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What's new in NestBoard.

A plain-English record of what we've shipped, day by day. Newest at the top.

October 26, 2026

Kiosk screens can now stay on the dashboard, and we email you when a calendar stops syncing.

  • If a calendar you connected stops syncing for about six hours, whether it is a Google or Outlook account or a calendar link, NestBoard now emails the adults in your household once, with the quick fix and a button to Calendar Sync. We stop emailing as soon as it is working again.
  • Kiosk screens can now stay on the dashboard: set the idle timeout to Never. Under Settings, then Kiosk Only, turn off Go idle when nobody's around. The Moon button and night dimming still work. Your tablet's own screen timeout still applies.
  • The Week view on the Chores page now looks ahead: use the forward arrow to see up to 4 weeks of repeating chores coming up, with each day in the lane of the person it falls to.
  • When you turn on A grown-up checks kids' chores and your household has no PIN, NestBoard now asks whether to set one, since kids can approve their own chores on a shared device without it. Turning the setting on still works without a PIN.
Version 1.0.186
October 25, 2026

A NestBoard widget for the iPhone home screen, food preferences for sitters and kiosk screens, your store price on the trial banner, and a quick way to get NestBoard on your phone.

  • On iPhone, there is now a NestBoard widget for your home screen. It shows what is on today and the next 7 days of upcoming events, so you can see the week without opening the app. Tap an event and NestBoard opens to that day. Touch and hold the home screen, tap the plus, and search for NestBoard.
  • Sitters and caregivers can now see each person’s food preferences on the Family page, so they know what is safe to serve. They can look but not change them. The same goes for a kitchen display in kiosk mode. Adults on their own phone still edit as before.
  • During a free trial, the trial banner and the lock screen now show the price in your own store’s currency, the same one the Subscription card shows. If the store does not answer, the line is simply left out.
  • If you are the only person signed in and NestBoard is on just one screen, the dashboard now has a card in your first few days: Put NestBoard on your phone too. On a computer or tablet it shows a QR code you can scan with your phone camera, plus links to the App Store and Google Play. Close it with its x and it stays gone.
Version 1.0.185
October 25, 2026

Food preferences for each person, kids can rate meals, put back a medication Robin deleted, and Party pictures.

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  • There is a new Party group in the picture choices for chores and routine steps, with a party popper, a birthday cake, a gift and balloons. Handy for birthday and party prep. Tap the square next to a chore title and scroll to Party.
  • When Robin deletes a medication, an adult can now undo it. Tap Undo under Robin's reply, or go to Settings, Privacy & Data, Recently deleted by Robin, and tap Put back. The medication comes back with its schedule and supply count. Its dose history stays deleted, so check whether today's doses were already given before giving the next one.
  • We keep a copy of a medication Robin deleted for 30 days, then delete it. It is emptied as soon as you put the medication back, and goes right away if the person or the household is removed. A medication you delete yourself in the app is not kept.
  • Kids can now rate a meal. After a child taps Mark cooked on the Meals page, the same How was it? row appears with a thumbs up and a thumbs down. A kid's thumbs down is a note that the kids were not fans, not a ban: the dish can still be suggested, and Robin may mention that the kids were not fans. A kid's thumbs up counts as a small plus. A grown-up's rating on the same meal still wins, so a grown-up's thumbs down still means it is not suggested again. Guests and sitters cannot rate. A child's rating is kept with their profile and is deleted with it.
  • Each family member can now have food preferences. On the Family page, tap Edit on a person and fill in the Food preferences box: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, dairy free, gluten free, no pork or no beef, a short list of things they won't eat, and, for a picky eater, an Always eats list of foods they reliably eat. Allergies do not go here; keep them in the Health Profile. Only grown-ups can change them.
  • Robin uses them. When you ask for meal ideas, a recipe or a week of dinners, she leans toward dishes that work for everyone, or names the swap for the one person it does not suit.
  • Saved recipes and planned dinners on the Meals page now say "Works for everyone" or "Swap for Maya: use beans instead of beef". If Robin is not sure, nothing shows. If nobody has preferences set, nothing changes.
  • These are preferences, not allergies. For allergies, always check the ingredients yourself.
  • On Android, fixed an alarm still ringing for a medication that had been deleted. When Robin, another phone or the website deletes or changes a medication or an event, NestBoard now sends your Android phones and tablets a quiet message to rebuild their alarms, which reaches them while the app is still running in the background. If you had fully closed the app, or the phone was off, it catches up the next time NestBoard opens.
  • Looks: Woodland and Tidepool have new taglines, the Looks picker now says which four Looks are Premium and that the other five are free, and Storybook now has its own night palette instead of borrowing the standard dark one.
  • NestBoard is now on the Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets. The download page, the Get the app links at the bottom of the website, and the Help articles on which devices work and on Fire tablets now include it. A Fire tablet has no Google Play, so the Appstore is where to get the app, and the Silk browser still works if you would rather not install anything.
Version 1.0.184
October 21, 2026

Rate a meal and Robin remembers, plus Lists, Countdowns, an All chores list and clearer icons.

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  • You can now rate a meal. After you tap Mark cooked on the Meals page, a small How was it? row appears on that meal with a thumbs up and a thumbs down, and room for one line to remember, like less salt. It shows once for each meal on that device, you can tap Not now, and only grown-ups in the household can rate.
  • You can also just tell Robin: we loved the shrimp and grits, or thumbs down on the chili, too spicy. Say you will rate a meal and Robin asks two quick questions in the chat, then remembers your answers.
  • Robin now follows your ratings. When she writes or adapts a recipe or suggests meals, she leans toward what you liked, skips what you did not, and applies your notes. Robin's Ideas on the Meals page follow your notes too.
  • Fixed Robin putting a rating survey on the Family Board when you asked how to rate a meal. Robin only posts to the Family Board when you ask her to post, share or leave a note there.
  • The Chores page has a new All chores button next to List and Week. It lists every repeating and as-needed chore once, with how often it repeats, who does it, when it is next due and its points. Chores nobody has yet are grouped first under Unassigned, so you can see what still needs dividing up, and tapping a row opens the chore so you can pick who does it.
  • New Countdowns card on the dashboard: how many days until the next birthday, trip or big day. It reads "12 days till Vacation", "Tomorrow: Sammy's birthday" or "Today: Anniversary", soonest first.
  • Birthdays, trips from the Vacation page and events that repeat every year show up on their own. Switch on "Count down to this" on any calendar event to add it, or tap "+ Add countdown" on the card to make your own, like "Retirement". You can repeat it every year, edit it, or delete it right there.
  • Ask Robin "how many days until Sammy's birthday?" and she answers from the same list.
  • You can now edit a planned meal instead of removing it and typing it again. On the Meals page, tap the day, then tap Edit on the meal. Fix the name, the meal, the day, the servings or the notes and tap Save. A meal you already marked as cooked stays cooked, and it keeps its recipe.
  • On the Meals page, Type it in now suggests meals as you type. Start a name and the main dishes you have planned before that match show up under the box, the ones you plan most often first. Tap one, or use the arrow keys and Enter, to fill in the name.
  • The Shopping page is now called Lists, and it holds any list your family keeps. Your shopping list still comes first. Tap + New list to add another one, like a packing list, a to-do list or a Costco run, and choose Shopping list or Checklist. A checklist is a simple list to tick off, with no store sections, and it stays in the order you wrote it. Your existing lists and everything on them are just as they were.
  • You can switch a list between a shopping list and a checklist any time: tap + New list, then Rename next to it. Switching never changes what is on the list, and your first list always stays a shopping list.
  • Robin can make and fill any list too. Say "make a packing list for the beach with sunscreen, towels and goggles" or "add the phone charger to the packing list".
  • Deleting a list now says exactly what happens: everything on it, ticked off or not, moves to your shopping list.
  • Woodland is now a Premium Look, like Celestial, Tidepool and Storybook. If your household already uses it, nothing changes while your subscription is active. If your subscription ends, NestBoard shows one of the regular Looks and remembers your pick, and Woodland comes back when you do.
  • When you finish setting up, the last screen shows the next thing coming up for your family in the next couple of days, like an event you just added. Tap it to open your calendar. If nothing is scheduled yet, it suggests adding one thing. It also gives you a one-tap way to turn on reminders, by phone notification where your device allows it and by email where it does not.
  • The side menu and the More page have new icons that say what each page is. Projects is a board of folders, Routines is a sun and moon, Pantry is a fridge, Allowance is a hand with coins, Screen Time is a tablet and phone, Medical is a heart with a pulse, Savings is a piggy bank, Vacation is a palm tree and Activity is a history clock.
  • The Robin icon in the side menu is redrawn so it matches the weight and size of the others.
Version 1.0.183
October 16, 2026

Your own dashboard layout, remembered Chores and Calendar filters, a curriculum code on school assignments, an invite reminder, and quicker meal picks.

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  • Everyone in the household can now have their own dashboard. In Edit layout, or Settings, then Dashboard Widgets, turn on Use my own layout. The order, what is shown and how wide each widget is then belong to you alone, and show up whenever you are signed in. Everyone else keeps the household layout. Turn it off to go back to the household layout; your own layout is kept in case you turn it back on.
  • The Chores page has a new Me + anyone filter: your chores plus the ones anyone can do. NestBoard also remembers, for each person who signs in, the Chores filter and the people picked on the Calendar, and opens on them next time. If you never pick one, nothing changes.
  • School assignments have a new optional Curriculum code box, under Counts toward grade. Type the standard or framework the work meets, such as KS2 Maths Y4 or CCSS 4.NF.1, in whatever your country uses. It shows as a small tag on the assignment, and once you have used a code, a row of pills on the School page lets you show only the work for one code. It is useful for homeschooling.
  • Removing a grown-up no longer deletes the routines shared by two or more people. A routine for the whole family stays and moves to another grown-up in the household. Routines that belonged only to the person you removed are still deleted with them, and removing a child still deletes all of their routines.
  • If someone you invited has not joined after about two days, NestBoard now sends you one short email while the invite still works, with a reminder that a quick text from you usually does it. Tap Share next to the invite on your Dashboard to text them the link. After you send an invite, the confirmation says the same thing.
  • On the Meals page, Type it in now shows your regulars: the main dishes you planned most recently, up to eight from the last eight weeks. Tap one to fill in the name, then pick the day and meal as usual. Sides are left out, and the row is hidden until you have planned a few meals.
  • Robin no longer adds a school test or assignment you only mentioned in passing. For example, "Ivy has a spelling test Thursday, can Leo do the dishes?" now just handles the dishes, and she may offer to add the test. When she does add one, a named weekday lands on that day, and if the day is unclear she asks. Undoing a deleted chore also now recognises a chore you re-created with the same people in a different order.
  • Fixed buttons that crowded or overlapped each other on a phone, on School rows and on the Chores page.
Version 1.0.181
October 16, 2026

NestBoard now asks once before anything goes to an AI, with a switch to turn it off. Also a Meals week that follows your week start, Add a side, half-width widgets, custom chore points, a streak bonus switch, family order, and Undo for chores Robin deletes

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  • NestBoard now asks before anything you give it goes to an AI. The first time you open Robin or use voice typing, photo or page reading, quick add, recipe import or meal ideas, a short sheet says what is sent (what you type or say, and photos or files you choose), that it goes to OpenAI, why, and that OpenAI does not train its models on it. Tap Allow to carry on, or Not now to keep AI off. You are asked once and it follows you to your other devices, but each grown-up answers for themselves.
  • Change your mind any time. Settings, then Privacy & Data, has a new AI features switch. Turning it off stops new things you type, say or photograph from being sent for you, and your calendar, chores and lists carry on as normal. What you already said to Robin stays in your household's shared Robin chat until someone clears it, with Clear Robin's history in the same place.
  • A child or guest cannot allow it; the grown-ups decide for them. If a grown-up turns AI off and no other grown-up has allowed it, the helpers a child could use stop too. Robin is still for grown-ups only.
  • Turning AI off also covers things you did not ask an AI for. Your new shopping items are sorted by a plain word list and your daily briefing email uses a plain opening line. If a grown-up turns it off and no other grown-up has allowed it, emails sent to your household address are not read, and the grown-ups in the household get a note saying so. Nobody outside the household is emailed.
  • Closed the reminder about an invite that ran out before they joined? It now stays closed on your phone, tablet and computer. It is only ever shown to the person who sent the invite, and the invite stays on the Family page.
  • NestBoard now keeps its menus, buttons and pop-ups clear of a camera or Dynamic Island cutout on the side of the screen, not only the top and bottom. This is for the inner screen of iPhone Duo and any phone or tablet held sideways. Nothing changes on a screen without one.
  • The Meals page now starts its week on the day you chose under Settings, then Display, and it has Previous week and Next week buttons, so you can plan any day ahead, including the upcoming Sunday.
  • A grown-up can now set how many points a chore is worth. In the chore form there is a new optional Points box (a whole number from 1 to 100). Leave it blank and the chore pays by its difficulty, as before. It applies to times the chore is done from then on, and points already earned do not change. The National Leaderboard still scores chores by difficulty, so custom points only count in your own household.
  • There is a new Streak bonus points switch under Settings, then Household, for grown-ups. It starts on. Turn it off and chores stop earning streak bonus points from then on, while streaks, the flame and streak badges keep working and points already earned stay.
  • If Robin deletes a chore you wanted back, a grown-up can now undo it. Tap Undo right after, or open Settings, then Privacy & Data, then Recently deleted by Robin, and tap Put back. It works for 30 days, and the chore comes back as it was. If the same chore is already on the board again, nothing is added twice.
  • In Settings, then Calendar Sync, a Google or Outlook account that another grown-up connected now says "Only <name> can reconnect this, it needs their sign-in" in place of the Reconnect button, so nobody signs in with the wrong account and gets turned away. Sync now and Disconnect still work for every grown-up, and older connections keep Reconnect.
  • A meal can now be more than one dish. On the Meals page, tap Add a side on a meal to put a side next to the main without replacing it. The week, the dashboard, your daily briefing and Alexa show the whole meal, each side comes off on its own, and Robin can add one when you ask.
  • Dashboard widgets can now be half width. In Edit layout, or Settings, then Dashboard Widgets, each widget has a Full and a Half button. Put two Half widgets next to each other and they sit side by side on a tablet or computer, so more of your day fits on one screen. Phones still show one per row, and Calendar and Today at a Glance always stay full width.
  • Put your family in the order you like. On the Family page, a grown-up can tap Change order and drag people into place. That order is used for the calendar filter, task pickers, the dashboard and leaderboard ties. Until you set one, people stay alphabetical.
  • Homework now stays in the same order each time you open the list, earliest due first, instead of swapping places when two are due together. Robin reads the list in that same order.
Version 1.0.180
October 14, 2026

Chores on a fridge calendar, a Week view, skip a day or mark a chore Done on the day, one chore for each person, movable dashboard widgets, and Undo for what Robin deletes

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  • New Week view on the Chores page: tap Week at the top to see, day by day, who did which chore. Each day shows Done, Done late, Skipped, Not done, Due today, Upcoming or Away with its own shape, and tapping one tells you who did it and when. Use the arrows to look back up to 26 weeks. Kids see only their own row.
  • You can now show your chores on a calendar outside NestBoard, such as a Samsung Family Hub fridge. In Settings, under Calendar Sync, turn on "Show chores in your calendar copies". It stays off until a household adult turns it on. Chores then appear in your calendar subscription link and, if your household copies its calendar into Google, in the NestBoard calendar in the Google account that copy is connected to, each with the first name of the person it is for. As-needed chores and "3 times a week" chores are left out for now.
  • Robin is smarter when you ask it to finish a school assignment that is not on the list. If there is nothing open, it says so and offers to add it, and if there are others open it asks which one you mean instead of searching again. A first name is enough to pick the student, and Robin asks if two people share it.
  • Robin now tells you exactly what a big delete covers before it happens, including how many one-off events and how many repeating days are in it, and it only deletes after you say yes to that. Ask for just the repeating events or one event by name and Robin leaves everything else alone.
  • Deleting a repeating to-do now asks what you mean. "Skip this day" clears just that date, with no points and no streak credit, and the next one still comes. "Delete the whole chore" (or task, or whatever your board calls them) ends the repeat. The old "Delete just this one" quietly ended the whole repeat, and we are sorry if it took a routine with it.
  • Missed a day of a repeating to-do? Tap Skip on the overdue row, or on the Welcome back sheet, to clear it without crediting anyone. The next date still shows up.
  • Every dashboard widget can now be moved, including Calendar and the Weather, Lightning, and Air Quality cards. Drag them in Settings, under Dashboard Widgets, or with Edit layout on the dashboard, and the dashboard shows exactly the order you set. Before, those cards stayed at the top no matter what you saved. If you have never rearranged yours, nothing moves until you do.
  • Undo for what Robin deletes. When Robin cancels calendar events or days of a repeating event, an Undo button appears right under its reply and puts them all back with one tap. Missed it? Settings, then Privacy & Data, has Recently deleted by Robin, where every batch can be put back for 30 days. Events from a synced Google or Outlook calendar are never deleted by Robin, so they are not part of this.
  • One chore, several people: under "Who does it" there is now Each person. Pick two or more people and each gets their own copy to tick off, so one kid finishing their bed does not check it off for the other. Each copy says who it is shared with, points and streaks go to whoever did theirs, and deleting one asks whether to remove it for just that person or for everyone.
  • Did the chore on the day but forgot to tick it? An overdue repeating to-do now has a "Done on Mon" button next to Skip (and "On the day" on the Welcome back sheet). It counts the points and the streak for the day it was due, not today, and the next one still comes on schedule.
Version 1.0.179
October 11, 2026

Shopping amounts that add up, an easier invite page, quicker pantry actions, and a Chores view for Anyone

