Updates Log | Housemindr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.