2026.8 | Reel Savings

What's New:

Live Activities: Off by default. Can be enabled in the Now Playing menu in Settings. Will show you movie, theater, auditorium, and seat info on your lock screen before the movie starts, along with the time the movie ends and how long until the end. Shows on Apple Watch as well.
Shortcuts Support: Now works with the Shortcuts app. Find and filter your movies by theater, format, rating, price, tags, and more, then build anything from an average ticket price report to an automation that logs a movie in the background. Your saved filters work there too.
Spotlight Search: Search from your Home Screen and your logged movies appear with their poster, showtime, theater, and even your seat.
Quicker Logging: Long press the app icon to jump into the Add Movie flow quickly, or add a button to Control Center or your Lock Screen.
Siri Support: Say "Log a movie in Reel Savings" or "Rate my last movie in Reel Savings" to try it out.
Calendar: Option to sync your movies to an iCloud calendar. Stays up to date with any changes you make to entries.
Theaters: Link a theater to its address. Used to give travel time alerts for the new calendar function.
Shake to Report: Shake your phone anywhere in the app to send a report. Contact Us can now attach diagnostics, and optionally a full backup of your library, so problems can be sorted out in one round trip.

Enhancements:

Auto Backup: Manual backups are now not included in the 20 backup limit, and remain unless manually deleted by the user.
Concessions: New field to add waived fees and have them fold into program savings. Intended for situations like the waived fees A-List offers for online concession ordering. Ticket booking fees work the same way, and fees waived at a theater no membership covers now show as their own line instead of quietly widening the gap in your totals.
Points Redemption: Added the ability to assign points from multiple programs towards additional ticket purchases.
Onboarding: Reworked onboarding that makes it easier for first time users to get setup and going.
A-List: Built in support for Classic membership tier.
Now Playing: In addition to being able to adjust the global trailer length, you can now set the trailer length the app uses to calculate end times on a chain by chain basis.
Sync: Expanded iCloud sync. Most settings besides theme, accent color, and icon now sync across devices.
How I Spend: Tap the How I Spend chart to see every category and amount, including the small ones too thin to label.

Bug Fixes:

Widgets: The widget was silently unavailable to anyone on iOS 18.0 through 18.5. It now installs on every supported version. On a fresh install posters would not show on widgets until a movie was added or edited. Widgets will now populate immediately.
Savings & Stats: Stat tiles and their breakdown popups disagreed on custom programs. Combined view double-counted companion waived fees, and leftover companion ticket info could inflate Total Value and Total Savings. Home now refreshes after points edits and after a membership renewal charge.
Custom Programs: Added protections from deleting a custom program. App will now block deletion if there are any rewards points attributed to it in addition to movie entries.
Entry Add/Edit: Changing an entry's theater to another chain is now blocked if it would strand rewards on a membership that doesn't work there.
Concession Programs: Save was permanently disabled when editing an existing program.
Backup & Restore: Saved filters are now carried through backup and restore.
Auditorium: Fixed an issue where PLF may flip back to standard projection when you edit the auditorium, and where toggling a format to or from IMAX left the aspect ratio stale.
Manual Entry: Fixed a bug that would cause the photo picker to instantly close when adding a poster to a manual entry.