Liara App Features

9 October 2026

Rockefeller Hall is a normal update. Install it from the App Store or Google Play like any other app; you do not need to uninstall anything or sign in again.

• Daily Notes — On the Symptoms tab, open Daily notes to write about your day in your own words and read back what you wrote before. If you mention a symptom, Liara adds it to your symptom entries for you, marked “AI-generated from your notes”. If one is not right, you can delete it.
• Who Published Each Resource — Resources, insight cards and the symptom guide now show who published each article and video.
• Messages That Stay on Screen — Error messages no longer disappear on their own. They stay until you close them, and the most common ones now have a short title so you can see what went wrong at a glance.
• Medication Reminders — Tapping a medication reminder now opens that dose straight away, even if the app was closed.
• For Care Partners — The Symptoms tab on Care Recipient now shows the symptoms the person you support has logged in the last 14 days.
• Smaller Fixes — The Daily Activity chart shows one week at a time; the profile set-up steps have a step counter; the Home screen and tab bar work better with larger text; screen readers read more of the app clearly; tapping send twice in Ask Liara sends your message once; Liara uses the name you signed up with; and on Android the distance row that always showed 0 km has gone.

14 September 2026

MAXine is now Liara. It is the same app, from the same team, with all your information exactly where you left it — your medicines, your symptom notes and your messages are all still there. Because Liara is a new listing in both app stores, you do need to install it yourself this time, and you will be asked to sign in once with your usual email address and password. Keble also puts you in charge of which reminders you get, and shows you where our information comes from.

• Choosing Which Reminders You Get — Open Settings → Notifications and turn each kind on or off on its own: medication reminders, questionnaire reminders, messages from Liara, and health notifications. If you only want your dose reminders, you can have just those. On Android each kind now has its own entry in your phone's own notification settings too, so you can silence one from there without silencing the rest.
• Reporting a Health Concern — Liara now shows you the concerns you have recorded, so you can look back at what you told the study team and when. The form is clearer about what happens next: it no longer offers to place a call, and instead points you to the right service, so it is never unclear who you are contacting.
• Finding Things in Resources — The resource library now has a search box and topic filters, so if you are looking for something about sleep or about medication you can go straight to it instead of scrolling.
• Where Our Information Comes From — A new Settings → Information sources screen, reachable from every screen where Liara explains something about Parkinson's, sets out the guidance we draw on — NICE, the NHS and Parkinson's UK — and names Professor Camille Carroll as the author of our symptom insight cards and non-motor symptom videos.
• A Refreshed Look — New colours, type and icons throughout, with larger touch targets and clearer contrast following an accessibility review of the patient screens.
• Now on the App Store and Google Play — Liara is installed from the app stores rather than TestFlight or a downloaded file, so future updates will arrive on their own. This first move to Liara is the one exception: you need to install it yourself, and on Android you must uninstall the old MAXine app before Liara will install.

19 August 2026

Bailey Hall is about your data and your choices. You can now download everything Liara holds about you, and you can ask for your account to be deleted — with time to change your mind. Alongside that, medication reminders and your notification list have had a careful tidy-up.

• Download a Copy of Your Data — A new Settings → Your Data screen offers two downloads. Download all my data gives you everything we hold — your profile, symptoms, medications, messages and health data, plus the things Liara worked out about you such as summaries and messages. Download a portable copy gives you only the information you provided, in a format another app or service can read, leaving out anything Liara generated. Nothing in the app changes when you download.
• Deleting Your Account — The same screen lets you ask for your account to be deleted. Nothing happens straight away: deletion is scheduled after 14 days, and you can stop it at any point in that window by returning to the same screen and tapping Keep my account. We email you when the request is made and again if you cancel. After the 14 days your personal information is removed for good and cannot be recovered. A linked care partner is told the link is ending, but never the reason.
• A Clearer Notification List — Older notifications now load as you scroll instead of stopping after the first batch, and each entry carries an icon showing what it came from — a medication reminder, a message from Liara, a questionnaire — so the list is easier to scan.
• Medication Reminders That Behave — Liara now warns you before saving a medication at a time you already have a reminder for, instead of quietly setting two. Changing a schedule no longer disturbs what you already recorded, a dose you can still act on is no longer labelled missed, and stretches with nothing logged are collapsed in the history view.
• Messages from Liara — Each message now has two buttons instead of three. Dismiss did exactly the same thing as Got it, so it has been removed — leaving Discuss with Liara to open a chat about the message, and Got it to clear it from your feed.
• Fixes — Fixed a crash on iPhone when moving the sliders on the health-scale questionnaire. The close button on confirmation pop-ups stays in the corner at larger text sizes. Fixed a burst of unnecessary requests when opening the app on an iPhone from cold. Corrected welcome-tour wording that overstated what Liara does. We now say Parkinson's rather than Parkinson's disease throughout, and Settings pages share a consistent heading style.
• Behind the Scenes — Summaries are dated by the period they cover rather than when they were written, so “recently” means what you would expect. Deletion and export run in the background so the app stays responsive, unreachable devices are retired from notifications automatically, and dependency security updates landed across app, API, and chat.

