A fresh Live Activity, tag colors on your Timeline, and a round of fixes. LIVE ACTIVITY - A postcard or a Landscape scene. TIMELINE AND PLANNER - Blocks and day pills take the color of the task's first tag. - Daylight saving days place and save times on the right hour. ADDING TASKS - On iPhone and iPad, the New Task row's ... button opens the full editor with your details filled in. FIXES - Left open past midnight, Finalist moves to the new day on its own. - Fixed a crash while typing notes on macOS 15. - Tasks linked to calendar events no longer go missing from the Timeline. - Lots of smaller tweaks on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
More iPhone Duo powerups: more layouts for more poses, no matter how you use the device. IPHONE DUO - The Planner remembers a layout per pose: closed or open, upright or sideways. Fold, unfold or rotate. PLANNER - New Yearly style, Months and Day: the months run along the top, and the day you tap opens below with its Timeline next to untimed tasks and all-day items. - iPhone and iPad keep a layout per orientation too. Defaults are Weekly Timeline on an upright iPhone, Weekly 2 pages sideways, and Months and Day on iPad. ADD TASKS ON THE TIMELINE - Touch and hold an empty hour to place a new task there, on the Weekly Timeline, the Timeline beside the Agenda and the Desk Clock's mini Timeline. - Or, use mouse or Pencil to draw task/event blocks. FIXES - iPad: improvements to Pencil handling. - Fixes to light and dark themes. - Lots of tweaks and performance improvements.
Finalist 4.2 grew out of a month of designing for iPhone Duo, and it makes every iPhone, iPad and Mac better too. iPhone now turns to landscape, Daily gets a Desk Clock, Lens replaces the Assistant button, and Day Review helps you decide what each day holds. Plus a new theme that follows the sun. WORKSPACES AND DESK CLOCK - Each screen setup (iPhone and iPad orientations, Mac, each iPhone Duo pose) keeps its own Daily layout. - Desk Clock shows what's on now and the time left in it, or the countdown to what's next. - Turn iPhone sideways for the Desk Clock and Timeline beside your Agenda. FOLLOW THE DAY - A new landscape theme that tracks your real sunrise, sunset and moon phase. Select a World Clock city and it follows that city instead. - Paper grain textures for Daily, and a new app icon (the old one is still in Settings). LENS - The Assistant button is now Lens: which calendars are on today and how busy each one is, in Daily and the Planner. - Toggle calendars and tags, plus Solo, Tasks and Habits modes. Hold a calendar to see what's next. - The Planner follows Lens, so the separate Planner Filter is retired. DAY REVIEW - Overdue, undated and set-aside tasks in one place. Swipe right to take one on today, left to send it to Someday. - Choose from Outstanding, Undated, Someday, Markdown Tasks and Lists, with optional Apple Intelligence priorities. - The evening notification opens Review Tomorrow. DAILY AND TIMELINE - The Timeline is now part of Daily. Flip to it by tapping the day's title, or Cmd+2 on Mac. - Drag tasks between the Timeline and Agenda, with Undo. - The day pill now browses days on Mac, iPad and iOS 18 too, and drives the Planner's weeks and months. - Penciled times sync between devices. Hold the hour rail for a New Task at that time. - Snooze is now "Later today", with better times to pick. - Hide past events, and show event end as a duration ("1hr") or time ("until 10p"). - Swipe left on any task to select it. - Forecast on future days, and the now-ribbon on Broadsheet. PLANNER - Weekly Timeline: one week per page, hours on top, tasks below. Drag up to give a task time, or across to move it. - Continuous Yearly: weeks run together with month names down the margin. NOTIFICATIONS - Complete and Remind buttons on task and habit notifications. - Remind until done (Settings > Notifications) nudges you until you check it off. TASKS, REMINDERS AND HABITS - Compact New Task row (Layout > New Task options). - Drag and drop across Daily, Broadsheet and subtasks. Select several tasks and Group as Subtasks. - Reschedule to any day, with a summary of what's already there. - Reminders keep their alarm when moved. Repeating reminders: Duplicate As copies just the occurrence. - Drag a reminder into Morning, Afternoon or Evening to give it a time. - Weekly habits can target a number of days, monthly ones repeat every N months, and durations are editable. ALSO IN 4.2 - The Countdown Live Activity counts to the end of whatever is running. - Six handwriting fonts in Settings > Journal. - Subtasks, Later / Someday and Blocked-by in your markdown tasks. - Apple Watch: add today's note from your wrist. - Faster saving and sync, and lots of fixes.