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  • Tell Robin "remove the pizza from Thursday" and it comes off your meal plan, instead of Robin hunting for a chore or a board note with that word in it.
  • Robin no longer moves an all-day event to the day before when you change it. Adding a time to an all-day event, or stretching it to more days, now keeps it on the day it was on.
  • Duplicating a pantry item now copies its purchase date and expiration date too, so a second carton does not mean typing both again.
  • Pantry search results now have quick buttons right on each one: use some, add to the shopping list, duplicate and delete. You no longer have to open an item first.
  • The invite page now says who invited you and who you will join as, fills in your name if they already added you, and no longer lists you as someone already on the board.
  • The invite page now shows who is already on the board as one line, like "Sam, Alex and 2 kids". It names the adults and only counts the children, so a child never appears by name to someone who just has the link.
  • An invite link that has expired or was already used now says so and tells you what to do next.
  • If Google or Outlook stops accepting your saved sign-in, because you removed NestBoard's access or it ran out, NestBoard now tells you that calendar needs reconnecting instead of quietly going stale. Press Reconnect under Settings, then Calendar Sync, and sign in again.
  • A calendar link that has been working no longer gets told to "copy the ICS link" when its provider briefly turns it away. It now says the calendar provider is having trouble and that NestBoard will keep trying.
  • The tooltip on Settings, then About now says what that section really shows: the app version, whether the app is reaching NestBoard, and a support reference you can copy.
  • Robin's morning question now says exactly who gets it: the people who receive your daily summary email and have no phone set up for NestBoard notifications. It also needs a check-in schedule that was set up when the switch was turned on, so an adult who turned their own off, or joined later, does not get it. The help article and the Settings tip match.
  • The help article on adding an event now says where the floating add button sits on the Calendar, Chores and Projects pages on a phone: bottom-right, just above Robin's button.
  • Chores that are open to Anyone now have a view of their own. Tap Anyone next to All on the Chores page (on a computer it is in the filter menu) to see everything nobody owns yet, with a count of how many are open. It only shows up when there is at least one.
  • Made a mistake adding something to the shopping list? Tap the item on the Shopping page and fix its name, how much you need, the unit or its section. Robin can do it too: "make that 3 chicken breasts".
  • Add missing now tallies. If your list already has 2 chicken breasts and a recipe needs 4 more, it shows 6 chicken breasts, instead of leaving it at 2. It only adds when it is the same thing in the same unit, so 2 lb and 4 oz stay two lines, and pressing the button twice for one recipe does not count it twice.
  • A recipe that lists the same food twice, like olive oil for the pan and again to finish, now adds up instead of dropping the second one. A meal you planned on two days counts twice when you add the week to your list.
  • A line you typed with a number first, like "2 chicken breasts", becomes "chicken breasts, 6" when a recipe needs 4 more. Robin checks with you before changing a line you did not name in full.
  • When Robin pauses for the month, the message now gives the real date and time she is back in your own timezone, like "Resets Oct 31 at 8 PM EDT", instead of a date that could be a day off.
  • If the last adult in a household deletes their account, a caregiver's sign-in now goes with it, the way a child's does, and the household is removed at the end of the 30 days. The caregiver gets an email the same day saying so. If that adult signs back in within the 30 days, the deletion is cancelled and the caregiver's sign-in comes back, with an email to say the household is staying. Another adult in the household keeps it going, as before, and if two adults both delete, the household stays until the last of them is out of their 30 days. If either of them signs back in before then, the household stays and the caregiver and children come back with it.
  • A plan bought through an app store tells us nothing when you switch off renewal, so we never learn what we got wrong. Now, while such a plan is set to end, Settings, under Subscription & Billing, shows one optional question at the bottom of the card: why are you leaving. Pick one of four answers or tap Skip. It asks once, there is nothing to type, and nobody else in your household is emailed. Your answer comes to us and no one else.
  • You can now join a household from an invite with Google or Apple instead of choosing a password. The buttons sit above the password form on the invite page.
  • Smaller fixes: an invite link the sender revoked now says it is not active anymore and to ask for a new one, instead of a bare "not available", you can no longer send an invite to your own email address, a birthday cannot be set in the future, the All count on the Chores page stays the same whichever person you are looking at, and Duplicate on a pantry item no longer adds a category the original did not have.
  • Recurring events and reminders now keep their time across daylight saving changes. A medication dose set for 8:00 AM, an alarm, a chore due time or an event added by quick add or email now lands at the same clock time on the day the clocks change, not an hour off.
  • Robin now gets the dates right when you ask about next week, last week, the week after next, this month, next month or last month. "Next week" asked on a Saturday no longer reads the next seven days, and "this month" stops at the end of the month. Ask about chores this weekend and she looks at Saturday and Sunday instead of counting from today.
  • Asking Robin for a chore on certain days of the week, like "every Monday" or "Mondays and Tuesdays", now puts it on those days. Before, it could land on the wrong weekday, such as a Saturday. Robin also tells you the day the first one is due.
  • Forwarded emails are now read with the sent date in a forward header no longer getting in the way, and when NestBoard cannot tell what to add, its reply says what it saw and asks you for the what and when.
  • Paging the Calendar with the arrows is much quicker, most of all on a busy calendar. Month and Week now move to the next page several times faster, and switching between Month, Week and Day is quicker too.
  • Long lists you hand Robin, like a whole month of events or a page of chores, are added faster, and when something cannot be saved Robin now says exactly which items did not make it instead of guessing. Robin also only says an event or item was already there when it has just checked.
  • Tell Robin a school assignment is due on a day of the week, like "Pia has a spelling test Thursday", and it now lands on that coming Thursday on your household's own calendar. Robin then names the saved day in her answer. If you say the day of the week it is today, she asks whether you mean today or next week instead of guessing.
Version 1.0.178
October 6, 2026

A chore can have a different person on each day, and school emails stay in your household

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  • A chore can now have a different person on different days of the week. Open the chore, pick By day under "Who does it", and choose who does it on each day, Anyone, or Off for a day it does not happen. It stays one chore, and each day it shows the person for that day.
  • Someone cannot do their day? The two-arrows button that used to swap a turn only on chores people take turns with now hands off any repeating chore that belongs to someone, By day chores included. Tap it and pick who is doing it this time. Only that one day changes, and the rest of the schedule stays the same.
  • When a school, club or mailing list emails your household's forwarding address, NestBoard no longer writes back to them. The summary of what it added goes to the adults on your account instead, unless they have unsubscribed from NestBoard emails.
  • One item with no date, like a book fair with dates to come, no longer stops the rest of a forwarded email from being added. NestBoard adds everything else and lists what it left off, so you can reply with a date. An event with no clear time, like time TBA, goes on the calendar as an all-day event.
  • Dates and chores forwarded to your household's address now go on with no one tagged, instead of on the whole family. Open each one to choose who it is for.
  • Each synced calendar in Settings, under Calendar Sync, now asks "Who is this calendar for?". Pick the kids a school or team calendar belongs to and its events show in their colour and under their names, on the board, the wall display and the phone widget. Reminders stay as they were, and a person you choose on one event yourself always wins. You can also just tell Robin, for example "the school calendar is for Mia and Noah".
  • If you are the only one who can sign in to your board and the invite you sent runs out before they join, it now stays on your Dashboard for about two weeks instead of disappearing. Tap Send it again to email them a fresh link, or Text them the link to send it yourself. If you no longer need it, close it with its x.
  • The steps across the top of setup stay on the screen on every phone and tablet. The step you are on sits in the middle, and finished steps slide off to the left.
  • The two ways to start setup look the same until you pick one, and "Back to start" takes you back to choose the other, any time before your family or starter chores are added.
  • "Skip, I'll set this up later" no longer sits on top of the setup title. It is below each step now.
  • The dashboard greeting stays on one line. When your household name does not fit, it shows just the greeting.
Version 1.0.177
October 2, 2026

Three new Looks: Celestial, Tidepool and Storybook

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  • Three new Looks are here. Celestial is a star atlas in brass on midnight blue, and it stays dark. Tidepool is drawn like old sea life plates in calm blues. Storybook is a fairy tale book made for kids. Each has its own drawings, typefaces and menu icons. They come with Premium, the free trial included, and Woodland stays free for everyone. Pick one in Settings, under Display.
  • Warnings, errors and lighter text are easier to read in every Look, light or dark.
  • After switching between light and dark, unticked boxes on the shopping list no longer turn solid dark.
  • On Screen Time, a quick double tap on Use Time logs the time once instead of showing an error.
Version 1.0.175
September 22, 2026

Forwarding "swimming is cancelled next week" now takes next week off instead of the whole term, two people on a rotating chore can trade a single turn without the rotation reordering itself, the calendar on your phone tells you which month you are in and lets you move between them, your household can pick the colour NestBoard runs on, and a ticked pet care task can finally be unticked

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  • Forwarding a cancellation for a repeating event now cancels the date, not the whole thing. Until today, sending "swimming is cancelled next week" to your household's forwarding address took every future swimming lesson off your calendar, quietly, and the first anyone knew about it was turning up to an empty pool. It now skips the date the email names and leaves the rest of the term exactly where it was, the same as choosing "Delete just this day" in the app. Moving one date works the same way. To end a repeating event for good, say so: "cancelled for the rest of term", "no more swim lessons", "until further notice". If the email does not make clear which date it means, NestBoard changes nothing and writes back to ask, and you can reply with the date. Long-running events are also matched properly now, so a swimming lesson you have had since January can be changed by email at all, which it could not before.
  • The first dashboard a new family sees now says one thing instead of four. Until today, finishing setup landed you on a screen where a tour started by itself, two cards appeared, we asked where you heard about us, and we offered to turn on reminders, all in the same second. Nobody reads a screen like that. So there is now one card, picked for where you actually are. An empty week asks for your week in plain words. A week already sorted asks for the first chore, or for the person you want on the board with you. Answer it, or close it with its x, and the tour and the rest arrive straight away. Leave it and the full dashboard turns up by itself the next day. Nothing was removed, and if you have been using NestBoard for more than a day none of this changes anything for you.
  • Two people on a rotating chore can trade a single turn. It is Mia's night on the dishes, she has a game, so tap the swap button next to the chore and pick her brother. He does it this time, the chore says "Covering for Mia" so nobody wonders why it moved, and the rotation order does not change at all. Next turn goes to whoever it was always going to go to. Nobody owes a turn back, so if you want it even, swap the other one too when it comes round. Tap swap again and pick Mia to undo it. Points go to whoever actually ticks it off, which is the person doing the covering. Robin does it if you just ask her.
  • The month view on your phone now names the month and lets you move between them. There is a heading above the grid with the month and year, an arrow on each side, and a Today button to come back. Before this the phone showed the grid and nothing else, so you had to work out the month from the dates and there was no way to reach the next one at all. Thank you to the family who told us.
  • Your household can pick the colour NestBoard runs on. Open Settings, then Display, and there is a Your colour row under the Look picker. It is the same picker the event colours use: ten named swatches, the colours your household is already using on the calendar, and a + at the end that opens your device colour picker or takes a typed code like #7A5AF8. Buttons, the active tab, highlights and pills all follow it, on every device in the household.
  • You can untick a pet care task. A family asked how to unselect one that had been marked done, and the honest answer was that there was no way to do it, on any screen. Now, on the Pets page under Today's Tasks, anything you have ticked has an Untick button next to it, and tapping the green tick does the same. Robin can do it too, just ask her. If that task is also on the chore board, unticking reopens the chore as well and takes its points back, and it tells you that before it happens.
  • You can take the leaderboard off the Chores page. A family asked whether it could be hidden and the answer was no, so now there is a switch: Settings, then Household, then "Leaderboard on the Chores page". Turn it off and it goes everywhere at once. On a computer the column beside your chore list disappears and the list spreads out to use the room. On a phone the Leaders tab goes, leaving Today and Tomorrow. Points, levels and streaks all keep counting while it is off, so if you change your mind the standings are exactly where they would have been. It is on unless you turn it off, and it applies to everyone in the household rather than just the screen you set it on. The dashboard card keeps its own switch under Dashboard Widgets, because clearing a busy dashboard is not the same as not wanting a scoreboard.
  • Adding a child during setup now asks you before it records anything. Until today that screen showed a short note saying that by adding a child you were confirming you are their parent or legal guardian, and then filed that consent whether anyone had read it or not. There is a box to tick now. It appears the moment a child under 13 is on your list, setup waits for it, and if it is not ticked then nothing is recorded against that child. Give a child's age as 13 or more and the box does not appear at all. One tick, and it is the same thing the Family page has always asked for, so the date on file means the same wherever you added them.
  • You cannot end up with an app you cannot read. Every shade is worked out from the one colour you pick, including a deeper one for small text and a soft tint for backgrounds, and each is checked against the surface it sits on. A very pale or very dark choice is adjusted where it would be text rather than left unreadable, and two small previews show what you will get in light and in dark before you save. One button puts you back to the colour we ship with.
Version 1.0.166
September 20, 2026

Family members can have a photo at last, events and event categories take any colour you like including one you type, pet care tasks can sit on the chore board and finally ask which day they are due, you can drop a single day of a repeating event without losing the series, and Robin creates the chores she suggests, can undo a completed one, and stops sending you off to refresh a page she has already checked

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  • Family members can have a photo. Add or edit anyone in the family and you can pick a picture for them, which then shows wherever their coloured circle used to. It works while you are adding someone new as well as when you are editing someone already there. This never worked for anybody before today, so if you tried once and got the coloured circle back, that was us, and it is worth another go.
  • Events and event categories take any colour you like, including one you type. The ten swatches are still there and still the quickest way to do it. After them the row now shows the colours your household is already using, so the second event that needs a particular colour is one tap. At the end there is a + that opens your device colour picker, and a box for typing a code: "#abc", "abc123" and "# ABC 123" all land on the same colour. The event form and Settings > Event categories both have it.
  • A pet care task can live on the chore board too. A parent asked for this while moving over from Apple Calendar. When you create one there is now an "Also add it to the chore board" tick, and existing tasks have an "Add to chores" button. It becomes a real chore, so you can hand it to one of the kids and it earns points on the leaderboard. Ticking it in either place ticks it in both.
  • The pet care form now asks when a task is actually due. Weekly asks which days, Monthly asks which date, and Once asks for the date. Before this, "bath the dog, weekly" saved without a word of complaint and then never appeared in Today’s Tasks, on any day, ever, with nothing on screen to say why. If you have a pet task that never turned up, open it and give it a day.
  • You can drop a single day of a repeating event without losing the series. Delete a repeating event and it now asks: "Delete just this day" or "Delete the entire series". Until now the only button took the whole thing, so a family who wanted to miss one week of Art Club had to delete Art Club.
  • Robin creates the chores she suggests. Ask her what to give a teenager to do and she used to hand you three good ideas, ask which one you wanted, and that was the end of it with nothing created. She now offers to add them, and a plain "yes" adds them, with the assignee, due date and repeat you named.
  • Robin can undo a completed chore, and read back the ones already done. Asked to undo one, she used to mark it done instead and then describe that as the state she had found. She can now reopen a chore properly, and she can see the completed list when you ask what is on it.
  • Robin stops sending you to refresh a page she has just checked. When she has looked and the thing is there, she tells you it is there rather than suggesting the app might be showing you something stale.
  • Setting up a new household reads better. The first screen now says what the trial actually is, in the same numbers the pricing page uses: free for two weeks, then $4.99 a month for the whole household, and no card to start. The wizard asks for one real event right after the family step, so the calendar is not empty when you land on it. And if connecting Google or Outlook fails, the dashboard says so and keeps saying so until it works, rather than looking like nothing happened.
  • A few things that quietly ran on your device’s date now run on your household’s. A meal planned late in the evening is stored on the day you tapped, an event added in the last hour of the day saves instead of failing, and the calendar page turns over to the new day when your household does rather than when your phone does.
Version 1.0.165
September 19, 2026

Events can have their own color and sort into colored categories, the lightning switch now really turns lightning alerts off, wish lists can be named, renamed and deleted, shopping lists keep your own categories, and Robin asks before she guesses a name, hides a module or deletes a month

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  • An event can have its own color now. Until today the color came from the family member it was tagged with, so an event with nobody tagged was always the same orange. Open any event and there is a Color row at the bottom of the form with ten swatches. "Use default" puts it back the way it was.
  • There are event categories too. In Settings, under Event categories, add Church, Doctor, Soccer or whatever your household sorts its week by, and give each one a color. Every event in a category takes that color, a small key under the calendar shows which color is which, and a color set on the event itself always wins over the category.
  • On a narrow month grid, where a day shows a count instead of titles, that count now leads with up to three small dots in the category colors present that day, so the key under the calendar names colors you can actually see.
  • The shopping list keeps your own categories. Anything with a pantry category we did not know by name, like Beverages or Pet, was piled under Other. Custom categories are now their own sections, in alphabetical order after the built-in ones, with Other last.
  • Wish lists can be named, renamed and deleted. Tapping "+ New list" used to create a "New Wish List" on the spot with no way to rename or remove it, so one family ended up with three identical rows. Now it opens a small form for the owner, name and occasion, and nothing is created until you press Create. The open list has Rename and Delete list, and "Everyone" is a real view of every member’s lists with an Open button into each one.
  • The lightning alerts switch now turns lightning alerts off, on every device. It only silenced the phone notification; the full-screen take-shelter warning and the tone still fired on any open screen, which is why turning it off looked like it did nothing. An alert already on screen drops the moment the switch flips.
  • Robin asks when a name is only a near miss. "Add Maya checkup Friday" was filed against Mia because that was the closest name on the roster. A wrong person on a medical or school event is the kind of mistake a family notices late, so now she asks which member you mean and writes nothing until you answer.
  • Repeating events through Robin got better. You can skip dates ("every Wednesday except the 24th"), "every Wednesday" lands on a Wednesday even if you said a different date, an end time earlier than the start gets a question about whether it runs overnight instead of a backwards event, and when she sets an alarm she tells you the real time it will fire.
  • Robin asks before hiding a module, and she can flip your notification switches. "Hide the meals tab" now gets a confirmation first, and "turn off the chimes" or "turn lightning alerts off" changes the setting for grown-ups, with the result read back to you.
  • Ask Robin to delete a whole month and she counts first. "Delete all events for October" used to walk a short list, delete ten, and announce the month clear. She now tells you exactly how many events she found and deletes nothing until you confirm, then reports what was deleted and what was skipped.
  • A chore list you give Robin becomes chores. Asking her to draw up a list of regular cleaning jobs used to land as a project checklist with no one assigned and no repeat. She creates them as chores in one go, with an assignee, due date and repeat where you named them, and skips any that are already on the board.
  • Robin keeps a bracketed qualifier on an event title. "Science (Weekends)" and "Science (Weekdays)" both used to save as "Science". The qualifier you typed stays on the title now, and the confirmation quotes it.
  • After Robin acts, the page she changed refreshes straight away, for every action she can take. A household watched her plan dinner, opened Meals, saw nothing, and was then told nothing had been saved. The refresh covers all of her actions now, and she no longer claims nothing was saved a turn after it was.
  • A medication reminder no longer shows the child, the medication or the dose on a lock screen. The notification says "Medication reminder" and nothing more, and tapping it shows the detail inside NestBoard once you are in.
  • The Update button says when the store could not open. On a device with no store app, tapping Update used to do nothing at all. It now says "Opening the store", and if the store never comes up it shows the store address instead of pretending it worked.
  • The setup wizard’s Add, Send invite and Fill my week buttons stay live. A greyed-out button explains nothing on a phone. Tap with a field empty and the reason appears under the row, then goes away as soon as you fill it in.
  • A standing, as-needed chore and a dated chore no longer wear the same checkbox. A dated chore has a rounded square with a solid rim; a standing one has a circle with a dashed rim, so a long list reads as two kinds of thing instead of one pile.
  • Sign in with Apple works in Safari again. On the sign-up and sign-in pages Safari was never able to finish loading Apple’s sign-in code, so the button answered every tap with "still loading, give it a second and tap again" and never did anything else. Chrome was fine, which is why it went unnoticed. The offline cache was intercepting the request and it no longer touches anything that is not ours.
  • The site loads a little faster everywhere. React itself had ended up inside a bundle that the browser only discovered after downloading something else first, which cost a whole extra round trip before any page could start. That is fixed, and the public pages no longer download the drag-and-drop code they never use.
Version 1.0.164
September 10, 2026

