Changelog

What has changed.

Every version, every change — since launch on 30 August 2026. The why is in the devlog, and what is being worked on right now is on the roadmap.

Version 1.11 · 7 November 2026

More room, less typing

On Mac and iPad a column for your day sits on the right, tags come from the title, and Hobba now speaks Spanish and Italian too.

A column for your day. On Mac and iPad, a column now sits to the right of the list and follows whatever list is open: in Today, your day on a timeline; in Upcoming, the week; in a project, its progress and its deadline. Use the handle at the edge to push it away and bring it back, or ⇧⌘S from the keyboard.
Tags from the title. Write “Siemens update system” and if the tag “Siemens” already exists, the task gets it, and the word at the start leaves the title, just like a date. “#NewClient” creates a new tag. And when you create a tag, Hobba offers to tag older tasks with that word right away.
One tag brings another. In Settings › Tags › Brings along, you decide that, say, #Siemens always brings #Work with it. Set the one and the other is added, whether by hand, from the title or through Siri. Remove it again and the other stays.
See what Hobba reads. While you create a task, small chips below the title show what Hobba recognized: day and time, repeat, deadline, and tags. If something’s off, tap the chip away and the word simply stays in the title.
The sidebar, as wide as you like. On Mac and iPad, a handle now sits between the sidebar and the list. Drag it to make the sidebar narrower or wider, or far to the left to hide it. On Mac a click toggles it, on iPad a double tap, and on the keyboard it’s now ⌘S. Each device remembers its own width.
New task with the space bar. On Mac and on iPad with a keyboard, the space bar creates a new task whenever you aren’t typing. If you’ve moved to a task with the arrow keys, the new one lands right below it. All shortcuts are in the guides.
Spanish and Italian. The whole interface is now available in Spanish and Italian too. And Hobba now reads repeats like “cada martes”, “ogni lunedì”, or “chaque mois” from the title in Spanish, Italian, and French as well.
iPhone Duo, unfolded. Unfolded, too, the time, the gear and the “+” now sit on a glass tile along the right edge, just like when it’s folded. The gear no longer covers the sidebar.
Fixed: A click in the empty space below a short list closes the open task, not just right below the last row. On Mac, the accent colour picker is round again. And grabbing a sidebar handle with a pencil or mouse sometimes picked up a task.

Version 1.10 · 3 November 2026

Finished projects tidy themselves away

A closed project leaves the overview and appears in the Log. Plus moving several tasks at once, a smoother start and a round of fixes.

Closed projects move to the Log. A closed project now leaves the overview and appears in the Log on the day you closed it. When it moves is set by the same setting as for tasks: Settings › View › Move completed to Log. “Log project now” in the project’s menu puts it away right away. In the Log, tap the check to reopen it, or tap the name to see the project.
Close a project from inside it. The project header now shows the same ring as the overview. Tap it to close the project, with the same question if tasks are still open, and tap again to reopen it. In ••• it’s “Close project”, and afterwards “Reopen”.
Move several at once. Select several tasks in Upcoming and you can now drag them to another day together. The day you’re over lights up.
Faster. Hobba starts more smoothly: what isn’t on screen when it opens is only built once you need it. Widgets no longer load everything you’ve completed. And search now finds “cafe” in “café”.
Fixed: On the Mac, “Choose File” in attachments hung, and the list lagged behind the pointer while dragging the “+”. In tiles, “Evening” showed up empty, and the “+” couldn’t aim into an empty Today. Picking your Top 3 brought up the selection bar. A selection dragged onto “Tomorrow” or “Delete” stayed put. A row’s menu near the bottom ran off the screen, and the large Week widget had gaps. And if you have a great many reminders, the upcoming ones now reliably arrive.

Version 1.9 · 29 October 2026

When the whole thing has to be done

Whole projects get a deadline, and it shows wherever you plan: in the overview, in Upcoming, in widgets and on Apple Watch.

A deadline for the project. A whole project can now have a deadline. It shows in the overview: grey while it’s far off, orange in the final week and red from the day itself. A week before and on the day itself you get a notification, and its favorite tile shows a flag. Upcoming shows it on the day itself, and so do the Projects and Progress widgets and Apple Watch. Set it in the project’s header, through “Deadline …” in its menu, or right when you create it: “Move house by Nov 30” creates the project “Move house” with a deadline.
Today and Upcoming. What you check off moves to the end of its section in Today and to the end of its day in Upcoming. And a tap on the “+” in Upcoming now adds the task to the day you’re looking at, instead of always tomorrow.
And also: Under Settings › Help you can now rate Hobba on the App Store. And when you share a project, its deadline and note appear right below its name.
Fixed: On the Mac and on an iPad with a keyboard, ⏎ in the title of an open task started a new line. Now it closes the task, like Esc. ⇧⏎ still starts a new line. And when you open What’s new from Settings, an arrow now takes you back there.

