Version 0.27

Added

• Six more Northwest natives. The Pacific Northwest roster gains thimbleberry, dwarf Oregon grape, goat's beard, Pacific bleeding heart, meadow checkermallow and tufted hairgrass — filling out its moist-shade, dry-shade and wet-prairie corners. See the region
• And four creatures to meet. New on the wildlife pages: the echo azure, the ghostly Clodius parnassian (its caterpillars eat only bleeding heart), the band-tailed pigeon that lives on elderberry and cascara, and the native bees that specialize on checkermallow. Meet them
• Northern Michigan is on the map. Indigene now covers the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula around Petoskey and Little Traverse Bay — 46 native plants for its cool, lime-rich northern-hardwood and white-pine country. See the region
• And the creatures those plants feed. The region and its plants now name the butterflies, moths, bees, birds and mammals they support — 23 kinds, including the endangered Karner blue, whose caterpillars eat only wild lupine. Meet them
• Matches & Wildlife: The ranked list shows the plants. The plants matched to your spot — and the plants on an animal's page — now carry a photograph beside the name instead of a drawing of a generic shrub, like every other list in the app.
• A region's page now names the wildlife too. Under the plants, every region lists the butterflies, moths, bees, birds and mammals they're documented to feed — tap a group for the names, and the number beside each one is how many plants here it can use. Regions
• Matches: Your saved spots, as a file you keep. Settings can now write every spot and its planting log to one plain file, and read one back in another browser — so a phone and a laptop can hold the same garden. Take a copy.
• Matches: Reading a copy never overwrites anything. Spots you already have are kept as they are, so bringing the same file in twice changes nothing — and a file we can't make sense of is turned away with a reason.
• Pull down to reload, on an iPhone Home Screen app. Installed to the Home Screen, Indigene opens without Safari's reload button. Now a drag down from the top of a page brings the bee over to fetch a fresh copy.
• A Reload button as well, in the menu. A drag isn't for every pair of hands, so the gear menu grows a Reload row wherever the pull-down lives.
• Plants: A plant's page now tells you how common it is around your garden, without being asked. If you've given the app a spot, "See it growing near you" opens with how often people have recorded that plant nearby — and says which spot it counted.
• Plants: A region gets an answer too. Picked your region from a list instead of sharing a spot? The page now says how often the plant is recorded across that whole region, from dated figures that travel with the app.
• A little map on every saved spot. Your spots and your last one in Settings now show the streets around the pin, so you can tell the alley bed from the front bed without reading two rows of digits.
• Matches: Spots say where they are in words. "near Radnor, Pennsylvania", and each number now says which it is — "Latitude 40.0379° N" rather than a bare pair with a minus sign in front. The town is remembered when you find the spot.
• Matches: Saving a spot offers its town as the name. The box that asks what to call it starts with "Radnor, Pennsylvania" instead of a pair of coordinates — something to accept or edit, not something to replace.
• A saved spot now says what it can feed. Its page lists every butterfly, bee, bird and animal the plants you've logged there are documented to support — with a star on any that has no other plant to turn to. Your spots.
• Matches: Two new figures at a glance. A spot's tiles gain the number of creatures its plants can feed, and each row in your saved list carries it too — so a garden's reach shows without opening it.
• A picture for nearly every plant and animal. The 109 plants and 70 animals nobody had chosen a photo for now show the one iNaturalist's own species page opens with, credited to the photographer. Wildlife is a page of real butterflies instead of identical emoji.
• The plants in your log, with their pictures. A saved spot's "What you've planted" list now shows each plant beside its name, so a log read standing in the garden matches its rows to what's actually growing there. Your spots
• The impostor and the real thing, side by side. Every look-alike now has a photograph, shown next to the native it gets mistaken for — two pictures in one row, above the words that tell them apart. Tap either to swap between them full size. Look-alikes
• Look-alikes: And a picture on every card in that list. The look-alikes index used to be names and paragraphs; now each one leads with the plant, for the reader standing under a street tree trying to work out which it is.

