Changelog

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v1.2.6

Personalized onboarding targets, a new Apple Watch complication, improved nutrition sync, and refreshed Ness branding.

New features and improvements:

  • More Personalized Onboarding: A redesigned setup now uses your goals, measurements, and activity level to calculate personalized calorie and macronutrient targets.
  • New Apple Watch Complication: View your sleep, recovery, and strain scores together on your watch face.
  • Improved Apple Health Nutrition Sync: Nutrition imports and exports now work more reliably, so you can use Ness in tandem with other apps.
  • Faster, Smoother Chat: Enjoy lower latency, faster responses, smoother message streaming, and more efficient web searches with improved limits.
  • Liquid Glass Chat Controls: Chat navigation and message controls now feature a polished Liquid Glass design on supported devices.
  • A Fresh Look: Performant is now Ness, with refreshed branding, sign-in, and onboarding.
  • Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Improved refresh behavior, syncing reliability, and overall stability.

v1.2.5

Strain Targets, a Home Screen widget, Lock Screen quick logs, and an Apple Watch companion app.

New features and improvements:

  • Strain Targets — See a personalized daily target range based on your recent recovery and strain, helping you gauge how much activity your body is ready for.
  • Home Screen Widget — View your latest scores at a glance without opening the app.
  • Lock Screen Quick Logs — Start logging food directly from your Lock Screen, making nutrition tracking faster and more convenient.
  • Apple Watch Companion App — Check your latest scores and trends directly from your wrist.
  • Improved Apple Health Nutrition Sync — Nutrition data now syncs more reliably between Ness and Apple Health, helping keep your meals and nutrient totals consistent across apps.
  • Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements — Improved app stability, responsiveness, and overall performance throughout Ness.

v1.2.4

Refreshed nutrition page, dark mode improvements, and email sign-in fixes.

  • Refreshed nutrition page. New Log Food button, improved nutrient breakdowns, and a cleaner layout for tracking your meals.
  • Dark mode improvements — smoother appearance across several screens in dark mode.
  • Fixed issues with email sign-in. Tapping a sign-in link from your email now opens the app directly, rather than redirecting.

v1.2.3

Redesigned sleep timeline with easy-to-read sleep stages, plus nutrition and performance fixes.

  • Redesigned sleep timeline with easy to read sleep stages
  • Fixed nutrition entries not properly showing loggedAt times in Chat
  • Other bug fixes and performance improvements

v1.2.2

Dark mode, a nutrition overhaul with per-ingredient macros, web search in AI Chat, and multiple bug fixes.

New features & improvements:

### Nutrition Rework

We updated nutrition to be more accurate and thorough, with per ingredient macros, detailed daily nutrients, and more. You can favorite foods, view recent entries, and edit them easily with AI. The database got an upgrade too, so now you have more higher quality options to choose from.

### Dark Mode

We've finally added dark mode! You can enable it in the new Themes section of settings. You can select light mode, dark mode, or automatically switch based on your system colors.

### Web Search

Ness chat is now more accurate, and will dynamically search online for up to date information.

  • Added custom user prompts in chat for greater customizability
  • Added a way to toggle memory on/off in chat
  • Added voice input to chat
  • Added metric analysis and log food presets in chat
  • Improved rendering of metrics when no data is present

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed dithering in visual gradients throughout Ness
  • Improved insight behavior when no sleep data is present
  • Improved metric cache behavior

v1.2.1

Made recent nutrition entries more accessible and easier to use, plus various bug fixes and performance enhancements.

  • Various bug fixes and performance enhancements
  • Made recent nutrition entries more accessible and easier to use

v1.2.0

Made the core Ness experience free. Refreshed Sleep, Recovery, and Strain views. Improved AI Chat and AI Nutrition.

  • Made the core Ness experience free, with Pro now focused on higher AI usage limits, longer-term trend history, and other advanced features
  • Refreshed Sleep, Recovery, and Strain views with richer metric cards, sparklines, breakdowns, and AI-powered insight summaries
  • Improved AI Chat with better markdown/table rendering, message copying, personalized suggestions, and cleaner streaming behavior
  • Updated AI Nutrition to be more stable and provide faster responses
  • Updated metrics drawer and cards

v1.1.3

Talk with Ness about your metrics in AI Chat. Get sleep notifications based on your sleep scores. Multiple bug fixes.

AI Chat

  • You can now talk with Ness about your metrics, trends, sleep, nutrition, and more!
  • Daily/nutrition summaries now open up within Chat, giving you more detailed insights.

Sleep Notifications

  • Get wake up, wind down, and bedtime notifications based on your sleep scores, recovery, and average wake up times.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed metrics sometimes not paginating properly
  • Fixed sparklines showing too many datapoints
  • Fixed welcome messages not properly updating
  • Fixed selected date refresh

v1.1.2

Added serving size selector for nutrition, updated birthday selector in settings, and various bug fixes.

  • Added serving size and number of servings selector for nutrition inputs
  • Updated birthday selector in settings
  • Bug fixes and performance enhancements

v1.1.1

New onboarding design, on-device voice capture for food logging, smoother page transitions, and nutritional goal improvements.

  • Introduced a new design for onboarding, with a cleaner, more guided first-time experience
  • Added on-device dictation for food logging, so voice capture is faster and more reliable
  • Improved voice logging flow and guardrails for better nutrition entry accuracy
  • Fixed page transition issues for smoother movement between screens
  • Added birthdays, height & weight, and other info for improved estimated nutritional goals
  • Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Updated nutrition icons for macronutrients and goals

v1.1.0

HUGE improvements to nutrition, a new Fitness page with workout summaries, and stress tracking updates in Home Tab.

### Nutrition

  • HUGE improvements to Nutrition!
  • Added nutritional insights. Based on your currently logged foods, you'll get suggestions on what to do next.
  • Additional info and follow-up questions in photo logs. Ness will ask you questions (optional) that dramatically improve estimates.
  • Added voice logging for nutrition
  • Redesign of food details to focus on simplicity
  • Redesign of nutrition page
  • Redesigned barcode scanning flow
  • Improved nutrition model accuracy

### Introducing: Fitness

  • Added the Fitness page, with workout summary, heart rate zone views, and more.
  • Added active calorie and step tracking

### Home Tab

  • Improved stress tracking and added stress notifications
  • Added variable greetings in the app when you first open it

We've also:

  • Redesigned the tab bar, and added new actions to the plus menu
  • Brought back top blur and fade
  • Added a profile button to make it easier to navigate to settings
  • Added a legend and info section to metrics cards
  • Slightly updated streaks
  • Fixed bugs and improved performance

v1.0.104

Resolved layout shift when switching pages, updated app icon, and added cross-fade page transitions.

  • Resolved layout shift when switching between pages
  • Updated app icon
  • Added cross-fade page transitions
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

v1.0.103

Improved authentication performance, faster page navigation, subscription cancellation status display, and version display in settings.

  • Improved authentication performance and reliability
  • Decreased latency for page navigation
  • Updated subscription view to display cancellation status
  • Added version display in settings tab
  • Fixed bug where existing users would briefly be shown onboarding instead of main app
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes