What's new

• Your Bluetooth scale now stays connected throughout the whole session — across screen changes, pauses and even the phone locking. If the link drops it quietly reconnects on its own, without ever popping up the pairing picker, and the screen stays awake during a scale-driven pull.
• The live scale reading now sits right under the dose and yield controls on the setup screen, next to the numbers you're adjusting. The separate weigh screen is gone.
• The pull dial now splits at first drop: pre-infusion shows in a muted colour so there's nothing in the cup yet, then switches to the usual crema-to-bitter colours once coffee starts flowing. A scale-detected drop splits the dial automatically.
• When your scale is reconnecting, the Pull screen shows an amber scale chip and Settings names the scale it's reconnecting to, so you can tell 'quietly recovering' from 'not connected'.
• Every screen now follows your light or dark setting properly — light mode no longer flips to dark the moment a pull starts. The pull, taste and recommend screens now stay dark together as one continuous stretch at the machine.

• Experimental Bluetooth scale support (for the Half Decent Scale) is now available for testers who turn on debug tools — see live shot weight during your pull, tare/zero manually, and try a new weigh-in screen for dialling in your dose before grinding. Note it stays hidden for everyone else for now.
• You can now add a bag photo from your camera or photo library right from the bean edit screen, not just when scanning a new bag.
• Fixed a startup hang where the app could get stuck on a blank brown screen and never load.
• On iPad, the Home favourites shelf now wraps to show all your starred beans in landscape instead of cutting them off behind a sideways scroll.
• Fixed unreadable stats (Total shots and Avg time) on the iPad bean profile in dark mode.

See the smart scale integration in action →

• Returning users no longer get sent back through onboarding after an app update — the app now waits for your saved settings to load before deciding where to take you.
• Added two new feedback buttons on the About page so you can report a bug or request a feature straight from a pre-filled email — no sign-in needed, and useful details about your device are attached automatically.
• On the iPhone bean profile, the Pull button now sits directly below the recipe card so it's within reach without scrolling, and we've added extra space at the bottom so the floating tab bar no longer hides your content.
• Fixed feedback emails so the attached diagnostics now display properly across mail apps like Gmail instead of being squashed onto one line.
• Fixed an issue on iPad where bean profiles that inherit the machine's default brew temperature could fail to display correctly.

• Brew temperature is now tied to your machine: in expert mode, switch on "Temperature control" on the machine card in Settings (for PID or dual boiler machines) and set a default temp. If your machine can't adjust brew temp, temperature is hidden everywhere to keep things tidy.
• Recipe temperature now follows your machine's default automatically. You can pin a specific temp for a bean from the pull setup screen, and setting it back to the default un-pins it.
• Old auto-filled roast-level temps that you never actually chose have been cleared out, so your settings reflect only the temps you've deliberately picked.
• Every shot now records the exact temperature it was pulled at, and temperature suggestions only appear when your machine can actually act on them.
• Removed the "That doesn't sound right" button on the shot review screen — it never did anything. We'll bring back something useful here later.

• Taste and recommendation screens redesigned for iPad — a larger taste wheel and everything on one screen, no scrolling
• The whole pull flow is now full-screen on iPad, matching the iPhone — no sidebar to tap mid-shot
• The Pull button no longer scrolls away on the bean profile; bean info and stats stay on screen while the shot log scrolls
• Dark mode fixes: the logo and the fix card now render correctly
• Action buttons sit in the same place on every screen of the flow

• New Debug tools toggle under Settings → Advanced for beta testers
• Delete test shots from History and the iPad shot log — two taps, no modal
• Deleted shots stay deleted across devices instead of resurrecting on sync
• Backup & restore and sync diagnostics now live behind the debug toggle

• Sync now merges your devices' data instead of letting the newest copy win — a recorded shot can never be erased by sync again
• Bean deletions sync properly across devices
• Export backup failures now show an error message instead of failing silently

• Fixed iCloud sync silently stopping once bag photos pushed the data over Apple's size limit — photos now stay on each device
• Export backup now opens the iOS share sheet (it previously did nothing on iPhone and iPad)
• Settings shows live iCloud sync status, including when something is wrong

• First TestFlight release — the espresso dial-in companion arrives as a native app for iPhone and iPad
• A new name: 9Bar is now PullBook, with a refreshed logo and app icon
• Beans and shots sync across your Apple devices through iCloud