This release comes with some significant changes to Bowlr. Bowlr has been rapidly growing the last few years. With that growth comes changes that will help support some of the new users as well as help continue the development and support for the years to come. The 2 biggest changes are:
As Bowlr gains more users, the cost to operate, maintain, and develop Bowlr goes up. For this reason, the choice has been made to move Bowlr Pro to a subscription model. This enables the continued development of bug fixes, enhancements, and features (such as localization). Here are all the details:
Localizing Bowlr has been a common feature request as there are now many users outside of the United States. With the release of Bowlr 7.0, Bowlr will now be available in 15 languages (Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish). A tool named Crowdin is being used to help with translations. Crowdin makes it easy for anyone who knows a language to help contibute to the translation process. If you would like to help contribute or correct translations for Bowlr, please take a look at the Bowlr Crowdin project.
Please feel free to reach out to support@bowlr.app if you have any questions about these changes. Thanks for using Bowlr!
This release includes some major changes to how the app handles user data. Bowlr syncs user data to a safe & secure cloud database. Here are some changes that were made as part of that syncing:
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This release includes a new exciting feature -- Bowlr can now import data from PinPal! Many of you have requested this feature and we are excited to finally release it. Here are a few important notes on this feature:
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