What changed, and when. Written for the people using Navis rather than for a release pipeline, so it says what is different rather than which files moved.
23 August 2026The first reminder now lands with the tap
- A reminder arrives the moment you press Start, not at the first interval. Three minutes of silence after starting is three minutes in which nothing has said what you were doing.
- Start, middle, end is a new choice for reminders. If your Focus shortcut also starts your iPhone's timer, the Dynamic Island is already showing a countdown, and a ping every three minutes is noise on top of it.
- On Android, reminders now get through the Do Not Disturb that Navis itself switched on. The app was silencing the phone and then losing its own voice, which made the whole feature pointless.
- On iPhone, setup now tells you to add Navis to your Focus mode's allowed notifications, and Settings says it again where you would notice. Apple gives no way to do this from inside an app.
23 August 2026Notifications ask once, the way a map asks for your location
- Navis asks for notifications with your browser's own prompt, from a button that has already said what it is for. The same on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows and Android.
- Turning notifications off in Navis no longer touches the permission your browser holds. It is our switch, so you can turn it on again whenever you like, as often as you like.
- If your browser is refusing, there is an Ask again button. If pressing it does nothing, the browser is answering from memory rather than asking, and Navis says so and where to change it.
- Turning notifications on mid-session now starts the reminders for that session, rather than the next one.
23 August 2026Your lock screen, instead of a floating window
- While a session runs, your phone shows what you are working on at the top of the lock screen, with a progress bar and the sound controls. Above your notifications, not among them.
- Reminders every three minutes by default, each naming the task and how long is left. Longer gaps, end only, or none, in Settings. If they start to feel like nagging, make the gap longer rather than switching them off.
- Sessions with no sound can hold the lock screen card up too. It costs a little battery, so it is a choice rather than the default.
- The floating window is gone. It needed Safari, could not run in a home-screen app, and never worked reliably on a real phone. What replaced it works everywhere and does more.
- Notification instructions were the same paragraph on every platform. Each one now says where to go in the words that platform actually uses.
23 August 2026Challenges ask you to do something
- A challenge can now come with the work it is asking for. Join one and those tasks land in your own list, each with a deadline, so they show on Now, they show in your planner, and they start a session the same way anything else does.
- Challenges that have not opened yet are visible too, with the day they start. Joining early does not start their clock: the deadlines count from the day the challenge opens.
- The Challenges tab says how many are running, how many are coming up, and how many you are in.
- Notifications remind you about a challenge deadline about two hours before it.
- Now shows what your challenges are asking for, under your own next task. Your next thing stays the first thing on that screen.
- Leaving a challenge takes back the tasks you had not started. Anything you had already put time into stays, because deleting it would delete your own record of that time.
- On Windows and Android, Settings told you to add Navis to your home screen before you could turn notifications on. That is an iPhone rule and it was being applied everywhere, so the permission prompt was unreachable.
- Send a test is back, and it works before notifications are fully switched on, which is when you most want to know whether they work.
- Joining a challenge failed with an error. Challenge numbers arrive from the server as text and were being compared against numbers.
- The lock screen card kept naming a rain loop through an entire session. While one runs it now says what you are working on.
22 August 2026Challenges gets its own tab
- Challenges and the board are a screen of their own now, between Story and Plan. They were a section inside Story, which made half the product a subsection of the other half.
- On iPhone, the floating reminder never appeared and its switch was missing from Settings. Navis was asking the phone whether it could float a window before there was anything to float, and the phone was answering no.
- If you had blocked notifications, Settings told you to turn them back on in Settings, which is where you already were. It now says which Settings, and that a website cannot unblock itself.
22 August 2026Do Not Disturb comes back off, and a reminder for iPhone
- On Android, Do Not Disturb stayed on after a session ended. Blocking stopped correctly, which is why it looked like a Do Not Disturb problem rather than a bookkeeping one: Navis was recording "what your phone was set to before" every time a session started or resumed, so by the second time it recorded Do Not Disturb as your normal setting and put you back to it. It now remembers once, and puts your phone back the way it found it.
- A session that was killed by the phone rather than finished could leave Do Not Disturb on with nothing left running to switch it off. Opening Navis now notices and clears it.
