Every Set release

Set on Apple Watch, your calendar inside Today, Siri capture, and a sync engine rebuilt from the ground up. Faster everywhere: tested against libraries of 5,000 tasks. A massive thank you to Alex and César for their thorough beta testing, thoughtful feature feedback, and detailed bug reports. Their input helped shape several of the improvements and new features included in this release.

• • Set on Apple Watch: today's plan on your wrist, in order, with priority colours and your finish time. Tap to complete, reschedule from now, and change a duration. It syncs through iCloud on its own, so it works with your iPhone switched off or out of range.
• • Watch complications: Next Task (what is next, when it starts, how many are left, when the day ends) and Stats (done today, done this week, current streak), in rectangular, inline and circular sizes.
• • The timer on your wrist: the running iPhone timer mirrored live, with a project-coloured ring, pause, complete and stop. Your iPhone needs to be in range for the controls; the time keeps counting either way. It also appears in the Smart Stack as a proper watch card.
• • Capture by voice: tap + on the watch and dictate, or say "Add a Set task" to Siri on any device. The task joins the end of today's plan, durations like "15m" are read out of the sentence, and Set never has to open. Add Task is a Shortcuts action too, so it works from the Action button, Spotlight and automations. English only for now.
• • Your calendar, in Today: events from the calendars you choose now appear in Today as their own rows at their real times. They are never imported as tasks, so they cannot become duplicates and they never land in your Inbox. Reschedule fits your tasks into the gaps around them, and dragging a task steps around them too.
• • Tap an event to edit it: title, start time, duration and markdown notes, written straight to your calendar. Repeating events ask whether a change applies to that one occurrence or the whole series. Swipe a finished event to clear it, skip one that is not happening to free its slot, or delete it behind a confirmation.
• • Sync asks before it does anything, and asks the right question for each service. Nothing is imported from your calendar now, so it offers Show Only or Show & Add: whether Set writes your tasks there as events. Reminders really does run both ways, so it keeps Import Only and Two-Way. The setup sheet also lists exactly what Apple does not let either app carry across.
• • Convert an event to a task: long-press the meeting you want to time, break into subtasks or tick off yourself. The task takes the event over rather than copying it, so the event row goes and you never end up holding both, and with Show & Add on it moves to your Set calendar.
• • Finished events can clear themselves: as they end, or 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 minutes or an hour after, so a meeting that overruns stays on screen while it does. Optionally sweep them whenever Set opens, and Reschedule always clears whatever is already past.
• • Import lists as projects: each Reminders list becomes a project with a matching name and colour instead of everything landing in the Inbox. In Two-Way you can go the other way and give every project its own Reminders list. Deleting a project now asks what should happen to its reminders, and the list it came from stops importing so the project cannot come back from the dead.
• • Choose where Set adds events: one Set calendar, one per priority, one per project in the project's colour, or any calendar of yours. Switching moves your existing Set events over.
• • Same settings everywhere: around 130 preferences now travel with your iCloud account, including date format, week start, day boundaries, sounds, swipe actions and every sync option. Which calendars and reminder lists you picked sync too, matched by name so each device resolves them against its own accounts.
• • Faster everywhere: lists render only what is on screen, typing commits when you finish rather than on every keystroke, drags move a local order and save once on release, and the whole sync engine moved off the main thread and works in batches. Tested against 5,000 tasks, a 2,000-reminder sync and 100 calendar events.
• • Opens straight away: launch no longer waits on migrations, duplicate cleanup and calendar sync. On a large library with Reminders connected that used to stall long enough for iOS to kill the app, which is what was behind reports of Set freezing at launch.
• • A countdown in the overview: tap the Today overview to cycle stats, your finish time, and a new countdown showing how long is left on whatever you are in the middle of, task, break or meeting.
• • When your day does not fit: star more than a day can hold and Today says so. The finish time turns orange with a "2h over" label, a banner counts the tasks starting past your day end, and one tap moves them onto the days ahead. Nothing is shortened or deleted.
• • New tasks, your way: set a default task duration, a default subtask duration, and a default priority, or have priority follow the last one you picked by hand. Every way of adding a task in the app uses them, from the + button to quick add to a Markdown import.
• • Import a Project from Markdown (Pro): headings become the project and its stages, list items become tasks and subtasks, and durations and dates in the text are parsed. Open a .md file from anywhere, paste from the clipboard, or pick one in Settings. A review step shows exactly what will be created, and one undo removes the lot.
• • Links in notes: a link button in the markdown toolbar wraps the text you selected and drops the cursor straight in the address slot. With a URL already on the clipboard it is one tap.
• • Email a list to anyone: Email to Self is now just Email, it takes several addresses separated by commas, and every email attaches a Markdown file alongside the PDF that the recipient can open in Set.
• • A redesigned Live Activity: progress is a linear bar under the time instead of a ring, so it keeps filling while your phone is asleep. A ring is drawn by the app, and iOS freezes anything the app draws a few seconds after the screen sleeps. The lock screen layout is new too, with the finish time behind a checkered flag.
• • The overdue alarm now repeats as often as every 5 seconds, with 17 of its own tones grouped into bowls and bells, clicks and pops, chimes and notes, and beeps and rings.
• • Free for everyone: the icon-only tab bar and the minimal tab bar are no longer Pro, and icon-only is now the default. Set Pro also works with Family Sharing, so one subscription covers the household.
• • A quieter, softer Set: one 20pt corner radius across the tab bar, cards, toasts and popups, no floating ghost card while you drag, and no green plus badge on drop targets. Dropping a task on a project shows a large plus in that project's colour instead.
• • A tour for the Mac: a 12-step walkthrough written for a window, plus first-run setup on the Mac, which never ran it before. The iPhone tour gains your week, typed durations, and adding tasks straight to a stage.
• • Fixes: starring a task could put it on the wrong day, adding a task near the bottom of a list could lose it, reminders were being rewritten when you had not edited them, sync kept running after a subscription ended, date-only reminders all imported at midnight, the badge and the Today overview disagreed, and dragging between stages could land a task a row off.

