Dextr App Release Notes

2.2.6

23 April 2026

• It’s now possible to add/edit tag groups directly from the Tag Select screen

2.2.5

20 April 2026

• Added ability to reset Social Graph to initial position.
• Improved the First Met section layout to account for smaller screen sizes.

2.2.3

14 April 2026

• Added ability to bulk associate people that are from, work at, or live at a Place from Place Details screen.

2.2.0

9 April 2026

New Features

Stats

Navigate your contacts library visually with new stats section on the Home Tab.

• Hometowns: Breakdown of likely hometowns based on contact phone numbers and/or explicitly added hometown information.
• Relations Breakdown*: How your contacts are organized across relation groups and types.
• Tags Breakdown*: See total number of tags assigned broken down by tag group/tag.
• First Met Place*: Breakdown of the countries / states / cities you first met people.
• Address Breakdown*: See how many of your contacts have addresses, and a breakdown of the countries / states / cities they are located in.
• Organize Level: See how organized your contacts are overall (tagged, relation type set, first met filled out, etc).
• And more coming soon!

Home Page Refresh

• Quick Actions section (now named Add New) is now laid out in a compact grid.
• Organize Contacts section (now named Organize) is more compact and includes a refreshed progress indicator on Card Stack launcher & a card for total number of Unorganized contacts. This section will be hidden when all contacts are organized to save space.
• Places section is now more compact, and shows recently added Places instead of nearby Places.

Changes

• Section headers are now inset to match iOS UI standards. You can disable this in More > Settings > Sort & Display.

*Requires Dextr Unlimited

2.1.0

1 April 2026

New Features

• Contact dates, such as anniversaries, are now editable in Dextr and are synced with iOS Contacts.
• Dates will display on the Calendar alongside birthdays, and now include the ordinal year (e.g John’s 35th Birthday)
• Easily setup or remove Reminders for birthdays & other dates by tapping the bell icon next to a date when viewing a contact.*

Improvements

• The actions menu (…) when viewing event now includes ability to manually end the event.
• On the Home screen, manually ending the event is now a swipe-left action.

*Requires Dextr Unlimited

2.0.4

26 March 2026

• Contacts Sync Settings will now surface notices for contacts that may not have been imported due to missing name.
• Search now returns more relevant filter results overall rather than limiting per-filter type.

2.0.1

8 March 2026

Added artist music preview button to Dextr Unplug when viewing music event:

• Plays a sample of the artist’s top song via Apple Music (subscription not required).
• Tap the playing song to see more from that artist in Apple Music.

Note: Dextr may request access to your Apple Music library, but the app does not read or store any of that information.

2.0.0

6 March 2026

Introducing Dextr Unplug!

• Strengthen your personal relationships by discovering events and activities to attend with friends, family, and colleagues.
• Make networking at large events easier with full schedules for conferences like SXSW.
• Filter events by categories like Sports, Music, Arts & Culture, and more.
• Add events to your Dextr Calendar to keep track of what you want to attend, get notified when events are happening, and log who you met there.
• Discover other events at places you’ve visited with the new Unplug sub-tab on Place screens.
• Use Timeline View for large events like conferences and festivals to quickly see what’s happening next.
• View your personal festival and conference schedule with the new Timeline View in Calendar.

*Available in the US & Canada, with support for more locations coming soon.

1.16.2

21 Februrary 2026

Improvements

• Added support for department name field.
• Tagged sub-tab now includes sub-menus for viewing contacts with specific tags.

1.16.1

16 Februrary 2026

Improvements

• It’s now possible to edit first met information on a contact without going into edit mode.
• Archived contacts can now be deleted in bulk if bidirectional sync is enabled.
• Pinned relation types / tags will now show at the top of the source selector in the Mass Text Shortcut. Test

1.16.0

13 February 2026

New Features

Textable Contacts Shortcut*

• Added new Textable Contacts shortcut, allowing you to mass text contacts individually via Apple Shortcuts.
• Select a tag, tag group, relation type, relation group, or recent event to pull all contacts in that category.
• Personalize the message for each contact using the provided variables like First Name, Last Name, etc.
• Navigate to Settings to install the shortcut and learn more at dextr.app/learn/mass-texts

*Requires Dextr Unlimited.

