What's new on Lofi Cities
New cities, features and fixes, newest first. Everything runs in your browser, so each update is there the next time you open the site.
A city asked for with a coffee thanks its supporter by name, when they give one in their message.
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Rotterdam on a drizzly November night on the Nieuwe Maas, the Erasmus Bridge floodlit white in front of De Rotterdam's stacked towers, trams crossing its deck, a yellow watertaxi docking at the quay and a snack bar handing out fries and kapsalon. Thanks to Werner Strauss
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Mérida on a warm November night as a light drizzle passes over the Plaza Grande, the Cathedral of San Ildefonso floodlit across the plaza, a trova trio serenading a couple on a white confidente, a marquesitas cart and a café under a pink portal. Thanks to @la_jefa06
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Tashkent on a cool autumn night by the Anhor canal, the white Minor Mosque and the gold-lit TV Tower across the water, golden chinar leaves falling and green tea and hot samsa at a choyxona on the bank. Thanks to @kenzo_solo
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Karachi on a warm evening at a chai hotel across the road from Mazar-e-Quaid, the white marble mausoleum floodlit over its fountains, chai poured from high, a bun kebab cart and decorated minibuses passing. Thanks to Mustafa Hanif
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Pretoria in jacaranda time below the Union Buildings, the floodlit towers and colonnade over the terraced gardens and the Mandela statue, purple blossom falling on the lawn and a kiosk serving koffie and vetkoek. Thanks to Werner Strauss
- Improved The chat shows Today and Yesterday lines between messages.
- Improved The chat marks where you left off with a New messages line.
- Improved The chat keeps messages for a whole day now instead of 6 hours.
- New feature Every video collection in one go: the Everything bundle on Gumroad has all 56 cities' loops. Get video loops and the save menu open the shop.
- New city A new city, asked for by a visitor: Winnipeg on a snowy January night on the frozen Red River at The Forks. Skaters circle a lantern-lit oval of the Nestaweya River Trail under the Tower of Hope and the Esplanade Riel's white spire, a family pulls a toboggan, friends warm up by a fire barrel and a cabin pours hot cocoa.
- New city A new city: Helsinki on a snowy December night across the South Harbour, the white Cathedral and Uspenski's red brick and gold domes over the water, the SkyWheel turning, the Suomenlinna ferry passing and a wooden café pouring glögi on the quay.
- New city A new city: Ho Chi Minh City on a warm night after the rain, the Bitexco tower and Landmark 81 across the Saigon River from the Thu Thiem bank, dinner boats and water hyacinth drifting past and a bánh mì cart on the riverside.
- New city A new city: Auckland on a mild spring night at Wynyard Quarter, the Sky Tower between the masts of Wynyard Crossing as it lifts for a yacht, a ferry crossing the harbour and a container bar under a pōhutukawa in flower.
- New city A new city: Cartagena just after a warm shower in the walled city, the Torre del Reloj floodlit over its gate, horse carriages and cocadas under the Portal de los Dulces, and Independence fireworks once a loop.
- New city A new city: Nairobi at nightfall in the National Park, giraffes at a waterhole against the city's towers, a train crossing the railway viaduct and a night game drive stopping for chai by a lantern.
- New feature Favourite cities: tap the heart beside a city's name (or press K) to keep it. The city picker's Favourites chip shows only them, and Favourites only in the Tour menu has the city tour go through your favourites alone, every few minutes or following the night. Signed in, they follow you to every device.
- New feature A desk mini player: in Chrome and Edge on a computer, P opens a small window that stays on top of your other apps with the city, play and pause, the previous and next city, the track and your focus timer. The focus timer can now pause, too.
- New feature New city alerts: turn them on in Settings and your browser tells you when a new city arrives, and nothing else. On iPhone and iPad, add Lofi Cities to your Home Screen first.
- New city A new city: Warsaw on the night of the first snow, Sigismund's Column and the Royal Castle's clock tower over Castle Square, the Old Town's painted houses on the left, a café pouring hot chocolate on the corner and a horse-drawn carriage waiting by the castle.
