Callsheet launched just shy of a year ago, which means that annual subscribers are going to be getting renewal emails soon, if not already. Callsheet has exceeded my wildest dreams — it is a multi-award winning app, having collected both an Upgradie and an App Store Editor’s Choice award. The feedback from users has been extraordinary, and I’m so thankful for the praise it’s received. 🥹

Over the last year, I’ve added a ton of new features, and made a bunch of improvements. Some favorites include Plex and Channels integration, native visionOS support, search within lists, as well as quietly launching “cast union search” — the ability to see what movies two actors both appeared in.

So, when the Apple renewal email rolls in, I’d really love it if you’d promptly ignore it, and let your subscription continue. 😏 Callsheet has been a highlight of my career, and I have vast plans for year two — starting with vast improvements to the pinning system. 🫣

For the record, here’s what your $9, or local equivalent, has gotten you this year:

2024.2

• Support season-level cast for ensemble shows like Fargo, True Detective, etc. You can see this in an episode’s cast list.
• Attempt to prevent spoilers from showing while data/images are loaded
• Account for spoiler settings in “You may know them from” section
• Add shortcut in search to load by TMDB ID: “tmdb[m|s|p]:#”. For example, “tmdbm:1669” will jump you directly to The Hunt for Red October. Use ‘s’ for shows and ‘p’ for people
• Fix an issue (that most of you probably didn’t see) wherein character names were always hidden on episode cast lists
• Fix a rare issue where a TV show had a Specials season, but it wasn’t being displayed
• Fix issue where using the search URL scheme wouldn’t work when the app is not already in memory (It would previously ignore your search if the app wasn’t backgrounded).
• Fix icon selector not showing the correct state in some circumstances
• Fix hang in “More Purchase Options” screen when reached via Search History
• Fix issue where releases without associated ratings were being ignored, leading to incorrect release dates
• Add debug logging around language/region overrides and iCloud status
• Update to latest version of TelemetryDeck package
• Use native SwiftUI review requests rather than dropping down to UIKit

2024.3

• Fix broken segmented control on TV episode view when using larger font sizes
• Fix episode counts not being summed for actors that have multiple roles on the same show
• Fix ages being shown in movie/episode details even if “Show Ages” was disabled in Persnickety Preferences

2024.4

• You can now pull-down-to-search on movies, TV shows, and TV episodes! This is far and away the most frequent request I get. Now it’s there!
• When you share a person/movie/show/season/episode, you’ll now be presented with a menu, offering to share a web link, or a Callsheet link. The latter is super useful for sending to other Callsheet users.

2024.5

• The same pull-down-to-search on movies from TV shows, and TV episodes in the last version is now added to people as well!
• Fixes an issue where up/down chevrons for TV episodes weren’t refreshing the cast/crew lists
• When you do a pull-down-to-search, the app will scroll to the cast list automatically; this is particularly useful for regular-sized phones
• Fixes an issue where the Cast/Crew label was tappable if a person has only cast or only crew credits
• Pins will now be hidden if you don’t have any AND you’ve searched 10+ times, or, now, if it’s been at least a week since you’ve purchased

2024.6

• Fixes an issue with the layout/behavior or spoiler settings

2024.7

• Add heights to actor screen, where possible. Not every actor will have their height listed, but many will.
• The units are specified by your phone’s settings. Within the Settings app: General → Language & Region → Measurement System
• However, to see the alternative unit, simply tap the actor’s height. If the height shown is in feet/inches, the popover will show centimeters, and vice/versa.

2024.8

• Now available on visionOS! If you’re subscribed to this version, you’ll automatically be subscribed on visionOS once you download the app there. (Note that in visionOS the icon is different!)
• Now requires iOS 17.0
• Attempt to show buttons for all quick access links rather than one and the More… button. This is most visible on People and on everything on iPadOS

2024.9

• Slightly change the default icon. The original is available in the in-app Settings → Persnickety Preferences → App Icon.
• Hide search box when an image is zoomed in
• Some refinements to the TV season carousel: when a show has only one season, the larger button is used — the same as multiple-season shows; when a show has more than 10 seasons, the dates of those seasons are now shown.
• When you scroll laterally in the main/Discover screen, and then drill into a movie/show, and then return to Discover, it should remember[-ish] your scroll position.
• When you are in an episode view and switch between Guests/Cast/Crew, and then drill into a person, and then return to the episode, your prior G/C/C selection is no longer ignored
• Tapping an item in Search History will move it to the top of the list.
• Fix edge case where, if an actor was in a show and movie with the same ID number, only one would show on their filmography. In this case, Bruce Willis, Die Hard, and The Ellen Degeneres Show
• Fix some small layout issues, mostly in iPad

2024.10

• Movie/show titles will show in the language you specify in Language Override, or your device’s native language, whenever possible.
• To see titles in a movie/show’s original language, tap the title when looking at the details of that item.
• If you tap on a movie or TV show’s rating, a popover will show the genres for that movie/show
• Small accessibility improvement for TV ratings
• Performance improvements for movies & shows
• Add ugly in-app log viewer; you can see it by opening callsheet://logs in Safari
• Fix presentation for instances where a popover element on visionOS is used but there isn’t actually a popover. Say, a movie or show that has ratings but no genres.

2024.11

• You can now search for films that two people worked on together. Tap the “Find shared film credits” on a person’s details. Note this only works for films and not shows.
• Add Pride & Trans icon sets (see Persnickety Preferences)
• Loading people was slow due to the request that tries to load a person’s height. That’s now been separated out, so the view should load far faster.
• Rejigger purchase detection in order to add lots more logging and also be more forgiving.
• Add context menus for zoomed-in posters & profile photos
• Fix issue where some bad data coming back from a search result would cause all results to be ignored
• Fix issue with TV episode titles not updating when using the up/down chevrons

2024.12

• Localize for Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
• New dark-themed OG icons
• Add ↑ ↓ buttons to page through movies that are part of a collection/series. (Say, the nine Star Wars movies)
• Add spoiler prevention option for summaries, as some of them have no chill. (Looking at you, Handmaid’s Tale season 5)
• Slightly rearrange Settings & add a link to set the app’s language (shown only if you have more than one language enabled on your device)
• Fix Spoiler Settings insta-closing the first time you open it
• Fix weird kerning issue in Spoiler Settings
• Some improved logging around subscription verification so I can see if me blaming StoreKit2 is justified or not 😇

Not a bad deal for $9.