Yearly’s Year-End Update: A Look Back and a Step Forward

As we wrap up 2024, I’m excited to share what’s new with Yearly. This year has been about refining what we offer you—making data more accessible, visuals crisper, and insights more meaningful. Every new feature and improvement comes from a desire to create a tool that respects your journey, your habits, and your time.

New Features for Better Personal Analytics

We’ve introduced some key enhancements inspired by your feedback and my own ongoing mission to make Yearly more intuitive and empowering:

• New Feature: Drag and Re-order Your Trends: Customize your dashboard by arranging trends exactly how you want. This flexibility lets you prioritize what matters most, whether it’s fitness goals, meditation sessions, or environmental impact tracking.

• New Features: Name, Rename, and Adjust Almost All Text Fields: Personalization has always been at Yearly’s core. Now, you can rename fields to fit your lifestyle and align more closely with how you think about your habits.

These additions aren’t gimmicks; they’re about giving you the freedom to shape your own analytics journey.

Under-the-Hood Improvements: UI/UX and Bug Fixes

I’ve also spent a good amount of time polishing Yearly’s interface and squashing some pesky issues:

• Fixed a Light Mode Highlighting Issue: In light mode, it wasn’t always obvious which day was “today” in the calendar views. Now, today’s date stands out, ensuring you know exactly where you are.
• Graphical Fixes in the Welcome View: The initial welcome screen has been refined to better greet you with a clean and beautiful layout, without distracting graphical quirks.
• Edge Alignment Adjustments on Stats View: Stats now sit comfortably within their boundaries, making reading and reviewing them a more pleasant experience.
• Smoother Trend Entries Updates: A lingering bug made updating your trends feel a bit clunky. That’s now resolved, allowing for immediate and seamless updates whenever you like.

All these tweaks may seem small, but together they provide a more cohesive, smoother experience—one that respects your time and your eyes.

A Personal Note from an Indie Developer

Yearly isn’t produced by a big corporate machine. It’s my indie project, crafted with the belief that quality and care matter. I’ve made a conscious choice to charge for the app, because I strongly believe creators deserve compensation for their hard work, skill, and time. Yearly, like my other creations—such as Blinky App (which delivers secure, real-time insights into your blink patterns)—represents hours of coding, design, iteration, and user feedback. Your purchase supports not just the app you use, but the continued improvements that keep making it better.

I build these apps with the aim of providing real value. It’s an honor to receive your feedback through Yearly’s built-in feedback tools. Many of you have requested features, shared kind words, or offered constructive criticisms that directly shape Yearly’s evolution. This community-driven approach keeps Yearly not only alive, but thriving.

Thank You

To everyone who has supported Yearly—by buying the app, using it daily, or simply being interested in what I’m building—thank you. Your trust means the world to me. Your feedback, requests, and encouragement are the reasons I keep pushing to refine and enhance Yearly.

So here’s to 2025: a new year of personal insights, growth, and continued innovation. Let’s keep building this journey together.

Here’s to your habits, your data, and your story. Thank you for being a part of Yearly.