Finalist 4.2 grew out of a month of designing for iPhone Duo, and it makes every iPhone, iPad and Mac better too. iPhone now turns to landscape, Daily gets a Desk Clock, Lens replaces the Assistant button, and Day Review helps you decide what each day holds. Plus a new theme that follows the sun. WORKSPACES AND DESK CLOCK - Each screen setup (iPhone and iPad orientations, Mac, each iPhone Duo pose) keeps its own Daily layout. - Desk Clock shows what's on now and the time left in it, or the countdown to what's next. - Turn iPhone sideways for the Desk Clock and Timeline beside your Agenda. FOLLOW THE DAY - A new landscape theme that tracks your real sunrise, sunset and moon phase. Select a World Clock city and it follows that city instead. - Paper grain textures for Daily, and a new app icon (the old one is still in Settings). LENS - The Assistant button is now Lens: which calendars are on today and how busy each one is, in Daily and the Planner. - Toggle calendars and tags, plus Solo, Tasks and Habits modes. Hold a calendar to see what's next. - The Planner follows Lens, so the separate Planner Filter is retired. DAY REVIEW - Overdue, undated and set-aside tasks in one place. Swipe right to take one on today, left to send it to Someday. - Choose from Outstanding, Undated, Someday, Markdown Tasks and Lists, with optional Apple Intelligence priorities. - The evening notification opens Review Tomorrow. DAILY AND TIMELINE - The Timeline is now part of Daily. Flip to it by tapping the day's title, or Cmd+2 on Mac. - Drag tasks between the Timeline and Agenda, with Undo. - The day pill now browses days on Mac, iPad and iOS 18 too, and drives the Planner's weeks and months. - Penciled times sync between devices. Hold the hour rail for a New Task at that time. - Snooze is now "Later today", with better times to pick. - Hide past events, and show event end as a duration ("1hr") or time ("until 10p"). - Swipe left on any task to select it. - Forecast on future days, and the now-ribbon on Broadsheet. PLANNER - Weekly Timeline: one week per page, hours on top, tasks below. Drag up to give a task time, or across to move it. - Continuous Yearly: weeks run together with month names down the margin. NOTIFICATIONS - Complete and Remind buttons on task and habit notifications. - Remind until done (Settings > Notifications) nudges you until you check it off. TASKS, REMINDERS AND HABITS - Compact New Task row (Layout > New Task options). - Drag and drop across Daily, Broadsheet and subtasks. Select several tasks and Group as Subtasks. - Reschedule to any day, with a summary of what's already there. - Reminders keep their alarm when moved. Repeating reminders: Duplicate As copies just the occurrence. - Drag a reminder into Morning, Afternoon or Evening to give it a time. - Weekly habits can target a number of days, monthly ones repeat every N months, and durations are editable. ALSO IN 4.2 - The Countdown Live Activity counts to the end of whatever is running. - Six handwriting fonts in Settings > Journal. - Subtasks, Later / Someday and Blocked-by in your markdown tasks. - Apple Watch: add today's note from your wrist. - Faster saving and sync, and lots of fixes.
Finalist 4.2 grew out of a month of designing for iPhone Duo, and it makes every iPhone, iPad and Mac better too. iPhone now turns to landscape, Daily gets a Desk Clock, Lens replaces the Assistant button, and Day Review helps you decide what each day holds. Plus a new theme that follows the sun. WORKSPACES AND DESK CLOCK - Each screen setup (iPhone and iPad orientations, Mac, each iPhone Duo pose) keeps its own Daily layout. - Desk Clock shows what's on now and the time left in it, or the countdown to what's next. - Turn iPhone sideways for the Desk Clock and Timeline beside your Agenda. FOLLOW THE DAY - A new landscape theme that tracks your real sunrise, sunset and moon phase. Select a World Clock city and it follows that city instead. - Paper grain textures for Daily, and a new app icon (the old one is still in Settings). LENS - The Assistant button is now Lens: which calendars are on today and how busy each one is, in Daily and the Planner. - Toggle calendars and tags, plus Solo, Tasks and Habits modes. Hold a calendar to see what's next. - The Planner follows Lens, so the separate Planner Filter is retired. DAY REVIEW - Overdue, undated and set-aside tasks in one place. Swipe right to take one on today, left to send it to Someday. - Choose from Outstanding, Undated, Someday, Markdown Tasks and Lists, with optional Apple Intelligence priorities. - The evening notification opens Review Tomorrow. DAILY AND TIMELINE - The Timeline is now part of Daily. Flip to it by tapping the day's title, or Cmd+2 on Mac. - Drag tasks between the Timeline and Agenda, with Undo. - The day pill now browses days on Mac, iPad and iOS 18 too, and drives the Planner's weeks and months. - Penciled times sync between devices. Hold the hour rail for a New Task at that time. - Snooze is now "Later today", with better times to pick. - Hide past events, and show event end as a duration ("1hr") or time ("until 10p"). - Swipe left on any task to select it. - Forecast on future days, and the now-ribbon on Broadsheet. PLANNER - Weekly Timeline: one week per page, hours on top, tasks below. Drag up to give a task time, or across to move it. - Continuous Yearly: weeks run together with month names down the margin. NOTIFICATIONS - Complete and Remind buttons on task and habit notifications. - Remind until done (Settings > Notifications) nudges you until you check it off. TASKS, REMINDERS AND HABITS - Compact New Task row (Layout > New Task options). - Drag and drop across Daily, Broadsheet and subtasks. Select several tasks and Group as Subtasks. - Reschedule to any day, with a summary of what's already there. - Reminders keep their alarm when moved. Repeating reminders: Duplicate As copies just the occurrence. - Drag a reminder into Morning, Afternoon or Evening to give it a time. - Weekly habits can target a number of days, monthly ones repeat every N months, and durations are editable. ALSO IN 4.2 - The Countdown Live Activity counts to the end of whatever is running. - Six handwriting fonts in Settings > Journal. - Subtasks, Later / Someday and Blocked-by in your markdown tasks. - Apple Watch: add today's note from your wrist. - Faster saving and sync, and lots of fixes.
