What's New in Fambee

Completely removed all external Wikipedia historical event integrations and feeds. Family Moments is now 100% private and focused entirely on authentic family photos, journal entries, and warm memory prompts.

• Zero External Tragedy/News Feeds: Completely disconnected Wikipedia event APIs.
• Pure Family Moments: Dedicated exclusively to genuine family memories, photos, and flashbacks.

Refined the home dashboard to remove extra trivia/dilemma widget clutter, ensuring the home feed stays clean, focused, and dedicated to real family moments, photos, and conversation prompts.

• Streamlined Home Feed: Removed standalone trivia and debate polls to keep the dashboard focused on authentic family life.
• Enticing Memory Sparks: Daily prompts inside Family Moments encourage photo sharing with 1-tap memory capture.

Refined Family Moments to focus purely on genuine household photos, "On This Day" flashbacks, and conversation prompts with a 1-tap memory capture trigger, while separating trivia and science wonders into a dedicated companion widget.

• 100% Wholesome Historical Wonders: Added a comprehensive violence blacklist and curated calendar of uplifting science, space exploration, and human milestones.
• Memory-Capturing Sparks: Family Moments now features daily conversation prompts with a 1-tap "Capture Memory" action to invite photo sharing.
• Dedicated Daily Sparks & Trivia Widget: A standalone widget housing Daily Family Trivia (with leaderboard), Household Dilemma Polls, and Science Wonders.

Introduced an instant as-you-type grocery search and duplicate prevention engine across the Master Grocery List and Home Dashboard widgets, seamlessly connecting pantry inventory and preventing duplicate items.

• As-You-Type Smart Autocomplete: Real-time suggestions appear dynamically as you type, matching existing list items and pantry stock.
• 1-Tap Quantity & Re-add Actions: Tap "+1 Qty" for active items or "Re-add" for previously checked items without adding duplicates.
• Pantry Inventory Integration: Live pantry stock badges (Out, Low, In Stock) and 1-tap stock linking.
• Fuzzy Auto-Merge: Intelligent singular/plural normalization merges duplicates seamlessly.

Refined the Meal Planner week view into a spacious, responsive board with minimum card widths, natural flex alignment for meal items, and hardened headers to guarantee zero text overlap or clipping.

• Spacious 7-Day Grid: Ensured minimum column widths with smooth horizontal glide so days never compress or squeeze on laptops and tablets.
• Natural Flex Meal Cards: Restructured recipe titles, nutrition indicators, and action buttons for maximum readability.
• Responsive Day Headers: Hardened date indicators and daily calorie totals against container clipping.

Overhauled the Meal Planner with smart adaptive meal slots, eliminating screen clutter for families who only plan dinner while supporting ad-hoc weekend getaways, Sunday family lunches, and camping getaways in 1 tap.

• Active Meal Slot Toggles: Choose which slots (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks) are enabled by default across the week.
• Zero-Clutter Adaptive Week Grid: Inactive empty slots are cleanly hidden, keeping your weekly schedule compact and readable.
• Always-Visible Scheduled Meals: Ad-hoc scheduled meals (e.g. Sunday Lunch or BBQ Snack) always render automatically.
• 1-Tap Per-Day Slot Addition: Quickly add breakfast or lunch on specific days with a single click.
• Kitchen HQ Widget Sync: Today's dashboard widget dynamically adapts to your household's planned schedule with 1-tap cook completion and inventory stock deduction.

Introduced full Open Graph rich link cards in Memories with live composer previews, overhauled the What's On discovery widget with Hot Tickets prioritization, 8 category filter pills, and a 1-tap Planner activity launcher.

• Rich Open Graph Link Previews: Web links shared in Memories now render full-bleed image banners, article headlines, 2-line summaries, domain favicons, and video playback badges.
• Live Composer Preview: Previews generate in real time as URLs are typed or pasted in the compose box.
• Dedicated "What's On & Outings" Widget: Home dashboard widget featuring Hot Tickets, 8 category pills, hero feature banners, and a 2–3 item quick-plan sub-grid.
• Planner Outings Launcher: Browse live local events directly from Planner and schedule family day trips with 1-tap calendar syncing.

