Blog · September 13, 2026

Sesklo 1.0.5: get help even when no fixed-price provider covers your ZIP, and easier address entry in the app

Sesklo 1.0.5 is rolling out on the App Store and Google Play now, alongside a matching update to sesklo.com. This one is about dead ends. The last release put a search box on the front door; this release makes sure that whatever you find behind it, there's always a next step, whether that's a fixed-price service with nobody yet covering your ZIP, an address form on a phone keyboard, or a photo the website used to refuse.

For homeowners — the mobile app and the website

• No fixed-price provider in your ZIP? Submit anyway. Until now the app stopped at "No pros cover that ZIP." Now you get the same two options the website offers: submit the request as an open fixed-price request that providers can pick up as they join your area, or post it as a regular quote request instead, already named after the service and filed under the right category.
• Suggestions from any account. Ask Sesklo can now file a product suggestion for individual homeowners, not just service providers and organizations. It also knows there's no limit on how many properties you can add, and says so if you ask.

For homeowners — the mobile app

• One field for your address. The quote request's four address boxes are replaced by a single search field that matches as you type, with an optional line for an apartment or unit. Your phone keyboard offers your saved address, and tapping it fills everything in at once with no second tap.

For homeowners — the website

• Searching another ZIP no longer reloads the page. On a fixed-price service page, trying a second ZIP with no provider keeps you where you are and highlights the card with your two options.

For everyone — the mobile app and the website

• iPhone photos upload from the website. Photos in Apple's HEIC format never uploaded successfully through sesklo.com. The site now asks Safari for a JPEG instead, and the app converts every picked photo to JPEG before it leaves your phone, so what you attach always lands.
• Two roadmap items go live. "Simplified Job Intake" and "Not Enough Flat Rate Providers" are marked Live on the roadmap. On the website the roadmap now opens on the current month.

For everyone — the mobile app

• Blog articles end with a button. Posts that invite you to describe your project now show that button at the end of the article in the app, the way they do on the website.

For everyone — iPhone and iPad

• The menu works on first launch. On a fresh install, the Menu's sections could refuse to open until you signed in and came back. They now open the first time, and Home keeps your scroll position when you return to it.

For service providers — the mobile app and the website

• Remove approved GPS time. A GPS-logged time entry that's already been approved or auto-completed can now be removed from the work log, with the removal recorded in the time edit history, the same way a dismissal is.
• Spam reports become opt-outs automatically. If a recipient of one of your marketing emails marks it as spam, or the address bounces permanently, that contact is opted out of your marketing on Sesklo without any action from you.

For service providers — iPhone and iPad

• Reports no longer freeze. Opening a report's "All data" table with a date column could lock the app for seconds at a time. It now opens immediately.

For everyone — the website

• Combined accounts agree with themselves. After combining two accounts, the header and the chat could disagree about which account you were in and the chat would refuse to load. They now resolve it the same way.

Behind the scenes

This release also hardens photo uploads on the service behind the website and the app: every upload is checked by its actual bytes, not its label, before it's processed, and the image library is updated past three recently disclosed vulnerabilities. None of it changes how you use Sesklo.

If you have automatic updates turned on, you'll get 1.0.5 without doing anything. The matching website update is live now.