🗺️ Roadmap
Welcome to the ulives development roadmap!
Last updated: May 6, 2026
Version History & Milestones
| Version | Release Date | Key Features |
|---|---|---|
| Version 1.1.0 🚀 | 2025-05-13 | Introduced focus features (Pomodoro, countdown, stopwatch) |
| Version 1.2.0 🚀 | 2025-06-03 | Introduced Loot Box usage effects |
| Version 1.3.0 🚀 | 2025-07-29 | Statistics dashboard, level model system, counting tasks |
| Version 1.4.0 🚀 | 2025-10-09 | Auto-achievements, item crafting recipes, reflection prompts |
| Version 1.5.0 🚀 | 2025-12-30 | Multi-Profile system, iPad optimization, local data backup |
| Version 1.6.0 🚀 | 2026-02-12 | System-aware dark mode, multi-radar status insights, task/store search and filtering, notification deep links to list/task details, and richer week/date customization. |
| Version 1.7.0 🚀 | 2026-03-12 | Achievement list new styles, reward templates, custom in-app sound effects, task-to-focus quick start, focus archive management, proportional/overflow count rewards, and status page customization. |
| Version 1.7.3 🚀 | 2026-03-31 | Stability improvements and minor experience polish. |
| Version 1.7.10-1.7.12 🚀 | 2026-04 | Search and organization improvements, task setting defaults, level model recovery, and continued stability fixes. |
Current Development Focus
Stability & New Features
- Due to our tech stack based on KMP (Kotlin Multiplatform), we've been monitoring some occasional crash issues that are difficult to fully diagnose. We're continuing to ship smaller, easier-to-verify updates that improve stability, data safety, and everyday workflows.
- The current 1.7.x work is focused on polishing the iOS experience while bringing more verified iOS capabilities to Android.
1.7.20 In Progress
- Android parity and platform integration: continue adapting key iOS flows to Android, including richer settings pages, task/detail flows, reward notifications, focus runtime, reminders, Play Billing, and Google Drive backup/import/export.
- Reflection templates: create reusable reflection templates and automatically apply them from tasks or item usage.
- Profile duplication: duplicate an existing profile without copying historical records, making it easier to create a new workspace from an existing setup.
- Data management and backup safety: add clearer delete-data controls and strengthen backup/restore related workflows.
- Tag management: support sorting, renaming, and deleting task/focus/reflection tags from the relevant edit flows.
- More visual customization: support custom colors for items, attributes, and reflections, plus achievement checklist icon crop styles.
- Inventory quantity discard: allow discarding a specific quantity of items from the inventory.
- Cross-module batch operations: extend batch selection and batch actions beyond achievements to reflections, shop/inventory items, and tasks, including task batch edit support.
1.8.0 Planned
- 📱 iOS Widgets: Create Home Screen widgets for quick task viewing or interaction.
- ⚠️ Note: Due to iOS widget mechanism limitations, we need to migrate the database and images to a specific directory accessible by the widget. This requires significant changes, so we'll conduct thorough testing to ensure a stable release. We're also exploring widget design and optimization options.
Near-future Updates
- More Achievement Unlock Conditions: Support additional unlock conditions such as:
- Weekly/monthly/yearly based conditions
- Conditions based on reflections
- Conditions related to unlocking other achievements
Exploratory Features (Experimental)
- 🌐 Server-side integration experiments (asset library, more flexible membership validation, and other online capabilities).
- Investigating capabilities related to Apple Health app data integration: such as sleep duration, step count, and experience point growth.
Maintenance Note
ulives is currently maintained by a very small team — in fact, just one developer working on it during spare time outside of their main job. We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding.
On Development Pace & Quality:
We've observed the remarkable rise of AI-assisted development in recent years, where developers can bring apps to market in remarkably short timelines. Indeed, we've also leveraged AI to accelerate the implementation of feature skeletons and code scaffolding. However, AI is not a silver bullet — determining the right technical approach, validating the implementation, and ensuring everything works as intended still require significant human effort.
What truly takes time is the attention to detail. Perfecting iOS animations, refining interaction smoothness, polishing edge cases — these aspects often require several times more effort than the feature logic itself. We are committed to the long-term maintenance of ulives and our other apps. We have already outlined a multi-year development plan and goals for ulives, and we intend to see it through. This is especially true for an offline-first app like ulives, where we must ensure every version is backward-compatible, preserves data integrity, and introduces new features with minimal disruption. Each release undergoes thorough regression testing and careful validation to protect your data and deliver a reliable experience.
Future Enhancements
Based on user feedback, we've identified several areas for improvement that may be flexibly scheduled for future releases:
User Experience Improvements
- 🎯 Smart Grouping: Display smart lists/groups like "All Today's Tasks"
Advanced Features
- 🤖 AI Assistance: Explore AI integration for features like suggesting relevant rewards or generating task ideas based on your goals
- 🌐 Public Community Features: Long-term vision includes features for sharing task/achievement templates or 'roadmaps' with other users
- ⚡ Shortcuts Integration: Enable automation and integration with the Apple Shortcuts app
Development Notes
- Flexible Scheduling: Development priorities can shift based on user feedback and technical challenges
- Subject to Change: Features listed here might be modified, postponed, or even replaced
- No Specific Timelines: We cannot commit to exact release dates for future features at this stage
📣 Your Feedback Matters!
Which of these potential features excites you the most? Do you have other great ideas for ulives?
We'd love to hear from you! Please send your feedback and feature requests to fb@ulives.io. Knowing what our users value most helps us prioritize development efforts.
Thank you for being part of the ulives journey! ✨