Integrated live family event discovery from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite & Google Places, added a full 7-day Trivia history review, smart prompt interleaving every 2 posts, and family-friendly history cards.

• What's On Around Me & Elsewhere: Discover concerts, family fairs, parks, and shows near your GPS location or search any city with 1-tap Planner addition.
• Trivia Leaderboards & 7-Day History: Full weekly question breakdown with correct answers, streak tracking (🔥), and Trivia Master rankings.
• Smart Prompt Interleaving: Interactive cards appear every 2 memory posts; daily trivia takes position #1 every morning and clears when answered.
• Relatable Family Debates: Replaced robotic dilemma prompts with genuine, warm household conversations.
• Immersive History Visual Cards: Full-bleed photography, large year indicators, and family safety text filters.

Transformed the Memories module into an interactive family hub with Daily Trivia & Leaderboards, 100+ witty Family Sparks, Smart Ambient Glass photo canvases, "On This Day" Flashbacks, Daily Dilemma debates, and the anonymized Community Pulse report.

• Daily Family Trivia Engine: 1 shared daily ABCD trivia question with personalized per-member difficulty (🐣 Easy for kids, 🧠 Medium for teens, 🎓 Hard for adults), OpenTDB + 365 curated offline bank, anti-repeat caching, points (+10 pts), and monthly Trivia Master crowning.
• Family Sparks & Creative Prompts: 100+ witty, charming, and insightful one-off prompts with auto-retirement once posted, plus weekend check-in prompts with 1-tap capture prefill and hashtag suggestions.
• Smart Ambient Glass Canvas: Solved portrait crop cutoffs with dual-layer dynamic ambient color-blur backgrounds, 1-tap Fit/Fill toggles, sub-photo pagers, and fullscreen lightbox view.
• "On This Day" Flashbacks & Daily Dilemmas: Resurfaces memorable moments from exact calendar dates in previous years and provides interactive household dilemma voting.
• Granular Discovery Preferences: Household members can customize which discovery cards appear in SettingsHub and adjust their personalized trivia difficulty level in ProfileSettings.
• Family Pulse Marketing Insights: Launched pulse.html featuring anonymized community statistics, regional filters, and interactive dilemma voting with zero personal data.

Introduced an in-app Photo Editing Suite in Memories with cropping, 10 aesthetic visual filters, fine adjustments, and Family Stickers, synchronized Countdowns with Planner categories, deep-linked event sheets, and implemented proactive Android memory & backup rules.

• Memories Photo Studio: Edit attached photos directly with aspect ratio cropping (1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16, 3:4), zoom/rotation, 10 visual filter presets, adjustment sliders, and interactive draggable Family Stickers.
• Harmonized Countdown Categories: Single source of truth across Home and Planner for Birthdays, Holidays, Celebrations, and Custom Countdowns.
• Deep-Linking & Memory Bridge: Tap any countdown card to jump into Planner with event auto-selection, plus a 1-tap "Capture Memory" celebration action on event day.
• Calendar Badges & Modal Previews: Month view displays mini 🎂 and ⏳ indicators, and the Planner event modal features live countdown status badges.
• Google Play Performance Compliance: Added Android 12+ data extraction rules, native background memory trimming, and memory leak guards.

Supercharged the Memories module with 10-photo multi-picker uploading, a fully interactive Doodle Canvas with Flood Fill (Paint Bucket) and re-editing, seamless Child Profile posting with updated Supabase RLS, and refined 60-day horizon countdowns.

• 10-Photo Multi-Image Selection: Select multiple gallery images at once with native Capacitor picker integration and clear media quota badges.
• Doodle Canvas 2.0: Added true scanline flood fill (Paint Bucket) for coloring enclosed shapes, adaptive canvas sizing on all screens, and tap-to-edit for doodle drafts.
• Child & Managed Profile Posting: Full RLS security policies enable household parents to post memories, doodles, and comments seamlessly on behalf of child profiles without permission errors.
• Strict 60-Day Countdown Horizon: Anniversaries and birthdays now respect a clean 60-day horizon without cluttering your dashboard with 300+ day lookaheads.

