What's New
Changelog
New features, content drops, and improvements — newest first.
- Nov 5, 2026NEW
New daily game — What's the Deviation?
An eleventh daily game joins the hub, and it's a cover test you do yourself. Each day brings a new patient: move the occluder between their eyes (cover-uncover and alternate cover, at distance and at near) and watch what the eyes do, then name the deviation, neutralise it with a prism bar, and answer the clinical question it leads to. The eye movements come from a model of fixation, fusion and vergence rather than canned animations, so a phoria drifts behind the cover and recovers when you uncover it, a tropia refixates when you cover the fixing eye, and an alternate cover that's too slow lets the patient fuse again. There are eighteen patients, from convergence insufficiency and accommodative esotropia to a fourth nerve palsy, monofixation and a blow-out fracture, and the finish screen replays yours with a see-through occluder.
- Oct 14, 2026NEW
New daily game — What's the Field?
A tenth daily game joins the hub, and it reads visual fields. Each day brings a new patient in three steps: order the field their story calls for (a 24-2, 10-2, 30-2, Esterman binocular or Goldmann), read the Humphrey-style printout it produces — greyscale, total and pattern deviation, GHT, MD and PSD, or an Esterman efficiency score — then say where the problem lies, from the retina to the occipital lobe. Every field is generated from a model of the defect, so the answer key is exact: glaucomatous arcs and nasal steps, optic neuropathies, hydroxychloroquine rings, chiasmal and homonymous defects, and the driving and disability fields that call for an Esterman or a 30-2.
- Oct 12, 2026NEW
Every daily game is open — play any four free
The free daily set no longer rotates. All nine daily games are now open on the free tier, with or without an account, and you pick which ones to play: any four a day, your choice. A game counts once you start it, and finishing it or coming back to it later is free, so a half-played board never costs you a second turn. Starting a fifth game shows Plus. Your four reset at midnight Eastern, when the new games arrive. Pinning a favorite is gone, because there's nothing left to pin — any game can be one of your four. Plus still opens all nine every day, along with their archives, and the daily mission hasn't changed: finish three games for your raffle entry.
- Oct 11, 2026NEW
New daily game — What's the C/D?
A ninth daily game joins the hub, and it grades the optic nerve the way Part III does. Each day brings a new nerve: estimate the vertical and horizontal cup-to-disc ratios and say where the rim is thinnest, then see the same nerve on OCT — vertical and horizontal B-scans with the disc and cup edges marked, the RNFL TSNIT plot against a normative band, the clock hours and an RNFL thickness map. The nerves are generated from a 3D model of the disc rather than photographed, so the answer key is measured, not argued: the cup is graded by contour, where the surface breaks and the vessels bend, and the OCT is drawn from the same geometry as the photograph. The days cover healthy discs, physiologic large cups in big discs, glaucoma suspects, focal and advanced glaucomatous cupping, tilted myopic discs and small crowded discs. View the nerve as a colour photo, in red-free, or through the 90D simulator's own lens view, inverted and reversed as it is at the slit lamp, and finish with a link straight into the Part III 90D simulator. It rotates alongside the other eight, and the free daily set is now 3 of 9.
- Aug 12, 2026NEW
New daily game — What's the OCT?
An eighth daily game joins the hub, and this one puts the image itself under the microscope. What's the OCT? shows you a macular B-scan and gives five escalating clues — the gross anatomic change first, then the layer-level detail, the symptom or demographic that fits, a discriminating negative, and finally the pearl that settles it — to name the diagnosis. The scans are real: they come from OCTDL, an open-access dataset of clinical OCTs, and each one was read individually rather than trusted to its folder label, so a scan filed under "vitreomacular disease" is named for the specific finding actually visible in it — a full-thickness hole, a lamellar hole, traction. The lineup covers macular holes, cystoid and diabetic edema, epiretinal membrane, pigment epithelial detachment, artery and vein occlusion, central serous, and a normal macula to keep you honest. Misses feed your boards-preparedness breakdown by finding type. It rotates alongside the other seven, and the free daily set is now 3 of 8.
- Jul 16, 2026NEW
New daily game — What's the Drug?
