Updates Log | Housemindr

Version 1.5.0

July 2026

Appliance Vault, smarter guidance, and a home plan built around you

New feature Added Appliance Vault to keep appliance details, warranty dates, manuals, receipts, service history, and photos together, with camera-assisted label scanning for faster setup.
New feature Added an AI maintenance companion inside task details so you can ask follow-up questions with the task's context, resume past conversations, and include photos when useful.
New feature Added an exportable Home Report that brings important maintenance records and appliance information into one shareable document.
New feature Added an optional home profile during onboarding, including property features such as pools and spas, to provide more relevant starter tasks and seasonal recommendations.
New feature Expanded AI Assist so a photo of a maintenance issue can become a structured task suggestion that is ready to review.
New feature Added multiple-room support for tasks so one maintenance job can be linked to every room it affects.
Improvement Improved task guidance with a clearer generate, save, and reopen flow for step-by-step tutorials and relevant videos.
Improvement Expanded Household Members with assignment counts, per-person current and completed task lists, clearer help, and owner controls for managing access.
Improvement Made Home and Tasks easier to scan, with a recurring-only Board Brief filter, clearer appliance access, and refreshed home-progress visuals.
Bug fix Fixed household access cleanup, appliance scanner reopening, and appliance manual and photo saving so these flows remain reliable across repeated use.

Version 1.4.0

June 2026

Quick Add, smarter templates, and better household coordination

New feature Added Quick Add so a single sentence can become a task, with fast controls for due dates, repeat schedules, rooms, items, assignees, AI drafting, and dictation.
New feature Grouped starter templates by maintenance category and season, including new checks for leaks, drains, fire extinguishers, pests, damp and mould, outdoor lights, insurance, and warranty records.
New feature Expanded Household Members with assignment counts, current and completed task lists for each person, FAQ help, and owner controls to remove members.
Improvement Added task-entry preferences so Add Task can open Quick Add, Templates, Guided, or Custom first, depending on how each household prefers to work.
Improvement Improved Home and Tasks responsiveness by opening task creation faster, deferring heavier dashboard content, and refreshing hosted visuals with clearer home-care artwork.
Bug fix Removing a household member now also revokes matching pending invitations so shared-household access is cleaned up consistently.

Version 1.3.0

June 2026

Custom progress, clearer task planning, and recurring-task fixes

New feature Customize the Home progress card by choosing exactly three totals from overdue, recurring, completed, priority, scheduled, paused, and other useful task metrics.
Improvement Refreshed Home with clearer progress and home-health visuals plus compact task cards that make dates, locations, status, and priority easier to scan.
Improvement Reorganized the task board so recurring and one-time work stay together by urgency, with tappable summary shortcuts and simpler sections.
Improvement Expanded recurring-task details with clearer current-cycle status, completion totals, creation dates, next-due dates, and pause, resume, archive, and restore actions.
Bug fix Corrected current-cycle progress and missed-cycle counts for recurring tasks that already have completion history.
Bug fix Tasks created from Home Map now return to the map, while newly created tasks wait until the task list finishes scrolling before highlighting.

Version 1.2.0

June 2026

Recurring tasks, task analytics, AI insight, and guided creation

Recurring tasks now stay active after each completion and build a lasting history of dates, notes, expenses, and household activity.
Added controls to pause, resume, archive, and restore recurring tasks, with clearer next-due dates, current-cycle status, missed-cycle tracking, and a dedicated recurring-tasks view.
Added Task Analytics with activity trends, completion events, current workload, and a clear comparison of recurring and one-time tasks.
Added AI Task Insight, including a focused summary of what needs attention, practical recommendations, monthly usage allowances, and sharing with household members or other apps.
Added a guided step-by-step task creator that walks through the task, schedule, owner, location, and final review while keeping templates and the full custom editor available.
Improved Home, Tasks, and Impact Ledger progress reporting so recurring completion history and missed cycles are represented more clearly.
Polished Premium with clearer founding-offer pricing and a new unlock celebration after a successful purchase or restore.
Prepared Android release configuration for version 1.2.0 with build number 12.

Version 1.1.0

June 2026

Premium, reports, ads, offline awareness, and release polish

Added Housemindr Premium plan support with Google Play Billing for monthly, annual, and lifetime access, including purchase verification, restore handling, entitlement tracking, and founding-offer support.
Added Premium upgrade surfaces, contextual prompts, plan comparison, ad-free entitlement handling, and localized Premium copy across supported languages.
Added an ad-supported free experience with native and banner ad placements, consent-aware AdMob configuration, hosted ads.txt/app-ads.txt files, and matching privacy disclosures.
Added Premium maintenance reports with PDF and CSV export/share options for yearly logbooks and home records.
Added an Impact Ledger screen with completed value, open opportunity, carbon-reduction estimates, category breakdowns, task pressure, and maintenance coverage insights.
Improved Tasks with richer tabbed planning views, timeline access, calendar/care-orbit organization, new feature badges, and clearer task filtering.
Added offline connectivity messaging so cloud refreshes, sign-in, and save actions explain when a connection is required.
Refreshed Android launcher and Play Store icon assets, added updated Play Console screenshots, and expanded Play release operations documentation for ads, billing, privacy, and data-safety checks.
Prepared Android release configuration for version 1.1.0 with build number 11.