Streamlined Countdowns & Milestones to prioritize immediate family celebrations, added a clean 60-day lookahead horizon, and introduced an opt-in toggle for 7-day sports practices.

• Focused 60-Day Lookahead Horizon: Eliminates distant 300+ day countdown noise by surfacing immediate milestones and the single nearest upcoming celebration.
• Opt-In Sports & Activities: Routine weekly training and games (Netball, Soccer, etc.) are kept separate from major countdowns with an optional 7-day widget toggle.
• Contextual <24h Live Timers: Dynamic second/minute countdowns activate exclusively when events are within 24 hours.

Supercharged the Countdowns & Milestones widget with contextual keyword and category intelligence, live seconds/minutes/hours countdown ticking, multi-day ongoing trip progress tracking, and celebratory birthday flair exclusively reserved for birthdays.

• Smart Contextual Recognition: Intelligently classifies trips, flights, cruises, camping, concerts, theatre shows, sports matches, exams, deadlines, milestones, and seasonal holidays with bespoke icons and category tags.
• Birthday-Exclusive Celebration Emojis: Streamlined celebrate party poppers and birthday cakes so they shine on family birthdays, while other events display sharp, context-tailored countdown badges.
• Live Multi-Unit Breakdown Ticker: Spotlight banner now showcases live Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds tickers for upcoming events and multi-day in-progress tracking.

Overhauled bidirectional Google Calendar sync with master recurrence resolution, robust remote deletion tombstoning across family circles, and an optimized 2-column mobile dashboard layout for shrunk quick widgets.

• Master Recurring Sync: Prevented expanded single-event instances from flooding the planner as standalone duplicates and unified master series management.
• Remote Deletion Sync & Cross-Family Tombstones: Fixed deleted event resurrection loops across family devices and updated Google ID parsing to cleanly purge master recurring events and instances.
• 2-Column Mobile Widgets: Updated Home dashboard grid to display shrunk widgets (Quick To-Do, Quick Grocery, etc.) side-by-side in 2 columns on mobile devices with streamlined icon buttons.

Refined the Chores TV Hub by cleaning up legacy media player scaffolding and connecting end-to-end chore blitz completion hooks. Enhanced global type safety across Dashboard widgets, Monetization modals, and core application services for error-free build compliance.

• Chores TV Hub Stability: Streamlined TV Hub components, removed legacy visualizer overhead, and properly routed Blitz session completion callbacks.
• Type Safety & Compiler Compliance: Resolved TypeScript type-narrowing inconsistencies across Home countdowns and Monetization subscriber guides.
• Build & Runtime Performance: Verified clean production bundling with zero compiler warnings and snappy PWA asset caching.

Focused and simplified the integrations architecture. Removed unused third-party music and authentication hooks to streamline bundle footprint, optimize mobile performance, and consolidate the Chores TV Hub audio player exclusively on SoundCloud streams.

• Streamlined Integrations: Cleaned up dormant third-party integrations and authentication callback routes, eliminating external dependency overhead.
• Optimized Chores TV Hub: Refactored the TV Hub sound station directly around high-performance SoundCloud audio streaming without extraneous SDK handshakes.
• Bundle & PWA Optimization: Reduced total asset bundle weight and accelerated service worker caching for faster startup on low-power mobile devices.

A major usability and semantic overhaul of the Special Events & Countdowns widget. Milestones and wedding anniversaries are now strictly separated from birthdays, public holidays with birthday in their title (such as King's Birthday) are recognized accurately as holidays without synthetic clone loops, duplicate events from multi-calendar syncs are completely eliminated with normalized fingerprinting, and the widget is redesigned with an ultra-compact layout tailored for mobile portrait screens.

