• Bugfix - On iOS 26, installing or removing the Goldback Currency Font would succeed, but the app would crash. (No data lost, but bad user experience.)

TL;DR - Show price changes as percentages, User Experience improvements for iPad and Merchant Directory, Some bug fixes. • Rates: Add display of pice delta as a percentage, with tap-to-toggle between value and percentage. • Rates: Fix MetalMark Standard price delta calculation. • Widget: Price delta display style (value/percentage) stays in sync with the app. • Merchant Directory: Improve UX by adding a spinner to cover the map while merchant groups are being calculated. • iPad: Respect the area reserved by the OS for iPadOS 26's Window Controls. • iPad: Force docked keyboard on currency fields. iOS 26 displayed a floating numeric keyboard, and it was awful UX. • About: Restore DefyTheGrid referral link. • Remove Smallest Goldback setting from the UI. The 1/4 is released, so the Smallest Goldback is now canonically the 1/4. • Update bundled UPMA rates to 6/12/2026.

• Merchant Directory - GBI Directory now supports and includes merchant categories. • Merchant Directory - Significant cluster detection performance improvement. • Rates - The silver price lines are colored silver. • About - Updated Referral Links • Some under the hood stuff. • App Icon Updated. • Bundled Rates update to 03/16/2026.

• Merchant Directory: Show an alert at launch time when a merchant directory the user has previously downloaded has been updated. • Merchant Directory: Sort search results by merchant title. • Merchant Directory: Move the map when selecting an item from search results. Leave the map in place when selecting an item by tapping the map. • Calculator: Added MetalMark support for transactions. • Rates: Added MetalMark Standard Buyback rate line. • Rates: Added 1mg Standard Aurum rate line, with MetalMark's proposed symbol. • Bugfix: In the Merchant Directory the visible merchants wouldn't always update if the map performed an animated camera move. • Bugfix: On iOS 26, fix weird animation with Merchant Directory "Source" popup button. • Bugfix: On iOS 26 the "Update Available" alert was erroneously briefly re-presented after being dismissed.

• Bug Fix: Bad sidebar layout in iOS 26. • Minimum OS requirement is now iOS/iPadOS 18. • Update bundled pricing data to 10/17/2025.

• NEW FEATURE! Widget: AuSSISTANT now provides a Home Screen Widget that displays the DER and UPMA rates. • NEW FEATURE! Siri: You can now ask Siri to "Get Goldback Exchange Rate From AuSSISTANT." and she'll tell you the current Daily Exchange Rate. • Merchant Map: Add borders for US States and some European countries. • Rates: Performance improvements in data handling and display. • History: Bundled prices updated to 9/5/2025. • Bug Fix: The Update button incorrectly displayed with "i" instead of arrows in some circumstances. • Bug Fix: Calculator would use wrong price after an update in some circumstances. • Bug Fix: Avoid "Ya Done Messed Up" view when coming back after using the Settings tab item. • Bug Fix: Price change indicators now take into account if it's Tuesday and the previous day was a holiday, looking back to the previous Friday.

• Fix price updating that broke due to a remote API change on 7/30. • Add UPMA Goldback Buy Back and Silver Spot prices to the Daily Rates board. • Lots of under-the-hood work to prep for upcoming features.

• NEW FEATURE! MetalMark Verifier allows you to verify MetalMark Aurum by scanning the serial numbers on the notes and certificates of authenticity. • Update bundled price data to 5/25/2025

MAJOR UPDATE! • NEW! Menu-Based Navigation UI Makes More Functionality Easily Available. • NEW! Gaps In Historical Data Are Automatically Filled At Update Time. • NEW! UPMA Daily Gold Fix Chart Series, With Data Back To 2019. • UPDATE! Merchant Map Supports New Alpine Gold Exchange Directory Format. • ...And More!

Merchant Directory • Now supports multiple data sources. • Adds Goldback, Inc. as a data source. • The Goldback, Inc. source is the same merchant list that is shown on Goldback's website and mobile app, so it is more up to date than the older Alpine Gold Exchange list. Bugfix • The Goldback Currency Symbol Font cannot be successfully installed by this app on MacOS. Trying to do so would cause trouble with the font in the Mac's Font Book. Instead, a link to download the font is now provided when running on MacOS and the user may use Font Book to install the font.

