BeBee

Changelog

What's new in BeBee

What we added and what we fixed, version by version. Newest first.

1.1.0Latest6 August 2026

Numbers you can trust

A big clean-up under the bonnet: everything the app counts — steps, kilometres, days, towns, score — has been audited and adds up. And a few visible things got fixed along the way.

  • Steps count reliably. The step counter no longer freezes after a pause at a crossing, and pressing “Resume” on a recording no longer stops points being written — the walk keeps recording, as it should.
  • Kilometres without double counting. Switching from walking to driving (and back) no longer credits the same stretch twice, so daily totals add up to the metre.
  • Steps are one number. The app and the shared page estimate the same way, a day spent driving no longer shows thousands of steps, and wherever a figure is an estimate, the label says so.
  • “Today” follows your clock. Evening records no longer vanish from history until the server’s midnight — today is your today, on the phone and on the computer.
  • Deleted stays deleted. Clearing the fog or removing a walk is no longer undone by your other device at the next sync.
  • Towns on time and in your language. Visited place names fill in more smoothly, translate after a language switch — and Vienna is no longer counted twice.
  • Family positions without the jumps. A computer no longer overwrites the phone’s precise fix with its own guess, and an old position no longer pretends to be fresh — it honestly ages instead.
  • Navigate on a computer means “send to phone”. The same everywhere — for a place, a person, a meeting point or a plan. The phone picks the trip up with one tap.
  • The gallery, done right. The photo dots sit at the bottom and no longer stretch across the screen, swiping works with a mouse as well as a finger, the arrow no longer closes the window — and photos arrive blur-to-sharp, in place galleries and memories alike.
  • A quieter, faster inside. One distance arithmetic, one day-keying, the flickering photo corners on phones fixed, and discovered area no longer rounds away to zero.
1.0.06 August 2026

You can really see each other

The first proper release. Groups are finally live on the map, navigation guides the way it should, and the app is combed from the first screen to the last card.

  • Live group location actually works. Whoever shares appears on your map within seconds — and you on theirs. What anybody may see is yours to decide, three ways: the master switch, a switch per group, and a pause on your own row. A position is shown only to the people of a group you personally allowed.
  • “Online” and “last seen” tell the truth. The green dot means the app is genuinely open on their side, and the last-seen time is counted from a real clock — no more eternal “last seen 0 min ago”.
  • The sharing icon never leaves the map. Not sharing shows it grey with a zero — and it is still the door to the sharing settings, so switching back on is always one tap away.
  • Invitations tidy up after themselves, and carry a name. When the invited person arrives, the waiting note removes itself; and the invite page no longer says “somebody wants you in their group” — it says who.
  • The screen stays on while navigating. For as long as a trip is running the phone keeps the display lit; ending the trip lets it go.
  • The voice times itself to your speed. In town it calls the turn later, on a motorway earlier — and when the phone reports no speed, the app measures its own pace.
  • The whole trip reads off the map. In a car the map is tilted like a real navigation, and a small arrow of the exact maneuver stands on the route at every turn — the same arrow the banner shows.
  • “Where to?” is as clean as a navigation should be. Tapping the search raises the sheet, everything but the results folds away, and the history is finally fully visible and scrollable.
  • Saving the place you are standing on is one tap. The picker opens with the pin already on you, and the button says “Save place” — not “Add stop”.
  • The welcome is a card over the map. Instead of a full-screen poster, a new device is greeted by a small three-page card with the map itself behind it.
  • One coat everywhere. Panels (quick chat, outing, route) share one header with a mark matching their content, icons are filled, a row highlights across its whole width, the premium card is legible in dark mode, and the padlocks left the layers panel — unavailable layers are simply quieted.
  • Small things you will notice. The app icon shares with a light background, the logo recolours its dot with the theme, empty screens no longer sign themselves “nothing yet”, and a backup is never a wall of red lines — one quiet sentence, and the app retries what it must on its own.
0.9.93 August 2026

Invitations that arrive, and one sheet for everything

Links that always land, a nickname of your own, and panels tidied into one shape.