• Milestones & Anniversaries Categorization: Wedding anniversaries and family milestones are now assigned their own dedicated 💍 Milestones category and purple theme, completely preventing them from being classified as birthdays.
• Public Holiday "Birthday" Recognition Fix: Public holidays containing the word "birthday" (e.g. King's Birthday, Queen's Birthday) are accurately classified as 🎉 Public Holidays, preventing artificial annual birthday rollover math and duplicate entries.
• Event Deduplication Engine: Added normalized title + target date fingerprinting to seamlessly filter out duplicate calendar entries resulting from multi-calendar Google syncs, external iCal subscriptions, or cross-household shares.
• Compact Mobile Portrait Layout: Streamlined the widget footprint for small phone screens with sleek 50px hero countdown cards, space-conscious pill filter tabs, and tight-margin list rows.
• Cleaned Calendar Integrations: Removed dormant Outlook calendar entries from app settings, feature comparison tables, and marketing copy for a streamlined calendar sync experience focused on Google Calendar and live Apple iCal feeds.

A critical infrastructure and UI polish release eliminating runaway Edge Function invocations, expanding Planner Schedule View capabilities, and fixing React lifecycle edge cases. Google Calendar webhook watch channel creation is now strictly protected with single-channel enforcement and automated channel teardown, Schedule View introduces an All-Day and Multi-Day banner lane with full family member attendee filtering, and component re-render cascades have been thoroughly eliminated.

• Edge Function Quota Protection & Single-Channel Webhooks: Purged duplicate webhook watch channels from Supabase, enforced a database UNIQUE (family_id) constraint, integrated Google Calendar API channels/stop teardown before channel renewal, and added 30-second Realtime trigger throttling to completely eradicate runaway invocation loops.
• Schedule View All-Day & Multi-Day Matrix: Added a dedicated top "All Day" banner lane spanning across the 7-day week in Schedule View, seamlessly displaying holidays, birthdays, vacations, and full-day tasks with responsive family member attendee filtering.
• React Lifecycle & Re-Render Optimization: Resolved state cascade loops and guarded URL deep-linking references to prevent unexpected maximum update depth errors.
• Agenda & Calendar Swipe Polish: Refined date navigation and swipe transition physics across Agenda, Week, and Calendar view modes for smooth tactile responsiveness.
• Countdown Widget Strict Filtering: Excluded routine calendar appointments and timed alerts from the Home countdown widget so only verified countdown milestones, birthdays, holidays, and vacations appear.

A critical infrastructure and synchronization release addressing notification routing, accurate reminder timing, and family calendar synchronization. Tapping any push or local notification now navigates directly to the exact event, chore, list item, or memory; Google Calendar and Fambee Planner synchronization eliminates multi-user sync echo loops across circle members; and shared family deletion tombstones permanently prevent deleted events from resurfacing.

• Direct Notification Deep-Linking: Tapping any notification on mobile or web opens Fambee, navigates to the exact target module, focuses the relevant date, and automatically opens or highlights the specific event sheet, chore card, list item, or memory post.
• Cold-Start Intent Preservation: Native app cold launches seamlessly preserve notification payload routes during splash screen loading.
• 30-Day Rolling Recurrence Expansion: Repeating events now expand their reminder schedules across a rolling 30-day window so upcoming occurrences trigger alerts reliably on time.
• Stale Notification Pruning: Automatically purges notifications that were scheduled more than 15 minutes in the past, preventing barrages of old notifications from firing when opening the app after hours or days.
• Google Calendar Multi-User Sync Echo Resolution: Implemented normalized title and approximate time matching across family members, preventing duplicate clone events from being created when multiple circle members sync with Google Calendar.
• Shared Family Deletion Tombstones: Deleting an event in Fambee or Google Calendar records shared deletion tombstones across the family circle in Supabase, ensuring deleted items are never resurrected by background sync.
• Multi-Calendar Overlap Deduplication: Automatically deduplicates events fetched across overlapping Google calendars (Primary, Family, Fambee Planner) and purges historical database duplicates on startup.

A major quality-of-life update for shared lists and family collaboration. Enjoy per-device independent sorting views across collaborators without cloud view conflicts, instant top-of-list placement for newly added items, and streamlined full-width card hold-and-drag ergonomics without bulky manual grip handles.

