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Apple Intelligence

Fiery Feeds 2.15.0 is now available on the App Store. If features new support for Apple Intelligence on supported devices and preparations for Fiery Feeds 3.0. Apple Intelligence The most visible feature in 2.15.0 is the new support for Apple’s on device models to create short summaries in the article list (instead of the excerpts […]

AlarmKit & Live Activities

It took me almost a year longer than anticipated, but I’ve finally managed to get iOS 26’s AlarmKit working in Tidur Timers. This means there are now working live activities for running timers, on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, which by now all timer apps should support. I’m late, I know. Additionally […]

Improved Search

Task Focus 2.3.0 is now available with an improved Search Interface and custom tag shortcuts. Search Overlay The new search is available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. On the bigger devices it now appears as an overlay, while on iPhones the same results are displayed directly inline in the main view. The search overlay can […]

New Task Improvements

Task Focus 2.2.0 is now out, with a couple of improvements to how new tasks are added, and how Apple Reminders can be imported. With this update, I’m pretty much done with the features I had planned for Task Focus this year. We’ll see if anything else comes up, but for now I’m going to […]

Day Agenda View

The first feature update this year, Task Focus 2.1.0, brings a couple of changes to the calendar mode, an improved day view and support for undo/redo including a Trash bin. Calendar Changes The “Calendar” entry in the sidebar has been replaced with a very similar, but different “Planned” entry. The Planned View now simply shows […]

Roadmap 2026

Another year, another roadmap post. A lot has happened in 2025, including a surprise redesign for each of my apps, which took a lot of time and kept me for some of the things originally planned for 2025. My focus for this year will be mostly on the Fiery Feeds Swift/SwiftUI rewrite, the remaining features […]

TaskFocus 2

TaskFocus 2.0 is a massive update, that brings support for the new operating systems plus all of the remaining features I had planned for this year. And while I still have a couple of minor improvements planned, I can finally say it’s a complete and powerful task manager now. It now has all features and […]

Timer Groups

Tidur Timers 5.6 brings and updated look with Liquid Glass on iOS and macOS 26 and a new feature: Timer Groups. The Liquid Glass update, includes the new transparent toolbars, which work really well with the coloured fullscreen view, updated edit timer view and many other little details. It’s a fairly simple, but much requested […]

Fiery Feeds Fall Update

Fiery Feeds 2.14.0 is here. It brings support for the new design if running on iOS or macOS 26, and some overdue performance improvements. Liquid Glass Fiery Feeds floating toolbars fit right in with the new Liquid Glass design, but everything else is now also updated. I’ve also updated the navigation bars and added the […]

Text Extraction

Fiery Feeds 2.13.0 brings big improvements to its text parser and an easy(-ish) way to create custom extraction rules. Text Extraction TL/DR: Text Extraction works with more sites, and can handle (some) multi-page sites, and (some) sites that rely on javascript to load content now. But to get a bit more technical: Ever since Fiery […]

Transaction Notifications

A little feature update to RC Dash, before I start working on charts – real time notifications for new purchases and renewals. On a technical level, I’m now running a small web server to forward calls from RevenueCat’s web hooks to Apple’s push service. Any call is directly forwarded, and no data whatsoever is stored […]

Inline Editing & Selection

Focused 1.11 is brings maybe two of the last remaining tablestake features, and it’s really starting to feel like a proper app now. Especially in the Mac app, selecting and editing multiple tasks at once was missing bad. And of course just seeing checklists or notes without fully opening the edit view. Inline Editing Tapping […]

Sections, Notes and More

I think I’m slowly figuring out the final look and feel for Focused. Both the sidebar headers, that is areas, and section headers in the list got a more refined look, and buttons to make it more obvious they can be collapsed, and have a menu attached. Aside from the design changes, version 1.11 allows […]

Roadmap 2025

It’s a new year, and it’s time for another of my annual roadmap posts. Last year was really productive – I’ve released two new apps and a grand total of 87 updates across all my apps. This time I’ve got two more apps to write about, so I’m going to structure it by app this […]

Statistics Widgets

RC Dash Version 1.5 is a small feature update that brings your RevenueCat statistics to your home screen. There’s a statistics widget, which shows a single value in large text and full color (the MRR here). There’s the overview widget, which shows multiple values, including today’s revenue, transaction count and more. And there’s of course […]

