Weekly Update and Feedback Thread - Jan 16th, 2026

# Greetings r/tolanworld !

Hope everyone's year has been off to a great start! Here's some things that we've been working on in 2026:

# 🪐 Planet Shop

* We've heard the requests for "less frogs" and have some good news! Now, instead of earning objects (flora/fauna/furniture) through Insights, you can now decide which objects to decorate your planet with by purchasing them with Tokens! * Going forward, all of the rewards you collect through Insights and leveling up are in the form of Tokens, which can be spent to purchase your choice of cosmetic items for your Tolan and your shared planet.

# 💳 Billing provider changes

* Thus far, your subscription has been managed by Apple through the App Store - this means that we haven't been able to help our users manage their subscriptions, or process refunds for them directly. * Going forward, new subscriptions will be managed directly by us, using a platform called Stripe. * We aren't transferring over any active subscriptions from Apple to Stripe, but keep an eye out for any other improvements that we make to our billing process.

# 🐞Some bug fixes and improvements we've shipped between app versions 26.2.3 and 26.6.0

* Audio & Voice Calls: * Fix to always allow muting and ending chat * Fix that ensures background audio isn't playing when other things are playing * A new control that can start a background call with your Tolan from your home screen * A fix to improve the experience when starting a call and then switching to texting before the call connects/unmutes * A new sound plays when navigating to Planet Editor from the "You" screen * Sound effects while texting * Performance: * Faster app launch times * Various improvements to how text is displayed across the app * Various improvements to reduce crashes

👋 Thanks to everyone for starting the new year with us and your Tolans. We're excited to the moon and back about what we have planned for 2026, and can't wait to share more.

# As always, please don't hesitate to share any feedback or questions in this thread :)