October 2026

I’m pleased to announce a pre-release TestFlight for version 4.0 of Time Out, my popular break reminder app for Mac. 🎉

This update includes several major improvements:

• New Manually, Once, and Randomly schedule choices alongside Every, with optional deletion after a one-time break and configurable ranges for random frequency and duration. The new schedule choices are rewards for recent supporters.
• Native Apple Shortcuts actions to start, pause, resume, postpone, skip, and reschedule breaks, or check their status, with support for Spotlight and Siri.
• New Run Shortcut break action to run an Apple…

I'm pleased to announce a pre-release TestFlight of Recal, my app to edit calendar events, event templates, track event time, and easily move, delete, or condense events; available for macOS, iPadOS, iOS, visionOS, and now watchOS!

Version 2.0 includes some major improvements:

Apple Watch app

• Added an Apple Watch companion with Quick Events, calendar and date range pickers.
• Add, edit, and delete events on your Watch, including template-value selection and date and time wheels. Changes are saved and confirmed by your paired iPhone.

Automatic calendar refreshing

• Event lists on Mac and iPhone now…

I'm pleased to announce a pre-release TestFlight of Weather Events, my app to record weather conditions on your calendar, available for macOS, iOS, and visionOS!

Version 2.0 includes some big improvements:

• Added a Row background menu in Settings with None and Weather Conditions options. Weather colors adapt to light and dark appearance, cloud cover, and rain intensity, with gradients for changing conditions. Defaults to None and is saved separately on each device.
• Now sets the availability to free for calendars that support that.
• Updated the subscription options.
• Added a Lifetime one-time…

I’m pleased to announce a pre-release TestFlight for version 3.2 of Time Out, my popular break reminder app for Mac. 🎉

In fact, this update is so big, I'm wondering if I should call it 4.0 instead of 3.2? What do you think?

This update includes several big improvements:

• New Break Themes page with thumbnails, descriptions, previews, and a catalog of themes you can download within Time Out.
• Choose multiple themes to rotate through in order or at random, and configure themes separately for each display.
• Added Random Hue and Blurred theme backgrounds, alongside Fixed Color. Theme rotation and the…