LawnNova is still in closed beta. The last app drop testers actually received was build 24 on 1 September. Everything below is user-facing work that has landed on main since then, ready for build 25. There is no public App Store or Google Play listing.
I’m Steve. This is me talking, not a changelog written by committee.
The job in one glance
Home should answer one question: what matters on this lawn today. The briefing puts the next treatment up front, with weather, what’s next, and plan coverage underneath. Tapping a task opens a focused sheet instead of a full-screen detour. Review, complete, or move something, then get back to the briefing.
A lot of lawn mornings are not one product, and they are not one patch of grass either. Task detail now keeps a compact summary up top: area, amount, rate, and carrier water on one row. Front lawn and back lawn sit next to each other. If you are short on product, the warning is right there, not buried in a drawer.
You can still open More details for the rate editor, complete the job, or ask Lenny about the product on that card. That is the difference between a pretty task card and a card you can actually work from.
Rates you can actually change
Rate editing itself made it into 24. Getting to it from More details did not. Change a rate, and you can carry it forward to later treatments of that product.
Moving fertiliser without breaking the pair
Granular and liquid feeds are supposed to stay in a rhythm. If you drag one date, LawnNova can now preview the coordinated move: this many granular dates, this many complementary liquid dates, still at least 14 full days apart.
If you really want to move only the one you tapped, you have to confirm that. Beta testers were quietly destroying their own feeding cadence with a single reschedule. The app should not let that happen by accident.
The public site now has a Blog and Ideas
I also pushed the website journal and an Ideas page. Blog is the guides plus updates like this. Ideas is the public roadmap. You can tell me what would help on each item.
Vote counts on those cards are still coming. I want the tally to mean something before I put a number on the card.
Also landed from beta feedback
Clear plan and future treatments now saves the empty DIY plan and the schedule together. If the app cannot confirm, it tells you to review before trying again. Completed history stays.
You can correct a saved lawn type on an existing area without deleting it and adding it again. History, products, and independent scheduled work stay linked. If you run a maintenance reset, future plan-owned treatments may still be replaced.
Daily soil temperature on Home was wrong. It now uses the day’s modelled soil reading, and it does not invent a number when the forecast has a gap.
Along the way I tidied a pile of small quality-of-life things. Navigation is simpler. The same sheets get reused, so the app feels like one product instead of a stack of one-off dialogs.
None of this is in the public App Store yet. If you are already on build 24, this is the work sitting on main for build 25. Keep sending feedback, especially with a screenshot attached.
If you want in, apply at lawnnova.com.au/beta.
Steve