- New city A new city: Manila on the Baywalk twenty minutes after sunset, Mount Mariveles dark against the afterglow over Manila Bay, ships at anchor, a taho vendor on the seawall and a merienda kiosk under the palms.
- New city A new city: Portland on a drizzly autumn night, the "Portland Oregon" sign glowing across the Willamette from the Eastbank Esplanade, the Burnside Bridge lifting for a sailboat and a dumpling cart serving a queue.
- New city A new city: Valletta on a warm late-summer night, the Carmelite dome and St Paul's spire over gold bastions across Marsamxett Harbour, the Sliema ferry crossing, luzzus going out and festa fireworks once a loop.
- New city A new city: Almaty on a frosty winter night in Panfilov Park, Zenkov's wooden cathedral floodlit under the snowy Alatau, the Kok-Tobe TV tower lighting up on its hill and a tea kiosk selling apples in the snow.
- New feature World Mix Vol. 3, a new video loop collection on Gumroad, brings 21 more cities, from Miami and Kyoto to Havana and Porto. Get video loops and the save menu open the shop with all four collections.
- Improved Las Vegas's Sphere shows the Earth as a real lit globe: sunlit on one side with a night crescent and city lights on the other, a thin blue atmosphere, clouds trailing round it and the sun glinting on the sea. Its moon and jack-o'-lantern catch the same light.
- Improved Watch live is on phones too: the YouTube icon sits beside the others at the top right.
- New city A new city: Agra on the full-moon night of Sharad Purnima, the Taj Mahal glowing white by moonlight across the Yamuna between its red sandstone mosque and jawab, kheer cooling on a village terrace and diyas floating on the river.
- New city A new city: Kuala Lumpur on a warm, drizzly night in KLCC Park, the Petronas Twin Towers silver over Lake Symphony's dancing fountains, Menara KL on its hill and a 24-hour mamak pulling teh tarik on the corner.
- New city A new city: Reykjavík on a snowy winter night, looking up the rainbow-painted Skólavörðustígur to Hallgrímskirkja as the northern lights build over its stepped spire, with a café and a bookshop lit on the corners and the church bells ringing out.
- New city A new city: Havana on the Malecón at night, waves bursting over the sea wall as the Morro's lighthouse turns across the harbour, El Capitolio's dome floodlit over the roofs, vintage convertibles on the road and dominoes under the portales.
- New city A new city: Porto on a drizzly autumn night from the Gaia quay, the Dom Luís I bridge floodlit gold over the Douro with the metro crossing its top, the Ribeira's tiled houses climbing to the Sé and the Clérigos tower, and a port lodge pouring by candlelight on its terrace.
- New city A new city: Honolulu at dusk on Waikiki Beach, Diamond Head dark against the afterglow as the full moon rises over the crater, the hotel lights running along the shore and tiki torches burning on the sand.
- New feature Lofi Cities is live on YouTube: Watch live opens the stream in a new tab, from beside Follow on X at the top right, the top of the chat or the About tab.
- Fixed Choosing Drizzle in Chongqing now keeps the rain falling through the whole loop. The city’s own weather still takes breaks between showers.
- New feature All chat emoji shortcodes in one searchable page: open All emoji shortcodes under the chat’s emoji picker to see every supported name and alias.
- Improved The city guide can open its places in OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps: pick one with the switch at the top of the guide, and every city's guide keeps it.
- Improved City guides are in every city now: Rio, Istanbul, Prague, Cape Town, Mexico City, Berlin, Athens, Budapest, Marrakech, Buenos Aires and Chongqing have places to see, restaurants and things to do too.
- New feature City guides: places to see, restaurants and things to do in 39 cities so far, each with a line on why to go and a link to Google Maps. Open one with the City guide pill under the city's name, or press E.
- New city Three new cities: Las Vegas by the Bellagio fountains, the Eiffel Tower floodlit gold across the lake as the fountains dance and newly-weds leave a little white chapel; Los Angeles on Hollywood Boulevard, palms leading up to the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory as searchlights sweep for a premiere; and Bali at blue hour above Tanah Lot, the sea temple on its rock as a big set bursts in spray and a procession crosses the reef.