You can delete your whole household yourself, deleting your account now actually stops the billing, our deletion copy now says what actually happens to your data, you can write and edit your own recipes, "Add missing" checks your real pantry instead of a stale flag, there is a button to turn the week's meal plan into a shopping list, recipe steps are numbered, recipes can be shown in metric, and Family Savings goals and school assignments can finally be edited instead of deleted and retyped

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  • Robin can read a recipe now, and that stops her making one up. Ask her to put the week's meal plan on the shopping list and she used to be holding nothing but the names of the dishes, because there was no way for her to open a saved recipe and look. Faced with a choice between refusing and guessing, she guessed, and a real household got a list with 'Vegetables' on it. She can open a recipe, read it back to you, and edit one you have imported, and when she shops a meal plan the ingredients come from your stored recipes, get checked against what your pantry already has, and she tells you WHY nothing was added rather than leaving you to assume you own everything. If a planned meal is only a name with no recipe behind it she now says so by name instead of inventing its contents.
  • Robin no longer says she cannot see a photo and then describe it. Sending her an image could produce 'I can't describe the image, but it looks like...', which is both answers at once and left you unsure whether she had actually looked. She either tells you what she sees or says plainly that she will not, never both.
  • "Add missing" was telling people nothing was missing while they were looking at a recipe they had none of. It never asked our servers at all. The button read a field on the recipe that we have never actually sent, found nothing there, and reported that as "nothing to add", so it did the same thing whether your pantry was full or empty. It now asks properly, and the answer is worked out at the moment you tap it against what is in your pantry right now, not against a note written when the recipe was first created. That last part matters for a recipe you saved a while ago: if you have since eaten the chicken, chicken is missing. Two more things came with it. Anything already sitting unchecked on a shopping list is skipped, so tapping twice no longer gives you two of everything. And when nothing does get added, it now says why, naming how many ingredients were in your pantry and how many were already on a list. We are sorry. This was broken for every recipe, for everyone, and it is the kind of thing that quietly makes the rest of the meal planner feel untrustworthy.
  • You can write your own recipes now, ingredients and steps and all. Until today the only ways a recipe could exist were to let Robin invent one, import one from a link or a PDF, or type a meal's name straight onto the plan, and that last one saves a name and nothing else. On the Meals page, in Saved recipes, there is a "+ New recipe" button: name, description, an ingredient list with a quantity and a unit for each line, the steps, prep and cook time, servings, and tags. The quantity and unit are the fields your shopping list reads, which is why they get their own boxes rather than one free-text line.
  • Any saved recipe can be edited, including ones you imported. There was no way to change a recipe at all, so an import that arrived with a wrong amount or a missing step had to be deleted and done again. Tap Edit on a recipe row in the Saved list, or open the recipe and tap Edit at the top. While we were in there we found that the Delete button on a saved recipe had never worked either: it looked like it deleted, and the recipe came back on the next refresh, because there was nothing on our servers listening. It deletes now, and a meal you had planned from it keeps its name on your plan.
  • There is now a button to turn the week's meal plan into a shopping list. Next to "This week" on the Meals page, "Add week to shopping list" walks every meal you have planned that week, collects the ingredients from the recipes behind them, drops anything already in your pantry or already on a list, and adds the rest. It is a button rather than something automatic on purpose: a shopping list the whole household shares should not rewrite itself because somebody was looking at the planner. Press it as often as you like, including after you change the plan, because it never adds the same thing twice. Meals you typed in by name have no recipe behind them, so they contribute nothing, and it tells you when that is what happened.
  • Recipe steps are numbered again. The instructions in a recipe were rendered as a plain numbered list, except that a styling rule elsewhere in the app strips the numbers off every list, so what you actually got was a column of sentences with no numbers and nothing separating one step from the next. Each step now carries its own number and sits on its own line, which is what it looked like it was meant to do all along.
  • You can delete your whole household yourself now, and you could not before. Deleting your account has always worked, but it only removes you: if anybody else is in the household, the household stays with them, so a family with two parents had no way to close the thing down at all. There is now a Delete this household button in Settings, under Privacy & Data, next to Delete my account. It takes the household itself and everything in it: the calendar, the chores, the lists, the meals, the messages, the photos, the allowance and the medical records, and every profile including the children's. You confirm by typing the household name, the same way the account one asks for your email. Only a grown-up in the household can do it, and that is enforced on our servers rather than hidden in the app, so a child, a guest or a sitter cannot. Everyone is signed out straight away and every grown-up gets an email saying what happened, who asked, and the exact date, because the person who did not press the button should not find out from a blank screen.
  • We were telling you the wrong thing about what happens after you ask us to delete something. Six different places said your data goes "within 30 days", which was wrong in both directions at once. Nothing is deleted during those 30 days. Not a single event, message or record is touched until the window is up, so "within" made it sound like your calendar might disappear tomorrow. And it hid the more useful half: you have the whole 30 days to change your mind, and signing back in is all it takes. One of those pages went further and told you to email us to cancel, which has never been necessary. Every one of them now says the same true thing, and the confirmation email names the exact date in your own timezone rather than a vague window.
  • Two of our public pages were describing a button that did not exist. The children's privacy page told parents that deleting the household ends our handling of their child's information and sent them to the data deletion page for the steps, and the data deletion page had no such steps, because there was no way to delete a household. Both pages now describe what is actually there. While we were in it we found something smaller and worse: the app has promised you a confirmation email when you delete your account for as long as the button has existed, and no such email was ever sent. It is sent now, and it carries the date your data is actually removed.
  • Deleting your account now stops the billing, and until today it did not. If you paid for NestBoard and asked us to delete your account or your household, you were signed out, your data was scheduled for removal, and the subscription carried right on charging you every month. Nothing in the app ever told Stripe anything. We are sorry. That is a real bill for a product you had just closed the door on. Asking for deletion now sets the subscription to end when the current billing period runs out, so there is no further charge. It is not an immediate cancellation and it is not a refund of the month or year you have already paid for: you keep NestBoard for the rest of the period you bought. Because deletion is a 30-day change of mind and not a cliff, undoing it by signing back in restores the subscription along with everything else, exactly as it was. If your subscription came from the App Store, Apple owns that billing, so cancel it in your Apple Account settings as well. If your household has other people in it and you delete only your own account, the plan carries on for them, because it belongs to the household rather than to you. If anything looks wrong on a bill, email privacy@mynestboard.com and we will sort it out.
  • If you subscribed through the App Store, deleting your account now walks you through cancelling with Apple, because we cannot do it for you. Apple takes that payment, not us, and Apple gives no app a way to cancel a customer's subscription: only you can, in your own Apple Account. So for anyone who bought NestBoard on an iPhone or iPad, deleting the account was never the end of the charges, and a line of text saying so is easy to read past when you are busy closing something down. Now, if your plan is billed by Apple, the deletion screen shows it as a step: what is actually true, a button that opens your App Store subscriptions there and then, and a box to tick saying you know Apple keeps charging until you cancel. It does not block the deletion and it never will. You do not have to cancel first, and if you would rather leave the subscription running that is your call. It is one more thing to tick on the way out so that nobody finds out from a bank statement six weeks later. If your plan is not billed by Apple, nothing about deleting changes and you will not see any of this.
  • Ask Robin what chores to give a child and you get real suggestions now, instead of your own overdue laundry read back to you. A parent asked what to give her teenager and Robin listed the jobs already sitting on the household's list, one of them two days overdue, which is an answer to a completely different question. She now has a proper set of age-appropriate ideas, taken from the guides on our own site and grouped by age from toddlers up to teenagers, and she offers them for you to choose from. Nothing is added to your list until you say which ones you want.
  • Robin stopped naming a child you never mentioned. Asked for to-dos for "my teenager", she picked a name out of the household on her own and came back asking how old that child was, though the parent had not been talking about them at all and then had to correct her. She works from what you actually said now. "My teenager" is enough on its own to answer, and if you mention a child without naming them or saying their age, she asks which one rather than choosing for you.
  • The help now tells you the truth about the family leaderboard. Asked how to hide or reset it, Robin pointed at the Chores page, which is the one screen where it cannot be hidden, and did not answer the reset half of the question at all. Here is what is actually true. The copy on your dashboard can be switched off under Settings, then Dashboard Widgets. The copy on the Chores page is a tab rather than a widget, so it has no switch of its own. And there is no reset: the totals are added up from what everyone has actually finished rather than stored as a counter, so there is nothing to set back to zero without erasing the history behind it. If the scoreboard has stopped being fun in your house, hiding it is the lever you have.
  • Recipes can be shown in metric. In Settings, under Display, "Recipe measurements" switches between US units (cups, ounces, pounds) and metric (millilitres, grams, kilograms), and oven temperatures inside the steps follow along, so an imported "preheat to 400F" reads as 205C. Only the display changes: the recipe keeps the numbers it was written or imported with, so switching back gives you exactly what you had. Anything we cannot convert honestly is left alone rather than guessed at, because a cup of flour and a cup of sugar are not the same weight and a made-up gram figure is worse than the original line. The weather has its own Fahrenheit and Celsius setting directly above, and that one has been there all along.
  • You can edit a Family Savings goal now. There was no way to before. Type $5000 when you meant $500 and your only option was to delete the goal, which also throws away every contribution anyone had logged toward it, and start over. Our servers have been able to change a goal for a long time; the app just never gave you a button that used it. Each goal card now has a small pencil next to the x. Tap it and the same form you created the goal with opens, filled in with what is there, so you can fix the name, the target amount, the emoji, the color or the description and save. Contributions and the progress bar stay exactly as they were.
  • School assignments can be edited too, and they could not before either. A wrong due date, a typo in the title, homework filed under the wrong subject or the wrong kid: the only fix was to delete it and type it again. Each assignment row now has a pencil next to the x that opens the same form used to add it, filled in from the row. In that form you can also move the assignment to a different student, and change or clear the repeat rule on a recurring one; the copies it already spawned are not touched. Marking something done and undone still works the same way.
Version 1.0.163
September 9, 2026

A grown-up can check a kid's chore before it banks points, an event on two of one account's calendars now comes in once, feedback you send us no longer touches Discord at all, we corrected a claim in our privacy policy about limiting health details to specific members, a wall screen reloads itself when it gets stuck, and Cloudflare is on the subprocessors list

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  • Robin's daily limit now resets when we said it would. The message told you it resets at midnight in your timezone. It actually reset at midnight UTC, which in Florida handed your questions back at 8pm, and far enough east took most of a day away from a household that had done nothing wrong. The limit now runs on your household's own day, the same as chore streaks, routines, pantry expiry dates and your trial countdown, and the reset time we show you is the real one.
  • A caregiver can now be invited by email like anybody else. Adding a sitter or a grandparent on the Family page and pressing Send Invite used to fail outright, so the only way to give them their own login was to invite them as an adult and change the role afterwards, which handed them settings, billing and money in the gap. Caregiver invites go out properly now. A guest is still a profile rather than a login, which suits a visitor.
  • A child's account can no longer change things it was never meant to. Removing a device, disconnecting a calendar and removing a family member were already grown-ups only, but the matching edits were not, and that is the gap. An account we tell parents cannot change household settings could still rename or switch off any device in the house, turn calendars on and off for the whole family, connect a different Google account over the top of yours, and edit any family member's profile, including the email address a password reset goes to. All of it is grown-ups only now, and enforced on our servers rather than hidden in the app. Children keep the part that is genuinely theirs: their own name, colour and photo. Caregivers keep "Sync now", because a sitter checking whether the school calendar has updated is exactly who that button is for, and they line up with adults on the rest, which was already grown-ups only. Two things you can read went the same way: your household's email forwarding address, and the list of invitations you have sent, which carries the email address of everyone you invited.
  • There is a new free tool on our website: a home maintenance checklist you build for your own home and print. Tell it whether you are in a house, a townhouse or an apartment, how cold the winters get, and what the place actually has, meaning a yard, gutters, central heating or cooling, a fireplace, a basement, a garage, a deck, sprinklers, a pool, a septic tank or well water. It hands back the list for that home: a short pass to do every month, then a block each for spring, summer, fall and winter, with one line on every job saying why it is there. Turn something off and its jobs leave the sheet, so an apartment is never told to inspect a roof and a house with no fireplace is never reminded about a chimney sweep. It prints properly on paper, it needs no account and no email, and there is no watermark. It is at mynestboard.com/home-maintenance-checklist. These are recurring chores like any others, so if you would rather not rely on a piece of paper surviving until October, the same jobs work as repeating chores inside NestBoard.
  • You can now have a grown-up check a kid's chore before it counts for anything. A parent writing about a chore gadget put it plainly: there was no way to approve a star before it was banked, and his five-year-old was claiming credit for washing exactly one spoon. Turn on "A grown-up checks kids' chores" in Settings under Household and a chore a child marks done waits for an adult instead of paying out. Their tap still works and the chore says "Waiting for a grown-up", so it never looks like the app lost it, but nothing lands until somebody approves it: no points, no streak, no allowance, no leaderboard place, no badge progress. That last part is the whole point. The board only counts jobs a grown-up has actually seen. Approving pays out there and then, dated to when the child said they finished, so signing off over breakfast does not cost them yesterday's streak. If it needs redoing, tap "Not yet" and add a reason like "only one spoon got washed". Nothing is taken away, because nothing was ever counted; the chore stays on the list with your note on it and comes back to you when they have another go. Adults and caregivers can approve, children and guests cannot, and grown-ups' own chores are never held. The setting is off unless you turn it on, and turning it on changes nothing about chores already finished.
  • Feedback you send us no longer goes near Discord. Back in early September we cut that notification down to an anonymous ping and a link, after it had been arriving with your email address in the title and your whole message underneath. It is now gone completely. When you press send, your note is saved in our own admin and emailed to our own inbox, and nothing leaves NestBoard. The privacy policy used to mention a nudge in our team chat, and that sentence is gone with it, because it would no longer be true.
  • Our privacy policy claimed a setting we have never had, and we have corrected the wording rather than quietly leaving it. It said sensitive details, health profiles among them, could be limited to specific members. There is no per-person picker anywhere in NestBoard. What actually holds a health profile back is the role somebody has: adults and caregivers can read a card, only an adult can edit one, and a child or guest account does not see that section at all. The policy and the security page now describe that, and they say plainly that medications and emergency contacts stay visible to the whole household, because a child needs to be able to log a dose and call somebody.
  • An event that sits on two of your calendars now arrives once. If you tick your own Google calendar and your partner's shared one under the same account, and an event is on both, it used to come in twice and sit on the board as a pair. One account now brings an event in one time, however many of its calendars are showing it. The copy belongs to whichever of those calendars brought it in first, so if you untick that one the event goes with it and comes back under a calendar you still have ticked at the next refresh, or straight away if you tap Sync now. Two separate accounts that can both see the same calendar still keep a copy each, because disconnecting either one has to take away its own events and leave the rest, and two different events that happen to share a name and a time are never merged.
  • If you renamed Chores to something else, the app now uses your word in the places that were still ignoring it. The guided tour said "chore" in about a dozen steps, and the reminder that pops up in the corner when something is overdue was headed CHORE DUE no matter what you had called your list. Both read back your own word now, and so do the family and allowance pages, the screen time settings, the search box, Robin's greeting, the project pages, and the notification and Alexa sections of Settings. Where the word follows an "a", it becomes "an" for a word that starts with a vowel, so it reads "add an errand" rather than "add a errand". Households that never renamed anything see exactly what they saw before.
  • Every X that closes something now sits properly in its circle and is easier to hit. The mark used to be a text character, and a text character carries invisible space above and below it, so it looked like it was riding high no matter how carefully the circle was centred. It is a drawn shape now. The tap target used to be only as big as the circle, which on the smaller ones was 28 pixels against the 44 a thumb needs, so the circles look the same size but the area around them counts too, and each one shows a focus outline when you tab to it. This is the same fix that landed on the overdue reminder popup, now applied to the rest of the app: the search box, the Help articles, Robin's chat window, the banners across the top of the page, the welcome cards on the dashboard, the pop-up messages in the corner, and every window with an X in its top corner. On the reminder card itself, the small grey line under the title, the one that names who it belongs to and when it is due, was too light against the tinted background to pass the contrast standard, and "Remind later" now looks like a button rather than plain text sitting next to one.
  • A wall screen now gets itself unstuck. If you keep NestBoard up on a tablet in the kitchen, there is nobody standing there to tap reload when something goes wrong, so a screen that got stuck stayed stuck until somebody walked past and noticed. It now watches itself. If the app never finishes loading, or loads and then cannot reach us for a quarter of an hour, or hits an error that stops the page, it reloads on its own. It will not do that while a window is open or while there is anything typed into a box, because losing what you were part way through writing is worse than looking at yesterday's board for a few more minutes, and it waits a minute and a half after the last time anyone touched the screen. If three reloads do not clear it, it stops trying and puts a short message up rather than flashing at you all evening. None of this happens on a phone or in a normal browser. It only runs on a device you have switched on as a kiosk under Settings.
  • The Family step in setup is clearer about the one question it is actually asking. It wants to know who else is in your household, and it takes either answer: add your partner or co-parent and we email them a link to join, or choose "It is just me for now" and setup carries straight on. That second option is one click, it is always on the screen, and it settles the question for good, because a household with one grown-up is a normal household. Some new households will see the step ask a little more firmly than others while we work out whether the question is worth asking that way at all. Nobody is required to invite anyone, on either version.
  • Cloudflare is now listed on our subprocessors page. It handles email sent to our addresses on its way to the mailbox we read, which makes it a company that touches your data, so it belongs on the list. It is only email. Cloudflare does not sit in front of the app or our website, so it never sees your browsing, your session, or anything inside your household.
  • Disconnecting a calendar now hands the permission back to Google, not just to us. Our privacy policy and our security page both said connected calendar tokens were revoked immediately, and until now nothing in NestBoard ever called a revocation endpoint. Pressing Disconnect deleted our copy of the sign-in and left the permission itself alive in your Google account until you went and removed it by hand. It does the real thing now: we delete the stored sign-in and tell Google the grant is finished, so NestBoard drops off the list in your Google account on its own. The same teardown runs if you delete your account and you were the last person in the household, rather than waiting out the 30-day window. Microsoft is the exception and we would rather say so than paper over it: they give an app no way to revoke its own Outlook access, so an Outlook disconnect deletes the stored sign-in on our side and you can remove NestBoard in your Microsoft account's app permissions if you want it gone there too. If a provider happens to be unreachable at that moment, your disconnect still goes through; you are never stuck with a connection you cannot remove.
  • We stopped describing our under-13 flow as COPPA-compliant, because that is a legal judgement we are not in a position to make about ourselves. Nothing about the flow has changed. What changed is that seven pages and the answers search engines read now describe what actually happens instead: when you add a child, we ask you to confirm you are their parent or legal guardian and are consenting on their behalf, and we record the date you confirmed it. We do not check that against anything, and we do not work out a child's age by ourselves. Our children's privacy page has always spelled that out in full, and the rest of the site now matches it.
  • Robin has two fair-use limits, and until now we had never told anyone what they were. Robin answers up to 30 questions per household per day, and there is a monthly ceiling on what those answers cost us to run, currently $1.50, which works out at a few hundred ordinary questions. Almost no household reaches either one. They are on the pricing page and in the help now, next to the line that says every feature is included, because a limit you only meet by hitting it is not a fair thing to spring on somebody paying. Two things a household hitting the monthly ceiling used to see are fixed as well. The app was telling paid-up customers their subscription was required, which was simply wrong and is the kind of message that makes you check your bank statement. And a wall tablet announced it out loud as "Something went wrong on my end", which makes a working product sound broken in the most public place it lives. It now says it has reached the limit and points at the screen, which carries the date it lifts. If your household genuinely needs more Robin than that, email hub@mynestboard.com and we will raise your ceiling rather than sell you a bigger plan.
  • You can finally mark an event adults only, and add a caregiver or a guest to your family. Both were things we described in the privacy policy, on the security page and across a dozen help articles, and both were real everywhere except the one place you would have gone looking. The server has hidden adults-only events from child and guest accounts, and kept them out of the calendar subscription link, for a long time; no form could ever set the flag. Tick Adults only under the alarm row when you add or edit an event, and the event detail shows a badge afterwards so you can check it took. The Family page now offers all four roles with a line under each saying what it can reach, instead of only Adult and Child. Caregiver is for a grown-up who is not a parent, like a sitter or a grandparent: they read health profiles, approve chores and see adults-only events, but cannot touch settings, billing or money. Guest is a visitor with a child's limits. One quiet bug went with it: opening an existing caregiver or guest on the Family page and pressing Save used to promote them to a full adult.
  • We read back everything we tell you about NestBoard and checked each claim against the code that would have to make it true, because three things we say turned out to be wrong in a single day and we found all three by accident. This is what that turned up, corrected. Our security page said we enforce no password rules beyond length. We do, and it now lists them, the same ones printed under the field when you choose a password. Three places told you that forwarding email to hub@mynestboard.com puts things on your calendar. It never did: hub@ is our own inbox where a person reads what you send, and the address that reaches your household is the personal one in Settings under Email forwarding address. Two emails we send were overstating things, one saying an unsubscribe link stops all mail when password resets still come through, and one telling you an invite was "never opened" when all we know is that it was never accepted. The help article on Alexa still said the skill was in Amazon's review. It has not been submitted yet, which the Alexa panel in the app had already been corrected to say. The Features page offered a caregiver-only view of medications, which does not exist, and quiet hours "per member, per day", which is one setting for the whole household. It also promised a limit of 30 saved recipes, when there is no limit, and named a theme "cream" that has never been called that. Our meal planner said allergies recorded on a Family profile are avoided automatically. They are not, so if an ingredient must never appear, it belongs on the never-suggest list, and both the app and the help now say so plainly. The leaderboard published its scoring formula under a promise of no black box while leaving two of its terms out, so shared events and meals cooked are now in the formula where they belong. Voice in our Android app sends a short clip to be transcribed, like the iPhone app does, rather than staying on the device as the help claimed. And deleting something never removed it from a connected Outlook or iCloud calendar, because those only read into NestBoard. None of this changes how NestBoard works. It changes what we told you about it. Every correction now has a test behind it that checks the claim against the code, so a wrong one cannot quietly come back.
Version 1.0.162
September 8, 2026