• Independent Multi-User List Sorting: Sort preferences are now stored locally per device. One family member can sort by Aisle / Category in the supermarket while another sorts Alphabetically or by Priority at home, completely conflict-free.
• Default "Newest to Top" Placement: Newly added items in Custom/Manual sort mode are automatically placed at the very top of the list for instant visibility and fast manual reordering.
• Hold-to-Drag Ergonomics: Removed bulky manual grip icons to provide full-width, clean item cards. Press and hold anywhere on a card to smoothly drag and reorder, while quick taps toggle checkboxes or expand details immediately.
• Family Default View Option: Added a 1-tap option to save your current sort preference as the baseline default for new devices and family members when desired.

A transformational upgrade to the Kitchen & Recipe experience. Cook multiple main dishes and sides concurrently with independent step tracking, manage multiple simultaneous kitchen timers with real-world wall-clock accuracy and native background system alerts, enjoy hands-free cooking with automatic Screen Wake Lock, benefit from intelligent culinary ingredient-to-inventory matching, and express your household with an expanded 150+ avatar emoji palette.

• Multi-Recipe Concurrent Cooking Mode: Cook an entire meal with multiple dishes at the same time. Switch between active recipes with 1-tap tabs while Fambee preserves your step progress across all dishes independently.
• 1-Tap "Cook Today's Menu": Tap a single button on Today's Menu in the Kitchen Hub to automatically launch all of your planned dishes for the day into a synchronized multi-dish cooking session.
• Background Smart Timers & Native Alarms: Set multiple concurrent timers with auto-extracted step times. Timers use wall-clock timestamps and schedule native high-priority system alerts with vibration and melodic chime sounds, ringing reliably even if Fambee is closed, minimized, or your device is locked.
• Hands-Free Screen Wake Lock: Keep your mobile or tablet screen awake throughout your entire cooking session so messy, floury hands never have to tap the screen to prevent dimming.
• Persistent Floating Kitchen Bar: When minimizing Cooking Mode to check calendar events, grocery lists, or chore boards, a sleek floating bar keeps your active countdown timers and current cooking steps pinned and resumeable with 1 tap.
• Intelligent Culinary Ingredient Matcher: Completely redesigned ingredient-to-stock matching engine with core food noun extraction, non-food exclusion filtering, plural stemming, and culinary synonym resolution (e.g. coriander ↔ cilantro, minced beef ↔ ground beef).
• 150+ Avatar Emoji Palette & Custom Input: Choose from an expanded collection of 150+ modern avatar emojis across 5 curated categories or paste/type any custom emoji directly from your keyboard.
• 1-Tap Native Recipe Sharing: Share recipes seamlessly with friends and family via mobile share sheets (WhatsApp, AirDrop, iMessage) or copy formatted recipe cards with 1 tap.

Major usability and architecture release introducing sleek PC desktop navigation controls for the Moments widget, intelligent start/stop voice dictation with automatic 1.8s silence pause detection, enterprise-grade push notification routing with direct memory cards deep linking, open freemium Connections Hub for all households, and hardware-accelerated dashboard scrolling.

• Desktop Navigation Controls for Family Moments: Floating frosted-glass hover arrows and compact footer pagination chevrons make paging through family photo moments intuitive and smooth on PC/Mac desktop browsers, while preserving touch gestures on mobile.
• Quick To-Do Voice Dictation with 1.8s Auto-Pause Stop: Tap the microphone once to speak naturally. Fambee captures continuous speech and automatically finishes when you pause for 1.8 seconds, or lets you tap to stop at any time.
• Notification Deep-Linking & FCM Heads-Up Alerts: Hardened notification pipeline with high-priority Android FCM heads-up channels and direct routing (`/memories?entry=...`) so tapping an alert opens and highlights the exact memory post.
• 100% Free Connections Hub for All Households: Gated paywall removed from Connections. Any family can now generate invite links, join household circles, and link with grandparents and babysitters for free to accelerate family collaboration.
• Freemium Moments Expansion: Family Moments unlocked for all free users to post text updates, mood check-ins, polls, comments, and reactions, with Pro reserving unlimited high-res media storage and video micro-moments.
• Dashboard Scroll & Layout Optimization: Resolved composite layer traps and touch-action constraints for silky-smooth mouse wheel scrolling on desktop browsers and touch devices.