- New feature Ask for a city with a coffee and, once it's here, What's new thanks you by name beside it: write the name you'd like in your coffee's message, or leave it out to stay anonymous. Request a city is under the city picker's globe and at the end of its grid.
- Fixed Boston put right: the lanterns sit on their posts, the swan boat landing floats at the water's edge with a gangway to the bank, Quincy Market's dome stands on its hall, the Green Monster's scoreboard lines up inning by inning, the oyster bar's awning words follow the awning and its windows show diners at their tables, and 111 Huntington is as broad as the real tower.
- New feature Boston has five more looks: the Public Garden's swan boats after a spring shower, snow on Acorn Street, the Old State House on a crisp October night, buskers at Faneuil Hall and a night game at Fenway under the Citgo sign. Pick one under the city's name or with ↑ ↓.
- New city A new city, asked for by a supporter: Boston on a warm August evening, seen from the Cambridge bank of the Charles. The Back Bay skyline and the State House dome are doubled in the river, Red Line trains cross the Longfellow Bridge, a concert glows behind the Hatch Shell and the last sailboats come in to the dock. Thanks to sleepy raccoon
- Improved The city picker opens at the city you're in: the grid and the passport scroll to its lit card, so it's in sight without looking for it.
- Fixed Five cities put right: the Rialto Bridge runs in behind the palazzi at its feet in Venice, the Obelisco stands in the middle of its plaza in Buenos Aires, the carriage wheels in New Orleans roll the way they go, nobody walks through the coffee cart in Melbourne, and nobody sits on the church's columns by the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
- New city Five more cities: Taipei after a shower on Elephant Mountain, Taipei 101 rising through the mist; Chongqing, the foggy "cyberpunk city", Hongyadong glowing gold across the river under neon towers; Melbourne in drizzle at Flinders Street Station, trams crossing under the clocks; New Orleans on Jackson Square, a jazz trio playing and a brass-band second line coming down Decatur; and Toronto from the island, the CN Tower over the harbour as maple leaves fall and a ferry crosses.
- New feature The chat dings when someone @mentions you while it's closed or you're in another tab: a soft two-note chime in the key of the music. Turn it off with Mention sound in Settings (the gear in the player).
- New feature A lighter scene for a slow computer or a laptop on battery: Settings (the gear in the player) has a Motion pick. Light draws a third of the frames, Still shows the city as a still picture, and the music plays on either way.
- New city A new city: Stockholm on an Advent night in light snow, City Hall's tower and its three gold crowns floodlit across the dark water of Riddarfjärden, Advent stars in the windows and a steamboat setting out on a Christmas cruise.
- New feature Tokyo has a second look: Inside, a warm room nine floors up with the tower through the window. The rain sounds softer in there. Pick it under the city's name or with ↑ ↓.
- New feature Every city has a moment on the hour and at half past, at the same instant for everyone: fireworks, lanterns, shooting stars or the landmark lighting up, then birds or a night flight, with a countdown under the city's name.
- New feature In Paris, tap the turntable, the desk lamp or the painting to add a shaker, a warm pad or twinkling notes to the music, in time with it; tap again to stop them.
- Improved Billboards in ten cities, Paris, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and New York among them, are smaller or lower, stand on a building at its own scale and are lit like the night around them, so the landmark is the brightest thing in view again.
- New feature A new page says how Lofi Cities is made: the cities are drawn by code that AI coding agents write, the music is composed in your browser, and you can see how a city gets built and checked. Find it in the About tab and the FAQ.
- New feature Tap the Eiffel Tower, a cat, a window or the pigeons: things in Paris, Tokyo, New York, London and Hong Kong now answer with a small sound in time with the music.
- Improved Rain sounds like rain now: you can hear the drops, it comes and goes, and it is all around you instead of a steady hiss.
- Improved Picked weather fits the view better: autumn leaves drift past Paris, Hong Kong, Rio, Cairo and Madrid on the wind instead of falling outside a high window, and rain no longer falls inside Madrid's room or under Munich's stall roof.
- Improved The interface is calmer for long sessions: the live count and chat dots no longer pulse, the What's new pigeon settles after it lands, and with reduced motion on nothing in the interface animates.
- Fixed The city picker fits small phones and phones held sideways: the search, the globe and the cards are no longer cut off behind the player.
