What’s new in iFancy

The image search we use to suggest pictures when you add an item stopped returning results — the service behind it was retired. It runs on a new one now, and when a search genuinely finds nothing you get a message saying so instead of an empty box.

Improved

• Headings across the app use a new display typeface, so titles read a little cleaner.

Fixed

• Fixed the app showing a white screen on sign-in, sign-out, and sometimes on first open.
• Fixed notifications from a previous account still appearing after switching accounts.
• Fixed the alignment of the phone number field on the sign-in screen.

You can now invite someone to collaborate on a wishlist. Both of you can add, edit, and reorder items on the same list. This came from the most common request we get: two parents keeping separate, half-overlapping lists for the same child.

New

• Invite a collaborator from a wishlist's Collaborators screen. Invites stay pending until the other person accepts, so nothing lands on their account uninvited.
• Pending invites show in the wishlist dropdown, and lists someone shares with you are marked with whose list it is.
• Remove a collaborator from their row, with a confirmation first.

Fixed

• Fixed a typed +1 being kept alongside the country code when signing in by phone.
• Fixed the previous account's details lingering after switching accounts.
• Copying a wishlist link now copies the canonical share URL and tells you it worked.

The last release of 2024, and mostly about hearing from you when something goes wrong.

New

• Support chat inside the app.

Improved

• Feedback includes your device details, so a bug is reproducible.
• A wider wishlist dropdown, so long list names are readable.

Fixed

• Fixed the friends list missing people because of how followers were looked up.
• Fixed prices failing to save for some items.
• Fixed the chat box being unusable on small phones.

Image search used to run while you typed, which was noisy and rarely what you wanted. It's a button now.

New

• Feedback takes your email address, so a reply is possible.

Improved

• Image search runs when you press the button.

Fixed

• Fixed people search missing results.

Improved

• The add-an-item box suggests what to do next rather than waiting on a pasted link, with a little sparkle when it finds something.

Fixed

• Fixed secure connections failing inside the app on some networks.

Fixed

• Fixed an item's title dropping characters while you typed it.
• Fixed the profile checklist not marking itself complete when it was.

Improved

• Adding a friend picks up the lists they've made public, instead of leaving you to subscribe to each one.
• Updated terms of use.

Being someone's friend told you nothing about when their list changed. Now you can follow the list itself.

New

• Subscribe to a wishlist and hear about new items, with a badge on lists you already follow.

Improved

• Faster page loads, and better titles when a list is shared or found in search.

Fixed

• Fixed the privacy link in the sign-up prompt going nowhere.

Improved

• A new app icon and refreshed logo.

Fixed

• Fixed the homepage video failing to play on some browsers.

Notifications hadn't survived the rebuild. They work again, including while the app is closed.

New

• Push notifications, with the permission prompt at a moment that makes sense.
• If you said no, there's a button in Settings to turn them on later.

Fixed

• Fixed several back buttons appearing at once.
• Fixed the tab bar and sign-in screen layouts on smaller phones.

A round of work on the item screen, mostly aimed at phones, where a long title used to take over everything else.

Improved

• Long item titles collapse on a phone instead of pushing the rest of the item off screen.
• Notification permission is asked for at a point where it makes sense, rather than on first launch.
• Your email address is no longer shown on your profile.

Fixed

• Fixed a title that failed to save doing so silently — you get an error now.
• Fixed pasting a link into the item box failing in some cases.
• Fixed "suggested by" not loading who suggested an item.

Six weeks of work on the parts of the app you touch constantly — searching, switching tabs, and getting back out again.

New

• Search is its own tab: search for people, press enter, and leave the keyboard without losing your place.
• Friends you visit often stay in reach in the tab bar.

Improved

• Your friends list is sorted alphabetically.
• Signed-out visitors get a sensible page instead of an empty one.
• Sharing a link into iFancy from another app says what went wrong when it can't read it.

Fixed

• Fixed navigation getting stuck when moving between tabs.
• Fixed the delay before a profile page appeared.
• Fixed the close button missing from Settings.

The rebuilt app is on the iPhone. If you had WishRoll, this is the same account and the same lists under a new name.

New

• iFancy on the iOS App Store.

The work that took the rebuilt app through review: the requirements Apple asks for, and the fixes that came out of testing it as an app rather than a website.

Improved

• Account deletion, data handling, and permissions all meet what the App Store requires.

New

• Delete your account, and everything on it, from Settings.

Fixed

• Fixed a cross-origin error that could stop the app loading for some people.