Search & Calendar

Focused 1.9 adds two more features. It’s still somewhat of an “early access” app, and missing a few things that I’d consider necessary, but it’s getting close with each update. Searching Tasks An obviously missing feature, but now you can search all your tasks from the main view, as well as filter an open view […]

Better Scheduling and Polish

Focused 1.8 wasn’t intended as a big feature update, but still adds a few visible features in addition to some important internal changes. Updated Scheduling I’ve moved the scheduling options for tasks around, and added new options. Tasks can now have the following scheduling states: New Daily Task Limits This update adds the option to […]

New Article Cache

Fiery Feeds 2.12 is released with a completely rewritten article cache, full support for iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia, and new article filters. New Caching Logic I’ve replaced the old, Objective-C based caching logic with completely new Swift code, including all of the new things like Swift concurrency, allowing the app to run text extraction, […]

Areas & Tags

Focused 1.7 brings all the new features for iOS 18, including lockscreen- and control center widgets, dark and tinted app icons, and even two new app icons styles. It also improves drag & drop support: You can now drag tasks to other apps, which will receive the drop as text describing the task. And you […]

Fall Updates

This year I managed to have feature updates ready in time for the new OSes for almost all of my apps. Focused and Fiery Feeds deserve their own blog posts, but all of my smaller apps were updated as well. Tidur Timers Tidur Timers got obligatory iOS 18 features, namely dark and tint-able app icons […]

Subtasks

Focused 1.6 brings a couple new features including subtasks, new widgets, improved list layouts and a quick navigation on macOS if the sidebar is hidden. Subtasks Subtasks are pretty straight forward: You can add a checklist of items to each tasks, and – optionally – once all of the are done, the task is marked […]

Sharing, Repetitions and more

Focused 1.5 brings a few new features, like repeating tasks and a share extension. Just a couple more updates and I’ll have all the basics checked off. I think this is called #buildinginpublic over on the socials. It also brings some custom UI, especially to the iPhone version, so it starts to feel a little […]

Overview Improvements

RC Dash 1.3 brings the overview tab into its final form, with optional targets for the overview values, and additional values which are calculated based all fetched transactions. Revenue Targets You can now choose target values for anything in the overview, to quickly see how far you’ve come in reaching them. Additional Values In addition […]

Focused on visionOS

Version 1.4 brings native visionOS support to Focused. It is still more or less the same app as the iPad version, but there’s only so much one can do with a todo app in space. It does fit in a lot better though. Onboarding and Tutorial I’ve reworked the app’s onboarding, instead of one screen […]

New Platforms

RC Dash 1.2 brings Improved subscriber details, searching for specific subscribers, and a bunch of other small improvements like applying the optional header background to the stats in the main overview as well. Platforms But the big change in 1.2 is that RC Dash is now also available as both a native macOS and as […]

Smart Searches

This really is a “finally” feature, and probably the last big thing missing in Fiery Feeds, I’ve been meaning to implement smart searches for a least two years, but kept putting it off, because other features (or usually bugs) always seemed more important. But it is finally here: Smart Searches in Fiery Feeds. You can […]

Sidebar and Priorities

Focused got a big update today. The Mac and iPad version now use a sidebar for navigation, which includes new project filters to show you just the tasks for any given project. Also Task Groups are now called projects. Scheduling There are new ways of scheduling: Not every task needs to be assigned to a […]

Revenue Details

Version 1.1 brings just a few more ways to view details, and switches the default icon to the purple stripes icon. You can download the new version here.

RC Dash

I made another new app. Turns out SwiftUI is really nice to build simple apps quickly. Who knew? So RevenueCat is the service I’m using to handle subscriptions in my apps, and while there are a bunch of apps to check your current RevenueCat stats on the go, I wasn’t 100% happy with any of […]

Native Timers

Native Mac App Pretty much the entire work of the last few months lead to this point. Be it rewriting the last remaining UIKit views in Tidur for the visionOS app, or updating my shared app framework to get Focused to run on AppKit, but it’s finally done. Tidur Timers for macOS now runs AppKit […]