- New feature Jam: press J, or switch Jam on in the Vibe panel, and play along with the keys 1–8 (eight pads on a phone). Every note fits the music and lands in time.
- New feature Paris, Tokyo, New York, London and Hong Kong each hide three small things: tap one when you spot it and its sticker goes in your passport.
- New feature Save a postcard: the save menu now makes a postcard of the city with its name, local time and the track playing, and on phones it opens the share sheet.
- Improved Amsterdam's elms now sway in a breeze, thin clouds drift over the tower and behind the gables, moths circle the canal lamps and neighbours come to their windows.
- Fixed The city scene now survives a restart of the browser's graphics instead of staying black or scrambled until a reload, and when a scene can't be shown the page says so with a Reload button.
- Improved The city picker remembers Passport: press it once and it opens on your stamps every time, until you press it again or pick Globe or Grid.
- New feature The video loops are 40% off. A small plane tows the news across the sky every few minutes: tap it to open the shop.
- New feature A second video loop collection is on Gumroad, with 16 more cities. Get video loops and the save menu now open the shop page with both collections.
- Improved Istanbul's Galata Tower looks like the real one: a broad stone tower, gold in its floodlights, with its row of lit arches, the balcony above them and a small cone on top.
- New city Six more cities: Kyoto on an autumn night on Ninenzaka, maple leaves falling below the Yasaka Pagoda and a geiko walking up with her lantern; Venice in drizzle and mist under the Rialto Bridge, a gondola rowing past; Marrakech among the lanterns and grill smoke of Jemaa el-Fnaa below the Koutoubia; Buenos Aires under jacarandas by the Obelisco, a tango on the corner; Chicago in steady rain on the river, the L rattling across the bridge below Willis Tower; and Barcelona on a warm night by the Sagrada Família, a guitarist playing by the pond.
- New feature React to chat messages: the small smiley beside a message puts a ❤️, 😂, 👍, 🔥, ✨ or 😢 under it. Tap an emoji there to add yours or take it back, and hover over it (or press and hold on a phone) to see who reacted.
- New feature Share the city you're in: the new share button in the player (or the U key) copies its link or posts it on X, WhatsApp, Telegram or Reddit. On phones it opens your share sheet, so the city goes to any app you like.
- New feature Tasks and notes under the timers (T, or the clock in the player): a short list to tick off while you work, and a notepad for whatever comes to mind. They stay in your browser, and follow you to your other devices if you sign in.
- Improved Landmarks look more like the real thing: the Empire State Building has its stepped crown and slim mast, the Parthenon its long, low Doric colonnade, the Eiffel Tower its arch and splayed legs, the Golden Gate its long, shallow cables and Canada Place its white sails. Every other city got a closer look too: Table Mountain's tablecloth comes and goes, Berlin's Quadriga is one bronze group, the Trevi pours over carved rocks, the Sphinx, Wat Arun and the Yasaka Pagoda are reshaped, and more people sit, stroll and watch from the rooftops, terraces and quays of Dubai, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Rio, Sydney and Singapore.
- New city Five more cities, each a calm night with a few people out: Seattle in drizzle from Kerry Park, the Space Needle over downtown and a ferry on the bay; Florence at the blue hour over the Arno, with swifts and the campanile's bells; Dublin in soft rain by the Ha'penny Bridge, a busker and the last buses; Miami's Ocean Drive after a June shower, neon on wet asphalt and a cruise ship heading out; and Budapest in slow snow over the Danube, the Parliament in gold and a yellow tram gliding by.
- New feature A Classical style in the Vibe panel (V): ten Mozart and Beethoven pieces as lofi covers, Für Elise, the Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the Rondo alla Turca and more, played note for note on a felt piano over a soft beat, in a new key every track. The player names the piece, and the radio and Mix play it too.
- New city Four more cities you asked for: Osaka on a lantern night in Dotonbori, Berlin during the light festival at the Brandenburg Gate, Athens on Easter night under the Acropolis and Copenhagen on a midsummer evening in Nyhavn. Each has people up close and something happening all the time: a festival drum boat, a marching brass band, fireworks behind the Parthenon, a jazz barge.