Finalist 4.1 is ready for the latest iOS, here are the highlights. SIRI AND APPLE INTELLIGENCE (iOS 27) Siri can now manage Finalist directly. Create, update, complete and delete tasks, take notes, and manage calendar events, all conversationally. Say "Add a task in Finalist", or say the whole thing in one sentence and it goes right in. Use Finalist regularly and Siri learns it is your planner, so you can even drop the app name. Tasks and notes appear in Spotlight too, so Siri can find and open them by name. WEEKLY SPREAD A new Planner mode that lays out your week like a paper planner spread: Monday to Wednesday on the left page, Thursday to Sunday on the right. iPad and Mac show the open spread and flip whole weeks, iPhone turns one page at a time. A new visual layout picker lets you show or hide any kind of content (tasks, reminders, habits, events, weather) in every Planner mode. SCORE An opt-in Daily section that turns a week of scattered effort into one number. Give your tags point values, set a weekly target, and earn points by completing tasks, habits and reminders, or simply journaling. A new History view shows half a year of week-by-week results, with streaks and your best week. Turn it on in Customize Layout. DAY NOTES AND SKETCHES Daily's Notes section now has a permanent spot to jot things down. Start typing and it becomes today's note. Tap the pencil tab to sketch instead, with Apple Pencil or a finger, right inside Daily. Drawings use Apple's modern Pencil engine with shapes, text boxes and stickers, and sketches now show up on the Mac. MULTI-SELECTION Pick a bunch of tasks in Daily and complete, move, tag or delete them in one go, with Undo. Cmd-click on Mac and iPad, two-finger tap on iPhone. The Timeline gets multi-select too: group blocks and move them together, gaps preserved. ALSO IN 4.1 - A new full-page Day Page widget, built for iOS 27's extra-large widget size. - Tags: a two-page workspace with usage details, Time Spent reports, twenty new ink colors and a custom color picker. - Habits open a proper summary page with streak stats and calendars. - Journal: workouts logged from Health bring their GPS route, with mini maps of your runs and walks. - Text size control in Settings, reaching most of the app. - Mac: Capture arrives in the View menu, and Cmd+E / Cmd+Delete work wherever you hover. - Show in Note / List / Daily jumps from any task to where it lives. - Photos and sketches move to new synced storage with much higher quality and size limits. - Apple Watch: reschedule reminders from the wrist, and a cleaner tap model on rows. - Much faster iCloud sync, quicker cold launch, smoother scrolling. - Hundreds of fixes and refinements. Full changelog at finalist.works/changelog-4-1
Finalist 4.0 is the biggest release since launch: four months of open beta, 40 builds, and a planner that is now complete on every screen. NOTES A new Notes tab with notebooks, an Inbox, tags and global search. Keep native notes that sync over iCloud, or connect any folder of markdown files, including your Obsidian vault, and edit them in place. Markdown tasks become real Finalist tasks. Pin notes to Daily, date a note to surface it on the right day, or long-press the big PLUS to dictate one instantly. APPLE WATCH (NEW) Finalist comes to the wrist. A Now card answers the day's current question, from your first moves in the morning to an evening wrap-up with streaks to protect. Below it, one scrollable view of events, tasks, reminders and habits. Long-press a task for Done, Tomorrow, or In 10 Minutes. Pinned lists are checkable from the wrist, and complications plus a Smart Stack widget keep your day on the watch face. Requires watchOS 26. YOUR DAY, REDESIGNED Daily now has two looks: Daybook, the classic, and Broadsheet, a newsprint-inspired design for big screens. A new layout editor lets you rearrange sections, build multi-column spreads on iPad and Mac, and save presets. The Timeline is rebuilt from the ground up: free time compresses so busy stretches get the room, and you can drag tasks in to sketch your day in pencil, then tap Accept to make the times real. ALSO IN 4.0 - Tags almost everywhere: tasks, notes, events, reminders, habits. Tap a tag on Daily to see just that thread of your day. - Capture: share or photograph anything, and on-device intelligence turns it into dated tasks with the right fields filled in. - Yearly Planner: caption highlighted runs and paint a week of days with one swipe. - Share Day: render your day as a clean, themed image. - Custom event icons, and meeting links shown as a compact Join pill. - A whole new onboarding flow, a rebuilt Hear Summary player with transcript, and a fully native Mac app. - Hundreds of fixes and refinements. Full changelog at finalist.works/changelog-4-0
Finalist 4.0 is the biggest release since launch: four months of open beta, 24 builds, and a planner that is now complete on every screen. NOTES Your planner remembers what you wrote. A new Notes tab with notebooks, an Inbox, tags and global search. Keep native notes that sync over iCloud, or connect any folder of markdown files, including your Obsidian vault, and edit them in place. Markdown tasks become real Finalist tasks. Pin notes to Daily, date a note to surface it on the right day, or long-press the big PLUS to dictate one instantly. APPLE WATCH (NEW) Finalist comes to the wrist. A Now card answers the day's current question, from your first moves in the morning to an evening wrap-up with streaks to protect. Below it, one scrollable view of events, tasks, reminders and habits. Long-press a task for Done, Tomorrow, or In 10 Minutes. Pinned lists are checkable from the wrist, and complications plus a Smart Stack widget keep your day on the watch face. Requires watchOS 26. YOUR DAY, REDESIGNED Daily now has two looks: Daybook, the classic, and Broadsheet, a newsprint-inspired design for big screens. A new layout editor lets you rearrange sections, build multi-column spreads on iPad and Mac, and save presets. The Timeline is rebuilt from the ground up: free time compresses so busy stretches get the room, and you can drag tasks in to sketch your day in pencil, then tap Accept to make the times real. ALSO IN 4.0 - Tags almost everywhere: tasks, notes, events, reminders, habits. Tap a tag on Daily to see just that thread of your day. - Capture: share or photograph anything, and on-device intelligence turns it into dated tasks with the right fields filled in. - Yearly Planner: caption highlighted runs and paint a week of days with one swipe. - Share Day: render your day as a clean, themed image. - Custom event icons, and meeting links shown as a compact Join pill. - A whole new onboarding flow, a rebuilt Hear Summary player with transcript, and a fully native Mac app. - Hundreds of fixes and refinements. Full changelog at finalist.works/changelog-4-0
