Changelog

The same release notes that ship inside the app (Settings → About → Release notes).

v1.6.9 · 13 October 2026

A friendlier welcome Improved

• Four short welcome cards that show how Mizan works, with little previews.
• Setup is now quick: tap where you keep your money, then add amounts on one screen.
• A small celebration when you finish setting up.

v1.6.8 · 13 October 2026

A friendlier start Improved

• New, shorter welcome with two simple cards.
• Setting up your money is now one easy question at a time: your currency, then whether you use a card, cash or savings.
• Pure black dark mode is now on by default.

Fixed

• The currency list starts with USD, then goes A to Z.
• Restoring purchases no longer spins forever.
• Purchase errors now explain what went wrong.

v1.6.7 · 12 October 2026

Easier to use Improved

• Every sheet now has a close button, so you never have to guess how to leave.
• Pop-ups with a text box stay fully visible above the keyboard.
• The opening animation always plays in full, and a new setting can show it every time you come back to the app.
• The app softly blurs behind the store's purchase screen.
• Settings shows whether your phone model came with an OLED display, so you know if pure black saves battery.

Accounts Improved

• You can now delete any account, including Card, Cash and Savings.
• New first-run step to add your accounts and what is in them. Skip any you do not need.

On-device AI Improved

• Bring your own on-device model now supports more model families: Gemma 3, Qwen 2.5 and 3.5, Llama 3, Phi, DeepSeek and more.
• Mizan AI checks you have enough free storage before downloading a model.

Fixed

• Imported categories get the right icon.
• Amounts typed with a comma for decimals are read correctly in first-run setup.
• Settings and other lists no longer cut off the last item on iPhone.
• No more flash of the logo after Face ID; the opening animation plays once you unlock.

v1.6.6 · 11 October 2026

Clearer to see and use Improved

• Tapping a list row, card or setting now shows clear visual feedback.
• Switches and text field borders are easier to see in every theme.
• On tablets and foldables, screens keep a comfortable reading width instead of stretching edge to edge.

Smoother navigation Improved

• Supports the Android back gesture preview, so you can see where you are going before you let go.
• Mizan AI on the phone now runs on an updated, actively maintained engine.

v1.6.5 · 10 October 2026

Easier to read and use Improved

• Text now follows your phone's font size, up to twice as large, and the in-app text size adjusts on top of it.
• Accent colours are tuned so buttons and highlights stay readable in light, dark and AMOLED themes.
• Bigger tap areas on chips, filters, the range picker and chat controls.
• Screen readers now announce colour, icon and category choices, and whether sections are open or closed.

Smoother and calmer Improved

• Home's totals and charts appear faster, and only count up when the app first opens.
• Budget bars and percentages now finish together.
• Turning on Remove animations in your phone's settings now applies across Mizan.

Fixed

• Forms in sheets now scroll above the keyboard, so Save is always reachable.
• Leaving a half-filled expense now asks before throwing your changes away.
• Backups, receipt scans and AI errors show a clear message with Retry instead of technical details.
• Purchases can no longer be started twice, and the Premium sheet waits for the result.
• Home and the Mizan AI card can no longer get stuck loading.

v1.6.4 · 4 October 2026

Mizan AI, second generation New

• New on-device models: Silver 2 for most phones and Gold 2 for phones with 8 GB of memory or more.
• If you already have a Mizan AI model, it keeps working, and you can update to the new one when it suits you.
• Ask Mizan AI to add an expense, check the details, and approve it with one tap.

While you wait Improved

• A thinking trail shows what Mizan AI is doing while it prepares an answer.
• Answers keep generating if you switch apps, and a notification tells you when one is ready.

Premium Improved

• A clearer Premium page with monthly, yearly and lifetime plans.

v1.6.3 · 6 September 2026

Premium, clarified Improved

• Receipt photo attachments and the home screen widget are now part of Premium, as the Premium page always described.
• Anything you already attached stays on your expenses, and you can still view or remove it.
• The Settings plan row now reads 'Upgrade to Premium' when you are on the free plan.
• Mizan AI (on-device) now turns on automatically once its model finishes downloading, and shows its step-by-step reasoning in a collapsible box you can expand under each answer.

Tell us what you think New

• A gentle 'Have feedback?' card now appears once you have been using Mizan for a while, with a one-tap link to review on Google Play and a 'Don't show this again' option.

v1.6.2 · 21 August 2026

Recurring income New

• Salary and other regular income can now repeat automatically, right alongside recurring bills.
• Income never counts against your budgets or spending totals.

Privacy and security Improved

• New Block screenshots option hides Mizan from screen capture and the recent-apps preview.
• AI provider keys moved into Android's encrypted Keystore.
• Deleting all expenses or restoring a backup now removes leftover receipt photos.

