Version 3.2.0 delivers a major upgrade to series tracking: - Fixed an issue where some shows only allowed Season 1 progress - Automatically loads complete season and episode information - Progress now advances across season boundaries, such as S1E8 to S2E1 - Added Previous Episode, Mark Episode Watched, and Caught Up This Season actions - Added progress tracking for specials - Manual progress entry remains available when season data cannot be loaded - Added TV and anime filters to the Episode Calendar - Added the last successful update time and per-series schedule reload - Improved older progress-data recovery, error handling, and localization This update also includes interface refinements and stability improvements.

KinoTaste 3.1 delivers a more transparent and controllable recommendation experience. New Taste Profile See your preferred genres, frequently watched languages, favorite eras, and the signals currently shaping your recommendations. Recommendation Reasons and Undoable Feedback Title details can now explain why a recommendation was selected. Review your More Like This and Less Like This history and undo feedback at any time. Smarter Collection Management Search inside collections, filter by movies, series, anime, or watch status, and review title count, watched count, average rating, and total runtime. Batch Collection Tools Select multiple titles and copy, move, or remove them together. Titles already present in the destination collection will not be duplicated. Safer Backup and Restore Preview the backup date, app version, and record counts before importing. Merge keeps newer records, while Replace automatically creates a safety backup that can be exported later. Improved Episode Calendar Previously released next episodes now appear under Available Now. Episode schedules distinguish Available, Today, Upcoming, Date TBA, and Season Finale, while reminders are recalibrated for the current time zone. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English text has also been updated.

KinoTaste 3.0 is a major upgrade. NEW COLLECTIONS Create personal collections that mix movies, TV series, and anime. Customize names and covers, reorder titles manually, sort by year or rating, pick something at random, and generate shareable collection cards. SMART COLLECTIONS Quickly browse Watching, Watchlist, Unwatched, Completed, Favorites, Recently Added, and Upcoming titles. TASTE CONTROLS Adjust how exploratory your recommendations should be, tune your hidden-gem preference, and mark genres as preferred, neutral, or avoided. BETTER RECOMMENDATION FEEDBACK Use More Like This or Less Like This on individual titles. The recommendation system now combines this feedback with ratings, viewing history, genre preferences, and recent choices. EPISODE CALENDAR View upcoming episodes grouped into Today, This Week, Later, and Date TBA. Episode reminders, progress tracking, and full series schedules have also been improved. LIBRARY AND SHARING IMPROVEMENTS The Library has been reorganized with collection details, cover selection, random picks, and more complete share cards. BACKUP AND SYNC UPGRADES The v3 backup format now includes collections and recommendation feedback while remaining compatible with older backups. iPhone and Apple Watch now use a consistent data model. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English localizations have been updated throughout the app, along with fixes for data migration, interface consistency, and overall stability.

This update makes it easier to keep up with your shows: - Added Continue Watching for quick access to your latest episode - Added an episode calendar for upcoming episodes and release dates - Added episode titles, descriptions, dates, and other details - Added update reminders for series and anime - Added Continue Watching and New Today content to widgets - Improved progress syncing, backup restoration, and recommendations - Improved performance, stability, and accessibility

Version 2.8 makes your personal movie and TV library more complete and easier to use: - Added My Library for managing movies, TV series, and anime in one place - Filter by status and content type, then sort by title, year, rating, or recent activity - Search titles, synopses, and keywords - Track season and episode progress for TV series and anime - Mark a series as finished, update your position, or clear its progress - Added Pick for Tonight, prioritizing titles from your watchlist and currently watching list - Viewing progress is included in iCloud sync and manual backups - Improved Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English localization - Fixed issues and improved overall stability Thank you for using Kinotaste. Here’s to always having a story worth continuing.

Version 2.7 introduces more ways to discover what to watch, along with several practical improvements: - Added contextual recommendations for TV series and anime based on your mood, available time, and viewing preferences - Redesigned Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with support for movies, TV series, anime, and your watchlist - Upgraded list importing with previews, match confirmation, retry, resume, and duplicate handling - Added iCloud sync status, troubleshooting, library backup, and restore tools - Improved search and recommendation performance, with clearer handling of network interruptions - Improved support for VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduce Motion - Fixed duplicate deep-link navigation, CSV parsing, and other stability issues Thank you for using Kinotaste. We hope your next great watch is only a recommendation away.

