• New bell sounds: Four new sounds, joining the four existing sounds, to bring more variety to your mindfulness practice. • Spooky: An eerie sound that will grab your attention, especially in the middle of the night • Zap: A sound that zaps you into mindfulness • Blow: A breathy sound to gently invite your awareness • Block: A striking sound that will catch your attention • Fiddly bits: Settings that let you customize for atypical setups • Share button: Easily share Lotus Bud with someone else from settings • Value comparison: When looking at paid features, helps you easily compare what you're getting • Misconfigured notification warning: If you have notifications turned off or configured in a way that will degrade the use of Lotus Bud, a new warning appears with a link to settings so you can fix it. • Added Spanish and French translations: The app is now localized for Spanish and French (more languages to come). If you find an issue with any of the translations, please send me feedback from settings. Pro Features • Randomize sounds: Now you can randomize the mindfulness bell sounds to keep you on your toes • Extended frequency ranges: In the fiddly bits setting you can increase or decrease the default frequency ranges.

• Added localization for German. If you notice a translation that is done poorly, please reach out and let me know. More languages to come. • Added long press on snooze button to get more snooze durations • Fixed an issue that continued showing snooze date on widgets after the snooze had expired • Fixed an issue turning the bell on or off from the watch wouldn't update the phone and vice versa • Bug fixes

• Added localization for Japanese. If you notice a translation that is done poorly, please reach out and let me know. More languages to come.

• Calendar selection for Quiet Hours: Choose specific calendars to automatically silence the bell during events. • Swipe actions on Quiet Hours: Quickly disable or delete Quiet Hours right from the list. • Color coded calendars now appear on Today's Quiet Hours. • Tipping: If Lotus Bud supports your practice, you can now send a tip to help keep development thriving. Thank you! • Bug fixes and refinements.

• Updated icon – Slightly updated icon for all the latest operating systems • Initial release for the latest operating systems – Support, minor tweaks and bug fixes for the latest operating system

New • Shortcuts and Siri update – New Shortcuts actions and Siri support, turn bell on, snooze, get current state, set bell style and intensity. Some functionality requires in app purchase. • Restored previous notification copy placement – Re-shifted the notification copy placement, since the previous update didn't wrap text if it was longer. Fixed • A crash when viewing configuring messages in settings • New in app purchase wouldn't register in a timely manner

• New mindfulness bell sounds, added two new sounds to choose for your notifications • Added a new Stealthy and Silent mode for notifications • Simplified notification copy • Fixed a bug where the Quiet Hour list doesn't show updates immediately after editing • Improved dynamic text sizes

In Progress • Fixed an issue where bells were scheduled in Quite Hours. Still investigating to verify if there are other bugs not yet addressed. Please let me know if you encounter after this fix. Fixed • Quiet Hour Date Display – An issue that only showed the hour of a Quiet Hour when there were minutes (10 PM instead of 10:30 PM)

There are still outstanding bell scheduling bugs having to do with quiet hours. I am working to get them resolved. Last release introduced a way to keep track of what logs go with support requests, but caused a bug that would not share the logs with the feedback. That is now fixed.

• Fixed a bug where bells were schedule inside quiet hours – There was a bug where if scheduling kicked off inside a quiet hour, the scheduler would ignore the quiet hour, that is now resolve. Thanks for those who helped me track it down and for everyoe's patientce. • Additional frequently asked question – Added a question about auto-off to the FAQs

Fixed There was a bug that showed a message and notification about force quitting the app. That is now resolved.

