Tips that stay out of your way. Some of you said Kynd was a lot to take in, so this update teaches itself without piling on: • One short tip at a time, right beside the thing it's about, and at most one new one a day. • Each tip goes away on its own once you've used the thing it names. • Today never opens with "you have too much." The rebuild offer waits until your second visit. • While a timer runs, Today shows "Focusing on…" with the time left. Tap it to go straight back. • Settings › Help and about › Tips lists every tip, with a switch to turn them off.

A simpler Kynd. We heard that Kynd felt like a lot to take in at first, so this update is about less: • Two quick screens to get started, instead of six. Skip them if you like. • Today shows your next small step right away. Picking your energy is now optional and just re-sorts the list. • Four tabs instead of five. Coworking rooms now live in Focus. • Capture is one box and a mic. Save it for later, or let Kynd suggest a small first step. Everything else is under More options. • Plain words throughout: High, Medium and Low energy, and 2 min, 25 min or No timer in Focus. • Buttons say what they do. Done, Not today and More are right on the task card. • Settings fit on one screen, grouped in plain words. • Apple Watch opens on your next step, with Start 2 min and Done right there. Capture is one tap away, and energy is optional. • iPhone Duo: Today shows your next step in full in its two-column layout. • A short tip the first time you open each tab. Bring them back any time from Settings.

Under-the-hood update. Kynd now includes Apple's privacy manifest, which confirms Kynd doesn't track you. Your tasks and check-ins stay on your device unless you turn on iCloud sync, use cloud AI, or join a coworking session. Nothing changes in how the app works.

Light mode. Kynd follows your phone's appearance, or you choose in Settings. Installs that were already dark stay dark until you say otherwise. Haptics you can feel time by. Each energy has its own tap. The last three seconds of a countdown tick. Optional gentle pulses every 5, 10, or 15 minutes of Pomo and Flow, for when your eyes are on the work and not the clock. Off, Gentle, or Full; Calm mode keeps it gentle. Real Pomodoro breaks. Take a break, add five more minutes, or start the next one, with a long break after every fourth. Nothing counts during a break, and nothing is forced. Rebuild from now. When the list is bigger than the time left before your day ends, Today offers to keep what fits and move the rest to tomorrow. One tap, nothing lost. Steps that add up. Break it down now keeps the steps attached: the task shows "2 of 5", and finishing the last step asks whether the whole thing counts as done. Brain dump (Premium). Talk for as long as you need, no one-minute cap. Kynd sorts it into separate tasks, each with a smallest first move, for you to keep or drop. Bigger brain, optional (Premium, iOS 27). Send hard ones to Apple's Private Cloud Compute instead of your iPhone. Off by default, free, and every result says which one made it. Banners that do something. Mark it done and 5 more minutes on the timer banner. Save my spot on the 90-minute one. An optional morning check-in with Green, Yellow, and Red right on the banner, and an optional evening reminder that opens the shutdown flow. Pick for me. Can't choose? One tap picks a small win at random. Lock Screen and Siri. Done and +5 min on the Live Activity, a StandBy layout, and "Start focus in Kynd" and "Mark my step done in Kynd" for Siri. Plus: a kinder end-of-day note in the shutdown flow, energy by hour of day in Your patterns, a heads-up before a routine step ends, better VoiceOver on the timer, energy shapes for Differentiate Without Color, and larger type on the countdown.

Your timer survives a restart. If iOS closed Kynd in the middle of a Pomodoro, reopening it could reset the countdown to 25:00 and count the same minutes twice. It now picks up exactly where it left off, and a session that ended while Kynd was closed is credited, its calendar block trimmed, and the Lock Screen timer cleared, whether or not you open Focus. No nudge for a sprint. The 90-minute hyperfocus reminder could arrive an hour and a half after a 2-minute sprint that ended in the background. It's now only set when a session can actually reach it. iCloud sync keeps your work. Turning sync on after using one device for a while could let an older copy from another device overwrite it. This device's work is sent up first. Energy history from two devices is combined instead of one replacing the other. "Not today" means not today. Snoozing a repeating task no longer hides its next occurrences too, and a repeat with a start time now appears at that time even if Kynd is already open. Voice capture is steadier. A quick double-tap on the mic could crash Kynd; and if recognition failed, the mic just went quiet. It now says so and invites you to try again or type. Honest prices. The subscribe button only promises a free trial when the plan you picked has one, the per-month figure is in your own currency, and Restore purchases tells you what it found. Plus: rejoining a coworking room no longer spends your monthly minutes twice, the Home Screen widget's Done button completes the task it shows, and a thought captured on Apple Watch can't land in your inbox twice. No streaks. Bad days still don't erase good ones.

Every other week means every other week. A task set to repeat every other week, or quarterly, now counts from the day you set it. Before, "every other Monday" could show up again next Monday, and "quarterly" set in September fired in October. The focus shield lets go on time. A session that ended while Kynd was in the background or closed could leave your apps shielded until you next opened Kynd. The shield now lifts the moment the session ends, whether Kynd is open or not. Premium works offline. If the App Store couldn't be reached when Kynd opened, a paid subscription was treated as the free plan until it could. Your subscription is now read from your device first. Today tells the truth on red days. When everything on your list is bigger than your current energy, Today used to say "Nothing on Today yet" and send you off to capture more. It now says how many things are waiting for more energy, and that resting counts. Plus: ready for iOS 27, the shield's "I need a minute" screen handles the new iOS button layouts, and the Apple Watch count matches Today. No streaks. Bad days still don't erase good ones.

