v1.5.3

October 2026 Latest

• ✦ New: A new guided tour: The tour walks you through every page from the bottom bar: Explore, Feed, the check-in button, Collection and Profile, with a short note on every tab. Take it again any time from your profile under Take the tour.
• ✦ New: Explore: The first tab is now called Explore, with a compass icon, so it is clear what you will find there: deals, the latest bottles, the Whisky Finder and places to drink.
• ↻ Improved: Your lists refresh by themselves after you check in, edit a check-in, rate a place or add a friend.
• ↻ Improved: The settings on your profile each have their own colour, so they are easier to tell apart.
• ↻ Improved: Headings show in the WhiskyGuru font again.
• ↻ Improved: The price chart now says Avg. lowest, because it shows the average of the cheapest price.

v1.5.2

September 2026

• ↻ Improved: Picking your username: Picking your username after signing up works with every keyboard: spaces become underscores, the reason shows right away if a name can't be used, and we suggest one from your name.
• ↻ Improved: A place name you type in is saved with your check-in, even if you don't tap the check mark first.
• ↻ Improved: Place names you type in yourself are shown to others once we've checked them. Places from the nearby list show right away.

v1.5.1

September 2026

• ↻ Improved: Price chart on your phone: Bigger buttons to switch between a month, six months, a year or all time, and today's price, the average and the lowest price side by side in three equal tiles.
• ↻ Improved: The username field on your profile no longer stays active after you save a new name.
• ↻ Improved: Small speed and memory improvements on Android.

v1.5.0

September 2026

• ✦ New: Rate the places you drink at: Bars, shops and distilleries you check in at now have their own page, with ratings from other whisky lovers. After your first check-in at a place we ask if you want to rate it, and you can change your rating any time.
• ✦ New: Places tab: Top rated places, recent ratings and rated places near you, on the WG page. My Places on your profile lists everywhere you have checked in, so you can rate places you visited before.
• ✦ New: Price history: Every whisky page shows a chart of the lowest price per day across the shops we track, for the last month, six months, year or all time, with the average as a dashed line.
• ✦ New: Deals (beta): Bottles a shop now sells below its own average price of the last 30 days. Pick the country you live in to only see shops that deliver to you, and always check the price at the shop before you buy.
• ✦ New: Every shipping country: The "Ships to" choice opens a searchable list of every country our shops deliver to, with flags, including Austria, Denmark, Spain, Italy and more.
• ✦ New: A tidier Feed: Three tabs: Friends, Global (what the whole community is pouring) and Mine (your own check-ins).
• ↻ Improved: Whisky pages show where people drank that whisky, and tapping a place name on a check-in opens its page.
• ↻ Improved: If your profile is private, others only see your rating of a place, never your name or your text.
• ↻ Improved: Lists show a placeholder while they load, and going back to the WG or Feed page keeps your place instead of loading everything again.
• ↻ Improved: Fields and buttons have the same rounded look everywhere, and pull to refresh has a new look.

v1.4.1

September 2026

• ↻ Improved: A smaller Android app: The Android app is now shrunk and optimised before it ships, so it downloads faster and takes up less space on your phone.
• ↻ Improved: Updated the underlying app framework and all native plugins to their latest versions for stability.

v1.4.0

September 2026

• ↻ Improved: Flavour pickers in reach: The suggestions under "On the nose" and "On the palate" ran off the bottom of the screen. The list now has a fixed height, scrolls, and stays clear of the keyboard.
• ↻ Improved: Whisky photos in the search results are no longer cropped, so you see the whole bottle instead of a zoomed in slice of the label.

v1.3.15

August 2026

• ↻ 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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