Finalist 3.7 was born from a month of travel. Coordinating across timezones, pinning memories to places, checking weather in cities ahead. This update brings all of that into your planner: a World Clock that lives right in your Daily view, photo stamps that remember where you were, and a new Layout system that lets you arrange your day exactly the way you want it. World Clock - Add cities to your Daily view as compact timezone stamps - Search for any city and get both its timezone and live weather - Tap a clock to see your entire Daily tab in that timezone - Tap the weather icon for an inline 10-day forecast - Use the globe button on any time picker to schedule tasks in another timezone - Task times, checkboxes, and input fields all update to reflect the selected timezone, including the top header - Weather in the day header, morning/afternoon/evening icons, and forecasts all switch to the selected city - Edit to re-arrange your clocks - Sync your clocks across all your devices via iCloud Layout & Daily Tab Customization - Rearrange, show, or hide any section of your Daily tab from a new Layout sheet - Two new sections: World Clocks and Weather Forecast (OFF by default for now) - New layout options include countdown indicator toggle to show or hide countdown on scheduled tasks Weather Forecasts - Show hourly or daily forecast right on your Today tab - Pick between 8-hour and 24-hour hourly forecast views, or daily up to 10 days Settings - Settings completely reorganized into collapsible sections for easier browsing Monthly Sidebar (iPad and Mac) - Resizable sidebar with a draggable handle that persists your preferred width, swipe horizontally to resize - Three layout modes that adapt as you resize: wide shows full task rows, medium shows compact text rows, collapsed shows day numbers for quick navigation - Collapsed mode features your Year Highlights Calendars - Redesigned Calendar sheet with compact single-row layout per calendar - Tap the chevron to expand option capsules with inline toggles and info popovers - Options are now self-describing, replacing the old icon legend - "Monthly" option renamed to "All-Day in Planner" for clarity - Hide duplicate events that appear in multiple calendars - New per-calendar option: clean up and quiet down Calendar event titles, made for shouting titles like "FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026 - Race" - New per-calendar option: Minimize any calendar, even your own (used to be called Dim calendar) Journal - Faster Journal loading, reversed sort (new to the top) for easier navigation - Browse by month or jump to Recent entries - Long-press the photo button to choose from your library or take a new photo - Photos automatically capture your location as a polaroid-style stamp - Tap any photo stamp for an enlarged preview - Each photo remembers its date and location - Better resolution photo snaps now saved, taking up the as little memory as before - Tap a location stamp to see it on a map with other journal entries - Copy Entry no longer copies dates to clipboard Live Activity - Styled with theme colors and condensed typography Yearly Planner - Long press on any day to see a popup preview of that day's task - Fixed day highlights not updating after timezone change Reminders - Reminder list name shown as tag in Daily view - New preference in Layout to show or hide the reminder list name badge
Finalist 3.7 was born from a month of travel. Coordinating across timezones, pinning memories to places, checking weather in cities ahead. This update brings all of that into your planner: a World Clock that lives right in your Daily view, photo stamps that remember where you were, and a new Layout system that lets you arrange your day exactly the way you want it. World Clock - Add cities to your Daily view as compact timezone stamps - Search for any city and get both its timezone and live weather - Tap a clock to see your entire Daily tab in that timezone - Tap the weather icon for an inline 10-day forecast - Use the globe button on any time picker to schedule tasks in another timezone - Task times, checkboxes, and input fields all update to reflect the selected timezone, including the top header - Weather in the day header, morning/afternoon/evening icons, and forecasts all switch to the selected city - Edit to re-arrange your clocks - Sync your clocks across all your devices via iCloud Layout & Daily Tab Customization - Rearrange, show, or hide any section of your Daily tab from a new Layout sheet - Two new sections: World Clocks and Weather Forecast (OFF by default for now) - New layout options include countdown indicator toggle to show or hide countdown on scheduled tasks Weather Forecasts - Show hourly or daily forecast right on your Today tab - Pick between 8-hour and 24-hour hourly forecast views, or daily up to 10 days Settings - Settings completely reorganized into collapsible sections for easier browsing Monthly Sidebar (iPad and Mac) - Resizable sidebar with a draggable handle that persists your preferred width, swipe horizontally to resize - Three layout modes that adapt as you resize: wide shows full task rows, medium shows compact text rows, collapsed shows day numbers for quick navigation - Collapsed mode features your Year Highlights Calendars - Redesigned Calendar sheet with compact single-row layout per calendar - Tap the chevron to expand option capsules with inline toggles and info popovers - Options are now self-describing, replacing the old icon legend - "Monthly" option renamed to "All-Day in Planner" for clarity - Hide duplicate events that appear in multiple calendars - New per-calendar option: clean up and quiet down Calendar event titles, made for shouting titles like "FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026 - Race" - New per-calendar option: Minimize any calendar, even your own (used to be called Dim calendar) Journal - Faster Journal loading, reversed sort (new to the top) for easier navigation - Browse by month or jump to Recent entries - Long-press the photo button to choose from your library or take a new photo - Photos automatically capture your location as a polaroid-style stamp - Tap any photo stamp for an enlarged preview - Each photo remembers its date and location - Better resolution photo snaps now saved, taking up the as little memory as before - Tap a location stamp to see it on a map with other journal entries - Copy Entry no longer copies dates to clipboard Live Activity - Styled with theme colors and condensed typography Yearly Planner - Long press on any day to see a popup preview of that day's task - Fixed day highlights not updating after timezone change Reminders - Reminder list name shown as tag in Daily view - New preference in Layout to show or hide the reminder list name badge
