Release notes

# New features

• Melimelo comes to Mac, Windows and the browser:
  • screens designed for big displays, with the list and the details side by side
  • mouse and keyboard everywhere: right-click, hover, drag and drop, typing numbers and times directly
  • the window remembers its size and position
  • the app lives in the Dock or the taskbar, in the menu bar or the notification area, or in both, and can launch when you sign in
  • on Mac: notifications, and updates that run automatically or from the app menu
  • on Windows: notifications and a title bar in the app’s colors
• Melimelo speaks English, Spanish, Italian and German:
  • the app follows your device language, and you can change it in the settings
  • dates, weights and prices show according to the chosen language
  • each household picks its currency, used in Budget, Vehicles, Pets and Gifts
  • household country and time zone: notifications arrive at your local time
  • Melia replies in the language of your messages
• Offline mode:
  • tasks, notes, shopping lists and loyalty cards stay viewable and editable without a connection
  • home, account and household open even when you’re offline
  • an indicator shows what’s waiting to be sent, and a conflict is resolved field by field
  • modules that need a connection are grayed out
  • a page in the menu explains how it works
• Melia redesigned:
  • a floating panel above the screen on computers, and a revamped conversation page on mobile
  • conversation history: read them again with their cards, rename them or delete them
  • each conversation names itself
  • example messages to get you started
  • faster answers
  • keyboard shortcuts to open a new conversation or minimize Melia
• Import a recipe from its photos, up to three
• Attachments:
  • attach files, photos or scanned documents to vehicles, pets, pools and providers
  • each provider has a full profile, with a photo
  • a Storage tab in Documents shows the space used by each module and the largest files
• Sign in with a Microsoft account, and with Apple on every device
• New navigation:
  • household and account open in side menus, from the header
  • household settings and account settings each brought together on a page with tabs
  • a floating navigation bar
• Calendar:
  • week mode becomes a month grid, with a dot for each event
  • a day opens as an hour-by-hour schedule: create an event in a free slot, move it or extend it
  • drag an event to another day in month view
  • duplicate an event
  • each member chooses which calendars they show, right down to the widgets
  • events are colored by type or by calendar, your choice
  • search events across your whole history
  • settings grouped in a side panel
  • an event opens in read-only view first, and a synced event tells you it’s edited from its original calendar
  • a birthday opens on a party card, with the age
  • reminders from 6 hours to 30 days before an event
• Meal plan and shopping:
  • a weekly board where you drop your recipes, and meals you can drag to another time or another day
  • shopping list generation takes your fridge and expiration dates into account, with quantities and units
• Household:
  • choose when you get trash pickup and fridge expiration reminders
  • account or household deletion can be canceled for 7 days, with ownership transfer
  • a dedicated page for member permissions
• Lock a note against edits

# Improvements

• Fridge:
  • quantities and units on products
  • a product can be fully edited, and the expiration date becomes optional
  • your first products are added in one go from the food catalog
  • reorganized product picker
• Redesigned Budget: gauge, progress by category, transactions by month, and import of a statement shared from another app on Android
• Baby: one screen per baby and a revamped meal tracker
• Wellbeing: redesigned weight and day screens, and explicit consent for health data
• Travel: a home tab that sums up the trip, and a cover you can change
• Gifts: drag-and-drop reordering, adding from a product link, and a gift marked as already bought shows as taken on the shared list
• Places: map and list side by side, and address search by country
• Documents: download a file, also offered when the preview fails
• Vehicles, Pets and Outdoors:
  • profiles redone with tabs
  • front and rear tire sizes for a vehicle
  • adoption date for pets
  • pool water hardness in French degrees
• Shopping: the screen stays on as long as a list is shown
• More reliable recipe import from websites
• A recipe imported from Instagram, TikTok or Facebook shows the original account, which opens the post in one tap
• Synced calendars: Google labels and Outlook and iCloud categories become event types, and any calendar, including the default one, can be renamed and recolored from the app
• The Android calendar widget shows several weeks, and the whole month in large format
• Home screen:
  • edit mode animates in and out
  • each widget explains itself from its preview
  • the home screen shows instantly at startup
  • browse the week with arrows
• Household achievements become Melimania, with new levels and criteria
• New splash screen, a lighter color palette, paper cut-out illustrations and smoother image loading
• Bigger header controls, easier to tap
• Notification settings grouped by module
• Barcode scanning is limited to product codes and recognizes them better