- New feature Rome has a new look: the Trevi Fountain at 11 pm, with turquoise water, coins flying over shoulders and a piazza full of people. Stay a while for the tour group that throws all at once, a proposal and a wedding couple posing for flashes. The quiet lane down to the Colosseum is still there: pick Colosseum under Rome's name (or press ↑ or ↓), and Rome opens that way from then on.
- New feature People in Settings (the gear), in the four new cities: Calm shows each city at its own easy pace, Busy brings everyone out and Quiet leaves only a few. The stalls, the musicians and the big moments stay either way.
- Fixed In Sydney, the Opera House's small shells on the left now stand on the podium instead of hanging over the steps.
- Improved The player is wider on big screens, so a track's title and the line under it (the city, the style on Mix or the radio, the key and tempo) show whole instead of being cut off after a few letters. On tablets held sideways and in smaller windows, the title gets its room back too.
- New feature Leaderboards: the trophy in the player ranks who listened the most, who stamped the most cities, the longest day streaks, the biggest fans of the city on screen and the chattiest, this week and all time, under their chat names. Sign in with Google to get on them; what you listen to counts from then on. Hide me takes you off.
- New feature Pick your own name for the chat: signed in, open Settings (the gear) and type it under Chat name in Account, or tap Pick a chat name as you sign in. It shows with a ✓ instead of your random name, nobody else can take it, and "@" mentions find it. You can change it once a day, or go back to your random name any time.
- New feature Sign in with Google to keep your city passport and settings on every device: the person icon at the top right, Account in Settings (the gear), or Save it on your first stamp. Listening time from all your devices adds up to the same stamps, your vibe, weather, volumes and other settings follow you, and the chat knows you by the same name everywhere. It is optional: without signing in, everything stays in your browser as before.
- New feature Mix in the Vibe panel (V): pick it and the music goes through every style in turn, a new one every one to three tracks, never one it has just played. The player and Up next say which style each track is.
- Improved The music changes more as it plays, in every style: loops come back with new chords, some tracks get a bridge, a key change near the end or a solo, the melody grows from two ideas instead of one, tracks open in five ways (the beat first, the melody first, a cold start with a drum roll…), and a session no longer comes back to chords it has just played.
- New feature Mention people in the chat: write "@" and their name, or tap the @ beside their message to reply. A message that mentions you stands out, and the dot on the Chat button grows a ring while one waits for you.
- New feature The chat translates: messages written in another language show in yours, with "original" beside them to see what was written.
- Improved The city passport is easier to follow: Passport in the city picker (/) shows every city as a postage stamp, the ones you have stamped in colour and the rest with how far along they are, and says how it works: listen for 5 minutes in a city to get its stamp. Stamped cities wear a clearer postmark, and your first minute of music in a city says how long until its stamp.
- Improved The chat keeps messages for 6 hours instead of 3, so coming by later in the day you still see what people said.
- Fixed Turning the radio off now switches to your own mix right away, instead of playing the radio's song to its end first.
- Improved The radio's vote shows each style with its pixel icon, so you can see the three picks at a glance.
- New feature Eight more lofi styles in the Vibe panel (V): Neo-soul, Liquid DnB, Dub, Chiptune, Japanese, Oud, Sitar and Spooky, for 17 in all, each with its own instruments and grooves, and on the radio too, a new one every hour.
- Improved Every style has its own pixel icon in the Vibe panel, grouped into Chill, Groove and Themed, with a line saying what the picked one sounds like. The switch beside Style lays them out as a compact list or as a card for the picked style over a grid of icons.
- Fixed The radio keeps everyone on the same song: a vote's winner that reaches you late, after a dropped connection, now plays for you too; switching the band from chords only back to the full band mid-song lands on the same notes as everyone else; your vote counts again after a reconnect; and the count no longer says "just you listening" when someone else is. O and the other keys also work while the Vibe panel is open.
- New city Four more cities you asked for: Mexico City on the Day of the Dead, New Delhi at India Gate, Cairo by the pyramids during Ramadan and Lisbon over Alfama.
