Here's what's new in beanies.family for 7 october 2026 — improvements to help your family plan, track, and stay organised.
Tidying up the edge cases on the way to v1: a round of robustness improvements to saving, syncing and the calendar.
New features
Saving on a very slow connection
Fixed an edge case where a large family file on a weak mobile signal could run out of time mid-upload and show a "can't save" alarm. The save now waits and retries as "Waiting to Save", and bigger files get the time they need.
The same item edited on two devices at once
Patched a longstanding edge case that applied when two people changed the same list, recipe, holiday vote, goal or loan between syncs: the later save could win over the earlier one. Both edits are now kept, and a form only writes the fields you changed.
Balance adjustments from two devices
In the rare case where two devices adjusted the same account, goal or loan before syncing, one adjustment could replace the other. They now add up.
Calendar sync from a device abroad
Fixed an edge case where a family member syncing from another time zone could shift Google Calendar events to their local time. Events are now written in the family's home time zone, which you can set in Settings, and any that were moved are put back.
Small safeguards around the family file
A device on a much older version is now asked to update before it writes over a tidied-up family file, joining a family does one unhurried upload instead of two, and the "can't save locally" message now tells you why.
A sweep of the save paths
As part of getting ready for v1, we reviewed how beanies saves, switches between families, restores from your file and attaches photos, and tidied up a number of corner cases along the way.
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