Version 5.3

What’s New

Spotlight Search

Search from your Home Screen and you’ll find your items, lists, planner events, notes, and tasks, complete with cover art. Tap a result and Sofa opens straight to it.

Visual Intelligence

Point your camera at a book cover, movie poster, or game box and Sofa tells you whether it’s already in your library. If it isn’t, you get results you can add on the spot. Works from Apple’s Visual Intelligence camera and from the new camera button in Sofa’s search bar. If nothing matches, you can turn the photo into a custom item without losing the shot.

Logbook Recaps (Super Sofa)

Your month and year in the Logbook, written up as a card: what you finished, what you kept coming back to, and when you were most active. Generated on your device, and shareable.

Describe a Plan, Get an Event (Super Sofa)

Type out a trip the way you’d say it, like “Weekend in Portland with the kids, April 10 to 12, near the waterfront, bookstore day, budget around $600,” and Sofa fills in a draft event with dates, location, itinerary, and budgets. Nothing is saved until you review it.

Generated Covers (Super Sofa)

Make custom artwork for lists, items, and events with Image Playground, right alongside the camera and photo options you already had.

New Widgets

All Sofa widgets now support the new full-page portrait extra-large size, plus the landscape XL size on iPad and Mac.

Share Event Plans

Share event plans as text, Markdown, a calendar file, or a printable PDF. The calendar export drops your whole trip into any calendar app as real timed events, timezones and all. This is a great way to quickly share a trip’s itinerary with other people.

Changes & Improvements

TV Rewatching

• “Watch Again” now preserves your previous watch in the Logbook before starting fresh, including watched episodes, dates, and notes.
• Log individual episodes multiple times without overwriting earlier views.
• Separate watch histories for shows and episodes, with a count of how many times you’ve watched each episode.
• Rewatches now count toward your stats and streaks, including a new Most Watched Episodes stat.

Better Backups

• Sofa verifies backups before saving them and creates a safety copy before importing, so your library can be restored if something goes wrong.
• Corrupted data is handled more gracefully, along with backup files renamed by iOS.

Bug Fixes

• Podcast playback position getting lost or rewound when syncing between devices.
• Book details being wiped by the daily refresh. A book whose refresh returned an empty response was having its title, description, and properties cleared. The refresh now correctly treats that as a failure and leaves your data alone.
• Board game details being wiped. Board games were being refreshed against an API that no longer exists, clearing properties and orphaning artwork on every pass. Board games are now local-only, as intended.
• A real Author or Genre could be overwritten with “Unknown” by a thin re-fetch.
• Smart Lists now handle completed items correctly. Phantom duplicates from Logbook history are gone, and Smart Lists set to “Todo List” now move logged items to the Completed section instead of hiding them.