25 July 2026

Until now, Liara waited for you to ask. The Magdalen release lets Liara come to you. A new Messages from Liara feed collects short, helpful messages based on what you have been tracking, and a daytime notification lets you know when there is something new. Care partners can receive their own messages about how to support you — but only when you choose to share.

• Messages from Liara — Open Settings → Messages from Liara for helpful messages based on your recent activity. Each message offers Discuss with Liara (opens a chat already focused on that message), Got it, and Dismiss.
• Daytime-Only Notifications — When a new message is ready Liara can notify you; tap to go straight to the feed. Notifications are held until daytime hours in your own time zone. Liara writes at most one message a day and will not repeat the same suggestion within a week, so you are not interrupted repeatedly. Your app notification settings still apply.
• Messages for Care Partners — Linked care partners can receive their own prompts about how to support you, such as a gentle nudge to check in. Care partners always see a banner making clear that Liara is drawing on your shared information, and every message they view is written to your access log.
• Per-Person Sharing Control — Settings → Care Partner Access now has a Share your AI summaries with… switch for each care partner. Off by default, separate per person, and reversible at any time — turning it off stops their messages and removes anything still waiting for them.
• A Clearer Access Summary — The Access Summary now uses plain English such as “Liara chat about you” and “AI-summary sharing turned on” instead of technical labels, and no longer lists routine background activity.
• Liara Remembers More of Your Story — Chat can now draw on a summary of your earlier conversations and questionnaires plus how your symptoms have been trending, so you can pick up where you left off instead of starting again each time.
• Voice Input for Care Partners — Care partners can now tap the microphone in chat and speak their question, just as patients can.
• Easier, Safer Symptom Logging — Custom symptom names containing no letters or numbers are rejected, and adding a custom symptom you already track is caught straight away with a clear message.
• Smoother Sign-Up — The account-type screen can no longer be submitted twice by accident (which previously could lock you to the wrong account type), and people who already have an account are taken to the right place instead of being asked to choose again.
• Privacy and Security — Signing out now removes your device from notifications, so on a shared phone the next person cannot receive your reminders or messages. Fixed a problem where a device used by more than one account could receive someone else's notifications. Your name is no longer included in the summaries Liara writes, and those summaries are handled so text from a chat cannot change how Liara behaves for your care partner. Dependency security updates across app, API, and chat.

24 June 2026

Baker Lab builds on Kellogg's Symptom Insight Cards by connecting them to optional health data from your phone. With your permission, Liara reads sleep, activity, and heart rate from Apple Health or Health Connect, spots when your recent readings look different from your usual pattern, and surfaces plain-language Insight Cards on the Symptoms tab.

• Health Data Sharing in Settings — A new Health Data screen lets you grant or withdraw consent, choose a retention period (30 days to 1 year), optionally share with your care team, sync manually, and permanently delete stored readings when you withdraw.
• Insight Cards From Your Health Data — When sharing is on, the Symptoms carousel can show cards labelled “From your health data” for patterns such as sleep changes, activity drops or rises, and heart-rate shifts. Tap for the full explanation; use Ask Liara to discuss.
• Smarter Chat With Health Context — When you have shared health data, Liara can use recent readings as context in chat so replies reflect your day-to-day patterns.
• Daily Background Sync — Readings sync automatically each day after consent; you can also tap Sync now at any time.
• Clearer Carousel Loading — The Insight Card carousel on the Symptoms tab loads more smoothly on first open.
• Better Android Sideload Support — The download APK now supports older 32-bit Android devices.
• Security and Reliability — Dependency security updates across API, chat, and mobile. Improved consent gating so health context is never used without your permission.

16 June 2026

Kellogg completes the Symptom Insight Cards rollout that began in Stimson Hall. You now see a personalised carousel on the Symptoms tab, can open each card for the full clinical explanation, and jump straight to logging, the Symptom Guide, or Ask Liara. Cards also refresh based on what you have logged recently, not only what you chose during onboarding.

