Changelog

We’ve completely reimagined how you reflect on your year. Instead of starting with a blank page or a long list of questions, Reflection does the heavy lifting.

With a single click, Reflection gathers your entries from 2025 to instantly generate a beautiful, comprehensive review of your year. It highlights:

• Key Themes: The big ideas that defined your year.
• Holistic Wellness: Trends across your mind, body, and soul.
• Top Moments: Your most meaningful photos and highlights.
• Growth Patterns: How you’ve evolved over the last 12 months.

It’s fully editable and easily shareable—giving you the perfect "first draft" to wrap up your year with clarity and gratitude.

More Reliable Voice Journaling

We’ve made significant under-the-hood improvements to our voice engine. While mostly invisible to the eye, these updates make recording longer entries, syncing, and error recovery much more robust and reliable.

Updated macOS Icon

We've updated our app icon on Mac! It features a fresh, modern look that feels right at home in your dock and is compatible with a wider range of operating systems.

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With your feedback, we have updated the Post-Entry Insights experience to help you not only reflect on your day but also identify recurring Patterns and concrete Action Items. Alongside these deeper insights, we’ve polished the interface and squashed several bugs to ensure your quiet moments of reflection remain uninterrupted.

Here is what’s new in this release:

New Features

• Enhanced Post-Entry Insights: We have upgraded the analysis you receive after journaling. It now offers more relevant context and includes two brand new sections: Patterns (to spot recurring themes) and Action Items (to help you move forward).

Improvements

• Visual Refresh: Updated the tinted app icon and the macOS dock icon.
• Settings: General UI polish to the settings page for better navigation.

Bug Fixes

• Stability & Data:
• Fixed an issue where Premium status and AI personalization settings were not saving.
• Resolved the Google Login button flashing issue.
• Corrected the enforcement of free transcript limits.
• Fixed profile names not updating correctly in coaching sessions.
• Editor & Layout:
• Fixed image compression artifacts in the Journal view.
• Resolved layout issues where the AI Quick Action bar and AI Options were obscuring text.
• Fixed the keyboard overlapping the dictation UI.

This update brings delights and performance improvements throughout the app. We've refreshed the app icon and entire app design with new liquid-glass inspired details. We also gave the editor—the heart of our app— a more intuitive and spacious feel.

Voice journaling got some love too with streamlined transcription, better error recovery, and a beautiful redesign. Plus lots of small delights sprinkled throughout.

Faster, Smarter Voice Journaling

• Improved transcription flow – recordings now go straight into your journal, no separate transcription step
• Better error recovery – voice sessions automatically retry when possible, preventing data loss
• Enhanced transcription for Free users – now included in your daily Depth limit

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Editor Redesign

• Cleaner layout with smarter AI integration – new entries open with AI insights ready
• Liquid glass-inspired design throughout for a more polished feel
• Repositioned save button and date – moved to the top for better flow and more editor space
• Added back button when not editing entries

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And More!

• New app icon with adaptive glass effect
• "Look Back" now automatically opens the most relevant tab
• Faster, more intuitive search experience
• Enhanced banners and paywalls that are more interactive and informative
• Smoother PIN code experience
• Better notification delivery
• Insights tab improvements – clearer messaging for new users and Android performance boosts
• Bug fixes for greater speed and stability

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• More Stable Journaling: Enjoy a smoother, crash-free journaling experience.
• Better Entry Image Handling: Images now load beautifully and stay sharp.
• Improved Onboarding and Attribution
• Enhanced Draft Entry Handling: Prevent data loss with improved draft management.
• Design Updates: Navigate easily with a new gear icon for settings and enhanced desktop navigation visibility.
• Bug Fixes and Polishes: Overall improvements for a seamless experience.

Refined UX:

• The search bar now appears and disappears smoothly as you scroll for a cleaner writing and reading experience.
• Various refinements made across web, mobile, and desktop versions.

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More Control Over Your Experience:

• Manage AI features like voice input and post-entry insights with clear toggles in settings.
• On Android, the bottom navigation bar adapts to your scroll, optimizing your viewing space.
• Additional micro improvements and bug fixes.