All-day events stop showing up a day early, the Pollen reading sits level with the UV and air quality numbers, the Today at a Glance card is tidier, and the Robin chat box grows as you type

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  • If email to your address is not getting through, the trial reminder in the app now appears a week before your trial ends instead of three days, and it names the exact date rather than counting down to it. Normally the reminder emails do the early warning and the banner is just the last nudge, but when an address bounces none of those emails ever arrive, so the app has to do the whole job by itself. Nothing changes for anyone whose email is reaching them.
  • An all-day event no longer appears on the evening before it. Labor Day was showing on Sunday as well as Monday, and the same was true of any all-day event that arrived from Outlook or an older import. The reason is that an all-day event is a date rather than a moment, and the app was placing it by the moment stored with it, which lands on the previous day for everyone in the Americas. It now goes on the date it was written for, wherever it came from and whatever your timezone. Genuine multi-day events still cover every one of their days.
  • The Pollen tile in the Air and Sun card on the dashboard no longer shouts. Its reading is a word (Low, Moderate, High) and it was drawn at the same display size as the UV and air quality numbers, so "Moderate" took over the whole card. The word now sits at the height of the digits next to it, and the three tiles stay level.
  • The Today at a Glance card on the dashboard reads cleanly again. On a holiday it had been printing "All dayLabor Day" with no space, in two different typefaces, then the same event a second time in the small list under it, then one long sentence about chores and medications. The time now sits as a small label in front of the event name, an event only appears once, and the chore and medication counts are separate chips, with anything behind schedule marked in amber and a count of zero shown quietly or not at all. Tapping any of it still opens the calendar, chores, or medications.
  • The message box in the floating Robin chat now grows as you type, up to six lines, then scrolls inside itself. It used to stay one line tall, so a longer message like a week of work shifts scrolled up out of sight and you could only see the last few words of what you had written. Enter still sends, and Shift+Enter starts a new line.
  • The top of Week view is one row again. There used to be two bands above the hours, one for all-day events and one for tasks, each labelled in the narrow strip where the times go, so the word "all-day" wrapped onto two lines. Both bands held their height even on a week with nothing in them. There is now a single row labelled "All day" holding both, events first and then tasks, with the tick still on a task so you can tell the two apart. The chips match the ones on the hours below: a soft background, a colour down the left edge, and dark text, instead of the solid blocks of colour with white writing. On a week with nothing all-day the row is not there at all, and the hours start straight under the days.
  • Health Profiles on the Medical page are now grown-ups only to read, not just to edit. A card holds a person's allergies, conditions and blood type next to your insurance provider, policy number and group number, and until now any account in the household could open the page and read all of them. Adults and caregivers still see the cards, so a sitter can check an allergy in a hurry. Child and guest accounts no longer see that section, and the change is enforced on our servers rather than only hidden in the app. Everything else on the page is unchanged for everyone: children can still log their doses and tap an emergency contact to call it.
  • A subscribed calendar that can never work now gets switched off instead of being retried forever. If a link answers with nothing at all, or with a web page where the calendar file should be, NestBoard keeps trying for several days and then stops checking it, and the banner in the app changes from "stopped updating" to "switched off" and tells you the one thing that fixes it. Nothing is deleted, the feed keeps its name and its link, and pasting the calendar link again in Settings, under Calendar Sync, starts it up straight away. A calendar that is simply having a bad day is never switched off, however long the trouble lasts.
  • Repeating events keep their time when the clocks change. Soccer at 3:30pm every Tuesday stays at 3:30pm through the first weekend in November, and the 7am school run stays at 7am. Underneath, a repeating event was being stepped forward in fixed 24-hour blocks, which is the same as the time on your kitchen clock only while the clocks are not moving, so on the morning the clocks went back every repeating event in the calendar would have read an hour earlier. Repeating all-day events keep their date the same way. This also carries through to the calendar file you export, the subscription link, and the copy in Google if you mirror there, so those do not start disagreeing with the app.
  • Sharing an invite link no longer stops working after a few taps. Share hands the link to a text message or your clipboard and emails nobody, but it was being counted against the limit on emailed resends, so a fourth Share within an hour came back saying the invite had been resent recently. Share is not limited any more, which is what the help had been telling you all along. Resending by email is still a few per hour per invite, so nobody ends up with a full inbox.
  • A holiday that comes from two connected calendars now shows once. If you have both a Google and a Microsoft account connected, each one brings its own US Holidays calendar, so Labor Day arrived twice and the calendar drew it twice, in two colours. The calendar now shows one of them when the name and the date are the same. Nothing is deleted, both are still there in the accounts they came from, and anything with a different name stays separate, so "Labor Day" and "Labor Day - NO SCHOOL" both still show. This is true everywhere you look at the calendar: month, week, day, and the list on your phone.
Version 1.0.161
September 5, 2026

Meals and Shopping can be switched off like any other optional part of NestBoard

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  • Ask Robin why the month view shows dots instead of event names and she now answers about the calendar view: on a phone or an upright tablet the day squares are too narrow for titles, so tap the day or use Week view. She used to reach for the Google sync switch and the calendar subscription link, which move events to other apps and had nothing to do with the question. This one is server-side, so it is already true on every device.
  • Setup on a phone: the skip link and step list no longer collide with the title; finishing during a restart now retries instead of starting over. The step list also matches the path you chose, so the ready-made board no longer promises Calendars and Preferences screens it never shows, and a reload part-way through setup reopens where you left off instead of on the first screen.
  • Meals and Shopping can now be switched off. They used to be part of the core that could never be hidden, so a household that came for chores or the calendar was carrying a meal plan and a shopping list it never opened. Both now behave like Pantry: untick them under Settings, then Modules, or leave the "Meal planning" tile unticked during setup, and they leave your menus and your dashboard. Nothing is deleted. Every recipe, meal plan, and shopping list is waiting when you turn them back on, and the pages still open from a direct link. Home, Calendar, Chores, Family, and Settings are the only parts that always stay.
  • The starter board respects that choice from the first minute. A household that ticked chores but not meal planning no longer gets a "Plan the week's meals" chore about a page it cannot see, and the ready-made board skips the grocery list when Shopping is off. Everything else on the starter board is the same, and nothing changes for households that are already set up.
  • "Start with a ready-made board" now asks who is in your family before it builds the board. It used to ask for one invite email on its way to the dashboard, which left everyone else to be added by hand on the Family page afterwards. The ready-made path now shows the same Family step as the full setup, with your partner or co-parent, the kids and their ages, and pets, and the starter chores are handed out to those people from the first minute instead of all landing on you. It is still the short path: basics, one question, your family, done.
  • The ready-made board now asks about notifications too, once, right before it lands on your board. The full setup already had this screen and the short path never did, so the households most likely to want a quick start were also the ones whose phones never heard about a chore that was due. It is the same short explanation and the same two buttons, "Not now" still takes you straight to your board, and a device that has already answered is not asked again.
  • The sign-in form cannot get stuck any more. Being straight about this: if the request behind Sign in never came back, the button could stay greyed out for minutes, with no way to try again and nothing on screen saying why. A sign-in, sign-up, or set-password request now gives up after fifteen seconds, the button comes back, and the form says "That took too long. Check your connection and try again." so you can simply try again.
  • Every place you choose a new password now tells you the full rule before you type, and checks it as you go. The rule was always "at least 10 characters with a mix of letters and numbers or symbols, and not a common password", but the form only mentioned the length, so people met the rest of it for the first time as an error after tapping Save. The form and the server now read the same rule, and the specific reason shows under the field before anything is sent.
  • Signing up with Google or Apple no longer stops you at a "set a password" screen before you have seen the app. You now go straight into setup, and the suggestion to add a password (so you have a second way in if Google or Apple ever locks you out) waits for you on the dashboard and in Settings, then Account, where you can take it or dismiss it. The card and the Settings row name whichever sign-in you used. That Account section is new too: your name, email, sign out, password, and the linked Google or Apple sign-in used to sit in an unlabelled card at the bottom of Settings, so help articles could only describe it as "under your name". It has a heading now, and the articles say Settings, then Account.
  • Inviting the other adult is lighter. Every invite now has a Share button next to Resend, on the Family page and on the dashboard right after you send one, that puts the join link into your phone's share sheet with a short message already written, so it goes out as a text to the person on the sofa next to you instead of an email they will read on Tuesday. On a computer it copies the message to your clipboard. The Family page also says when each invite went out ("Sent 2 days ago") and when someone joined, and while you are the only person who can sign in, one short line above the welcome cards keeps that status in view, with Resend and Share beside it, until a second person has a login. It is not a question and it has no close button; it simply goes away when someone joins.
Version 1.0.160
September 4, 2026

Google no longer warns you that NestBoard is unverified, connecting a calendar works on an iPhone browser and hands you back to the app, the photo slideshow works inside the app again, Robin tells you what actually happened, and we send you a good deal less email

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  • Google has verified NestBoard, so connecting a calendar no longer shows the screen warning that we are an unverified app. Being straight about this: that screen was frightening, it appeared at the exact moment you were deciding whether to trust us with a calendar, and the honest answer for months was "choose Advanced and continue anyway". You do not have to do that any more. Nothing about the permission changed. It is still limited to the one calendar NestBoard creates, and it still cannot read the calendars you made yourself. Microsoft runs its own separate review, and that cleared the same day, so the Outlook screen has stopped saying it too.
  • Connecting Google or Outlook works on an iPhone or iPad browser. It did nothing at all before. You tapped Connect, and no window opened, and nothing told you why. Safari only allows a new window to open in the same instant you tap, and we were asking it a moment too late. This one is entirely our fault and it had been that way for a while.
  • After you connect, "Return to NestBoard" now returns you to NestBoard. In the app it used to leave you sitting in a browser on our website, on top of the app you started from, which is a strange place to land after something worked. It now closes and puts you back where you were.
  • Robin now tells you what actually happened, not what she asked for. Being straight about this: a family asked her to move a weekly class to Wednesdays, and she twice replied that she had moved it, naming a date that was not even the right weekday. The class stayed where it was and they fixed it by hand. She was reading the answer back off her own request instead of off the calendar. She now reads it off the calendar, she moves the whole repeating pattern rather than one date, and if a request fails she will not quietly drop part of what you asked for to make it succeed.
  • Monthly repeats like "the second Sunday" land on the right week. Anything already in your calendar keeps the dates it already has, so nothing moves under you.
  • Ask Robin about connecting a calendar and she will check which direction you mean first, instead of guessing. Bringing your Google events into NestBoard and showing your NestBoard events in Google are two different switches, and she had been answering with whichever one came to mind.
  • The photo slideshow on an idle screen works inside the app again. It had been showing nothing at all, which rather defeats the point of a wall tablet in a kitchen. It works on the web version throughout.
  • The first tap of "Continue with Apple" works on an iPhone browser. Before, the first tap did nothing and said nothing, and you had to tap again without being told to. Same cause as the calendar one above, and it had been that way since June.
  • We send you a good deal less email. Being straight about this: a new family could get about fifteen emails from us in their first seven days. Every one of them was individually reasonable, and the total was not. There is now one shared limit across all of it, at most five in a week and two in a day, and things like a daily briefing give way to it. Nothing that actually matters is affected: a verification email, a password reset, a receipt, a warning that a trial is ending, or a new-device alert always arrives.
  • If you are the only person on your board, NestBoard now says so and offers to invite someone, once, in the welcome cards. It stops asking after three looks, and if you say it is just you it stays quiet. A shared calendar with one person on it is only a calendar, and until now NestBoard never mentioned it.
  • The person you invite now gets one reminder, a day later, if they have not joined. It goes to them, not to you, it names who invited them and to what, and it is the only one we will ever send them.
  • Chores that are "as needed" count the days since you last did them on your own calendar, instead of counting in hours. A chore finished late on Monday evening said "1 day ago" on Tuesday morning by an arithmetic accident rather than by the calendar. The reminder that nudges you about it was doing the same thing, so both now agree with each other and with you.
  • The activity feed groups days by your household clock rather than the clock on the device in your hand. If you were travelling, or your family is spread across time zones, the day headings could put things under the wrong day. The entries themselves were always right.
  • Children can no longer change a health profile, disconnect a calendar, or remove other people's devices. Being straight about this: our own children's privacy page said that was already enforced on our servers, and for a handful of things it was not. A child could open a parent's health profile and edit it, and the Edit button was showing to them. Reading is unchanged, so a sitter or an older child can still check an allergy.
  • Feedback you send us no longer passes through Discord. It used to arrive there with your email address in the title and your whole message underneath. Now that notification is an anonymous ping and a link, and we read what you wrote in our own admin. Discord is off our subprocessor list entirely as a result.
  • Our cookie notice now says plainly that we record how the site is used, not just that we count visits. That was already true and the notice had not caught up, which is our mistake to own rather than yours to discover.
  • A few things that refused to save now save: an emergency contact with the relationship left blank, and a pantry item keeping the expiry dates you set per unit.
  • Wall tablets are still not listening for "Hi Robin". We found why the last three attempts failed: the code meant to quieten Android's own start beep was never running at all, for two separate reasons, and it failed silently so nothing told us. Both are fixed in the code, but nobody has heard it run on a real wall-mounted tablet yet, so listening stays off until somebody has. We would rather leave it off than tell you it is fixed for a fourth time.
Version 1.0.159
September 1, 2026

Connect more than one Google or Microsoft account, each with its own calendars; forgot-password stops sending Google and Apple accounts down a dead end; the notifications reminder learns to take a hint; names that start with an emoji save correctly; family member photos upload again on iPhone and iPad; maintenance tasks save with the notes left empty; the Medical page takes what you type and saves with boxes left empty; and you can choose whether streak bonuses turn into pocket money