1.15.0

2 February 2026

New Features

• Event End Dates: You can now optionally set an explicit event end date rather than use the current auto-end mechanism.
• Events that span multiple days will show on those days in the Calendar tab.
• It’s now possible to have multiple current events.
• When multiple current events are active, the Recently Met Widget will display names of people met from all in a single list.
• On Home, swipe to the right on a current event to end it early.
• Dextr will soon utilize these new Event capabilities to help you Unplug…

1.14.3

26 January 2026

Improvements

• URLs are now clickable in first met, reminder, interaction, and general notes fields.
• Social Graph view location/zoom is now persisted between app launches.
• Tapping a pin on Places Map will now show people met at that location.

Changes

• Archiving a contact has been changed from a rightward swipe to leftward.

1.14.2

24 January 2026

New Features

• Added ability to show completed reminders on Contact Reminders Sub-Tab.

Improvements

• A contact has been added for Dextr, ensuring replies to support requests are not marked as spam.
• Contacts Sync has improved to only trigger if changes are detected since the last sync. This also ensures newly added contacts are more immediately available in Dextr.
• Quick Help: Home screen now includes toolbar button with link to Help Center, Joining Discord, Calling/Emailing Support & for anonymously submitting feedback.

1.14.0

19 January 2026

Improvements

• Organize Assistant now includes additional questions:
  • Prompt to set recently imported contacts as first met at the current or most recent event in the past 48 hours.
  • Prompt to add first met info for recently imported contacts.
• When enabled, Dextr will now send a notification when an event ends to remind you to open Dextr, which will trigger the above Organize Assistant questions if applicable.
• When adding a first met date, the picker will default to no Month or Day selection.
• First Met Notes & Other Notes fields now expand to fit content when editing on iOS 26+.
• Performance improvements.

1.13.1

12 January 2026

Improvements

• Tags, Relations, and First Met Event/Place icons now always show on Contact rows.
• More performance improvements throughout the app.

1.13.0

10 January 2026

New Features

• Bulk VCF Export: From any list of contacts, you can now multi-select and export their contact cards as a single VCF file for easy sharing or backup.

Improvements

• Bulk tagging, setting relationships, or archiving/restoring contacts no longer requires Dextr Unlimited*.
• Multi-select has been moved out of the sort menu into it’s own top bar button.
• When adding and address to a contact or selecting one for an event, search bar will now automatically focus for easier typing.
• Improved messaging on Contacts Sync settings when iCloud sync is in progress.

*Creating custom tags or relationships still requires Dextr Unlimited.

1.12.5

9 January 2026

New Features

• Use the new Tags Select button next to Relation Select to quickly set tags for new & existing contacts.

Improvements

• Primary buttons now use a unified color scheme across the app.

Changes

• Relation Types & Tags have been moved (back) to Settings.
• Removed add tags button on Person Tags sub-tab in favor of the new Tags Select button.

1.12.4

7 January 2026

Improvements

• Significant performance improvements for users with many Calendar items & across the app in general.

1.12.3

5 January 2026

Improvements

• Various performance improvements, particularly on iPad.

1.12.2

24 December 2025

New Features

• Added ability to start group text messages via multi-select.

Improvements

• The + button on Favorites sub-tab presents a view to add favorites in bulk rather than Add Contact screen.
• Various performance improvements.

1.12.1

23 December 2025

New Features

• Added Reminders & Interactions to Recently Viewed on Search.

