Release Notes — 2.5.2 (129) — HOTFIX **Minimal production hotfix off the live 2.5.1 base.** One change only: the Subscription screen's plan cards are now tappable and actually start a purchase. A paying customer reported they couldn't tap the Annual plan — the cards were display-only, so a post-onboarding free user had no way to subscribe from Profile → Subscription. Confirmed the bug is in live 2.5.1 (longstanding, not a regression).

This release is all about reliability — the quiet kind of fixes that keep your data and your calendar behaving exactly as they should. • Your saved recipes and ratings now stay safe when you use Metabyl across more than one device. We fixed a rare sync timing issue that could drop favorites, so nothing you've saved goes missing. • Calendar meal events no longer create duplicates, and any duplicate "Metabyl Meals" events from before are cleaned up automatically. • Meal and prep events on your calendar now update the moment you change your prep day, planning time, or wake time. • Reminders schedule more reliably when you open the app. We sweat these details so your rhythm doesn't skip a beat. Thanks for cooking with Metabyl.

A small but important fix: the "Most Popular" choice on the Subscription screen now points at Annual instead of Monthly — better matches how Metabyl actually works for the long run. Behind the scenes we also tightened up our paywall plumbing so the price you see is always the price you're charged, no exceptions, on every device. No new features in this build — just a clean, accurate pricing experience. The next release will return to the regular cadence of cooking-flow and rhythm improvements.

This release makes the Saved screen smarter and warmer. New Saved Search Pills — quick-jump chips at the top of Saved that instantly filter your library. Seven seeded defaults (Beef, Chicken, Fish, Salmon, Pork, Eggs, Vegetarian) and you can save your own search + filter combinations ("Weeknight dinners," "Christy's keepers," "Holiday baking") with one tap. Categories are easier to find. When you don't have any collections yet, a "+ Create a category" chip surfaces right in the row so you know the feature exists. Onboarding feels warmer. New 3-stop gradient (dark teal → misty grey → slate) inspired by the Metabyl logo. Cleaner, clinical, less washed-out. Weekly Report headline reads as a score. Your Rhythm Score is now clearly labeled and proportioned — still tier-forward (Kept / Mostly Kept / Returning is the verdict), with the 0–100 number as the supporting detail in a form you can actually read. Manual-plan leftover fix. If you build your plan from scratch and fill Tuesday's dinner with a saved recipe, Wednesday's lunch now correctly populates as your leftover — even if Wednesday is your no-cook night. No-cook means "no dinner cooked," not "no lunch eaten." Plus small polish: 5-chef's-hat rating filter on Saved, naming sweep so the filter row matches the chef's-hat rating widget, and defensive crash-reporting hardening on a couple of older edge paths. Rhythm system, not a scoreboard. Every change keeps the calm, non-judgmental tone of the rest of the app.

New in 2.2.0 • Plan it your way — start with an empty week and fill it in yourself ("Add a recipe" or "Fill with AI"), or generate a full plan as before. Breakfasts batch across the week and dinners carry into next-day lunches automatically. • Variety Mode — mix easy and ambitious meals across your week instead of one fixed difficulty. • Texture preferences — shape your meals around the textures you actually enjoy eating. • Pick a cooking level when you swap a meal. • A range of reliability fixes and refinements across meal planning, swaps, and the shopping list.

Metabyl 2.1 is our biggest release since launch. FAVORITES — A FULL RECIPE LIBRARY Star any recipe to save it forever. The new Favorites tab supports: • Filter by meal type, cuisine, source, prep time, rating, or diet tag • Search by title • Sort by recent / rating / alphabetical / prep time • Rate recipes 1–5 stars with optional notes • Save-for-Later clipboard for recipes you're considering • Export your library as text or JSON via the system share sheet RELAX C.L.E.A.N. STANDARDS — FOR OCCASIONAL FLEXIBILITY Real life includes social meals and cravings. The new toggle (Settings → Food Framework) broadens recipe suggestions to include items like whole-grain pasta or sourdough — while still excluding refined sugar, white flour, and processed cheeses. A one-tap chip on the Recipes tab lets you relax a single search. Outside-framework recipes get a "Heads up" advisory so you always see the metabolic context. COST-CONSCIOUS MEAL PLANNING New budget preference (No Constraint / Cost-Conscious / Tight Budget) shapes your weekly plan. Cost-conscious leans toward frozen wild salmon, chicken thighs, legumes, in-season produce. Tight budget pushes harder on eggs, lentils, pork shoulder, bulk grains. Recipe cards carry "Budget-friendly" or "Premium ingredient" tags where applicable. PER-MEAL HOUSEHOLD SCOPING Set how many people eat breakfast vs. dinner vs. take a packed lunch. Override per-plan for atypical weeks without changing your defaults. CANCELLABLE MEAL PLAN GENERATION Tap Cancel during weekly plan generation if you change your mind or run out of time. Halts the request cleanly. MEAL-PREP OPT-OUT If batch prep doesn't fit your life (daily-cook household, partner handles meals, travel weeks), turn it off in Settings. The plan still gets built — meals just get scheduled for the day you'll eat them. HYDRATION COUNTER Tap-to-add cup counter (Settings → Hydration) as an alternative to the daily-check-in binary. Set your goal, tap to log cups throughout the day. SMARTER PLAN START DAY Weekly plans now start the day AFTER your prep day by default — so Day 1 is never a meal you've already missed. A new picker lets you override per-plan when needed. DAY 1 LUNCH — CARRY-FORWARD PLACEHOLDER For batch-prep + packed-lunch households, Day 1 lunch now reads as "Yesterday's Dinner" — matching how the methodology actually works. QUALITY FIXES • Recipe share link now opens the correct App Store page • Plurals like "Corn Tortillas" no longer render as "Tortillases" • Canned-ingredient quantities no longer double-up • Multiple crash fixes on Comprehensive Meal Plan • Ingredient scaling + serving math improvements • Rotating coach-voice phrases during long loads

Fixes and improvements: • Servings on new meal plans now consistently match your household size — previously could default to ~2-4 servings regardless. • Batch-prep breakfast recipes are now internally coherent — ingredient quantities, servings count, and cookware references all reflect the actual week total. • Tap any shopping list item to see which recipes contributed and how much each contributed (with a chevron next to the X icon). • Various stability fixes.