A seventh daily game joins the hub. What's the Drug? gives you five escalating clues — starting with the mechanism of action, then its clinical use, adverse effects, and the quirk that makes it unmistakable — to name the drug. Generic or brand name both count, because the pairing is half the battle. It's built on the NBEO drug list and extended to current practice, so Vyzulta and Vabysmo sit alongside atropine and timolol, and it covers the systemic drugs you're tested on for their ocular effects — hydroxychloroquine's bull's-eye maculopathy, tamsulosin's floppy iris. It rotates alongside the other six with its own archive and spaced-repetition deck, and the free daily set is now 3 of 7.
- Jul 1, 2026NEW
A simpler, games-first layout
The app is leaner and easier to get around. Play is now your home screen, and the separate Profile tab is gone — the parts worth keeping moved to where they fit best: your badges and any billing alerts live on Play, while your activity calendar, exam-goal countdown, and study modules now sit on the Study page. This changelog also gets its own spot, linked from the footer.
- Jul 1, 2026NEW
A gamified Study hub — board prep front and center
The Study page got a redesign to match the daily games. A new Boards Command Center puts Part I and Part III prep up top with live readiness bars, and every tool is now a colorful card. On Play, the daily "Today's Focus" checklist and the sweater giveaway are combined into one card, and light mode looks cleaner across the app.
- Jun 23, 2026
Simpler tiers — Plus lowered, Part I Sprint extended
A few pricing changes to keep things sustainable as more of you join. The free tier now gives 3 of the 6 daily games each day on a rotating schedule, and signed-in members can pin one favorite so it's always one of the 3. Plus is now $14.99/mo and unlocks all 6 daily games, their full archives, and study features. For boards, the Part I Sprint now comes in two lengths — 3 months for $149 or 6 months for $249 — the Part III Sprint stays 3 months for $149, and the Boards Bundle covers both for $699.
- Jun 23, 2026
Spaced-repetition review in the game archives
The daily-game archives are now a study tool, not just a history. Each one has an Anki-style flashcard review with mastery tracking — grade your recall (Again / Hard / Good / Easy) and each card comes back at the right moment, the same engine behind the Optics Equation deck. It's live for What's the Tx?, What's the Structure?, What's the Dx?, and Connections. Free members get a preview; Plus unlocks the full decks.
- Jun 22, 2026
New daily game — What's the Structure?
A sixth daily game joins the hub. What's the Structure? gives you five escalating clues — function, relations, blood supply, precise location — to name an anatomical structure, then keeps the teaching point for review. It rotates alongside Connections, What's the Dx?, the daily NBEO Question, Optics Equation, and What's the Tx?, with its own archive and spaced-repetition deck.
- Jun 13, 2026
More Boards prep questions & cases
The board-prep banks keep growing. The Part I question bank now tops 2000+ questions with fresh high-yield vignettes, and the Part III simulator has more standardized patient cases (70 and counting) with sharper scoring feedback. Your Boards purchase includes everything new I ship during your access window.
- Jun 11, 2026
More daily game content
New rounds across the Daily Games: additional What's the Dx? cases (now 165 total), fresh What's the Tx? treatment battles spanning 114 conditions, plus more Connections and Optics Equation sets. New puzzles reset daily at midnight ET.
- Jun 9, 2026
Faster loads across the app
I trimmed the app's critical-path JavaScript by about 25% and split the heavy game data out of the initial download. The Play hub and study tools now paint noticeably faster — especially on phones and slower connections.
- May 23, 2026
Boards is now a one-time purchase
Boards is now a one-time payment — a Part I or Part III Sprint for $149 (3 months, one part), or the annual Bundle for $600 (a full year — 12 months — covering both parts). No auto-renew, no monthly bill to cancel, no subscription anxiety while you study. Backed by a 7-day money-back guarantee. The free preview now includes 54 Part I question-bank questions and 3 Part III simulator cases, with unlimited attempts. Existing subscribers are unaffected and keep their current plan.
- May 18, 2026
Archives, now in one place
Diagnosis, Optics Equation, and What's the Tx? archives are now a single Archives page with tab navigation. Each tab lazy-loads, the layout is tighter, and switching between game histories no longer means jumping between pages.
- May 18, 2026
New Blush theme + reorganized theme picker
Blush — a soft warm-pink light theme — joins the lineup. The theme picker is also reorganized into Dark mode and Light mode groupings (replacing the old Classic/Soft split) so it's easier to find a theme that matches your preferred background.