Feature-rich polish release introducing real-time smart event categorization in the Planner, full notification deep-linking across all modules, a 1-tap Assigned-to-Me filter in Lists & Groceries, Sunday evening family briefing notifications, and multiple UX improvements across Inventory, Planner, and Lists.

• Smart Planner Event Auto-Categorization: As you type an event title, Fambee instantly detects and selects the right category — ⚽ Sport, 🎂 Birthday, 🏥 Appointment, 🎨 Arts, 🎉 Party, 📚 School, ✈️ Holiday, 🍽️ Meal & more — reducing the need to manually set a category every time.
• Sunday Evening Family Weekly Briefing: A scheduled 🗓️ family briefing notification fires every Sunday at 8:00 PM, prompting the household to review upcoming events, meals, and chores together for the week ahead.
• Notification Deep-Links Across All Modules: Tapping any push notification (events, chores, memories, list items) now navigates directly to the exact item and opens its details sheet automatically, on both mobile and desktop.
• Web Browser Push Notifications: Desktop browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) can now receive native push notifications via the Web Notification API, with click-to-navigate deep links — not just in-app toasts.
• 1-Tap "Assigned to Me" Filter in Lists & Groceries: A persistent filter chip instantly narrows any list view to only items assigned to the current user — useful for busy households with shared task lists.
• Emojis Toggle in List Options: Renamed from "Card & Item Emojis" to simply "Emojis" — off by default on all list types to keep lists clean. Toggling it on persists the preference per list.
• Planner Location Place Name Preservation: When adding a location to an event, both the venue place name (e.g. Heazlett Park) and precise map coordinates are now stored, so navigating there is quick and clearly labelled.
• Inventory Visual Polish: Pulsating animated border around inventory item images and emojis for a more vibrant, dynamic feel in your collections.

Major update introducing full Supabase persistence for Valuable Collections metadata, 1-click Home Insurance CSV report exports, streamlined Inventory item creation with quick image uploads, smart back navigation modal guards, and complete marketing site rewrite.

• Valuable Collections & Home Insurance CSV Export: Full metadata persistence for warranty dates, receipt images, linked chores, condition ratings, and tags. Includes 1-click export of complete household asset valuation reports for home insurance.
• Inventory Add-With-Image & Direct Folder Shortcuts: Streamlined inventory creation flow with a single bottom action menu, direct photo upload mode, and quick `+ Item` folder shortcuts.
• Smart Back Navigation Guards: Modal stack back-button interception ensuring back gestures close nested popups instead of performing unexpected page jumps.
• Marketing Site Deep-Dive & Complete Feature Showcase: Comprehensive rewrite of `fambee.me` showcasing all 10 core modules with warm, family-first copy.

Key release introducing item lifecycle management (`Staple`, `Seasonal`, `One-Off`), an automatic Off-Season Vault for empty seasonal products, resilient offline authentication persistence, multi-stage native back-button modal interception, and mobile spotlight card widgets.

• Seasonal Inventory Lifecycles & Off-Season Vault: Categorize inventory items by lifecycle (`Staple`, `Seasonal`, `One-Off`). Empty seasonal items hibernate into a collapsible Off-Season Vault, keeping daily lists clean and protecting stock health analytics.
• 1-Tap Restock Controls & User Overrides: Explicit lifecycle selectors in item details with 1-tap `✨ Restore` and global auto-vault settings. Includes smart keyword detection for auto-assigning seasonal status to items like sunscreen, holiday spices, and party dip.
• Resilient Offline Auth & Background Sync: Prevents unexpected user logouts when network connection drops. Keeps cached user profiles and family data intact offline with ambient status indicators and auto-resync upon reconnecting.
• Smart Back Button Interception: Multi-tiered modal event handler preventing native phone back gestures from exiting parent modules when pop-ups, sheets, or edit dialogs are open.
• Mobile Portrait Event Cards: Redesigned Special Events & Countdowns widget shrink view for mobile portrait screens.