FlipperHelper Changelog

Link expenses directly to items, plus a new Delivery expense type (v9.0.0, iOS & Android).

Entry fees, transport costs, delivery charges, and other expenses can now be linked directly to the item they belong to — that cost is then factored into that item’s own profit automatically, instead of only showing up in your overall Money Flow totals. Delivery is a new expense type alongside entry fees, transport, and other, for postage and courier costs. Linked expenses now show up in your Google Sheets export. Also in this release: dozens of bug fixes covering more reliable sales, currency, and syncing behaviour, smoother haul and expense editing, corrected profit calculations when expenses are linked, and performance improvements for photo loading and sharing.

Notification and location permissions, only when they matter (iOS & Android).

FlipperHelper no longer asks for notification or location access the moment you open the app. Notifications are now requested right after you save your first item, alongside a quick explanation of what they’re for — a nudge to list it — rather than a blanket prompt before you’ve done anything. Location is only requested when it can actually help: once you have a market saved with a location, or when you tap “Use current location” while adding or editing a market. Both prompts show once — decline and FlipperHelper won’t ask again, though you can still turn either on later in Settings.

FlipperHelper for Android is now on Google Play.

The Android app is out of early access and available to everyone — no testing sign-up, no group to join, just install it from Google Play. It’s a full native app with feature parity with the iPhone version, and both share the same backup format, so you can move your items, photos, and history between iPhone and Android without losing anything.

Return dates, flexible “days to sell”, and a customisable Add Item screen (v1.3.0, iOS & Android).

You can now mark an item as returnable and set a return deadline — the item list shows how many days you have left, turns red at three days or fewer, and switches to “Too late” once the window closes, so you never miss a shop’s return window on stock that didn’t sell. “Days to sell” can now be measured either from the purchase date or from the date you listed an item, whichever better reflects how you work. The Add Item screen is now yours to shape: a “Customise fields” sheet lets you show only the fields you use — title, market, seller, purchase date, return date — each with a short description, right where you add items, instead of being buried in Settings. Purchase date is now a cleaner date-only picker, and trying to save a haul with no items now explains what a haul is for instead of leaving the Save button greyed out. Fixes: photos taken with the camera are no longer occasionally lost if the phone reclaims memory mid-shot, and the onboarding progress bar no longer overlaps the system status bar (both Android).

Multiple photos per item.

Items can now hold up to 10 photos instead of one — the most-requested change from resellers who wanted to capture the front, back, label, and any flaws of a piece before listing it. Take new photos with the camera or add several from your camera roll at once, and choose which photo is the “main” image shown in your item list. Tap any photo to view it full-screen and zoom in. Every photo’s link is now included when you export to Google Sheets. Photo sync to Google Drive was also made more reliable, so large batches upload without stalling instead of timing out part-way through.

New Zealand Dollar support.

NZD (NZ$) is now one of the supported home currencies, bringing the total to six: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, and NZD. New Zealand resellers can now set NZD as their home currency, and items bought or sold in NZD convert automatically using the same daily exchange rates as every other currency. The app also picks NZD by default on first launch for iPhones set to a New Zealand region.

iCloud Backup & Restore.

Your data is now automatically backed up to iCloud every 5 minutes — enabled by default, works completely offline (iOS syncs when you're back online). Restore from iCloud on the same device or after a fresh install, with a live progress indicator and cancel button if the download is slow. Two independent backup paths now exist: iCloud (automatic) and file export (manual ZIP via share sheet). Google Sheets & Drive export (for desktop analysis) is a separate feature, not a backup. The backup engine was rewritten with a custom ZIP writer that produces reliable archives — the previous system-level ZIP creator could produce files that silently restored as empty. Old backups remain fully compatible. Google Drive export progress (folder IDs, spreadsheet links, sync timestamps) is now preserved when restoring from any backup, so you don't lose your Sheets export setup. The “Backup & Restore” section in Settings is now a single unified section instead of two confusing ones, with clearer labels: “Export to File” and “Import from File” for manual backups. The Google Drive section is renamed to “Google Sheets & Drive” to reflect that it exports both spreadsheets and images.

Dashboard deep links.

The app now registers a custom URL scheme (flipperhelper://) that routes to the Dashboard, Add Item, and Items List screens. Used by the App Store in-app event "Car Boot Season 2026" to jump straight into the right screen.

Sold button on search results.

Requested by a user with ~170 listed items, who pointed out that scrolling a long list to mark a single sale was painful. Search now shows a one-tap sold button on any listed item that hasn't sold yet. Saves a tap-tap-tap.

Custom dashboard ranges.

Before, the dashboard only showed "this month". Now you can pick a custom date range, a specific week, or a specific month — useful for reviewing how a single weekend went, or looking back at March after it ended.

Dates on entry fees and expenses.

If you paid a £5 entry fee on Saturday but only logged it on Sunday, the date used to be wrong. Now you can pick the date when you log any fee or expense. Item costs also show as a separate line in the dashboard summary, so at a glance you can see stock cost vs entry fees, transport, and other expenses.

CSV + GZIP sync

replaced the old JSON export pipeline. Backups are now compressed CSV: smaller files, faster uploads to Google Drive, no backend required. A 100k-item backup round-trips end-to-end.

Background photo sync

photos keep uploading to Google Drive using iOS background task continuation, even when the app is suspended. Queue is resumed on next launch if interrupted.

Listing reminder notifications

optional local push reminders for unlisted items. Configurable per day of week and time. No server involved; processed entirely on device.

Entry fee lifecycle per market

entry fees are now linked to markets. Add a fee once; it auto-suggests for the next visit. Option to disable a market from prompting for entry fees.

Multi-platform listing flow

list the same item across eBay, Vinted, Depop, Facebook, and others in one pass. Dates and asking prices tracked per platform.

Device currency on first login

the app now picks your iPhone's region currency by default (GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, AUD, NZD) instead of asking.

Exchange rates

auto-updated daily, stored for 365 days locally, used for multi-currency profit calculation.

Data backup and restore

full backup as ZIP archive, including items, markets, sellers, expenses, settings, and photos. Restore works on a fresh install.

SKU display

tap-to-copy SKU on item details (Crockford Base32 format, e.g. FH-20D6G0NR).

UX

haptics on delete and save, dropped keyboard on outside tap, scroll to profit after selling, cleanup of new-item state on leave.

Localization

English as the canonical language; dropped a partial Russian locale that wasn't being maintained.

Photo-first item tracking with automatic SKU generation

16 listing platforms (eBay, Vinted, Facebook, Depop, Poshmark, Mercari, OfferUp, Craigslist, ThredUp, Etsy, Gumtree, Shpock, Preloved, Nextdoor, Grailed, ShopThing)

18 sold platforms (the 16 above plus Car Boot and Sold Offline)

Markets with optional GPS and radius-based auto-suggestion

Sellers linked to markets

Transport expenses by mode (car, bus, train, taxi, van, bike rental)

Other expenses (packaging, fees, etc.)

Google Drive integration using the restricted drive.file and email OAuth scopes

CSV export that Google Drive auto-converts to a Sheet — no Sheets API required

Offline-first: fully functional without a network

iOS 17+ with SwiftUI

Automatic TestFlight upload on release tag (GitHub Actions + manual code signing)