Hey gang, this update brings support many new features across Apple's new OS updates. ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ - The Logbook's Recent view now adapts to how much you log. If you've logged fewer than 100 things in the last 30 days, Recent shows the last year instead. Light loggers no longer land on a nearly empty Logbook. If you log a lot, nothing changes and Recent stays at 30 days. ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ - Fixed an issue where Siri couldn't search Sofa. Say "Search Sofa for Severance" and Sofa opens to search with your query filled in. - Fixed Stats showing "Unknown Artist" for every album (and missing authors for books), and fixed Music and Movies decades being based on the wrong date, so 70s albums no longer show up as "from the 2020s." - When Recent had nothing to show, the Logbook said no items matched your filters, even though you hadn't picked any. It now says nothing's been logged in the last year and points you to All for older entries. A brand new, empty Logbook still says you haven't logged anything yet. - A podcast episode could get stuck at the top of Up Next with the wrong date if the show's publisher briefly changed the episode's release date and then changed it back. Sofa now checks stored episode dates against the feed whenever you open a show and fixes any that drifted. - Backups doubled in size starting with Beta 7 because every image and attachment was packaged twice. Backups are now roughly a third smaller. - Backups created with this build can't be restored by older versions of Sofa. ============================ WHAT'S NEW in 5.3 ============================ SPOTLIGHT SEARCH Search from your Home Screen and you'll find your items, lists, and planner events, notes, and tasks — complete with cover art. Tap a result and Sofa opens straight to it. VISUAL INTELLIGENCE Point your camera at a book cover, movie poster, or game box and Sofa tells you whether it's already in your library. If it isn't, you get results you can add on the spot. Works from Apple's Visual Intelligence camera and from the new camera button in Sofa's search bar. If nothing matches, you can turn the photo into a custom item without losing the shot. LOGBOOK RECAPS Your month and year in the Logbook, written up as a card — what you finished, what you kept coming back to, when you were most active. Generated on your device, and shareable. DESCRIBE A PLAN, GET AN EVENT Type out a trip the way you'd say it — "Weekend in Portland with the kids, April 10–12, near the waterfront, bookstore day, budget around $600" — and Sofa fills in a draft event with dates, location, itinerary, and budgets. Nothing is saved until you review it. GENERATED COVERS Make custom artwork for lists, items, and events with Image Playground, right alongside the camera and photo options you already had. NEW WIDGETS All Sofa widgets now support the new full-page portrait extra-large size, plus the landscape XL size on iPad and Mac SHARE EVENT PLANS Share event plans as text, Markdown, a calendar file, or a printable PDF. The calendar export drops your whole trip into any calendar app as real timed events, timezones and all. This is a great way to quickly share a trip's itinerary with other people. TV REWATCHING IMPROVEMENTS TV rewatching is much better. “Watch Again” now preserves your previous watch in the Logbook before starting fresh, including watched episodes, dates, and notes. You can also log individual episodes multiple times without overwriting earlier views, see separate watch histories for shows and episodes, and track how many times you’ve watched each episode. Rewatches now count toward your stats and streaks, too, including a new Most Watched Episodes stat. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, this update brings support many new features across Apple's new OS updates. ============================ WHAT'S NEW ============================ SPOTLIGHT SEARCH Search from your Home Screen and you'll find your items, lists, and planner events, notes, and tasks — complete with cover art. Tap a result and Sofa opens straight to it. VISUAL INTELLIGENCE Point your camera at a book cover, movie poster, or game box and Sofa tells you whether it's already in your library. If it isn't, you get results you can add on the spot. Works from Apple's Visual Intelligence camera and from the new camera button in Sofa's search bar. If nothing matches, you can turn the photo into a custom item without losing the shot. LOGBOOK RECAPS Your month and year in the Logbook, written up as a card — what you finished, what you kept coming back to, when you were most active. Generated on your device, and shareable. DESCRIBE A PLAN, GET AN EVENT Type out a trip the way you'd say it — "Weekend in Portland with the kids, April 10–12, near the waterfront, bookstore day, budget around $600" — and Sofa fills in a draft event with dates, location, itinerary, and budgets. Nothing is saved until you review it. GENERATED COVERS Make custom artwork for lists, items, and events with Image Playground, right alongside the camera and photo options you already had. NEW WIDGETS All Sofa widgets now support the new full-page portrait extra-large size, plus the landscape XL size on iPad and Mac SHARE EVENT PLANS Share event plans as text, Markdown, a calendar file, or a printable PDF. The calendar export drops your whole trip into any calendar app as real timed events, timezones and all. This is a great way to quickly share a trip's itinerary with other people. ============================ TV REWATCHING IMPROVEMENTS ============================ TV rewatching is much better. “Watch Again” now preserves your previous watch in the Logbook before starting fresh, including watched episodes, dates, and notes. You can also log individual episodes multiple times without overwriting earlier views, see separate watch histories for shows and episodes, and track how many times you’ve watched each episode. Rewatches now count toward your stats and streaks, too, including a new Most Watched Episodes stat. ============================ BETTER BACKUPS ============================ Backups are now safer and more reliable. Sofa verifies backups before saving them and creates a safety copy before importing, so your library can be restored if something goes wrong. Corrupted data is also handled more gracefully, along with backup files renamed by iOS. ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ - Podcast playback position getting lost or rewound when syncing between devices. - Book details being wiped by the daily refresh. A book whose refresh returned an empty response was having its title, description, and properties cleared. The refresh now correctly treats that as a failure and leaves your data alone. - Board game details being wiped. Board games were being refreshed against an API that no longer exists, clearing properties and orphaning artwork on every pass. Board games are now local-only, as intended. - A real Author or Genre could be overwritten with "Unknown" by a thin re-fetch. - Smart Lists now handle completed items correctly. Phantom duplicates from Logbook history are gone, and Smart Lists set to “Todo List” now move logged items to the Completed section instead of hiding them. - and more bug fixes that don't fit in these release notes. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I've got a ton of improvements and fixes in this release. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! IMPORTING IMPROVEMENTS ============================ - Sofa now remembers your last 10 imports in Settings → Data Management — undo any of them individually, with a heads-up if a newer import touched the same items. - Trakt imports now respect dropped shows (→ Did Not Finish) and mark fully-caught-up shows as Watched instead of flooding Enjoying. New episodes that aired after you finished show up as new content. - If an import matched the wrong movie, show, book, or game, tap it to search and pick the right one. CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ - Improvements to checking and updating tracked TV shows. - Finishing a show you've bailed on (or the new "Stop Showing" option) now keeps it out of Enjoying, Returns Soon, and the Planner. Reversible anytime via Resume Watching. - Custom items can now be added directly to your Logbook, with a date and time of your choosing. - Event countdowns now show the true number of days for far-future events. - Podcast chapters are now generated from more show-notes formats. - Timestamps in podcast show notes are now tappable — tap one to jump the player to that spot. SHORTCUTS ============================ - Start Tracking now takes a Total, a starting Current Value, and a Checkpoint Type. - Update Counter has a new Set Total mode, so you can fix or change the goal on something you're already tracking and change the unit at the same time ("set total of Dune to 48 chapters"). BUG FIXES ============================ - Podcast playback position getting lost or rewound when syncing between devices. - Manually sorted list items could jump to different positions. - Completed show could show up in Enjoying if its episode data couldn't be fetched during import. - Shows not reappearing in Enjoying when new episodes air. - Finished shows no longer get stuck as "Caught Up" when a series ends after you added it — they now complete and land in your Logbook automatically, including when you mark the last episode via widgets, Shortcuts, or the Logbook. - Tapping Sticky Note on an item you'd logged before could open and edit an older copy's note instead of creating one for the current item. - Adding a podcast to the Logbook a second time moved the existing entry's date instead of adding a new one. - A podcast followed and logged on the same day could be misread as "not new" and pull a full batch of episodes on its first refresh instead of one. - Video game search returning odd results when the query had a trailing space. - A bug that kept the Save button grayed out when adding a plan to an event, even after filling in the details. - A mystery item could appear in the Pinned Items widget even though it was nowhere to be found in the app. The widget and the app now always agree on what's pinned. - Issues where Planner items weren't properly being added to the Logbook. - Podcasts followed by RSS link (like Patreon feeds) could disappear from Up Next when any show was set to Listen as a Series. - Episode thumbnails briefly showing the wrong episode's artwork while scrolling quickly on slow networks. - Grouping a list by an ingredient now reliably places tagged items in the right group. - Shared links now save even when the page preview can't be loaded, instead of showing an error. - Issue where the widget could get stuck showing sample content instead of your queue until you reconfigured it. - The single-item Enjoying widget now updates as you track progress, instead of only refreshing after restarting your phone. - Events could stop appearing in the widget entirely (while releases and episodes still showed). - Background image for the Event countdown widget is now sharp instead of blurry when set to "Next Event." As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, 5.2 is a big one...a much improved podcast player, a new Enjoying tab, and a ton of improvements throughout. IMPROVEMENTS FOR 5.2.1 ============================ - Importing your history no longer floods Enjoying with shows you finished years ago — only recently watched shows are tracked automatically, and the rest import ready to track whenever you want. - Sofa is now much faster for large libraries — quicker Enjoying refreshes, smoother Logbook