• Symptom Insight Cards on the Symptoms Tab — A swipeable carousel of short, personalised tips based on the symptoms you track. Cards are grouped by type (movement, non-movement, and activity ideas). Stimson Hall added the clinical library and backend; Kellogg brings the carousel and detail experience into the app.
• Cards That Follow Your Recent Symptom Logs — Personalisation now looks at symptoms you have logged in the last 14 days first, then your onboarding symptom choices, then the full catalogue. Return to the Symptoms tab after logging and the carousel updates to reflect what you have been tracking.
• Full Card Detail Screen — Tap any card to read the complete text, including “Why does this happen?” where relevant, plus illustrations when available. Linked resources (articles, videos, and guides) open in your browser when you choose them.
• Three Quick Actions on Every Card — Log it opens symptom logging for the linked symptom area. Learn more opens the matching section in the Symptom Guide. Ask Liara starts a chat with a suggested question about that card.
• Smarter Chat from Insight Cards — When you open Ask Liara from a card, Liara receives extra context about that insight so replies stay focused on what you were reading.
• Clinical Text Restored to Source Wording — Insight card descriptions now match the approved clinical source documents word-for-word, so what you read in the app aligns with the clinician-authored content.
• Clearer Scrolling on the Symptoms Tab — Fixed bottom spacing so the last content on the Symptoms screen is not hidden behind the tab bar or home indicator.
• Faster, More Reliable Service Startup — Fixed a production issue that could cause API errors on cold start after deployment. You should see fewer unexpected “service unavailable” moments when opening the app.
• Security and Reliability — Updated dependencies to address security scanner findings. Backend performance improvements for symptom and insight queries. Shared warm-up and error-handling improvements across API and chat services.

8 June 2026

Stimson Hall simplifies medication management, improves reminders and sign-in reliability, upgrades how Liara connects to our services in production, and begins the staged rollout of Symptom Insight Cards.

• Symptom Insight Cards — Rolling Out Over Time — Short, personalised tips based on the symptoms you track. The clinical content library and backend are now part of Liara. The carousel on the Symptoms tab will appear in a coming update; we are rolling this out gradually rather than all at once.
• Simpler Medication Management — The Add Medication flow has fewer steps and clearer labels. You can mark a medication as stopped when you no longer take it, without deleting your history. Action icons on saved medications are easier to see and tap. Your saved medications list is sorted alphabetically.
• Smarter Medication Reminders — Tapping a reminder opens the most recent pending dose, not an older one. The reminder popup shows the correct greeting and time. Missed doses stay tappable for 24 hours so you can still record Taken or Skipped after the fact.
• Symptom Reminders That Take You Straight There — When Liara nudges you to log symptoms, tapping the notification now opens the Log Symptoms screen directly.
• More Reliable Sign-In — Transient network failures trigger an automatic retry with backoff instead of signing you out immediately. Every API request gets a fresh token. Profile checks now show clearer errors instead of sending you back to the wrong onboarding screen.
• Faster, More Reliable Connections — Liara now connects to our services through an upgraded production network path. You should notice quicker load times and fewer timeout errors on slow or patchy mobile connections.
• Android Stability and Smaller Downloads — Fixed a class of Android-only crashes caused by certain translucent colour styles. The Android app download is smaller thanks to optimised packaging.
• Privacy Policy Update — The in-app Privacy Policy now matches our latest hosted version, so what you read in Settings is the same document on our website.
• Smoother Questionnaires — Questionnaire title cards now have consistent horizontal padding on smaller screens.
• Security and Reliability — Sensitive details no longer appear in authentication or chat error messages. Legacy medication records are cleaned up so reminders and history stay in sync after you stop a medication.

12 May 2026

The big features previewed in Lincoln Hall are now fully live: describe your symptoms in your own words, and export a clinician-ready PDF. This release also rebuilds medication reminders to be more reliable, redesigns the longest questionnaire (CSRI), and ships a critical reminder-timing fix you may already have received as a hotfix in April.

