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