view switches, and less background work during iCloud sync. - Fixed a crash on Mac when resizing the window or transitioning the sidebar. - CSV imports misreading Excel-formatted dates (like "9-Feb-14") as ancient years — they now import as the correct date. WHAT'S NEW ============================ PODCAST PLAYER - Listen as a Series — follow any podcast like a TV show, in order from the beginning. Progress ring, dedicated series view (Up Next / Played / Skipped), and a new CarPlay Series tab. - The player is now fully free — chapters, per-show settings, and Voice Boost unlocked for everyone. - New per-podcast settings: playback speed, voice boost, seek intervals, Skip Intro, and Skip Outro. - Chapters now include artwork, scrubber markers (iOS 26+), and auto-parsing from show notes. - New Up Next controls: choose whether new episodes land at the top or bottom, globally or per podcast. Each playlist now keeps its own sort, including manual drag order, synced across devices. - New settings: Smart Resume, Auto Play Next Episode, Only Play Downloaded Episodes, and 21 playback speeds (1.0×–3.0× in 0.1× steps). ENJOYING TAB - A dedicated home for in-progress items — shows, books, games, and more. - Smart views surface the right things: Finish Tonight, On a Roll, and Dusty. - Sort by time remaining or units left. - TV shows can display a "time left" estimate right on the item. - Everyone can now track up to 2 items for free; Super Sofa includes unlimited. SEARCH One global search, one tap from any tab — or ⌘K. Searches your library first, lets you add new items from the same place. SETTINGS SYNC Nearly every preference now syncs with iCloud. Set it once, it's everywhere. TV SHOW TRACKING Collapsible seasons, a Hide Spoilers mode, a choice of progress display (Percent, Watched count, or Remaining), and a new "Caught Up" Smart List filter. LOGBOOK Log Again brings back one-tap re-logging. Repeated Quick Log taps, podcast episodes, and TV episodes now bundle into tidy collapsed rows instead of flooding the day with separate entries. TV episodes group by season by default. MORE - TV Time import now supports the official GDPR export — full episode-level watch history, rewatches, movies, and custom lists. - Smart Lists can now filter by title (contains, equals, excludes) and support multi-range filters. - Notes can show as a compact "Little Icon" instead of a full inline card. - New "Date Edited" sort. New "Course" checkpoint type. Default checkpoint type per media category. - Custom categories can be assigned to Enjoying groups. CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ - Letterboxd import now brings over written reviews as Notes on each film. - Select All in Up Next for quick bulk actions. - Sofa now restores your last-used tab and podcast mini player position on reopen. - Tappable toasts — tap the confirmation banner to jump to what you just changed. - Finished TV shows now correctly resurface in Enjoying when new seasons arrive. - Fixed "snap back to Completed" on shows marked incomplete. - Podcast episodes no longer appear under "Unknown Podcast" or show up twice in Played history — these repair automatically. - Sorting on Smart Lists filtered to Logbook items now works correctly. - Planner dates appearing a day early for users in time zones ahead of UTC. As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, 5.2 is a big one...a much improved podcast player, a new Enjoying tab, and a ton of improvements throughout. ============================ WHAT'S NEW ============================ PODCAST PLAYER • Listen as a Series — follow any podcast like a TV show, in order from the beginning. Progress ring, dedicated series view (Up Next / Played / Skipped), and a new CarPlay Series tab. • The player is now fully free — chapters, per-show settings, and Voice Boost unlocked for everyone. • New per-podcast settings: playback speed, voice boost, seek intervals, Skip Intro, and Skip Outro. • Chapters now include artwork, scrubber markers (iOS 26+), and auto-parsing from show notes. • New Up Next controls: choose whether new episodes land at the top or bottom, globally or per podcast. Each playlist now keeps its own sort, including manual drag order, synced across devices. • New settings: Smart Resume, Auto Play Next Episode, Only Play Downloaded Episodes, and 21 playback speeds (1.0×–3.0× in 0.1× steps). ENJOYING TAB • A dedicated home for in-progress items — shows, books, games, podcasts, and more. • Smart views surface the right things: Finish Tonight, On a Roll, and Dusty. • Sort by time remaining or units left. • TV shows can display a "time left" estimate right on the item. • Everyone can now track up to 2 items for free; Super Sofa includes unlimited. SEARCH The Search tab is gone. One global search, one tap from any tab — or ⌘K. Searches your library first, lets you add new items from the same place. SETTINGS SYNC Nearly every preference now syncs with iCloud. Set it once, it's everywhere. TV SHOW TRACKING Collapsible seasons, a Hide Spoilers mode, a choice of progress display (Percent, Watched count, or Remaining), and a new "Caught Up" Smart List filter. LOGBOOK Log Again brings back one-tap re-logging. Repeated Quick Log taps, podcast episodes, and TV episodes now bundle into tidy collapsed rows instead of flooding the day with separate entries. TV episodes group by season by default. MORE • TV Time import now supports the official GDPR export — full episode-level watch history, rewatches, movies, and custom lists. • Smart Lists can now filter by title (contains, equals, excludes) and support multi-range filters. • Notes can show as a compact "Little Icon" instead of a full inline card. • New "Date Edited" sort. New "Course" checkpoint type. Default checkpoint type per media category. • Custom categories can be assigned to Enjoying groups. ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Letterboxd import now brings over written reviews as Notes on each film. • Select All in Up Next for quick bulk actions. • Sofa now restores your last-used tab and podcast mini player position on reopen. • Tappable toasts — tap the confirmation banner to jump to what you just changed. ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • Finished TV shows now correctly resurface in Enjoying when new seasons arrive. • Fixed "snap back to Completed" on shows marked incomplete. • Podcast episodes no longer appear under "Unknown Podcast" or show up twice in Played history — these repair automatically. • Sorting on Smart Lists filtered to Logbook items now works correctly. • Planner dates appearing a day early for users in time zones ahead of UTC. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I've got some goodies and tons of bug fixes in this release. Enjoy! ============================ IMPORT FROM OTHER SERVICES ============================ Sofa can now import from the services you've been using for years. Pull in your books, movies, shows, and games from Goodreads, Letterboxd, Trakt, Apple Reminders, and more. ============================ EXPORT YOUR SOFA LIBRARY ============================ The old Plain Text and Spreadsheet exports have been replaced by a single Export All Data option. You get one zip file containing: - A spreadsheet of everything in your library with your lists, notes, and custom Ingredients all in their own columns - Separate sheets for the planner, travel, expenses, and more - Folders with all your attachments and cover images ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ - You can now tap any episode's checkbox in a TV show's episode list to mark it watched, including episodes that haven't aired yet. - Board Games is once again a category you can turn on in Settings. Add games manually from the Add Custom Item flow, give them properties and notes, and they'll show up in search, smart lists, Logbook, and the rest of Sofa just like any other category. (There's no online board-game lookup yet — items are added by hand for now.) - Started and Finished dates for tracked TV shows now reflect when you actually watched, not when you tapped Finish. - Catch Up to Here and Skip Up to Here now respect Hide Specials — Season 0 episodes are no longer touched when you have specials hidden. - The completion celebration screen now shows your actual Finished date and formats long durations with thousand separators (e.g. 7,712 days to complete). — "Complete & Log" is now available for items set to Track Only, so you can quick-log a game (or book, or anything) without cluttering the Logbook and still log the finished item when you're done. - Reduced memory use during podcast playback, especially for episodes with chapter artwork. - Switching from Simple Counter to Check Things Off now defaults the checkpoint type to the natural unit for the media (e.g. Chapters for books) instead of carrying over the previous unit. - Grid layouts now better scale items to the platform. ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ - Movie release dates showing the premiere date (or other early event) instead of the theatrical release. - Edge case where release dates could display one day off depending on your time zone. - TV episode titles now correct themselves automatically when TMDB updates them after release. - Podcast smart lists now correctly apply episode-level filters to the displayed episodes. - Fixed start and end times shifting unexpectedly when changing an event activity's location. - Fixed the end date jumping forward a day when adjusting the start time near midnight. - Multi-day activities now keep their duration when you move the start. - Fixed the end time snapping to one minute past start after picking a location in a new timezone. - Tapping empty space in the Date & Time section no longer clears the - Turning All Day off now restores your original times instead of replacing them with a generic default. - Multi-day all-day events keep their full span when you turn All Day off. - Data Card settings now appear when editing The Pile and a Data Card layout is selected. - Service names on Data Cards no longer duplicate and now appear in a consistent alphabetical order across every item in the list. - Marking unaired episodes as watched now fully updates progress everywhere. - Crash that could close the share sheet immediately when picking a category. - Crash after typing a query and clearing the search field with the X. And many more fixes... ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa 5 is here, and it's the biggest update in the app's history. Here's what's new... PROGRESS TRACKING Track TV shows, books, and games with progress rings on covers, plus a new Enjoying section that always knows what's next. PODCAST PLAYER A full podcast player built in, with Up Next, Voice Boost, chapters, offline downloads, CarPlay, and a persistent mini player. PLANNER A new planning hub for events, tasks, and notes—with day-by-day itineraries, maps, budgets, weather, and automatic tracking of upcoming releases. LISTS Two new list types, custom grouping, and 28+ new Smart List filters that work with your Ingredients. LOGBOOK & STATS A rebuilt Logbook and a new stats dashboard for every media type, with timelines, breakdowns, and insights about your habits. AND MORE Unified Search, bulk actions, 40+ Shortcuts with Siri, home and lock screen widgets, and Apple Intelligence for natural language Smart Lists. ============================ Version 5.0.4 ============================ NEW - "Catch Up to Here" (renamed from "Mark All Up to Here") now has an option to complete each episode using its own air date, so older watches sort into the weeks they actually aired. - Mark episodes watched without a date — they count toward