Shelf Scan — Continuous Mode

• Pan-and-detect for Shelf Scan; Sommy auto-detects wine labels as you sweep

• In-memory dedup registry prevents re-triggering on the same labels

• Green flash + haptic feedback on each bottle found

• Shutter button in Shelf mode navigates to cart; Explore Tier users still see upgrade gate

• Framing hint updated to "Pan slowly — Sommy scans as you sweep"

Shelf Scan — Cart Improvements

• Delete button on each wine card to remove irrelevant results

• "Saved to My Wines" replaces "Already in My Wines" after saving from cart

• Label photo URL now captured and passed through to My Wines on promotion

Response Mode

• New Quick / Balanced / Sommelier preference. This allows users to choose between quicker, lightweight AI chat responses or longer, more thorough AI chat responses

• Mode chip in chat header; tap to change inline

• Response mode applies to all recommendation, pairing, evaluation, comparison, exploratory, and recipe import flows

Food-Led Pairing

• New classifier intent distinguishes "what pairs with X" (food-led) from "wine for my dinner" (profile-led)

Billing Page

• Shows ‘current plan’ card, feature list, tier badge, and renewal date

• Upgrade CTAs for Explore; Manage Subscription button for paid users (deep-links to App Store/Play Store)

• Restore Purchases button

• Credits row removed from Profile; Billing row added with amber tier badge

Profile Page Redesign

• Dark gradient user card with avatar photo (falls back to initials), tier badge, member-since date

• ‘Log out’ button now more prominent

• ‘Response Mode’ selector below user card

Bug fixes

• ‘Scan Shelf’ pick-from-album now working on Android

🍷 Wine List Scan (new feature)

Point your camera at a restaurant or retail wine list and get instant, palate-matched recommendations. Sommy reads every wine on the list, scores each one against your taste profile, and ranks them for you.

• Scan a wine list from the camera or your photo library

• Each wine shows a match score based on your actual ratings and preferences

• Tap any card for a full detail sheet: varietal, region, vintage, score rationale, and price

• Add to My Wines directly from the detail sheet

• Ask Sommy for more info, hands off to chat pre-filled with the wine name

• Your results stay open if you switch tabs and come back

• 5 free scans on the Explore tier (separate pool from label scans)

⚡ Recommendation engine improvements

• Subscription tier now correctly reaches the recommendation, pairing, and evaluation engines — paid users get GPT-4o

🐛 Fixes

• OCR pipeline stops when you leave the Scan page (battery impact saved)

The pairing engine was over-indexing on cooking method (e.g., "grilled") instead of the primary ingredient when selecting wines. This caused queries like "grilled scallops" to return full-bodied reds suited to grilled meats rather than the crisp, high-acid whites that scallops actually call for.

The system now explicitly instructs the model to parse dishes in priority order: primary ingredient first, cooking method second, modifiers third. Wine body and style are anchored to the ingredient's weight — not the preparation.

Most visibly affected: delicate seafood with assertive cooking methods — scallops, shrimp, white fish — which were the most common failure cases.

Today's Tip — new feed card

• Today's Tip appears at the top of your Your Pour feed every day. For Pairing and above, the tip is personalized to your actual cellar, recent scans, pairings, and palate — generated fresh each morning. Explore users get a curated tip from our static library.

• Tips longer than a few lines show a "show more…" link that opens the full text in a sheet.

• The card shimmers while your tip loads, then animates in.

Wine sharing

• Sharing a wine from My Wines now includes your rating, tasting notes, occasion, and who you were with — not just the wine name.

Stability

• Added a repetition-loop guard to the AI chat stream. If the model gets stuck repeating a word, Sommy now cuts it off cleanly and asks you to rephrase rather than flooding the screen.

• Added frequency_penalty and max_tokens to the recommendation and chat APIs to reduce the likelihood of runaway responses.

Contextual Help

• We added a yellow "help" info button to key screens — Scan, My Cellar, Ask, Import Wizard, Taste Profile, Select Inventory, and upgrade gates. Tap it to open a help article in a modal sheet without leaving the app. Most of the backing articles will come online shortly.

• A What's New card now appears in your Your Pour feed. Tap it to see the latest updates (you're reading one right now).

Your Pour Feed

• The "For You" feed is now called "Your Pour" everywhere in the app.

• A new Daily Taste Check card appears each session with a single Y/N wine preference question. Answer Yes, No, or Not Sure to sharpen your taste profile continuously.

• The PourScore and PalateDrift locked cards now link out to their explainer articles so you know what you're unlocking. Good Reading!

Pour it Forward

• The referral page now respects light/dark mode — it was always dark before, regardless of your system settings.

• The Share invite button now works on iOS.

Bug Fixes

• The Import buttons on My Wines and My Cellar now respect light/dark mode.

• "Your Pour" and "My Wines" nav labels no longer truncate on smaller screens.

• Fixed an iOS bug where the Ask page input rendered at the top of the screen instead of the bottom.

• Dark mode fixes across the Your Pour feed cards and Pour it Forward page.