Version 1.8 · 27 October 2026

Notes for projects, and the keyboard

Every project gets a note, and completed tasks can stay put until you clear them yourself. Plus arrow keys on the Mac and on iPad with a keyboard, and a Focus that covers tags and places too.

A note for every project. Below a project’s name there’s now a faint “Notes” line: tap it and start writing, links stay clickable. The first line appears under the project in the overview and on its favourite tile. “Note …” in a project’s menu takes you straight there.
Completed stays until you clear it. Settings › View › Move completed to Log now offers “Manually”: completed tasks stay in their list until you clear them with ••• › “Log completed tasks now”. Whatever was already in the Log stays there.
With the arrow keys. On the Mac and on iPad with a keyboard, ↑ and ↓ walk through the tasks of a list. ⏎ opens one, ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ move it, ⌫ deletes it, Esc lets go.
Focus now covers tags and places. When a Focus pauses a project, its tasks now also leave the tag lists and places, and the overview no longer counts them.
Fixed: On the Mac you can select text in an open task again instead of the task sticking to the pointer. Dragging quickly back and forth now lands a task where the gap is. And in the evening, Today shows one card instead of two.

Version 1.7 · 22 October 2026

Where you start

Each morning Hobba asks for your top 3, and in the evening you can pick them for tomorrow. Plus the history of repeating tasks, completed tasks in their project, and Hobba on iPhone Duo.

Mornings: your top 3. Open Hobba in the morning and Today asks once what you’ll start with. Below it you see what has changed since yesterday: new in the Inbox and in shared projects, overdue since yesterday. The three you tap move to a pane of their own at the top; the rest stays in Today. You can turn the question off in Settings › Notifications.
Or the night before. In the Evening Wrap-Up you pick what you’ll start with tomorrow. In the morning your top 3 are already at the top, and the card only shows up if something new arrived overnight.
On every device. Pick them on your iPhone in the morning and the Mac won’t ask again. In the Today widgets your top 3 come first under a heading of their own, and on your Apple Watch too.
When was the last time? For a repeating task, the card shows when you last did it, how often, and at what interval on average — say “last done 19 days ago · done 14× · on average every 9 days”. If the rhythm you keep differs a lot from the one you set, one tap switches the task to it.
Completed tasks stay in their project. The foot of the list says how many tasks are done there, and a tap shows them, sorted by day. On the board each column has its own, in tiles it sits below the grid.
Tiles like the list. In Today, the tiles show the same cards as the list, including the Your top 3 pane. Events appear as a list or a timeline, the same in both views.
Ready for iPhone Duo. Folded, the column beside the screen becomes a glass tile holding the “+”, the gear, Back and the list’s tools. Unfolded, Hobba splits into overview and list just like on iPad; half folded, both line up with the fold, and next to another app the buttons move to the outer edge.
Small things: In the Evening Wrap-Up, tasks that keep moving show how often they’ve been postponed. Finished rounds of a repeating task carry their repeat icon in the log again. When you drop a task, the glass lens opens exactly where it lands. And a tap anywhere on a subtask’s row opens it for editing.

Version 1.6 · 20 October 2026

The Mac learns a few things, and so does dragging

Drag a task onto another and it becomes a subtask — and back again. On the Mac, Hobba now sits in the menu bar and knows a right click, and the watch gets new complications.

Subtasks by dragging. Pick up a task and rest it briefly in the middle of another one — it slips inside as a subtask. The top and bottom edge of a row still reorder. It works with several selected tasks and on the board too. And back again: drag a subtask out and it becomes a task of its own — right below, in the same project, section and day.
Hobba in the menu bar. On the Mac, ⌃Space opens a small entry field from anywhere, without bringing Hobba to the front: title, note, subtasks and project. While you type, it already shows which date, time, deadline or repeat it read from the title.
Right-click a task. When, Deadline, Reminder, Repeat, Move, Tags, Done, Focus, Share and Delete — without opening the task first. With several selected, the menu applies to all of them.
More on the watch face. On the rectangular spot, Today shows your next three tasks and checks one off with a tap. Plus three new complications: List, Next Reminder and At a Place, which from watchOS 26 comes to the front of the Smart Stack on its own when you arrive.
Sort into sections, again and again. If a project already has sections, Apple Intelligence distributes new tasks across them when you tap, and only adds a new one where none fits.
On iPad: windows of their own. “Open in New Window” in a project’s menu puts it next to Hobba or into Stage Manager. With a mouse or trackpad you now drag without waiting.
Every view makes an entrance. Switch between list, board and tiles and columns slide in, tiles pop up, rows arrive from the top. Settings › Appearance › Motion makes it faster or turns it off.
Small things: “Start Focus” on a reminder opens the task straight into fifteen minutes of One Thing at a Time. On iPhone, Return in the title creates the task. ⌘N in a tag list takes over its tags, ⌘C copies the open task, Esc ends selecting. And the overview scrolls more calmly.
Fixed: on the Mac, ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘Z and dragging on the board stopped working once you had clicked into a task. “At 9” became 9 pm if it was already past nine that morning. A date at the very start of the title wasn’t read. On the Lock Screen, a task from a later day showed under “Today · 0”. And a favourite tile can now be dragged back into the project list.

