What’s new

Fixed

• A finished stroke no longer blinks out before it appears on the page.
• A highlighter no longer covers the writing beneath it.
• A loading bar shows while a calendar period loads.
• A zero-minute event no longer fills the rest of the Day page.
• An older Day page keeps its events on the lanes after its Default ink is erased.
• The procrastinator on a Day note page moves the strokes to the right page of tomorrow.
• A page that cannot be read no longer opens empty, so the next stroke cannot overwrite it.
• A full Google Drive now tells you why sync fails, instead of failing every pass silently.
• More reliable background sync: fixed crashes, including one when it read a page that was being saved.
• Pages without a modified time no longer slow down the background sync.
• A restored copy is newer than the page it replaces, so the next sync keeps it.
• On Android, a calendar page can no longer be left half-written if saving is interrupted.

New

• Smart two-way sync, a second subscription level that merges a page written on two devices, so the strokes from both are kept.
• The sync screen finds pages changed on both sides and lets you keep the device’s copy, the cloud’s copy, or both.
• The sync screen warns you when it had to guess which copy of a page is newer.
• A page counts as waiting to sync the moment it changes.
• Without the sync subscription, uploads show as locked on the sync screen; downloading stays free.
• The subscription buttons show an eligible free trial or introductory price, and the Purchases screen tells you that the subscription renews and where to cancel it.
• Import a calendar backup from Calendar Settings, also one made on another device.
• An event that appears on several devices shows once.
• iCloud Drive sync on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• Google Drive sync on iPad, also with Scribble Calendar on Android.
• Premium and the sync subscription on iPad, through the App Store.

Fixed

• Each subscription length is bought at its own price and offer.
• Writing is smoother: a page is saved at most every 10 seconds instead of after every stroke.

Fixed

• Swipes navigate again right after writing in Hand-Draw mode and switching back to Touch.
• The Dashboard lists its tiles in the same order on every device.
• Automatic Google Drive sync no longer shows an error every minute while Google Drive cannot be reached.
• A purchase whose payment cleared while the app was closed is completed, instead of being refunded by Google Play.
• Links to the website open straight in the Android apps.
• Zooming a page in landscape on a large Android tablet no longer closes the app.
• Events are drawn in their calendar’s colour on iPad again.
• The header’s menu and back buttons on iPad are easier to tap.

New

• Change an event, or delete it, straight from the event screen.
• Export a backup of your calendar from Calendar Settings on iPad too.
• The Android apps turn to landscape.
• Pages keep their proportions on any screen shape instead of stretching.
• New Cloud and Purchases screens, and a redesigned Google Drive sync screen.
• Automatic Google Drive sync keeps running while the sync screen is open.
• The page navigator highlights the view you are on.

Fixed

• The eraser shows where it is going to erase.
• Pages store less stroke data, so they are smaller to save and to sync.
• Automatic Google Drive sync no longer reports an error every minute when Drive needs your permission again.
• Partly granted Google Drive access no longer shows “Nothing to sync”.
• An emptied Day page takes its start hour from Settings.
• A Month, Quarter or Year page tells you when its ink follows another region’s week rules, and an emptied one takes your current region.

New

• Creating, changing and deleting events is unlocked with a one-time premium purchase.
• Uploads to Google Drive are part of the sync subscription.
• Everyone who bought Scribble Calendar while it was a paid app gets three months of sync for free.
• A loading bar shows while a page is loading.
• Week and day indicators also mark the other side of New Year.

Fixed

• A crash when pinching a zoomed page back out to 100%.
• A crash after leaving a screen while a consent update was still on its way.
• Strokes on iPad no longer show notches at sharp turns once the pen is lifted.
• The Day page tells you when it has no access to your calendar.
• Screen readers tell the two pen buttons apart, and announce a highlighter as a highlighter.
• Note counts use the right plural form in Czech and Polish.

New

• Rebuilt Year, Quarter, Month, Week and Day pages, with swipe and tap gestures.
• Note and page indicators on every calendar page.
• The sync button shows how many files are waiting to sync.
• iPad opens on today’s page and keeps the same navigation history as Android.
• Scribble Calendar’s launcher name is shortened to “ScribblCal”.

Fixed

• Calendar titles are the same on Android and iPad.
• The “Today” button works on every iPad page.
• The day number and the weekday name share one cell.
• The health tracker’s weight grid reads the highest marked cell in each row.
• Automatic Google Drive sync no longer runs on the Year, Quarter, Month and Week pages.
• Layout improvements for small screens.