AlcoLog v1.0.5 is a polish and reliability release. The headline change: drink-brand suggestions now follow your physical location instead of your currency, so a UK-based user traveling in Manila sees Philippine beers first while their currency stays in pounds. Plus a fix to a long-standing sober-day calendar quirk, a new 4-week goal history view, softer goal-status wording, five new drink sizes, and a round of bug fixes.
# Brand suggestions follow where you are, not what you pay in
Until v1.0.5, the Add Drink screen used your selected currency as a proxy for “where am I, roughly?” when ordering brand suggestions. That worked most of the time, but it broke for travelers. Someone with USD currency traveling in the Philippines would see American beers at the top of the list, even though every bottle around them said San Miguel.
v1.0.5 decouples the two. Currency stays a personal preference (your cost figures, your budgets, your weekly spend) and brand region is independent, driven by where the iPhone actually is. The result: open Add Drink anywhere in the world and the local brands surface first, regardless of how you set up your account.
# Sober-day calendar shows your full history from day one
A long-standing quirk in the History screen could show trophies for dates before you installed AlcoLog. The sober-day calendar was checking against your first logged session rather than your install date, which produced backdated streaks the moment a new install happened.
v1.0.5 anchors the sober-day calendar to your actual install date. Days before that point are no longer toggleable and never display a trophy. If you’ve been seeing dates lit up from before you started tracking, they’ll quietly correct themselves on the first launch after the update. Existing genuine sober days stay exactly where they are.
While we were in the area, the History screen also stops hiding behind the “no sessions yet” empty state. Even before you log a single session, the calendar is visible and tappable so the sober-day tracking starts from the moment you open the app for the first time.
# Goal card upgrades
The Your Goal card on the AlcoScore screen got two improvements:
- A week-at-a-glance row. Instead of just showing your overall progress against your goal target, the card now renders the current week day-by-day so you can see exactly which days you went over, which you stayed under, and where today sits.
- A tap-to-expand 4-week history view. Tap the card and a sheet opens showing the past four weeks of progress, with the same day-by-day rendering for each. Useful for spotting weekly patterns (“I always go over on Fridays”) without leaving the AlcoScore screen.
We also softened the goal-status labels. “At Risk” is now Getting Close. “Over Limit” is now Past Target. The information is the same, the tone is less judgmental. AlcoLog has always avoided shaming language; this brings the goal card in line with the rest of the app.
# Five new measurement sizes
We added five physical sizes that came up in support emails and Reddit threads:
- US Bomber (22 oz / 650 ml)
- US Imperial Pint Can (19.2 oz / 568 ml)
- US Stovepipe Can (24 oz / 710 ml)
- UK Two-Thirds Pint (379 ml)
- EU 0.4 L Glass (400 ml)
These appear automatically in the size picker when you log a beer, cider, or hard seltzer. Custom sizes still work for anything we haven’t covered.
# Bug fixes and quality-of-life
- Swipe-to-delete on session history now asks for confirmation before permanently removing a session. The previous tap-once flow made it too easy to wipe a session you’d meant to edit.
- A rare case where the AlcoScore breathing-dial haptic could keep firing on other tabs after a Siri command has been fixed. The haptic now stops when you leave the screen, regardless of how you got there.
- The medication redose reminder bar in the Alerts block now fills with the countdown, matching the visual pattern the water reminder already used.
- A new Rate App row in Settings → About opens the App Store review page directly. If you’ve wanted to leave a review and the in-app prompt hasn’t appeared for you, this is the fastest path.
# Under the hood
The data persistence layer was reorganized for cleaner behavior across app updates and Siri integration. Settings → About was reordered so Buy Me a Drink sits above About and the Version row sits in a more natural spot near the bottom. The launch-week banner and discount messaging have been removed now that the promotion window has closed.