Changed

• Where our numbers come from now says why we believe them. The page adds the four questions a source has to answer before we use it, and is plain that a person, not a database, writes every line. Where our numbers come from
• *A look-alike is only invasive somewhere.* The list called plants invasive or not-from-here before you'd picked a region — and a few of them are natives of ours. Each now names the regions where it's a problem, on the list and on its own page. Look-alikes
• The strip above the page matches the header. Added to a phone's Home Screen, Indigene showed a slightly different green up at the top — and in dark mode a dark one under a pale header. Now it wears the header's own colour.
• Matches: A spot's fact boxes lead with the number. Plants, Species, Nurtured, Sustained — one word each, and the figure set large enough to read at arm's length.
• Matches: All the little fact boxes are one size now. A label long enough to run onto two lines used to make its box taller than the one beside it and knock the numbers out of line. On spots, plants and regions alike, they line up.
• Matches: A planted row says its size in five words. "6.6 ft × 4.6 ft if thriving" in place of the sentence that used to wrap onto a second line, so a plant in your log is one line to read.
• Plants: A linked photo says "Sighting". It used to show the observation's number, which told you nothing — now a row with a sighting looks different from one without, and the button below offers to add another.
• An animal's plants are counted where the list starts. "Plants for it — 18" used to be a tile a screen above them. The count is now the list's own heading, with each region's under it. Wildlife
• Wildlife: Shorter cards in that list. Each carried a sentence about the tie, so five plants filled two screens. A card now gives the name, what the plant offers, and the source across its full width; the sentence is a tap away, on the chip.
• A way to search a long list. An animal with more than a screenful of plants gets the same type-to-narrow box the region lists have — try it on the sunflower-family specialist bees.
• The tallies show up where they tell you something. "Raises young on: 1" over a list of two plants was counting to two for you. Those boxes now wait for the long lists, like the monarch's.
• Matches: And they're the boxes a saved spot has. Host, Shelter, Vital — one word over a big number, matching your spots. Each word is the one the plants below wear, so you can see which five of eleven the box means.
• The gear menu offers Settings, not two settings. Language and Units each had a row of their own; one Settings row now opens the page that holds them, and everything else you can change. Settings
• Your language and units read as settings, not links. At the foot of every page they're quiet pills with the value picked out, instead of two underlined blue phrases that looked like somewhere else to go.
• Plants: The sightings lookup opens in one line. "See it near you", and a plant's "See it growing near you", took three lines to say what they now say in one: community-verified iNaturalist photos, near a place you pick.
• Wildlife: The other places to look are one row you can swipe. A monarch is found in four regions, and each was a full-width button down the card. They're chips on a single line now, and each still runs the lookup there.
• "It's yours" now includes taking it with you. Privacy and About both say so, and Privacy links straight to the button that does it.
• Plants: The count no longer comes with a gallery attached. It used to take the same tap, and the same big download, as the photographs. Now the number arrives on its own, and the photos still wait until you ask for them.
• The app downloads about a third less to get started. It used to carry the plant lists for all nine regions before showing you anything. Now it fetches the one region you're gardening in, and keeps it for offline.

Fixed

• The app picks up a new release without a fight now. Installed to an iPhone Home Screen, Indigene could keep showing an old version through every reload, because it reloaded from its own cache. A reload now always checks the web first. What's new
• Matches: Nearly enough sun is no longer a complaint. A plant wanting an hour more sun than your spot gets was told off for it, quoting two numbers that rounded to the same one. It now says it may just not grow as well.
• A row with no photograph looked like a broken one. Some entries in the wildlife list — "Mason & mining bees" — are a group rather than one species, so there's nothing to photograph them as. Their names now line up with everyone else's. Wildlife
• Look-alikes: A look-alike's write-up ran to the edges of its card. The description and its sources sat flush against the border while everything above them was indented. They line up now.
• Matches: Your last spot said where it was to the nearest hundred kilometres. Settings rounded the coordinates to whole degrees, so a garden outside Philadelphia read "40, -75". It now keeps the four decimals the saved list already showed.
• Plants: "No close-ups yet" was squeezed into a thin column. On a plant nobody has photographed for us, that line sat in one narrow photo slot, a word or two per line. It now runs the full width of the card, and says it in fewer words.
• Matches: Fact boxes stopped cutting their labels short on a big screen. On a laptop a spot's boxes were narrower than the same ones on a phone, so "NURTURED" came out "NURTUR…". Every box now sizes itself to the space it's actually in.