Break it down, on your device. Long-press any task and Premium turns it into three to seven concrete steps you can actually start, sized by how hard the task feels. It runs entirely on your iPhone: no credits, no monthly caps, and nothing you write ever leaves the device. Not today. Snooze any task to tomorrow, the weekend, or next week. It disappears until then, comes back like it never left, and nothing counts how many times you needed that. Free for everyone. I made progress. Worked on something without finishing it? That counts now. A new lifetime counter tracks every time you moved something forward. Also free. Calm mode. One switch stops all animation, drops the color wash, and turns off the celebration burst, for days when the screen itself is too loud. Smarter repeats. Tasks can now repeat monthly, every other week, or quarterly, and a repeating task can hold off until a time you choose, so "school pickup" doesn't stare at you all morning. The focus shield speaks Kynd now. When you bump into a shielded app mid-session, you'll see your own task and your own reason instead of a generic block screen, with an "I need a minute" button that never scolds. Family Sharing works properly: one subscription covers up to five people in your family. No streaks. Bad days still don't erase good ones.

Kynd 1.5.1 keeps things calm and honest: • Coworking rooms now include a monthly minute budget (500 minutes, about ten full sessions), so live rooms stay fast and sustainable for everyone. • Smoother rejoin when a coworking session drops. • A clearer Premium: one plan, everything included. Note for families: Kynd Premium is now a single-person subscription and no longer includes Family Sharing. • Small fixes and polish throughout. As always: no streaks, no shame, and the core loop stays free.

-Recurring tasks, daily, weekdays, or the days you pick -Per-task timers, long-press any task, pick a length, go -Guided routine run-throughs, with optional spoken prompts -A gentle Screen Time shield for Focus, off by default, lift it anytime -Opt-in reminders for scheduled Flocks -Widget and Control Center buttons that actually do things Thank you for using Kynd!

More from the studio. Settings now lists the other apps built by the same person, to the same rules: on device, no accounts, no tracking. Everything is bundled, so nothing loads until you actually tap a row. Your finished list stays finished. Clearing everything and reopening Kynd used to bring back the three sample tasks from your very first launch, right at the moment the app is supposed to tell you it's fine to stop. Fixed. "Reset all Kynd data" sticks now too. Long Flow sessions report honestly. The check-in at 50 or 75 minutes kept saying "25 minutes flowing." It tells you the real number now. Focus no longer holds on to a task you already marked done from Today. Settings shows the correct version number. You can also rate Kynd from Settings now, if it's earned it.

-See when your list will be done: "≈ 17 min, done around 3:42 PM" -Mark tasks done with one visible tap -Focus sessions survive app kills, every honest minute counted -Optional session intention: "What will you do first?" -True dark mode on every sheet, Reduce Motion respected everywhere -Seamless soundscape loops, smarter Health energy suggestions -Dozens of fixes across timers, widgets, undo, and Apple Watch Thank you for using Kynd!

Minor fixes and improvements.

Kynd 1.3 makes the timer smarter and everything more honest. NEW - The focus timer now shows when your session ends in real clock time ("Ends around 3:40 PM"). Built for time blindness. - Finish a Sprint or Pomodoro and get a little celebration plus a session report card with your lifetime totals. - Today's background subtly shifts with your energy state. - Clear your list and Kynd gives you permission to rest. You earned it. - New coworking profile: set your display name and what you're working on. IMPROVED - Routines moved into Today's toolbar so every tab fits on one bar. - Completed sessions count toward your stats instantly, and stray "90 minutes in" nudges after a finished sprint are gone. - Home Screen widgets and the Dynamic Island Live Activity now work reliably on all devices. - Leaving a coworking room by swiping down now fully disconnects your microphone. - Voice capture uses your language and recovers cleanly from mic hiccups. - Calmer iCloud sync between devices, safer data storage, better VoiceOver support, and lots of polish.

This update is all about making Kynd more reliable. • Soundscapes now recover smoothly from calls, Siri, alarms, and unplugged headphones, no more sudden silence. • Audio coworking connects more reliably, with clearer status and an easy Rejoin if your connection drops. • Voice capture now adds to what you have already typed instead of replacing it. • Energy suggestions from Apple Health are more accurate, and stay quiet when there is not enough sleep or activity data to suggest one. • More dependable iCloud syncing, reminders, and focus timer, plus a number of smaller fixes throughout. Thanks for using Kynd.

This update is all about a smoother, more dependable focus experience: • Focus timers now stay accurate when you switch apps or lock your screen • Get a notification when your Sprint or Pomodoro finishes, even in the background • Pomodoro sessions now end with a gentle check-in instead of resetting silently • Accidentally marked a task done? Tap Undo right from Today • Long focus sessions now ask before ending, so one stray tap can't cut them short • Soundscape switching is instant and stutter-free • Clearer energy selection and improved VoiceOver support throughout • Faster, more battery-friendly saving and iCloud sync • Stability improvements and bug fixes