- New feature A city passport: listen for 5 minutes in a city and it gets its stamp. The city picker shows which cities you have stamped ("3 of 21 stamped"), and when you come back, the player says how long you have listened there. It stays in your browser, no account needed.
- New feature Tonight's city: a first visit now opens on a different city every day, the same one for everyone that night, and the city picker marks it "tonight". Coming back, you still land where you left off.
- New feature A Radio chip beside Weather: one tap and you hear the same song as everyone else tuned in to Lofi Cities Radio. It shows the hour's show, and who is listening once anyone is.
- Improved On phones the player stays on screen until the music starts, with "Tap to play" beside the play button. Before, it faded away after a few seconds and left a silent scene.
- Fixed Cities stand out on the globe at night: each pin now sits in a small dark ring, so it no longer blends into the city lights around it.
- New feature Vote on the radio: in the last minute of a track, everyone listening picks the style of the next one out of three, and the winner plays for all of them.
- New feature Lofi Cities Radio: turn on the Radio at the top of the Vibe panel (or press O) and you hear the same song as everyone else tuned in, at the same moment, whichever city you watch. A new style every hour, a count of who is listening, and your own mix is one switch away.
- New feature Find cities by region: chips under the city picker's search keep just Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa or Oceania, on the grid and the globe, and the search finds cities by country too, such as Germany, USA or Japan. Each card now says the city's country.
- New feature Pick a city from the globe: the city picker (/) now opens on a pixel-art Earth, lit as it is right now, with day, night and city lights where the sun has set. Drag it round, zoom in with the wheel or a pinch, and hover or tap a city or its name to see its preview, local time and how many people are there right now. Grid brings back the previews, and your pick stays for the next visit.
- New feature Two new weathers in the Weather chip (W), on every city: light drizzle, with soft rain to match, and a thunderstorm, with heavier rain, distant thunder and a gentle glow in the sky (left out when your device prefers reduced motion).
- New city Five more cities, the ones you asked for most: Vancouver, Seoul, Bangkok, Cape Town and Singapore.
- New feature A pigeon brings what's new: when Lofi Cities has changed since your last visit, a pigeon lands on the city's billboard with a letter. Tap it to read what changed. If an update goes live while you listen, it brings that too, with a button to reload.
- New feature More in Settings (the gear in the player): hide the job strip across the top, and pick what the billboards show on every city: all (city artwork, project updates and sponsor messages), city ads (only the made-up signs that belong to the scene) or off. B changes the billboards too, and your choices stay for the next visit.
- New feature Lofi Cities is on X: follow @loficitiesapp from the top right. Every city's billboard takes turns saying "New cities on X", and a click on it opens the account in a new tab while it shows the invite or the city's own ad. Request a city, the last card in the city picker (/), opens it too, so you can suggest the next city there.
- Improved Ultrawide monitors are filled edge to edge: on a 21:9 screen such as 3440×1440, fullscreen or in a browser window, every city covers the whole screen instead of showing dark bars at the sides. The landmark and the billboard always stay whole.
- Improved One chat for every city: everyone listening talks in the same room, wherever they watch, and each name in it comes with the city its author is watching: tap it to go there. When two people there share a name, each gets a short tag after it, such as "sleepy fox ·3f", so nobody looks like someone else. Messages now stay for 3 hours.
- Improved A tidier top on phones: the city name, tagline, local time, links and how many people are here now sit together in one card, easy to read over any city.
- New feature The gear in the player opens Settings, where you can hide the reactions and lanterns other people send, along with the Together button, if you would rather watch the city on your own.
- New feature Help wanted: companies can post a job for free, and approved jobs appear on the jobs page and across the top of every city. Every city's billboard takes turns saying "Post a job for free", and opens the form while it does.
- Improved The chat shows how many other people have it open right now, such as "3 in chat" lit up in green, or "no one in chat", at the top of the panel beside your name.
- New feature Emoji in the chat: the smiley button beside the text box opens a small set of cozy ones, and typing a colon and a name, such as :coffee:, lists the matching emoji as you type.
- New feature Chat with other listeners: the Chat button in the player (or Enter) opens short messages under a random two-word name such as "sleepy fox". No links, and you can hide anyone.