  • Invitations work on the live site at last. The short link led to an address no phone can resolve — the server was building its links from the container’s own internal address rather than the one you typed. The same fault broke public-profile and shared-page links; the whole app now answers that question in one place.
  • Your nickname is yours to change. The name strangers see — on the leaderboard and on shared pages — was assigned and could not be edited anywhere. It lives in the profile, under Privacy, and an empty box puts back the one you started with. Your real name is still published nowhere.
  • One button on the landing page instead of two. “Sign in with Google” and “Open BeBee” did the same thing side by side; “Launch BeBee” is what is left, and the provider is named in the dialog, where the decision actually happens.
  • The map’s chat sits where it belongs. The button moved down to the bottom-left with the map’s other controls, and the panel itself is now an ordinary sheet like everything else: it opens and closes with an animation and can be pushed away with a finger.
  • Group conversations wear their own emoji rather than a stock glyph. There is a way out to the full chat beside the ✕, and the message box got the whole width — the tools moved inside it, so there is finally room to type.
  • A saved place is a gold star and nothing else. The white disc on the map and the yellow tile in the panel are gone, and the star is bigger and readable over aerial imagery. The arrow left the “Navigate” button, and the unlabelled icon beside it moved into the ⋯ with its name on.
  • “Add a place” in navigation actually adds a place. It was saving into a list nothing displays: the map opened, the point was picked, the write succeeded, and the result was invisible everywhere in the app.
  • Sheets and empty boxes stopped running off the bottom edge. The keyboard now raises the whole panel rather than the content inside it, and an empty box takes only the room that is left rather than a full panel’s worth on top of the heading above it. The panels over the map stand on the same sheet as the rest of the app, so they all behave alike.
  • The fog no longer slides sideways as you zoom. It stopped working out its own position and scale and asks the map instead, so the two cannot drift apart. On a tilted map it fades out rather than sitting crooked.
  • The person panel is cleaner: a white surface with a hairline instead of a grey slab with grey squares in it, and plain chevrons.
0.9.83 August 2026

Chat on the map, navigation that faces the road

Conversations moved onto the map itself, and navigation learned to behave like one.

  • Invite links work. The short /j/… link was being rewritten to a locale that does not exist, so every invitation ended on a 404. The link now opens the invitation, signing in opens the group, and people in a group actually see each other: the conversation roster is mirrored into the member list, so whoever accepts appears in the group for everybody, themselves included.
  • Sign-in is open, and the app says out loud that it is being tested. Who may sign in is a switch in the administration screen rather than a variable on the server — beside a second one that raises a “Test build” strip at the top of every screen.
  • Navigation faces the way you are going, tilts, and breathes with the speedometer. The map turns to your direction of travel, tilts fifty degrees in a car so the road ahead is visible, and zooms by speed — further out on a motorway, closer at a junction. Push the map aside to look at something and it takes itself back after eight seconds.
  • Opening the app really does centre on you. The first real fix now wins even if the map has been moved — for the first half-minute, while what is on screen is only an estimate.
  • Every sheet can be pushed away with a finger. The opening animation was overriding the drag, so the surface did not move at all; the place panel can now also be pulled down, like everything else. Sheets with a field in them rise to the top instead of drawing their contents behind the keyboard.
  • Chat is on the map. A button with the unread count, the faces of whoever is writing to you personally, and a small window to answer in without leaving the map. Direct messages arrived with it — just the two of you — and a notice that announces a conversation at most once every half-minute and never the one you are reading.
  • Sending a location is one press. The pin in the composer offers “send my location” or a place to pick; and a saved place can be sent straight from the map or from a place panel.
  • Saved places are somewhere at last. The star keeps one — a venue, a spot on the map, or where you are standing — they are drawn as rounded stars on the map, they are in the menu under “Saved places”, they sit apart from history in navigation, and each can carry a note.
  • Invitations stopped disappearing. Three sent is three rows, several names can be typed at once separated by commas, and a long link no longer drags the dialog off the screen — there is a “Copy link” button instead.
  • Memories do not flicker. The map behind an open photograph stops drawing, and the blurred backdrop is no longer recomputed on every frame.
0.9.71 August 2026

A fast map, guidance that actually guides, and a movement diary

A round about how the app behaves in a car. The map is smooth again with a long trail behind it, the guidance finally turns and keeps up with you, and where you went is written down even when you pressed nothing.