1.12.0

20 December 2025

New Features

• Favorite Relation Types are now designated as “Pinned”, and can be pinned/unpinned directly from the Relation Type Selector.
• Added ability to pin tags to the Tag Selector in the same way.
• Contact Tags sub-tab now includes ability to add existing tags from the new Tag Selector.
• Added ability to create Reminders by swiping on an attendee when viewing an Event or from an Interaction row on Home / Calendar.

Improvements

• When typing # to add a tag in notes fields, a chip will appear to create a new tag if no existing tags match.
• Removing a person met when adding an Event now requires a swipe action to avoid accidental removals.
• Added Spanish translations and improved Italian & German translations.

1.11.4

17 December 2025

Improvements

• Performance improvements for iPad & iPhone.

1.11.3

13 December 2025

Improvements

• Various performance improvements related to Calendar.

1.11.1

11 December 2025

Improvements

• It’s now possible to add an event when setting first met event.
• First Met Event search now includes recently added events.
• Dextr will now indicate if you’ve exceeded your iCloud Storage quota with instructions on how to disable iCloud backup/sync if desired.

1.11.0

10 December 2025

New Features

Contact Reminders*

• Create Reminders for following up, checking in regularly, or to reconnect with contacts.
• Use recurring Reminders for important dates like birthdays & anniversaries.
• The Today view on the Home Screen will show Reminders due today or are past due.
• Reminder Notifications: A morning summary notification for all reminders due today and individual notifications for reminders with specific times.
• Reminders can be set to auto-complete after calling / messaging a contact from within Dextr.
• Add Reminders when viewing a contact in the new Reminders sub-tab or directly from the Home Screen.Improvements

Calendar

• The Events tab has been replaced with Calendar–a new centralized location for viewing events, birthdays, interactions, and reminders.
• Filter the Calendar by events, interactions, or reminders.
• Tapping Reminder Complete button will allow you to complete the reminder or call/message the associated Contact.

Improvements

• Added setting to move Home screen add buttons to top bar in Settings > Sort & Display.
• Added ability to add Reminders & Interaction Logs from Home screen.
• Added search for Interaction notes & Reminders.
• Added ability to enable/disable specific notification types in Settings > Notifications.
• Added Skip All option to Organize Assistant & increased time until suggestion is shown again for a person to 14 days.
• Setting future event dates and enabling additional call/message platforms no longer requires Dextr Unlimited.

*Requires Dextr Unlimited.

1.10.0

24 November 2025

New Features

Organize Assistant

• The Home screen now includes the Organize Assistant which helps you further organize contacts by answering simple yes/no questions.
• A push notification will be sent when there are more suggestions from the Organize Assistant.
• Initial questions are geared towards new Dextr users with unorganized libraries, with more advanced questions coming in future updates.

Improvements

• Added push notifications for when an event is starting.
• Contact edit button now shows directly on nav bar in addition to inside the action menu.

1.9.0

11 November 2025

New Features

Organization Levels

• Dextr & Search features work best the more information you provide about your contacts. To help with this, there is a new Organization Level system that encourages you to add more details about your contacts.
• Indicator Dots will appear in Card Stack Organizer & Contact Screen fields to show which fields need to be filled out to reach the next Organization Level for that contact.
• A new Organize Level sort option has been added to contact lists, making it easy to find people that need more information added.
• When sorting a contact list by Organize Level, additional icons will appear to indicate contact info contributing to their Organization Level.

Improvements

• Card Stack Organizer “Next” button will say “Skip” when no changes are made to organize the contact.
• Added first met place to contact row hint (hints are shown if a contact does not have last name).
• Contact Place suggestions now includes a suggested label.
• Improved German translations for family relation types.

Changes

• Dextr will no longer adjust capitalization of Relation Group names when displayed. Update existing group names in Home > Relation Types if desired.

1.8.2

5 November 2025

Improvements

• Added Gift as an Interaction Type.
• Added ability to filter items on Person Interaction tab by interaction type.
• Added last interaction date to Person Screen metadata at the bottom.
• If adding an attendee to an event prior to when you first met, the first met info for that contact will now be automatically updated.

