Roundmate
Private tasting with friends.
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Roundmate is an adult social tasting journal for close friends. Start a 30-minute manual check-in when you want to be findable, or use a private timer. No automatic location sharing. No leaderboard.
— MANUAL CHECK-INS —
Six glass types ready in two taps. Share a check-in with approved friends, with or without a map pin, or choose a private timer. After 30 minutes it disappears.
— SAY HI FROM ANYWHERE —
When a friend manually checks in, their glass appears in your rail. Send a quick hello without turning it into a contest.
— FRIENDS REQUIRE APPROVAL —
Sending a request never follows someone automatically. They must approve you before either of you can see friend-only check-ins.
— FIND A SPOT, OR JUST BE FOUND —
The map shows venues nearby and friends who chose to share a current check-in. No location is shown automatically.
— A QUIET TASTING JOURNAL —
If you want to remember a pour, you can. A private journal lives in your profile — your notes, your ratings, your glass collection. No one sees it but you.
— BUILT FOR CRAFT, NEVER FOR EXCESS —
Roundmate is a social moment, not a competition. We don't gamify quantity, we don't celebrate volume, we don't push promotions for alcohol brands. Every core feature works with water.
— PRIVACY —
Adults of legal drinking age only. Age-gated at first launch. Check-ins are visible only to approved friends you have explicitly added and only when you choose to share the check-in. We do not sell your data. We do not run ads. See our full privacy policy at roundmate.vercel.app/privacy.
— RESPONSIBLE DRINKING —
If you or someone you know is struggling with alcohol, help is available:
• United States: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357
• Mexico: CONADIC 800-911-2000
• Alcoholics Anonymous: aa.org
Drink slowly. Drink water in between. Never drive.
more Celebrate with 20 new Mexican Spanish toast options, from ¡Salucita! to ¡Salud, compa! Choose Pitufo, Perla Negra, or Michelada for your check-in. The quick-cheers picker now scrolls and keeps longer phrases readable.
1.1.3 1d ago
Roundmate now follows your phone language, with a language choice in Settings. Added complete language packs for English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Improved translated navigation, drink choices, notifications, dates, and Arabic layouts.
1.1.2 Oct 15
Find your friends on the new Map tab. Swipe sideways for drink categories and up or down for familiar kinds. Shared photos refresh more reliably, and location sharing is clearer and optional. Cheers now has its own tab, replies expire after 24 hours, and you can mute individual friends. Navigation, planning, and loading recovery have also improved.
1.1.0 Oct 14
Fixed conversation loading and retry behavior, friend request acceptance, and plan creation. Improved journal reliability when drink details are temporarily unavailable.
1.0.23 Oct 3
Choose your drink visually: swipe left or right between drink categories, and up or down through varieties. Tap the drink illustration to check in instantly with your selected audience. Explore distinctive glassware and Mexican beers, with clearer sharing feedback and protection against accidental duplicate check-ins.
1.0.21 Oct 1
Roundmate is simpler and easier to use with friends.
- Get back Home from chats opened through notifications.
- See your friends' active rounds while your own round is open.
- Use one check-in flow from Home, a drink, or a venue. Drink and place details are optional.
- Find your recent check-ins in You, with private history saved on this device.
- Explore expanded beer, coffee, and seltzer collections.
1.0.20 Sep 29
Discover more drinks and local places.
- Explore Mexican beers and local beers and venues in Carlsbad and Oceanside.
- Browse a new Seltzers collection and ten coffee classics.
- Find more coffee choices in the home picker.
- Coffee check-ins now sync correctly, with safe retries when your connection drops.
1.0.19 Sep 22
More reliable check-ins and clearer notification status.
- Share with friends without a map pin when location is unavailable.
- Recover saved check-ins after connection problems and retry safely.
- See whether notifications are queued, accepted by the provider, or unavailable.
- Check your notification connection and send a remote test to this phone from Settings.
- Includes location, device registration, and backend reliability fixes.
1.0.18 Sep 14
Friend requests and notifications are now more reliable.
- Accepting a friend request updates the app immediately without getting stuck.
- Notification links open the correct screen and remain fully navigable.
- Roundmate automatically repairs missing device notification registration.
- Settings now shows whether friend alerts are connected and provides a retry action.
- Includes push-delivery reliability and stale-device cleanup improvements.
1.0.17 Aug 9
Social inbox and faster startup.
- See greetings, friend check-ins, and friend requests grouped by person.
- Reply with a quick phrase or a message directly from the conversation.
- Skip the launch video whenever you want.
- Includes reliability, accessibility, and storage improvements.
1.0.16 Jul 24
Home screen layout fix.
- Removed the large dark area that could block content at the bottom of Home.
- Improved scrolling around the floating navigation bar.
1.0.15 Jul 13
Splash and Friends reliability fixes.
- The launch splash now plays the new video instead of showing an old static screen.
- Removed the old launch artwork from startup.
- Improved Friends navigation, friend request refresh, and authenticated retry handling.
1.0.13 Jul 6
Splash and Friends reliability fixes.
- The launch splash now plays the new video instead of showing an old static screen.
- Removed the old launch artwork from startup.
- Improved Friends navigation, friend request refresh, and authenticated retry handling.
1.0.12 Jul 3
Friend requests, contacts, and platform parity.
- Added the new Roundmate splash screen.
- Added visible incoming and sent friend requests that require approval before becoming friends.
- Added contact-based friend discovery and improved add-link support.
- Improved Friends, Discover, Venues, and You parity across devices.
- Improved map permission prompts and current-location behavior for check-ins and Venues.
