Stickers now open the app. Bite links arrived last release. A link can now carry a second kind of address that opens EatAWhale instead of a browser, so tapping a printed code or an NFC sticker records the bite and then asks what you want to say about it. Your last five notes sit above the box, and the previous one can fill it in for you. Choose which kind a sticker gets when you make it, on the interest row, on the print sheet, or when you write a tag. The original silent link is unchanged and still records a bite in the browser without opening anything, which is what you want for an interest that keeps no notes. Tunes catches up. When a bite link advances your day without the app open, the phrases you would have heard are not lost. Open the app and it offers them back, playing from the start of the day.

Bite links. Every interest now has a private link that records a bite when it is opened, so a printed code, an NFC sticker, or a Siri phrase can check you in without opening the app. Open an interest to find Copy link, Share, and Show code. Write an NFC sticker from the app. Open an interest, tap Write a sticker, and hold your phone against a blank tag. iPhone only, since no iPad has an NFC reader.

Under the hood improvements to keep EatAWhale running smoothly. No new features this time.

The Reef is here: a new way to see your interests. Switch to the Reef layout and your interests become fish in a living underwater scene. Depth tells you what needs attention at a glance: fish that are due for a bite patrol near the surface, healthy ones cruise mid-water, and long-neglected ones drift down to rest on the seabed until a bite wakes them. Interests that share a tag school together as the same species. Tap a fish to open its card and log a bite. Press and drag through the water and the nearby fish gather to your finger. A sun and moon cross the sky on your own timezone's clock, and the moon shows tonight's real phase.

The application makes sounds now! Bites play a note that rises with your rhythm streak, and the Stars view has an optional ambience: the Stars view has an optional soundscape with three levels: off, comet chimes, or the full ambience, toggled with the speaker in the toolbar. The Stars view also got a glow-up: an edge-to-edge sky with passing satellites, comets, and auroras, a cleaner toolbar (Today and History replays, settings behind a gear), and smoother pinch-to-zoom.

New in this update: Native date pickers. Anywhere you enter a date now opens your phone's built-in calendar, so picking an expense date, a start date, or a day to look back on is quick and familiar. "What do you pay for?" Mark what you spend across all your interests in one quick pass, and see what each bite actually costs. A bigger interest library. We added Photography, Dance, and Crafts, plus more ways to build your space. Look back to any day. Time travel on your dashboard now reaches any past date, not just the last month.

Thanks for using EatAWhale. This update sharpens how rhythm and streaks work, with a few fixes that needed a fresh build: - Rhythm now counts cycles, not bites. Feed a weekly interest several times in one week and it reads as one week of rhythm, not several. The streak flame lights up once you have kept the rhythm for two cycles. - Calmer heatmap. The activity chain glows evenly and breathes in sync, instead of one cell burning brighter than the rest. - Smoother loading. No more white flash when an update applies, or when you collapse the sidebar on iPad. - Cleaner home-screen name. The app now shows as EatAWhale. More improvements keep arriving automatically over the air. One bite at a time.

A smoother, more reliable EatAWhale: - Updates now apply on their own, so you get the latest fixes without having to close and reopen the app. - More reliable syncing, so your check-ins always stick across your devices. - Better notes: optionally carry over the note from your last bite, and clear a note with a single tap. - A handful of smaller fixes and polish throughout.