Version 2.6 introduces a new mood-based discovery experience, along with further stability and privacy improvements. - Introducing “What Do You Feel Like?” Choose from moods and moments such as A Good Cry, Need a Laugh, Mind-Bending, Switch Off, Edge of Seat, Heartwarming, Only 90 Minutes, or A Whole Evening. - Mood-based results are reranked around your personal taste to find titles that fit both you and the moment. - Improved “Because you liked” recommendations with more natural and relevant reasons. - Improved reliability and error handling for Memory Fragment AI search and Trivia. - Improved data loading across search, recommendations, posters, and widgets. - Strengthened privacy protection. In-app behavior analytics are no longer uploaded. Your ratings, watchlist, and Film Resume remain on your devices and in your private iCloud database. - Fixed additional Apple Watch, localization, and interface issues.

This update: a major recommendation engine upgrade - "For You" knows you better: rebuilt algorithm blends your overall taste, resonance with individual favorites, and genre preferences — and "dislike" / "not interested" now truly steers recommendations away - More trustworthy reasons: "Because you loved..." tags only appear when a pick is genuinely related - New "What Do You Feel Like?": need a good cry, a laugh, a mind-bender, or only have 90 minutes? Find a film by mood (movies only) - Refreshed Categories page: sections unroll and fold like a film roll, keeping things clean - After switching languages, your watchlist, history, and recommendations now follow along automatically - Polish and stability improvements Happy watching

What's New in v2.4 - Viewing Report Card, upgraded: now with a new Quarterly view — build your personal taste profile by year, quarter, or month in Insights, and export a beautiful shareable card in one tap. - Personalized daily pick: get one hand-picked film every day and tap the notification to jump straight to its details. Turn it on/off and set your preferred time in Profile → Settings. - Faster trivia loading and various bug fixes for a smoother experience. Enjoying the update? A 5-star review means the world to an indie developer

- Fixed iCloud sync so your watch history and ratings are no longer lost after reinstalling, and cross-device sync now works correctly. - Added a personalized daily notification at 7 PM — content is generated based on your actual taste profile. - Improved the recommendation algorithm: vector-ranked results are now displayed in order instead of being shuffled; keyword analysis expanded from 1 to 3 dimensions; genre weights are now proportional to your real preferences. - Fixed a data isolation bug in the Apple Watch app — it now shares the same recommendation engine as iOS.

This update focuses on fixing network and synchronization issues to further improve the overall experience: - Network Connectivity Improvements: Fixed an issue where posters and images failed to load under certain network conditions (e.g., specific Wi-Fi or cellular networks). We optimized the underlying network routing strategy to ensure stable and lightning-fast image delivery. - Cross-Device Sync Fix: Resolved an issue where iCloud data (such as your Likes, Watchlist, and Film Resume) was not syncing promptly across multiple devices like the iPad. We perfected the underlying silent push mechanism, ensuring your actions on any device now seamlessly and instantly sync across all your Apple devices.

This update brings a comprehensive overhaul from the underlying architecture to device-side performance, delivering a smoother and more stable experience: - Hardware-Accelerated Engine: Completely rewrote the local vector analysis algorithm utilizing the Apple Accelerate framework. Calculating cosine similarity for hundreds of recommendations is now drastically faster and more energy-efficient. - Lightning-Fast Data Import: Introduced a new concurrency model for Douban CSV imports. The app now parallel-matches movies, TV series, and anime simultaneously, significantly reducing the wait time for massive data migrations. - Ultra-Stable Widgets: Completely rebuilt the widget architecture. The main app now handles all heavy image downloads and safely caches them in a shared sandbox, ensuring widgets load instantly and never blank out due to memory limits. - Silky Apple Watch Gestures: Upgraded the 6-direction swipe logic on the watch from a rigid XY-axis to a Polar Coordinate system. Gestures are now incredibly accurate, completely eliminating dead zones when swiping down to "Skip". - Seamless Native Language Switching: Removed legacy runtime hacks in favor of a pure, data-driven SwiftUI architecture. Changing languages now instantly and flawlessly redraws the entire app (including dates and region names) without requiring a restart. - Enhanced AI & Loading Stability: Enforced strict JSON constraints on the server-side AI search model to eliminate crash issues, and optimized the network buffering strategy for smoother poster loading.

This update is a comprehensive polish of sensory experience and deep exploration. We have rebuilt core interactions and introduced a highly ceremonial sharing experience. - Epic Coronation Posters: After crowning your ultimate favorite in the Showdown, you can now generate and export an epic battle report. Featuring a brutalist black and gold design with ticket-style watermarks, it showcases your champion standing above all defeated contenders. - Fluid Feed Experience: We decluttered the top navigation by removing the refresh button. You can now double-tap the Home tab to scroll to the top and refresh, pull down to refresh, and enjoy seamless infinite scrolling at the bottom. - Crisp Haptic Feedback: Rating movies is more satisfying than ever. When you rate a movie via the context menu, the card now collapses instantly with a silky spring animation and a rigid, crisp haptic snap. - New Decade Filter: A minimalist decade filter capsule has been added next to the category title. Want to dive into 90s classics or 2020s hits? Travel through time with one tap, backed by a strict client-side filtering engine. - Universe Selection Overhaul: We redesigned the Movie, TV, and Anime selection screen into premium, tactile access passes with enhanced glow effects, tighter typography, and a satisfying squish animation.

