The Kraken, a Twitarr Client6.2 - App Store

The Kraken is a social media app custom-built for JoCo Cruise 2026. If you're coming with us on the cruise, you want to have this app installed to maximize your experience.

This app works with Twit-arr, the JoCo Cruise onboard social media server. In addition to all the great Twit-arr features, The Kraken gives you:

. Pirate Selfies: Take pictures of yourself and up to 2 friends wearing virtual Pirate Hats, and post them to Twit-arr.
. Offline Access: The Kraken caches everything, meaning you can read Twit-arr posts, forums, seamail, and check the schedule, all while sitting on the beach in Half Moon Cay.
. Offline Posting: You can also draft new posts while offline-they'll get sent to the Twit-arr server when you get back to the boat.
. Notifications: Receive push notifications on your phone from the Twit-arr server, even with no access to the wider Internet.
. Searchable Maps: Type in the name of a suite number, or any named room on the ship, and be directed to its location.
. iPad support: For the true multitasker-carry on multiple conversations at once with The Kraken on iPad. Or, keep tabs on the Twit-arr stream in one column while browsing for Karaoke songs to sing in another.
. KrakenTalk: a person-to-person, ship-to-same-ship real time full duplex voice communication feature.
. Rock Ballad Mode: show your love for that torch song with a virtual torch.
. PhotoStream: Photos taken on the boat, shared with everyone. While you can view photos on the web, you can only add photos using apps like Kraken.
. Day Planner: A combined calendar view of official events, Looking For Group activities, and your own activities. Easily see your whole schedule.

If you're going on JoCo Cruise this year, please remember to download this app before you board. It's much easier and faster to download apps while ashore.

Version History This version incorporates the latest games list for the JoCo Games Library. 6.2 Mar 17 Much of what's new this year is just keeping up with important Twitarr server features. Pinned posts, muted forums, better support for in-app links and some special Shutternaut features. 6.1 Mar 16 The Board Games catalog for 2025 has come in, and is now integrated with Kraken. You'll be able to search the board game library, read about and favorite games you'd like to play, and create gaming LFGs to find players to play with. 5.1 02/25/2025 PhotoStream is a shared picture gallery that anyone can add to and is new for 2025.
Private Events are a new way for you to plan and schedule events with friends during the cruise. Think of them as a calendar event crossed with a group chat.
Day Planner is new this year, building on the existing support for the official event schedule, Looking For Groups, and the new Private Events to make a unified calendar view.
View bios on Official Performers and Shadow Event Organizers, right in the app. 5.0 02/19/2025 Small fix--The panel that lets you review your video clip before uploading to Micro Karaoke now mixes in the backing audio music, so you can tell if your singing is on cue with the music if you're using headphones. 4.1 03/01/2024 NEW this year is Micro Karaoke! This new feature is for JoCo Cruisers who love karaoke but don't have time to sing a whole song themselves. With Micro Karaoke you record yourself on camera singing a single line of a song, and then later you'll be able to watch a music video that has you in it. 4.0 02/29/2024 Getting closer to boat! New Karaoke list, plus some bug fixes. 3.1 02/27/2023 New features for 2023:

• KrakenTalk! A realtime bidirectional Ship-To-Same-Ship audio transmission service. Works with any other user of the Kraken App aboard the ship. Be amazed as you converse in real time with faraway people, as far away as the other end of the boat. An entirely new service unlike anything anyone's ever seen on their phone before.
• Open Seamail: You can now mark a Seamail chat 'open' upon creation, and add/remove users later.
• Looking For Group: Kraken now supports Twit-arr's LFG feature, meaning you can create, search for, and join Looking for Group activities. 3.0 02/16/2023 Twit-arr, our onboard social media server, received a bunch of upgraded features this year, and The Kraken lets you access them right in the app. Forum categories, forums for Scheduled events, real time notifications, improved moderation, and updated Karaoke and Boardgames lists are available, and since The Kraken stores information for offline use, those features (except real-time notifications) are more available in the app than they are on the Twit-arr website. 2.0 02/23/2022 New in version 1.1 -Bug fixes of course, every new version has those, but also:

• Hashtag completion when composing posts.
• Jocomoji are now displayed, and are in the emoji quick-access bar.
• The emoji quick-access bar now remembers your recently-used emoji for faster access.
• Better notification support. 1.1 03/03/2020 1.0 02/26/2020