Beta FAQ

A beta is an early build of an app that needs a little user testing before being fully rolled out to the public. Betas can be buggy and unstable, although I try not to send anything to testers unless I think it's ready for widespread use.

As a beta tester, you'll get early access to new features, bug fixes, and improvements. You'll be one of the first to test new app updates and provide feedback.

You'll be one of the first people to encounter any bugs or glitches that a beta introduces. There's always a chance of unexpected behavior when dealing with software that has yet to be widely user-tested.

It depends. Do you want to have newest features as soon as they're available? Are you ok with experiencing occasional bugs and glitches?

If you answered Yes to both of those questions, you'll like being a beta tester. If you're fine with waiting for new features or you really don't like bugs, you'd probably be fine with waiting for the beta to go public. Either way, it's up to you and it's not permanent. You can always opt out later and go back to the public version of the app.

Yes, you can always downgrade back to the latest public version. First, be sure to backup your decks. You may need them later. Then, it depends on the platform:

iOS

DON'T UNINSTALL THE BETA. You can just install the public version of the app from the App Store and it will replace the beta. This will keep all your data and decks in place.

Android

MAKE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR DECKS FIRST!

For Android devices, you unfortunately have to uninstall the beta before you can downgrade to the latest public version. This means YOUR DECKS AND DATA WILL BE DELETED. To get your decks back, you'll have to restore from the backup you made earlier.

After uninstalling, you need to leave the beta testing program. Otherwise Google Play will only let you download the beta when you go to Yugipedia's Google Play page. After you leave the program, it might take some time for Google Play to refresh and start showing you the public version of the app again.

Once you see the public version of the app on Yugipedia's Google Play page, install it. Then you can restore your decks from the backup you made earlier.

Yes, you should be notified by email when a new beta build is available.

You can send all feedback and bug reports to beta@logick.app, or you can send feedback through other options that your platform provides:

iOS

You can send feedback by taking a screenshot of the app (iOS 13+). Or you can open the TestFlight app, select Yugipedia and tap 'Send Beta Feedback'.

Android

You can leave feedback on Yugipedia's Google Play page. The interface looks similar to leaving an app review, but in this case the feedback is private and can only be seen by you and the developer.

You can find release notes on the Beta News page.

You can click here to open the app and start the backup process (you may need to have the app open in the background before clicking this link for it to work). Or you can open the app and go to Settings -> Backup all decks. Either way, it will open the system Share menu and give you 2 files. I suggest emailing them to yourself or storing them somewhere safe like Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

The 'backup.decks' file contains all your decks in a single file that can be imported into the app to recover all your decks in one step (you actually get to choose which decks to import, but they're all selected by default). The 'decks.zip' file contains individual .deck files for each of your decks, each of which can be imported independently of the others.

Find where you stored the 'backup.decks' file and tap on it. That should give you the option to open it in an app, choose Yugipedia and it will handle the rest.

If you don’t get an import prompt after the app opens, try again now that the app is running (sometimes it doesn’t get the file if the app wasn’t already open in the background).

Opening deck files can sometimes be a little tricky. It depends on your device:

iOS

iOS does a good job of handling files in most places, just tap the file and choose Yugipedia. But a file sent via Messages takes a few steps to open. Go to the conversation where you received the file and tap on the person's name at the top of the screen. Scroll to the bottom of the new screen and tap "See All" in the Documents section. Find the file you want to open and tap it. Tap the share button at the bottom of the screen, then select Yugipedia.

Android

For Android, the trouble is getting the option to open the file, because some mail apps don't seem to work well for that. One surefire way to do it is to move the file to Google Drive and open it from there by tapping the file.

Beta apps on iOS expire 90 days after I upload them to TestFlight. You probably just have an old build and need to update to the latest public app version.

Usually it means there aren't any beta builds currently available for testing. If you know for sure that I just released a new beta update, you may want to restart your phone and try again. Or email me at beta@logick.app to report the problem.

In-app purchases are disabled on the iOS beta, but any purchases made in the public version of the app will carry over to the beta. So if you really want to remove ads, you can do that before joining the beta program. Or you can go back to the public version of the app, remove ads, then re-join the beta program.

The Android beta doesn't have any limitations on in-app purchases, so you can still remove ads in the Android beta as usual.