Introducing Personal Palate Lab (Premium): Compare pairings, aging, and blind tastings using your journal entries. Explore your preferences and choose which findings help personalize Sommelier and discovery recommendations. Simpler navigation: Reach your Journal, Humidor, AI assistant, and Search through refreshed tabs and adaptable sidebar navigation. Easier session logging: Keep ratings and notes front and center, save unfinished sessions for later, and choose which AI suggestions to add. Better collection management: Improved search, filters, and sorting, plus clearer inventory quantities and restock information. Consistent five-star ratings: Easier-to-read ratings across your journal, summaries, shared images, and widgets. Improved layouts and reliability: Better support for landscape, larger text, and iPad, with fixes for session editing, aging records, and reminders.

A smoother, smarter, and more personal cigar journal. **NEW** • **Price Tracking:** Add a price per cigar in your humidor and carry it into each session you log. See the estimated value of your collection at a glance. • **Faster Session Logging:** Record draw, burn, price, date, and time alongside your ratings and tasting notes. • **Better Humidor Organization:** Sort by brand, quantity, or longest resting, and filter by wrapper, origin, shelf, or aging status. • **Quick Actions:** Press and hold any Journal entry or Humidor item for convenient shortcuts. • **Smarter Reminders:** Resting reminders now open directly to the exact cigar, with quick actions when its resting period is complete. • **iPhone Search & Siri:** Find cigars from your collection using iPhone search, or ask Siri what you should smoke tonight. • **Subscription Management:** View and manage your subscription directly inside the app. • **More Flexible Session Logging:** Scan a cigar, enter the details manually, or choose one from your humidor. Save unfinished sessions and pick up where you left off. • **Improved Journal & Humidor:** Easier navigation, better search, and clearer inventory information make managing your collection simpler. • **Refined Ratings & Tasting Notes:** Enjoy consistent five-star ratings, with suggested flavors kept separate from your own tasting impressions. • **Visual & Accessibility Improvements:** Warmer illustrations, smoother transitions, subtle feedback while rating, improved large-text layouts, easier access to save controls, and support for Reduce Motion. **FIXED** • Cellar reminders no longer repeat daily. • Draw and burn details appear only when you recorded them. • Wishlist dates now display correctly. • Additional performance, usability, and stability improvements throughout the app.

Enjoy a more polished Aficionado experience, with thoughtful visual details that make exploring your collection feel even better. • Smoother feedback when saving cigars to your wishlist. • Gentle photo transitions that bring your tasting journal to life. • A refreshed Aging Lab with new artwork and a clearer introduction. • A more welcoming iPad collection view. • Thoughtful support for larger text and reduced motion.

Aficionado has been completely refreshed. • Meet Aging Lab—create resting plans, schedule checkpoint tastings, and see how each cigar’s flavors and scores evolve over time. • Log faster with camera-powered band identification and a redesigned tasting journey. • Scan an entire tray to identify cigars and update your humidor more quickly. • Get recommendations shaped by your own palate with the Virtual Sommelier, Rituals, Blind Tasting Coach, and deeper collection insights. • Revisit your year with Year in Smoke. • Enjoy redesigned Home, Journal, Humidor, Gallery, and onboarding experiences with smoother motion and better iPhone and iPad layouts. This update also brings improved syncing, accessibility, performance, stability, privacy, and security throughout the app.

Aficionado is now free to try You no longer need a subscription to get started. Log your first 5 cigars — including camera band identification — and keep your journal, humidor, wishlist, gallery, and journey map at no cost. Premium unlocks unlimited logging plus the Virtual Sommelier, Aging Lab, tray scan, Blind Tasting, and the full insights suite. A proper introduction First launch now walks you through what the app does before asking anything of you. Year in Smoke A new annual recap: sessions month by month, your average score, what you spent, brands and origins explored, your highest-rated smoke of the year, and your signature flavors. Find it under Insights. Dark mode Aficionado now follows your system appearance, or you can pin it to Light or Dark in Settings. Built for evening reading in a dim lounge. Bring your old journal with you Settings → Data → Import legacy backup restores a JSON export from the classic app — sessions, humidor, and wishlist together. Fixes and refinements • Cigar names are no longer autocorrected — "Padron" stays "Padron" • Imported entries show proper dates instead of raw timestamps • Widgets and cellar reminders now refresh in the background • Lounge search waits longer for a location fix before giving up • Faster search and analytics, especially with a large journal • Better layout on iPad and on smaller iPhones • Fixed a crash that could occur when an AI response came back malformed