  • The fog is drawn a completely different way. The uncovered ground is no longer rebuilt from every visited cell on every frame — it is rasterised once into a bitmap pinned to the ground and then simply moved with the map. On a ten-kilometre trail that was the difference between stuttering and gliding, and the longer you use the app the bigger the difference gets.
  • The fog now watches its own frame budget. When it measures that its drawing is taking too long, it quietly drops to a lower resolution and climbs back when there is room again. The map has to be fast, always — the fog is the first thing that gives way.
  • Guidance turns the map so the road runs ahead of you, and stays with you. The camera used to stop following right after its first turn: MapLibre reports the start of a rotation even when the guidance itself asked for it, and the app read that as "the reader took the map". It now lets go only when you actually move the map with a finger.
  • The voice speaks in time, and in one sentence tells you what comes straight after the turn. How far ahead an instruction is given is worked out from the speed you are actually doing rather than from fixed metres — five hundred is far too early in a town and too late on a motorway. And when a second maneuver follows immediately, it says "turn right, then keep left".
  • The chime and the banner for newly uncovered ground are off out of the box. It fires every couple of hundred metres, so it was not a celebration, it was nagging — both are one tap away for anybody who wants them back.
  • A whole library of sounds arrived, and every event has its own. Arriving in a zone and leaving one are the same two notes in opposite orders, so with the phone in a pocket you know which way somebody went. Everything is switchable, mutable, and every voice plays as you pick it.
  • Places nearby are off out of the box. A ring with a couple of dozen pins stood over the streets, the route and the memories all day; it is now a layer you turn on when you want to browse what is around you. Search finds them either way.
  • The app keeps a movement diary on its own. It recognises walking, running, cycling and driving, records the distance and the time against each, and where it can, counts real steps from the sensor rather than estimating them from distance. So the history no longer comes out empty after a day you forgot to press record on.
  • A recorded trail survives a car journey. Every step faster than 43 km/h used to be thrown away, so a drive came out as the slow parts joined by straight lines through the houses on the bends. The ceiling now lifts with the speed the receiver itself reports — and a fix that claims to be stationary and jumps two hundred metres is refused exactly as before.
  • The fog opens between two positions, not only at them. In a car the next position arrived a hundred metres on and the uncovered road was a dotted line; the whole stretch between them now opens, as long as little enough time passed for it to be one movement.
  • Groups wears the same page header as the rest of the app. It was the one screen whose title sat inside a card, at a different size, with its buttons in a different corner.
0.9.61 August 2026

A new front page, and the doors are open

Anybody can sign in now. And the page you land on before you do has been rebuilt from scratch.

  • Sign-in is open to everybody. Until now an admin had to add your address by hand; that gate is still there for private deployments, but it is off by default.
  • A completely new home page: the bee and its flight path back in the hero, the honey yellow as the one accent, and no borders anywhere.
  • The map on the home page is the real thing, not a screenshot. Real streets, a real safe zone, the family standing on it with their photos.
  • "One map, the whole day on it" now shows what navigation actually looks like in the app, down to the instruction banner and the trip sheet.
  • Signing in happens in a dialog instead of a separate page, so you no longer lose the page you were reading.
  • The help questions on the site and in the app are one list now, so the answers cannot drift apart. Two new ones: what is free, and whether we are on the app stores.
  • The navigation line stopped cutting corners. It used to round every turn by twelve metres, which at a junction drew the route across the pavement; it now bends by at most a metre and a half and stays on the road.
0.9.51 August 2026

Sharing outings, and an app colour of your own

A walk, a route or a group can now be sent on — it opens as a page anybody can read, with or without an account.

  • Share a finished walk or outing with a link: a public page with the map, the time, average speed, pace and an estimate of the calories burned.
  • On Facebook and in messages, the link unfurls with a picture drawn from the shape of the route.
  • A shared route has a "count me in" button, so you know who is coming before you set off.
  • A group can be published and people ask to join; you accept or decline, and nothing is shared before you do.
  • A public profile at an address of your own, listing the outings you marked public. Switch it off and the page is gone at once.
  • The app's colour is yours to pick — seven accents in the settings, including the original indigo and the bee's own honey.
  • "Invite a friend" finally offers WhatsApp, a message and mail, not just copying a link.
0.9.41 August 2026

Lighter media, tidier details

Photos and videos have clear limits, and the blurred backdrop on a memory stays — it just no longer costs anything.