A hands-on interactive tutorial, a cleaner open task with a floating action bar, Sort Mode to file your Inbox one tap at a time, a draggable + button, and an optional overdue alarm.

• • Interactive Tutorial: a two-minute hands-on tour using practice tasks. Rescue an overdue day with one tap, complete and reorder tasks, skip one to tomorrow, and try Sort Mode, focus mode, the timer, and stats. Each stop explains why the feature helps ADHD brains. New users get it on first launch; replay it anytime from Settings.
• • A cleaner open task: opening a task swaps the tab bar for a floating action bar (timer, star, move, delete, close). Pin a note or subtasks so they stay visible on the collapsed card, or Isolate a task for a distraction-free view of just that one card.
• • Sort Mode: file a messy Inbox or a whole project fast. Pick what to set (project, stage, priority, duration, date) and go task by task, or one topic at a time across every task. Big tap targets, a progress counter, and nothing else on screen, all wearing your project's color.
• • Drag the + button: pull it into your list to create a task exactly where you drop it, between tasks in Today or the Inbox, into a specific stage, or onto a project card. A dotted line shows where the task will land.
• • Stage targeting: tap a stage's header to select it, and the + button takes on the stage's color while new tasks land in that stage. On Mac the quick-add bar targets the selected stage too.
• • Overdue Alarm: once a task runs past its estimate, the timer alarm repeats at an interval you choose until you complete or pause it. Works in the background via notifications.
• • Better on the Mac: the open task card now matches the iPhone's (one star, Move restored, a five-action footer with tooltips), and the project overview, toolbar, and timer got the same polish.
• • Dozens of UI refinements: a spinning reschedule button, progress rings that fill as you go, a floating progress ring when you complete with the overview scrolled away, color-mode toasts, swipe to log completed tasks, full-width tip popups, and a Regenerate Welcome Project option in Settings.

A focused round of quality-of-life upgrades: a distraction-free focus mode, swipe to clear finished tasks, a Mac quick-add bar, and an auto-simplifying timer.

• • Focus Mode (iPhone & iPad): tap the empty space below your Today list, or tap the Today tab again, for a distraction-free view that hides everything but your tasks and start times. Rows go read-only; tap a task to reveal its circle and check it off.
• • Clear completed with a swipe: swipe any finished task in Today to log it (iPhone & iPad), or right-click and choose Log Task on Mac.
• • Quick-Add Bar on Mac: a persistent Add a task bar at the bottom of Today, every project, and the Inbox. It parses durations, dates, and times as you type, with quick priority and duration controls.
• • Auto-Simplify Timer: while a timer runs it collapses to just the countdown and task name; pausing brings the controls back. Optional status-bar hiding too.
• • Quick Delete: remove tasks instantly with no confirmation popup, and swiping a blank new task deletes it.
• • Adjustable title length: choose how many lines task and subtask titles show before they truncate (1 to 5).
• • Tidier Mac toolbar: an option to always collapse the Today toolbar into a single menu.
• • A cleaner timer screen, and a More Apps section in Settings that stays up to date from the App Store on its own.