Finalist 3.7 was born from a month of travel. Coordinating across timezones, pinning memories to places, checking weather in cities ahead. This update brings all of that into your planner: a World Clock that lives right in your Daily view, photo stamps that remember where you were, and a new Layout system that lets you arrange your day exactly the way you want it. World Clock - Add cities to your Daily view as compact timezone stamps - Search for any city and get both its timezone and live weather - Tap a clock to see your entire Daily tab in that timezone - Tap the weather icon for an inline 10-day forecast - Use the globe button on any time picker to schedule tasks in another timezone - Task times, checkboxes, and input fields all update to reflect the selected timezone, including the top header - Weather in the day header, morning/afternoon/evening icons, and forecasts all switch to the selected city - Edit to re-arrange your clocks - Sync your clocks across all your devices via iCloud Layout & Daily Tab Customization - Rearrange, show, or hide any section of your Daily tab from a new Layout sheet - Two new sections: World Clocks and Weather Forecast (OFF by default for now) - New layout options include countdown indicator toggle to show or hide countdown on scheduled tasks Weather Forecasts - Show hourly or daily forecast right on your Today tab - Pick between 8-hour and 24-hour hourly forecast views, or daily up to 10 days Settings - Settings completely reorganized into collapsible sections for easier browsing Monthly Sidebar (iPad and Mac) - Resizable sidebar with a draggable handle that persists your preferred width, swipe horizontally to resize - Three layout modes that adapt as you resize: wide shows full task rows, medium shows compact text rows, collapsed shows day numbers for quick navigation - Collapsed mode features your Year Highlights Calendars - Redesigned Calendar sheet with compact single-row layout per calendar - Tap the chevron to expand option capsules with inline toggles and info popovers - Options are now self-describing, replacing the old icon legend - "Monthly" option renamed to "All-Day in Planner" for clarity - Hide duplicate events that appear in multiple calendars - New per-calendar option: clean up and quiet down Calendar event titles, made for shouting titles like "FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026 - Race" - New per-calendar option: Minimize any calendar, even your own (used to be called Dim calendar) Journal - Faster Journal loading, reversed sort (new to the top) for easier navigation - Browse by month or jump to Recent entries - Long-press the photo button to choose from your library or take a new photo - Photos automatically capture your location as a polaroid-style stamp - Tap any photo stamp for an enlarged preview - Each photo remembers its date and location - Better resolution photo snaps now saved, taking up the as little memory as before - Tap a location stamp to see it on a map with other journal entries - Copy Entry no longer copies dates to clipboard Live Activity - Styled with theme colors and condensed typography Yearly Planner - Long press on any day to see a popup preview of that day's task - Fixed day highlights not updating after timezone change Reminders - Reminder list name shown as tag in Daily view - New preference in Layout to show or hide the reminder list name badge
Finalist 3.7 was born from a month of travel. Coordinating across timezones, pinning memories to places, checking weather in cities ahead. This update brings all of that into your planner: a World Clock that lives right in your Daily view, photo stamps that remember where you were, and a new Layout system that lets you arrange your day exactly the way you want it. World Clock - Add cities to your Daily view as compact timezone stamps - Search for any city and get both its timezone and live weather - Tap a clock to see your entire Daily tab in that timezone - Tap the weather icon for an inline 10-day forecast - Use the globe button on any time picker to schedule tasks in another timezone - Task times, checkboxes, and input fields all update to reflect the selected timezone, including the top header - Weather in the day header, morning/afternoon/evening icons, and forecasts all switch to the selected city - Edit to re-arrange your clocks - Sync your clocks across all your devices via iCloud Layout & Daily Tab Customization - Rearrange, show, or hide any section of your Daily tab from a new Layout sheet - Two new sections: World Clocks and Weather Forecast (OFF by default for now) - New layout options include countdown indicator toggle to show or hide countdown on scheduled tasks Weather Forecasts - Show hourly or daily forecast right on your Today tab - Pick between 8-hour and 24-hour hourly forecast views, or daily up to 10 days Settings - Settings completely reorganized into collapsible sections for easier browsing Monthly Sidebar (iPad and Mac) - Resizable sidebar with a draggable handle that persists your preferred width, swipe horizontally to resize - Three layout modes that adapt as you resize: wide shows full task rows, medium shows compact text rows, collapsed shows day numbers for quick navigation - Collapsed mode features your Year Highlights Calendars - Redesigned Calendar sheet with compact single-row layout per calendar - Tap the chevron to expand option capsules with inline toggles and info popovers - Options are now self-describing, replacing the old icon legend - "Monthly" option renamed to "All-Day in Planner" for clarity - Hide duplicate events that appear in multiple calendars - New per-calendar option: clean up and quiet down Calendar event titles, made for shouting titles like "FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026 - Race" - New per-calendar option: Minimize any calendar, even your own (used to be called Dim calendar) Journal - Faster Journal loading, reversed sort (new to the top) for easier navigation - Browse by month or jump to Recent entries - Long-press the photo button to choose from your library or take a new photo - Photos automatically capture your location as a polaroid-style stamp - Tap any photo stamp for an enlarged preview - Each photo remembers its date and location - Better resolution photo snaps now saved, taking up the as little memory as before - Tap a location stamp to see it on a map with other journal entries - Copy Entry no longer copies dates to clipboard Live Activity - Styled with theme colors and condensed typography Yearly Planner - Long press on any day to see a popup preview of that day's task - Fixed day highlights not updating after timezone change Reminders - Reminder list name shown as tag in Daily view - New preference in Layout to show or hide the reminder list name badge
