What's new
Halera's most recent published release, on 11 September 2026, made every section of the daily screen collapsible and gave calories a ring of their own. This page lists every release since launch in August 2026, newest first, described in plain terms rather than by version number.
Everything that has shipped, dated. Written by Lee Crowe, who builds Halera.
What has changed in Halera recently?
Halera's most recent published release, on 11 September 2026, made every section of the daily screen collapsible, gave calories a ring of their own alongside protein and fluid, and moved related trackers next to each other — weight beside its trend chart, mood beside symptoms. The release before it, on 10 September, added optional Apple Health and Health Connect import, so workouts, weight and height already recorded elsewhere come across instead of being typed twice. Halera is built and maintained by one developer, Lee Crowe, and has shipped every change listed below since the app launched in August 2026. This page lists those releases in date order, newest first, described in plain terms rather than by version number. The page exists so that anyone deciding whether Halera is still actively maintained can read the record instead of taking the claim on trust.
September 11, 2026
- Sections fold away. Your food entry log, activity, fasting, sleep, caffeine and alcohol all fold shut if you’d rather not see them. Folding never hides the number: the header keeps showing it, so a folded section still tells you today’s figure. What you fold is remembered on that device.
- A calorie ring. Calories used to be small grey text under two rings, on an app that is largely about calories. It now has a ring of its own, filling towards what you burn in a day, amber once you pass it. Under the rings, a thin bar splits what you’ve eaten into protein, carbs and fat.
- Things are where you’d look for them. Weight and its trend chart sit together instead of at opposite ends of the screen. Mood, bowel movements and symptoms are one block. Sodium moved in with the food data, where it belongs.
- Grouped by what they are. Fasting sits under water. Sign out moved to Profile & goals with the other account controls, and Profile & goals took its place at the top.
- Buttons you can actually hit. Editing or deleting a saved meal meant aiming at two tiny symbols side by side, one of which deletes. Edit is now a labelled button in the corner of the card, and the bin sits well away from it. The bins on food and activity entries got the same treatment.
September 10, 2026
On Android and iPhone now.
- Apple Health and Health Connect, if you want them. Connect one and the workouts, weight and height you’ve already recorded come across on their own — no logging the same run twice. It’s optional and off unless you turn it on, you choose which data types to allow, and Halera only ever reads: it never writes anything back. Sleep and blood pressure aren’t available through either platform, so those stay manual.
- It keeps itself up to date. Once connected, Halera pulls in the last week whenever you open the app, and again when you come back to it later. There’s still a Sync now button in Profile & goals if you’d rather force it. Importing the same workout twice can’t happen — anything already brought in is recognised and skipped.
- It tells you when it stops working. If permission gets withdrawn on the phone’s side, syncing fails quietly, which is the worst way for it to fail. After two days without a successful sync the date beside the button turns amber and says how long it’s been.
September 8, 2026
On Android now. The iPhone version of these changes is with Apple for review — it’ll arrive as soon as they approve it.
- Log a walk or a run by distance. Activity now asks how you'd rather describe it — time, distance, or just the calories if your watch already told you. Distance is offered for walking, brisk walking and running, where it genuinely predicts the effort; Halera shows the pace it assumed so you can switch to time if yours was different. Running is now in the activity list, which it should have been all along.
- Import understands the whole spreadsheet. It used to read only food. It now also reads activity and the daily figures — weight, blood pressure, mood, symptoms, sleep, caffeine, alcohol — so an export can go straight back in. A single section pasted on its own works too.
September 7, 2026
- You can see what Plus costs without spending your free scans first. The "scans left" counter under the camera is now a button that opens the plan details — both plans, what each renews at, and how to cancel. Before this, the only way to see any of that was to use up all eight free photo estimates.
September 6, 2026
- BMI in your profile. Worked out from the height you've entered and your most recent logged weight, with the CDC's categories and a link to what BMI can and can't tell you. It sits in Profile & goals, not on your daily screen — it's there if you want it, not a number you have to look at every day.
- A switch to turn analytics off, in Profile & goals. Off means off: nothing is sent at all. Before any of it starts, a one-time note explains what's measured, with that switch right there in it.
- Import a spreadsheet. Paste one, or pick a CSV file, and Halera reads food entries out of it — from its own export or from another tracker. You see exactly what will be added, and anything it couldn't read and why, before a single row is saved.
- See where your calories came from. The Breakdown panel now opens with protein, carbs and fat as a chart, by share of calories rather than grams.
- Better food estimates. Two real fixes. Estimates were being randomly sampled, so the same meal could come back with different numbers — they are now consistent. And the USDA lookup was running against a shared demo key that was almost always out of quota, which is why it so often found nothing; it now has proper capacity, better matching, and retries when the USDA service hiccups.
- A guide explaining every field and how each number is worked out, linked from a Help button in Profile & goals. It's at gethalera.com/guide.html.
September 3, 2026
- Added product analytics — and wrote down exactly what it collects. Halera now counts five things: sign-ups, sign-ins, and the three steps of upgrading. Nothing you log is included, and the signed-in part of the app is walled off in code so it can't be recorded automatically. The privacy policy lists every event by name.
- Named every company that touches your data. The sub-processor list now includes the analytics provider, not just hosting and sign-in.
- Said plainly that approximate location is collected. It comes from your IP address, which every internet connection carries. Halera never asks for location permission and never reads your device's location.
- Fixed the account-deletion instructions on the support page, which still named a button that had been renamed.
September 2, 2026
- Comparison pages for Halera against MyFitnessPal, Cronometer and Bearable — including how each one handles your data.
- Fresh app screenshots on the site, all taken from the current build.
- A page about who makes this, because "trust a health app made by one person" is a fair thing to want evidence for.
September 1, 2026
- Portions on food entries. Log half a serving, a third, or any amount, and edit it after the fact without deleting and starting over.
- Editable saved items. Change the numbers on a saved meal, not just its name.
- A readable breakdown under the daily rings, instead of numbers wrapping onto their own line.
- One clear way into your profile — the old unlabelled icon and the hard-to-read link are now a single button under the app name.
- Fixed the profile form sliding under the status bar while scrolling.
August 26, 2026
- Halera launched on Google Play.
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