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  • You can now connect more than one Google account, and more than one Microsoft account, to the same household. A personal Gmail and a work Google account, or a personal Outlook alongside a school one, all follow at once. Go to Settings, then Calendar Sync. Once the first account is connected the button reads Add account.
  • Each account gets its own row on the card, named with the address it belongs to. It has its own list of calendars to tick, its own Sync now, its own Reconnect, and its own Disconnect.
  • Disconnect now removes one account and only its events. Being straight about why this took a while: before this, everything a household imported from Google was treated as one pile, so "disconnect the work account" would have had to take the personal calendar with it. Each imported event now remembers which account it came through, and Disconnect only touches that account's events. Everything you added yourself, and everything from any other account, stays put.
  • Reconnect still means the same account. If you sign in as a different one by mistake, NestBoard says so and keeps the row as it was, and points you at Add account instead. Press Add account and pick an account you already have and nothing is duplicated: NestBoard refreshes the row you had and tells you so.
  • If two of your accounts can both see the same shared calendar and you leave it ticked under both, its events show twice, once per account. That is deliberate, so that disconnecting either account removes only its own copy. Untick the calendar under one account to see it once. The help article "Connecting more than one Google or Outlook account" covers it.
  • The "Show NestBoard events in Google Calendar" switch copies into one Google account. With several connected, the card asks which one should hold the NestBoard calendar before you turn it on, and names it once it is on. It never quietly moves to whichever account you connected last.
  • Nothing changes for a household with one account per provider. Your existing connection carried over as it was, with its calendars, its colours and its events, and the card simply gained an Add account button.
  • If you signed up with Google or Apple, the forgot-password screen now sends you to the right sign-in button instead of a reset email that never comes. There was never a password on those accounts, so there was never anything to reset, but the screen said "Reset link sent" anyway and left you waiting on an inbox that stayed empty. It now checks first and points you at the button that actually gets you in.
  • The Send reset link button also works on the first tap when your phone or password manager fills in the address for you. It used to stay greyed out until you typed something yourself, which on an iPhone often meant tapping a button that did nothing. The same fix is on the sign-in screen.
  • The notifications reminder now steps back after a few looks instead of appearing every time. Being straight about this: it had no limit at all, so it came back every time the dashboard loaded. It now shows up to three times on a screen before going quiet for two weeks, "Not now" keeps it away for a month, and inside the add-event and add-chore forms it appears once per visit at most. Turning notifications on clears all of that, and you can always enable them from Settings.
  • Tap any dashboard card to open that part of NestBoard. The chores card opens Chores, the meals card opens Meals, a row in Today at a Glance opens the calendar, chores or medications, and the lightning card opens its alert settings. Tapping one used to do nothing at all, so now they go somewhere. Buttons inside a card, like a routine step or "Did it", still do their own job, and the weather and Air and Sun cards stay as they are.
  • Names that start with an emoji now save correctly on the Family page. Being straight about this: if you gave someone a name like "🌸 Juniper", every save failed, with no useful message, and the member could not be edited at all. The initials for the avatar were cut in the middle of the emoji, and the database refused the result. Initials now keep the whole emoji, a family emoji, or a flag, and the same rule applies when you sign up or accept an invite with a name like that.
  • Marking a chore done now says who it is for and what they earn, and gives you a few seconds to undo it. The person already picked for you carries a small note saying why (assigned to them, they did it last time, or just you), the button reads "Done, +10 for Theo" instead of a bare Confirm, the "How many times?" counter stays tucked behind a link unless the chore is set to a number of times a week, and Enter, Escape and the arrow keys work if you are on a keyboard. If you tap the wrong person, the message that follows has an Undo that takes the points, streak and allowance back out together.
  • Streak bonuses now pay once a day, on the first chore, and the app shows the bonus before you confirm. Being straight about this: the bonus was added to every chore you finished while on a streak, and nothing on screen said so, which is how a 5-point chore could land as 20 points with no explanation. The done button now reads "Done, +20 for Mia (+15 streak)" with a note underneath, the message afterwards spells out base and bonus, and the help article "How streak bonuses work" has the full rule. Points already awarded stay as they are.
  • Adding a photo to a family member works again on iPhone and iPad, and tells you if a photo cannot be read. Being straight about this: tapping Upload photo did absolutely nothing inside the app. No photo list, no message, nothing saved. It opens your photos now, shows that it is working while a big photo is processed, and if the photo will not open, which happens with some of the newer iPhone photo formats, it says so and asks you to try another one instead of leaving you tapping. Uploading your own chime or lightning sound in Settings had the same fault and is fixed with it.
  • Maintenance tasks save when you leave the notes empty. Adding one with the notes box blank was turned away with a message about invalid input, which was our fault and not yours: notes were always meant to be optional. Thank you to the family who tried four times before telling us.
  • Robin stops receiving half of what you typed. On a tablet or phone, pressing send while the keyboard was still finishing a word posted only the words before it, so a whole question could reach Robin as a single word and she would reply asking you to finish it. She was reading it correctly. The fault was ours, and it is fixed. The daily check-in and the message board had the same problem and are fixed with it.
  • The Allergies and Conditions boxes on the Medical page now take what you type. Being straight about this: they did not. Press P and the box showed ["P"], and every key after that made it worse, adding brackets, backslashes and quote marks nobody pressed. The boxes were unusable, for everybody, and we are sorry. They hold plain text now, so type a list the way you would write it: Peanuts, Penicillin. Anything you had already saved is unchanged, and opens as plain text. Thank you to the family who described it precisely enough for us to find it on the first look.
  • You can now choose whether streak bonuses turn into pocket money. Chore points still do, and streaks still count for points, badges and the leaderboard either way. This came from a family who set their rate so each kid would earn around $5 a week and found the bonus quietly pushing the real payout well past it. The switch is in Settings, under Allowance & Kid Money, right below the dollars-per-point box, and it is called "Convert streak bonuses too". It starts on, so nothing changes for anyone until you turn it off.
  • Pick again on the Robin's picks card deals a genuinely new hand. Being straight about this: if most of your open chores were due or overdue, the card handed you the same first two every single time you tapped it, so the button looked broken. It was only shuffling part of the list. It now rotates through the whole backlog, with the most overdue and the most neglected still the most likely to come up. And when everything you have is already on the card, the button greys out and says so instead of leaving you tapping.
  • A health profile saves with any of its boxes left empty. If you filled in a blood type and an allergy and left the three insurance boxes alone, Save came back with a message about invalid input and nothing was kept. Every box on that card was always meant to be optional, and now is. Marking a maintenance task or a pet task as done with the notes blank had the same fault, so did adding or taking off pocket money without a note, and a family savings contribution without one. All fixed together.
  • Health profiles and calendar sync are now grown-ups-only to change. Being straight about this: a security review of our own code found that a child or guest account could edit anybody's health profile, and the Edit button was right there on the Medical page for them to tap. So this was not a theoretical hole, it was reachable, and it should never have shipped that way. The same review found a child could disconnect the household's Google, Microsoft or Apple calendar and take a parent's work events off the board. Both are now grown-ups-only, on our servers and not just hidden in the app. Everyone can still read the health cards, so a sitter can check an allergy in a hurry. Signing other devices out, revoking an invite, and renaming your task list are grown-ups-only now too.
  • The code meant to quieten the short beep on Android wall tablets was never running. Being straight about this: it was not that the muting was too weak or mistimed. It failed on its very first step, on every device, from the day it shipped, and it failed silently, so nothing in the app or in our error reports said the beep had gone unmuted. That first step is fixed and the muting now actually runs. We are not claiming the beep is solved yet. The wake word stays paused while we test the muting properly on a tablet, and we will say plainly whether it worked.
Version 1.0.158
August 31, 2026

Family tablets listen for "Hi Robin" again, without the beeping, and a recipe shared into the Android app now actually arrives

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  • Family tablets are listening for "Hi Robin" again. We switched it off two days ago rather than leave people with a beep every few seconds, and this is the fix that lets it come back.
  • The beeping was never ours to switch off, which is why it took a while. Android plays its own short tone every time it starts listening, and keeping the wake word alive means starting it again every few seconds of quiet. So the beep was the direct cost of listening, and nothing inside a normal app could reach that sound. NestBoard now quietens it around each restart, from inside the Android app itself.
  • Being straight about the limit: we have not been able to try this on a wall-mounted tablet ourselves, which is the exact setup it is for. If you hear the beeping still, or Robin stops answering to her name, please tell us. That is not us fishing for compliments, it is the one thing we cannot check from here.
  • While it was switched off we also taught it to stand down during the screensaver, so a tablet in an empty room at three in the morning is not holding a microphone open all night. That stays.
  • Your own setting was remembered throughout. If you had family tablets listening before, they are listening again; if you had turned it off, it stayed off.
  • Sharing a recipe into the Android app works now. It appeared in the Share list before and then quietly dropped what you sent it, so you tapped Share, picked NestBoard, and the app opened on the dashboard with the recipe gone. It now opens straight to the import, with the link ready and nothing saved until you say so.
Version 1.0.157
August 29, 2026

Family tablets have stopped listening for "Hi Robin" while we get it right, the first badge notice stops coming back every time you open the app, and a chore set to a number of times a week now counts once a day

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  • Family tablets have stopped listening for "Hi Robin". We have switched it off ourselves, everywhere, and we would rather say why than let you wonder. It was not working reliably enough, and an always-on microphone in somebody's kitchen is not the place to leave a feature we are still adjusting. It comes back once it has been properly tested on a real wall-mounted tablet.
  • Robin is not affected in any way. She is on every menu, she opens from her button, and she still answers out loud when you tap the microphone and speak. The only thing that stopped is the tablet listening for its name without being asked.
  • If you are on an Android tablet, the short beep every few seconds has stopped as well. It came from the tablet's own speech system starting and restarting while it listened, and there is nothing left to restart. Your setting under Settings, then Modules, is remembered, so when listening comes back it comes back the way you had it.
  • While it was still listening, we also had it stand down during the screensaver, so a tablet in an empty room at three in the morning was not holding a microphone open all night. That part stays, and it is what listening will come back to.
  • The notice celebrating your first badge stops reappearing. Being straight about this: it came back every single time the dashboard loaded, and there was no way to make it stop, which is the opposite of a celebration. It showed once and then kept showing because the app forgot it had already congratulated you every time it was closed and reopened. It now remembers, and it only ever fires for a badge somebody actually just earned.
  • A chore set to a number of times a week now counts once a day. Set something to three times a week and it stays available all week on whatever days suit you, which is the point of it, but after this it went on sitting in today's list looking untouched once it had been done. So you could not tell what was still left for today, and three taps on the same row in one afternoon would clear the whole week without the chore being done three times.
  • The row now says "Done today" once it has been ticked off, keeps its running count so you can still see "1 of 3 this week", and moves to the bottom of the list under whatever is still owed. It comes back the next morning. If you genuinely did it twice in a day, the completion window still has a count box, so you can log both at once.
  • Turning chore points into pocket money now pays the children only, which is what the setting always said it did. Being straight about this: it paid everyone. If you switched it on for your kids, the grown-ups in the house were quietly building an allowance balance too. Adults still earn points, keep their streaks and hold their place on the leaderboard. They just do not accrue pocket money.
  • Thank you to the family who reported all three of these on the same afternoon, and who suggested the once-a-day rule themselves. It was the right rule.
Version 1.0.156
August 29, 2026

Robin listens properly on a wall tablet and can be switched off entirely, connecting a second calendar account no longer replaces the first, the dashboard stops hiding people in a big household, and the Android app stops signing you out

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  • Robin now has a real off switch. Settings, then Modules, and the line marked "Robin is on". Turn it off and she stops answering everywhere: the chat, the family tablet, and the morning check-in. Her button disappears from every screen. An adult makes the change and it applies to the whole household.
  • Nothing is deleted when you do it. Past conversations stay exactly where they are, and they are still there if you turn her back on later. If you want them gone rather than paused, that is a separate thing and it lives in Settings, then Privacy and Data.
  • Hiding Robin is still there and still does something different. Unticking her in the module list takes her out of the sidebar, the phone tabs, and the More menu while she carries on working underneath, which is the right choice if you only want a quieter screen. The off switch is for when you do not want the assistant at all.
  • A wall tablet that has Robin hidden now stops answering to "Hi Robin". Being straight about this one: hiding her used to leave the tablet listening and replying out loud, which is not what anyone meant by hiding her. If you hid Robin and wondered why the kitchen screen still answered, that was why, and it is fixed.
  • New households are asked during setup. It is on by default, so nothing changes if you want her, but a family that would rather not have an AI in the house can say so on the first day instead of going looking for the setting later.
  • Connecting a second Google or Outlook account no longer replaces the one you already had. Being straight about this: it used to, without a word. Sign in with your work Microsoft account when your personal one was already connected and the second one simply took over, the first calendar stopped updating, and its events sat there going stale until they disappeared. NestBoard now recognises that it is a different account, keeps the connection you had, and tells you which account that is.
  • The Calendar Sync card also names the account it is using, which matters if you have a personal address and a work or school one. If you do want to swap, press Disconnect first and then connect the other account. Signing in again with the same account is unaffected, and that is still the fix when a connection expires.
  • If you have NestBoard on a wall tablet, Robin listens better. She used to decide you had finished talking after about a second of silence, which is shorter than the pause anyone takes while remembering a date, so a longer instruction arrived cut in half. She now waits properly, and a sentence survives even when the tablet stops and restarts its microphone partway through. "Hi Robin, add a dentist appointment for Emma on Thursday, at half three" arrives in one piece.
  • You can also keep talking. After Robin answers, she stays listening for a few seconds, so you can follow "what is for dinner?" with "and tomorrow?" without saying her name again. Both ways of starting still work: say it all in one go, or say "Hi Robin", wait for her to answer, then ask. That was never written down anywhere before, and it is in the help now.
  • Two smaller things on the tablet. Robin no longer answers to names that merely sound like hers, so a Robert in the house is safe, and she only wakes when her name comes at the start of what you say rather than anywhere in a sentence. And while the tablet is listening there is now a small dot and the words "Listening for Hi Robin" in the corner, because the microphone was open the whole time before that with nothing on screen saying so.
  • There is now a switch for that microphone. Settings, then Modules, then "Family tablets listen for Hi Robin". Turn it off and the tablet stops listening while Robin stays exactly where she is and still answers when you tap her. Worth knowing if you are on an Android tablet: while it is listening, the tablet plays its own short tone every few seconds. That sound belongs to Android rather than to NestBoard and we cannot switch it off from inside the app, so this is the way to stop it.
  • Robin also speaks your household language now. If you set the household to Espanol or Portugues, the tablet expects to hear that language and reads her answers back in it, rather than listening in English and pronouncing Spanish with an English accent.
  • When something goes wrong, the tablet no longer reads the error code out loud. It used to announce things like "Internal server error, reference 8f3c" to whoever was standing in the kitchen, which is useless to everybody. It now says something plain and leaves the detail on the screen, where it is actually useful if you want to tell us about it.
  • The dashboard calendar stops hiding people. The row of days shows a coloured dot per person, capped at three, which is fine in a small household and useless in a big one: with a dozen people, most days had more than three and the rest were simply left off. It now says "+7" rather than pretending three is the whole story, and a birthday is never the thing hidden behind the plus.
  • And if your household is large enough that a row of dots cannot describe it, there is a better option. Settings, then Display, then "Show two days instead of the week". The dashboard then shows today and tomorrow, and writes each thing out with its time and who it is for, instead of seven days of colour. It is off unless you turn it on, so nothing changes for anyone who likes the week.
  • You can send a recipe to NestBoard from another app. Open a recipe wherever you found it, tap the usual Share button, pick NestBoard, and it opens with the link ready and asks whether to import it. Nothing is saved until you say so, and once it is in, the ingredients can go to the shopping list the same way they always could.
  • Fixed for anyone using the Android app: being signed out over and over. If the app could not read your saved sign-in quickly enough when it started, usually right after an update, it treated that as being signed out and threw the sign-in away, so you had to log in again the next day, and the day after. It now checks properly before giving up on you. Nothing about your account changed, and you were not doing anything wrong.
Version 1.0.155
August 27, 2026

A connected calendar could quietly stop importing, Reset on a routine you had not started yet showed an error, and Robin heard one sentence as several on a wall tablet

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  • A connected calendar could stop importing partway through and not tell anyone. If an event was deleted at the same moment NestBoard was reading that calendar, the sync gave up on the spot, and everything it had not reached yet simply never arrived. It looked like nothing was wrong, because the next attempt behaved the same way. Deleting an event from a connected calendar is an ordinary thing to do and it now carries on, brings the event back if the calendar still lists it, and finishes the rest of the update.
  • Reset on a routine you have not started today no longer shows an error. Tapping it before ticking anything off asked NestBoard to clear a list that was already clear, and instead of quietly agreeing it returned an error, which sent people tapping it again. It now does what you would expect, and tapping it twice is fine.
  • On a wall tablet, saying "Hi Robin" and then a request no longer arrives as a handful of half sentences. A household asked her to add avocado to the shopping list and she received it five times over as it was being spoken, once as "at", then "at avocado", and so on, answering each one and adding the item more than once. She now waits for you to finish the sentence and acts on it once. If you say the same thing twice in a row because you were not sure she heard, she will not do it twice.
Version 1.0.154
August 26, 2026

Your calendar still works with no signal, Outlook calendars connect for the first time, a broken calendar feed finally tells you it is broken, and Robin got a handful of corrections

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  • Losing signal no longer empties your calendar. NestBoard keeps a copy of the week on your device now, so when the bars drop out in the school pickup line or a parking garage, the board still shows what is on today. A line under the header says plainly that you are looking at a saved copy and how old it is, and it clears itself the moment you are back online. While you are offline it is read only: the buttons that need a connection go grey and tell you why, instead of letting you fill in a whole event that cannot be saved.
  • If a calendar you subscribed to stops working, we now tell you. Before this it failed quietly, and worse, the Sync panel would say it had updated a few minutes ago when the feed had never once loaded. Two families had an almost empty NestBoard for over a week without knowing why. You will now see a message naming the calendar, and saying either that we have never been able to read it, which usually means the link needs replacing, or that it worked before and we cannot reach it at the moment.
  • Robin picked up a handful of corrections. She answers in the language you write in, rather than carrying one over from a conversation days earlier. She stops asking the same question twice and offers you concrete options instead of going round again. She looks up the help article before telling you how a feature behaves, rather than answering from memory and being half right. And when you ask for chores but what you have described is really a checklist, she says so and lets you pick, instead of quietly filing it somewhere you were not expecting.
  • Small but worth saying: the message you get when a family member cannot be removed used to send you to Settings, then Account. There is no Account section, so it sent people nowhere. It now points at Privacy and Data, which is where the button actually is.
  • If your family keeps its calendar in Outlook or on a Microsoft account, connecting it works now. Being straight with you: it did not work for anyone before this, on any account, since the day we put the option there. Signing in with a personal outlook.com or hotmail address was turned away outright, and a work account got as far as the end and then landed on a page reading Not found. Both are fixed. Settings, then Calendar Sync, then Connect Outlook, and a personal Microsoft account and a work one both go through. Your Outlook events then show up on the family board alongside everything else.
  • Robin works again on older iPads. If you have an iPad running iPadOS 15 and asking Robin a question left you looking at an empty chat, that was not you doing it wrong. The part of NestBoard that lays out her replies needed something those versions of Safari do not include, so her answer arrived and then failed to draw. This release carries the missing piece with it. If you gave up on Robin on an older iPad, it is worth another go.
  • When NestBoard cannot tidy up its own calendar in your Google account, it now says so in plain words. Before, it handed you the raw error text Google sends to programmers, which mentioned access tokens and login cookies and read as though NestBoard had broken badly. The usual reason is simply that you removed NestBoard from your Google account first, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do and means we no longer have permission to delete the calendar we made. It now tells you that, and tells you the one thing left to do about it.
  • You can choose your household language in Settings, under Household. English, Español, and Português are in the list, and Robin writes back to you in whichever one you pick, so a family that speaks Spanish at home can ask her a question in Spanish and read the answer in Spanish. It is one setting for the whole household, and an adult sets it.
  • Straight about the limit: Robin is the only part that speaks the new language today. The menus, the buttons, the settings labels, and the help articles are all still in English while we work through translating them, so picking Español changes Robin's replies and nothing else on screen. We would rather you knew that before you switched than after. Whichever language is selected, what your family types stays in your family's own words, so a chore called "Take out the bins" keeps that name on every screen.
  • If your partner is on the board but has never been able to sign in, this release fixes it and we owe you an apology for it. During setup, the box that asks for your partner or co-parent let you fill in just their name and then offered a button reading "Send invite." Nothing was sent. It created a profile with no way to log in, and because it looked like the job was done, every later reminder we have went quiet: the setup step moved on, the nudge on the dashboard stopped appearing, and their card on the Family page showed no invite button at all. There was no way to find out, short of your partner telling you the app would not let them in.
  • Three things change. That button now needs their email address, since the email is the invite and there is nothing to send without it. Any member who is on the board with no login shows "No login yet" on their Family card with a "Give them a login" button next to it, which opens their profile with the email box waiting. And the dashboard suggestion now goes by whether a second person can genuinely open NestBoard, rather than by how many adults are listed, so it will surface again for anyone this caught.
  • None of that becomes a requirement. "It is just me for now" is still there in setup and on the dashboard, and choosing it still ends the prompt for good. Children are untouched as well: a child with no email is a normal no-account seat for the family tablet, exactly as before, and their cards say nothing about logins.
Version 1.0.153
August 25, 2026