# Fixes

• Calendar:
  • the last week of the month could be missing from the grid
  • a day could be doubled or skipped when the clocks changed, in the calendar as well as when picking a date
  • an all-day event spilled over into the next day, widgets included
  • Outlook event times could be off
  • a paused synced calendar was offered in an event’s details
• Household and members:
  • making a member an admin could alter their account
  • saving the household’s first address failed
  • the participant list for tasks and routines was empty without the Calendar module
  • a member without the Budget module couldn’t add an expense to a split
• Fixed errors that could occur when setting a new password
• A tag Melia removed from a recipe stayed on the recipe
• A document whose name contained certain characters wouldn’t open
• Food search returned unrelated results
• Content went under the status bar after launching from a widget
• From the tasks widget, going back took you out of the module’s screen
• Brightness didn’t return to normal after showing a loyalty card
• Calorie calculation crashed on some profiles
• Notification settings didn’t reflect a change made on the web
• A search list emptied while loading
• Leaving an edited note asked for several confirmations
• Editing a message could fail
• Floating buttons and the bottom of lists went under the Android system bar
• Deleted images were downloaded over and over
• Loyalty card logos hid the card’s color while loading

Improved performance and overall stability.

# Improvements

• Products:
  • search in the Products tab, with a dedicated state when nothing matches
  • edit and delete a product right from the list
• Wine cellar:
  • edit the cellar’s shelving from its menu, with the bottles shown
  • a row or column that’s still in use can no longer be removed
• Conversations:
  • a group’s photo is saved as soon as it’s chosen or removed
  • only admins can remove a group’s photo
  • an existing conversation is only reused if it’s a one-on-one chat
• Map:
  • new base map, clearer and faster
  • better-framed cover photo for a place
• Fridge: the list loads progressively as you scroll
• Notes: visible confirmation when you save
• Number of users shown during first setup

# Fixes

• Wellbeing: a first weight can be entered when none has been recorded yet
• Notes: a removed cover photo no longer reappears when you reopen the note
• Places: the address opens in your phone’s maps app
• Wine cellar: no more black screen when moving a bottle from one cellar to another

# New features

• School holidays and public holidays in the calendar:
  • periods show as continuous banners
  • everyone picks their zone in the calendar settings
• Two new widgets on the home screen:
  • Calendar: the current month in large format on iOS, with multi-day events
  • Routines: a carousel of cards with the cycle’s progress and check-off right from the home screen (Premium households)
• Household Products tab:
  • the catalog shows as a compact list, grouped by aisle
  • the picker switches to list view by default, with a list/grid toggle, and adding and scanning together at the bottom of the screen
  • from the fridge, a catalog product goes to the shopping list of your choice
• Personalized nutrition goals:
  • set your calories and your macro split, or keep the recommendation
  • guidelines aligned with ANSES, with a realistic weight loss pace
  • a wider, more consistent nutrients section
• Trips, roles and participants:
  • a “Who’s going with you?” step adds household members right at creation
  • members join as participants, and the organizer promotes whoever they like
  • a trip always keeps a household admin as an organizer
• Seven-day Birthdays widget: the name under the avatar, and the number of days left on each card
• Fridge grouped by aisle, with its own setting
• Shared gift pages open directly in the app

# Improvements

• More comfortable typing:
  • the keyboard corrects and completes free text again, and stays neutral in searches
  • automatic capitalization adapts to the field, and never applies to an email address, a URL or a password
  • your saved email address is suggested on the profile and on “Forgot password?”
• More accurate food search: every word counts, and the exact food comes first
• A product created from a food arrives already sorted into its aisle
• Recipe and food images generated much faster
• Plant search limited to names, with an empty screen specific to the catalog
• Brightness goes to maximum when a loyalty card is expanded
• More reliable assistant, calendar sync and subscriptions: a failed call is retried instead of being lost
• Joining a household gets more direct:
  • an invitation link opens the screen of the household waiting for you, even when you’re not signed in
  • the invitation is kept all the way through account creation
  • first setup offers to join an existing household instead of creating one
  • the share message arrives ready to send, with the code and the link

# Fixes

• Gifts:
  • the product link wouldn’t open
  • image search created a gift on every attempt
• Calendar:
  • the calendar could close on a birthday shown in list view
  • an account outside the household could be linked to a synced event
• Household and members:
  • member lists could show people outside the household
  • an admin couldn’t create a quick sign-in for a member
• Wine cellar: black screen when deleting a cellar, and the label photo triggered several times in a row
• The selected option disappeared as soon as it fell outside the loaded list
• Badges on floating buttons stopped you from tapping them
• A note title could be cut off in the middle of an emoji
• In-app purchases stayed pending on iOS
• The support conversation disappeared from the list once the ticket was closed
• An unknown link no longer kicks you out of navigation

Improved performance and overall stability.

