Changelog
A plain-language record of Haklo, newest first — every milestone from today’s release back to the very first commit. We build in milestones, not by the calendar, so this reads like the story of the product rather than a list of version numbers.
August 2026
One teller, one story, one artifact. Any adult in the family can now record a story straight into the family’s record — the boat story, how the grandparents met, the legend everyone half-remembers. Haklo transcribes it and then hands it back: the teller reads their own words, fixes what was misheard, decides whether their voice stays, and shares it when it’s theirs. The words stay the teller’s own — Haklo transcribes, it never writes. And anyone in the family can ask someone for a story by name; a request that lands gently and is always free to decline.
Rolling out to adults in Plus families; everyone in the family can listen.
August 2026
Features were shipping faster than families discovered them. Now, when something new arrives, Haklo says so inside the app — three sentences at most, shown once, at a moment that doesn’t interrupt a gathering — and then gets out of the way. If you dismiss it, nothing is lost: a permanent “What’s new” row in Settings keeps the note where you can find it.
August 2026
Haklo can now be a gift. One purchase — $79, one time, no subscription to manage — gives a family a full year of Haklo Plus: the person you give it to opens their year, invites everyone in, and the first gathering can happen. There’s a card you can print and hand over, for the kind of gift that should arrive in an envelope.
August 2026
Haklo has started noticing the values your family already lives — drawn only from your own gatherings, never invented — and offering them back as possible Roots: patterns you can browse, name in your own words, and adopt as your family’s. Haklo notices; the family names. Teens take part fully, with nothing behind a paywall for them.
Rolling out to Plus families.
August 2026
Home now carries one real commitment from Sunday’s gathering into the week, so the days between tables aren’t silent. Families can also choose their own window for members who couldn’t be in the room — 24, 48, or 72 hours, or none — and a gathering that’s waiting on someone now closes itself honestly when the window passes instead of hanging open. An away member on Plus can add one photo alongside their weekly answers.
August 2026
A speed release. The app now opens straight onto your family — Home and Chat paint instantly from what it already knows while fresh updates arrive quietly behind — and photos and voice notes stop re-downloading every time you come back. Nothing new to learn; everything just arrives sooner.
July 2026
Home, Chat, Gather, Coach, and Memory now all sit on one bar, so nothing hides behind a “More” menu, and your family settings moved up to the top of Home where they’re easy to reach. The big Gather button in the middle now does exactly what it says — one tap starts this week’s gathering.
July 2026
Put one phone in the middle of the table and Haklo can listen to the whole gathering: it transcribes what was said, lets the family review and label who spoke, and files a reviewed excerpt into your memory. A member who couldn’t be in the room can answer their rounds by speaking a single clip instead of thumb-typing. It’s honest about how it works — the audio is transcribed in the cloud and discarded by default, and nothing is filed until your family confirms it.
Rolling out to Plus families, off by default while we validate it on real gatherings.
July 2026
Family Chat now carries photos, not just words — share the picture from the trip, the report card, the dog, right in the thread everyone’s already in. Kept privately with the rest of your family’s record, never a public feed.
June 23, 2026
Haklo’s first always-on surface between gatherings: a private family thread, plus a durable Record it can keep for you. An opt-in AI “librarian” quietly reads the thread and proposes the worth-keeping bits — a date, a plan, the wifi password — for you to confirm, edit, or dismiss. It never speaks in the chat, and it’s built to refuse anything genuinely sensitive. Live on the App Store and Google Play.
June 2026
Haklo reached the App Store in June (and Google Play a few weeks earlier), with subscriptions to match. Haklo Plus unlocks the deeper coaching and memory features; the weekly ritual stays free forever. Manage or change your plan any time from Settings.
April 29, 2026
The private one-line note one family member writes about another — a small thing you noticed and want them to know. It arrives full-screen on their next open: no read receipts, no push, no streak, no nag. It’s the quietest feature in Haklo, and on purpose.
April 29, 2026
History became Memory — a broader home for everything worth keeping, holding your gatherings and your Heard notes side by side. Haklo also began keeping a longer read of each family member: the themes that recur, the priorities that carry week to week, the moments worth remembering. It’s all drawn from your own family’s gatherings, never invented, and it grew deeper over the months that followed.
April 22, 2026
The multiplayer release. Sign in with Apple or Google, reset a forgotten password, and join a family with a code you were sent. Family members could also start sending each other short notes of encouragement between gatherings.
April 7, 2026
The app got its look: the ensō watermark, the sage-and-cream palette, and a home screen built around one clear next step. Free and Plus tiers became visible, so it was always clear what came with an upgrade.
April 5, 2026
Meetings became gatherings, and a member who couldn’t be in the room got a way in: a 72-hour window to answer their rounds on their own time, so nobody gets left out of the week just because they were traveling or working late.
April 1, 2026
We settled on the name the product still carries, and gave it the identity to match — the ensō mark, the Fraunces-and-Jakarta type, the sage-and-cream look. A small ritual for the whole family, finally with a name that fit.
March 29, 2026
Email invites let family members join with their own accounts, with a teen role for older kids. And Haklo started offering gentle, well-timed coaching — a nudge before the gathering, a reflection after — delivered on a schedule rather than nagging.
March 12, 2026
The first working version. A family could sign up, add members with a name and a color, run a four-round meeting — one thing, a priority, a goal, a kindness — and look back at their history. No AI, no invites yet, just the core ritual, proving the idea worked.
March 10, 2026
The very first commit — an empty shell with a home screen and the skeleton of a meeting flow. Everything above grew from here.
We ship when something is ready to make a family’s week better — not to hit a date.