1.0.11 Jul 2
Friend requests, contacts, and platform parity.
- Added visible incoming and sent friend requests that require approval before becoming friends.
- Added contact-based friend discovery and improved add-link support.
- Improved Friends, Discover, Venues, and You parity across devices.
- Improved map permission prompts and current-location behavior for check-ins and Venues.
1.0.10 Jun 30
v1.0.7 - Home check-in polish.
- Updated drink artwork with clearer glass shapes, fills, and category states.
- Improved Home spacing so the check-in action stays visible on more screens.
- Friend activity and venue rows now handle loading, empty, and distance states more cleanly.
- Check-in captions now keep the selected drink subtype consistent while location is pending.
1.0.8 Jun 26
v1.0.7 - Home check-in polish.
- Updated drink artwork with clearer glass shapes, fills, and category states.
- Improved Home spacing so the check-in action stays visible on more screens.
- Friend activity and venue rows now handle loading, empty, and distance states more cleanly.
- Check-in captions now keep the selected drink subtype consistent while location is pending.
1.0.7 Jun 16
v1.0.6 - Friend links and safer check-ins.
- Friend invite links now open more reliably.
- Check-ins now ask before sharing with friends.
- Private timer is easier to choose when you do not want to share a map pin.
- Notification taps now open context instead of starting a shared check-in.
1.0.6 Jun 14
v1.0.5 - Easier home navigation and clearer friend flow.
- The center tab now always returns to Home, where check-ins start.
- The Friends tab is easier to reach from Home and the bottom navigation.
- Friend check-ins open detail first, with a clear Send cheers action plus Report and Block controls.
- Drink type selection is clearer, with stronger subtype artwork and visible up/down controls.
- Check-ins remain optional, expire automatically, and avoid drink-count goals.
1.0.5 Jun 7
v1.0.4 - Quieter check-ins and clearer journal focus.
- Check-ins now ask whether to share with friends on the map or start a private timer.
- Profile focuses on your private journal and palate summary instead of counts, streaks, badges, or collection progress.
- Friend check-ins open detail, report, and block controls without quick reaction loops.
- Share cards and notifications were simplified to avoid social pressure or drinking-goal language.
- Includes the recent account recovery and demo-account hardening fixes.
1.0.4 Jun 2
v1.0.2 — Quieter rounds, clearer rules.
This release substantially revises the meet-up feature in response to App Store review feedback. Roundmate is for casual social moments, not coordinated drinking sessions, and the app's behavior now reflects that more literally:
• Removed the "Open invite / Who's in?" mass-invite path. Plans are now passive announcements only — friends discover them by opening the app, not via push notifications.
• No push notifications are sent when you create a plan, when someone RSVPs, when a plan is cancelled, or when its scheduled time arrives. Every plan-related interaction is a quiet in-app update.
• The Water glass now wears a visible "NON-ALC" badge on the plan picker, equal-weight with the other glasses.
• Suggested caption text rewritten — neutral "Catching up after work" replaces the previous wording.
• Plans are capped at 3 per 24 hours per user, server-side.
• Profile → Settings → Privacy now has "Show drink count on profile" — turn it off to focus on variety over volume. The hero count card hides; the variety stats (Unique styles, Top style, etc.) and your journal stay visible.
• "How was it?" notification body now says "Tap to save it to your journal" so the path from a Live round to a permanent log is obvious.
• Home tab: each check-in now asks whether to start a private timer or manually share a friends-only map pin. First-session coachmark + journal empty state echo the same distinction.
Also includes the latest email-confirmation and password-reset deep-link handling so verification and recovery links return to the correct in-app screen. This App Store version uses iOS bundle train 0.5.1.
Plus all of v0.4.5 (native in-app password reset, "already have an account" sign-up handling) and v0.4.4 (vertical-swipe subcategory rotation on the glass picker).
1.0.2 May 29
v0.5.0 — Quieter rounds, clearer rules.
This release substantially revises the meet-up feature in response to App Store review feedback. Roundmate is for casual social moments, not coordinated drinking sessions, and the app's behavior now reflects that more literally:
• Removed the "Open invite / Who's in?" mass-invite path. Plans are now passive announcements only — friends discover them by opening the app, not via push notifications.
• No push notifications are sent when you create a plan, when someone RSVPs, when a plan is cancelled, or when its scheduled time arrives. Every plan-related interaction is a quiet in-app update.
• The Water glass now wears a visible "NON-ALC" badge on the plan picker, equal-weight with the other glasses.
• Caption placeholder rewritten — neutral "Catching up after work" replaces the previous wording.
• Plans are capped at 3 per 24 hours per user, server-side.
• Profile → Settings → Privacy now has "Show drink count on profile" — turn it off to focus on variety over volume. The hero count card hides; the variety stats (Unique styles, Top style, etc.) and your journal stay visible.
• "How was it?" notification body now says "Tap to save it to your journal" so the path from a Live round to a permanent log is obvious.
• Home tab: a small tagline under "Pour & open round" explains "Live for 30 min · friends only" and points at the + button for permanent journal logs. First-session coachmark + journal empty state echo the same distinction.
Plus all of v0.4.5 (native in-app password reset, "already have an account" sign-up handling) and v0.4.4 (vertical-swipe subcategory rotation on the glass picker).
1.0.1 May 20
Celebrate with 20 new Mexican Spanish toast options, from ¡Salucita! to ¡Salud, compa! Choose Pitufo, Perla Negra, or Michelada for your check-in. The quick-cheers picker now scrolls and keeps longer phrases readable.
more Version 1.1.3 1d ago
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