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Synk AI Release Notes

A simple record of new features, improvements, and quality fixes in Synk AI.

About These Notes

Each update highlights what changed and why it matters.

2026-09-24

September 24, 2026

Synk 1.4.3

What changed
Synk 1.4.3 introduces the AI Memory & Personalization Hub, interactive activity drafts in chat, contextual quick actions, and navigation refinements across iOS and macOS.
Why it matters
Personalized wellness coaching works best when your AI Coach remembers your lifestyle, preferences, and physical constraints without requiring repetitive context.

AI Memory & Personalization Hub

  • Synk AI remembers habits, preferences, and constraints across 4 dedicated categories: You, Preferences, Topics, and Areas.
  • Guided 4-step Personalization Setup Wizard configures routine, diet, workout style, and coaching tone in minutes.
  • Full transparency and control: view, edit, or delete any stored memory item directly from Settings.

Interactive Activity Drafts in Chat

  • Discuss routines with AI Coach and receive interactive activity proposal cards ready to save with a single tap.
  • Create goals, log activities, and launch templates directly from chat conversations with automatic form pre-filling.

Navigation & Platform Polish

  • Smoother edge-swipe gestures, standardized modal back buttons, and streamlined template sheets across iOS and macOS.

Short Summary

AI Memory Hub across 4 categories, 4-step personalization wizard, interactive activity drafts in chat, and cross-platform navigation polish.

2026-09-14

September 14, 2026

Synk 1.4.2

What changed
Synk is natively tailored for Mac alongside iPhone and iPad, bringing adaptive desktop layouts, refined controls, cross-platform stability, and automated backup repair.
Why it matters
Longer-term goal review, routine planning, and journal reflection benefit from desktop screen space, keyboard shortcuts, and pointer precision.

Native Mac Experience

  • Tailored desktop experience with adaptive detail panes, glass toolbars, and streamlined split layouts.
  • Redesigned modal headers and controls optimized for both touch and desktop pointer interactions.

Multi-Platform Storage & Sync

  • Enhanced SwiftData store resilience, automated backup repair, and rock-solid cross-platform sync.
  • Fluid navigation and responsive sheet presentation across all supported devices.

2026-09-05

September 5, 2026

Synk 1.4.1

What changed
Synk 1.4.1 brings design, performance, and usability improvements across journaling, activities, search, and daily tracking.
Why it matters
Daily habit and goal execution should feel instant, responsive, and visually cohesive.

Design & Performance Polish

  • Enhanced cards, cleaner layouts, and fluid transitions across the app for a more intuitive experience.
  • Optimized system performance for faster load times and responsive interactions.
  • Find activities, goals, and logs quicker with enhanced search and streamlined filtering.

2026-08-28

August 28, 2026

Synk 1.4.0

What changed
Workout with real-time camera coaching. Synk tracks body pose on-device to count reps, measure hold times, score form quality, and provide instant audio and visual guidance.
Why it matters
Real-time biomechanical feedback helps prevent injury and improves workout consistency without requiring external sensors or compromising privacy.

Smart Workouts & Real-Time AI Coaching

  • Point your front camera at yourself and get live audio feedback and visual cues on your technique for 16 supported exercises.
  • Automatic rep and hold tracking using Apple Vision biomechanical joint angle estimation.
  • Live skeleton HUD with color-coded angle arcs, target depth zones, and posture alignment guides.
  • Adaptive Range of Motion: Synk learns personal mobility over time and tailors depth targets to your body.
  • 100% Private & On-Device: Camera pose analysis runs entirely in local memory — zero video or photos are sent to the cloud.

Profile Activity Dashboard

  • Review active days, total completed goals, daily activities, and longest streaks right from your profile header.
  • Sync body metrics and baseline mobility stats to power personalized coaching targets.

Short Summary

Smart Workouts with on-device Apple Vision pose tracking for 16 exercises, live skeleton HUD, auto-rep counting, and profile activity dashboard.

2026-07-20

July 20, 2026

Synk 1.3.8

What changed
Snap a photo of a scale, treadmill, or tracker display and Synk reads the value automatically and privately using on-device OCR.
Why it matters
Eliminate manual data entry friction and preserve visual records in your health history.

Camera Progress Logging

  • Log metrics with a photo: scan a scale or display and values are recognized automatically via Apple Vision OCR.
  • Date and time are automatically inferred from the image capture metadata.
  • Photos live in your progress history, goal details, and Journal reflections.
  • 100% private, on-device recognition with zero network calls.

