Festivus Grievances

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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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Screenshots

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iOS Version History

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