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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.

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

  • 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

  • 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 at Starbucks 4am to 12pm", 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 Noah" 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 going through Amazon's review and 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, it is going through Amazon's review, 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 "'", 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
  • 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 — 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 — no more popping up on sign-in
  • Fixed the welcome tour re-appearing on new devices for long-time members
  • New accessibility statement at /accessibility — 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 — month, week, and day views with native recurring events
  • Chores & routines with assignments, points, and streaks
  • Robin, the private AI helper — adds events and chores from plain language; 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; 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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