Finalist 3.7 was born from a month of travel. Coordinating across timezones, pinning memories to places, checking weather in cities ahead. This update brings all of that into your planner: a World Clock that lives right in your Daily view, photo stamps that remember where you were, and a new Layout system that lets you arrange your day exactly the way you want it. World Clock - Add cities to your Daily view as compact timezone stamps - Search for any city and get both its timezone and live weather - Tap a clock to see your entire Daily tab in that timezone - Tap the weather icon for an inline 10-day forecast - Use the globe button on any time picker to schedule tasks in another timezone - Task times, checkboxes, and input fields all update to reflect the selected timezone, including the top header - Weather in the day header, morning/afternoon/evening icons, and forecasts all switch to the selected city - Edit to re-arrange your clocks - Sync your clocks across all your devices via iCloud Layout & Daily Tab Customization - Rearrange, show, or hide any section of your Daily tab from a new Layout sheet - Two new sections: World Clocks and Weather Forecast (OFF by default for now) - New layout options include countdown indicator toggle to show or hide countdown on scheduled tasks Weather Forecasts - Show hourly or daily forecast right on your Today tab - Pick between 8-hour and 24-hour hourly forecast views, or daily up to 10 days Settings - Settings completely reorganized into collapsible sections for easier browsing Monthly Sidebar (iPad and Mac) - Resizable sidebar with a draggable handle that persists your preferred width, swipe horizontally to resize - Three layout modes that adapt as you resize: wide shows full task rows, medium shows compact text rows, collapsed shows day numbers for quick navigation - Collapsed mode features your Year Highlights Calendars - Redesigned Calendar sheet with compact single-row layout per calendar - Tap the chevron to expand option capsules with inline toggles and info popovers - Options are now self-describing, replacing the old icon legend - "Monthly" option renamed to "All-Day in Planner" for clarity - Hide duplicate events that appear in multiple calendars - New per-calendar option: clean up and quiet down Calendar event titles, made for shouting titles like "FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026 - Race" - New per-calendar option: Minimize any calendar, even your own (used to be called Dim calendar) Journal - Faster Journal loading, reversed sort (new to the top) for easier navigation - Browse by month or jump to Recent entries - Long-press the photo button to choose from your library or take a new photo - Photos automatically capture your location as a polaroid-style stamp - Tap any photo stamp for an enlarged preview - Each photo remembers its date and location - Better resolution photo snaps now saved, taking up the as little memory as before - Tap a location stamp to see it on a map with other journal entries - Copy Entry no longer copies dates to clipboard Live Activity - Styled with theme colors and condensed typography Yearly Planner - Long press on any day to see a popup preview of that day's task - Fixed day highlights not updating after timezone change Reminders - Reminder list name shown as tag in Daily view - New preference in Layout to show or hide the reminder list name badge
Lots new in this latest version: Subtasks - Add, check off, reorder, and swipe-to-delete subtasks inside any task - Chain new subtasks with Return key, works with hardware keyboards - Subtasks show inline in task lists with collapsible disclosure Calendar Bookmarks - Colored tabs on Daily to toggle individual calendars on and off - Solo mode: one tap to show only your calendars, hide shared ones - Focus mode: isolate a single calendar via long press - Swipe up/down on tabs to collapse into a compact deck or expand - Long press for quick actions: set default calendar, add event, Show All, Configure - Choose which calendars appear in bookmarks from Calendar settings - Non-editable calendars hidden in Solo mode HealthKit in Journal - Activity Rings displayed per day in Journal - Steps, Distance, Flights Climbed with bar graph visualizations - Sleep and Resting Heart Rate available in Settings - Journal becomes a glanceable health dashboard alongside your entries Journal Quick Actions - Map Check In: drop a pin of your current location - Last Photo: attach your most recent photo - Workout: log an exercise entry - New accessory bar with map and photo capsule thumbnails - Actions append to recent entries or create new ones Hear Summary Everywhere - Lock Screen widget - Siri command ("Hear my summary in Finalist") - Shortcuts app action via HearSummaryIntent - New Control Center button - Deep link (finalist://hear-summary) Outstanding Tasks Overhaul - Expandable section at top of Lists tab with recent week tasks and SEE ALL - Collapsible date sections: Recent, Last 30 days, Last 3 months, Last 6 months, Last year, Over a year old - Per-section Edit menu: move to today/tomorrow, move to list, complete, delete with confirmation And that's just the big items, many more features and fixes included in this release.
Lots new in this latest version: Subtasks - Add, check off, reorder, and swipe-to-delete subtasks inside any task - Chain new subtasks with Return key, works with hardware keyboards - Subtasks show inline in task lists with collapsible disclosure Calendar Bookmarks - Colored tabs on Daily to toggle individual calendars on and off - Solo mode: one tap to show only your calendars, hide shared ones - Focus mode: isolate a single calendar via long press - Swipe up/down on tabs to collapse into a compact deck or expand - Long press for quick actions: set default calendar, add event, Show All, Configure - Choose which calendars appear in bookmarks from Calendar settings - Non-editable calendars hidden in Solo mode HealthKit in Journal - Activity Rings displayed per day in Journal - Steps, Distance, Flights Climbed with bar graph visualizations - Sleep and Resting Heart Rate available in Settings - Journal becomes a glanceable health dashboard alongside your entries Journal Quick Actions - Map Check In: drop a pin of your current location - Last Photo: attach your most recent photo - Workout: log an exercise entry - New accessory bar with map and photo capsule thumbnails - Actions append to recent entries or create new ones Hear Summary Everywhere - Lock Screen widget - Siri command ("Hear my summary in Finalist") - Shortcuts app action via HearSummaryIntent - New Control Center button - Deep link (finalist://hear-summary) Outstanding Tasks Overhaul - Expandable section at top of Lists tab with recent week tasks and SEE ALL - Collapsible date sections: Recent, Last 30 days, Last 3 months, Last 6 months, Last year, Over a year old - Per-section Edit menu: move to today/tomorrow, move to list, complete, delete with confirmation And that's just the big items, many more features and fixes included in this release.
Calendars & Reminders organized by account Your calendars and reminder lists are now grouped by the account they belong to, everywhere in the app. Location support for events Add locations to calendar events. Tap map locations in Daily to share. Journal improvements Reversed sort order (newest first). Fixed editing and clipboard on macOS. New options - "Dim read-only calendar events" to de-emphasize subscribed calendars - "Show event details" to toggle event notes on Daily Daily view Tap Morning, Afternoon, or Evening headers to quickly add a task to that section. macOS Context menus for events and habits. Better multi-window support. Cmd+N now creates a new task. Also Improved iCloud sync frequency. Various bug fixes and polish.
