Every feature, release and milestone since the first card was drawn. We build ComposerDeck for the love of the craft, we listen closely to the musicians who use it, and the product will keep evolving. Something you'd like to see? We read every message.
A bell now sits in the studio header, on desktop and on your phone. Likes on your takes, replies to your comments and badges you earn land there as they happen, and one tap opens the take in question. The plumbing had been running quietly for months; nobody could see it.
Share a take and the link now opens a real page: the brief you drew, card by card, the audio, your name, and a way into the app. It works without signing in, it looks right in iMessage and Slack, and search engines can finally find the music the community makes.
The USER tab of the search is back (it had been failing silently on genre filters). Comments show up the moment you post them. MALUS cards can be contributed to the community deck. Private profiles are now anonymous in the leaderboard, the weekly board and the badges, not just on the profile page.
If a renewal fails, you keep Pro for seven days while your bank sorts it out, with a banner on the upgrade page telling you what is going on. The checkout also refuses to start a second subscription on top of an active one.
Fonts are served from composerdeck.com instead of Google, so a page load no longer talks to a third party. You can pinch to zoom in the web app again. Share links, the leaderboard and deck pages use your display name everywhere.
One big update for the App Store: the weekly challenge, the public Deck Gallery, custom deck covers, display names, draw archiving and all the recent draw improvements now live on iOS too. If you play on your phone, this is the release to grab.
The card count panel now tells you how many cards actually match your filters, greys out counts you can't reach, and says so when a narrow genre or type selection would shrink your hand. No more pulling one card and wondering where the other five went.
One shared brief for everyone, every week, anchored on Monday. A full week gives you real time to write, the boards fill up properly, and curated picks set the tone. Old daily links keep working: they land on their week.
Browse and search every public deck the community has built, right inside the app. Find a teaching deck, a genre bootcamp or a malus gauntlet, load it and draw.
Deck creators can upload their own cover art, reviewed before it goes public. Creator names now appear on shared deck pages and on the card backs in the studio.
Our first paid tier: €3.99 a month, €29.99 a year, or €79 once for Founder Lifetime. Pro unlocks PNG and print-at-home PDF exports of your hand as real playing cards, an advanced stats panel on your profile, named studio presets, your complete draw history, and extra headroom across decks and submissions. The daily practice stays free, as promised.
Display names now show on every public surface: feeds, submissions, decks and profiles. The name you chose is the name people see.
Archive old draws from your profile and keep the workspace focused on what you're composing now.
Version 2.6 opens with sound. Nine custom sounds wired into the gestures you already use, with haptics where they add to it: card flips timed to the reveal, shuffle, save, a MALUS arm sound of its own, and studio faders that notch under your finger.
The Daily Challenge now lands reliably every morning, and the Hot feed ranks community tracks by real activity over the last 24 hours.
The Decks update reaches iPhone, with mobile polish across the submissions and detail pages.
Audio submissions now draw their true waveform and play inline in the feed, on profiles and on detail pages. No more leaving the page to hear a track. Decks also joined the app's main navigation.
ComposerDeck 2.5, our biggest update yet. Build your own deck of constraint cards and share it with a single link: up to 20 decks of 100 cards each, mixing catalogue cards with your own approved creations. Draw 100% from the deck or blend it with the regular engine. Read the announcement →
See who's shipping. The leaderboard is now one tap away in the studio navigation.
Paste a SoundCloud link on a submission and the track plays right on the page. Follow your favorite producers to keep up with their work, and rename your submissions any time.
One shared brief for the whole community. Same cards for everyone, refreshed daily, no excuses.
First draw? An onboarding tour now walks you through the studio, step by step.
The biggest redesign in ComposerDeck's history. The Draw Console rebuilds the whole drawing experience around a studio metaphor: faders for Theory, Sound, Form, Risk and Energy, a transport, and a session timer to keep you honest.
Search, contribute, share and submit audio all got full redesigns, plus a proper submissions index with a detail page for every track.
Profiles now show a rack of unlocked badges. Earn them by drawing, submitting and showing up.
The blog got a full three-column redesign with a featured article, most-read rankings and reader reactions on every piece.
The landing page learned a new card-shuffle choreography, synced with the animation inside the app. Sharing any ComposerDeck link now shows rich previews too.
The app goes native. Download it on iPhone, sign in with Apple, and draw wherever the ideas find you.
Flip the toggle and one card in your hand becomes a MALUS: a rule you cannot break. Twenty penalty cards at launch, confetti when you dare, plus quick genre filters to set up a draw faster. Read the announcement →
Finish a sketch, upload it straight from the draw, and it appears in the community Listen feed with likes, sharing and video embeds built in.
One curated card combo and one essay, straight to your inbox. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
New name, new home at composerdeck.com. The roulette grew into a deck.
Accounts got real profiles with your instruments and a private option, favorite card combos, and the very first audio submissions.
The card draw engine goes live under its original name, Musical Roulette, alongside the blog's first articles. The daily practice opens its doors.
Months before anything went public, ComposerDeck was already taking shape on the workbench: the constraint-card concept, the draw engine, the first deck of cards, the site and the first essays were designed, prototyped and rewritten until they felt right. By the time the first version shipped, it was already a complete working studio.
New cards every Monday, new features every month. Pull a hand and see for yourself.