• Additional checks to prevent scheduling during quiet hours – Some users were seeing notifications during quiet hours. If you are still seeing this issue after this update, please send me a feedback through the settings in the app. • To make it more clear that sending feedback and troubleshooting is under about the About section in settings now is Help & About. • Added some additional help and troubleshooting in the app and included frequently asked questions under Help & About in settings • Added some education in app about force quitting – When detecting the app is force quit, there is a notification that appears to prompt you to open the app again and will see a new tip when opening. Force quitting interferes with scheduling of bells. Please see more in the FAQ

New • Improved timing – The timing engine has been rewritten to be more reliable and offer a wider range of bell timing • Redesigned frequency slider – The frequency slider has a more utilitarian design and shows the frequency you can expect to hear the randomized bells • What's New – See the top fixes and new features in the app the first time you open after an update • About section – In settings there is a new section called About, it has app info, including a list of improvements from the last few releases, privacy policy and feedback

New • Updated dark and tinted mode icons Fixed • An issue where the minimum bell timing wasn't being respected that could result in bells ringing more frequently than expected • An issue where previous in app purchase would not get recognized unless you attempted to repurchase • An issue where the quiet hours footer would show even if there were no quiet hours • An Issue where the quiet hours footer would not update immediately when quite hours changed • Minor visual glitches with tips This is likely the last version to support iOS 16 and watchOS 9 and more bell timing refinements to come in a future version.

Updated • Ensured price clearly visible in purchase flow • Improved layouts and animations in purchase flow

Fixed • A crash that when reading calendars events that have the same start and end time

New • Added support for Vision Pro • Added tips to help guide you through using Lotus Bud • Added ability to restore to defaults in settings • New snooze button, allows you to snooze from inside the app Fixed • A bug in the empty quiet hour state where the label was not aligned

Fixed • Much more reliable communication between phone and watch • Changing settings on iPad could unexpectedly change settings on iPhone • A crash on watch when receiving notifications Updated • Much improved accessibility voice over support, especially for custom controls including: • Mindfulness bell switch • Today's Quiet Hours view • Frequency control in settings • Quiet Hours views • Refactored Mindfulness Bell switch and frequency slider

Fixed • Snoozing mindfulness bell from watch did not work • The keep scheduling button from notification wasn't working properly • A bug that prevented widgets on the watch from being shown • Several small bugs Updated • Reduced the number of times the schedule was rebuilt from scratch • Added more detail in logging to help troubleshoot in the future

Fixed • Apologies, I had a bug that inverted the timings for Infrequent, Default and Frequent, so if it felt backwards to you, it was. Sorry. • A bug where running a shortcut would fail.

Fixes an issue that could continue to schedule notifications if the bell is turned off while a set of notifications is being scheduled

Fixed a widget glitch

3.0.2 is a minor update with bug fixes and initial compatibility for the latest iOS versions • Fixed: custom and default messages sometimes could not be fetched from the database resulting in a fallback message "Remember to always be mindful" • New: improved logging when sending feedback (Settings>Send Feedback) to better troubleshoot in the future • Updated: calendar permissions Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come. Plus there are new and updated features from the 3.0.0 release: • Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off. • Watch complication, see the status at a glance • Accessibility improvements • Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell • Run Shortcuts to control the bell • Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 12 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release. Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell now requires iOS 16 and watchOS 9 3.0.1 is a minor update with bug fixes Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come. Plus there are new and updated features from the 3.0.0 release: * Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off. * Watch complication, see the status at a glance * Accessibility improvements * Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell * Run Shortcuts to control the bell * Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 11 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release. Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!

Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell now requires iOS 16 and watchOS 9 Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell has been completely redesigned for version 3. I’ve updated the look at feel, refined the fonts, animations and made it more useable for everyone. While the app functionality is the same, the entire thing has been modernized using the latest technologies. What this means for you is the app looks cleaner, more consistent and will be easier for me to maintain and keep delivering updates for years to come. Plus there are new and updated features: * Home screen, lock screen widgets, give you the current status of the mindfulness bell. It shows when snoozed, in a quiet hour or on and off. * Watch complication, see the status at a glance * Accessibility improvements * Use Siri to control the mindfulness bell * Run Shortcuts to control the bell * Easily select weekends weekdays, or every day when setting up Quiet Hours Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell is over 11 years old! It appeared as a feature in my other app Lotus Bud Meditation Timer in 2011. In 2014 I split it out into its own app. I've updated the look and added new features, but the core of the app has been the same for a long time. This summer on a whim, I started rewriting the UI and am now ready to release. Thank you for using Lotus Bud all these years! I'm looking forward to bringing you updates for another decade to come!