Roadmap 2026

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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 from last year and on polishing Task Focus.

Fiery Feeds

There were two major changes in Fiery Feeds, first I’ve moved the text extraction logic completely into the app – no more text server, I’ve built and released a small macOS utility called Site Config, that allows to create Fiery Feeds compatible text extraction rules.

And secondly, I’ve updated both Fiery Feeds and Site Config for the new liquid glass design. This took longer than expected, especially in Fiery Feeds, because it still supports the older design on previous iOS and macOS versions. Unfortunately, this means I did not have the time to do the features I had originally planned for 2025.

Advanced Saved Searches

The existing searches view is already written in SwiftUI, so I feel comfortable working on improving this, without having to throw it away for the rewrite.

  • Extending them with and/or operators, exact text search (right now it uses the SQLite Fast Text Search extension, which discards some information like casing and accents).
  • I’m going to allow one search per account to automatically mark articles read – to filter out specific keywords you don’t want to see.
Feed Search

One new feature, I’d like to add, especially to help new users get started is a way to search for new feeds to add (or even have some sort of starter packs) right inside the app.

  • An updated Add Feed view, with the option to search new feeds.
  • See suggested feeds or starter packs of feeds to quickly subscribe to.
App Redesign

This is going to be my primary focus. I already managed to get the app to build using the SwiftUI lifecycle, but it is still a very basic list of feed and article – no settings, not even adding new accounts is implemented yet.

If all goes well, I’d like to have a feature-incomplete, but usable beta by the end of the year, then add missing features and customization throughout 2027.

Task Focus

Focused is now called Task Focus and received a full 2.0 update with Liquid Glass, areas, projects, tags, search, Kanban, Apple Watch app, timed alerts, and support for locations. I’m daily driving this app, and it finally reached the point where it has all the features I need.

Calendar Integration

The calendar events integration is still very basic, as in you can only view calendar entry as opposed to task in the calendar, which you can fully edit. I’d like to include creating and editing existing events too – nothing too fancy, I’m not going to write custom accounts or anything, just as much as Apple’s EventKit framework allows.

Interface Improvements

I’m planning to give the app a nice, overall makeover, which should make it easier to use. And I’ll try to make sure optional features get out of the way, until you need them.

  • A calendar view mode – that is instead of having a dedicated “Calendar” entry in the sidebar, it’s just a view mode like List or Kanban.
  • Explicit Notes entries, that are not tasks, but can be mixed in to any list
  • Better multi selection, adding new tasks inline
  • A calendar day view plus optional start times, not just dates for tasks
  • Draggable plus button to easily add new tasks

Tidur Timers

Tidur timers also got the liquid glass treatment and support for grouping timers into collapsible folders. There isn’t too much planned for this year, except for live activities

Live Activities and AlarmKit

There is this new framework in iOS 26 called AlarmKit, which handles Live Activities and full screen alarms (and passing by the mute switch – which is a big issue), specifically for apps like Tidur. Unfortunately it doesn’t work, for no one, as far as I can tell.

I’ve already implemented everything, and it works in the Simulator, but not on a real device. Mostly I’m waiting for Apple to fix this in an iOS update, then I’ll release this feature.

Dozzzer

Dozzzer got the least of my time last year. It is updated and builds using the lastest SDKs, the settings view got liquid glass support, but the main view is not updated yet.

Interface Improvements
  • Adding Progress Slider when playing music items (or audiobooks), so you can skip ahead if you need to.
  • Liquid Glass Design in main view, possibly rewrite it in SwiftUI

RC Dash

Same as the other apps, I’ve updated RC Dash for liquid glass, and I’ve managed to add push notifications, but nothing else.

Charts

Still a maybe – but RevenueCat now has their own iOS app supporting charts.