Aging Lab is here — discover how your cigars evolve over time. Set a resting goal for any box in your humidor, and Aficionado will create a personalized tasting schedule. When it’s time to revisit a cigar, you can compare your latest experience with previous notes, scores, and flavors. • Create 6-, 12-, or 24-month resting plans • See upcoming tasting checkpoints in your Humidor • Compare scores, notes, and flavors while journaling • Track changes over time with your personal aging curve • Discover which flavors have emerged or faded Also in this release: • A redesigned Home screen with tonight’s recommendation, recent sessions, cellar insights, and low-stock reminders • More consistent cigar photos throughout your Journal, Humidor, Gallery, and tasting records • Improved tools for managing inventory, restocking, aging progress, and your wishlist • Smarter ritual planning and next-cigar recommendations, including the option to snooze suggestions until tomorrow • More reliable syncing across devices, even when your connection is interrupted • Faster performance, improved accessibility, and refined layouts across iPhone and iPad • Refreshed age verification • Additional stability improvements and bug fixes

Bug fixes

Aficionado 2.0 is a full refresh of the private cigar journal experience. Enjoy a redesigned command center with faster access to your Journal, Humidor, Sommelier, Ritual Planner, Blind Tasting, Passport, Insights, Flavor Profile, Journey Map, Gallery, Wishlist, and Search. This update also makes cigar photos more useful throughout the app, improves humidor inventory and restock tracking, adds clearer aging and cellar reminder tools, and makes it easier to scan cigar bands, scan a tray, log tasting notes, tag locations, and find your next smoke.

Camera bug fix

Bug fix

A major Aficionado update: the app has been rebuilt around a richer private cigar journal, a cleaner humidor, smarter Sommelier guidance, and a more polished full-screen experience on iPhone and iPad. What’s new: A redesigned native interface for logging cigars, managing your humidor, and reviewing your tasting history. New journal, humidor, wishlist, gallery, search, analytics, flavor profile, and journey views. Smarter cigar recommendations and Sommelier guidance based on your private journal, humidor, and wishlist. New Home Screen widgets for quick cigar picks, humidor status, journal snapshots, and palate trends. Improved iPad support with full-screen layouts instead of small pop-up windows. More reliable subscription recognition and restore behavior. Faster photo handling, smoother loading, and stability/security improvements throughout the app.

Added Home Screen widgets, Cellar Concierge recommendations, Blind Tasting Coach, and a new Feature Guide, plus improvements to search, readability, performance, and stability.

This update adds new Home Screen widgets for your journal, humidor, tonight’s recommendation, and palate trends. You can now glance at recent smokes, inventory signals, low-stock items, favorite wrappers, flavor notes, and suggested cigars without opening the app. Premium members also get a more complete private cigar workflow, including richer journal insights, humidor tracking, wishlist tools, flavor profile views, analytics, and smarter “Next Stick” recommendations based on your own collection and tasting history. We also improved navigation, deep links from widgets, subscription handling, data sync, and overall stability throughout the native app.

Aficionado has been rebuilt as a native iOS experience. This update brings a faster, smoother cigar journal with a redesigned iPhone interface, improved subscription access, and deeper AI-powered cigar guidance. What’s new: Native iOS app experience with improved navigation and performance Restored Logbook camera workflow: take or import a cigar photo and have it analyzed immediately AI cigar identification now helps fill in brand, name, wrapper, origin, tasting notes, pairings, and background details New educational log details to help you learn more about each cigar you smoke Improved Virtual Sommelier recommendations based on your journal, humidor, and wishlist “Next Stick” suggestions with safer favorites and more adventurous discovery picks Expanded humidor tools, including aging insight and inventory actions Wishlist improvements, including nearby availability actions Improved gallery, flavor profile, analytics, journey map, locator, profile, settings, and subscription screens Better support for carrying existing journal, humidor, wishlist, and profile data into the new native app This release focuses on making Aficionado feel more personal, more polished, and more useful as a private cigar journal.

Smarter humidor tracking is here, with better box, bundle, and single inventory support, low-stock insights, depletion forecasting, reorder history, and purchase receipts. This update also adds richer smoke logging with a tasting wheel, body, draw, and burn ratings, improved pairing and photo details, faster re-logging from your humidor, and general stability improvements.

Bug Fixes - data persistence fixed

Bug Fixes