Version 1.5 · 27 September 2026

Pick it up and put it down

Tasks can now be dragged — and where they should go is answered by a bar that opens the moment you pick one up. On top of that, a rebuilt Appearance with more colours, and a fourth language.

Drag instead of tap. Pick up a task and a bar appears along the bottom: Date, Project, Focus, Tags and Delete. Move onto a field and what lies behind it grows upwards — behind Upcoming, five weeks at once, with a dot under the figure where something already sits. Letting go is enough. On iPad the bar sits along the right edge in landscape, on Mac vertically beside the window.
More colours, fewer menus. Settings › Appearance has been rebuilt: six new backgrounds, ten accent colours and a picker for one of your own, separate pages for the icon and the background, and a preview that shows every choice at once. Your accent colour now reaches into the widgets and onto the watch face.
Hobba speaks Japanese. The fourth language — and titles are read the same way there: Hobba recognises dates, times, deadlines and repeats in Japanese just as it does in English.
Projects with one swipe. Swipe a project row in the overview to the left: the glass draws back and frees a “•••” — favourite, appearance, share and delete.
One thing at a time, in its own window. On the Mac, focus no longer lies over everything; it opens a small window beside your work. And the fifteen minutes are back: 5, 15 or 25 are there to choose everywhere.
It keeps moving. Push the same task away from today for the fourth time and a line appears in the card: “Postponed 4 times already. Break it up or set it aside?” Two handles beside it — no sound, no sheet.
Widgets that fill a whole page. From iOS 27: every event of the day instead of two, twice as many task rows — and you can tick things off without opening the app. On iPad the same ones in the wide format, in two columns. The size can now be changed right on the Home Screen. Plus a new project board that shows every list with its progress.
Small things: the “Add task” shortcut now reads your text the way the entry field would, empty lists tell you how they fill up, and system search stays fresh even when iOS rebuilds its index.
Fixed: a task with “Saturday” in its title quietly got a reminder at twelve noon. In French, times like “10h” were read over. On iPhone the search field sat behind the Dynamic Island. In the overview a dropped task could land in the wrong list after scrolling. And leaving a board or the week grid for the overview no longer costs a pause.

Version 1.4 · 15 September 2026

Three languages, and nothing stays invisible

Hobba now speaks French. And Today finally says what it used to keep quiet: that something is still sitting in the Inbox. Read it in the devlog →

Hobba speaks French. The whole interface is now available in French as well — Hobba follows the language set on your device.
The Inbox becomes visible. At the foot of Today you now see how much is sitting unsorted in the Inbox — tap it to go there. Today only shows what has a day; anything arriving without one stayed invisible. In the tile view too.
The evening review asks about it too. The Inbox appears in the sheet as a section of its own, with the same three handles. Tasks due today still sit at the top.
The focus timer on the Lock Screen. When a timer of five or 25 minutes runs in One Thing at a Time, the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island show how long is left. The notification at the end stays as it was — this is the view of it, not the alarm.
Double tap on the watch. From Series 9 and Ultra 2 on: thumb and index finger together. In the list it opens a new task; in an open task it ticks it off.
Fixed: With appearance set to “System”, the background stayed dark on a light device while everything above it was light. One Thing at a Time pushed its header into the status bar. The iCloud ring fell in from above on every beat instead of growing in place — and after a cold start it did not beat at all. In the rain a drop counted as a second finger: dragging the “+” across the list selected tasks along the way. And the paywall now calls the tile view by its name.

