Timeline

• Improved CSV auto-refresh reliability while content is playing
• Added better detection for updated photos and videos using the same URL
• Improved support for signed URLs, redirects, and additional CSV formats
• Strengthened offline caching and recovery from failed downloads
• Fixed issues where active media could be removed during cache cleanup
• Improved playlist switching without requiring you to exit and restart playback
• Added clearer status indicators for refresh and connectivity problems
• Improved video playback recovery and overall stability

This update improves weather-aware scheduling.

• Rain and snow restrictions are now applied correctly alongside hot and cold temperature settings, so activities follow all of your selected weather preferences.

This update expands Mini Quests to iPhone and improves routines across devices.

• Editing a quest with multiple times of day keeps every scheduled part in sync.
• Nudges remain pending until they are actually shown on the active kid screen.
• Improved speed of completed quests

• New Kapal+ Advanced Tools for Frigate administrators: inspect service logs, visually edit your configuration with validation and YAML preview, and create, export, or restore protected local configuration backups.
• Optional automatic configuration backups help protect your Frigate setup.
• Live Grid Previews now offer Snapshots, Balanced, and Maximum frame-rate options while respecting each camera’s configured detect rate.
• Home Assistant notifications can open a live camera, Reviews, a specific review or event, or full recording playback. Ready-to-use links and templates are available in Camera Settings.
• Birdseye now falls back to regularly refreshed snapshots when live video is unavailable.

BUG FIXES & TWEAKS

• Improved playback of protected recordings through authenticated and custom-header connections.
• Review previews now loop automatically, while full recordings continue to play at normal speed.
• Improved Timeline continuity, recording synchronization, seeking, and playback recovery.
• Live Grid Previews recover more reliably and behave better on cellular connections and in Low Data Mode.
• Improved notification navigation, including server switching, repeated notification taps, and clearer errors for invalid links.
• Improved request retry behavior, connection reuse, cancellation, and background cleanup.
• Removed unnecessary status badges from Live Grid tiles for a cleaner appearance.
• Additional video playback, accessibility, stability, and reliability improvements.

A few quiet display fixes so the tree is telling the truth.

• Weather for a new place no longer shows the last city's forecast if the update fails.
• Repeating calendar events stay as separate rows when you look several days ahead.
• Reminders due today with no time stay as Today instead of 12:00 AM, and they don't turn overdue until the day is over.
• The collapsed schedule no longer says nothing is left today when Calendar isn't connected, and it no longer counts tomorrow's events as today's.

This update makes image preparation, cropping, and exporting more reliable.

• Switching source modes now preserves artwork and crop adjustments.
• Improved crop-editor availability and feedback when an image cannot be imported.
• Exports are now created safely without removing existing assets after a failed attempt.
• Your working session is restored after closing or quitting the app.

This update improves writing, analysis, and large-vault reliability.

• Emoji and other complex characters no longer interrupt typing.
• Your own Prompt, Follow-up, and Response lines remain regular draft content.
• Long drafts are fully analyzed instead of being silently truncated.
• The Map remains available in large vaults containing Fifteeen notes.
• Improved sentiment analysis for longer entries.

This update makes the poster display more reliable when nothing is playing.

• The screen stays on Connecting until recently added artwork is ready, instead of going black.
• The display stays awake while posters are showing.
• An expired Plex token now asks you to reconnect instead of showing a generic server error.

2.0.1

• Fixed live view freezing or falling back to snapshots on cameras that
stream video without an audio track, including many Hikvision models.
• Fixed the video from a doorbell model appearing stretched because of
its unusual aspect ratio.
• Live Grid Previews can now show real motion: choose Snapshots,
Balanced, or Smooth under Camera Settings, with a separate switch for
cellular.
• Saved server addresses are preserved when reconnecting or updating.
• Kapal no longer sends repeated PTZ requests to cameras that don't
support it.
• Playback diagnostics are clearer and more accurate.
• Smaller fixes and refinements throughout.

Improved reliability for syncing feeds.

This update makes unattended signage more reliable:

• CSV Auto-Check now detects and applies changes while playback stays open.
• Changes to item order, descriptions, media type, and photo duration are now recognized—even when media URLs stay the same.
• New media is downloaded and validated before the playlist changes.
• Updated playlists begin from the top after the current loop finishes.
• Invalid or unavailable media no longer replaces a working cached playlist.
• Improved background and resume behavior, overlapping refresh protection, offline caching, and media recovery.

This is the largest update I’ve ever released for any of my apps.

Hearthboard has been a passion project of mine for over a year, and I’ve put an incredible amount of care into this release. Several major parts of the widget experience have been fully reworked, with more consistent text sizes, spacing, padding, controls, media presentation, and layouts across every supported widget size.

This update also introduces Home Assistant support, including compatible controls, sensors, cameras, automations, and home-energy widgets alongside the existing HomeKit experience.