Refined Post-Entry Insights:

• Smarter Tagging: Our tagging suggestions now prioritize your existing tags, helping you maintain a consistent organizational structure. New tag suggestions are introduced gently.
• Your Control: Easily toggle insights on or off in your settings for a personalized experience.

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PDF Export Enhancements:

• AI conversations will now be displayed perfectly in exported PDFs.
• All images within your journal entries are now included in PDF exports.

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New Insights Page: Access AI-powered insights from your entries along with a new interactive calendar view and journaling statistics.

Redesigned Today Page:

• Updated 'Look Back' section to view by week, month, and year.
• New streaks widget at the top.
• Reintroduced daily question and quote with a fresh aesthetic.

New Navigation: Expanded viewable area with persistent search, making it easier to search or inquire.

Update to Entry Insights: Access entry insights before saving.

Follow-Up Search: Enhanced search with follow-up question support and conversation context.

Personalized Prompts in Entry: Tap the Inspiration Quick Action for personalized prompts.

Various UX improvements and bug fixes for a smoother experience.

This was a fully packed sprint — the amount we got done in the last 2 weeks has been nothing short of mind-blowing. The biggest highlight is Entry Insights (more below), but we also slipped in Guide Search, which has been a top requested featue. Here is the full list...

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🌟 New Features

Entry Insights - Get instant summaries, analysis, and suggested tags right after saving an entry for the first time. Turn every journal session into a moment of reflection and discovery.

Long-Term Memory - You can now save names and information directly to the long term memory to enhance your AI experience throughout the app. You can access and edit the long term memory from the Settings page.

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Guide Search - The highly requested feature is here! Find the perfect journaling prompt by searching our entire guide library by creator, title, or topic. No more scrolling through hundreds of guides to find what you need.

Voice Journaling on Web & Mac - Voice journaling is now available across all platforms, so you can speak your thoughts anywhere you use Reflection.

Tag-Only Search - Search your journal entries by tags alone for more precise filtering and organization.

Customer Center on Mobile - Manage your active subscriptions directly within the mobile app with our new customer center.

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⚡ Improvements

Significantly Faster Search - We've dramatically improved search speed across the app for quicker access to your past entries.

Smarter AI Responses - When you ask questions from within a journal entry, our AI now includes relevant context from your past entries for more personalized answers.

Enhanced PDF Exports - Depth AI responses are now included in PDF exports, and we've fixed export issues for users with smaller screen sizes.

Quick Template Tags - Add tags to your quick templates for better organization and discoverability.

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🔧 Fixes

Apple ID Sign-In - Resolved sign-in issues for Mac and web users with Apple ID accounts.

UI Refinements - Small but meaningful interface improvements and onboarding page updates for a smoother experience.

Enhanced Voice Journaling is here! You can now speak your thoughts directly into the app — just tap the Voice icon in entry view or long-press on the + icon and start talking. Whether you're brainstorming or capturing quick notes, voice dictation makes it faster and easier than ever to get ideas out of your head and into your workflow.

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 Smarter, Faster Search

• We've made searches more responsive and efficient, helping you find what you need without lag.
• Auto-focus on search bar: The search bar now grabs your cursor as soon as you open it — one less click to worry about.

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 Smoother Onboarding & Sign-In

• Improved onboarding experience so new users can get started faster and with more clarity.
• Google Sign-In now works more reliably on macOS — a small fix with a big impact.

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 Other Fixes & Tweaks

• DepthAI prompt bar closes after use in entry. Keeping the focus on your writing and reflection.
• Timezone updates and localization have been improved to better match your actual settings — things should now “just work” wherever you are.

In this release we've added quick onboarding questions to create personalized journal prompts for your first app experience.

We've also added a settings toggle to disable personalized prompts.

We made small updates to the splash screen and changed the app name beneath the icon from "Reflection.app" to simply "Reflection."

Plus, we squashed several bugs.

• Personalized Prompts - Added unique prompts to the Today page based on your past entries, helping you continue reflections and discover connections in your journaling journey.