Version 1.3 · 12 September 2026

Together, and at a glance

The biggest release since launch: projects can be shared, lists look the way you need them, and tasks come out of what is already there — a sentence, a photo, a place. Read it in the devlog →

Share projects. Menu top right › Share, invitation by message. Whoever accepts sees and edits the same project, attachments come along. When inviting you can pick “read only” — then the invitee really cannot change anything.
Tile view. A third view next to list and board: a grid of cards, switchable per list. Tiles can be dragged like the favourites.
Places in the overview. Every saved place appears with what is waiting there — split by arriving and leaving.
Dictation. A microphone in the entry sheet; speech becomes text on your device. With Apple Intelligence one sentence splits into several tasks. iOS 26 and later.
Tasks from photos, PDFs and text. Attach a photo of a list or a set of minutes, then “read tasks from this” — recognised on device, and only what you tap is kept.
Tags as context lists and your own smart lists from tag, project and time range — selectable in widgets too.
“Evening” and the evening review. What is only due after hours sits in its own pane. From a time you choose, Today asks once what is left.
The day as a band. In the tiles of Today, events appear as coloured lenses, with the gaps between them and a line saying what is running now.
Small things: an emoji at the start of a title becomes the row's symbol, repetition is available when creating a task, widgets follow light and dark, and tapping a reminder takes you to the task.

Version 1.2 · 6 September 2026

Making it easier to start

The biggest release so far: 28 entries, all of them about the moment a list gets too long and you would rather look away. Read it in the devlog →

Too much for today? When more is open in Today than you set for yourself, the list asks once a day, quietly. “Pick three”: what you mark stays, the rest moves to tomorrow.
One thing at a time. Exactly one task, large, with a timer for 5 or 25 minutes that reports back even from the background.
Break it into steps. In the open card, Apple Intelligence suggests steps — the first one is the smallest possible start. Only what you accept is saved.
Quick ones. A list for everything that takes five minutes: tag it #quick or write “5 min” in the title. Plus a widget holding exactly one of them, tickable on the spot.
Upcoming as a week board. A board whose columns are days, with one column for everything later.
Remind me at a place. A reminder on arriving at or leaving a place — even when Hobba is not running, and on every visit while the task is open. Saved places like “Home” are there as quick picks.
Wake me loudly. Important reminders ring as a real alarm if you want — through the silent switch and through Focus. iOS 26 and later.
Tags as lists. Every tag is a list of its own: everything carrying it, across all projects.
Deadlines speak up. On the morning of the lead day and again on the day itself — without opening the list.
Your week. A quiet card above the log: completed over seven days, best day, streak. No karma, no comparison.
Hobba lives in the system. Open tasks in Spotlight, “New task” in Control Centre, on the Lock Screen and the Action button too.
Attachments while creating — and from other apps, images and files. Part of Hobba Pro.
One bar for searching and asking. “Ask Hobba” lives in search; the same field filters results and takes the question.
Minimal style without glass, widgets in black, eight new app icons, a trash that empties when you say so — and the date as the heading above the overview.
Fixed: automatic merging of duplicates is off — it could delete tasks for good. Duplicates now stay visible and can be cleared by hand. Also: no more crash when another device deletes an open row; widgets no longer touch the database; attachments retry a failed upload on their own.

Version 1.1 · 31 August 2026

One day after launch

The first release after shipping — with the thing that was missed most. Read it in the devlog →

Attachments. Images, scans and files on tasks and projects. Camera and document scanner start straight from the card. Part of Hobba Pro.
Copy and paste. ⌘C and ⌘V move tasks between lists, ⇧⌘C takes the link, ⌘Z undoes.
Dictation arrives in the background too. Whatever Siri puts into the watched Reminders list, Hobba fetches into the Inbox on its own.
Drag to another day in Upcoming — an empty one included.
The sync dot tells the truth. Orange with no connection, red when it is stuck. Before it stayed green and said “syncing …” forever.
Fixed: subtasks could not be deleted at all. The widget showed deleted tasks. The purchase screen opened invisibly behind Settings.

Version 1.0 · 30 August 2026

The beginning

Hobba arrives on the App Store — after the open TestFlight beta that ran through August. Why Hobba exists →

Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Someday — and projects that turn into a kanban board whenever you want.
The “+” is dragged, not tapped. Hold it and drag it where the task belongs: between two rows, into a section, into a column.
The title reads along. “Call the dentist tomorrow at 9” puts date and time on the task right away.
iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch in one purchase, with Family Sharing. Sync through your own iCloud.
No account, no subscription, no tracking. No servers of ours for your tasks to travel through.

What is being worked on now is on the roadmap. Wishes, bugs and disagreement to hobba@rinn-home.de — every mail is read, most are answered.