DeskRhythm is live
Last week, DeskRhythm was ready for the App Store but not yet in anyone's hands. It is now live for iPhone.
A rhythm for the desk you already have
I bought a standing desk and discovered that owning one did not make me use it. It is easy to get absorbed in work, stay in one position for hours, and remember the desk only when the day is almost over. Standing all day is not the answer either. The useful habit is to switch between sitting, standing, and moving.
That is what DeskRhythm helps with. Start your workday and it gives you a quiet nudge when it is time to change position: raise the desk, use a walking pad, or take a short walk. You can respond from the Lock Screen, and the current interval is visible there and in the Dynamic Island. Different Rooms can hold different rhythms for, say, a home setup and an office. There are no streaks or scores to keep up with; the point is to make movement easier to remember while you work.
The iPhone app and the free web app were both built entirely with Build Studio. That has made this release a useful test of the whole way I build, not just of the app itself. The Android version is also underway, but it is not a Play Store release yet.
Fazon: getting closer to a beta by narrowing the scope
Fazon is beginning to look more like something I can put in front of external testers. This week brought a proper first-launch onboarding flow, more work on the transition from an active phase into maintenance, and fixes found while testing those paths. There is still a beta checklist to clear, so I am not calling it ready yet.
The more important decision is what will not be in that first release. I have paused the LLM integrations, including photo food logging and spoken or typed meal entry, along with nutrition-label scanning. The label scanner was not itself an LLM feature, but it did not read reliably enough on my phone to justify shipping it. Some of the AI paths were also impossible for me to test properly on my own device. Together, these features need considerably more work than a beta schedule should hide.
Their work has been preserved for a later release rather than quietly left half-working in the app. The beta will focus on the food logging and phase experience that can be tested end to end. Barcode scanning remains; it is a separate, more deterministic path.
Elsewhere
My Next: List 1.3.1 is being prepared with release notes and an App Store build, but I am not treating it as a public release until it actually is one. List and Note also received small fixes that reduce unnecessary work when their screens are awake or menus are hidden.
I am also testing a smarter Wake Alarm for Todo: whether Apple Watch sleep data can help wake me at a good point within a window before the time I set. It is still an experiment, not a feature announcement. Progress is unusually slow because each meaningful test takes a full night's sleep and a real wake-up. The AI agent can help with the code, but it cannot sleep through Tuesday night for me.
Välkomna: a new article covers collecting RSVPs and food preferences for a group Christmas dinner. Work is also being scoped for a date poll that fits together with the RSVP flow; it is not a shipped feature yet.
Sickla tunneln, Skrivhjälp, and Life Graph had no product updates I can point to this week.
What's new in Build Studio
There have been improvements to drafting, publishing, and QA, including a way to review desktop-app screens during a build. I will give Build Studio a fuller account next week, with a new demo, rather than squeeze that story into this one. The changelog has the detailed changes.
What's next
For DeskRhythm, the interesting question now is whether the quiet rhythm helps in a real workday, beyond the demo. For Fazon, it is whether the smaller, more testable first version can get through its beta gates. Those are better questions to answer with actual use than with another feature list.