2026-07-05

July 5, 2026

Synk 1.3.7

What changed
Performance rework across Home, Progress, and Goals, plus a HealthKit overhaul with expanded metrics, mini charts, and automatic retries.
Why it matters
Make daily tracking snappier, richer in health insights, and resilient to transient network or health store interruptions.

HealthKit Overhaul & Performance

  • Goal cards load instantly with in-memory lookups, eliminating redundant refresh passes.
  • Goal cards feature compact animated mini charts showing recent progress at a glance.
  • Goal draft autosave preserves unfinished goal setups.
  • Expanded HealthKit tracking: lean body mass, dietary protein, blood pressure, UV exposure, body fat, and waist circumference.
  • Reliable HealthKit sync queues failed writes and retries automatically in the background.

2026-06-18

June 18, 2026

Synk 1.3.6

What changed
Personalized goal defaults powered by 30-day HealthKit baselines, clinical benchmarks, and onboarding biometrics.
Why it matters
Target suggestions should match your baseline activity levels, age, and biometrics instead of generic one-size-fits-all numbers.

Personalized Recommendations

  • Smart goal defaults for steps, sleep, activity, heart rate, and weight personalized from 30-day averages.
  • Age-aware targets adapt recommendations for older adults based on clinical research.
  • Preserves custom edits while updating default suggestions.

2026-06-08

June 8, 2026

Synk 1.3.0

What changed
Synk 1.3.0 adds Google Sign-In, clearer privacy controls, in-app release notes, Journal note actions, timer polish, and smoother sync.
Why it matters
This update makes account setup and privacy management more transparent, improves note-taking workflows, and refines app performance and reliability.

Account Setup

  • Google Sign-In is now available alongside Sign in with Apple and Magic Link.
  • Auth docs and onboarding specs now describe Apple, Google, and Magic Link as the visible passwordless paths.

Privacy & Analytics

  • Added privacy-gated product analytics with settings controls so users can turn analytics off or back on.
  • Added an Analytics Details screen explaining what is collected and what is not collected.

Release Notes In Synk

  • Added a native release notes sheet for the current version.
  • Added release notes history from About so users can review past version changes.
  • Onboarding now marks the current release as seen after setup completes.

Journal Improvements

  • New notes can be saved as local drafts and restored later.
  • Saved notes can be shared through the system share sheet.
  • Saved notes can create Apple Reminders through EventKit when the user chooses that action.
  • Rich text formatting panels and note detail layouts were refined for cleaner note editing.

Timer And Activity Polish

  • Added new timer visual options, including Contour Lines and Storm.
  • Improved timer fallback behavior when a saved background or sound requires Pro access.
  • Improved running timer restore behavior when older saved records are missing accumulated elapsed time.
  • Refined activity detail actions, streak, and weekly progress surfaces.

Reliability And Performance

  • HealthKit quantity queries now share focused helper paths for cumulative and latest-sample reads.
  • Sync batch planning is extracted into a testable planner.
  • Model-container reloading now retries when the data scope changes during reload.
  • Coach prompt-cache telemetry and local quick replies reduce unnecessary AI request work.

Short Summary

Google Sign-In, privacy-gated analytics, in-app release notes, Journal drafts & reminders, new timer themes, and sync/reloading reliability.

2026-06-03

June 3, 2026

Journal Drafts

What changed
When you close a new Journal note with unsaved content, Synk now lets you save a draft or discard it. Drafts restore your title, rich text, reminders, and photos when you open a blank note again.
Why it matters
Accidental closes should not erase a thought, reflection, or photo you were still working on.

2026-06-01

June 1, 2026

Synk 1.2.9

What changed
Synk 1.2.9 improves AI-guided goal setup, goal forecasts, progress history, startup sync, chart labels, HealthKit chart loading, and animated backgrounds.
Why it matters
This release makes goal planning easier to start, progress easier to understand, and the app smoother during daily use.

Guided Goal Setup

  • Synk AI now waits for the key goal details it needs before preparing a goal plan.
  • One answer can fill multiple missing details, such as target and duration.
  • Suggested activities appear earlier, so you can see the shape of the plan before saving it.

Smarter Forecasts

  • Goal detail now shows a clearer Estimated Finish card with projected date, risk state, current pace, and catch-up guidance.
  • Goals without progress now explain when an estimate will appear and what starting pace is needed.
  • Forecast suggestions use better rounding for your goal unit, making the next action easier to follow.

Clearer Progress History

  • Manual progress logs now show what you added and the running total for the period.
  • Shared progress history is easier to read because it includes both the entry value and total.
  • Goal chart dates now use more consistent localized month and date labels.

