Release Notes

Updated 31 August 2026

31 August 2026 · 0.1.0-rc.9

Barcode scanning, health grades, and an accessibility pass

Scan a barcode to add a meal item. Point the camera at a package and Gretl reads the nutrition straight off the product database — no describing it, no guessing. If a product isn't listed anywhere, you can photograph the label or type it in, so the scanner is never a dead end.
A health grade on packaged food. Scanned products now show a Nutri-Score — the open European a–e rating — as a colored circle with the letter inside it, plus how processed the food is. It is a fact about the package, not a verdict on your day: there is no grade for a meal, a day or a week, and there never will be.
Accessibility. A pass against WCAG AA fixed every contrast failure we could measure and gave names to controls that a screen reader had been announcing as just "button". The grade circle always carries its letter, so nothing depends on telling green from red.
An honest cookie notice. The website now asks before it counts a page view, and the privacy policy was corrected: it had claimed the site sets no cookies and has no login, which stopped being true when the browser app shipped.

Gretl in a browser, four more languages, and safer targets

Gretl on the web. A browser version at app.gretl.ai — the same day, the same conversation, the same charts, on a laptop. It reads and writes the same account, so a lunch logged at a desk is on your phone before you stand up.
Five languages. Spanish, French, Italian and German joined English, across the app, the watch, the widgets and the things Siri says back. Your pick follows you to the wrist rather than the watch guessing from its own settings.
A safer calorie floor. The minimum Gretl will ever recommend now scales with the body it is calculating for, instead of using one rule that quietly gave very different people the same narrow range. A larger body is offered a realistic pace; a smaller one is protected by the same hard floor as before.
Trends got a metric picker. Protein, carbs, fat, fiber, cholesterol and water are one chart you switch between, rather than some having a chart and some having nothing.
Email that works. Feature-update and service emails, with a working unsubscribe link and a permanent opt-out that both audiences respect.
Gretl is 18+, and deep links from an email now open the app rather than a web page.

Widgets, fiber, and a lot of listening

Home-screen widgets. The same dials as the watch, on the phone's home screen, drawn from a snapshot the app publishes rather than a network call — so they are right when you glance at them.
Fiber tracking, opt-in, with a goal you can pin. It shares a row rather than becoming a sixth ring, because a ring you can exceed has to invent a meaning for its second lap.
A goal that is no goal. "Observe" tracks everything against nothing — for people who want to know what they are eating without a target to hit. It came from a user on a GLP-1, and the dials still fill.
Gretl can notice what is missing. Opt-in, she can say a food group has been absent for a while and what it usually supplies. She will not put a number on it, because she has a list of meals and not a measurement.
Faster launch, a review prompt that asks once per account, and around a dozen fixes from TestFlight reports.

Gretl gets her name, and a subscription

Grethel became Gretl. New name, new palette, new mark, a new landing page built around a scroll-driven tour of the real app.
Gretl Pro. Free accounts get a few messages to Gretl a day; everything that costs us nothing — history, trends, charts, weigh-ins, the watch apps, export — stays free forever. The limit is on the thing that spends money, and it is the one you can see.
Sign in with Apple and Google, alongside email.
Terms and Privacy rewritten for selling a subscription, and the daily limit now counts against the day you spend it.

The watch, on both wrists

An Apple Watch app and a Wear OS app. Today's rings on your wrist, one tap for water, and a Smart Stack card with complications. Both are real apps rather than a mirror of the phone.
The home screen became the rings. The watch's ring language replaced the old stats bar, on the phone and everywhere else, so every surface says the same thing the same way.
Workouts appear on the calorie chart, favorites became real, and macros can be pinned individually.
A fix for a rare case where a coaching reply could drift a logged number after the fact.

Reminders, Siri, and asking before we send anything

Reminders you choose. Food and water reminders at times you pick, scheduled on the device — the server never sends them. Everything is off by default, and nothing arrives without a switch you turned on.
"Hey Siri, log with Gretl." One sentence from the phone or the watch, logged, with a spoken answer back.
Onboarding split into six shorter steps, with reminders offered rather than assumed.
Gretl can look back at past meals to answer a question, instead of guessing from what is on screen.

Active energy, offline, and a first-run tour

Active energy from Apple Health and Health Connect, read on the device.
It works on a plane. Today is cached and prompts queue when there is no connection, then send themselves when there is.
A guided tour on first run, a model picker for the coach, and a data-deletion page for the store listings.

Photos, a hosted coach, and the paperwork

Photograph a meal. Gretl reads a plate or a nutrition label out of a picture.
No API key required. Gretl runs on our own hosted coach — onboarding never asks for a key, and there is no bring-your-own-key path to get wrong.
GDPR groundwork. Export everything as a ZIP of spreadsheets, erase your account and everything in it, change your email or password.
Cholesterol tracking, water in your own units, meal photos with a 7-day retention, and one-click releases to TestFlight.

The first week

The first working slice: onboarding, a calorie target, and logging a meal by describing it.
Light and dark themes, and a translation layer from day one — which is why five languages later cost no screen changes.
Imperial and metric units, and a non-binary option that the calorie math actually accounts for.

Gretl is decision support, not medical advice. If you are worried about your eating, the support page has a helpline.