- Finishing a session did not switch your Focus mode back off on any device. Only pausing did.
- On iPhone and iPad, starting a session floats a small window over whatever you open next. It carries no clock on purpose: a number counting down is a number you check. Tap it to come back to Navis, where pausing, finishing and changing the sound all work exactly as they do now.
- Closing that window stops nothing. The session keeps running, and a button on the session screen puts it back.
- You can turn it off during setup or in Settings at any time. Keeping it on is the suggestion, because on iPhone it is the only thing between you and forgetting.
- Setting up an iPhone no longer needs a second app installed. Two shortcuts, and that is all of it.
- The iPhone setup says plainly that holding other apps shut is not possible there yet, and why.
21 August 2026Challenges, and being clear about who can see what
- Challenges are on the Story tab. Join one and you are on its board with the people who also joined. Nothing about you appears anywhere until you press Join, and leaving removes your row rather than hiding it.
- A board carries your username and one number. Not your tasks, not your goals, not your categories, not your times of day.
- Boards are on Story rather than the first screen on purpose. Now is where you go when you cannot start, and comparing yourself with other people is the last thing that helps at that moment.
- The privacy page now says exactly what a person at Navis can see about your account, which is counts and not content, and what has to happen before anyone can read more than that.
20 August 2026A place notices go, and stay
- A mailbox, top right. Everything Navis has ever told you is in it, and it stays there until you clear it. Notices used to be shown once and destroyed, so "what were the maintenance hours again" had no answer.
- The count next to it appears when something is unread and goes when there is not. It is a thing that resolves, not a marker that lives on your screen.
- Opening a notice is what marks it read, so one that arrived while your phone was in a pocket is still waiting.
- You can clear anything you are done with. Clearing counts as reading it, because a notice you decided you did not need is a notice you dealt with.
- Some notices interrupt on your next open and some just wait in the box. Anything urgent enough to interrupt still waits for you to finish what you are doing first.
- Sign up, sign in and password recovery are now protected against automated abuse. It is invisible, it sets no cookie, and it is not a puzzle.
- If one part of Navis has to be switched off for a while, it says so plainly and everything else keeps working, instead of that one thing failing at you.
19 August 2026Plans with more than one person
- A plan can name as many of your buddies as you like. It is only on once every one of them has agreed.
- If one person cannot make it, the plan says who, by name. It used to say only that it was cancelled, which left everyone else guessing.
- Anyone on a plan can suggest another time, including whoever stepped out. Everybody is then asked again, so nobody ends up holding a time they never saw.
- Yes and no are no longer the only two answers. There is a third: another time.
- Plans that did not happen stay on the Plan tab under their own heading instead of quietly disappearing, so a Tuesday that did not work has a route to Thursday.
- Agreed plans show who they are with wherever they appear, on the first screen and in the planner.
18 August 2026Setup that is about you, not the app
- First run now asks five short questions about what makes starting hard. Every one is optional, every one takes your own words, and Navis says what each answer just changed.
- Those answers shape the app immediately: how long a session runs, when a reminder is allowed to arrive, which categories exist, and how much Navis decides for you.
- Setting up an account and setting up a device are separate now. Your name and whether sound helps belong to the account and follow you; the extension and the permissions belong to the phone in your hand. Both can be run again from Settings.
- Anything you delete can be undone for six seconds.
- A routine set to a clock time could not be given one. Choosing "At a time" revealed nothing, so the field was unreachable.
- Routines now appear in the order they actually happen. Something at 08:00 came after something at 10:00 if you added it second.
17 August 2026A lot of things you could not see
- The tab bar was invisible on phones. It worked the whole time, which is why it took so long to find.
- Nothing scrolled on some screens. A rule with a typo in its name meant the scrolling container was never styled.
- Buttons that rendered as plain text, with no background and no border, in twenty-nine places.
- Moving from a room to a studio changed nothing on screen. All five homes look different now.
- In Settings, the sound mode you had chosen looked identical to the ones you had not.
- Sheets and dialogs dim and blur what is behind them instead of covering it with a solid panel.
16 August 2026How it reads, and how it feels to use
- Every screen has a title now. Four of the five opened straight into a small grey label, which gave the eye nothing to land on and a screen reader nothing to announce.