Calendars & Reminders organized by account Your calendars and reminder lists are now grouped by the account they belong to, everywhere in the app. Location support for events Add locations to calendar events. Tap map locations in Daily to share. Journal improvements Reversed sort order (newest first). Fixed editing and clipboard on macOS. New options - "Dim read-only calendar events" to de-emphasize subscribed calendars - "Show event details" to toggle event notes on Daily Daily view Tap Morning, Afternoon, or Evening headers to quickly add a task to that section. macOS Context menus for events and habits. Better multi-window support. Cmd+N now creates a new task. Also Improved iCloud sync frequency. Various bug fixes and polish.
Lots new in this update: macOS Improvements - Redesigned menu bar window with reminders, weather, calendar and planner highlights at a glance - Better default window sizing - New toggle to enable/disable menu bar icon - Fixes to Yearly Planner UI Calendar & Reminders - New option to show event end times - Performance improvements for large reminders collections - Reminders checkboxes now use their list color for easier identification - New Ignored Reminder Lists section Planner Enhancements - Add highlights directly from Weekly/Monthly planner via long-press - Current day and week number highlighted in Yearly Planner - Long-press days in week browser to add items directly Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac/iPad) - ⌘⇧N — New Task - ⌘1-4 — Switch tabs - ⌘T — Go to Today - ⌘⌥←/→ — Browse days - Ctrl⌥←/→ — Browse weeks Other Improvements - Redesigned Add Task sheet with Cancel/Add buttons - Event gap duration shown in Daily tab margins - Improved habit and challenge handling - Many small theme and color fixes - Various bug fixes and performance tweaks
Lots new in this update: macOS Improvements - Redesigned menu bar window with reminders, weather, calendar and planner highlights at a glance - Better default window sizing - New toggle to enable/disable menu bar icon - Fixes to Yearly Planner UI Calendar & Reminders - New option to show event end times - Performance improvements for large reminders collections - Reminders checkboxes now use their list color for easier identification - New Ignored Reminder Lists section Planner Enhancements - Add highlights directly from Weekly/Monthly planner via long-press - Current day and week number highlighted in Yearly Planner - Long-press days in week browser to add items directly Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac/iPad) - ⌘⇧N — New Task - ⌘1-4 — Switch tabs - ⌘T — Go to Today - ⌘⌥←/→ — Browse days - Ctrl⌥←/→ — Browse weeks Other Improvements - Redesigned Add Task sheet with Cancel/Add buttons - Event gap duration shown in Daily tab margins - Improved habit and challenge handling - Many small theme and color fixes - Various bug fixes and performance tweaks
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
Yearly Planner is here! Plan your month, quarter, or entire year with the new Yearly Planner view. Create custom Day Highlights like "Vacation," "Focus Day," or "Project Sprint" and paint them across your calendar with a tap. Highlights appear throughout the app - in Daily view, Week Browser, and other Planner modes. Sync highlights to your calendar for instant two-way updates. Many other changes, including: - 30-Day Planning Challenge - Repeating Reminders - Add from Yesterday - Extended: choose how many days back to look for outstanding tasks when triaging - no longer limited to just yesterday. - Many more smaller improvements and fixes.
The latest update is all about making your daily planning more natural and less cluttered. Journaling is now part of the Daily view, letting you jot a quick thought or set a goal for tomorrow right where you plan your time. These goals stay visible to guide your focus each morning. Finalist now also supports Journal Suggestions, with new photo stickers added to your Journal timeline, exercise route maps, and more. The task editing has been overhauled: you can now edit inline, expand into a full sheet when needed, and add notes across all task types. Drag-and-drop now works across the app, whether you’re reordering lists or managing your Planner. New clearer Settings screen makes it easy to toggle Daily sections you care about, while Plan Solo mode lets you focus on only your own calendars. Under the hood, scrolling is faster, notifications are tidier, and widgets work better — all small fixes that add up to a smoother and more productive experience.
The latest update is all about making your daily planning more natural and less cluttered. Journaling is now part of the Daily view, letting you jot a quick thought or set a goal for tomorrow right where you plan your time. These goals stay visible to guide your focus each morning. Finalist now also supports Journal Suggestions, with new photo stickers added to your Journal timeline, exercise route maps, and more. The task editing has been overhauled: you can now edit inline, expand into a full sheet when needed, and add notes across all task types. Drag-and-drop now works across the app, whether you’re reordering lists or managing your Planner. New clearer Settings screen makes it easy to toggle Daily sections you care about, while Plan Solo mode lets you focus on only your own calendars. Under the hood, scrolling is faster, notifications are tidier, and widgets work better — all small fixes that add up to a smoother and more productive experience.
New features that take advantage of iOS 26 on-device AI and a beautiful new theme. - Speak Your Tasks: automatically build dated and undated Reminders and Tasks just from talking (requires Apple Intelligence) - New iOS 26 Liquid Glass themes - Finalist is now on visionOS 26 - More powerful Journal tab - Improved Planner tab - New Live Activity with countdown to the next task
New features that take advantage of iOS 26 on-device AI and a beautiful new theme. - Speak Your Tasks: automatically build dated and undated Reminders and Tasks just from talking (requires Apple Intelligence) - New iOS 26 Liquid Glass themes - Finalist is now on visionOS 26 - More powerful Journal tab - Improved Planner tab - New Live Activity with countdown to the next task
Day Planner now gets Weekly and Monthly Planner tab, letting you look at calendars and Reminders lists in isolation.
Finalist gets a new Planner tab, letting you look at calendars and Reminders lists in isolation, in weekly and monthly detail.
