What's New in Fambee

Major update introducing a fully scheduled Chores Timetable with reminders, native Planner integration for chores as virtual events, and a smart subscription lifecycle system — including graceful expiry messaging and automated win-back email campaigns.

• Chores Timetable & Scheduling: Chores can now be assigned recurring schedules (daily, weekly, specific days and times). Each chore supports multiple time slots with configurable push notification reminders.
• Chores in Planner (Month, Week & Agenda): Scheduled chores surface as virtual events in the Fambee Planner across all three views. Completed chores display with a strikethrough and reduced opacity to keep things clean.
• Subscription Expiry Detection: The app now intelligently detects lapsed subscriptions. Former subscribers see "Subscription Ended — Tap to restore access" on locked features, making the off-boarding experience clear and actionable.
• Automated Win-Back Emails: A new server-side webhook function automatically sends a graceful, branded email when a subscription is cancelled or expires, inviting users back to the platform.

Major upgrade introducing intelligent semantic inventory matching for recipes, automatic restocking & list integration, custom Doodle Pad swatch queueing, mobile navigation scaling, and memories image carousels.

• Semantic Kitchen-Inventory Matching: Integrated fuzzy matching to identify ingredients semantically (e.g. matching "dry red wine" to "red wine" in your inventory) with visual matched-fallback indicators.
• Smart Restocking Sync: Completing recipes and marking items as low or out automatically creates them in your pantry inventory (if missing) and restocks them on your groceries list without duplicates.
• Doodle Pad Custom Swatches: Circular swatch slots added to doodle canvas that auto-queue your most recent custom color picker selections for quick reusable access.
• Mobile Menu & Sizing Optimization: Showing at least 4 menu icons on mobile portrait, with vertical 3-dot options to prevent button clutter.
• Memories Swipe & Carousel: Multi-image journal entries can now be swiped through in an elegant responsive carousel with smart back-button routing.

Major upgrade introducing individual-first signup onboarding paths, a native HTML5 Doodle Canvas for drawing notes in lists and journals, a comprehensive Memories Insights Dashboard, and Admin-toggle settings for contribution summaries.

• Individual-first Sign-Up & Onboarding Paths: Completely decoupled household names from initial signup. Users can choose to *Create Household*, *Join Household* (checking invite code usage), or *Start Solo* (private workspace).
• Native Doodle Canvas: Draw sketches directly in-app using brush size/color adjustments, erasers, and multi-step undo. Attach sketches as image files in lists or journal posts.
• Memories Insights Dashboard: A collapsible stats panel displaying Streak counts, unique hashtags, and a 14-day contribution grid, complete with click-to-filter hashtag and location maps.
• Contribution Summary Controls: Admin toggle to enable/disable gamified completion metrics (completed chores/shopping items) on member profile cards.

Major upgrade introducing a dedicated Connections Hub module for managing family bridges, guest invites, and external sharing permissions, along with critical PWA auto-reload and startup fixes.

• Connections Hub: Launched a dedicated connections portal. Manage Family Bridges to sync memory feeds with external households, and generate guest invite codes to share specific collections.
• Family Settings Redirection: Streamlined the family settings interface by redirecting the old Family Bridge card to the central Connections page.
• Startup Performance Guards: Integrated concurrency guards on startup auth checks, eliminating duplicate database calls and speed hiccups.
• PWA Load Stability: Configured Workbox update mode to use manual prompt indicators, resolving the sudden automatic page reload glitch upon opening the app.

Major maintenance update introducing integrated weather badges, full custom emoji selectors, scroll-lock counters, and publishing the official Terms of Service.

• Integrated Weather Capsule: Clean header status line replacing the bulky widget. Supports inline tabs for current, hourly, and weekly forecasts.
• Full Emoji Support: Choose any system emoji via our integrated custom picker, and automatically set chore effort levels based on duration.
• Scroll Lock Counters: Rewrote body overflow locks using standard attribute tracking to eliminate frozen screen scroll bugs.
• Terms of Service: Created and launched a official Terms of Service document accessible directly in-app and on the website.
• Chores TV Hub: Screen dashboard mode for Smart TVs to setup time-boxed family cleaning blitzes, complete with countdown clocks, sound triggers, and real-time standings.