# Improvements

• Richer message fields:
  • the formatting bar is now built into the field, alongside the send button and attachments
  • formatting available from your phone’s selection menu
  • redesigned “/” menu with the app’s icons and two heading levels
  • a pasted title that’s too long automatically moves into the note’s content
• Photos: the images you pick load at the size they’re actually shown, for a faster, lighter display

# Fixes

• Pickers and forms:
  • a picker can no longer open twice
  • the value you choose is kept when the picker closes (emoji, date, lists)
  • no more writing to a form you’ve already left
• Loyalty cards: a card number with special characters no longer breaks the barcode display
• A tap on “Save” now creates just one entry
• Text is no longer cut off in the middle of an emoji
• An item that fails to delete goes back to its place in the list
• Fixed the real-time connection when the channel never opened
• A missing map tile no longer stops the rest of the map from showing
• Fixed the sync of a calendar whose creator left the household
• Fixed nutrition analysis, product recognition and recipe imports
• Fixed many crashes (screens left while loading, images, list reordering)

# New features

• Split, the new expense-sharing app:
  • create a split with a dedicated wizard
  • details and settings tabs for each split
  • replaces the Sharing tab in the Budget module
• Share trips between households:
  • creation wizard and invitation by code
  • settings tab to manage the trip, its share code and access requests
  • app open to free plans, only creating a trip remains Premium
• New rich text editor:
  • notes: tables, images, links and spell check available
  • mentions of notes and members, which open with a tap
  • images kept as note attachments
  • the same editor for messages, circle posts and conversations with Melia
• Household products together in a single picker:
  • opens from the Fridge screen, with expiration date entry
  • sorted by most added and by how often you rebuy them, by aisle
  • search, progressive loading, manual creation and barcode scanning in one place
  • Melia suggestions (Premium)
• Redesigned Baby app:
  • new wizard to add a baby (photo, date of birth, festive final step)
  • baby picker in the header instead of tabs, with an editable profile
  • tabs refocused on meals, feeding and allergens
• Birthdays in the calendar:
  • new Premium setting to show them
  • visible in the calendar and in the day details
• Calendar shown full screen, without the app header
• Melia can generate a shopping list and add it to your list right in the conversation

# Improvements

• Fridge and shopping:
  • product search runs on your device, faster and more reliable
  • the Shopping tab in trips gets the product picker and grouping by aisle
  • new Fridge app icon
• Home screen:
  • the date shows by default, highlighted in blue
  • adjustable size for the Travel and Calendar widgets (compact, comfortable, large)
  • explanation shown under conditional widgets while editing
• More readable notes: larger text and roomier lists
• Cut, copy and select all available from the rich text toolbar
• Notifications show the message text rather than its formatting
• Info tabs updated in all 19 apps
• Barcode scanning added to the food diary in the Wellbeing module
• Melia:
  • answers with several info cards now show as a carousel
  • info cards only show the most relevant fields
  • Melia introduces what she’s showing before displaying the cards

# Fixes

• Calendar:
  • widgets now show the right event colors
  • Google calendars stay connected instead of pausing when the authorization expires
  • an external calendar keeps syncing even after the person who connected it leaves the household
• Splits and projects:
  • ownership is transferred when the owner leaves the project
  • members are synced on approval, removal and departure
  • members can view the settings, and only managers can edit them
  • opening a deleted project no longer shows an error
  • task assignment in the Travel tab now matches the Tasks screen
• Melia:
  • generating a shopping list now succeeds even with an unusually named item
  • routines and lists no longer return an unexplained error
  • a refusal is explained instead of being presented as a failure
• a Premium household is no longer switched to the free plan on its renewal day
• a note’s cover shows full screen again
• the product limit is flagged before adding, instead of interrupting the creation in progress
• read receipts no longer cause errors in very active conversations
• reminders are no longer sent twice
• a routine’s due date no longer shifts after a simple edit
• the Info tab no longer resets when shown in the Baby and Budget apps
• weight history is sorted from newest to oldest again
• allergen images show for all households
• an invalid email address is rejected with a clear message instead of an error
• account deletion goes through even with simultaneous activity

# New features

• Major Wellbeing redesign:
  • daily food diary: products and meals eaten, actual calories and macros against your goals
  • intermittent fasting tracking with protocols, phases and history
  • hydration tracking with a personalized water goal and an hourly chart
  • weight loss goal with an automatically adjusted calorie target
  • educational nutrition sheets for each indicator (roles, official guidelines, tips)
  • product search (household, history, barcode, web) with an automatic nutrition estimate
  • guided setup the first time you use it
  • workout tracking with activity images suited to your profile
• Smart reminders:
  • new reminder center to find and manage all your reminders in one place
  • automatic reminders on tasks with a due date, for each participant
  • default reminders you can set for each calendar event type
  • routine reminders at the time of your choice
  • reminders on recurring events, set again for each occurrence
  • manage reminders right in the task and event forms
  • Melia can now create reminders (“remind me to…”)
• Routines redesign:
  • check-off with a timestamped completion history you can view and edit
  • sorted by due date, with a progress bar and a celebration animation
  • “My routines” tab with a progress ring for each member
  • notification when a routine is assigned to you
• Recipe categories (Premium):
  • custom household categories, shown as tabs on the recipes screen
  • search and tag filter combined with categories
  • quickly create a category from the picker