New for 1.5.1: Calculator / Chart: * Add an "Update Anyway" choice to the Update Information alert. This allows the user to initiate a force-update of the latest pricing data even if he has already fetched all available updates. The reason this is useful is because the new Goldback AER API will report two different prices in a given day, but will give them the same timestamp, making it impossible for AuSSISTANT to know whether the current day's update has been correctly retrieved. This is suboptimal, and it's not how AuSSISTANT is intended to work. It is a band-aid fix to tide us over while we see if Goldback will be correcting their API response. Chart: * Data series are now individually selectable within their groups. (Prices and Ratios) Show only what you want to see! Transactions: * Added the Goldback Currency Symbol to fields denominated in Goldbacks. Known Issue: Gaps in AER chart data will be present for any days the app was not launched since the release of this version. This is because Goldback Inc's new API no longer provides historical data. Only the latest day's rates are returned, so historical data is now only present in the bundled data sets that come with each app build. (This is how the UPMA series has worked since 1.0, and now this is how AER will work.)

New for 1.5.1: Bugs: * Fix a data migration issue that caused a crash on launch when updating from 1.4 to 1.5 on iOS 17. (iOS 18 was unaffected by this issue.) ========= New for 1.5.0: Calculator / Chart: * Uses Goldback, Inc.'s new API to fetch Goldback AER pricing. * Bad AER entries caused by the old API reporting $0.00 values are corrected. * Bundled data is updated. Chart: * LBMA PM Gold Fix is added as a series. * When viewing prices, if LBMA Fix is in the chart the premium over spot is indicated in the selection overlay. Known Issue: Gaps in AER chart data will be present for any days the app was not launched since the release of this version. This is because Goldback Inc's new API no longer provides historical data. Only the latest day's rates are returned. (This is how the UPMA series has worked since 1.0, and now this is how AER will work.)

• Restores updating and tracking of Goldback AER price retrieval that was broken by changes to Goldback's reporting API. • Erroneous Goldback AER data retrieved by prior versions after reporting API change is corrected. • Adds the daily LBMA PM Gold price to downloadable updates and charting.

Bug Fixes: Merchant Directory - Automatically downloads the initial data set the first time the directory is presented, instead of expecting the user to do it manually. Merchant Directory - Back button gets a background.

* Merchant Directory: New experimental feature! Find it in the Info tab.  Because the Alpine Gold Exchange Metals As Money page is challenging to use, AuSSISTANT now has a searchable map of all the merchants published on that page, featuring updated geolocation coordinates for all entries.

* Info: The user-installable Goldback Currency Symbol Font now manifests as a font family, with four weights - Extra Light, Light, Regular, and Bold. * Chart: Bundled data updated to 1/31/2025.

Bug Fix - The Transaction Calculator was using the date on which the app was most recently launched for creating new transactions instead of using the current date. This would cause a stale exchange rate to populate the Exchange Rate field if the app had been running for a long time.

Info: Allows installation of the Goldback Currency Symbol font on your device for use in any app that supports user-installed fonts. Info: Instructional video for how to install and use the Goldback Currency Symbol font. Chart: Bundled data updated to 1/4/2025

• Calculator: Support For The New ½ Goldback Denomination. • Chart: Double Tap To Zoom To Visible Price Range • Chart: Pinch-To-Zoom Visible Dates • Chart: Noticeable Performance Improvement When Scrolling • Bundled Data: Updated To 12/13/2024. • Known Issue: Chart Pinch-To-Zoom flickers in some situations.

* The Calculator now uses the new Goldback Currency Symbol. * Bundled data is updated to 11/25.

* Bundled data is updated to 11/3 * Bug fixes and performance improvements.

* Transactions: Recorded transactions are now editable. * Calculator: Improved layout on smaller devices, and in landscape orientation. * Calculator: Improved navigation when the keyboard is displayed. * Some minor bug fixes and performance enhancements here and there.