Fixed

• Category and account icons show the correct symbols again.
• Amounts like 1,500 are read correctly everywhere, including CSV imports.
• App Lock now covers every screen when Mizan re-locks.
• Many smaller fixes to budgets, backups, and recurring schedules.

v1.6.1 · 8 July 2026

Stronger privacy Fixed

• App Lock now re-locks reliably every time you reopen Mizan.
• Receipt photos are fully removed when you delete an expense or reset the app, so nothing lingers on your device.

Debts, now on Home Improved

• Who owes you and what you owe now show at a glance on your Home screen, one tap away instead of buried in Settings.

v1.6.0 · 5 July 2026

Money tracker New

• Log income and transfers, not just spending. Your home screen now shows "In my pocket": your real net position after income, spending, and transfers.
• Track balances across multiple accounts (cash, cards, bank). Swipe to switch the home view to a single account, and move money between accounts with a transfer.

Savings goals New

• Set savings targets and watch your progress fill up. Free to use, with a cap on the number of goals; Premium unlocks more.

Debts and IOUs New

• Track who owes you and what you owe, with due dates and notes. Start typing a name and Mizan remembers people you have logged before.
• Tap Redeem when a debt is paid and it flows straight into your balance: money someone paid back counts as income, money you paid out counts as spending.

Mizan AI, fully on your phone New

• A private AI assistant that runs entirely on your device. No API key, no cloud, and nothing you type ever leaves the phone. Needs a phone with 6 GB or more memory.
• New Offline mode in Settings blocks cloud AI, model downloads and update checks, so you can see for yourself that nothing leaves the device.

Multiple currencies New

• Log an expense in any currency and Mizan converts it to your base. Switch your base currency any time and every total, budget, and balance converts cleanly.

Smoother and faster Improved

• Smoother typing, high refresh rate support, refreshed screen animations, and an app icon that follows your light or dark theme.

Stability and accuracy Fixed

• Many fixes across backups, currency conversion, and account handling to keep every total accurate.

v1.5.0 · 24 May 2026

Scan receipt with AI New

• New Scan receipt with AI card on the add and edit expense screens. Take a photo or pick one from your gallery, and your AI provider reads the total, merchant, date and best category, then fills in the form for you to check and save.
• Only the receipt image (resized to at most 1024 by 1024 pixels), your category names and your currency are sent. No other transactions, budgets or balances. Tap What gets sent? on the scan card to see exactly what goes before you scan.
• Works with AI models that can read images, such as GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini and open models with vision. The button hides for text-only models, and a Supports image input switch in provider settings covers custom models.

Free tier: 5 scans per day New

• Free users get 5 receipt scans a day, reset at local midnight. Premium is unlimited. Other AI features are not affected.

v1.4.14 · 20 May 2026

Encrypted backup save Fixed

• Saving an encrypted backup now works reliably on newer Android phones, including HyperOS on Android 16, where it could save an empty file. Mizan checks the saved file before saying it worked, and offers the share sheet if anything goes wrong.
• Pull to refresh on the home screen now works even when everything fits on one screen.

Restore confirmation Improved

• Restoring a backup now asks a simple Yes or No. Reset everything still asks you to type RESET, because it also clears your setup and the Premium status saved on this phone.

v1.4.13 · 18 May 2026

Pull to refresh Fixed

• Pull to refresh on the home screen now moves visibly as you drag. It used to feel stuck on some larger phones.

Clearer error details New

• Saving an encrypted backup now shows a short report of what was saved and where, which you can copy into a bug report.
• AI Auto category errors now show the details needed to report the problem, and are just as easy to copy.

v1.4.12 · 18 May 2026

More reliable backups Fixed

• Fixed backups on HyperOS (Android 16) that could save an empty file while reporting success. If a save cannot be confirmed, Mizan now offers the share sheet so you can send the backup to Drive, Telegram or anywhere else.
• Restoring an empty .mizan file now says: This .mizan file is empty, try a different backup file.
• Other restore errors now say the file may be damaged or not a Mizan backup, instead of showing technical details.
• The restore picker now shows only .mizan files.

Daily summary New

• Turning on the daily summary now asks for notification permission (needed on Android 13 and later), so the notification actually arrives.

Polish Improved

• Tapping a .mizan file in Files or Drive now opens Mizan straight away, without an extra file type prompt.
• Release notes no longer pop up on launch after an update. The full history is always in Settings → About → Release notes.

AI assistant on OpenRouter Fixed

• Fixed the client error 404 that OpenRouter users saw in AI Auto category, chat and budget suggestions.
• AI Auto category is available again to everyone with an AI provider set up.