• Describe Symptoms in Your Own Words — Type how you're feeling in plain text. Liara identifies specific symptoms and sub-symptoms from your description and offers them back to you for review — you decide which ones to add to your log.
• Clinician-Ready PDF Reports — Export your symptom history as a PDF and share it directly with your neurologist or care team. Includes a summary, most common symptoms, day-by-day breakdown with timings and medications, and a clear "for clinical discussion only" disclaimer on every page. PDFs are generated on your phone; nothing leaves the device until you choose to share.
• Smarter Medication Reminders — Reminders no longer quietly stop appearing for older medications, and adherence is now recorded per-dose so you and your clinician get a more accurate picture of which doses were missed and when.
• Mark a Medication as Ongoing — If you don't have an end date in mind, you can now mark a medication as Ongoing. The medication entry screen has also been tidied so all reminder times fit on screen when you have many doses per day.
• Redesigned CSRI Questionnaire — The longest questionnaire has been rebuilt around single-tap Yes/No answers and quick-bucket follow-ups, replacing free-text recall. Roughly the same clinical information in about a third of the taps, with no typing.
• Daylight Savings Reminder Fix — Medication reminders no longer silently shift by an hour around UK daylight savings transitions. Released as a hotfix in April and now part of the baseline.
• Smoother Questionnaires — Questionnaires now use the full screen on smaller devices, the iOS keyboard no longer covers the bottom of long forms, and the Next/Submit button never hides the last question. A new Done button on iOS dismisses the number keypad.
• Cleaner Shared Reports & Tidier Timeline — The PDF disclaimer now sits at the bottom of every page as it should — previously on multi-page reports it could drift to the middle of a page. Long symptom names on the day timeline are gently shortened with an ellipsis so they no longer overlap the navigation arrow.
• Safer Chat Replies — Liara's replies now respect strict server-side length limits and filter out HTML, embedded images, and unsupported emoji. Basic formatting (bold, italics, bullet points, safe links) is preserved.
• Onboarding Tidy-Up — Two early onboarding questions about mobility and mental health status have been removed while we work with our clinical advisors on more meaningful versions. The Log Symptoms button on the home screen has been resized to match the rest of the app.
• Security & Reliability — Sensitive details no longer leak in error messages from authentication or chat. PDF exports now sanitise fields that could be interpreted as spreadsheet formulas. Background notification jobs stop retrying after five attempts. Care-partner symptom submissions are now privately audited.
• Behind the Scenes — Medication reminders moved to a compute-on-demand model that's faster and more accurate when you change a medication's time or frequency. All three of our services have been brought onto a shared error-handling and logging standard.

7 April 2026

This release introduces Symptom Trends and Reports, a new "Have Your Say" feature voting screen, and improvements across symptom tracking, notifications, and app reliability.

• Symptom Trends & Reports — A new reports screen lets you visualise how your symptoms change over time. Switch between a day-by-day timeline and an aggregated trend view. Choose 7, 14, or 30-day periods, and toggle between daily and weekly resolution. Tap any day to see a detailed breakdown of what you logged.
• Have Your Say — A new screen where you can vote on which features matter most to you and leave written feedback. Your input directly shapes what we build next.
• Improved Symptom History — The symptom history indexes have been optimised for faster loading, and sub-symptom entries now include snapshot tracking for more accurate historical records.
• Smarter Notifications — Notifications now expire after a set time so you won't receive stale reminders. Medication and symptom reminder crons have been made more reliable with improved error handling.
• Background Refresh — The app now automatically refreshes your data when you switch back to it, so you always see the latest information without needing to pull down to refresh.
• Care Partner Improvements — Care partners can now view more detailed patient profile information. The linking and access experience has been refined.
• Medication Reminders — The "All Reminders" screen now uses swipeable actions for a quicker way to mark doses as taken or skipped.
• Improved Text Input — The text input component has been rebuilt for better keyboard handling and a smoother typing experience across all screens.
• Security & Reliability — Improved authentication token handling, better error logging across backend services, and hardened API input validation.
• Bug Fixes — Fixed dropdown selection issues in forms, improved questionnaire scrolling on smaller screens, and resolved edge cases in medication reminder scheduling.

16 March 2026

This release introduces symptom logging, care partner questionnaires, and several improvements to reliability and security.