UX improvements focusing on mobile Meal Planner coordination, list template shortcuts, and chores point refinements.

• Mobile Meal Planner Selector: Added a day and meal slot selector inside the recipe library popup when launched from the universal mobile action button, correcting the non-interactive tap issue.
• List Templates Settings Link: Exposed a direct link to the Custom List Templates manager in the main Settings Hub to improve module accessibility.
• Chore Point Safety: Removed automated points updates from the meal cooking confirmation flow to prevent gamification conflicts.

Major upgrade integrating Chores and Meals into a single Unified Planner view, alongside interactive drag-and-drop meal planning and image copy-paste support.

• Unified Agenda: Daily chores and scheduled kitchen meals now populate directly into your Planner's daily view, allowing check-offs and inventory deductions in real-time.
• Meal Planner Pro: Desktop and tablet users can now toggle a side drawer containing a Draggable Recipe Box to drag recipes directly into any calendar day.
• Chores Reminders: Set customized reminder patterns on household chores, matching lists functionality.
• Easy Image Paste: Copy any image from the web and paste it directly onto list items, recipes, or inventory items to add the picture instantly.

Incremental enhancement improving visual asset fidelity and default content quality.

• Vector Asset Overhaul: Replaced heavier 3D illustrations with flat vector graphics.
• Curated Default Recipes: Injected premium recipe presets and beautiful photography.

Significant new capabilities introducing natural language assistant queries, location reminders, and unified assets inventory management.

• Smart Add AI Assistant: A floating conversational interface routing thoughts straight to lists, calendars, and handbooks.
• Geo-location Reminders: Set geofenced reminders triggering lists notifications as you approach tagged stores.
• Unified Assets Hub: Integrated inventory collections and vaults under a cohesive dashboard.

Critical release resolving real-time synchronization of the Master Groceries list between web and native platforms, and perfecting premium sharing logic for household circle members.

• Cross-Platform Groceries Sync: Replaced the hardcoded 'master-groceries' list sentinel with dynamic, canonical Supabase UUID resolution. Devices now automatically re-key and synchronize local grocery items to the shared family database.
• Household Premium Sharing: Restrained premium subscription sharing to core family household roles only, ensuring guest, extended family, and viewer profiles must subscribe individually.
• Google Calendar Sync Fix: Improved non-premium user click handling on Google calendar sync controls, offering a clean premium-gate prompt.

Significant security hardening release enforcing premium paywall boundaries and circular household limits directly on the backend.

• Backend Paywall Enforcement: Implemented Row-Level Security (RLS) policies and triggers across Memories, Google Calendar integrations, and iCal feeds to prevent free-tier bypasses.
• Secure Entitlement Verification: Deployed a secure server-side subscription verification flow utilizing the RevenueCat REST API.
• Family Size Database Guards: Enforced family circle member limits at the Postgres database level, restricting free households to 2 core members.

Major productivity upgrade introducing continuous calendar spans and automated chore rotations.

• Multi-day Calendar Spans: Events lasting more than one day now render as continuous visual bars across the planner, perfectly aligning with your visual expectations.
• Rotating Chores: Added automated round-robin assignment rotation for family chores. Set it once, and let the system cycle responsibilities weekly.

We've delivered our highly-requested native Dark/Light mode toggle, alongside a significantly cleaner navigation system.

• Premium Custom Themes: Re-engineered the CSS layout to properly support forced Dark/Light mode overriding via the new Fambee display settings.
• Unified Navigation Grid: Streamlined the Module Drawer into an uncategorised unified grid for faster discovery and access.
• App Stabilization: Removed placeholder modules from production views and stabilized core features including Google Calendar event deletion & Family Circle profile invites.
• Marketing Site Expansion: Added Chores and Collections modules to the marketing feature showcase to fully reflect Fambee's 7 active modules.

Major rollout of our intelligent agents to minimize household mental load.

• AI Recipe Extractor: Instantly convert any web URL into a structured Fambee recipe.
• AI Receipt Scanner: Auto-log pantry items straight from your grocery store receipt photos.
• Premium Ecosystem: Deployed foundational paywall checks and Stripe integration for the new intelligent features.