Review for version 1.8.0
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review
Thanks for this, it genuinely means a lot. Homie was built by a dad with ADHD (me) who’s a serious structure geek, so an ADHD brain finding it useful is the best feedback we get.
First, let’s get that issue sorted. It sounds like something we fixed in a release on Sunday. Could you email [email protected] with the version you’re running? You’ll find it by tapping your profile icon in the top right, then Settings, then scrolling to the bottom of the menu for the App and Software versions.
Now, how Homie is built 
Code:
Close guess, but it’s not React Native.
It’s one shared codebase written in TypeScript and React. On the web it runs as a Next.js app. On your phone, that same React app gets wrapped in a thin native shell called Capacitor. So the browser, iOS, and Android all run the same code, just packaged differently. That’s a big part of how a small team ships to everything at once.
To work offline, the mobile apps are bundled with a copy of the app stored right on your device, which updates whenever we launch a new version. There’s also a small local database that works offline (and fast), plus a sync service that keeps every device up to date with the latest changes through an online master database.
Homie runs on just about any device, and we test constantly across iOS, Android, the Mudita Kompakt and e-ink tablets (we have one mounted on our fridge). The Kompakt is the strict one: a small e-ink screen and deliberately low-power hardware, so it pushes us to keep Homie lean, fast, and easy to read in a tight space. If it runs smoothly there, it runs smoothly everywhere.
Design:
You were spot on about the design. I’m a UX designer, and I’d already designed most of Homie in Figma when Mudita released their Mindful Design system. It was a great fit for making Homie feel mindful and familiar on the Mudita Kompakt, so I built on that base and added my own patterns for the trickier bits, like the date and time pickers, to keep everything as simple and quick to use as I could.
Homie has been through about 7 months of design iterations so far, and we’re nowhere near done. I spent 25 years building and running design and development agencies, and Homie has been my full-time job since April.
Thanks again for your feedback 
PS: We just added a new Weather feature so you can see the local weather forecast at the top of your agenda (also optional via view settings). It requires an update of the app that you’ll find at the top of the page here.
love and excitement when we’re excited about the next concert or whatever.