progress but stay off your Logbook and time-based stats. - Skip episodes and seasons. Skipped items don't count toward progress, Up Next, Stats, or completion math, and won't block Finish Show. FIXES - Crash when opening certain lists with custom cover images. - Crash when adding a custom image URL to a list item. - Crash when reordering Ingredients. - Share Extension crash when selecting a category for a shared item. - Some image URLs were rejected when using "Add from URL" for cover images. - Local search now finds titles when apostrophes are omitted (e.g., "youve" matches "You've Got Mail"). - Signing in on a new device could create duplicate starter lists alongside synced iCloud lists. - "Watch Again" no longer duplicates ratings, tags, and custom properties onto the new copy, which was piling up duplicates in favorites and smart lists. Runtime, genre, and other intrinsic info still carries over. - New manual items created in a Smart List now default to The Pile. - "Where to Watch" no longer shows duplicate entries. Providers with multiple options now appear as one row — e.g., Apple TV as "Stream · Rent · Buy." - Event AI summaries no longer produce mangled characters in unsupported languages; Sofa falls back to the static summary. - Episode count on the show detail page updates immediately when skipping episodes. - Season cover image now displays when choosing a date for a season. - Episode Completion Status filter now correctly narrows results to shows containing the selected statuses. - Setting a reminder on a TV show episode appeared to do nothing. - "Show Completed" toggle incorrectly appeared checked when completed items were visible. - "Find Logbook Item" Shortcut inconsistently returned TV episodes when filtering by Date Added. - Logbook Item Shortcut variables now include Show Title, Episode Label (e.g., S1E5), Season Number, and Episode Number for TV episodes. - Watched TV episodes sometimes missing from the Logbook Item picker, text search, and saved shortcut variables on re-run. - Ingredient pills lagging when switching to a longer value. - A "Custom Property" entry could remain in a Data Card's Displayed Properties after the Ingredient was deleted. - "Edit List Details" from long-pressing a list on iPhone showed a shortened Group By menu and "None" when grouped by a system property or Ingredient. - Data Card "Displayed Properties" picker on Smart Lists was missing System Properties and Services sections. - Smart Lists set to Collection List now correctly keep completed items visible. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa 5 is here, and it's the biggest update in the app's history. Here's what's new... PROGRESS TRACKING Track TV shows episode by episode, books page by page, and games milestone by milestone. Progress rings show up on covers throughout the app, and a new Enjoying section on your home screen always knows what's next. There are five tracking modes to match how you actually use things, and you get confetti when you finish (fun!). When new seasons drop for shows you've finished, Sofa lets you know. PODCAST PLAYER There's a full podcast player built into Sofa now. Up Next queue, Voice Boost, chapter navigation, offline downloads, CarPlay, and a mini player that stays with you while you browse. You can track a podcast and listen to it without leaving the app. PLANNER A new planning hub with events, standalone tasks, sticky notes, and automatic tracking of upcoming TV episodes and media releases. Events can have day-by-day itineraries with maps, budget scenarios, weather forecasts, and file attachments. It's surprisingly useful. REDESIGNED LISTS Lists now come in two types: Todo Lists for backlogs and Collection Lists for permanent shelves. You can group items by genre, streaming service, platform, or any custom field. There's a new Data Card layout that shows properties right on each card with tap-to-edit. And you can re-watch, re-read, or re-play anything with full history tracking. ENHANCED SMART LISTS 28+ new filters across every content type, including episode-level filtering for TV shows and podcasts. They work with your custom Ingredients too. There's also a bunch of Smart List templates to get you started. LOGBOOK & STATS The Logbook has been completely rebuilt, and there's a new stats dashboard for every media type. Activity timelines, genre breakdowns, day-of-week patterns, and fun insights about your habits. AND MORE Unified Search with trending content, multi-select & bulk actions, 40+ Shortcuts actions with Siri support, progress widgets for your home and lock screens, editable properties for manual items, a customizable tab bar, and on-device Apple Intelligence for creating Smart Lists with natural language. ============================ Version 5.0.3 - FIXES ============================ - FIXED: Issue where pressing the forward-skip button past the end of a podcast episode would leave the next episode loaded but unable to play, requiring you to stop and restart playback to recover. - FIXED: Issue where changing podcast playback speed on a paused episode could inadvertently trigger playback. - FIXED: Internal threading warning during podcast episode transitions. - FIXED: Crash that prevented some users on iOS 18 from upgrading to Super Sofa - FIXED: A class of crashes on iOS 18 affecting Stats detail views, attachment lists, reminder lists, the image gallery, and the itinerary template picker. - FIXED: A brief white flash that could appear behind progress indicators on the home screen "Enjoying" card and behind the chart on the Logbook tab's Stats card. - FIXED: Apps now appear in their own "Using" category instead of being lumped under "Playing" when being tracked. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa 5 is here, and it's the biggest update in the app's history. Here's what's new... PROGRESS TRACKING Track TV shows episode by episode, books page by page, and games milestone by milestone. Progress rings show up on covers throughout the app, and a new Enjoying section on your home screen always knows what's next. There are five tracking modes to match how you actually use things, and you get confetti when you finish (fun!). When new seasons drop for shows you've finished, Sofa lets you know. PODCAST PLAYER There's a full podcast player built into Sofa now. Up Next queue, Voice Boost, chapter navigation, offline downloads, CarPlay, and a mini player that stays with you while you browse. You can track a podcast and listen to it without leaving the app. PLANNER A new planning hub with events, standalone tasks, sticky notes, and automatic tracking of upcoming TV episodes and media releases. Events can have day-by-day itineraries with maps, budget scenarios, weather forecasts, and file attachments. It's surprisingly useful. REDESIGNED LISTS Lists now come in two types: Todo Lists for backlogs and Collection Lists for permanent shelves. You can group items by genre, streaming service, platform, or any custom field. There's a new Data Card layout that shows properties right on each card with tap-to-edit. And you can re-watch, re-read, or re-play anything with full history tracking. ENHANCED SMART LISTS 28+ new filters across every content type, including episode-level filtering for TV shows and podcasts. They work with your custom Ingredients too. There's also a bunch of Smart List templates to get you started. LOGBOOK & STATS The Logbook has been completely rebuilt, and there's a new stats dashboard for every media type. Activity timelines, genre breakdowns, day-of-week patterns, and fun insights about your habits. Version 5.0.2 - FIXES ============================ - FIXED: Issue where items with custom cover images could show the wrong image or appear blank on initial load. - FIXED: Crash that occurred when selecting a book, podcast, or other item to view its details. - FIXED: Bug where the Enjoying screen sorted and grouped items by when they were last saved, not by the actual activity date. - FIXED: Issue where progress tracking content could be hidden behind the tab bar. - FIXED: Bug where adding episodes to Up Next from a podcast you're not following would incorrectly add copies of the podcast to the Logbook. - FIXED: "Play Next" and "Play Now" not working correctly for unfollowed podcast episodes. - FIXED: Issue where transitioning to the next podcast episode in CarPlay could result in no playback or silent audio requiring a manual pause/play toggle. - FIXED: Bug where new users could see duplicate starter lists when setting up Sofa on multiple devices, or when reinstalling the app with existing iCloud data. - FIXED: Bug where tapping a Logbook entry from search results could navigate to the Logbook overview instead of the entry's detail page - FIXED: Issue where the share extension could crash when classifying a shared item, causing Sofa to disappear from the share sheet until the page was reloaded. - FIXED: Issue where the selected tab bar item was invisible on iOS 26 with certain themes. - FIXED: Bug where skipping forward near the end of a podcast episode could cause the next episode to fail to play and the player to dismiss itself - FIXED: Bug where newly followed podcasts would ignore the global episode limit setting. Podcasts now correctly default to "Global Default" so they respect whatever you've set in Podcast Player settings. - FIXED: Bug where the "Swipe Right Action" setting in Podcast Player settings couldn't be changed. - FIXED: Issue where some podcasts displayed "No Date" for episode publication dates. - FIXED: Issue where deep links on Mac would open the app but not navigate to the specific item.

Hey gang, Sofa 5 is here, and it's the biggest update in the app's history. Here's what's new... PROGRESS TRACKING Track TV shows episode by episode, books page by page, and games milestone by milestone. Progress rings show up on covers throughout the app, and a new Enjoying section on your home screen always knows what's next. There are five tracking modes to match how you actually use things, and you get confetti when you finish (fun!). When new seasons drop for shows you've finished, Sofa lets you know. PODCAST PLAYER There's a full podcast player built into Sofa now. Up Next queue, Voice Boost, chapter navigation, offline downloads, CarPlay, and a mini player that stays with you while you browse. You can track a podcast and listen to it without leaving the app. PLANNER A new planning hub with events, standalone tasks, sticky notes, and automatic tracking of upcoming TV episodes and media releases. Events can have day-by-day itineraries with maps, budget scenarios, weather forecasts, and file attachments. It's surprisingly useful. REDESIGNED LISTS Lists now come in two types: Todo Lists for backlogs and Collection Lists for permanent shelves. You can group items by genre, streaming service, platform, or any custom field. There's a new Data Card layout that shows properties right on each card with tap-to-edit. And you can re-watch, re-read, or re-play anything with full history tracking. ENHANCED SMART LISTS 28+ new filters across every content type, including episode-level filtering for TV shows and podcasts. They work with your custom Ingredients too. There's also a bunch of Smart List templates to get you started. LOGBOOK & STATS The Logbook has been completely rebuilt, and there's a new stats dashboard for every media type. Activity timelines, genre breakdowns, day-of-week patterns, and fun insights about your habits. AND MORE Unified Search with trending content, multi-select & bulk actions, 40+ Shortcuts actions with Siri support, progress widgets for your home and lock screens, editable properties for manual items, a customizable tab