A NestBoard panel you can leave on the Echo Show home screen, removing a family member explains itself when it cannot go through, and the week view is readable on a tablet again

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  • Coming shortly: a NestBoard panel that lives on the Echo Show home screen, so the day is just there without anyone asking for it. The code ships in this release and we are finishing the last of the setup on Amazon's side, so it will turn up in the Show's own widget gallery within the next few days rather than today. On a Show 15 it stays on the home screen; on a Show 8 or a Show 10 you reach it through Widget Shortcuts. It shows a live clock, the next thing coming up with a countdown to it, up to three more things left today, and how many of today's chores are done
  • It keeps itself current. Change a chore or an event in the app and the panel catches up within seconds, and the clock and the countdown run on the Echo itself rather than asking our servers every second, so they stay right even while the house is offline. Times follow your household's timezone rather than the Echo's, which matters if the household is set to one place and the device is somewhere else
  • The panel has one button, and this is the part worth waiting for: tapping it marks that chore done and Alexa does not say a word. No chime, no light ring, no okay. Somebody up first at six in the morning can finish the dishwasher on the way past without waking the house. It still credits whoever's voice the Echo recognizes, so it needs a grown-up NestBoard knows, exactly like everywhere else; a child's tap simply does not take, and the button goes back to how it was a second later
  • On a very busy day the panel shows the next thing, three more, and a count of what is left rather than trying to list everything. There is a hard limit on how much an Echo will accept in one update, so NestBoard fits the day into it by keeping the counts honest and dropping rows, not by giving up and showing nothing
  • Removing a family member no longer fails in silence. If that person has their own NestBoard sign-in, we do not let you remove their profile, because it would lock them out of the app with no warning. That has always been the rule, but the confirm box just sat there doing nothing when you tapped Remove, so there was no way to know it was even a rule. It now tells you, in the box you are already looking at, that they need to delete their own account first and where that switch is (Settings, then Privacy & Data, then Delete account). If it turns out to be a second sign-in you created yourself, it says that instead, and tells you how to get into it
  • Every other confirm box in NestBoard got the same treatment. Anywhere you are asked "are you sure?", if the answer from our end is no, the reason now appears in the box and the box stays open, rather than the button going quiet and leaving you to guess whether anything happened
  • Four pages that had no link anywhere on the site are now in the footer: the chore chart generator, the household chore planner, the leaderboard, and our accessibility statement. The "For" list also picked up the three household types that were missing from it, so multi-gen homes, co-parents, and households of two are one click from any page like the other five already were
  • A Journal post about streaks and leaderboards is back up after being taken down by mistake. It covers why the family leaderboard is on out of the box, where to switch it off if ranking is not what your household needs, and why the National Leaderboard works the other way around and stays off until an adult opts in
  • Week view on a tablet no longer shows chips as a bare "...". A task or medication chip at a busy hour used to be squeezed into half a column, which left no room for a single letter of its title, so two different things at 7pm and 8pm both came out as an unreadable stub. A chip now takes the half column only when there is genuinely an event underneath it, so most of them get the full width and show a real word. On the rare one that still cannot fit, you get a clear marker with the full name on hover and for screen readers, instead of an ellipsis that could have been anything
  • More of each week-view title fits before it truncates. The time column down the left was wider than the clock labels needed, the chips carried an emoji that was eating a quarter of the space, and the padding around them was set for a desktop. All three are tightened on tablet-sized screens, so titles that used to cut off mid-word now wrap onto a second line and finish. The second line repeating an event's time is dropped when it would only truncate to "11:30 AM ..." and say nothing
  • The "+ Add" button no longer sits on top of the last card in a list on a tablet. On the Chores page in particular it landed squarely on the final row and covered that row's edit and delete buttons, and scrolling could not free them because it was the end of the list. Every page now leaves room for the whole floating stack rather than part of it
  • Ask Robin how to edit a chore you have already marked done and she tells you where it actually is. The answer used to be "every chore row has a pencil", which is true and no help at all, because finished chores sit in a Completed section that starts closed. She now names the section and the Show button that opens it, and offers to take you straight there with the section already open
  • All-day events from Google Calendar land on the right day. Birthdays, school picture day, a field trip, anything with a date but no time was arriving one day early for every household west of London, because a date with no time on it has to be read against your own timezone and we were reading it against the clock in Greenwich. If your calendar has been off by a day, it corrects itself the next time it syncs. You do not have to do anything. A holiday or a trip that runs several days also keeps all of its days now, instead of being squashed down to the first one
  • Assign a synced event to someone and it stays assigned. Every refresh of a connected calendar used to quietly clear out who an event was for, which is also why events from Google, Outlook, and subscribed calendars all showed up in the same color: color comes from whose event it is, and the answer kept getting erased. Marking one of them adults-only used to get undone the same way. Both stick now
  • Your calendars look like different calendars. Events synced from Google carry the color you gave that calendar in Google, and each subscribed calendar link gets a color of its own, so four calendars on the board read as four calendars instead of one wall of orange. An event assigned to a family member still shows in that person's color, because who it is for matters more than where it came from. Chip text switches between dark and light so it stays readable on a pale color
  • Editing an event that came from a connected calendar now tells you the truth, wherever you edit it from. Changing the date or the title of a synced event looked like it worked and then reverted a few minutes later, when the calendar it came from refreshed and put its own version back. NestBoard now says so up front and points you at the calendar that owns the event. That covers asking Robin as well: telling her to move a Google event used to get a cheerful yes and a quiet undo, and she now names the calendar instead. Same for edits sent in by email. Choosing who the event is for, marking it adults-only, and setting a reminder all still work here, because those belong to your household rather than the other calendar
  • Connecting Google Calendar no longer ends on a blank white page. Finishing the sign-in sent you back to a page that arrived completely empty, so there was no way to tell whether it had worked. It usually had. The page now loads properly, says the connection succeeded, and its button does something instead of sitting there. The same fault was quietly emptying our Journal feed for anyone reading it in a feed reader, which is fixed too
Version 1.0.152
August 24, 2026

Connecting Google Calendar or Outlook finally works in the phone and tablet apps, NestBoard is much faster on older tablets, and you can hide the parts of the app your household never uses

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  • Connecting Google Calendar or Outlook finally works in the phone and tablet apps. Tapping Connect used to open the Google sign-in page inside the app itself, which Google refuses to accept on principle, so the connection failed every time and the screen never said a word about it. It now hands you to your normal browser to sign in and brings you straight back to NestBoard when you are done. If a connection does start and never comes back, the Calendar Sync card now tells you so instead of sitting there looking exactly like you had never tried
  • Much faster on older tablets. If NestBoard felt sluggish on an older iPad or Android tablet, where a tap seemed to go nowhere and then everything happened at once, this release should feel like a different app. NestBoard was quietly redrawing the whole screen once a second whether or not anything had changed, downloading about half a megabyte of code at startup that it did not need until much later, and reaching out to the server for two dozen things all at the same instant every minute. All three are fixed. On a newer tablet or phone you will not notice a difference, because those devices were fast enough to hide it
  • The chime you choose now plays on Android push notifications, not just on a screen with NestBoard already open. Every built-in chime and storm tone ships with the app as a real sound file, so a chore reminder arrives in the sound you picked instead of your phone's generic notification tone, and a lightning alert uses your storm tone rather than your everyday chime. One exception: a sound you uploaded yourself still plays only in the app, because Android can only use a sound stored on the phone itself. You will now see two entries, "NestBoard reminders" and "NestBoard storm alerts", in your phone's own notification settings
  • New in Settings: a Modules section where an adult can hide the parts of NestBoard your household does not use, like Projects, Pets, or even Robin's chat button. Hidden modules leave the sidebar, the phone More menu, and the floating Robin button for everyone in the household, so the menus shrink down to the features your family actually uses
  • Hiding is tidying, not deleting. Nothing is removed from your account, a hidden page still opens if you follow a link straight to it, and turning a module back on brings everything back exactly as it was. Hiding Robin only removes her button: the Robin page itself and voice on the family screen keep working. The core of NestBoard (Home, Calendar, Chores, Meals, Shopping, Family, and Settings) can never be hidden, so the app always has its skeleton
  • You can also just ask Robin: "hide Projects", "hide the Robin button", or "show Pets again" all work in chat, and "what modules are hidden?" reads the current list back. If you hide Robin this way, she tells you where the switch lives (Settings, then Modules) before her button goes
  • Robin no longer tells you something is done when it is not. Two things changed. When you ask for a class that is already on the calendar and someone new needs adding to it, NestBoard adds them itself rather than leaving Robin to make a second attempt that could quietly miss. And Robin can no longer say she noted, saved, or recorded something unless she actually did: if she says it without saving anything, that sentence is removed before the reply reaches you and she tells you it is not saved and offers to add it. Telling Robin a plain fact about your schedule, like "working the early shift, 6am to 2pm", now puts it on the calendar or asks you one quick question, instead of being acknowledged and forgotten
  • Ask Robin for a weekly class on the day it happens and it starts that day. Saying "dance class every Monday at 4:20" on a Monday morning used to put the first class a week out, and the reply said "every Monday" without mentioning it skipped this one. Robin now knows what time it is where you are, starts the series today when the time has not passed yet, and always tells you which date it begins on
  • Add a morning of school classes and Robin asks whether they repeat. Adding "Social Studies at 8:30, Science at 9:30, Math at 10:30 for Felix" used to create three one-off events, so the next morning the calendar was empty and you typed the whole timetable in again. Robin now adds them and asks one question: do these repeat every school day? Say yes and she puts all of them on repeat every weekday, keeping the times you gave, without adding anything a second time. A single appointment like a dentist visit is still just added, with no question
  • When Robin shows you where something is, the highlight now waits for you. It used to fade after a couple of seconds, which was rarely long enough to read the card and find the pulsing button before it vanished. It stays until you tap anywhere, press the small x on the card, or hit Escape
  • Robin can point at a setting now, not just the page it lives on. Ask "where do I change the timezone", "how do I turn off notifications", "where do I hide a module", or "where do I connect Alexa" and she names the section as well as the page, then opens Settings with that section already expanded instead of leaving you to scroll through all of them
  • Robin's meal ideas fit on a phone now. Each suggestion card is about a third shorter, so two ideas land on screen instead of one: the buttons became one tidy row with "Plan this meal" on the same line as the rest, the prep and tag pills stopped looking like two different kinds of button, and the pantry-match bar slimmed down. On the Saved tab, Delete no longer looks as inviting as Open, and on the Type it in tab the "Add to plan" button turns orange as soon as you have given the meal a name, instead of sitting there grey and looking broken
  • The floating buttons on a phone now follow the bottom menu. If you have "Auto-hide bottom menu" turned on, the Robin bubble and the + button used to stay parked partway up the screen after the menu slid away, hovering over nothing. They now drop down with it and ride back up when it returns. The Day view of the calendar also stops shortly after the 11pm row instead of trailing a screenful of empty card below it
  • If you are in the UK, Europe, or Switzerland, NestBoard now asks before it measures anything. Nothing beyond what keeps you signed in and remembers your settings is stored on your device until you answer, and saying no is one tap in exactly the same place as saying yes. Nothing about the app works differently either way, and you can change your mind whenever you like in Settings, under Privacy and Data. Our emails to you leave out the invisible open-tracking image as well. Everyone else sees no banner and no change
  • The privacy policy has a new section for readers in the UK and Europe: what we are relying on to process each kind of data, what is stored on your device and what waits for your say-so, how long everything is kept, the safeguards covering the trip to our servers in the United States, how to exercise each of your rights and how fast we answer, and how to complain to the ICO or your own data protection authority if we get it wrong
  • A preview of what is coming: NestBoard on Echo devices. The skill is built and this release carries everything it needs, but it is still being tested before we submit it to Amazon, so it is not in the Alexa Skills Store yet, so there is nothing for you to switch on today and an Echo will not recognize NestBoard if you ask it. When it opens up, connecting will be as easy as talking to it. Say "Alexa, ask nest board what is for dinner" and, if your household is not connected yet, Alexa reads out a short code. An adult enters it at mynestboard.com/alexa within ten minutes and every Echo in the house is linked, with no fiddling in the Alexa app
  • What you will be able to ask an Echo: what is on today, what is for dinner, and what to do next, add something to a list, and put an event on the family calendar by voice, kids included, with "Alexa, ask nest board to add soccer practice on Friday at 4". "Alexa, ask nest board good morning" reads a briefing that covers the whole day: today's events, the chores due and who has them, home maintenance that is overdue or due, the routines running today, school assignments due today, and tonight's dinner. It stays around six sentences, so long lists get a few names and then a count, and anything your household does not use is never mentioned at all
  • The briefing can mention medications, if you want it to. It stays off until you turn it on in Settings under Alexa, and even then it only ever says how many doses are due today, for example "and two medication reminders today". Never a medicine's name, never a dose, never whose it is, and never on a screen. An Echo is a shared speaker, so that stays your decision. Logging or changing a dose by voice is not possible at all
  • On an Echo Show, saying "Alexa, open nest board" will bring up a family board rather than a hint card. Four pages rotate on their own, about seven seconds each: today's calendar with a color bar showing whose each thing is, then a column for every person with their events and their chores, then tonight's dinner across the whole screen, then a ring for each person showing how much of today's chores they have finished. Tap anyone's chore to mark it done, or tap the circle on the dinner page to mark the meal cooked. Every answer is still spoken in full, so an Echo without a screen loses nothing, and the screen now stays up for about half a minute after Alexa speaks instead of blinking away the moment she finishes. The microphone does not stay open, so nothing is listening in your kitchen: it is the screen that lingers, not the mic
  • The Echo Show screens are readable from across the room. Every size was a step or two under Amazon's own guidance, so you could see something was on screen but not what: the body text has gone up to at least 32 points everywhere, the small print to at least 24, and the dinner name can now fill a Show 15 at nearly 150. A long event title shrinks to fit instead of being cut off mid-word, and a wall-mounted Show 15 or Show 21 finally gets a layout built for its shape instead of the generic small-screen one. Opening the skill gets to the point as well, with a hello and two examples rather than a list of seven things to sit through
  • Alexa will also be able to ring when chores are due. Ask her to set up chore reminders and she explains what she is about to do and waits for a yes before Amazon's permission prompt arrives, she keeps to your quiet hours, and an adult can turn the whole thing off in Settings under Alexa. For a kitchen timer, use Alexa's own, because hers already does the job and NestBoard is not adding a second one
Version 1.0.151
August 23, 2026

New Home Maintenance page for the furnace, the car, and their recurring upkeep, and Robin learns to edit: chores, event alarms and notes, carpool rides, routines, projects, and more, all by voice or chat

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  • NestBoard now looks after the whole house, not just the family. A new Maintenance page lets you record the things your household owns, like the furnace, the water heater, the dishwasher, or the car, and the recurring jobs that keep them running, like the HVAC filter every three months or the water heater flush once a year
  • Set how often a task repeats and NestBoard works out when it is next due, then quietly rolls that date forward every time you mark it done. Marking it done also logs who did it and what it cost, if you want to keep track of spending on a machine over time
  • Overdue and upcoming maintenance surfaces where you will actually see it: a small card on your dashboard, and among the tasks Robin suggests, so the flush that is a month overdue gets noticed instead of slipping another year
  • Due dates are figured in your own timezone, so a task never flips to overdue an evening early just because the clock rolled over somewhere else
  • Ask Robin where maintenance lives and she will point you to it, the same way she does for every other page. You will find it under Life in the sidebar on a computer, or in the More menu on a phone
  • This first version keeps the schedule time based, measured in days. Tracking by mileage or usage, storing the manual or warranty PDF, and reminders when a warranty is about to end are coming later. For now the warranty date is stored for your reference
  • Robin can now change things, not just add them. Ask her to edit a chore ("move the dishes to Saturday at 6", "make mowing every other week", "have the kids take turns with the dishes", "make the litter box as-needed"), set or remove an event alarm ("set an alarm 30 minutes before soccer"), change an event's location or notes, or fix a carpool ride ("Dad is driving Tuesday instead", "move the pickup to 4:30"). She edits exactly that, without deleting and recreating anything
  • More of the app answers to Robin now: un-check a shopping item ("actually we still need milk"), un-mark a cooked meal, move a pantry item to the shopping list, clear expired pantry items, edit or remove a wish (still without ever spoiling who claimed it), pin, color, or take down Family Board notes, remove a vacation, check off items on a project checklist and update a project's status or budget, edit routines and their steps (including shared whole-family routines with per-step minutes), and manage member groups: create, rename, recolor, or delete them, while who is in a group stays on the Family page
  • Robin can read back today's screen time ("how much screen time does Owen have left?"). Reading only: the parental controls stay in the app. She can also undo a completed school assignment, with the same grown-ups-only rule the School page enforces, and change the household timezone for an adult who asks
  • Adults can now move money through Robin: add or deduct allowance funds, put money toward a kid's savings goal or take it back out, and chip into Family Savings, all in chat. Robin reads the exact amount and wallet back and waits for your yes before a cent moves, kids and guests are refused, voice commands can never move money, and anything over $500 per move stays in the app
  • Robin can now manage medications for the grown-ups: add a med with its full setup (schedule, form, bottle supply, shared-bottle members, and an hours-apart spacing rule with another med), edit or delete one, mark a dose skipped, and undo a mis-logged dose with the supply count put right. Deleting a med or a dose record erases history, so Robin spells out exactly what would be removed and asks you to confirm first
  • The new Maintenance page launched with Robin fluent in it: "what maintenance is due?", "add our water heater", "change the HVAC filter every 90 days", and "I changed the furnace filter" all work in chat or by voice
  • Robin and help search now understand everyday words. Ask about jobs, tasks, or to-dos and they know you mean chores; meds, pills, or prescriptions find the medication answers; groceries finds the shopping list; little ones means the kids. Search also matches whole words now, so unrelated articles stop sneaking into results, and Robin answers "does it have..." and "it should be able to..." questions from the help articles instead of guessing
  • The chore list's "Tidy duplicates" button now has its own help article, so you can find out what merging keeps (all the history and points) before you tap it
  • Quick-add can set up weekly repeats again. Typing something like "practice every week" into the calendar's quick-add box used to fail with an error every single time; now it creates the repeating event on the right day, and "every Tuesday and Thursday" lands on both days
  • Asking Robin to cancel one day of a repeating event now cancels just that day. It used to either fail to find the event or, worse, would have taken the whole series with it. The rest of the series keeps going exactly as scheduled
  • Converting a chore to as-needed now really clears its date. A chore switched from scheduled to as-needed used to keep its old due date under the hood, so it sat in the overdue list and the morning digest forever. Switching one back to scheduled puts it on today unless you pick a date, instead of resurrecting a date from months ago
  • Removing a family member whose profile still has its own sign-in now explains what is actually going on and what to do next, including the common case where the second sign-in is a duplicate account you created yourself. The message no longer prints the account's email address, which for Apple sign-ins was a private relay address that read as gibberish
  • Custom notification sounds now survive our updates. If you uploaded your own chime or lightning-alert sound, it could quietly revert to the default whenever we shipped an update, because of where the file was stored on our side. Uploaded sounds now live in permanent storage, so the sound you picked stays until you change it
Version 1.0.150
August 21, 2026

