Changelog

Public release notes for AwareFlow. Newest at the top. Each entry is a short narrative plus a few notes about what changed in that version.

For the longer story, read Why AwareFlow exists or the founder's story. For the technical overview, see How It Works.

1.0.4 · In TestFlight · April 24, 2026 (Build 5237)

Testing now, App Store review next

Twelve small changes from a real TestFlight test run, plus two follow-ups. Less confusion, clearer numbers, and a Journey calendar that acknowledges every day you showed up instead of only days with activity counts. Versions 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 built toward this consolidated patch; testers move straight from 1.0.1 on the App Store to 1.0.4 when it reaches review.

• Your Journey calendar now marks every day you ran a session, not only days with activity counts. Showing up is the practice; the calendar honors that.
• Today's counts land on the Insights Today tab from Day 1. No more placeholders while the Week tab shows real numbers.
• Your History totals now match everywhere. When you tap "Not right?" or correct a session at the end, the History numbers update with the rest of the app.
• "Ask Coach" and "Start Listening" shortcuts in Spotlight and Siri Suggestions now actually open the app.
• "Max per hour" in the Awareness Reminders step reads as "Unlimited" when left at zero, instead of "0 / hr".
• "Daily Awareness Intention" is now described as your daily pace for showing up, not a cap on what we notice.
• "Reading Your Data" is rewritten to describe state labels (Noticing, Productive, Pushing, Resting) instead of grades and scores.
• "How Listening Works" adds the plus and minus correction buttons and the end-of-session accuracy check-in to its instructions.
• Lifetime purchase copy says "One time. Yours for life." instead of a breakeven calculation.
• Revisiting the Awareness Profile flow now lands on a single-screen editor, not the first-time setup wizard again.
• First Session milestone reconciles from your real session history on app launch, so Journey no longer stalls on "Start your first listening session" after you already have.
• The Nudge Method picker is split into two sections so you see what you can change (Banner or Flash) separately from what always happens (the haptic tap that plays with every detection).
• The trial now runs for 14 days (previously 3), so the correlation engine has room to surface its first useful observation before any paywall shows up.

Website updates · April 24, 2026

Site only, no app build

Another round of site work between the April 20 pass and today. Nothing that changes how the app behaves; entirely copy, navigation, and polish.

• The /story page was rewritten around the founder's actual narrative voice. Marketing intros, pullquotes, and emoji feature lists were removed. Credentials relocated to /press; research and grant aspirations relocated to /research-roadmap.
• The /accessibility "Our Approach" section was shortened to one sentence plus a link to the founder's story, so the accessibility page stops carrying a story that has its own home now.
• The site header restored the wordmark lockup in both light and dark mode, and now compresses as you scroll instead of staying oversized.
• Page title tags across the site were aligned onto a single middle-dot separator convention, matching the newest changelog template.
• A Changelog link joins FAQ and Support in the footer. Support gained a short "Recent updates" section pointing here. Link-preview metadata was tightened for cleaner shares.
• Apple and Swift trademark attribution added to the footer.
• Outbound external references now flow through small editorial pages rather than sending readers straight to third-party sites, so context, disclaimers, and adjacent resources travel with the link.

Website updates · April 20, 2026

Site only, no app build

A series of small website passes catching the marketing language up to the shipping app and adding a couple of pages where the app's promises needed a longer-form home.

• "Neural Engine" language restored across the homepage, How It Works, and FAQ now that the app uses Apple's .cpuAndNeuralEngine compute path for both audio detection and AI coaching.
• Apple trademark symbols (Apple, iPhone, iPad, iOS, App Store, Apple Intelligence, Face ID) added on first mention across every English page, with the standard Apple credit line in the site footer.
• New /methodology page explaining how detection accuracy is measured, what those numbers do and don't mean, and what bench-validation work is planned.
• New /press page collecting one-paragraph boilerplate, founder bio, press contact, and Apple-compliant App Store badge assets.

1.0.1 · April 20, 2026 (Build 5234)

Live on the App Store

The first version on the App Store. Several months of polish on top of the V1.0 surface, with care taken across language, accessibility, and visual consistency on every screen.