Other improvements include:

• More consistent HomeKit and Home Assistant widgets
• Refined Weather, Calendar, Clock, Reminders, music, photo, and camera layouts
• Improved camera fit, fill, and saved framing
• Clearer status colors and more glanceable smart-home information
• A cleaner widget picker and starter-dashboard experience
• Many smaller visual, interaction, and reliability improvements throughout the app

My goal has been to make Hearthboard feel calmer, clearer, more cohesive, and more polished in everyday use.

I’m incredibly thankful for the warm reception Hearthboard has received. Thank you to everyone who has downloaded it, shared feedback, or made it part of their home.

If you need help or have an idea for what Hearthboard should do next, open Dashboard Settings and use the Support section to view the roadmap, suggest features, or contact me directly. I’d love to hear from you.

This update makes HA Monitor easier to scan and more useful day to day.

• Redesigned Overview with clearer Home Assistant health summaries
• Simplified System view focused on storage, backups, cloud status, and actionable problems
• Technical system details are now organized in an expandable section
• Improved text fitting and alignment across iPhone and iPad
• Calmer, more consistent colors throughout the app
• Reliability, performance, and diagnostic improvements

Kapal 2.0 is the biggest update I’ve shipped, arriving as Kapal begins its second year.

When I released the first version, I hoped a few people would find it useful. Your reviews, bug reports, ideas, and messages have shaped it ever since. I’ve spent countless hours refining the experience across iOS and iPadOS, and I’m incredibly proud—and genuinely happy—to see how far Kapal has come. Thank you.

A BRAND-NEW VIDEO ENGINE
• The Universal Video Engine streams over MSE, like Frigate’s dashboard.
• In testing, it starts faster and has been more reliable than the Classic engine.
• Away from home, it can begin with a lighter stream and step up in quality as the connection allows.
• It recovers from brief Wi-Fi interruptions.
• Try it under Settings › Support. It remains opt-in while feedback is gathered.
• Both the Universal and Classic engines support Frigate 0.18’s new live protocol.

READY FOR FRIGATE 0.18
• A new Motion lane reveals movement that was not tracked as an object and opens the matching recording.
• Smarter stream detection recognizes likely sub-streams in common Frigate configurations.
• Supported detection, recording, and snapshot toggles now persist across server restarts.
• For Kapal+ owners, a new GenAI settings page explains provider status, roles, requirements, and setup.
• Playback diagnostics can be reviewed and shared without video, snapshots, or credentials.

A FULL IPAD REDESIGN
Major screens now adapt to the available space instead of stretching the iPhone layout:
• Live video with controls, settings, and activity beside it.
• Side-by-side Events, Review, Motion, and selected details.
• Timeline layouts built for portrait and landscape.
• Adaptive camera grids and sidebar navigation.
• Stage Manager and multiple windows.
• Keyboard shortcuts and pointer interactions.

A COMPLETELY NEW APPLE WATCH APP
Kapal now comes to your wrist. Browse cameras and saved servers, check recent activity and snapshots, open supported live views, and add snapshot complications to your watch face.

TIMELINE, SETTINGS & SYSTEM
• Timeline has graduated from beta, gained a full-screen presentation, and now finds footage using lightweight recording data—dramatically reducing data use, especially on cellular.
• Settings and System have been redesigned for clarity.
• Connection quality, stream health, reconnects, stalls, storage, and GPU temperature are easier to understand.
• Reconnect behavior is smarter when a server is temporarily unreachable.
• Brand-new users now receive a guided tour before connecting their first server.

NEW IN KAPAL+
• Motion Search: draw a box and find every moment something moved there.
• Motion Search Presets: save a region and its tuning, then run it over any time range.
• Ask Your Cameras: ask what happened and receive a streaming answer from Frigate’s GenAI.
• Review Activity Summaries: see activity by object and camera, plus a separate AI report of possible concerns.
• Config Profiles: switch Home, Away, Vacation, or any profile you created in Frigate.
• Cases: browse the new Exports screen, organize related clips, and download a complete incident.
• Smart Location Switching: save home and remote addresses and let Kapal choose the reachable one.
• Apple Watch: included as a new Kapal+ experience.

These join Timeline, Multiple Servers, Automatic Failover, Latest Activity widgets, Health Alerts, and PTZ Camera Control. Every new Kapal+ feature in 2.0 is included for existing owners at no extra cost. Thank you for supporting independent development.

There are also dozens of fixes and refinements throughout the app, many inspired directly by your reports.

Please keep them coming. If something doesn’t work, reach out through Support. If you have an idea, submit it to the in-app Roadmap, vote on what matters, and help shape what comes next.