New

• iFancy installs to your home screen from the browser, no app store involved.
• A prompt asking what you think, once you've added a few things — early enough to be useful, late enough to be fair.

Improved

• A new account opens with the search field focused and an add-friends button, instead of an empty screen with nothing to do.
• Uploading a profile picture is part of the setup checklist.

Fixed

• Fixed image uploads failing on large photos.
• Fixed signing out leaving traces of the previous account behind.

Improved

• Product links resolve more often, Amazon's in particular, and fall back to the page title instead of an empty item when a shop blocks us.

A new name and a rebuilt app. Everything you had is still here — the same lists, friends, and purchases — on a version that loads a list in one pass instead of three.

New

• One tab bar across the whole app, so wishlists, friends, search, and notifications are a tap apart.
• Search for people from a page of its own.
• An emoji picker for naming a list.

Improved

• Items show their image, price, and whether their link still works, on the item itself.
• Profiles get an avatar and a header you can set.
• Purchase counts stay hidden from people who aren't signed in or aren't friends.

The last WishRoll update, November 2023. It shipped on top of 1.15.0 without a version bump of its own, and it settled how purchases work: hidden from you on your own list, and revealed on a date you choose.

New

• Purchases can be disclosed to the list owner on a date you pick — after the birthday, after Christmas — rather than never.
• The purchased badge says who bought it, so two people can't buy the same thing.
• Profile avatars.
• Items show when they were added, and profiles show when someone was last active.

Improved

• A new profile header with the actions where you'd expect them.
• Purchase information is hidden from people who aren't signed in.

Fixed

• Fixed relationship badges showing on other people's friends lists.
• Fixed scrollbar colours in dark surfaces.

The biggest WishRoll release: you stop copying links between apps, because the share sheet does it for you.

New

• Share a product to WishRoll from any app and it becomes an item.
• A setup checklist for a new profile, so a half-finished account doesn't stay that way.
• Image suggestions based on an item's title, for links with no usable picture.
• Confetti and a little haptic feedback when you mark something purchased.

Improved

• Marking purchased and adding a friend update immediately instead of waiting on the server.
• Purchased items sink to the bottom of a list, and each item shows the shop its link points at.
• Uploading an item image is faster, and you can clear one you don't want.

Fixed

• Fixed links shared from other apps often failing to parse.
• Fixed the review prompt appearing before you'd rated anything.

New

• A clear button on the link box, and the link actions moved to where your thumb already is.
• A reminder to finish a profile that's been left half-set-up.

New

• A list that hasn't been touched in a long time says so on the profile, with the option to archive what's out of date.
• Feedback can be typed straight into the page instead of opening a form.

New

• Suggest an item for a friend's list. They decide whether it goes on.

Lists collect things you've stopped wanting. Deleting them loses the history; now you can put them away instead.

New

• Archive an item, and an archive page to find archived things again.

Improved

• Archived items keep the order you had them in.

Notifications had been arriving one at a time with nowhere to see them together. They now have a home, and lists finally look like something when you share them.

New

• A notifications screen, with a button to dismiss all of them at once, and a bell that animates when something arrives.

Improved

• The purchased badge stays readable on items whose image has a transparent background.
• Affiliate links are disclosed where they appear.

Fixed

• Fixed notifications not refreshing once you'd read them.
• Fixed the preview image on a shared list often failing to generate.
• Fixed broken item images on some retailers.

Improved

• Deleted items and lists are kept rather than destroyed, so an accidental delete can be undone.

WishRoll on the iPhone, and the release that made it worth keeping open: you hear about it when something happens on your list.

New

• Push notifications.
• The app asks permission before any tracking, and works fine if you say no.

Improved

• Pasting a product link fills the item in as results arrive, instead of sitting still until everything is ready.

Fixed

• Fixed the tab bar starting on the wrong tab.

Fixed

• Fixed accounts created with Sign in with Apple losing the name Apple provided, leaving profiles blank.

New

• Tapping a link to a list opens it in the app when you have it installed, landing on the list itself rather than the home screen.

Fixed

• Fixed being redirected to the wrong screen after signing in.
• Fixed a loop that could leave the app stuck with no signed-in user.

Setup for handing a wishroll.com link to the installed app instead of the browser. The behaviour itself lands two days later in 1.6.

Fixed

• Fixed hidden items occasionally appearing where they shouldn't.

New

• Reorder the items on your list by dragging them.
• Share a single item, rather than the whole list.
• An empty friends list explains what to do about it.