Daily Planner reborn: completely rewritten to work seamlessly with your Reminders and Calendars, Finalist is the simplest way to plan, organize and complete your goals. It now also includes Habits, Journal, list datelines, new Monthly view, and lots more.
Your Recap feature is a one-page summary of your streaks, weekly cadence and year-long productivity pulse for tasks and Reminders. You can now also receive Notifications when your timed tasks are due.
Your Recap feature is a one-page summary of your streaks, weekly cadence and year-long productivity pulse for tasks and Reminders. You can now also receive Notifications when your timed tasks are due.
Your Recap feature is a one-page summary of your streaks, weekly cadence and year-long productivity pulse for tasks and Reminders. You can now also receive Notifications when your timed tasks are due.
2025 is here with Year Recap feature, a one-page summary of your streaks, weekly cadence and year-long productivity pulse for tasks and Reminders. You can now also receive Notifications when your timed tasks are due.
Heaps of new features: Tags for tasks, Nested Lists and List Archiving for better organization, Evening Notes to start your morning on the right foot, URLs and addresses in tasks linked to Safari and Maps, new layouts and Pencil-friendly features for iPad, updates to Themes, better Mac experience and lots more.
Heaps of new features: Tags for tasks, Nested Lists and List Archiving for better organization, Evening Notes to start your morning on the right foot, URLs and addresses in tasks linked to Safari and Maps, new layouts and Pencil-friendly features for iPad, updates to Themes, better Mac experience and lots more.
Finalist 2.0 brings new themes, much richer Calendar integration, adds notes for Tasks, emojis for Lists, Reminders Lists integration, new navigation bars for Daily and Planner, full database import/export and lots of small improvements across the board.
Finalist 2.0 brings new themes, much richer Calendar integration, adds notes for Tasks, emojis for Lists, Reminders Lists integration, new navigation bars for Daily and Planner, full database import/export and lots of small improvements across the board.
Finalist 2.0 brings new themes, much richer Calendar integration, adds notes for Tasks, emojis for Lists, Reminders Lists integration, new navigation bars for Daily and Planner, full database import/export and lots of small improvements across the board.
Finalist 2.0 brings new themes, much richer Calendar integration, adds notes for Tasks, emojis for Lists, Reminders Lists integration, new navigation bars for Daily and Planner, full database import/export and lots of small improvements across the board.
Finalist 2.0 brings new themes, much richer Calendar integration, adds notes for Tasks, emojis for Lists, Reminders Lists integration, new navigation bars for Daily and Planner, full database import/export and lots of small improvements across the board.
This update lets you pin any list from your Lists tab to Today. This is great for time-sensitive yet longer-running lists: whether you’re packing for a trip, visiting coffee shops in a new city or working through project tasks. Your pinned list will be there for you tomorrow, with completed items hidden to keep things tidy.
This update lets you pin any list from your Lists tab to Today. This is great for time-sensitive yet longer-running lists: whether you’re packing for a trip, visiting coffee shops in a new city or working through project tasks. Your pinned list will be there for you tomorrow, with completed items hidden to keep things tidy.
Finalist tasks can now have a start and end time and be automatically added to and removed from your Calendar (with in-calendar links back to Finalist), with visual countdown on the task itself. You can also create Reminders with or without due time right from the Daily tab. Upcoming high priority reminders and bookmarked tasks can be shown ahead of time on your Daily tab and the new Search bar lets you find and edit both tasks and reminders. And as always, you’ll find many more under-the-hood performance and UI improvements.
Finalist tasks can now have a start and end time and be automatically added to and removed from your Calendar (with in-calendar links back to Finalist), with visual countdown on the task itself. You can also create Reminders with or without due time right from the Daily tab. Upcoming high priority reminders and bookmarked tasks can be shown ahead of time on your Daily tab and the new Search bar lets you find and edit both tasks and reminders. And as always, you’ll find many more under-the-hood performance and UI improvements.
Reminders come to Finalist - manage them just like your other tasks. Lots more in this update, including optional new flatter theme with even more colors, more iPad layouts, simpler Settings screen and tweaks and fixes to reported problems.
Reminders come to Finalist - manage them just like your other tasks. Lots more in this update, including optional new flatter theme with even more colors, more iPad layouts, simpler Settings screen and tweaks and fixes to reported problems.
To do list is getting an upgrade: you can now bookmark any task to help you find it later. Task editing toolbar is now simplified, with the new long-press menu on tasks. Lists can now autosum numbers at the start or end of task text. Deleted tasks now go into Deleted items, so you can change your mind. All that, plus lots of small tweaks and improvements!
To do list is getting an upgrade: you can now bookmark any task to help you find it later. Task editing toolbar is now simplified, with the new long-press menu on tasks. Lists can now autosum numbers at the start or end of task text. Deleted tasks now go into Deleted items, so you can change your mind. All that, plus lots of small tweaks and improvements!
To do list is now more beautiful: choose your own colors for each tab in the newly overhauled Settings tab. You’ll also find lots of small improvements and fixes throughout.
To do list is now more beautiful: choose your own colors for each tab in the newly overhauled Settings tab. You’ll also find lots of small improvements and fixes throughout.
To do list is now more beautiful: choose your own colors for each tab in the newly overhauled Settings tab. You’ll also find lots of small improvements and fixes throughout.
Finalist got better again: new Weekly Planner, new StandBy widget, Outstanding Tasks list, multi-window support on iPad and Mac, and more.
Finalist got better again: new Weekly Planner, new StandBy widget, Outstanding Tasks list, multi-window support on iPad and Mac, and more.
Finalist got better again: new Weekly Planner, new StandBy widget, Outstanding Tasks list, multi-window support on iPad and Mac, and more.