Ask Robin where something is and she tells you the exact menu path, then walks you to it, and homework marked done by mistake can be undone

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  • Ask Robin where something is, or just tell her you cannot find it, and she now answers with the actual menu path instead of telling you to open the page you were looking for. She gives both routes, because she does not know which screen you are on: the phone path through the bottom bar and the computer path down the left sidebar
  • She also shows you. Robin opens the page, expands the More menu when that is where the button lives, and pulses the menu item for a couple of seconds so you can see exactly where it sits. The explanation still comes with it, so you learn the route rather than just getting teleported
  • Every help article about a page now ends with a "Where to find it" line covering phones and computers. The articles used to describe what was on a page and never how to reach it, which is the whole reason a first-time question about the Allowance page went in circles
  • The highlight is polite about it. It stands down rather than fighting an open dialog, stays out of the way on a sleeping wall display, and becomes a still outline if you have asked your device to reduce motion. If the thing it wants to point at is not on screen, you get the written path instead of a stuck spotlight
  • Homework marked done by mistake can be undone. On the School page a grown-up can tap the green checkmark to put an assignment back to open, instead of the old choice between leaving it wrong or deleting it and typing it in again. Adults and caregivers only, so a kid who mistaps asks rather than quietly reverses it, and since school assignments never paid allowance or points there is nothing to square up afterwards. If a child or guest tries to undo one, NestBoard now tells them a grown-up has to do it, rather than the tap appearing to do nothing
  • Undoing a homework assignment that repeats no longer risks stopping the series. Putting one back to open while its next copy was already waiting could, after you finished the copy, quietly halt the repeat so nothing new was ever created again. The series now keeps going as it should
  • Subscriptions are harder to lose by accident. If Apple renews you and the message telling us about it never arrives, NestBoard now re-checks your subscription once a day with our payments provider and puts your renewal date back where it belongs, rather than treating our own out-of-date copy as the truth and shutting the door on a family who paid
  • Ask Robin about getting your kids set up and she leads with the right answer. Kids do not need their own accounts or their own email addresses: you add them on the Family page with no email and they get a profile, their own chores, points and allowance. She had been offering the account route first and mentioning the simple one as an afterthought, and she never said which page to do it on. Instructional answers now carry the menu path the same way "where is it" answers already did
  • Robin no longer says someone was added to an event when they were not. Asking her to put two people on the same thing could have her create it twice, once per person, and the second attempt was blocked as a duplicate. She would then tell you the second person had been included all along, which was not true. She now puts everyone on one event, and if she does run into one that already exists she says exactly who is on it and adds anyone missing
  • If you unsubscribed from our emails, you can reset your password again. Opting out used to switch off every email we send you, including the ones you ask for, so a password reset, an email verification or a household invite would silently never arrive and nothing told you why. Newsletters and update emails stay off for good. The mail you need to get into your own account now goes through
  • The weather card holds on to your last good reading. When the forecast service answered with a blank, the card used to go empty and stay that way, because the blank got saved over the good reading. It now keeps the most recent real reading on screen until the service comes back
  • Groundwork for NestBoard on Alexa. Once the skill is live your family will be able to ask any Echo to add to the shopping list or pantry, check the pantry, hear what's for dinner or today's agenda, ask what to do next, and mark chores done by voice, and saying "I'm ..." with your name on an Echo will credit the chores you finish to the right person. A new Alexa section in Settings is where you will connect and disconnect it. Correcting what this note originally said: the skill is not in the Alexa Skills Store and has not been submitted to Amazon yet, it is still being tested, and there is nothing to enable in the Alexa app yet
Version 1.0.149
August 19, 2026

Real alarms for events and medication doses, a calendar that scrolls through all 24 hours, and an optional auto-hiding bottom menu

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  • Events can now ring a real alarm, not just a notification. Turn on "Ring an alarm" in the event editor, pick the lead time (30 minutes before by default), and at that moment your phone rings full screen with Snooze and Dismiss, sound on even in silent mode. Alarms are scheduled on the phone itself, so they ring with no internet and survive a restart, and they deliberately ignore quiet hours: if you set an alarm, we assume you mean it
  • Medication doses can ring the same way. Turn on "Ring an alarm for each dose" in the medication editor and every scheduled dose time rings until you deal with it. A dose you have already logged stays quiet
  • Alarms ring on the Android app and on iPhone. On iOS 26 and later NestBoard schedules them through Apple's own alarm system, so they ring for real, even in silent mode. iPhones on an older iOS get the strongest alert Apple allows there: a time-sensitive notification that breaks through Focus modes, though it follows the ring/silent switch. On the website the alarm option still saves and syncs to the phones that can ring. The first alarm you set may ask for a permission, and the app takes you straight to the right screen
  • The alarm helper text now tells the truth about the device you are holding. If notifications are switched off for NestBoard, an alarm cannot ring at all, and the editor says so instead of promising an alarm clock. Same for a phone that will not let NestBoard take over the screen: you get a banner with sound rather than a full-screen alarm, and now you are told which setting to change
  • A tablet left on the wall keeps its alarms current. Alarms used to re-sync only when the app started or came back to the foreground, which never happens on an always-on display, so an alarm someone deleted on their phone could keep ringing on the tablet and a new one might not arrive for days. Any change to events or medications now updates every screen in the house right away
  • Signing out now clears the alarms this device had scheduled, and so does requesting account deletion. Alarms live on the phone or tablet itself so they can ring offline and after a restart, which meant that on a shared family tablet your medication alarm could still take over the lock screen for whoever picked it up next
  • The Day and Week calendars now cover the full 24 hours. They still open at the useful part of the day (today opens near the current time, and an early event pulls the view up to it), but the small hours are always a scroll away, so you can finally browse and add something at 2:00 AM on a quiet day
  • On phones the Day calendar runs all the way down to the bottom menu instead of stopping short, and an empty day now says "Nothing scheduled" in the middle of the screen where you can see it, not tucked against the top gridlines
  • The red "now" line and medication chips sit on the correct hour row on every device, even one whose clock is set to a different timezone than your household
  • Robin's recipe ideas now reliably carry their step-by-step instructions into the detail view and into your saved recipes. A shape quirk in the kitchen AI's answers could leave the Instructions section empty
  • Importing a recipe from a page that is missing its ingredients or steps now tells you plainly instead of quietly saving an empty recipe
  • Recipe times read naturally, like "Prep: 30 min", and the ingredient checkmarks in the recipe view now come with a pantry match line that explains what the marks mean
  • The Meals page is redesigned for phones. The three ways to add a meal now sit in tabs (Type it in, Robin's Ideas, and Saved), recipe idea cards show the name, times, and pantry match at a glance with the full ingredients and steps one tap away under Details, and saved recipes read as a compact list. Planning dinner is one screen instead of a very long scroll
  • Recipe titles no longer squeeze into a narrow column on phone screens, one word per line
  • Imported recipes now show apostrophes and other punctuation correctly instead of raw codes like "&#39;", and recipes already saved with the raw codes have been cleaned up
  • A recipe page that only lists its total time now imports with that time instead of none at all, and a page listing prep and total time fills in the cook time, so a 25 minute dish no longer claims to take 15. It now works the other way round too: a page listing cook and total time fills in the prep
  • Oven temperatures stay in your recipe steps. A step that read "Preheat the oven to 400. Toss the vegetables with olive oil." could come back as "Preheat the oven to", with the temperature gone, and saving the recipe kept it that way. Genuinely numbered steps still split onto their own lines
  • New in Settings: auto-hide the bottom menu on phones. Turn it on and the menu slides away while you scroll down and returns the moment you scroll up, giving small screens more room to read. Off unless you want it
  • With that setting on, the bottom menu could hide itself and stay hidden. Scroll down so it slides away, tap through to a page short enough to fit the screen, and there was no scroll left to bring it back. Changing pages now always brings the menu back
  • Ask Robin to give the same task to several people and each person gets their own copy. A name Robin cannot match to anyone in your family now stops her and she asks who you meant, instead of quietly putting every one of those tasks on the first person in your family list. Group names like "the kids" work too, and asking twice with different spellings of the same name no longer doubles up
  • Events that end exactly at midnight no longer leave a small phantom block at the top of the next day in the Week and Day calendars
  • The Robin's picks card holds steady while it reshuffles: tapping Pick again keeps the current menu on screen until the new one arrives, and a network hiccup keeps the last menu up instead of hiding the card
  • Adding a suggested recipe to your meal plan no longer fails when the suggestion writes its prep time as words, like "10 minutes", instead of a number
  • Clear examples now removes a recurring example chore completely. Completing one used to spawn a copy that survived the cleanup and kept coming back
  • Live sync between devices is now scoped to your own household, so boards refresh only when something of yours actually changes
  • Email reminders for tasks are now an adults-only setting, and the toggle says up front that reminders begin once your email address is verified
  • A failed sign-in now adds a gentle reminder to double-check you're using the same email address you signed up with, the most common reason a password gets rejected
  • Signing in with Google or Apple on the website now asks before creating anything when no NestBoard account is linked to it yet: start a new household, or go back and sign in the way you originally signed up. No more surprise empty households from picking the wrong account
  • Fixed a sign-in issue affecting some browsers with aggressive autofill, which could reject a correct password and quietly swallow password reset requests
  • The public pages finish loading roughly twice as fast. NestBoard already sent a fully drawn page for the first paint, then threw it away and drew the whole thing again a second or two later. Now it picks up where the server left off. The sign-up page also stops shuffling itself while the Google button loads, so you are less likely to tap the wrong thing
Version 1.0.148
August 18, 2026

The week calendar shows overnight schedules in full, Robin offers picks instead of orders, and setting up NestBoard gets a running start

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  • The Week and Day calendars no longer hide the early morning. The hourly grid used to start at 6:00 AM to stay compact, which made a night shift invisible to the rest of the family. Now the grid watches your actual schedule: a 2:00 AM start opens up the 2:00 AM row, and a shift that runs past midnight, say 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM, shows on both days, the evening part where it starts and the early hours where it ends. Households with no early events keep the same compact view as before
  • Ask Robin "what should I do?" and she answers with a short menu drawn from your household's real tasks, and you pick. The same picks appear in a new card on the dashboard, so a spare ten minutes has somewhere to go without anyone deciding for you
  • Two dashboard planning fixes: the forecast now covers every day you can tap on the week strip, not just the next few, and the at-a-glance card follows whichever day you have selected instead of staying stuck on today
  • Setting up NestBoard no longer starts from a blank page. You can begin from an example setup built around what brought you here, including school and student life, and every example is clearly labeled and clearable with one tap once your own routines take over
  • The morning check-in now respects your quiet hours: a check-in that would land mid-quiet arrives when quiet hours end instead. And if your household has check-ins on but no phone to push to, the question arrives at the top of your daily briefing email, and you can answer by replying
  • The first-run tour is now a quick four-step introduction instead of an auto-playing 35-step walkthrough. The full tour is still there whenever you want it, from the intro itself or from Settings
  • Inviting your partner works the way you would hope: pending invites now show on the Family page with one-tap resend, the invite link previews the board they are joining, and an invite that sits unanswered gets one gentle reminder after a couple of days
  • Optional email reminders for tasks: one email per task, only if you opt in, during setup or later in Settings. Nothing changes unless you turn it on
  • Ask Robin what chores fit your kid's age and she suggests from our age guide, then offers to add the ones you like
Version 1.0.147
August 18, 2026

Repeats that match real life, a dashboard that helps you plan any day of the week, and an app that tells you when an update is out

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  • Repeating tasks can now follow real-life patterns like the first Friday of every other month. Pick the weekday, which week of the month it falls in, and how many months apart it repeats, and NestBoard keeps the schedule straight from there. This one was promised to a customer, and here it is
  • Tap any day on the dashboard calendar to plan it. The weather and air quality cards switch to that day's forecast, medications show what is due on the day you picked, and days already behind you fade back so today always stands out
  • NestBoard now lets you know when a newer version is in the store. A small dismissible note appears in the app with an Update button that takes you straight to Google Play or the App Store. Dismiss it and it stays quiet until the next day
  • Calendar feed privacy: events marked adults-only now stay out of the calendar feed you subscribe to from other apps, and feed links carry stronger security behind the scenes
  • Robin can add steps to a routine you already have instead of building a duplicate, and can now answer questions like "when did we last give ibuprofen?" from your medication history
  • Assorted fixes: the Back to top button no longer covers the Settings item in the sidebar, and email history now says plainly when a message was skipped instead of reporting it as sent
Version 1.0.146
August 14, 2026

Calendars you import land on the right day, the chores page stops crying wolf, and Robin can add to a routine you already have

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  • Your Chores page no longer offers to tidy up duplicates that are not duplicates. A chore that repeats has more than one copy waiting by design, this week's and next week's, and we were counting those as a mess and offering to merge them. Accepting that offer would have quietly broken the repeat, so if you ever saw that banner and left it alone, that was the right call
  • The week strip on Meals shows a count for every day it draws. Days earlier in the week could read "0 meals" when there were meals planned on them, because we were only fetching the seven days starting from whichever day you had selected rather than the week actually on screen
  • Calendars you subscribe to now land on the right day and at the right time. An imported appointment could show hours off, and an all-day event like a birthday could sit on the day before, because we were reading times that carry no timezone as if they were UTC instead of your household clock. Repeating all-day events also drifted a day once the clocks changed in the autumn
  • A calendar link that brings in nothing now tells you so, instead of quietly reporting success. Most providers give you two links, a web page and a feed, and only the feed works. If you paste the wrong one the app now says which to look for rather than sitting there empty
  • When a calendar cannot be reached, you get a plain answer about what to try, rather than an error code and a reference number. Private calendar, unpublished calendar, wrong link and provider outage all read differently now, because they need different things from you
  • Ask Robin to add steps to a routine you already have and she adds them, instead of building a second routine with the same name. She will ask which one you mean if two routines share a title
  • Ask Robin for something "every Saturday" and it starts on a Saturday. A repeating event could be created on whatever day you happened to ask, so the first one landed on the wrong day even though the repeat itself was right
  • iPhone and iPad: the launch screen follows dark mode. On a dark phone the app used to flash a bright cream screen for a moment before settling
Version 1.0.145
August 12, 2026

NestBoard on a tablet, days that run on your household clock, and a Robin that answers from what your pages actually show