• Start without an account - New users can now create their first journal entry without signing up, making it easier to experience Reflection before creating an account.

• Bug Fixes: Issue with 12H/24H Notifications, Formatting of Quick Templates, Updates to Import, Guided Journey Reminders Fixed

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Refinements to search results and in-entry quick AI actions.

New Features

• Added monthly reviews to Search functionality

• Updated the look back section on Today page

• Enhanced Dark Mode with new icons

• AI now responds in same language as user entry

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Design Improvements

• Updated the universal highlight color

• Refreshed illustrations with new icon style

• Improved design for photo date and time usage

• Updated buttons on Desktop version

• Refined settings page

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed formatting issues with search results

• Resolved small bugs related to depth functionality

• Fixed a minor issue in the monthly review

• Various model improvements and optimizations

A handful of refinements building on V6. Also some backend improvements for AI response quality and UI refinements to key interaction areas.

• AI Backend: Infrastructure updates for faster prompt refinements and quality improvements

• UI Enhancements: Spacious bottom sheets for calendar and tags, improved date selection

• Design Updates: Refined pincode page and lookback section

• Fixes: Corrected desktop button hover states and minor stability improvements

 A comprehensive update focusing on an enhanced AI journaling experience, redesigned search functionality, and refined visual design throughout the app.

• AI Companion: Redesigned interface with new quick actions and improved question-asking

• Search: Complete overhaul with natural language support and ability to create entries from results

• Quick Actions: New entry creation tools for photos, inspiration, and templates (foundation for voice)

• Design: Consistent iconography, improved visual coherence, and updated UI elements

• Improvements: Fixed shareable links, added welcome progress bar, updated splash screen and editor toolbar

• Delight: Added subtle haptic feedback with AI responses

Updated splash screens and onboarding.

Added import support, fixed issue with notifications, ability to create a new entry from Depth search result, and ability to download PDF of Annual Review.

Resolved issue for some Android and Mac devices crashing on load and fixed issue with notifications.

Added option for PDF exports, added journal-wide search to the Today page, improved Depth journal-wide search, fixed bug with image position in entries, and import support (in works).

Ability to add and edit hyperlinks within an entry, ability to change plans from within the app, added Depth to welcome tips, ability to delete quick templates, fixed link sharing links, improved onboarding experience, reduced modals, fixed support message issue on Android, and removed incomplete reviews from journal view.

Updated guides page to show more relevant and newer guides, updated UX to no longer show 'Tags' modal automatically when saving entry, fixed issue with premium users seeing paywall, made designs for all modals consistent, tweaks to improve onboarding flow, and scroll to show user Depth response in entry.

Journal-wide Depth includes AI-powered search and insights using Gemini.

Backend optimizations to improve efficiency (reduce Firestore reads).

Fresh design for editor, updated modal designs including the calendar, moved photos in entry to pull directly from gallery, fixed bugs with Depth pop-up and with date change not saving, and ability to scroll anywhere on page for shared entry.

Depth AI Powered Journaling. This release is phase 1 of our 3-Phase vision around integrating AI. You can now pull up Depth as a journaling companion within your entry. Depth can provide questions to go deeper, or you can ask your own question from it.

Added 'Look Back' notifications and improved error logging.

Added haptic feedback throughout, updated onboarding (new UI for Welcome Checklist, Paywall), fixed scroll on entries with multiple images, added new category icons, and more bug fixes. Design updates, premium guides, and other small fixes.

Backend improvement for link management cross platform and improvements to affiliate landing page checkout flow.

Improvements to photos in editor, fixed issue with copy/paste in editor, added haptic feedback to main buttons, improved tap-targets, accessibility, and other UI improvements.

Significant improvements to sync, ability to close Welcome Checklist, improved cross-platform tracking, improved performance, and removed Pin Lock delay.

Enjoy a completely rebuilt Depth (our AI integration) with a focus on speed. With the move to client-side, responses are now instant — both in entry and for journal-wide search. We have also begun a design overhaul, so you will see a few small design updates already trickling in with this release.