- Improved The city picker (/) features the city with the most people right now, in a wide card above the others, and lists the cities with the most people first.
- Improved The city chip at the bottom now and then rolls through a few other city names, to show that it is where you change cities, until you open the picker for the first time.
- Improved New icons for the city, tour and weather chips, and the weather chip now shows the weather you picked: rain, snow, leaves or a clear moon.
- Improved The video loop collection on Gumroad now has all 16 cities, Dubai, Madrid, Rome, Prague and Munich included.
- Improved The count under the city name also shows how many people have come by since the launch: "12,345 all time".
- Improved The city picker (/) shows how many people are in each city right now, on its preview.
- New city Five more cities: Dubai, Madrid, Rome, Prague and Munich.
- Improved Lighter on phones and laptops: 120 Hz screens draw the scene 60 times a second like every other screen, snow and leaves cost less to draw, and switching cities quickly no longer piles up city sounds.
- Improved The "today" count under the city name now starts at midnight where you are and only goes up through your day, instead of counting the last 24 hours.
- Fixed More reliable updates: changing cities keeps working while a new version is deployed, and interrupted offline updates keep the last complete copy.
- Fixed Reduced pauses in the scene while browsing city previews in the picker.
- New feature Request a city from the city picker (/): the last card opens Safa's X profile, so you can ask for the next one.
- Improved Ten cities now look more like the real places: One World Trade Center over Lower Manhattan, the Blue Mosque's minarets at their true heights, the Opera House reflected in the harbour, a longer and lower Golden Gate, a taller Westertoren, Copacabana's round kiosks and wave pavement, and more.
- New feature Four more lofi styles in the Vibe panel (V): House, Guitar, Sad and Medieval, for nine in all, each with its own instruments and grooves.
- New feature All cities in one picker (/): a small preview of each city with its local time, and a search, in place of rows of chips.
- New feature Weather on every city (W): rain, snow, falling autumn leaves or a clear night, with the city sounds and the track titles following it.
- Improved Phones held upright show every city's landmark and billboard in full, and you can drag the scene sideways to look around it. Keep swiping past its end to switch city.
- Fixed Each track opens its chords and melody in its own register, higher or lower, so tracks no longer all start on the same notes.
- New feature Five lofi styles in the Vibe panel (V): Jazzhop, Piano, Ambient, Bossa and Synth, each with its own instruments and grooves.
- New city Five more cities: Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco, Hamburg and Amsterdam.
- Improved Istanbul's Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia are redrawn to look like the real ones, with lead domes, crescent finials and the Blue Mosque's six minarets.
- New feature A live count under the city name: how many people are here now, how many are on your city and how many came by today.
- New feature Every city has a billboard for rent, with a made-up local ad such as Cafe Lune in Paris until a business takes it and gets drawn in pixel art.
- New feature Vibe controls (V): chill, balanced or upbeat, with the full band, no drums or keys only.
- New feature The city sounds mixer (A): a slider for each sound of the city, from the rain to the bells.
- New feature The mini player (P) floats the scene in a small window over your other apps, on computers.
- New feature City tour (C): a new city every 5 to 30 minutes, or follow the night to the city closest to 1 am.
- New feature Works offline once opened, and installs as an app.
- New feature The save menu saves the current frame as a 1080p PNG, on phones and tablets too.
- New feature OBS mode: add ?obs to a city's address for a clean stream background, with the music starting on its own.
- Improved The About panel gets tabs, a card for every city and a FAQ.
- New feature A new page on how the music is made.
- New feature Video loops of all 11 cities on Gumroad, for your own videos and streams (without the music).
- Improved Paris is redrawn: rain on the window of a painter's attic, with the Eiffel Tower sparkling far off.
- New feature Up next (Q): see the coming tracks and pick one to play right away.
- New feature Focus and sleep timers (T): 25/5 or 50/10 focus rounds on repeat, and a sleep timer that fades the music out.
- Improved Phones and tablets get touch-sized controls, and a swipe on the scene switches city.
- New feature Every city gets its own page, such as loficities.com/tokyo/.
- New city The first version: six cities (Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, Rio de Janeiro and Istanbul), endless lofi composed live in your browser and each city's own sounds.