1.8.1

4 November 2025

Improvements

• Added IMDb & general website link as a Social Profile platform.
• Added ability to search a contact’s name on IMDb.

1.8.0

1 November 2025

New Features

Interaction Logs*

• Log notes for calls, messages, emails, and event conversations with contacts in your library.
• Initiate a call, message, or email from Dextr to automatically create an Interaction Log to fill out later.
• View a timeline of Interactions and manually add an Interaction Log via the new Interactions sub-tab when viewing a contact.
• Sort any contact list by Last/Previous Interaction to quickly find who you’ve been in contact with recently.
• Swipe right on a contact in an event’s Other Attendees section to log notes about your interaction with them at that event.
• Be reminded about interactions you have yet to add notes for via notification badges.

Home Tab

• The More tab has been replaced with a new Home tab.
• Get an overview of your contact organization progress, interactions you need to log notes for, the current and today’s events, and nearby Places.
• View your Social Graph, Card Stack Organizer, add new contacts & events, and manage tags & relation types.
• Access remaining app settings via the gear icon in the upper left.

Additional Call & Message Platforms

• Select your default call / message app set in iOS Settings to streamline creating Interaction Logs.
• Enable additional message platforms (Signal, WhatsApp), and call platform (FaceTime Audio) to have the option to message/call via that platform from message/call buttons.*

Virtual Events

Mark an event as virtual and select the platform for the event (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc).

Improvements

• The Search tab now includes 10 recently viewed items for quick access.
• The Contact Events tab has been unified into the new Interactions tab.
• Selected contact sort option is now persisted between sub-tabs (except for New Names) and app launches.
• Add ability to turn on flashlight when using Business Card Scanner.
• When a current event is in progress and notifications are enabled, Dextr will have a badge on the iOS Home Screen denoting as such.
• Significantly improved Card Stack Organizer load performance for new users with large contact libraries.

* Requires Dextr Unlimited.

1.7.2

23 October 2025

Improvements

• Added ability to initiate messages via WhatsApp and Signal from Person message buttons. Enable in More > Settings > Messaging Platforms. Requires Dextr Unlimited.
• Added ability to check WhatsApp and Signal messages in Card Stack Organizer.
• The social profile contact button when viewing Person will now list all available social profiles to view vs just the first.
• When adding a Relation Type with an inverse name, the inverse Relation Type will now be created automatically.

Changes

• This & future updates now require iOS/iPadOS 18.2 or newer.

1.7.1

20 October 2025

Improvements

• People will now be exported to iOS Contacts that only have an email address.
• Added Threads to list of social platforms.

1.7.0

16 October 2025

New Features

• The Social Graph has been rebuilt to provide a more consistent layout and improved performance.
• When adding existing people to an event, Dextr will now suggest likely attendees based on a combination of prior events and your social graph.
• Conversely, when adding person relationships, event attendance will also be considered for suggestions.

Improvements

• If business card scanner fails to recognize text, it will instruct to adjust camera position to try again, as well as list supported languages.

1.6.0

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.

1.5.3

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.

1.5.2

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.

1.5.0

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.

1.4.0

11 August 2025

Features

• Person Screen Design Refresh
  • Contact Info, Relations, and Events are now separate sub-tabs.
  • The new Relations sub-tab includes ability to filter by relation group; and the list is now sorted by the person’s name.
  • When editing a Person, the Places section now suggests relevant locations based on their contact information and your current location.
  • First Met section now includes explicit buttons for selecting a Place or an e+Event.
  • Improved overall design consistency between elements.
• Added the ability to add new relation types directly from the Relation Selector.

Improvements

• Scrolling performance has been improved across the app, including when viewing a Person with many relations.
• Reduced app load time & memory footprint.