Version 1.0.8

June 2026

Maintenance contacts, task timeline, and release visibility

Added Maintenance Contacts so households can save trusted plumbers, electricians, appliance repair providers, and other home service contacts in one place.
Added phone contact import and optional syncing so selected providers can be connected with device contacts when users choose.
Added a full-screen task timeline with quick month jumps, plus room badges on timeline tasks when a room is linked.
Added a What's New prompt for the latest app improvements, with persistent seen-state tracking for version 1.0.8.
Added an Updates Log button in the Help & Onboarding settings card so users can quickly access the release history and see what's changed in each version.
Improved language selection with clearer flag labels alongside supported languages.
Added the maintenance contacts artwork to bundled runtime assets.
Prepared Android release configuration for version 1.0.8 with build number 9.

Version 1.0.7

May 2026

Voice task drafting, smarter AI form fill, and release asset updates

Added speech-to-task drafting so users can dictate a maintenance task, review the transcript, and let Housemindr fill the structured task draft.
Added a long-press shortcut and contextual hint on the central create button for starting a voice task draft quickly.
Improved AI task drafts with due date, room, item, assignee, and personal or household scope suggestions based on the home's existing context.
Updated the Create Task flow so AI drafts can prefill linked items, rooms, assigned household members, task scope, and clearer text fields.
Updated backend task-draft generation, analytics source tracking, permissions, and privacy policy language for voice transcripts and microphone use.
Refreshed hosted landing visuals and Google Play screenshot assets, including the Home Map slide and tablet artwork used on the public site.
Prepared Android release configuration for version 1.0.7 with build number 8.

Version 1.0.6

May 2026

Home map, household sharing, feedback, and multilingual polish

Added the Home Map so households can see maintenance tasks on a visual house plan, filter by urgency, open room work, and assign unroomed tasks more naturally.
Improved household sharing with member invitations, pending invite states, ownership transfer, shared-household leaving, and clearer Settings entry points.
Added in-app feedback from Settings, backed by an authenticated cloud endpoint and transactional support email delivery.
Expanded localization across the app and hosted site, including translated app metadata, localized landing pages, language switching, sitemap, and robots support.
Refined dashboard planning with the task care orbit, Home Map prompts, updated navigation icons, reusable app controls, and clearer task/calendar surfaces.
Updated Google Play screenshots, hosted landing visuals, release assets, and Android release configuration for version 1.0.6 with build number 7.

Version 1.0.5

May 2026

Guided setup, reminders, and release polish

Expanded the guided first-run experience and app tour so new households can understand the key setup and maintenance flows more quickly.
Improved reminder handling across upcoming and overdue tasks, including notification routing, channel behavior, and web fallback scheduling.
Refined dashboard, task details, calendar, room, item, settings, and rewards screens for clearer day-to-day maintenance planning.
Strengthened AI-assisted guidance and tutorial flows with safer service handling, content reporting support, and clearer helper states.
Updated translated app copy, localized store metadata, public support pages, screenshots, and Play Store release assets for this release.
Prepared the Android release configuration for version 1.0.5 with build number 6.

Version 1.0.4

May 2026

Localization, reminders, and planning polish

Added app localization support for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian.
Centralized translated copy for navigation, settings, rewards, task planning, AI guidance, and reminder text.
Added a localization check script so new user-facing text can be kept aligned across supported languages.
Improved task reminder scheduling with upcoming and overdue notifications, Android notification permission support, notification channels, web fallback scheduling, and notification tap routing back into the app.
Refined Home and Tasks planning surfaces, including due-calendar behavior, task timeline presentation, dashboard guidance, and configurable screen sections.
Updated Expo dependencies and configuration for the current release candidate.

Version 1.0.3

April 2026

Release readiness and AI safety improvements

Moved AI guide generation and tutorial search toward the Housemindr cloud backend so provider keys are not shipped in the app bundle.
Added AI content flagging and review queue support for reporting generated guidance that needs human attention.
Added official link configuration for privacy, terms, account/data deletion, and Play Store destinations.
Improved Firebase Analytics event hygiene and Crashlytics diagnostics wording for release review and data-safety alignment.
Updated Settings, onboarding, and Start Afresh copy so reset behavior is clearer and separated from full account deletion.
Polished dashboard, task details, room/item editing, reward toasts, mascot artwork, and Play Store release assets.

Version 1.0.2

April 2026

Signed Android build and policy verification

Prepared and verified a signed Android App Bundle for Play Console internal testing.
Integrated Firebase Crashlytics release tasks and documented the remaining test-crash verification gate.
Audited the merged Android release manifest to confirm sensitive unused permissions were absent.
Confirmed deprecated direct Gemini and YouTube provider access strings were absent from the release JavaScript bundle.
Updated public legal and support pages to cover analytics, diagnostics, AI guide inputs, YouTube search, local task photos, and account/data deletion.

Version 1.0.1

April 2026

Navigation, settings, and setup refinements

Refined the main tab navigation layout, bottom tab spacing, create button placement, and Android navigation bar appearance.
Updated launcher icons and branding artwork for a more consistent product identity across the app and store materials.
Improved onboarding and Settings descriptions to make home setup, reminder preferences, account controls, and reset options easier to understand.
Added and refined the Start Afresh reset flow for clearing saved app setup data while keeping the sign-in account intact.
Improved room icon utilities, seasonal spotlight helpers, task category handling, and task impact estimates.

Version 1.0.0

April 2026

Initial Housemindr foundation

Established the core home maintenance tracker with recurring tasks, due dates, priorities, completion states, and task history.
Added rooms and household items so maintenance work can stay connected to the real places and things it belongs to.
Added starter templates, custom task creation, categories, favorites, notes, expenses, and local task-photo support.
Introduced AI-assisted task drafting, generated maintenance guidance, and tutorial discovery for jobs that need extra context.
Added Home Health, impact tracking, rewards, XP, badges, milestones, and workshop ranks to make routine upkeep feel visible.
Published the initial Housemindr hosting pages for the public landing page, privacy policy, account/data deletion, and not-found states.