DIARY · 2026-08-25 · EveryCent · EveryJot · EveryPix · EveryWall
Four apps, one week of updates
Roberto Bonfa' · 2026-08-25
Since 21 August the Every* family has four apps and all of them are published. I found out the first consequence straight away: when something needs changing, it needs changing four times.
Five days, and this is what came out of them.
EveryWall: the light icon is finally light
The three icon variants - normal, dark and tinted - had been there for days, but there was no visible difference between light and dark. The background of the light variant was graphite, and in dark mode the system draws a background in an almost identical grey: the icon looked frozen even when it changed.
Now the light background is barely tinted white and the W stands out. The App Store listing icon changes with it, and I aligned the everywall.app site too, favicon included: a dark tile inside a light site had been bothering me since 13 August.
In the same version the descriptions of the sites and the apps are the real ones, word for word, instead of the placeholders I had put in to fill the space. Then came the button to share the app and the realignment of the engine with the site: 55 graphics and 26 palettes, identical on the phone and in the browser.
EveryPix: the social links, and a button that made no sense before
Instagram and LinkedIn joined the Contacts screen, the first time they appear in an app of mine. No translated description and no logo: there is the username written the way that service writes it, because "Instagram" already says everything on its own.
The button to share EveryPix arrived too. It was missing for a reason - a sound one - that stopped applying on 21 August: the app had no App Store page yet, so that button had no reason to exist. Now the page exists.
EveryCent: a dot that is worth a feature
The Contacts section took the same shape as the others: Social, Websites, Get in touch, My apps. EveryJot and EveryPix lost their "Soon" badge and became real links, because now there is somewhere to go.
The small thing that matters most, though, is a dot next to the due dates that have arrived. In the "Today and coming up" block two adjacent rows - one due today and one due in three days - read exactly the same, so a notification left you unsure which of the two it meant. Future dates get no dot: they are not asking for anything.
EveryJot: it became an iPad app too
This one deserves its own story and I gave it one: EveryJot lands on iPad. In short, three columns, handwriting with the Pencil, twenty-six keyboard shortcuts, and it stays one single app with the same listing and the same price.
What keeping four of them taught me
Three wrong descriptions survived in EveryCent because they came from an old list, and I caught them by looking at the screen, not by rereading the code.
The same sentence written in four different places is a sentence that eventually drifts. On the site I solved it by keeping the descriptions in one place, and every page comes out of there. Inside the apps that single place does not exist, because they are separate projects that never read the site: there the only defence is remembering. Not much of a system, but for now it is the one I have.