bar, and on-device Apple Intelligence for creating Smart Lists with natural language. ===================================== Version 5.0.1 - FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS ===================================== - IMPROVED: OPML podcast import reliability - FIXED: Visual bug where the clock icon and progress ring could overlap on the home screen after marking episodes complete. - FIXED: Home screen not reflecting changes when switching the grouping option in the "Enjoying" view. - FIXED: Bug where list items could briefly show the wrong poster image when scrolling quickly. - FIXED: Bug where vertically-oriented photos in journal entries could obscure the bottom line of the description text. - FIXED: Crash when navigating back from detail views. - FIXED: Crash when opening an item with a malformed link URL. - FIXED: Crash on iPad shortly after launch. - FIXED: Issue where following a podcast from search didn't update the cell to show it was followed - FIXED: Podcast add screen not reflecting followed state when adding to a list or logbook - FIXED: Visual bug where text Ingredients in the detail view showed extra space below the text value. - FIXED: Crash that occurred when selecting a book, podcast, or other item to view its details. - FIXED: Crash on Mac that occurred when tapping "New List" from the home screen menu. - FIXED: Issue where TV show episode air dates could display one day early and upcoming episodes could be missing from the Planner. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa 5 is here, and it's the biggest update in the app's history. Here's what's new... PROGRESS TRACKING Track TV shows episode by episode, books page by page, and games milestone by milestone. Progress rings show up on covers throughout the app, and a new Enjoying section on your home screen always knows what's next. There are five tracking modes to match how you actually use things, and you get confetti when you finish (fun!). When new seasons drop for shows you've finished, Sofa lets you know. PODCAST PLAYER There's a full podcast player built into Sofa now. Up Next queue, Voice Boost, chapter navigation, offline downloads, CarPlay, and a mini player that stays with you while you browse. You can track a podcast and listen to it without leaving the app. PLANNER A new planning hub with events, standalone tasks, sticky notes, and automatic tracking of upcoming TV episodes and media releases. Events can have day-by-day itineraries with maps, budget scenarios, weather forecasts, and file attachments. It's surprisingly useful. REDESIGNED LISTS Lists now come in two types: Todo Lists for backlogs and Collection Lists for permanent shelves. You can group items by genre, streaming service, platform, or any custom field. There's a new Data Card layout that shows properties right on each card with tap-to-edit. And you can re-watch, re-read, or re-play anything with full history tracking. ENHANCED SMART LISTS 28+ new filters across every content type, including episode-level filtering for TV shows and podcasts. They work with your custom Ingredients too. There's also a bunch of Smart List templates to get you started. LOGBOOK & STATS The Logbook has been completely rebuilt, and there's a new stats dashboard for every media type. Activity timelines, genre breakdowns, day-of-week patterns, and fun insights about your habits. AND MORE Unified Search with trending content, multi-select & bulk actions, 40+ Shortcuts actions with Siri support, progress widgets for your home and lock screens, editable properties for manual items, a customizable tab bar, and on-device Apple Intelligence for creating Smart Lists with natural language. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Bug causing importing backups to fail ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Crash when importing a backup file ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I have a few minor improvements to share today, but bigger things are coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Crash when importing a backup file ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I've got some quick bug fixes in this release. Bigger stuff coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Changes made to items in Lists wouldn't update in the UI right way • FIXED: The ••• menu in Lists was crashing • FIXED: Podcast playback issues on Mac ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I'm got some quick bug fixes in this release. Bigger stuff coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements • Improvements when deleting everything from Trash • Improved database recovery workflows when things go wrong ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: UI issue when The Pile is empty • FIXED: Deleting a list wasn't updating the UI right away ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I'm got some quick bug fixes in this release. Bigger stuff coming soon. Stay tuned! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Added better error handling for the Mac app ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Infinite loop when loading lists and smart lists • FIXED: Crash when selecting a category in the share sheet ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa's iOS 26 update is here and it comes with a bunch of exciting new features including Liquid Glass, Voice Boost, Trim Silence, and manual sorting. ============================ LIQUID GLASS ============================ Enjoy the fun and playful Liquid Glass all throughout the app ============================ MANUAL SORTING ============================ You can now *finally* manually sort groups, lists, and items within The Pile and Lists ============================ PODCAST PLAYER IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Voice Boost: Enhances speech clarity and reduces