Changelog - BetterPal

Version 1.3.0 Latest

Calendar Integration - Add birthdays and reminders directly to Apple Calendar. Events include deep links back to the person in BetterPal.
Map View - See your contacts on a map with automatic clustering. Tap clusters to see everyone at that location. Tags can have locations too—people appear on the map based on their groups.
Proximity Sort - Sort your people list by distance from your current location.
Smart Connections Overhaul - Swipeable card interface for relationship suggestions. Swipe right to connect, left to skip. View and restore skipped suggestions anytime.
Contact Import Improvements - Conflict detection with merge UI, progress tracking, and auto-detection of new iPhone contacts.
Recall Quiz - After Weekly Wrapped, quiz yourself on new people you met. Shows descriptions and notes when you answer.
Section Index Bar - iOS Contacts-style A-Z scroll bar. Shows contextual labels (months, "This Week", etc.) for non-alphabetical sorts.
Multi-Edit Relationships - Select multiple people and add them as connections to someone in one action.
Real-time NLP Highlights - Names, birthdays, reminders, and locations highlight as you type.
Voice Recording - Hold your phone to your ear to start hands-free voice entry.
Batch Selection - Hold and drag across people to select multiple for batch operations.
iCloud Sync Toggle - Explicit toggle in settings to enable/disable iCloud sync.

Liquid Glass UI - Frosted glass blur effect on navigation bars, matching the floating search bar.
Faster Navigation - Instant tab switching, seamless home/pals transitions, instant network node dragging.
Smoother Network - Better physics, faster settling, preserved zoom/pan on updates, clickable tag group labels.
Smarter Parsing - Better multi-name parsing ("Jack and Nancy Robeson"), smarter possessives, period-separated notes.
Sort Persistence - Your sort preference is remembered across app launches.
Offline Support - Network simulation and location features work in airplane mode.
Battery Optimization - Reduced background polling for improved battery life.

Version 1.2.0

Recall Quiz feature on the extras tab to quiz yourself about your network.
Tooltip tutorials for each page when first launching.
Smart date reminders that automatically detect phrases like "Dec 15," "12/15," "the 20th," or "next Monday," alongside existing reminder phrases.
Natural language birthday detection on the home screen, including support for relative dates.
Location detection for phrases like "from Seattle" or "lives in NYC," highlighted in green.
LinkedIn profile support alongside Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.
Social media search shortcut that copies the person's name and opens the app ready to search.
Relationship categories organized by Family, Professional, Social, and more, with color coding.
Ability to permanently delete people directly from the Edit screen.
New swipe actions on the Upcoming screen: swipe left to dismiss, swipe right to snooze reminders.
Upcoming screen filters to show birthdays only, reminders only, or all.
Weekly Wrapped network filters to toggle New and Updated people.
Long press to copy locations on a person's page.

Redesigned process screen with a cleaner layout and more room for matches.
Expandable Info section on person cards to reduce visual clutter.
Color-coded social media links using official brand colors.
Improved visibility for reminder and birthday indicators.
Automatic scroll-to-results when searching on the process screen.
Faster Add Connection modal with smarter result limits.
Smoother relationship selection flow with clearer direction prompts.
Smarter connection suggestions based on entry text.
Improved highlight priority so reminders and birthdays take precedence over names.
Auto-filled birthday and location fields when detected.
Indicator pills now wrap cleanly instead of overflowing.
More accurate person matching for partial names.
Smart icons on notes for birthdays, locations, and reminders.
Unified highlight color for smart note content.
First-time swipe tutorial on the Upcoming screen.
Weekly Wrapped now shows avatars consistently.
Cleaner Weekly Wrapped network visualization.
Full descriptions preserved when creating multiple people at once.

Fixed Weekly Wrapped network centering and animations.
Archived people no longer appear in active views or notifications.
Resolved iCloud backup issues (manual export still recommended to backup your data).
Fixed a bug where social media linking was adding a broken avatar image.
Fixed a crash in map sharing and navigation.
Corrected incorrect negative-day reminder displays.
Fixed swipe tooltip positioning issues.
Ensured notes are preserved when linking detected birthdays.
Prevented unnecessary network resimulation when closing settings.

Version 1.1.4

Tutorial improvements - Enhanced onboarding tutorial with smoother animations and interactive network demo with force sliders.
Connection clustering - Network view now visually clusters pals by their tags and relationships.

Version 1.1.3

Color customization - Customize tag colors with a new gradient color picker. Long-press any tag to edit its color.
Network force controls - New sliders to adjust how strongly pals cluster by tags vs. relationships.

Version 1.1.2

Map view - See your pals on a map based on their location. Toggle between network and map views.
Birthday heatmap - Network nodes can now display color-coded by upcoming birthdays.

Version 1.1.1

Version 1.1.0

Weekly Wrapped - Get a weekly summary of your connections, new pals you've met, and notes you've added.
Smart connections - AI-powered suggestions for linking related pals based on shared tags and notes.
Note reminders - Set reminders on any note to follow up later.

Version 1.0.0