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  • NestBoard reads properly on a tablet now. Chores, Meals, Pantry, Family, Calendar, Vacation Mode, Settings and the Dashboard were all built for a phone or a desktop and squeezed awkwardly into anything in between. Every one of them now lays out for the screen it is on
  • Week view shows all seven days, at the same width, on a tablet held upright. Friday was being cut down the middle and Saturday pushed off the screen entirely, with nothing to suggest either was there, so the week looked like it ended on Thursday. The weekend columns were also narrower than the weekdays, so Saturday and Sunday plans got squeezed while the middle of the week had room to spare
  • Meals and Pantry now read properly on smaller tablets like the iPad Air held upright: one clean column instead of two squeezed ones, day pills that never crumple, a fixed sort row on Pantry, and the Ask Robin button no longer covers the last item on the page
  • Meals reads properly on an iPad held sideways. The two-column layout needed more width than the screen had, which clipped Friday and pushed Saturday off the card, and squeezed the meal name box until what you typed scrolled out of sight
  • The Pantry sort row no longer collapses into a sliver of chopped-up text once your list is long enough to scroll
  • The Family page now flows as two balanced columns on a tablet instead of one long ragged one, and a member card with an odd event on it no longer breaks the whole card
  • Calendar month view now draws a uniform grid, with compact cells on narrow screens, and it scrolls smoothly on a wall tablet instead of stuttering
  • The little ? help bubbles in Settings now open reliably with a single tap on iPads and other touch screens. Before, a tap could open and instantly close one, so it felt like the bubble was ignoring you. Tap opens, tap again or tap anywhere else closes
  • On a narrow tablet the sidebar now starts collapsed and the header is more compact, so the page you came for gets the room. The nav also shows when there is more below the fold, and search results in Help are readable at that width
  • Buttons, checkboxes and close controls that were too small to hit accurately are bigger, and every confirmation dialog now dims the page the same way instead of each one doing its own thing
  • A round of theme fixes so the same control looks the same everywhere, in light and dark: the More page heading, the check-in empty state, pet care times, Robin attribution lines and medication rows were all painting their own colors
  • Choosing who an event is for is visible again. The family member buttons in the event form were painting the exact same colour as the panel behind them, so the names read as plain bold text with nothing to suggest you could tap them. They are proper pills now, each with that person's avatar, and the ones you have picked are outlined in their colour with a check, so you can tell at a glance who is already on the event. The Repeat row just above it had faded into the same panel and is now outlined too
  • Buttons that sat on a background the same colour as themselves are now outlined so you can see them. This affected filter chips on Pantry and the activity feed, and Cancel and Close buttons throughout the app, which were relying on a border too faint to make out in several themes
  • The member filter on Chores now shows a fade and an arrow when there are more people off to the side, and the fade goes away once you reach the end
  • NestBoard now decides when a day starts and ends using your household timezone, the one you set in Settings, instead of the clock on whatever device happens to be looking. Streaks no longer break for families who do their chores in the evening, leaderboard totals and overdue counts land on the right day, screen time resets overnight instead of partway through the evening, and the daily lists in Pet Care, Carpool and Meal Plans roll over when your family does. The date under your greeting follows the same setting, so it cannot show yesterday to a household whose devices are set elsewhere
  • Chores now sort into Overdue and Today by your household clock, even when the phone looking at them is set somewhere else. A parent away for work could open NestBoard and find the family's chores filed under the wrong day, with a row that read "Today" sitting inside the red Overdue group. The dashboard week strip, the greeting, the medication list, which days a routine runs, and the "move to today" buttons all follow the same clock now
  • A screen left on overnight now moves to the new day on its own. On a wall tablet that nobody ever closes, Today stayed on yesterday until someone reloaded the page, so the morning opened with the previous day's chores still listed. It now turns over at your household's midnight, gets the two days a year when the clocks change right, and catches up the moment a sleeping phone or tablet wakes up
  • A medication course now runs for the number of days you asked for, counted on your calendar. A ten-day course could finish a day early or late depending on the time of day you started it and whether the clocks changed in between
  • Your free trial now counts down in whole days on your own calendar, so the number of days left changes at your midnight rather than partway through an evening
  • The daily briefing gets tomorrow right on the two days a year the clocks change. On the autumn change its Tomorrow section repeated today and skipped the next day entirely
  • Robin no longer brings up events you cancelled, routines you switched off, or anything paused while you are in Vacation Mode. She was reading a fuller list than the app shows, so she could talk about an appointment you had already called off
  • Ask Robin about the weather and she answers in the unit you picked in Settings. A household set to Celsius saw 30 on the dashboard and heard "86 degrees" from Robin for the same afternoon, because Robin was reading the raw forecast and skipping your setting
  • Robin can check things off a named shopping list again. Asking her to check milk off the Costco list always came back saying she could not find it, even with milk sitting right there on the list
  • Ask Robin to mark a routine done in the evening and it now lands on today. It was being recorded against tomorrow, so the routine still looked untouched that night and turned up already finished the next morning
  • When Robin moves an evening event, the date she reads back is the date it actually moved to. Anything at or after 8pm was confirmed a day late
  • You can now clear Robin's history yourself, in Settings under Privacy & Data. It wipes your household's whole conversation with Robin and the notes Robin saved from it, right away, and it leaves your calendar, chores and lists alone. We keep the conversation for twelve months so Robin remembers your family across a school year, and until now the only way to get rid of it early was to email us or delete your account
  • The floating Ask Robin chat now matches the Robin page in every theme. It used to paint its own colors, so the same conversation looked different depending on where you opened it
  • Talking to Robin got tidier: the microphone clears the last transcript before it listens again and gives up rather than hanging, the keyboard no longer springs open the moment you arrive, and message times are precise to the second so two quick messages are not stamped identically
  • Chore and medication reminders no longer cover the buttons in an open form. The reminder card steps aside while you are filling something in, and comes back when you are done. On a tablet it could sit right on top of Create or Save, so there was no way to finish the form without clearing your reminders first
  • Reminders now have an X to dismiss just the one you are looking at, instead of only being able to snooze the whole stack
  • Pages now leave room at the bottom for the reminder card, so the last thing on a page is always reachable. On Settings it was sitting on Sign out, and no amount of scrolling could free it
  • Long forms now keep their Save and Cancel buttons pinned in view instead of leaving them below the fold. On shorter screens some forms looked like they had no way to submit at all
  • Pop-ups no longer hide their own last line behind the row of buttons. On a confirmation this could swallow the sentence warning you that something cannot be undone, and on the shopping list it took the whole message, so you were never told which item you were about to delete. On longer forms the final field could sit under the buttons with no way to scroll it clear
  • The feedback form is now a proper dialog that dims the page behind it, so nothing floats on top of Send
  • The push notifications row in Settings now tells you the truth about your phone. It used to show a green Allowed on every phone without ever checking, so if you had turned notifications off in your phone settings it still looked fine while nothing arrived. It now reports what it has actually checked: allowed, blocked in your phone settings, allowed but not signed up yet, or on but not yet linked to you. If it cannot check, it says so instead of showing green
  • The push notifications switch in Settings now does what it says on phones: turn it off and that device goes quiet, turn it back on and pushes return. It used to show off while notifications kept arriving
  • Turning notifications on now waits to hear back from your phone before telling you it worked. It used to say "Push notifications enabled!" the instant you tapped, even when your phone never handed over a notification token or the sign-up was rejected, so the switch sat on while nothing was ever delivered and it never tried again
  • Your uploaded chime and storm alert now play in the phone apps. They had always been silent there with nothing on screen to explain why, so it looked like a problem with the phone. If a sound cannot be loaded, NestBoard now plays its standard chime instead of nothing at all
  • Android reminders now arrive on their own NestBoard notification channel, so you can set their sound and whether they pop up on screen in your phone settings, and find them where our help article says to look. Until now they came through an unnamed system channel we could not configure
  • NestBoard now offers to turn on reminders right as you save an event or chore, the moment a reminder would actually help, and never interrupts you at startup. If you skipped it, one small card on the dashboard offers again a few days in
  • Push notifications now follow whoever is signed in. When two people shared a phone or tablet, it kept getting the first household's reminders and none of its own until the app was fully closed and reopened
  • If you delete your account, emails and notifications now stop immediately instead of trickling on for weeks
  • Planned meals now have a Recipe button. Tap it on any meal in your plan to open the full recipe, ingredients and steps included
  • When Robin suggests a dish and you plan it, the whole recipe is now saved to your recipes automatically. Before, only the name survived, so there was no way to open it later and see how to cook it
  • Turning a recipe suggestion down now saves that choice, and tells you if it could not, instead of hiding the recipe and letting it come back later
  • Upcoming events on the Family page are finally upcoming. Each family member card was listing their oldest events, some from months ago, which pushed the things actually coming up off the card entirely. It now shows what is next, anything happening right now stays put until it ends, and every row carries its date so you can tell this Thursday from next Thursday at a glance
  • Today's chores on the dashboard no longer hides the one due today. When several chores were behind schedule they filled the whole list, so a chore due today could be counted in the heading but missing from the list below it. Every group now keeps its place, and the card tells you when there are more
  • The week strip on the dashboard now agrees with your calendar. Days with chores, routines or medication doses were left blank, as were events that were not assigned to anyone in particular, so a busy day could look empty
  • Food that has already gone off now shows up in the dashboard pantry alert. Only food about to expire could appear there, so the milk that went off yesterday sat on the Pantry page while the dashboard acted as though nothing was wrong
  • The Shopping card on the dashboard now counts the list it opens, and names it. With more than one list it added them all together, so it could promise eight items and then show you five
  • The Carpool and School cards now say how many rides and assignments there really are. Both stopped counting once the card was full, so five rides read as three
  • School work with no due date no longer pushes what is due tomorrow off the dashboard
  • Dashboard cards that only have room for the first few now say how many more there are, instead of showing a short list as if it were everything
  • Routines now appear in month and week views instead of only on the day itself, and every view counts the same things for a given date. A day that says four items has four items whichever way you are looking at it
  • Routines no longer claim to take "~0min". When no step has a time on it, NestBoard simply leaves the estimate out instead of guessing zero
  • The new-routine form got clearer: required fields are marked, every section has a little ? helper explaining what it does, and NestBoard now asks you to pick which days the routine runs instead of quietly assuming every day
  • A member's level now matches the progress bar beneath it. The badge and the bar were working from different numbers, so the same person could read as two different levels on one card
  • The "done" count next to a family member on the leaderboard now counts the chores they finished, matching their points and badges. It used to count chores assigned to them, so someone could show 0 done next to a badge for completing fifty
  • Rankings on the leaderboard now match what Robin tells you when two people are tied on points
  • The National Leaderboard is team names only: a team name, a city and a score, with no individual family members listed. Joining stays a choice you make in Settings, and NestBoard no longer asks about it on your dashboard
  • The morning briefing respects Vacation Mode. It used to send a growing pile of overdue chores every morning of a family's trip, and that email was the one thing still reaching you while you were away from the app
  • The morning briefing now counts a repeating chore every time it was missed, the way the app does. A chore twelve days behind was announced as one thing needing attention, directly above a line saying twelve missed
  • The daily briefing email no longer counts chores you deleted. A chore removed weeks ago kept appearing every morning with its missed count climbing
  • The reminder we send when you have been away no longer advertises an event you cancelled
  • Daily reminders, medication alerts and the welcome emails no longer stop for everyone when they hit a problem with one family. One bad record used to quietly cancel the rest of that run, so families further down the list simply never got theirs
  • An invite that fails to send now tells you instead of showing a confirmation. The prompt to invite your partner stays on your dashboard with a Try again button, rather than congratulating you and never appearing again while nothing was ever delivered
  • Setup no longer moves on when something did not save. If your week's events, your starter chore, or your morning check-in choice failed to reach us, the step stays put and says what went wrong, and it keeps the items that still need another try
  • A chore reminder you could not complete now stays on screen. It used to show an error and vanish anyway, so the reminder was gone for the rest of the day even though the chore was never marked done
  • Closing out a check-in now waits to confirm it saved. It could quietly stay open on our side, which is why some people were asked about the same check-in again later
  • Entering your household PIN now tells you if the unlock did not save, instead of letting you through and then asking for the PIN over and over
  • Fill my week is no longer buried in first-time setup. Whenever your week is empty, the Dashboard offers a card where you describe the week in plain words, like "soccer Tuesday and Thursday at 4, dentist Wednesday 10am", and Robin puts it all on the calendar. It happens right there on the Dashboard, and it shows you what it added. Before, if you skipped that step during setup, there was no way back to it
  • The Dashboard now leads with something useful instead of a to-do list. A brand-new household used to open to an offer of a product tour and a request to type in the family, which was two jobs to do before NestBoard had done anything for you. The first thing you see now is an offer to fill in your week. The tour is still there, further down the list, and Settings has a Start the tour button whenever you want it
  • An empty calendar now offers an Add an event button instead of telling you to find the + button in the corner
  • Reopening a chore now takes back everything it paid, including the allowance that went into the wallet. It used to give back the points and the screen time but keep the money, so marking the same chore done and undone over and over slowly added real pocket money that nobody earned
  • Finishing a routine pays its 20 point bonus once a day. Unchecking the last step and checking it again used to pay the bonus every single time, badges included
  • Routine points now stick. The next chore anyone completed used to quietly wipe out every routine bonus a kid had earned, so the reward for finishing a morning routine disappeared without a trace
  • Tapping Complete twice on the same chore at the same moment no longer counts it twice
  • Allowance payday tries again if something goes wrong partway through, so nobody gets skipped while their siblings get paid
  • A wallet that has gone below zero now reads as a deliberate overdraft rather than an error
  • Picking a plan now works in Safari on iPhone. Tapping a paid plan could bounce you straight back to the pricing page without ever reaching the card form
  • A declined renewal no longer locks you out of your own household. If a card failed, NestBoard asked you to update it while quietly refusing every save, so nothing you changed would stick
  • Google and Outlook Calendar sync no longer look broken before you connect them. A household that never linked a calendar got a red error banner about missing tokens. Now it stays quiet until there is a real problem, and it tells you what connecting will do
  • Settings sections now scroll into view when you open them, so what you just expanded is on screen instead of hidden below the fold
  • About now shows the version you actually have installed. On phones it could show the number from an older build instead of the app in your hands
  • Screenshots you send with feedback now arrive attached to the email, so a report about something looking wrong comes with the picture of it
  • Folding phones now turn the way you expect. If you opened NestBoard while the phone was closed, it stayed locked upright even after you opened it out to the big inner screen, and there was no way to turn it sideways until you closed the app and started it again. It now follows whichever screen you are actually on
  • On newer Android phones, nothing sits underneath the bars at the top and bottom of the screen any more. The "Update available" notice was landing on top of the row of tabs, and a tall pop-up could run its top and bottom edges under the clock and the navigation buttons
  • If the app ever asks you to update before continuing, that screen now tells you why and always gives you a way to reach the store, instead of a button that could quietly do nothing
  • A parent can now delete a child's account even when that child has their own login
  • The Android app is smaller after we cleared out code it never used
  • When the app hits a problem it now tells us automatically, so crashes get fixed fast, often before most families ever notice
Version 1.0.144
August 10, 2026

A month view on your phone, school assignments that repeat, and routines that know your school days

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  • The calendar has a real month view on phones now. Tap Month to see the whole month at once, with a dot and a count showing what is on each day. Tap any day for the full details
  • Busy days used to collapse into an unreadable colored block with a "+14 more" underneath. Now every day tells you what is on it at a glance, like 2 events and 3 chores, so you can read the shape of a week without opening anything
  • School assignments can now repeat: set the reading log or spelling practice to come back daily, on school days, weekly, every other week, or monthly, until the date you choose. Finish one and the next appears, just like chores
  • Routines can now run only on the days you pick, with a School days shortcut for Monday through Friday. On other days the routine rests instead of nagging. Robin understands it too, so a morning routine "for school days" lands exactly Monday to Friday
  • Trying something that needs a subscription now shows a clear Subscription needed message instead of quietly doing nothing
  • The privacy policy now spells out exactly when our team can view Robin conversations: rarely, only for safety, reported bugs, or accuracy checks, always logged, and never for ads or training (Corrected Sept 21, 2026: a person at NestBoard reads Robin conversations as a matter of routine, and there is no per-access log. See the privacy policy.)
  • A warmer, clearer welcome when a new family sets up their NestBoard
  • iPhone: the app now opens with a proper NestBoard launch screen instead of a plain white flash
  • iPhone: fixed the app sometimes zooming in on its own when you tapped into a text field, with no way to zoom back out. It stays at the right size now
  • Meals: already know what you are cooking? A new "Type it yourself" box on the Meals page puts your meal straight on the plan, no AI suggestions or saved recipes required
Version 1.0.143
August 4, 2026

Events can repeat any way you want, a more capable Robin, and a calmer tablet display

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  • Calendar events can now repeat on your own schedule, not just weekly: every two weeks, every few months, or "the first Friday of every month." Chores already did this, now events match
  • Robin handles more of the small asks: switch the weather between Fahrenheit and Celsius, delete a chore just by naming it, and turn a pasted list into one tidy checklist instead of a pile of separate to-dos
  • Ask Robin for something like "date night every other Friday" and it creates one clean repeating event, on the right person
  • Deleting a chore now keeps its history and the points people earned, so nothing is lost if you remove one by mistake
  • Smoother edge-to-edge display and better layout on tablets and larger screens
  • A round of reliability fixes under the hood, including a dashboard that always loads even with unusual data
Version 1.0.142
July 29, 2026

Chores that repeat exactly how you want, a label you choose, and a smarter Robin

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  • Chores can now repeat on the exact days you choose, like Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or every other week, not just daily or weekly
  • Call them Chores or To-dos, whichever fits your family. Choose during setup, or change the label anytime in Settings
  • Ask Robin for something that repeats (for example "swim school every weekday for the next three weeks") and it now creates one clean repeating event instead of a pile of separate ones. It also tells your daughter from your son when you say who it is for
  • The catch-up screen after time away is now a calmer Welcome back: a simple Did it, Do it today, or Not now for anything you missed, instead of a wall of overdue items
  • Fixes: completing an overdue repeating chore now moves it to the correct next date, and specific-weekday chores land on the right days in every time zone
Version 1.0.141
July 26, 2026

The app now tells you what changed, and asks before it is too old

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  • After a store update, the app shows a short summary of what is new since the version you were on. Read it or dismiss it, nothing is required
  • If a version ever becomes too old to sync safely, the app now walks you through updating instead of quietly misbehaving. On Android the update installs right inside the app
  • The family member row on the Chores screen now fades at the edge when more people are off screen, so it is clear you can swipe for the rest
Version 1.0.140
July 25, 2026

Robin's morning check-in, checklists, screen-time rewards, and a big round of fixes

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  • Robin can now start your day: turn on the morning check-in and tell it what is on your world ("soccer at 4, dentist at 10") and it lands on the shared calendar
  • Ask Robin to build a checklist ("make me a moving checklist") and it becomes a real, shared list you can tick off under Projects
  • New households can describe their week in plain words during setup and Robin fills the calendar, so you never start from a blank page
  • Chores can now earn or unlock screen time, and taking a scheduled medication can earn points like a chore does
  • Adults can mark an event adults-only so it stays off the kids’ view and the kitchen display. Perfect for surprises
  • As-needed chores like watering plants get gentle "been a while" reminders instead of hard due dates
  • Meal suggestions now respect allergies and your hard-no ingredients
  • Event times now always show your household’s local time, and birthdays show on the correct day
  • The catch-up sheet now lets you mark "Anyone" chores done and credit yourself
  • Plus: keyboard-zoom fix on iPhone, checkout fix on iOS, photo attachments on feedback, and a more stable kitchen wall display
Version 1.0.139
June 10, 2026

Calendar export, a smarter dashboard, and weather safety

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  • Sign in with Apple now works on the website too, not just in the app
  • Pick any day on your dashboard and your chores, meals, and medications all follow along, not just the agenda
  • The calendar no longer loses a half-typed event if you tap outside the box. Only Cancel or the X will close it
  • Export your whole calendar as a standard .ics file and import it into Google, Apple, or Outlook, with no lock-in
  • More accurate weather, plus a clear on-screen warning when lightning is detected nearby
  • A tidier medication log and a cleaner chore layout on phones
Version 1.0.4
June 9, 2026

iPad polish + groundwork for the iOS app

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  • Sign in with Apple is here: use your Apple ID alongside Google or email
  • Family Board composer reworked so the message box is comfortable on tablets
  • Robin now stays tucked away until you open it, so it no longer pops up on sign-in
  • Fixed the welcome tour re-appearing on new devices for long-time members
  • New accessibility statement at /accessibility, covering what works today and what we are improving
  • Status bar now blends with the app background on iOS
  • Privacy policy updated: our marketing site uses an ad-measurement pixel; the app itself remains tracker-free, always
Version 1.0.3
June 8, 2026

Privacy tidy-up

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  • Removed the unused advertising-ID permission. NestBoard runs no ads and never tracks you for advertising
Version 1.0.2
June 8, 2026

Launch-day polish

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  • Clearer "alpha" labeling across the download page while we run our first controlled test
  • Sideloaded Android now prompts you to grab the latest version automatically when one is available
Version 1.0.1
June 8, 2026

Official public launch 🎉

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  • Shared household calendar with month, week, and day views, and native recurring events
  • Chores & routines with assignments, points, and streaks
  • Robin, the private AI helper: adds events and chores from plain language, and never trains on your data
  • Meal planning with recipe import, shopping & to-do lists, reminders, and a wish list
  • Medication tracking with shared-bottle dose counts
  • Kid seats: children join with no email, parent-controlled and COPPA-aligned
  • Child-safety PIN for Wish List and billing
  • Calm, kiosk-ready design for phone, tablet, and wall displays
  • Privacy-first: no ads, no data selling, no AI training, and export or delete anytime
  • Flat pricing: $4.99/month or $49.99/year per household, unlimited members, 2-week free trial
Version 1.0.0

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