This update (v2.1.5) includes the following core feature upgrades and experience optimizations: Completely Revamped "Insights" Report: Rebuilt the personal yearly and monthly viewing report with a multi-dimensional local algorithm. It now automatically generates deep, psychological viewing personas (e.g., "The Philosopher", "The Empath"), and introduces exclusive "Soulmate" and "Hidden Gem" sections. Complemented by a newly designed, high-end typography layout to bring your cinematic memories to life. Immersive "Watchlist Deck": Customized exclusive immersive background colors for the Movie, TV Show, and Anime universes in the Watchlist Deck. Combined with delicate matte textures, it significantly enhances the visual depth of the card-swiping interaction.

This update includes the following experience improvements and bug fixes: Added a new "Watchlist Gallery" medium widget, displaying your 3 most recently added titles at a glance. Rebuilt the widget background refresh engine with a static timeline queue, improving update reliability while reducing battery consumption. Optimized widget deep-link routing to resolve transition conflicts, ensuring a seamless jump directly to the details page. Upgraded the external history (CSV) import algorithm with concurrent multi-category detection, now automatically recognizing and accurately categorizing TV shows and Anime. Added background execution support for the data import module, significantly reducing the risk of interruption during large-scale imports. Fixed layer and view recycling issues in the Watchlist Deck swipe interface, ensuring newly added titles appear on top and resolving the card snap-back glitch.

[Prism] Awards Collection Updated • Added the latest acclaimed award-winners. [Film Blender] Movie Exclusive & Algorithm Overhaul • Universe Isolation: The Film Blender is now exclusively tailored for the Movie universe, keeping TV shows and anime out for a purer blending experience. • Algorithm Rebuilt: Say goodbye to generic top-rated recommendations. The new vector-based engine deeply analyzes hidden keywords and similar genes behind your selections, diving into hidden gems to mix the perfect, resonant match. • Canvas Interaction: Introduced an interactive canvas supporting free pinch-to-zoom and panning with smooth, physics-based bouncing. [Share Card] Layout & Detail Polish • Smart Metadata: Share cards for TV shows and anime now intelligently display season and episode counts instead of single-episode runtime. • Visual Tweaks: Adjusted the padding proportions of posters on the card for perfect visual centering. • UX Fix: Fixed an issue where the keyboard could block the input field when writing a comment. [Experience & Fixes] • Optimized the cold start process to eliminate UI flickering after the splash screen. • Improved deep linking for the "On This Day" notification, delivering a seamless transition directly into the Movie universe without being interrupted by the selection screen.

【What's New】 Expanded Universes: We now fully support TV Shows and Anime alongside Movies. Explore hardcore categories like Dark K-Dramas, Tokusatsu Heroes, Cyberpunk Anime, and Hidden Gems. Emotional Vector Engine: Completely overhauled underlying algorithms using Time Decay and Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR). Recommendations now resonate with your soul, not just basic genres. Poetic Insights: Replaced robotic category tags with poetic, mood-based reasons for every recommendation, making discovery feel like a conversation with a cinephile friend. Smart Launch Experience: Redesigned the launch routing. Choose your universe upon opening the app, and let our smart engine seamlessly guide you to your personalized dashboard or onboarding flow.

The v2.1.1 update brings deep optimizations to the "Three Parallel Universes" architecture and several core experience improvements, making your tracking purer and more secure: - Enhanced Data Isolation: Upgraded the underlying "Universe ID" logic to completely resolve data bleeding issues when searching, rating, or exploring cast filmographies across different universes. Movies, TV Shows, and Anime are now strictly independent. - Apple Watch Optimization: Improved iCloud sync interception for Apple Watch. The watch app is now strictly isolated and focuses solely on your "Movie Universe," unaffected by your TV or Anime logs on the phone. - More Accurate Insights: Fixed an issue where TV and Anime data could accidentally mix into your movie reports. Your "Data Insights" will now provide a 100% pure cinematic taste analysis. - Onboarding Fix: Addressed an issue where swiping a title to "To Watch" during the onboarding phase did not correctly count towards your unlock progress. - Search & Stability Improvements: Fixed an anomaly causing empty search results when switching modes and enhanced the overall stability of cross-platform data synchronization. Thank you for using KinoTaste. If you enjoy this update, please consider leaving a review on the App Store.