Smoother Daily Use

  • Coach, Goals, and Journal startup sync now prioritize getting the app ready faster.
  • HealthKit-linked charts avoid showing stale period data while fresh data is loading.
  • Animated backgrounds have richer motion, better depth, and a cleaner fallback on devices where advanced graphics are unavailable.

Short Summary

Guided goal setup, smarter finish forecasts, clearer progress history, faster startup sync, and richer chart polish.

Clearer Completed Goals

What changed
Completed goal details no longer repeat old Progress Record sections that could make the page feel cluttered.
Why it matters
Finished goals should focus on what you achieved, not duplicate retired progress views.

Goal Chart Navigation

What changed
Goal detail charts now include previous and next period controls, clearer target labels, and cleaner edge-to-edge chart presentation.
Why it matters
It should be easier to review progress across weeks and months without losing sight of the goal target.

Better Finish Recommendations

What changed
Estimated Finish guidance now uses your normalized daily pace and rounds recommendations for the unit you are tracking.
Why it matters
Catch-up suggestions should feel realistic, specific, and easy to act on.

2026-05-31

May 31, 2026

Week Start Preferences In Charts

What changed
Weekly goal charts now follow your Week Start setting.
Why it matters
Your weekly progress should match the calendar rhythm you chose in Settings.

2026-05-28

May 28, 2026

Short Breathing Before Timed Activities

What changed
Timed activities can now start with a quick one-cycle breathing reset instead of the longer Journal breathing flow.
Why it matters
Starting an activity should feel calm and fast, not like a separate routine.

2026-05-26

May 26, 2026

Synk 1.2.8

What changed
Synk 1.2.8 added safer storage behavior, more reliable Synk Cloud sync, account erasure, goal drafts, timed activity breathing, and Journal workflow polish.
Why it matters
This release focused on protecting user data, reducing lost work, and making goal and Journal flows feel more dependable.

Highlights

  • Goal creation drafts help preserve unfinished setup work.
  • Timed activities gained Journal-style notes and optional breathing before the timer starts.
  • Synk Cloud sync reliability and account deletion flows were improved.
  • Local and cloud data stay more clearly separated.

Timed Activity Notes

What changed
Timed activity sessions can now save notes, and supported activities can start with a breathing prelude.
Why it matters
You can capture context from a focused session without leaving the timer flow.

Goal Creation Drafts

What changed
Closing a non-empty goal creation form now lets you save a local draft or discard it.
Why it matters
Partially planned goals should not disappear because you closed the sheet too soon.

2026-05-25

May 25, 2026

More Predictable Goal Setup

What changed
Blank goals now start with simpler manual defaults, and Health-based tracking is only applied after you explicitly choose a Health metric.
Why it matters
Goal creation should feel predictable and avoid surprising changes while you are setting up a new plan.

More Reliable Widgets

What changed
Home widgets now use a newer daily snapshot so completion state better matches the app, and Live Activities reconnect more reliably after restart.
Why it matters
Widgets and timers should reflect today clearly, even after the app relaunches.

2026-05-23

May 23, 2026

Better Done Goal Behavior

What changed
Finishing a daily, weekly, or monthly target no longer automatically closes an ongoing recurring goal.
Why it matters
Completing a period should celebrate progress without ending a goal you still plan to continue.

Clearer Goal Achievement Summaries

What changed
Done goal cards and details now better separate final achievement results from active progress tracking.
Why it matters
Completed goals should explain what happened without implying there is still something to do.

2026-05-22

May 22, 2026

Journal Rich Text And Reminders

What changed
Journal notes gained focused rich text tools, quicker cursor placement, inline photos, note reminders, reminder indicators, and checklist toggles from previews.
Why it matters
Journal entries should be easier to format, revisit, and act on later.

Synk 1.2.7

What changed
Synk 1.2.7 improved Mac navigation and Journal reliability.
Why it matters
This release made Synk feel better on larger screens and smoother when working with Journal data.

2026-05-21

May 21, 2026

Better Mac Layout

What changed
Synk now uses a sidebar-style layout on Mac while keeping the familiar tab layout on mobile.
Why it matters
The app should feel natural on larger screens instead of looking like a stretched phone interface.

2026-05-20

May 20, 2026

Safer Sync For Recent Changes

What changed
Synk now protects recent goals, activities, chat updates, and progress changes before pulling cloud updates.
Why it matters
Recent work should stay safe during sync, even when updates happen across devices.

2026-01-18

January 18, 2026

Faster Goal Refreshes

What changed
Goal screens now refresh more efficiently behind the scenes.
Why it matters
The app should avoid unnecessary work and keep startup feeling responsive.