Turn photos of any list into tasks with Apple Intelligence, block distracting apps until your day is done, and a ground-up iCloud sync overhaul. Huge thanks to Emily, whose feedback and bug reports shaped so much of this release.

• • Scan Tasks from Image (Pro): photograph handwritten notes, whiteboards, or screenshots and Set turns them into scheduled tasks. Reads planner layouts like "10.15 - Jogging" and "(30 min)" durations. On-device Apple Intelligence on supported devices, smart parsing everywhere else.
• • App Blocker (Pro, iPhone and iPad): shield distracting apps with Screen Time while your task timer runs, or choose "Until Today is clear": apps stay blocked until every task in Today is complete. Turning it off requires typing a focus sentence.
• • AI notes rewriting (Pro): one tap turns messy notes into clean structured markdown, or an actionable step-by-step checklist. On-device, always revertible.
• • Export any project or your Inbox as a beautifully formatted PDF: stages as sections, notes in full markdown styling with your colors, black & white printing option.
• • iCloud sync overhaul: duplicate tasks, events, and reminders across devices are gone; deletions stick everywhere; sync no longer resets your times or task order.
• • Undo & Redo across the whole app (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z).
• • Drag a task onto the week strip arrows to page to any week; smoother drag & drop in projects.
• • Recurring task fixes: every-other-week repeats space correctly, monthly-on-a-date lands on the right day.
• • Choose your completed-task icon: classic tick or Set slash.

The sound update: a huge ambient library for the timer, plus an evening planning reminder and smarter overdue handling.

• • Over 50 new ambient timer sounds: Weather, Water, Nature, Atmospheres, and Rhythmic. Rain, thunderstorms, ocean waves, birdsong, crackling fire, and more.
• • Dynamic combo sounds (Rain & Thunder, Forest Night, Stormy Wind) layer random effects so every session sounds a little different.
• • Four binaural focus tones for headphones: Quiet Mind (theta), Calm (alpha), Focus (beta), Deep Focus (gamma).
• • Six coloured noises generated in real time, including brown noise, the ADHD community favourite.
• • Ambient sound button directly in the timer: browse and switch sounds live without pausing.
• • New evening plan reminder to set up tomorrow before you wind down.
• • Auto-move overdue tasks to Today (optional): unfinished tasks from the past 7 days roll forward automatically.
• • Three new notification styles: Army Sergeant, Mob Boss, and Grandma.
• • Skip to Tomorrow swipe action, with an evening-hours option and undo.
• • In-app Changelog under Settings → About.

Redesigned task cards and rich markdown notes.

• • Redesigned expanded task card: cleaner layout, streamlined action bar, project/priority coloring.
• • Full-screen notes editor with a markdown formatting toolbar: double-tap the notes preview to open it.
• • Markdown styling settings: heading colors, bold color, and ==highlight== styles with custom colors.
• • Subtasks default to simple bullets; swipe right for a duration picker. Right-click subtasks on Mac for quick actions.
• • Six new Master achievements.
• • Long-press the plus button to create projects and stages faster.
• • Fixed subtask completion not syncing across devices.

Your day, your hours: custom day boundaries and a smarter timer.

• • Custom day start and day end times, built for night owls.
• • Day-end overflow: adding a task past your day end offers to extend the day or move it to tomorrow.
• • Smarter timer that shows today’s tasks by default; play any task to add it temporarily.
• • Title parsing works with dictation: say "forty five minutes" and it understands.
• • Parse confirmation animations, persistent add-break mode, auto-scroll to new tasks.

The foundation: automatic time-blocking, the flexible timer, projects with stages, statistics, and achievements.

• • Automatic timeline: star tasks for today and every task gets a start time, with your estimated finish always visible.
• • One-tap replanning from now.
• • Flexible task timer with elapsed and remaining time.
• • Projects with stages, subtasks, priorities, and smart title parsing ("gym at 6pm 45m").
• • Statistics, streaks-free achievements, widgets, and iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.