In the v2.1.0 update, KinoTaste introduces a massive architectural upgrade to take your tracking experience to the next dimension: - Three Parallel Universes: KinoTaste is now divided into three distinct, independent universes: Movies, TV Shows, and Anime. Each universe operates with its own tailored recommendation algorithms, watchlists and history. - TV Shows & Anime Integration: You are no longer limited to movies. Explore trending TV shows and classic anime, and keep track of everything you love. - Immersive Visual Overhaul: Experience seamless and adaptive theme color changes depending on the universe you are currently exploring, providing a highly immersive visual experience. - Global Refinements: Enhanced full-app multi-language support, unified the minimalist UI design across all pages, and optimized underlying data performance. Thank you for using KinoTaste. Enjoy your watch!

This update brings major performance improvements and pixel-perfect UI refinements to make your movie discovery smoother than ever: - Smart Network Routing: Rebuilt the underlying network engine with dynamic environment probing. Users outside mainland China will now automatically connect to direct global nodes, drastically reducing loading times for posters and movie data. - Apple Watch Upgrades: The discovery card on Apple Watch now supports a 6-direction swipe gesture. Simply swipe down to mark a movie as "Pending." A dedicated pending button has also been added to the watch details page for seamless status syncing with your iPhone. - Pixel-Perfect UI: Perfected the alignment and sizing of the main view toolbars and movie detail action capsules. Redesigned the Share Card Editor with premium visual feedback, including glowing selection states and fluid spring animations for color themes. - Fixed UI clipping issues in the Share Card Editor on certain device screens.

This update brings new content and experience improvements: Prism Collections: Added two new curated lists, "Milkyway Image" and "Korean Realism", exploring fatalistic noir and impactful social dramas. Film Resume: Optimized interactions for editing and managing your cinematic profile. Search: Improved person search interaction; tapping a person in search results now directly opens their detailed profile. Bug Fixes: Fixed a potential crash when removing movies from the Watchlist to ensure better stability.

KinoTaste v2.0.6 - Data with Emotion - Insights 2.0: Deeper Connections • Cinematic Soulmate: It's not just about numbers. Find out which director or actor appears most frequently in your library. Meet your cinematic muse. • Hidden Gems: Discover the high-rated but underrated masterpieces you've watched. A tribute to your unique taste. • Ticket Sharing: Share your monthly/yearly report with a beautiful, retro-styled "Cinema Ticket" design. - Polished Experience • Sharing Fix: Fixed an issue where generated share cards could sometimes be blank. Exporting is now faster and more reliable. • Improved animations in the "Prism" view.

Version 2.0.5 is an update about "Self-Definition." New Feature: "Film Resume": Go beyond simple ratings. It's about recording the moments that shaped your taste. Select your "Best Villain," "The Awakening," or "Most Underrated" films, and generate a stunning black-and-gold shareable card. New Curated Lists: - Italian Giallo: Dive into the stylized thriller aesthetics of the 70s. - Taiwan New Wave: Experience the poetic realism and immersive storytelling of master directors like Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang. Improvements: Enhanced the share preview experience for better card generation.

This update brings a major evolution to our core recommendation engine: Smarter Recommendation Engine - Time Decay Logic: The app now prioritizes your recent taste. What you liked yesterday matters more than what you liked last year. - Watchlist Extension: Recommendations now smartly draw inspiration from your "To-Watch" list. - Humanized Reasons: No more robotic tags. You'll now see reasons that speak to the soul, like "Adrenaline Rush" or "Into the Unknown." Film Blender v2.0 - Upgraded the blending algorithm with local Vector Analysis. Mixing movies now captures the specific "vibe" and atmosphere much better. Fixes & Improvements - Fixed a crash that could occur when browsing the "History" view or deleting items. Improved overall stability.

This update makes KinoTaste smarter and more refined. We've rewritten the core logic to help you find movies that truly match your taste. - New Features • Data Insights: What is your cinematic DNA? Visualize your top genres, favorite eras, and viewing habits with a retro receipt-style report. • Smart Keywords: Deep dive into movie details with new keyword capsules. From [Cyberpunk] to [Slow Burn], we now track the subtle vibes you love. - Algorithm • Smarter Recommendations: The engine now understands semantic connections between movies based on your keyword preferences. • Film Blender PRO: Completely reworked blending logic. It now extracts "Common Elements" and "Blend Recipes" from your selected ingredients for more accurate results. - Polish & Fixes • Film Prism: Refined UI with dynamic titles and smoother interactions. • Layout Optimization: Improved layout for smaller screens (e.g., iPhone SE) to ensure all buttons and text are fully visible. If you enjoy this update, please consider leaving a review. It means the world to indie developers!