One long morning:Memories, Supplies and Shared expenses graduate

One long morning of shipping

I want to start keeping a real changelog, in my own name, instead of burying what changes in a build number nobody reads. This is the first entry, and it covers a single morning — September 19, from 07:46 to 11:35 — because that is how much genuinely changed in a few hours of focused work.

None of this is marketing copy. It is what actually shipped, where it went (App Store, TestFlight, or just the website), and what is still gated. I would rather under-promise than have you find out a feature isn't really there yet.

Memories and baby context: now live for everyone

Two features had been quietly built and working for a while, but the in-app roadmap still listed them as "exploring" or "later" — which is misleading to anyone browsing what's coming. I fixed the honesty gap first.

Memories — the Today card and capture sheet for saving a small moment worth keeping — has no feature flag and works today. It's now marked as a live, available feature rather than a future idea.

Baby context is new: if you've added a child with a date of birth (You → Children), Today now shows a gentle card with your child's age — "Sofia · 6 weeks" — and one supportive line about what this stage of early parenting tends to mean for you, not a developmental note about the child. It deliberately stores no baby metrics and makes no claims about your baby's growth. Tapping the card opens that child's home, which echoes the same note. Both are available now in the App Store app, not just TestFlight.

Supplies & restock and Shared expenses: live for pilot testers

Two more features were already fully built and working end to end, but still labelled "in development" on the roadmap. I moved both to an honest "pilot" status — but with an important distinction from Memories above: these stay gated out of the public App Store build for now and are only live for TestFlight testers, until we're ready for general availability.

Supplies & restock (You → Supplies & restock) lets you quick-add what you need, track quantity with steppers, see what's running low, toggle items to restock, and share the list. If you're on TestFlight, it's there to use today.

Shared expenses (You → Shared expenses) adds an expense form — amount, what it was for, who paid, category, whether it's reimbursable — and a "who owes what" ledger. To be clear about the boundary I hold firmly: no payments are ever taken in the app. It's a ledger for keeping track between you and a partner, nothing more.

Onboarding now matches your actual stage

Onboarding used to ask everyone about their birth — even mothers who chose "Planning or trying", "I'm pregnant", or "I'm supporting someone". That's a small thing that says a lot about whether an app was built for your actual situation. I fixed it: the birth-details step now appears only if you're postpartum.

If you're pregnant, onboarding now asks your estimated due date instead — a skippable date picker that unlocks week-by-week pregnancy tracking and a due-date marker on your timeline. While I was in there I also caught a real localization bug: a few onboarding screens were rendering in English regardless of your chosen language, even though the translations already existed. That's fixed across all 8 translated locales.

Body & recovery: optional, gentle weight tracking

A new optional onboarding step, "A little about you", asks for age, height and current weight — skippable, and never framed as a target or a goal. It feeds a new Body & recovery screen in You, where you can see how your weight has changed with a neutral, non-judgemental line — never praise, never an alarm, never a diet message. This is not, and will never become, a weight-loss tracker.

If you keep your weight in Apple Health, you can now connect it in Health Connections. It's read-only and opt-in: Mommy Refuel imports a reading only for a day where you haven't already logged one yourself, so a manual entry always wins over an imported one.

While building this I also found and fixed a real bug: Supplies and Shared expenses data wasn't actually being saved between app launches, because it had been added to the app's state but not to how that state gets written to disk. That's fixed now, quietly, as part of the same change.

The first Apple Watch app

Mommy Refuel now has a companion Apple Watch app — your Refuel Score and today's focus at a glance on your wrist. Getting it there took a few real steps: embedding the Watch target properly into the iOS build (it had been sitting unused), fixing a compile gap so the Watch app had access to the right recovery models, and filling in a missing Info.plist so the watch bundle actually installs on a paired Apple Watch. The last piece was an app icon for the watch — App Store Connect rejected the upload without one.

As of TestFlight build 22, the Apple Watch app is live for pilot testers on a signed release build. It hasn't gone further than TestFlight yet — I want real usage on real watches before it goes wider.

The website: fixing how Google finds Mommy Refuel

Not everything this morning was in the app. The deployed sitemap for mommyrefuel.com only listed 48 URLs, while the site actually builds over 400 pages across 8 languages — meaning hundreds of legitimate, translated pages were sitting undiscovered by search engines. I regenerated the sitemap (48 → 405 URLs) and made sure pages marked "noindex", like the legal pages, are correctly excluded rather than triggering warnings. I also added an automated check so the sitemap can't silently drift out of date again.

Where and when

• 07:49 — TestFlight build 18: clearer theme labels, language-switch confirmation (commit 6de44e7).
• 08:09 — Memories marked as a live pilot feature on the roadmap (92e7d85).
• 08:24 — Supplies & restock marked as a live pilot feature, TestFlight only (8ca62f6).
• 08:29 — Shared expenses marked as a live pilot feature, TestFlight only (7eae374).
• 08:48 — Baby context card built and shipped on Today (5b5e4b3).
• 09:02 — TestFlight build 19: baby context + updated roadmap (bfe2ca6).
• 09:51 — Onboarding fixed to ask stage-appropriate questions, plus a localization fix (17cc5be).
• 10:32 — mommyrefuel.com sitemap fixed and expanded, 48 → 405 URLs (5465d69).
• 10:39 — Optional "Body & recovery" onboarding step and screen shipped (d3d545d).
• 10:41 — TestFlight build 20 (625217a).
• 10:46 — Pregnant-stage due-date onboarding step shipped (b1e8098).
• 10:53 — Weight import from Apple Health shipped (6485945).
• 10:56 — TestFlight build 21 (e682b91).
• 11:17–11:35 — Apple Watch app embedded, its Info.plist and app icon fixed; TestFlight build 22 uploaded with the Watch app included (b433a57, d5e32e9, f11b7f7, f62c6a5).

What's next

Supplies & restock and Shared expenses still need to earn their way out of TestFlight into the public App Store build. The Apple Watch app needs more real-device use before I'm comfortable calling it done. And I want the roadmap inside the app to keep telling the truth as things change — more on that in the next update, from later the same day.