7 October 2025

New Features

Business Card Scanner

• When adding a new person, there is a new toolbar button to scan a business card using your device's camera.

• The scanner uses on-device intelligence to extract contact information including: name, job title, organization, phone numbers, emails, and address.

• Requires Dextr Unlimited, iOS 26+, and a device compatible with Apple Intelligence.

Siri Integration

• It's now possible to use Siri to interact with Dextr!

• Supported shortcuts:

  • "Siri, add a person in Dextr"

  • "Siri, create a Dextr event"

  • "Siri, open Dextr keypad"

  • "Siri, open current Dextr event"

  • "Siri, show recently met in Dextr"

Improvements

• Added ability to tap a person's photo to view the full image.

• Added ability to reduce gradient background animations in More > Settings. Enabling this setting can improve performance on older devices.

• When setting a first met place for a Person, a place for your current location will now display at the top.

• When viewing a relation type in More > Relation type, the "Your <relation type> count" row can now be tapped to view all people with that relation to you, including archived.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tapping event in Recently Met Widget not opening the current event.

• Other minor UI bug fixes.

30 September 2025

Improvements

• Added ability to override tag group emoji for individual tags.

• Recently used tags will now appear after typing # or when adding via the Person Tags sub-tab.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed changes to relation types / tags causing people lists to not display all information correctly.

• Fixed places that are sub-localities (ex: "Brooklyn") not displaying the correct title.

25 September 2025

Improvements

• Added ability to see people that were previously imported that no longer exist in iOS Contacts in Contacts Sync > People Unlinked From iOS Contacts. This can be used to remove people in Dextr that were deduplicated or deleted via iOS Contacts.

• Added a warning when a editing a Person that has been deleted in iOS Contacts that changes will create a new contact record in iOS Contacts.

• Various performance improvements throughout the app.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed being unable to search for contact names with diacritic letters.

• Fixed changes to records not being reflected when returning to Search.

• Fixed recently viewed on search not always updating.

• Fixed screen for setting up contacts sync appearing blurry on iPad when the app is windowed.

• Fixed tapping a tab again on iPhone not returning to root view for that tab.

• Fixed contact buttons not updating after saving changes to a person.

• Fixed addresses not being included when exporting a person's contact card.

14 August 2025

Features

Tags

• When viewing a person, add/remove tags in the new Tags tab.

• The First Met Notes field supports inline tags. For example, entering "Wants to go #kayaking Sunday" will automatically add the #kayaking tag to that person

• Get an overview of everyone's tags from the People > Tags sub-tab. See people within a specific tag group by tapping again to select a group. 

• Tags will be displayed by the order set in More > Tags.

• Find people quickly with a specific tag via the Search tab.

• Create, reorder, color, and group tags in the new Tags setting screen on the More tab*.

Liquid Glass & iPad Refresh

• On iOS 26, Dextr has been completely redesigned with Liquid Glass—a perfect fit for the vibrant colors used across the app.

• On iPadOS, Dextr has been overhauled with an all new sidebar & column layout—and fully supports iPadOS 26 windowing.

Other

• Bulk Actions: From any person list it is now possible to email, tag, set relation, and archive in bulk.*

• It is now possible to add future events* and set a specific event start time

Improvements

• Adding/editing relation groups is easier than ever. Tap the color dot to change the group color or tap the pencil icon to edit the name.

• Editing relation types also got easier. No need to enter Edit mode, just start making your changes and tap the checkmark to confirm.

• Events Screen & Rows have been redesigned to allow for more information to be displayed at a glance.

• From Search, it's now possible view all people results for an arbitrary search term and perform bulk edits* on the results.

• The group color containing the system "acquaintance" type is now used across the app for things related to newly met people.

• Added Discord Server as a default Social Platform and updated icons.

• Added Substack as a default Social Platform (when setting, just include the domain prefix as the handle).

• Optimized the animated color gradient, reducing CPU usage.

* Requires Dextr Unlimited purchase or subscription.

14 August 2025

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Recently Met Widget sometimes not displaying the most recently met names.