by Alex Kac | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Mac Desktop, Promotional, Releases
Wow – there has certainly been a lot of discussion about the pricing on Informant 5. We have announced that we are moving to a subscription model and we had a lot of feedback. While many were very supportive (thank you for that!), we had a some who were not. ...
by Alex Kac | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
Informant 5. It’s the Excalibur of Informant! The mythical major update we’ve been talking about for about 2 years now – and yes, it’s no more a myth! In the next couple weeks, we’ll be releasing Informant 5 and we’re very excited...
by Alex Kac | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
Apple yesterday released iOS 10 and will soon be releasing macOS Sierra At Fanatic we have a history of supporting the current and previous OS and we try to time our updates and versions around these major OS releases. Very soon we will be updating all of our software...
by Alex Kac | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Today we’ve released Informant for iOS version 4.9 and it’s a pretty major upgrade. With all major upgrades there comes a few changes that we believe are done for the best, but might trip up a few of our long timer users so I’m writing this post to...
by Alex Kac | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
I am excited to talk a bit about what we have been working on over the last few months. I know we’ve be very quiet especially on Informant for OS X and so I want to get my head up, take a breath, look around and share with you what’s going on.About a month...
by Alex Kac | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Releases
I’ve been working on Informant 5.0 for a long time – mostly as part of our Mac Desktop version and also designing new refreshed interfaces throughout. I try really hard not to provide any timelines on major releases like this because in all the wobbly...
by Alex Kac | Nov 13, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
To be honest, Pocket Informant 4.80 took up a lot more of my time than I expected. I originally expected 4.8 to be a small 4.7x bug-fix to make sure that Informant ran well on iOS 9. As time went on, I found that even though the programming interfaces in iOS 9...
by Alex Kac | Jun 16, 2015 | Blog, Releases
While the busy elves here are working on Desktop and Informant 5, we are ecstatic to announce the release of Pocket Informant 4.70 for iOS bringing our own Apple Watch app and better integration with Apple Reminders. Here are the top improvements in 4.70: Apple Watch...
by Alex Kac | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Releases
We are about near the end of our beta testing of Watch Informant – and its an exciting time! This sunday I fly to San Francisco and sit in line for 10 hours to get into the Apple Keynote (I know I don’t have to – but I really enjoy meeting other...
by Alex Kac | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog, Developer Diary, Featured, Opinion, Releases
Ultimately the choice is to release a new version of Informant for Android and do what we can to ease the transition for existing users to the new app; or drop Android altogether. For years we’ve heard how Apple’s review process is opaque, unfair, arduous,...
by Alex Kac | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Releases
Apple is currently having a productivity blowout sale for iOS and OS X. Pocket Informant isn’t on there because we don’t actually have a paid app – its a free app with a trial, and then a premium in-app purchase. In that spirit, we are putting...
by Alex Kac | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog, Releases
I’m a little hot right now and its not the weather (its actually snowing where I live). Apple has told us that iTunes Connect – the system we use to submit new releases to Apple – would be closed December 22nd through December 29th. No problem at...