• Symptom Logging — A new screen lets you browse symptoms by category, record severity and time of day, add notes, and create custom symptoms if yours are not listed. This is the first of three planned releases for symptom tracking.
• Care Partner Questionnaires — Two new assessments for care partners: CG-PAM-13 (confidence in your caring role) and PDQ-Carer (impact on quality of life). The questionnaire list now filters automatically based on whether you are a patient or a care partner.
• Medication Form Simplified — The doctor's note, food requirement, and time-of-day fields have been removed to reduce complexity. You can still record all essential medication details.
• Improved Questionnaire Experience — Fixed a bug where the questionnaire header covered most of the screen on some devices. Assessments now display consistently for patients and care partners.
• Push Notification Reliability — Fixed an issue where medication reminders stopped arriving after your login session expired. Device registration now happens automatically each time you open the app.
• Android Security Improvements — App data backup has been disabled to protect sensitive health information. Minimum Android version has been enforced for current security updates.
• Safety and Crisis Support — Improved automatic safety monitoring during conversations. If you express something that suggests you may need urgent help, Liara will immediately provide helpline information.
• Language and Accessibility — Simplified text across care partner screens and symptom guides. Clearer wording about Liara's role as a health companion.
• Bug Fixes — Fixed Android onboarding scroll issues, questionnaire header overlap on smaller screens, and improved medication notification delivery.

Keep a daily record of how you're feeling. The app covers 11 areas of health that can be affected by Parkinson's, including movement, sleep, mood, pain, digestion, and more.

• Browse symptoms by category and log specific sub-symptoms with severity and time of day.
• Create custom symptoms if yours are not listed.
• Add notes to give your care team more context.
• Look back at your history using a timeline view or an aggregated trend view.
• Choose to view the last 7, 14, or 30 days, with daily or weekly resolution.
• Tap any day to see a detailed breakdown of everything you logged.
• Read the built-in Symptom Guide for clear explanations, real examples, and helpful tips for each symptom area.

Short, personalised tips on the Symptoms tab based on what you track.

• Swipe through cards tailored to your symptom profile.
• Tap a card for the full explanation, illustrations, and linked resources.
• Use Log it, Learn more, or Ask Liara without leaving the symptom area.
• Cards refresh when you return to the tab after logging symptoms.

Optionally share readings from your phone's health app so Liara can spot patterns and show them as Insight Cards.

• Grant or withdraw consent any time in Settings → Health Data.
• Choose how long readings are kept on our servers (30 days to 1 year).
• Optionally allow your care team to view shared data.
• Withdrawal permanently deletes stored readings from our servers.

Keep track of all your medicines in one place and never miss a dose.

• Add any medicine — prescribed, supplements, or over-the-counter.
• Set the dose, how often you take it, and when you'd like to be reminded.
• Each day, mark each dose as "Taken" or "Skipped".
• See today's reminders at a glance, or view your full medication list.

Chat with Liara, a friendly AI assistant that can answer questions about Parkinson's and help you learn more about your condition.

• Type a question or pick from suggested topics.
• Liara will reply with helpful information and suggest follow-up questions.
• Your past conversations are saved so you can look back at them any time.

If typing is tricky, you can talk instead. Tap the microphone button in the chat and speak your question. The app will turn your words into text and send it to Liara for you.

The app connects to your device's health data to show your daily activity and wellness information in one place.

• See your steps, heart rate, calories burned, and sleep duration.
• Track your progress towards daily goals with visual indicators.
• View trends over 7, 30, or 90 days to spot patterns.
• Browse a calendar view of your activity history.

As part of the study, you'll be asked to fill in short questionnaires inside the app.

• PDQ-8 — a short set of questions about how Parkinson's affects your daily life.
• MAUQ — a short set of questions about how easy the app is to use.
• The app shows you when each questionnaire is due and whether you've finished it.
• You can update your answers up to 7 days before the next due date.

Browse a library of videos and articles about living with Parkinson's.

• Watch how-to guides and educational videos.
• Read helpful articles.
• Get personalised "Today's Picks" — videos recommended based on your interests.
• Filter by type: all, videos, or articles.

If you have a carer or family member who helps look after you, you can invite them to use the app alongside you.

• Generate a short linking code and share it with your care partner.
• Once linked, your care partner can view your profile, medications, and symptoms (read-only).
• Care partners also get their own chat with Liara to ask questions.
• You stay in control — you can remove a care partner's access at any time.

The app sends you reminders so you don't forget important things.

• Get push notifications when it's time to take your medicine.
• View your recent notifications from the last 30 days.
• Turn notifications on or off in Settings whenever you like.

If something goes wrong — whether it's a health concern or a problem with the app — you can report it straight away.

• Choose from different report types (adverse event, device issue, or other).
• Add a description of what happened and how serious it is.
• Your report goes directly to the study team.

When you first open the app, you'll set up your profile step by step. You can change any of this later.

• Personal details — name, date of birth, contact information.
• Parkinson's information — when you were diagnosed.
• Current symptoms and healthcare team contacts.
• Care partner details (if you have one).

In Settings you can also restart the app tour, read the latest release notes, and view the privacy policy and terms of use.