# The Purple Keep — Plan your camp!

> Plan your camp! (iPhone/iPad app by Jase Kraft.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-purple-keep/id6748818229 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jase Kraft](https://appshunter.io/developer/1827331097)
- Category: Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 50 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-09-30
- Data updated: 2026-07-18
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-purple-keep/id6748818229/reviews.md

## What is The Purple Keep?

Everything you need to plan a Royal Family Kids Camp. 
- Messaging with all Camp Directors for ideas & brainstorming
- Keep track of volunteer & donor recruitment
- Set your activities for the week
- Centralize all your tasks so your team is on the same page
- So much more


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6.1 — 2026-07-12

New: Real-time messaging — new messages, reactions, edits, and typing indicators appear instantly without pulling to refresh
New: Edit your own messages after sending
New: On web, Enter sends a message and Shift/Cmd+Enter starts a new line
New: Slack-style message experience — unread divider, date headers, and optimistic sends that appear immediately
New: Team Builder is now the web view (drag-and-drop), with the classic mobile-first view on phones
New: Live team board — assignments update in real time and you can see who else is editing
New: Hide-by-team filter in the team builder people panel and edit team priority inline
New: Event Planner with a split-screen layout for managing events
New: App works offline — cached session restore on launch and a non-blocking connection banner instead of a full-screen error
Performance: Overall speed improvements across the app
Fix: Auto-detect dropped connections and reconnect when the network returns
Fix: Printable schedule shows instruction text as rich text (and no longer shows raw HTML entities)
Fix: Bottom sheet stays on screen when the keyboard is open

### 1.6.0 — 2026-06-23

- New: Interview Windows — set multiple scheduling windows per location, each with its own mode (in-person / virtual / phone), date range, days, times, duration, and required-leader count
- Fix: Add a leader by email/phone even when they match existing accounts
- Fix: Paginated lists (contacts, submissions, etc.) had unstable ordering that could make rows appear "missing" — now stable
- Fix: Interviews booked from a window record the correct length and mode (and the calendar invite matches)
- Fix: Camper full names on submission cards are shown only to leaders with full camper access
- Fix: Interview availability calendar requested the wrong month range in some timezones
- Fix: "Committed volunteers" filtering is correct across multiple camps / pipelines
- Fix: Contact search no longer re-loads the entire contact list on every keystroke
- Fix: Show texts for pii requests in the notes.
- Fix: Camper numbers not showing on meeting stats
- Fix: Show texts for pii requests in the notes. 
- Bug: Save notes from edit / new screen

### 1.5.5 — 2026-05-22

- Fix: scroll stops randomly and forces user to click into the page
- UX: going to tasks default filters by your tasks
- New: events -> training vs camp
- New: custom event instructions
- New: archive form submissions

### 1.5.4 — 2026-05-15

- Bug: Bottom Sheet off screen on Android
- Bug: tags not in camper downloads
- Bug: Cannot merge campers if both have form submissions
- UX: Camper merge function in the camper list
- Bug: Camper Application carry forward based on submitter instead of camper. (now based on camper)

### 1.5.3 — 2026-05-01

Auto-save on creation of most items in the app
Add attachments to notes
Allow editing mailing address of contacts

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