• VoiceOver reads every screen correctly. Voice Control works across all core tasks. Dark mode contrast bumped so secondary text is readable. Dynamic Type scales without clipping or overlap.
• Over 60 user-facing strings rewritten. "Detected" became "noticed." "Goals" became "intentions." "Streak at risk" became "Check in today." Green removed from trend indicators, since a downward trend is not inherently good or bad.
• Feeling and context tags rebuilt from BFRB, misophonia, and tic-disorder research instead of assumptions. Tags now reflect what the literature actually shows triggers unconscious habits.
• History promoted to its own tab and rebuilt around feelings and context as the primary display. Counts hidden behind a tap. Renamed from Reflection Journal to Session History.
• Learn tab written end to end (Awareness Profiles, Session History, privacy and data, calibration, nudges) and converted to the same grouped style Settings uses.
• Information popups standardized: one idea per card, two to four short lines, no technical jargon, no optimization language, no instructional pressure.
• Honest about imperfection: the app says upfront that it will sometimes miss sounds and sometimes notice ones that were not there. Manual logging is awareness in its purest form, not a workaround.
• Dynamic Island and Live Activity show your current count and elapsed time during listening. Notification sounds during listening are silenced by default so the app stays invisible to people around you.
• iPad parity: with no Taptic Engine, iPad now plays a soft system sound in place of the haptic tap and tells you up front so nothing about nudges is a surprise.
• Awareness Profiles consolidated as the single source of truth for what gets noticed and how (confirmation prompt frequency and feeling-prompt mode now live on the active profile).

1.0 · March 2026

Feature complete

The first version where everything works end to end. Listen, log, learn, repeat. No placeholders, no fake data, no buttons that go nowhere.

• Two production machine-learning models (sniff, throat clearing), both running entirely on your device. Multi-stage verification reduces false positives without sacrificing real detections; you can confirm or dismiss any noticed sound, and the app adjusts from your feedback.
• Pattern insights look at multiple factors that might relate to your patterns (time of day, day of week, how you were feeling, what was going on around you). Connections are surfaced only when there is real statistical confidence behind them.
• Guided calibration that teaches the app what your environment sounds like. Multiple calibrations for different environments improve accuracy over time.
• Awareness Profiles: customizable listening configurations for different parts of your day. Set an intention, choose how you want to be nudged, pick a schedule, save it.
• Three pricing options (monthly, yearly, one-time lifetime). Free tier gets full sniff detection, seven days of history, and basic insights; premium adds additional habit models, extended history, more calibration environments, and deeper pattern analysis.
• Multi-stage onboarding that walks through who you are, why you are here, how the app works, and what it needs from you. Each screen has the same layout. Back navigation works throughout. Nothing skipped without your choice.
• Privacy is structural, not policy: no audio is ever recorded, stored, or transmitted. The microphone stream is analyzed in real time on your device and immediately discarded. App Store privacy label reads "No Data Collected."
• Five accent themes with dark mode as the flagship experience. Every visual value comes from a single design system. One element animates at a time.

Beta Testing · December 2025 to April 2026

Five months of real-device testing

Five months on real devices, in real environments, with real habits. This is where the app went from working to trustworthy.

• December 2025: detection pipeline hardened for reliability; intelligent throttling added so notifications do not buzz constantly; first round of real-world accuracy testing.
• January 2026: Insights tab went from placeholder to a real surface for understanding patterns. iPad support added. Lock Screen widgets for quick status checks.
• February 2026: the Gentler System philosophy was formalized and applied across the app and website. Every screen reviewed for language that judged, counted, or pressured. "Detected" became "noticed." "Tracking" became "listening." Rest maintains your practice; taking a break is not failure.
• March 2026: trust and core loop finalized. Quality polish across every screen. Feedback system rebuilt so confirming and dismissing detections actually teaches the app over time. Sensitivity controls made transparent.
• April 2026: accessibility audit, final language pass, real-device crash fixes, App Store submission preparation. Context signals replaced with research-backed tags. History screen redesigned around feelings instead of counts.

Early Development · January to November 2025

Foundation

Eleven months of building the foundation. Research into habit reversal training and misophonia. Machine-learning model training and iteration. Audio pipeline architecture. Privacy-first design decisions that would shape every feature that followed. The provisional patent was filed in November 2025.

By the end of this period, the app could hear a sniff, record that it happened, and show you when it happened. That was enough to prove the idea worked, and enough to keep going.

What's Next

Additional habit models are in development. Apple Watch companion mode is designed. Cross-device sync is planned for a future version.

This page updates with each App Store release. If you have feedback or questions, visit Support.