  • The blurred backdrop behind an open memory is drawn from a tiny preview, so it looks the same and no longer flickers on older phones.
  • Photos are resized before saving and a video over the limit is refused up front — with the number, rather than silently failing to upload later.
  • Information boxes redrawn: a coloured mark in a disc instead of a small grey icon.
  • In screen headers the close button is always last on the right, matching every dialog.
  • The up arrow has gone from the map controls — a finger scrolls the rail, and the end fades under the mask anyway.
  • The place categories menu now opens above the map controls instead of under them.
  • Panels with a scrollbar keep their rounded corners.
0.9.31 August 2026

A truer trail, and tidier controls

Your route is recorded only while you are actually recording it — and notifications, panels and settings now live in one place each.

  • The path you have walked is drawn as an orange dotted line, written only while recording, and inaccurate GPS readings no longer end up in it.
  • Notifications now include new messages, mark themselves read when you open the screen, and tell new apart from seen.
  • The "Where to?" panel opens lower, can be pulled up, and search results are no longer hidden behind the keyboard.
  • Bottom panels can be pushed away from anywhere on them, and dialogs slide out properly when they close.
  • Photos in memories are resized before saving, so they take far less space — and an open memory no longer flickers.
  • Fixed a saved place picking up the wrong town's name, map controls that did not line up on both sides, and admin number fields that now have our own plus and minus.
  • The global board shows shortened names, and its switch now lives only in profile settings.
0.9.231 July 2026

Controls tidied up

Panels, buttons and animations now behave the same everywhere.

  • The bottom bar belongs to the map. Every other screen has one clear way back.
  • Panels and bottom sheets can be pushed away from anywhere on them, not just the handle.
  • Made returning to the map faster. It no longer loads from scratch every time.
  • Fixed a menu that sometimes could not be closed on a phone.
  • The record button shows the time inside it, and you can carry on recording after stopping.
  • Matched up icon sizes on the map, screen headers and the colours in your statistics.
0.9.131 July 2026

First round after launch

Fixes from real use. The map is calmer and records only what actually happened.

  • Fixed position on a computer. A browser with no GPS no longer misleads the app, and the map shows the last position it knew or the one from your phone.
  • Fixed the recorded track. It no longer draws lines across half the city and records only real movement.
  • Made map reveal smaller so it matches where you actually walked.
  • Memory photos now travel between devices.
  • Fixed the map turning while driving, and the voice that repeated instructions when you changed travel mode.
  • Added a switch in settings to turn all movement recording off.
0.931 July 2026

Ready to launch

Accounts, groups and Premium are complete.

  • Invitations. We are opening BeBee gradually, and an invited account signs in with Google.
  • Group guests. An invitation unlocks the group screen and live sharing for free.
  • Premium. Safe zones, day plans and your own groups. One subscription for the whole household.
  • This page of release notes, in both languages.
  • Polish across the whole app. One consistent look and tidier screens.
0.830 July 2026

Your map on every device

Everything you record now travels with your account.

  • Sync. Memories, tracks, plans and settings move between your phone and computer on their own.
  • Score and levels for ground uncovered, kilometres walked and memories left.
  • A global leaderboard you join only if you want to.
  • Three colours for three lines: blue navigation, orange plan, green recorded track.
0.629 July 2026

A new face and a voice

The biggest visual change so far, and navigation that talks.

  • A full redesign. Calm indigo look, bottom sheets and a new bar with an action wheel.
  • Turn by turn navigation. Live instructions, rerouting when you leave the road, and arrival.
  • Voice guidance in Slovak and English, with a choice of voice.
  • Navigate anywhere. To a place, to a person, to a meeting point or to your own pin.
  • Place details with photos, ratings and opening hours.
  • New screens: Places, Premium, Notifications and Help.
0.426 July 2026

Exploring together

The map filled up with things you can do with other people.

  • Fog of war. The map starts covered and every walk uncovers a piece of it for good.
  • Memories and signs. Leave a photo or a note exactly where it happened.
  • Groups. Live position for the people you choose, meeting points and a shared chat.
  • Safe zones. A quiet alert when somebody reaches school or leaves home.
  • Day plans. Join places into a route and follow it on a trip.
  • Walk recording. Record a walk and keep the track.
0.223 July 2026

The front door

BeBee got its home on the web.

  • A new bebee.app site with a live map, prices and how it all works.
  • Privacy policy and terms of use in both languages.
0.123 July 2026

A fresh start

We rebuilt BeBee from scratch on a fast modern base.

  • The map at the centre of everything. Quick on a phone and on a computer.
  • Sign in with Google. No new password to invent.
  • Slovak and English, light and dark mode. From day one.