# Improvements

• Calendar:
  • event types switch to emojis, visible on cards and schedules
  • option to show emojis in month and week views
• Notifications:
  • shortcut to the settings from the notification center
  • full reset of push notifications if something goes wrong
  • new preferences for task and routine assignments
  • turning on notifications is offered from the Reminders screen
• Melia:
  • activity indicator in the header while Melia is writing
  • more natural voice in voice mode
• Subscription and getting started:
  • reminder sent 48 hours before your trial ends, with a trial timeline on the plans screen
  • invite household members right from onboarding
• more compact profile menu
• confirmation before signing out

# Fixes

• Notifications:
  • task assignment notifications are sent again
  • duplicate notifications removed
• fixed signing up via an invitation and accepting an invitation from another household
• more reliable external calendar sync (malformed or canceled events no longer block the sync)
• fixed an occasional error when adding a recipe to the shopping list
• fixed restoring a subscription on a recreated account
• fixed access errors for household admins
• fixed creating routines with Melia

# New features

• Member permissions management:
  • access levels per app and per member
  • new permissions management sheet, with a warning when an edit in progress hasn’t been saved
  • a custom color for each member
  • edit the username of members identified by a username only, now supported in conversations too
• Security and personal data:
  • delete your account on your own
  • full self-service export of your household data
  • new security information page and details on where your data is hosted
  • shortcuts to your data in the settings
• Budgets:
  • manual import of OFX files
• Melia:
  • improved AI engine for more natural conversations
  • voice mode keeps working in the background
  • opens the detail screens related to an action directly

# Improvements

• Redesigned household management: a simpler screen, and unnecessary screens removed
• Notifications: mark as read with a simple swipe
• Server error messages shown in notifications

# Fixes

• Fixed deleting occurrences of a recurring event, which no longer worked
• Recurring occurrences now display correctly based on the local date
• Fixed the Melia dock being hidden by the keyboard on tablets
• Melia panel always available after navigating

# New features

• Melia, more present and smarter:
  • Melia widget right on the home screen
  • your conversation stays open when you minimize it, with a button to start a new one
  • Melia acts on the item you’re viewing and understands pronouns (“delete it”, “change this meal”)
  • richer recipe creation and editing (category and tags)
• Shared tasks: assign a task to several household members
• Shopping: group items by aisle
• Fridge: set the quantity and unit of each product, with a level gauge to track your stock at a glance
• Account: change your email address from the app
• Calendar: choose the account when connecting to Outlook

# Improvements

• Melia, more pleasant to use:
  • sliding panel on phones and side dock on tablets
  • redesigned Melia bar
• Real-time screen sync (trips, meals, vehicle service): instant updates, and the screen closes automatically if the item is deleted elsewhere
• Fridge: new compact view
• Shopping: improved screen behavior
• Recipes: the screen stays on in reading mode
• Improved notification center

# Fixes

• Fixed a crash when opening a notification
• Fixed the order of tasks on the home screen
• Removed a network error message that wrongly appeared when the app woke up
• Fixed a missing field when creating a provider
• Fixed the profile page display
• Any household admin can now activate the first subscription

# Improvements

• Handier notifications:
  • tapping a notification opens the related item directly (recipe, gift list, loyalty card)
  • notifications you’ve already read disappear automatically on all your devices
  • the notification center’s action menu is always available, even when it’s empty

# Fixes

• Notifications:
  • back to the notification center after opening a notification
  • fixed crashes when opening some notifications
  • bold text displayed correctly (extra quotation marks removed)
  • circle notifications now reach the right recipients
• Melia:
  • fixed a crash on free-text questions
  • the call panel is no longer hidden by the keyboard
• removed a double frame when creating a circle post

# New features

• Notification center:
  • find all your notifications grouped by date in a dedicated screen
  • a counter on the bell shows your unread notifications
  • tap a notification to go straight to the item it’s about (task, event, shopping item, gift, circle post…)
  • richer messages with their context (parent item, mentioned items highlighted)
  • turn your notifications on, or back on, right from the center
  • app icon badge synced with your unread notifications
• Quantities and units for shopping:
  • set the quantity and unit of each item on your shopping list
  • unlimited items on the shopping list for free accounts
• Customizable welcome messages

# Improvements

• Calendar:
  • open an event directly with a single tap
  • improved week widget on the home screen
  • improved calendar settings tab
• Home screen:
  • reorder your apps with a long press
  • Premium member banner
• Simpler sign-up
• Improved settings for Providers
• Improved gift lists screen
• Improved wine cellar screens
• New dedicated screen when a page isn’t found

# Fixes

• Fixed recipe import from the web
• Fixed the trash pickup display for weeks that span two months
• Fixed the add bar in the shopping list