1.3.0

3 August 2025

Features

• Unified Search
  • The Places tab has been replaced by a unified search experience allowing you to search for people, places, events, and relations all in one location.
  • Narrow down results by using search tokens for relation types, relation groups, years, cities, states, and countries.
  • Recently viewed items will be shown at the top of the results.
  • Nearby or recently added Places will be shown when there is no active search and include a button to view the legacy Places tab.
• People, events, relation types, and relation groups are now indexed with Spotlight, allowing you to search for them via iOS home screen.

Improvements

• If a year is set for a person’s birthday, their age will automatically be shown next to it.
• Optimized app launch speed.
• Date will now show on event rows when sorting by name.

1.2.4

24 July 2025

Improvements

• Added iconography and grouping to sort dropdowns.
• When adding a relation or a person to an event, context info is now shown when a person doesn’t have a last name.
• Nearby places rows are now more compact, allowing more to be displayed.

1.2.3

19 July 2025

Improvements

• Contacts sync will now attempt to locate an existing Person via phone number, email, or social handle to reduce/avoid duplicates.
• Added back the ability to switch the primary contacts sync device—made possible by the above improvement.

1.2.0

21 June 2025

New Features

• First Met Date field now supports partial dates (e.g. just the year, or month and year).
• Added ability to share a person’s contact card.
• Added support for middle names.
• Added search on Facebook / LinkedIn functionality from Card Stack Organizer to Person Details screen.
• Added the ability to copy/paste numbers from the Keypad.
• Added an indicator dot to Card Stack Organizer icon to show when there are people that need to be organized.

Improvements

• Place addresses are now correctly formatted for the country (some existing address information may not update to avoid data loss).
• Call/message/email/etc buttons on Person Details screen now always show to ensure they are in a consistent visual location.
• Edit/Favorite/Archive/Delete (& new Share/Search) actions are now combined into a single dropdown menu on the Person Details screen.
• Middle name, nickname, organization name, and job title fields will be hidden by default but can be quickly added using new add field quick buttons.
• When adding a new person, the app now automatically focuses on the first name field instead of phone number.
• Archiving a person will no longer kick you back to the People Screen, and they can now be restored from the same menu.
• Moved Search on Facebook / LinkedIn / Messages to a sub-menu to save space on Card Stack Organizer.
• Improved performance in various parts of the app.

1.1.2

22 May 2025

Improvements

• Dextr can now be used without backing up/syncing to iCloud. To learn how to configure this, click here.
• After adding a new person, Dextr now automatically navigates to view that person.
• Added a Help Center link on the More tab.

1.1.0

18 May 2025

New Features

• Phone Keypad: Dial numbers directly from Dextr, quickly save the number to a new contact record, or associate the number with a person you recently met!
• Card Stack Organizer now includes the ability to edit the full person record, including adding/removing relationships.
• Added the ability to use a manual/custom order for your favorites (enable in More → Settings → Favorites sort).
• When creating a new event, it’s now possible to add existing people from your library.
• The current event is now displayed at the top of the Events tab alongside the names of the people met at that event.
• Added a lock screen / control center widget to quickly open Phone Keypad.
• Added black color for relation groups, bringing the total available colors to 10.
• When viewing a person, added the ability to copy a person’s name / job title / organization via long-press.
• Added a hometown label for contact Places. People with an address using this label will show in a new From here section when viewing that Place.

Improvements

• Contacts Sync is now significantly faster, often completing instantaniously on app open for users with <1000 contacts.
• Card Stack Organizer is now accessible from the main People tab.
• Social Graph is now accessible via the main People tab and load time for the graph has been reduced.
• The people sub-section bar has been moved to the bottom of the screen to make it easier to reach on larger phones.
• Tapping the header of the Recently Met Widget will now open the current event or people met list.
• Improved the performance of the People tab for users with larger contact libraries.
• Improved performance of the Place tab for users with a lot of Places.
• People met tab now sorts by recently added by default.
• Reduced app memory footprint for users with contact libaries containing a lot of photos.
• Improved the reliability of finding an existing nearby place from your library when creating a new event.
• Added haptic feedback when selecting people on the social graph.