v1.3.15

August 2026 Latest

• ↻ Improved: Accidental 1-star ratings: The score on a check-in started at 1, which is also the lowest it goes, so checking in without touching the slider recorded a 1 that looked deliberate. The slider now starts empty and the Check In button stays off until you give it a score.
• ↻ Improved: The slider reads "Not rated" with a grey handle until you set one, so it is clear nothing has been chosen yet.

v1.3.14

August 2026

• ↻ Improved: Signing up with Google or Apple: A new account could land straight in the app without ever being asked to pick a username, and kept a generated one such as whiskyguru_6a41. If that happened to you, open Profile and set the name you want.
• ↻ Improved: Onboarding now starts for anyone whose account still needs setting up, rather than only when the server said so explicitly.

v1.3.13

August 2026

• ↻ Improved: Camera on every phone: Taking a photo now opens your phone's own camera instead of whatever the browser decided to show. On the phones where the camera and gallery buttons opened the wrong thing, or nothing at all, they work again.
• ↻ Improved: Photos from newer phones: Pictures are resized before they are sent, so uploads from high-resolution cameras no longer fail.
• ✦ New: Camera or library: Picking a profile picture now lets you choose between taking a photo and picking an existing one.
• ↻ Improved: If camera or photo access is switched off, the app says so and can take you straight to the right settings screen.

v1.3.12

August 2026

• ↻ Improved: Tasting notes on a check-in no longer show the word "null" when the note was left empty.
• ↻ Improved: Tidied up the whisky search box so long names and the selected bottle stay readable on smaller screens.

v1.3.11

August 2026

• ✦ New: Edit a check-in location: Set, change or remove where you were when editing an existing check-in. Your current venue is kept unless you change it.
• ↻ Improved: Check-in locations could show "null" instead of simply nothing. Fixed.
• ↻ Improved: Long whisky names no longer break the layout on the check-in screen.

v1.3.10

July 2026

• ✦ New: Tap through from a profile: Whiskies in someone else's collections and check-ins now open the whisky page.
• ✦ New: Check in from a whisky page: Starting a check-in from a whisky pre-selects that bottle, so you skip the search.

v1.3.9

July 2026

• ✦ New: Tasting notes on check-ins: Pick what you smell and what you taste from a searchable list of whisky flavours: smoky, sherried, citrus, vanilla, grainy and plenty more.
• ✦ New: Your flavour notes now show up on check-ins in the feed.

v1.3.8

July 2026

• ✦ New: Shopping country: Pick your country in your profile and you see prices from shops that actually ship to you.
• ✦ New: Switch country in the Finder: The Whisky Finder lets you change shipping country on the spot, so the prices stay local.
• ✦ New: Browse by region or budget: Open the Finder by region (Islay, Speyside, Highland and more) or by price band.
• ↻ Improved: Tapping the slàinte count on a check-in now opens who raised one, instead of jumping to the whisky page.

v1.3.7

July 2026

• ✦ New: Finder shortcuts: Tap a popular idea such as Smoky & Peaty, Rich & Sherried, Gifts under 60 or New Arrivals to jump straight to picks.
• ↻ Improved: Clearer names and icons on the bottom tabs and on the Feed, Latest and Finder tabs.
• ↻ Improved: The Whisky Finder is part of the intro tour, so new users find it right away.
• ↻ Improved: Bottle images in the Finder now stay inside their frame.

v1.3.6

July 2026

• ✦ New: Whisky Finder: Answer a few quick questions and get whisky picks you can buy right now. Handy for a gift or for your next bottle.
• ✦ New: Where an offer ships from: Every retailer in the price comparison shows its country flag.
• ✦ New: More shops: Added more retailers to the price comparison, including shops in other countries.
• ↻ Improved: Recently added whiskies now show their photo in the list.

v1.3.4

June 2026

• ✦ New: Whisky detail page: Tap any whisky for a page of its own with everything about it in one place.
• ✦ New: Price comparison: Every whisky shows current prices from several retailers, so you can see the best deal at a glance.
• ✦ New: Buy where you like: Pick a shop and tap through to order directly from the retailer.
• ↻ Improved: Tiles on the News page now open the whisky page inside the app.
• ↻ Improved: Tap a friend's avatar to jump straight to their profile.

v1.3.3

June 2026

• ✦ New: Pick your own username: First-time users choose a personal username before entering the app, instead of keeping a generated one.
• ✦ New: Guided tour: A short walkthrough introduces News, Activity, check-ins, Collections and Profile.
• ↻ Improved: Onboarding starts automatically for accounts that still need setting up.

v1.3.1

April 2026

• ↻ Improved: Who said Slàinte?: The likes dialog was always showing empty due to a query error. Fixed.
• ↻ Improved: Manual check-in flow: Adding a custom bottle no longer jumps to the check-in screen on every keystroke. A brand is now required, and a dedicated "Proceed to check-in" button controls when you move forward.
• ↻ Improved: Check-in update: Clearing the tasting note on an existing check-in no longer returns a validation error.
• ↻ Improved: Error messages: Validation errors from the server are now shown properly instead of failing silently.

v1.3.0

April 2026

• ✦ New: Check-in locations: Tag a bar, distillery or whisky shop when checking in a dram. Nearby venues are fetched automatically via OpenStreetMap.
• ✦ New: User profiles: View a friend's full profile: their check-in history, collections and stats, straight from your friends list or suggestions.
• ✦ New: People you may know: Friend suggestions based on mutual friends, shown on your friends page.
• ✦ New: New Whiskies tab: Browse recently added bottlings in the News section.
• ✦ New: Activity feed improvements: Distillery and bottler labels per check-in, with venue and city where available.
• ↻ Improved: Improved friend request flow: search and add in one tap, with immediate confirmation.
• ↻ Improved: Collections now show the number of bottlings per list.

v1.2.1

March 2026

• ✦ New: Public profiles: Make your profile public so anyone can view your stats and activity.
• ✦ New: Crew profile endpoint: Friends see richer profile data including slàinte given and received.
• ↻ Improved: Friendship status (pending or accepted) is now reflected in real time across the app.
• ↻ Improved: Slàinte counts shown on profile stats.

v1.2.0

March 2026

• ✦ New: Global activity feed: See what the WhiskyGuru community is drinking in real time.
• ✦ New: Contact form: Reach the team directly from the website.
• ✦ New: Admin panel: Internal tooling for managing incoming messages and crawler runs.
• ↻ Improved: Sitemap improvements for better search engine indexing.

v1.1.0

Early 2026

• ✦ New: Friends and social: Send friend requests, accept or decline, and see what friends are drinking.
• ✦ New: Push notifications: Get notified when a friend checks in a dram, on iOS and Android.
• ✦ New: Slàinte: React to a check-in by raising a glass to it.
• ✦ New: Collections: Organise whiskies into personal lists.

v1.0.0

2025

• ✦ New: Initial launch: WhiskyGuru goes live on iOS, Android and the web.
• ✦ New: Check in whiskies, rate them and add tasting notes.
• ✦ New: Browse the catalogue: distilleries, bottlers, brands and individual bottlings.
• ✦ New: Barcode scanner to identify a bottle instantly.

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