background noise • Trim Silence: Automatically skips silent portions for faster listening • Mini podcast player now shows playback duration under the player controls ============================ UP NEXT IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Multi-Select/Bulk editing for items in Up Next • Episodes in Up Next will display if the episode is downloaded for offline listening • Episodes in Up Next will show the download progress when downloading an episode for offline listening ============================ CHANGES FOR v4.3.2 ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa's iOS 26 update is here and it comes with a bunch of exciting new features including Liquid Glass, Voice Boost, Trim Silence, and manual sorting. **CHANGES FOR VERSION 4.3.1** ============================ WHAT'S NEW ============================ • New "Space Orange" theme to match your new device :) ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Improved the downloading progress UI for podcast episodes • Tweaks to Voice Boost EQ • Turning Voice Boost on and off is much smoother ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Layout issues in Up Next • FIXED: Removing a downloaded podcast episode wasn't updating the UI properly • FIXED: Chapter images weren't reliably showing in the podcast player • FIXED: UI changes in Logbook weren’t animating correctly • FIXED: Theme issue when showing the quick add menu • FIXED: FAB button layout issues • FIXED: Crash when filtering items in Logbook **CHANGES FOR VERSION 4.3** ============================ LIQUID GLASS ============================ Enjoy the fun and playful Liquid Glass all throughout the app ============================ MANUAL SORTING ============================ You can now *finally* manually sort groups, lists, and items within The Pile and Lists ============================ PODCAST PLAYER IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Voice Boost: Enhances speech clarity and reduces background noise • Trim Silence: Automatically skips silent portions for faster listening • Mini podcast player now shows playback duration under the player controls ============================ UP NEXT IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Multi-Select/Bulk editing for items in Up Next • Episodes in Up Next will display if the episode is downloaded for offline listening • Episodes in Up Next will show the download progress when downloading an episode for offline listening ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, Sofa's iOS 26 update is here and it comes with a bunch of exciting new features including Liquid Glass, Voice Boost, Trim Silence, and manual sorting. ============================ LIQUID GLASS ============================ Enjoy the fun and playful Liquid Glass all throughout the app ============================ MANUAL SORTING ============================ You can now *finally* manually sort groups, lists, and items within The Pile and Lists ============================ PODCAST PLAYER IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Voice Boost: Enhances speech clarity and reduces background noise • Trim Silence: Automatically skips silent portions for faster listening • Mini podcast player now shows playback duration under the player controls ============================ UP NEXT IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Multi-Select/Bulk editing for items in Up Next • Episodes in Up Next will display if the episode is downloaded for offline listening • Episodes in Up Next will show the download progress when downloading an episode for offline listening ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Improvements to the Podcast Player when in airplane mode • Added menu options in "Up Next" to show/hide Skipped and Archived episodes • Slight tweak to the Classic Light theme tint color • New primary app icon (just a slight tweak compared to the previous one) ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: There was an issue where files weren't being properly cleaned up when creating and importing backup files. This could result in Sofa storing a lot of extra data. This is now fixed and the clean up process should keep things nice and tidy going forward. • FIXED: If left in the background for too long, the podcast player wouldn't resume playing without force-quitting the app. • FIXED: Issue where downloaded podcasts wouldn't play while in airplane mode • FIXED: Crash when deeplinking to a pinned item • FIXED: Crash when deleting a podcast episode • FIXED: Crash when fetching new podcast episodes • FIXED: Crash when viewing all podcast episodes • FIXED: Crash when sharing data with widgets • FIXED: Crash when using multi-add from the home screen • FIXED: Workflow issues when using multi-add from the home screen • FIXED: Crash when editing Smart List filters • FIXED: Crash when adding item to a list • FIXED: Crash when opening an item's action menu in Logbook • FIXED: Crash when creating backup file • FIXED: Infinite loop when updating an item's details ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I hope you're having a nice summer! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Crash on launch • FIXED: Crash when importing a backup file • FIXED: Issue where duplicate metadata would be created for items ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn

Hey gang, I hope you're having a nice summer! ============================ CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS ============================ • Database and iCloud syncing improvements ============================ BUG FIXES ============================ • FIXED: Sometimes the UI wouldn't update when in airplane mode. ============================ As always, don't hesitate to reach out with feedback, issues, and suggestions. I'm always happy to hear from you: support@sofahq.com – Shawn