Every change that reaches you on Rentor is written up in plain language, dated, and kept where you can read it. This page covers where those notes live, what a version number means, and how the phone app keeps itself up to date.

Where the releases live

• On the web: the What's new page at rentor.co.ke/releases. It is linked from the footer of every public page (under Company), and from the small version number beside the copyright line.
• In the phone app: open More → What's new, under Help & Info.

Both read the same list, newest first. Each entry carries the version number, the date it shipped, a short headline, the notes themselves, and a tag saying where it landed — Web, Mobile apps, or Web & apps when everything moved together. Version 1.0.0 carries a First public release badge; it is the one entry that badge will ever appear on.

What the version number means for you

A version looks like 1.3.2 — three numbers, read left to right:

• The first number changes only for a release that reshapes how Rentor works. 1.0.0 was that moment: Rentor going public.
• The second changes when new things arrive — a new page, a new way to pay, a role that can do something it couldn't before.
• The third changes for fixes and small improvements. Nothing you do differently, just fewer rough edges.

You never have to act on a version number. It matters in exactly two situations: when you want to know whether something you asked for has shipped yet, and when you contact support — quoting the version you are running saves a round of questions. See Getting help.

The app keeps itself up to date

You do not have to hunt for updates on your phone. Most improvements reach the Rentor app by themselves, without a trip to the store:

• When you open the app, it checks for an update. If there is one you see a brief Updating Rentor screen — "Getting the newest version. This only takes a moment." — and the app carries on, already updated.
• When you come back to the app after a while away, it checks again and quietly restarts on the new version.
• If you only stepped away for a moment, the app will not restart under you — that could throw away a form you were half-way through. Instead a small Update ready · Restart now pill appears. Tap it when it suits you.

You stay signed in through all of this, and nothing you have saved is lost.

Want to be sure you are on the newest version — say, because support asked? Open More → Check for updates. It answers Up to date, or Update ready with a Restart button.

Occasionally a change is big enough to need a whole new build of the app. Then Google Play or the App Store offers you an ordinary update, exactly like any other app on your phone. If you have automatic updates switched on there, that happens by itself too.

The website has no updates to install at all. Whatever is live is what your browser loads.

Checking which version you are running

• Website: scroll to the very bottom of any public page. The version sits beside the copyright line — © 2026 Rentor. Made for Kenya · v1.3.2, for example — and tapping it opens the release notes. The What's new page also states the running version at the top, under Running now.
• Android or iPhone app: open More and scroll to the bottom. The last line reads something like Rentor v1.3.2 · Rent · Service · Trust — sometimes with a short code in brackets after the number, which identifies the exact update you received. Tapping the line opens the release notes. The Check for updates row shows the same version.

The two numbers are separate, and they are meant to be: the website and the phone apps ship on their own rhythms, so your app can sit a release behind the web for a few days, or the other way round. Neither is wrong, and nothing between them stops working — the app and the website are the same account and the same data either way. See Rentor on your phone.

Related

• Getting help — the assistant, the FAQs, and how to reach the team.
• Rentor on your phone — what the app does, and what stays on the web.