1.1.1 — November 2026
- Match Theme. A new icon option that follows your look: pick a theme and your icon changes with it.
- Poof-o-ween, yours to keep. The season is over, but whatever you earned stays in Customize, and the Halloween collection is still there to revisit. If you opened Poof during Poof-o-ween, the Peekaboo icon is yours too.
Plus small fixes and icon changes.
1.1 “More Magic” — September 2026
The first feature update. Poof learned to read shorthand, moved onto the Home Screen and got a proper place to change how it looks — and it still has no account, no server and no ads.
- Magic Intent. Poof reads a lot more into what you type. “hw tmr at 11” becomes Homework, filed under School and due tomorrow at 11 AM. It expands shorthand, picks a category, suggests how long a task usually takes (shown as “~15 min”, so a guess never looks like something you typed) and knows “tonight at 11” means 11 PM. Every guess is a chip you can tap off before you apply, and each behavior has its own switch in Settings → Magic Intent.
- Widgets. A new widget puts your next tasks on the Home Screen, in small or medium. Tap the ring to poof a task right there — you get three seconds to tap again and undo. It follows your sort order, can match the app or wear its own theme, and looks right on tinted and monochrome Home Screens.
- Customize, in one place. Your theme, your app icon and your poof effect used to be three separate trips into Settings. They’re now one screen, opened straight from the top of your list, with a live preview on top: pick a theme and you’re looking at your own list wearing it, pick an icon and you see it on a Home Screen, pick a poof and you watch the real thing play.
- Seasonal packs, starting with Poof-o-ween. The Halloween pack runs until November 2: three new looks, three new app icons, and new ways for a task to disappear — into a bubbling cauldron, off as a ghost, or under a headstone. You earn it by using Poof. Five stops, in any order: poof a task, undo a poof, make a Magic Plan, try a new theme, poof five tasks. Each one hands you part of the pack, and whatever you reach is yours to keep — after the window closes, after a new phone, after deleting and reinstalling. No notifications, no countdown, nothing to buy, and nothing that gets in the way of a task. For October, Poof’s own icon has a ghost in it, too.
- Sort By. Choose how your list is ordered: Smart (priority first, then what’s due soonest), Due Date, Date Added, or Time Estimate — quickest first, good for momentum.
- Small stuff. New marks on the Create Task and Magic Plan buttons, a refreshed Magic Plan header, and seasonal looks that now reach the widget too.
- Fixed: iOS only keeps 64 scheduled reminders. With more than that, Poof now makes sure the 64 it keeps are the soonest ones, not whichever came first.
- Fixed: a reminder could say “Time to start” when it was actually arriving at the due time. The wording now matches when it arrives.
- Fixed: with Auto-Delete set to Immediately, today’s progress bar lost count of what you’d finished. It counts every poof now, whether or not the task sticks around.
Two things changed underneath. Your tasks moved into storage the widget can share — that happens once, on first launch, and everything stays exactly where it was. And the seasonal pieces you earn are remembered by your iCloud account, so they survive a reinstall or a new phone; it’s the small key-value kind of iCloud, not a copy of your tasks. Your tasks themselves still never leave your phone: no account, no server, no analytics.
1.0 — August 24, 2026
The first one. Poof is a to-do list that’s honest about time: tell it how long you actually have, and it plans the day inside that window. Finish something and it doesn’t get a strikethrough — it vanishes.
- The Magic Planner. Tell Poof how much time you have and tap once. It lays out your day inside that window — overdue first, deadlines next, a couple of quick wins up front for momentum, and real breaks in between. Anything that doesn’t fit gets flagged instead of quietly buried at the bottom.
- Write tasks the way you’d say them. Type “Gym tomorrow at 6 PM for 45 minutes” and Poof fills in the date, the time, the duration, and the category. Change anything it guesses wrong before you save.
- Five ways to finish. Every completed task disappears — pick the effect you like best, from a puff of smoke to a shower of stardust. Undo is always one tap away if you poof the wrong thing.
- Make it yours. Seven themes in both light and dark, eight app icons, seven categories, and a custom emoji for any task that deserves one.
- Reminders that respect the estimate. Set a reminder at the due time, a fixed number of minutes before, or let Poof lead by however long you said the task would take.
- Repeating tasks — daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or every N days — that roll forward on their own.
- History, so you can see what you finished, restore anything you poofed by mistake, and set how long it sticks around.
Free, with no account to create, no subscription, and no ads. Poof works with no signal, and nothing you write ever leaves your phone — there are no servers, no analytics, and no third-party code in the app at all.