Improved

• The link box was tidied up.

New

• Change your display name.
• Share and profile actions sit together at the top of a profile, including the colour picker.

Fixed

• Fixed the action buttons overlapping on narrow phones.

A version number that admits the app is real. Sign in with Apple works on the web too, not just in the app.

New

• Sign in with Apple on the web.

Fixed

• Fixed being unable to mark some items purchased.
• Fixed a delay before a newly added friend appeared.

New

• Search for people by name.
• Block someone, from their profile.
• Items only you can see now say so on the item itself, so you can tell at a glance what a visitor would be seeing.

Fixed

• Fixed copying a share link doing nothing on a phone.

New

• Terms of use, linked from sign-up.

Fixed

• Fixed prices losing their decimals in some currencies.
• Fixed images not being removed when you deleted them.
• Fixed opening a profile that doesn't exist showing a broken screen instead of a message.

New

• Sign in with Apple.

Improved

• Page transitions throughout.

Fixed

• Fixed error messages left over from a previous action staying on screen.

The app moved onto new infrastructure — mostly invisible, except that lists and friends load quicker.

New

• Pick the colour of your profile header.

Improved

• Friends load from a shared cache instead of being fetched again on every screen.
• Deleting an item now deletes its image too, rather than leaving it behind.

Fixed

• Fixed who-can-see-this filtering not being applied in every place it should be.

Improved

• The loading screen appears sooner and clears faster, so opening the app no longer looks like nothing is happening.

Fixed

• Fixed sign-in by text message inside the app.

Authentication was the part of the app most likely to leave you stuck. It was rebuilt from scratch, including the phone-number sign-in that the iPhone app would need.

Improved

• Sign-in handles being interrupted, backgrounded, or retried without losing your place.
• A new app icon.

Fixed

• Fixed sign-in failing inside the packaged app.

New

• Send feedback from inside the app, so a problem doesn't have to become an email.

Improved

• Errors are now reported automatically, which is how most of the fixes in the next few releases got found.

Improved

• The price field accepts what you actually type, decimals included.
• Adding an item shows real progress while the link is fetched and the image uploads.

Fixed

• Fixed the image upload overlay covering the wrong part of the screen.

New

• When a product link offers several titles or images, you pick which one the item uses.

Fixed

• Fixed the purchased state displaying incorrectly on some items.
• Fixed flickering while scrolling a long list.
• Fixed a modal that could open taller than the screen.

New

• Items someone has bought carry a purchased badge, so the next person looking at the list doesn't buy it twice. The list's owner never sees it.

Improved

• The item screen was reworked around it.

Moving between a list, a profile, and settings had been the roughest part of the app. It was rebuilt, and image upload came with it.

New

• Upload your own picture for an item when the link doesn't have a good one.

Improved

• Navigation between screens keeps its place instead of resetting.

Improved

• The item screen shows what a link resolved to as a card, so you can tell at a glance whether it found the right product.
• Softer corners throughout.

The web app got the plumbing it needs to be packaged as an iPhone app. Nothing visible yet — the App Store release comes a year later — but this is where it starts.

Fixed

• Fixed the notes field growing oddly and dragging the page with it.

Fixed

• Fixed an add-item button appearing on other people's profiles, where it had nothing to add to.

Improved

• The tab bar blurs what's behind it and screens transition the way they do in an iPhone app, rather than snapping between pages.

Fixed

• Fixed marking an item purchased not sticking.
• Fixed a signed-out visitor being bounced away when they tried to mark something purchased, instead of being asked to sign in.

Sending someone your list produced a bare URL in the message. It now unfurls with a title and description like any other link.

New

• Link previews for a shared wishlist.
• A login and signup button in the footer for people arriving from a shared link.

Improved

• Notes on an item moved to the top of the form, where people were looking for them.

Fixed

• Fixed the friends list failing to load.
• Fixed several routing problems that could strand you on the wrong screen.

The first public version, under the name WishRoll. You could make a list, add things to it by pasting a link, and let other people mark items off without the list's owner finding out.

New

• Make a wishlist and add items to it.
• Paste a product link to fill in an item, with buttons to pick between what the page offers.
• Mark someone's item as purchased. The person whose list it is doesn't see it.
• Sign in with Google.
• A settings page, and a changelog inside the app.

Fixed

• Fixed signing in with Google failing on phones by redirecting instead of opening a popup.
• Fixed image upload on iOS.