What's new in DayMap: 1.37 through 1.46

Two weeks, and the biggest release since the rebuild. Shared projects are here, DayMap speaks five more languages, and there is a new way to start your day and a new way to look back at one.

As ever, grouped by the part of DayMap it touches rather than one version at a time. And as ever, most of this started with somebody writing in.

Share a project with somebody

This was the most-asked-for thing, and it is here. Open a project's menu and choose Share Project. The invitation goes by Mail, Messages or a link. From then on you are both working on the same tasks: tick something off and it is done for both of you, on every day of a repeating task as well.

A few things worth knowing. You both need DayMap Pro, and Family Sharing covers it. Your areas stay yours — the other person sees the project without your filing around it. And it is off until you switch it on, in Settings.

[Image: a shared project, two people's devices]

Start the day with Overlook

The first time you open DayMap each day, Overlook shows the day at a glance: your 3 Daily Bearings, what is happening at a set time with your calendar events among them, anything due or overdue, what carried over from yesterday, and how much else is waiting, by project. Start the Day closes it.

The eye in the toolbar opens it any time — on iPhone it is on today's heading in the Schedule tab — and Settings turns off the automatic opening if you would rather reach for it yourself. Overlook is part of DayMap Pro.

[Image: Overlook on the Mac]

Look back with Summary

Summary is the other end of the same idea. Look back over a week, a month, a quarter or a year: what you finished, which projects it went to, and how the days ran. Shift-Command-R on the Mac, or File → Summary.

Your Waypoint entries can be included, and are left out unless you ask for them. Saving it as a PDF or printing it is part of Pro.

DayMap in six languages

DayMap now runs in Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese as well as English, following whatever language your device is set to. To use a different language for DayMap alone, choose it under DayMap in the Settings app on iPhone and iPad, or in System Settings → General → Language & Region on the Mac.

Translation is not a thing you finish. If anything reads wrong, Report a Translation Problem — in Settings, and in the Help menu on the Mac — sends us the exact words, which is far more useful than a description.

A monthly plan

DayMap Pro is now $4.99 a month, alongside $34.99 a year and the one-time lifetime unlock. All three unlock exactly the same features; it is only a question of how you would rather pay.

Your day

• Add a task to any day on iPhone. Every day on the Schedule tab has a + beside its date, in Upcoming and in Day. Tap it and the task goes straight onto that day — no date picker. The sheet tells you where it will land before you add it.

• Changing the date of a repeating task moves the day you opened. Open one day of a repeating task from the calendar, Upcoming or Focus, change its date, and that day moves while the rest of the series stays put. Opened from its project the date is labeled Starts and still moves the whole series. Skip This Day sits beside it for taking a single day off.

• A task that no longer repeats stays where you put it. Turning off a repeat used to leave pieces behind, so a task could appear on days it was not scheduled for.

• Long task names in Focus are no longer cut short.

The board

• Moving a project. Drag a project by its header and a lighter copy of the whole column comes with you, while the columns you pass slide aside to show where it will land. Let go anywhere over a column rather than only on its colored band. Command-Z puts the board back.

• Drag a list in from anywhere. Copy a list out of Notes, Mail or a web page and drop it on a project: each line becomes a task, and indented lines become subtasks. Command-Z removes every task it made, and only those.

• Shading behind the Scheduler. The Task Scheduler can sit on a shaded surface so it reads as a different space from the Project Planner. Settings → General, with three choices. None is how DayMap looked before, and stays the default.

• A better light mode. The space between columns was a mid grey that read as a channel down the window; it is a pale surface now, and the columns sit closer together, which gives every project a little more width for its task names. Dark mode is unchanged.

• Light and dark is per device. Set your Mac to dark and your iPad to light and each stays as you left it. Which one you want is mostly about the room the device is in, so it no longer travels between them.

• The iPad has a View menu. Collapsing and expanding projects, hoisting one to work on it alone, showing or hiding completed tasks and calendar events — all with the same keyboard shortcuts as the Mac.

• Deleting a task tells you what goes with it, rather than leaving you to find out.

When something goes wrong, DayMap says so

This is the part I care most about, and a lot of this release went into it.

• Calendar sync says when it cannot do something. If a task cannot be written to your calendar, Settings names the task and the reason instead of leaving you to notice. It still retries on its own.

• A task that cannot be saved quotes the line back to you. Adding a task to a project, a day, the Inbox or Quick Add used to clear the field and carry on whether or not anything had been written down. Nothing is lost without a word now.

• iCloud tells you when it has stopped. If uploading stops, DayMap says so on the first launch rather than waiting, and tells you something that helps. Settings has a Reconnect to iCloud button for the rare case where it stops and stays stopped. Your work is not touched.

• Restoring a backup tells you if it did not work. It used to say "Your backup has been restored" either way.

• Siri waits for the write. "Added to your Inbox" is said once it is actually saved, rather than before.

• An empty project says what it is for, and an empty Inbox says everything captured has been filed.

Fixes

• Settings would not open on iPhone or iPad. It opens again.

• Summary and Restore from Backup were drawn wider than an iPhone screen, so their edges were cut off.

• A calendar you had picked could disappear from the events list if you ever switched calendar sync on and then off again, and stay gone. Thank you to Ira for working out what caused it.

• The Make It a Bearing action in Shortcuts refused to run, saying 3 Daily Bearings were off when they were on. Thank you to Andrés, whose report came with the diagnosis.

• DayMap's icon is built for iOS 26's light, dark, clear and tinted styles now, so it stays the blue tile with the white calendar in all of them — and it is back to the look DayMap launched with. Thank you to Andrew for the screenshots.

• Calendar sync no longer sends an identifier between your devices that only means something on the device that made it. Fewer needless iCloud updates, and the same single event everywhere.

• Search follows your completed-tasks setting, and says how many it left out.

• The sync indicator appears only when sync cannot start, and nothing in the toolbar moves while DayMap is working normally.

• The month view follows the Scheduler text size on Mac and iPad.

• All-day event names grow with the text size.

• Quick Add fits on smaller iPhones.

• Turning iCloud on or off on iPhone and iPad now tells you DayMap has to be fully quit and reopened before it takes effect. The Mac has always said so.

• Keeping the Inbox in view no longer makes the board bounce.

DayMap is on the Mac App Store and the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. If something here is not behaving, write in — most of this list started that way, and three of the fixes above have somebody's name on them.