Festivus Grievances
A silly app used to keep track of all the ways you’ve been disappointed by the people in your life. You enter grievances all year, and they remain hidden from everyone — even yourself. Keep all that anger bottled up until Festivus dinner and the airing of the grievances!
I originally built Festivus Grievances as a playground to learn SwiftUI, but it’s become something I’m actually rather proud of 🙂.
This is by far the most feature-rich and polished grievance tracking app for Festivus in the world.
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iOS Version History
2025.1
Released February, 2025
- Added a setting for the time of day to receive reminder notifications
2022.4
Released February, 2022
- New icon! ☺️
- New ‘Festivus Countdown’ widget
- Shows the days-to-Festivus countdown and number of unaired grievances on your home screen
- Added name suggestions when creating your grievances
- Shows recently entered names, filtered once you start typing
- Preference to display a scrolling list, or one ‘most likely’ name
- Fancy new preferences screen
- Provided more context for Fake Festivus and Notifications
- Increased clarity of the ‘Happy Festivus’ notification (vs regular reminders)
- New preference to select your default anger level
- New custom-built ‘anger level picker’
- Larger emoji
- Haptic feedback
- No longer has the awkward ‘background-on-background’ problem of the built-in picker used previously
- Added ‘person’ and ‘problem’ icons in the new grievance screen
- Small touch, but it looks niiiiiiiice
- Bundled the Apple Watch app directly into the iOS version
2022.3
Released January, 2022
- Fixes a rather annoying issue where upgrading to version 2022.2 from older versions of the app caused a failure to launch
2022.2
Released January, 2022
- Added image cards for grievance airing on Festivus, ready to be shared on Instagram or LinkedIn
- Added ‘anger level’ to each grievance, can now sort by ‘anger’ on Festivus
- Added keyboard shortcuts [cmd+n, cmd+enter, esc, cmd+,]
- Added keyboard tabbing between text fields in ’new grievance’ view
- New preference to control the direction of date sorting
- Allowed fake Festivus to persist during session, only reset on fresh launch of the app
- Changed ‘problem’ text entry to multi-line, giving much more room for much more anger!
- Removed ‘favourite’ option from the grievance creation view (still present post-creation)
- Restored editing of grievances
- Updated layout of ‘Not Festivus’ view, and improved blur appearance
2022.1
Released January, 2022
Changes
- Made an in-app purchase for Fake Festivus, allowing all grievances to be viewed on days other than Festivus
- Disables Fake Festivus automatically when resuming the app
- Added notifications for Festivus day, and reminders through the year to log grievances
- Added a special celebration to the main screen on Festivus
- Added a count of currently un-aired grievances to the main screen
- Added link to release notes directly from the preferences screen
Fixes
- Resume hiding the grievances list after Festivus (i.e. December 24th) without requiring a fresh launch
- ‘Days until Festivus’ message updates if midnight is passed
2021.2
Released December, 2021
Additions:
- Added version number to preferences screen
- Added a link to andrewflemming.net
Fixed bugs:
- Fixed over-sized icons in navigation bars
- Wrong grievance text was being used when sharing a grievance
- When blur was being applied to hide grievances, blurred content was offset
2021.1
Released November, 2021
Fixed bugs:
- Grievances were not being automatically displayed on Festivus
2020.1
Released February, 2020
- Initial Release