Home screen widget refresh Fixed

• The home screen widget now updates right away when you edit an expense, undo a delete, add an expense, or delete all expenses, instead of waiting up to 30 minutes.

v1.4.11 · 16 May 2026

New

• Tapping a .mizan backup in Files or Drive now opens Mizan straight into restore, with the file ready.
• Daily summary: an optional evening recap of what you spent today. Off by default; turn it on in Settings → Notifications and pick a time. Days with no spending are skipped.
• Settings → About → Send feedback opens the feedback page on usemizan.app in your browser.

Cleaner file handling Improved

• Mizan now offers to open only .mizan backup files, and no longer shows up as an option for unrelated web links.

v1.4.10 · 16 May 2026

Home screen widgets, redesigned New

• A frosted, see-through background by default, so your wallpaper shows through. Turn it off in Settings → Appearance → Translucent widgets for a solid card.
• Every widget shows the mizan wordmark and its type (Spent or Remaining), so you can tell them apart at a glance.
• Clear names in the widget picker: Spent Small, Spent Medium, Remaining Small and Remaining Medium.
• Small widgets now show the thin budget progress bar too.

Widget fixes Fixed

• Widgets can be added again on Android 16 and HyperOS, where the launcher refused to place them.
• The main amount now shrinks to fit the small widget instead of being cut off.
• Setting or clearing a budget now updates every widget right away.

Security Improved

• The app is now harder to take apart and copy.

v1.4.9 · 13 May 2026

New

• Settings → Data now has Reset everything, under Delete all expenses. It wipes every expense, budget, recurring transaction, custom category and account, AI provider and key, and every setting. Your Premium purchase stays, because it lives with the store. Type RESET to confirm.

Fixed

• The buttons on the release notes dialog are now centred.
• Restoring a backup reliably brings back your AI provider and its key.

v1.4.8 · 12 May 2026

New

• Patch notes appear after every update so you don't miss new features
• Settings → About → Release notes shows the full version history
• Tap the X on the patch notes sheet to opt out of future update notes

AI reliability Fixed

• AI requests now time out after 120 seconds, so a stuck provider can no longer leave the chat waiting forever.
• If a provider is busy, Mizan waits and retries automatically, following the provider's advice on when to try again.
• Every AI error now shows a clear message (busy, timed out, offline, conversation too long and so on) with a Retry button.
• Tapping Send twice quickly no longer sends two requests.
• If a provider sends back something Mizan cannot read, you now see a clear message instead of nothing.

Improved

• An Update available banner appears at the bottom of the home screen when a newer Mizan is on Google Play. Tap Update to download it in the background, or dismiss it until the next launch.
• Faster start: Mizan now loads several things at once when it opens, about 300 ms quicker on a low end phone.

v1.4.7 · 11 May 2026

Fixed

• The yearly plan is now visible in dark mode. It used to be invisible.

New

• New AI Auto chip on the add expense screen picks the best category for you when an AI provider is set up.
• Auto works with both the built-in categories and your own.

v1.4.6 · 10 May 2026

Fixed

• Saving an encrypted backup on HyperOS (Android 16) no longer falls back to the share sheet when the save actually worked.

Improved

• Currencies now show the same way everywhere, as codes like AED, USD and EUR.
• Store prices use the same style, for example AED 73.00.
• Currencies without decimals, like JPY and KRW, no longer show decimal places.

v1.4.5 · 9 May 2026

Improved

• Donut chart colours are easier to tell apart.
• Each breakdown row uses the same colour as its slice of the donut, so you can match them at a glance.

v1.4.4 · 8 May 2026

Fixed

• Saving a backup now always keeps a checked safety copy first, so you are never left without one if the file picker misbehaves.
• The message after saving now says exactly where the safety copy is.

v1.4.3 · 7 May 2026

Fixed

• Backups made in 1.4.2 now restore correctly.
• Restoring asks you to type REPLACE, so you cannot overwrite your data by accident.

v1.4.2 · 6 May 2026

New

• Encrypted backups now include your settings and AI provider keys, not just expenses.
• Tapping a .mizan backup file now opens Mizan.
• CSV export lets you pick what to include: expenses, budgets, categories, accounts and recurring.

v1.4.1 · 5 May 2026

Fixed

• Better dark mode contrast on the add expense screen.
• Premium prices now show one currency throughout.
• You can now back out of the restore file picker.

v1.4.0 · 4 May 2026

Welcome to Mizan New

• Privacy-first expense tracking: your data stays on your device, with no accounts, analytics or ads.
• Encrypted backups with AES-256-GCM and PBKDF2 (600k iterations), protected by your passphrase.
• Optional AI assistant with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama or custom).
• Premium plans: monthly, yearly or lifetime.
• Receipt photo attachments, recurring transactions, budgets with threshold alerts, and biometric app lock.