- Motion throughout: screens arrive in reading order, presses answer in 90 milliseconds, and a deleted row collapses rather than vanishing. All of it has a still version if you have reduced motion turned on.
- Every button, row and field has a hover, focus and disabled state, and keyboard users get a visible focus ring everywhere.
- Secondary text sat under the contrast minimum on some surfaces. Every combination of text and background now measures at least 4.5 to 1, in both themes.
- Dark mode read as one flat sheet, because cards were partly transparent and picking up the page behind them.
- Section headings are larger than the text under them. They used to be the same size and greyer, so every section read as a caption.
15 August 2026Coins that mean something
- Starting pays more when you are coming back after time away, when the session is a long one, when you have been at it recently, and when you planned it in advance. The reasons show on the button before you press it.
- Your light has a range that grows with hours focused, from first light to guiding. It cannot be bought at any price.
- A lighthouse on the Story tab that gains a piece at every stage. Nothing it has ever goes away.
- The shop rotates every fortnight. Nothing leaves for good, so a window you did not open costs you nothing.
- Coins taper after four sessions in a day. Hours, skills and range never taper.
- The streak is gone. In its place, how many of the last fourteen days you started on, which cannot be reset to zero.
13 August 2026Words, and what they do to you
- Five words no longer appear anywhere in Navis. Most of them were reassurances, which is the awkward part: naming a fear plants it, and it was being planted at the exact moment the product is trying to make coming back feel cheap.
- Attendance states a fact rather than grading you. "You were not at the last lecture", not the other way of saying it.
- The planner option that blamed you for the state of the plan now says the plan no longer matches reality, which is a fact about the plan.
- The word queue is gone from everything you read. You have a plan.
- A destructive control no longer sits on every row at rest. It takes a long press, because this is an app used one-handed while walking.
12 August 2026Walkthrough, and a plan that actually lands
- A walkthrough on the homepage. Nine screens of the real interface, so you can see what Navis does before making an account.
- This changelog.
- A plan you agreed with someone now appears in your calendar on the day it is for. It said it was in both calendars and was not.
- Anything with a clock time on it reminds you fifteen minutes before, from the phone itself, so it works with no connection.
- The nudge for an open afternoon now waits until you have genuinely been idle for ninety minutes, rather than firing whenever the next hour looked clear.
- Signing in and creating an account are separate pages.
- The homepage says what it is: three audiences instead of fourteen, and beta stated plainly.
11 August 2026Accounts, and plans with other people
- An Account page. Change your username, password or email, each asking for the proof that fits it.
- Every change to those three sends you an email afterwards, so if it was not you, you find out while there is still time.
- Plan something with a linked buddy. Navis checks whether everyone is free, says who is not, and offers times that work.
- A buddy request now shows on the Now screen and sends a notification, instead of hiding in Settings.
- Plans refresh while the app is open, so one sent a minute ago no longer stays invisible until you reload.
- Every input is legible in dark mode. Times and email fields were dark text on a dark field.
10 August 2026Email, and being honest about what is recorded
- An optional email address, used to reset your password. Without one, losing your recovery code means losing the account.
- Navis records how the app is used, on its own servers, to work out what to improve. Nothing you write is included, nothing is stored on your device, and you can switch it off in Settings.
- Terms and updates are separate tick boxes. Updates only start after you open a confirmation link, because a ticked box is not proof you asked.
- Reset this device no longer wipes your account. It cleared local data and then pushed the wipe to the server.
9 August 2026Sound, and a shorter guide
- Optional sound during a session. Pink, brown, white and rain are generated rather than downloaded, so they work offline on first launch and never loop.
- Lock screen controls, so pausing or moving on does not mean unlocking the phone.
- Navis picks a sound and learns from what you keep on and what you skip. Skipping is one tap and never asks why.
- The guide went from four thousand words to eight hundred visible, with the rest one tap away.
EarlierBefore this log started
- Sessions, planning, goals, timetable, blocking, the home progression and cross-device sync were built between late July and early August. They predate this file, so they are summarised rather than listed.
Navis is in beta. Things change often, and anything that changes what you agreed to will be said here and on the page it affects before it happens.