Welcome to the growth log of Creative's Garden. Here you can find all notable changes, features, and refinements as we continue to build a beautiful home for your creative journey.
The big one: Creative's Garden now supports real collaboration, plus a full brand refresh.
Added
- Collaborate on Music Projects: Invite other people to work on a music project with you — assign tasks, leave comments right on the waveform, and see each other’s changes sync in real time.
- Manage Your Collaborators: Change a collaborator’s role, resend an invite, or turn collaboration off entirely whenever you want.
- In-App Feedback: Report bugs or suggest features right from inside the app, and track your own submissions.
- See Your Plan: Your current subscription plan is now visible on your Profile page.
- Invite-Only Sign Up: New accounts are created through an invite link, with a matching sign-up page on the Roses as Humans website.
Improved
- Brand Refresh: A cohesive pass on colors, typography, and naming across the whole app — including renaming "Community Garden" to "Collaborate."
- Cover Photos & Audio Sync: Project cover photos and audio recordings now sync more reliably across your devices.
Fixed
- A number of syncing, sizing, and layout issues throughout the app.
Deeper, more dependable sync, plus a reimagined Idea Editor and audio player.
Improved
- Faster, More Reliable Sync: Photos, audio, and files now sync through iCloud more consistently, with cleaner folder organization in the Files app.
- Sidebar Search: Search across your whole garden right from the sidebar.
- Custom Project Status Labels: Name your own project statuses instead of using the defaults.
- Redesigned Idea Editor: A from-scratch redesign with a vintage notecard, ruled-paper look.
- Reimagined Audio Player: A full-screen audio player with waveform comments and avatar pins showing who said what.
Fixed
- Several crashes around deleting content and reordering items.
- Goal and habit progress now updates instantly instead of lagging.
- Assorted sidebar and accent-color glitches on Mac.
A new board view for projects, redesigned chord diagrams, and a smoother editor.
Added
- Kanban Board View: See your projects as cards on a board, with columns that remember whether you’ve collapsed them.
- Redrawn Guitar Chord Diagrams: Cleaner, easier-to-read chord charts.
Fixed
- Typing, text selection, and undo/redo in the editor feel noticeably smoother, with no more flashes of raw formatting characters.
- A batch of Mac-specific crashes and visual glitches, including toolbar, sidebar, and accent color issues.
Metronome precision, new fonts, and a few personal touches.
Added
- Inline Link Editing: Paste a link and it’s instantly clickable — tap to edit the text or destination anytime.
- Credits Screen: A dedicated page thanking the tools and people behind the app.
Improved
- Rock-Solid Metronome: The click now stays perfectly on beat at any tempo.
- More Font Choices: Including a new serif option (New York).
- Roomier Mac Layout: A more compact sidebar gives more space to write.
- New poetry blocks now focus properly the instant they’re added.
- Manual sync now pushes your changes out before pulling in anyone else’s.
A sturdier foundation for sync, working quietly behind the scenes.
Improved
- Sync Engine Upgrade: iCloud and on-device storage are now the single source of truth for your projects, with your existing files kept safely as backups. This lays the groundwork for faster, more dependable syncing going forward.
Audio blocks arrive, along with onboarding, a Trash, and an undo/redo you can trust.
Added
- Audio Blocks: Record or upload audio directly into any project.
- Onboarding: A guided walkthrough for new users on first launch.
- Trash: Recover projects you’ve deleted instead of losing them for good.
- Rhyme Dictionary: A built-in rhyme finder right in the editor.
- Syllable Counts: Optional syllable counts for poetry and lyrics.
- **Repeating Task Reminders** and **custom category icons**.
Improved
- Undo and redo were overhauled and now work reliably on both iPhone and Mac.
- Smoother, more reliable syncing after reinstalling the app or in Low Power Mode.
Journal streaks and a round of stability fixes.
Added
- Journal Streaks: See your current and longest journaling streaks in Analytics.
Fixed
- Completed tasks no longer reappear after pulling to refresh.
- Lyric section labels like [V1] or [Chorus] now display correctly instead of being mistaken for chords.
Typing finally feels right, and categories sync everywhere.
Fixed
- Text now wraps properly while typing instead of running off-screen.
- Quick Notes no longer create a duplicate when you tap Done.
- The keyboard-dismiss button now works reliably.
Improved
- Custom categories now sync reliably across all your devices.
- Pressing Return in the editor creates a new block and moves your cursor into it automatically.
- Long lyric lines with chords now wrap onto multiple lines while keeping the chords lined up correctly.
- The metronome now plays even when your device is on silent.
Rebuilt natively from the ground up for a faster, more polished experience.
Added
- Cover Images: Add a cover image to any project, not just music.
- Smarter Task Reminders: Pick from preset reminder times instead of typing one in.
- **Audible Metronome Click** and **guitar chord diagrams** in the music workspace.
- Automatic Chord Transposition: Change a song’s key and its chords transpose automatically.
- App version now shown at the bottom of Settings.
Improved
- A cleaner, distraction-free writing view across the app.
- Project files exported to iCloud are now named after their titles (or dates for journals) instead of internal IDs.
- Checkmarks and progress bars everywhere now use your chosen accent color.
A reliability and readability pass across sync and Settings.
Improved
- The Mac app now waits properly for iCloud to be ready before syncing, avoiding early sync hiccups.
- Tasks gained a "Past Due" section above Today and Upcoming.
- Goals and Habits can now be reordered with a simple long-press drag.
- Settings is roomier and easier to read, with simplified font size presets (Small/Medium/Large).
- Swipe-to-delete feels smoother across tasks, projects, and habits.
- Switched the sidebar social link from X/Twitter to Threads.
Smoother sync you can actually see, and a redesigned Circle of Fifths.
Added
- Sync Progress Bar: See sync progress with a stage-by-stage status the moment the app opens.
- Pull-to-Sync: Swipe down anywhere in the app to trigger a fresh sync.
Improved
- Circle of Fifths Redesign: A polished dual-ring layout for picking your song’s key.
- Time Signature Picker: Quick-select chips for common time signatures.
- Steadier cross-device sync for goals, habits, tasks, and settings.
- Project files are now named after their titles instead of random IDs, making them easy to find in the Files app.
Quick Notes arrive for fast, on-the-go capture.
Added
- Quick Notes Board: A dedicated sticky-note board for capturing ideas fast, accessible from the Sidebar.
- Drag-and-drop reordering and note pinning.
- Convert any quick note into a full project in a couple of taps.
Creative's Garden takes root.
Added
- Project Management: Create and organize Stories, Songs, Scripts, and more.
- Rich Creative Editor: A flexible block-based editor with text, headings, lists, images, and dividers.
- Task Management: A to-do list with due dates, reminders, and priority.
- Goal Setting: Track long-term creative goals with visual progress.
- Daily Journal: A dedicated journaling space with mood tracking.
- iCloud Sync: Automatic sync across all your Apple devices.
- Files App Integration: Projects saved as portable, readable files.
- A warm, glassy visual design with light/dark mode and 6 accent colors.