Callsheet is approaching its second birthday, which is astonishing. Given that it is a subscription app, that means that day-one customers are starting to get “hey, your renewal is coming up” emails.

While working on the marketing site for the app, I wrote the following:

Your first 20 searches in Callsheet are free; after that, you can subscribe for the so-low-I-should-probably-raise-it price of $1 per month, or $9 per year.

I’m not saying that I’m planning to raise prices, but I’m also not… not-saying that.

For the remainder of 2025, and the first half of 2026, I have lots of things planned. Most especially, getting a few pesky but not show-stopping bugs out of the way.^[1] After that, working on my new design system (“Liquid Glass”) refresh, as well as some big refinements to the Discover (landing) screen.

Regardless, as I did last year, I’d like to remind my customers what the last year of updates brought.

2024.13

• New OG icon variants
• You can now optionally force the app to be in light mode or dark mode
• When looking at a TV show’s season, you can now use ↑ ↓ to page between seasons
• Improved localizations
• Callsheet will now be shown as a result when you search some basic terms in Spotlight, like “movie”, “tv”, etc.
• Fixes issue where a movie’s local release date was used for calculating cast and crew ages, rather than the international release date
• Fixes issue where adult content was not filtered out of “Known For” sections
• Fixes scroll hitches for TV shows

2024.14

• The “Subscribe” button should no longer flash on-screen for subscribers. Finally.
• Dramatically revamp filtering when looking at a person, so you can hone in on, say, just their movie roles, or TV jobs
• Add awards as a Quick Access link
• When viewing a TV season, use chevrons rather than arrows to page between seasons
• When viewing a TV season, honor the oldest-first vs. newest-first preference
• Change “Safari” → “System Default” in Persnickety Preferences
• Add “Open in browser” item to share sheet menus where appropriate
• More explicit search prompts when searching on-screen by swiping down slightly
• Additional logging around purchase errors
• Allow for instances where a “known for” job isn’t provided by TMDB
• Fix a rare issue where searching by callsheet:// search did not return results if you had trailing whitespace
• Fix workaround by which pinning can be used as a way to get free searches
• Fix a rare issue where a mostly-invalid URL returned from TMDB could cause a crash

2025.1

This was pulled shortly after release, so most users didn’t get it.

2025.2

• MULTIPLE LISTS OF PINS!
  • There is only one “active” list at a time
  • You can switch lists on the Discover screen
  • You can see all the pins in the active list by tapping the list name on the Discover screen
  • You can add the same pin to multiple lists
  • You can move/copy pins between lists (open your list and then tap-and-hold on a pin)
  • You can add/remove pins from non-active lists by tapping-and-holding on the pin button in the toolbar
• Add support for ⌘F on iPad and macOS
• Add ability to “roll the dice” and choose a random pin
• Add support for automatic switchover between dark mode and light mode icons for the OG icon set
• Add shortcuts for Spotlight/Shortcuts
• Add Control Center controls
• Can now un-hide spoilers in Known For
• When looking at a person, long-running series (think Saturday Night Live) are now grouped together. This should cut down on the amount of times you see someone born in 2000 credited for a show in 1975.
• Add Pretty in Pink icon
• Add TipKit to a couple of spots, which will give you hints on how to use every part of Callsheet to the fullest
• Fix episode summaries not honoring spoiler settings
• Fix broken episode counts for roles that have been coalesced
• Small VoiceOver fixes
• Fix oddball case when a Wikipedia title has a question mark in it would lead to Callsheet getting confused when opening Wikipedia
• Fix a plurality mismatch on the pre-sale screen
• Nerds: some work toward Swift 6 Strict Concurrency. This work may never end, however.

2025.3

New Features:

• Full context menus in the Discover screen for adding/removing pins
• Vastly improved and simplified sharing, thanks to the new callsheetapp.com. This includes universal deep link support
• Live activities can be started — manually — for movies and TV episodes. This allows you to one-tap return to Callsheet on your phone
• Fix leaky Finnish translations, particularly when long-pressing the app icon
• Fix Pretty in Pink app icon
• Improve list ordering and make more consistent
• Add missing dark variant icons
• Add VoiceOver/accessibility labels for app icons
• Improve verbiage for buttons in a delete dialog
• The mark used in the years a show ran is now an endash

2025.4

• When viewing a person, TV appearances are correctly placed in the year of their first appearance. The short-lived section for “long-running series” is gone!
• Ages in cast/crew lists now show the person’s age at the time of release and the age they are now
• People who are pinned are now highlighted when looking at cast/crew lists
• New Quick Link to Letterboxd for movies
• Quick Links you don’t want can be hidden
• Added credit counts for people — they can be found all the way at the bottom of the credit lists
• Added tool tips for Quick Links and toolbar on macOS
• You can now paste TMDB URLs in the Search box, and once you hit “Search” Callsheet will jump to the right spot
• Fixed behavior for TV shows with non-contiguous season numbers
• Fixed share links from context menus not using universal links
• People’s “Known For” should now more heavily weight shows and movies you’ve pinned
• Actor heights are now back, where possible
• Searches will trim whitespace by default
• Fix weird visual glitch with the fourth (and only fourth) person on a cast/crew list
• Fix visual glitch with “Released” for TV episodes
• When running on the Mac, now requires macOS 15.0
• German localization fixes

2025.5

• Death year and age added to a person’s credit when viewing a film/episode
• Fix completely jacked-up Upcoming section in people’s filmographies
• Fix wonky quick links presentation on iPad & Mac
• Fix visual glitch in Settings → Select Link
• Fix episode trivia link being off by one. I am now living proof the computer science joke is real.

2025.6

• Add age at death for posthumous credits
• Correct age handling for releases in the future
• Fix collection ordering; in rare cases flipping between movies in a collection was not ordered correctly. (You can do this using the up and down arrows in the top toolbar when viewing a movie such as Star Wars).
• Add missing localization for “Choose Links” in Settings
• Remove a simulator-only workaround for how Apple accidentally busted URLSession in the prior version of Xcode

2025.7

• Fixed issue where the “died age X” calculation — shown in cast/crew lists — was made from birthday to release day, instead of birthday to death day.

I’m really happy with the progress over the last year, and I like to think I’ve more than earned $9. If you’re a current subscriber, I hope you’ll consider renewing. If you’ve never tried Callsheet, there’s no better time than now.