• Rooms and devices now use richer Home Assistant registry information, including floors, areas, manufacturers, models, firmware versions, parent devices, and connected hubs where available.
• Added read-only Home Health details for Home Assistant Repairs, integration setup failures, backup status, and available updates.
• Improved camera compatibility with automatic playback fallbacks between HLS, MJPEG, and authenticated snapshots.
• Energy dashboards now use sources configured in Home Assistant or meters explicitly confirmed by you. Mikaze will no longer silently guess which sensors represent whole-home energy usage.
• Improved live updates with a shared Home Assistant connection, heartbeat monitoring, request timeouts, and automatic reconnection.
• Optional features now fail gracefully on older or restricted Home Assistant installations without interrupting normal device loading.
• Improved cache recovery, server switching, area images, registry refreshes, and compatibility with reverse proxies and remote-access URLs.

This release also includes numerous decoding, performance, and reliability fixes across devices, widgets, routines, helpers, and Home Assistant state updates.

Sandar’s video system has been rebuilt around an all-new Universal Video Engine.

• Adds live-view support for Frigate NVR 0.18, including its MSE streaming transport
• Starts compatible camera streams faster and recovers more intelligently from interruptions
• Automatically selects between main streams, substreams, and snapshot fallbacks
• Remembers successful playback routes for quicker future connections
• Improves compatibility across more camera, codec, and go2rtc configurations
• Scales video quality and decoder usage more reliably across grid, full-screen, Auto-Rotate, Birdseye, and Photo Screensaver viewing

This update also includes general stability improvements and fixes for cameras that appeared connected without displaying video.

• Redesigned the Apple Watch workout experience with clearer step progress, daily goal tracking, distance, pace, and streamlined controls.
• Added a detailed workout recap after completing a walk.
• Improved Apple Watch and iPhone workout syncing, including Live Activity support.
• Made performance improvements and fixed minor bugs throughout the app.

Thank you to all our new users for supporting Daily Petal!

Have an idea or found a bug? Submit feature requests and bug reports through the Roadmap in Settings, or contact Support if you need anything.

• Goal reminders now include your remaining steps and an estimated walking time based on your latest activity.
• Tapping a Live Activity now opens directly to your active walk and stays there.
• Daily Petal now defaults to your active walk whenever a workout is in progress.
• Walks can now stay synchronized between your iPhone and Apple Watch, including progress and workout controls.
• Improved workout reconnection, route saving, and overall reliability.

We improved reliability, offline handling, and overall app performance.

• Added native support for Home Assistant’s Energy Dashboard
• View configured solar, grid, battery, and individual device energy sources
• Improved energy history, live power flows, and daily usage calculations
• Enhanced support for external statistics and renamed sensors
• Automatic energy sensor detection remains available as a fallback
• Updated Energy widgets, settings, and overall reliability

Thank you for using Mikaze!

Improved walking-time estimates in goal reminders so they use your remaining steps and adapt to your walking pace. Also fixed an issue where the app could remain on a previously viewed date instead of returning to the current day after reopening.

A more useful, dependable desk clock—built around your day.

• New Focus timer: Choose a 15–60 minute session and watch the garden gradually blossom as you focus. Sessions can be named, paused, resumed, and restored after relaunching. Focus is included with Your Day, including for existing purchasers.

• Location-aware time and weather: The clock, date, weather, agenda, and reminders now follow your selected location and its time zone.

• Smarter calendar and reminder handling: All-day events display correctly, permissions behave more naturally, and changes made in System Settings refresh automatically.

• More realistic garden movement: Falling petals and leaves now emerge naturally from each tree’s unique canopy. Snow, fallen leaves, and petal preferences are also preserved more reliably.

• Refined previews and settings: Visual previews no longer affect real weather or garden history, and Settings are roomier, clearer, and easier to navigate.

This update also includes reliability improvements throughout Sakura Schedule.

Biru now has a full Apple Watch app. Log a drink from your wrist, pick from your quick-add sizes, and check your week — everything syncs to your iPhone and Apple Health automatically.

You can also add Biru to any watch face. The large complication shows the same rising water as the app, with today's total in the middle.

Also in this update:
• Tap a size on any widget to log it without opening the app
• Press and hold a widget to choose which sizes it offers
• Fixed drinks logged on Apple Watch not reaching iPhone
• Fixed your goal and units not always reaching the watch
• Fixed week rings clipping on smaller iPhones
• The watch now tells you when a drink would pass your daily limit

This update gives families more control over quests, schedules, rewards, and the way Mini Quests looks.

• Organize quests more easily with an All view, child and weekday filters, and smooth drag-and-drop reordering.
• Set when Morning, Afternoon, and Evening quests appear.
• Choose between rewards for each quest or one flat daily payout when all scheduled quests are completed.
• Add or remove money from a child's balance and keep a clear transaction history with a reason for every change.
• Automatically match your device's appearance or manually choose Light or Dark Mode in the parent menu.
• Enjoy a cleaner single-child layout, larger quest icons, and progress totals that always match the quests currently shown.
• Get clearer parent controls, larger passcode tap targets, safer confirmations for major changes, and additional reliability improvements.