What's new
What's new at HappyKava
Everything we've shipped lately, for guests and for kava bars, with real screenshots.
October 2026
September 2026
For guests ·
Travel Mode, rebuilt: pick a city, see the route
Travel Mode now opens on a city, leads with a bar that's open, and builds a route from the bars you tap.
For guests ·
Meet the hosts: trivia, bingo and karaoke nights now have faces
Hosts now have their own profiles in the app and on happykava.app, so you can follow the people who run your favorite nights.
For guests · For kava bars ·
happykava.app, redesigned
Every public page on happykava.app was rebuilt to answer one question fast: should I go tonight, and which bar?
For guests ·
BULA RUSH is now a bar crawl
BULA RUSH was rebuilt as a crawl through real kava bars, with runners you earn by checking in, a leaderboard at every bar and a new Daily Crawl each day.
For guests · For kava bars ·
A new look for HappyKava
The HappyKava wordmark and icon from the app are now on the website, your dashboard, flyers, emails and Wallet passes.
August 2026
For guests ·
Kava strains: discover, compare, see who pours them nearby
The strain library has new cards, a side-by-side compare, favorites, and shows which bars near you pour each strain.
For guests ·
A fresher app: glass navigation, redesigned bar pages, one Settings
The app has a new glass bottom bar, rebuilt bar pages, My Kava in place of My Bars, and every setting in one place.