which build you're on.