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App launch Product
June 18, 2026 · Product

Habit Tracker 3.0 ships the offline-first calendar heat-map

The biggest Periodic Habit Tracker update yet replaces cloud sync with a beautiful local calendar heat-map and a "starlight" dark mode palette.

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Engineering Engineering
June 02, 2026 · Engineering

How we cut the Receipt Scanner's bundle size by 64%

A deep-dive into on-device OCR with ML Kit, model quantization, and selective feature flags — leading to a 12 MB Android package.

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Compliance Privacy
May 19, 2026 · Privacy

Achieving Google Play "Designed for Families" on all six apps

How we passed the IARC age rating and human-reviewed Family-Friendly checklist — without compromising the ad-supported IAA model.

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Partnership Partnership
May 04, 2026 · Company

Welcome, Manchester & Lisbon — two new engineering hubs

We're opening a pair of international engineering hubs to better serve European customers and follow the sun for incident response.

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Research Research
April 22, 2026 · Research

On-device LLMs — can we fit a 1B model in 6 MB?

Our research team spends six weeks benchmarking GGUF-quantized open models for the Writing Inspiration Engine. Spoiler: yes.

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Award Award
April 03, 2026 · Award

Route Resolver wins "Best Indie Outdoor App" at Play Indie Fest

The Outdoor Offline Route Resolver takes home the 2026 Indie Fest award, honoring apps with sub-30 MB packages and zero required signups.

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Monetization Monetization
March 14, 2026 · IAA & IAP

A respectful monetization playbook for utility apps

We share our full mediation waterfall, frequency caps and rewarded video principles — the system that drives +18% ARPDAU without harming UX.

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Accessibility Accessibility
February 28, 2026 · Engineering

From AAA to WCAG — how we audit every new feature

A walkthrough of our internal accessibility checklist: contrast, focus order, screen reader labels, motion reduction and haptic alternatives.

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Compliance Compliance
February 09, 2026 · Legal

Updated EU AI Act compliance for on-device feature toggles

We explain how our apps implement EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations when any AI feature is enabled — or isn't.

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