Bug fixes and improvements: • Fixed shopping list quantities for meal plans with repeated batch-prep meals. Previously, a single weekly breakfast (e.g., one egg dish prepped Sunday and eaten Monday–Sunday) would multiply ingredients across every day, producing inflated totals like 80 eggs for a household of 4. Now counted once. • Recipe Servings now defaults to your household size (or household + packed lunches for dinners) instead of 1. • No-cook night slots no longer display unrelated meal images — they render as a clean "no-cook" label instead.

2.0.3 strengthens how Metabyl honors your dietary preferences, plus polish across the app. Strict dietary preferences now treated as absolute constraints If you've chosen Pescatarian, Vegetarian, Vegan, or Gluten-Free, those choices now apply absolutely — to your initial meal plan, every regeneration, every recipe swap, and the weekly plan view. Pescatarian users won't see beef or chicken in their plans. Vegan users won't see dairy or eggs. Previously these were enforced as soft preferences the AI could occasionally interpret loosely; they're now hard constraints, same as allergies. Other improvements • Day-of-week headers no longer go missing in the Weekly Meal Plan. • The "Create Your Meal Plan" screen now shows your dietary pattern alongside your allergens, so you can confirm at a glance what's driving your plan. • Changes to your cuisine preferences and cooking style in Settings now propagate everywhere — the Create Plan modal, recipe regeneration, and the weekly plan view all pick them up. • Tapping "Allergies & Intolerances" in Settings → Questionnaire now opens the editor (previously the tap did nothing). • "Cooking Style" no longer appears twice in Settings with conflicting values. • Curated recipes from the Recipes tab can now be starred as favorites and added directly to your meal plan. • Tapping a meal in the Weekly Meal Plan no longer makes you wait 10-15 seconds before you can swap it. • Shopping list no longer shows duplicate lines for the same ingredient ("5 yellow onions" and "1 piece yellow onion" now merge into "6 yellow onions"). • Meal variety preference relabeled — "Steady Rhythm" celebrates within-week repetition while preserving cross-week variety. • No-cook night slots no longer show misleading meal images. • Loading screen progress text reads at a comfortable pace. • Loading screen layout polished — title clears the Dynamic Island, tip card has clearance at the bottom. • Cuisine preferences helper text clarifies the difference between cuisine (flavor profiles like Italian, Thai, Mexican) and dietary pattern (Pescatarian, Vegan, Mediterranean).

2.0.2 polishes a handful of paper cuts reported by early users: • Meal photos now persist across app restarts. (Previously they appeared on initial plan generation but vanished on reopen.) • The C.L.E.A.N. acronym on the meal-plan loading screen no longer flickers — animates in once and stays visible. • "No-cook night" slots, leftover lunches, and batch-prep portions now show a slim explainer card instead of a misleading fake recipe with prep time and ingredients. • Recipe ingredient lists are now defensive against incomplete AI output — no more empty bullets at the top of an ingredient list. • "Cooking Style" in Settings correctly displays "Chef Mode" when that's what you picked in onboarding. • Layout polish on the loading screen (header clear of the Dynamic Island, gap below the phone closed). • Dr. Jones's credentials updated to "DO, DABOM, FAAFP".

Bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements based on real user testing: • Paywall pricing now displays correctly across plans • Cooking style choices made during onboarding are now respected when generating meal plans • Daily check-in copy no longer overstates progress on partial-target days • Recipes-tab generations survive jumping to other screens and back • "Use what I have" now uses your actual household size • Recipe images more accurately reflect the ingredient form (ground vs link sausage, etc.) • Shopping list no longer double-counts leftover lunches or weekly batch breakfast New: • Tap-to-explain info icons on each daily check-in behavior • Refined batch-prep math (separate counts for household + packed lunches) • No-cook nights — mark which evenings you skip, dinner before scales up automatically • Per-plan overrides for atypical weeks (wedding Friday? mark it without changing your typical pattern) • Favorites — star any recipe and revisit it from the new Favorites screen • Sleep & Movement tip categories on the loading screen

Metabyl 2.0 — a full redesign. This isn't a meal planning app anymore. Metabyl is now a behavioral rhythm system for metabolic health, built around seven daily behaviors: Timing, Meals, CLEAN Foods, Protein, Movement, Hydration, Sleep. What's new: • Daily Rhythm Check-in (under a minute, seven behaviors) • Weekly Rhythm view to surface patterns at a glance • Kept / Mostly Kept / Returning classification — no shame, just an invitation back to rhythm • Insights based on your patterns, not your weight • Meal plans and shopping lists refined around the CLEAN food framework • New onboarding built around The Rule of Metabolic Life • Simplified pricing: $12.99/month or $99.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on Monthly Built by Dr. Michael W. Jones, DO, DABOM, FAAFP. Behavioral rhythm. Real results.

Bugs Fixed. Added subscription

Fixed AI model issues

Improved AI model, Minor bug fixes.

Changed the UI and design

Improved LLM calls and improved AI model used

Minor UI updates