Hey guys,
in case you missed it: The roadmap for upcoming updates for Mudita OS K has been updated and includes some major things suggested by the community and based on Mudita OS K 1.2.0 there are probably lots of other things including bugfixes ahead of us
Coming in September 2025:
Playlist management in the Music Player
Enhanced Bluetooth device management
Better fingerprint unlock behavior
Manual selection of available mobile networks
Other updates planned for Fall 2025:
Support for group messaging
Folder-based music organization in the Music Player
@felensis That’s great news, me being annoying pays off!!!
I don’t want to seem ungrateful, but I have to be honest when I say:
That the roadmap doesn’t seem very serious.
I’ve seen developers in XDA knocking out more stuff in a weekend than this whole list that just says 2026.
Mudita doesn’t have an Android guy listed in the team anymore. So I have no idea if they’re outsourcing the development or what. But a company with 33 people and a dog should invest more in development if they want this phone to sell well.
If I didn’t buy this phone in April and saw the “Option to clear recent call history” and “Ability to add custom ringtones and notification sounds” are coming in 2026 I wouldn’t buy this phone.
To list those as upcoming “features” for 2026 is ridiculous. Those features already exist in AOSP, why they’ve been removed I WILL NEVER KNOW.
To Mudita:
Feel free to skip my annoying requests for e-ink modes and do basic stuff like call history and ringtones instead. I’ll even change my profile picture.
Just fix the bluetooth history dialog and please bring back accessibility permission that you removed in last update.
Glad as I am to see this on the roadmap, to see that voicemail notifications has been kicked down the road to 2026 is a huge disappointment for something so fundamental to … you know, a phone.
Can we at least know which quarter (Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4)?
I care less for the features and more for the basic functionality of the device and it being reliable. When they release updates i hope they test them for bugs before releasing it.
For everyone looking for voicemail notifications, a temporary solution is installing another notification app, such as One Shade. This has allowed me to actually use the Kompakt more regularly (I still need a smartphone for work unfortunately). Although these sideloaded notifications apps open up a big rabbit hole, and take away from the look and minimalism of Mudita’s system, they are really necessary right now for some basic functionalities people need, like voicemails.
Remove call history comes in 2026?
I don’t want that feature, but seriously… It’s already in AOSP and it’s one button. XD
This week I made an app for my Mudita Kompakt for a specific need I had (weekly notes). It’s a fully functional app I built from scratch entirely through AI, because I cannot code (I’ll post about it later). It took me a few hours.
A human will take more time, but aided by AI it cannot be more than an hour to add a clear call button.
Btw I’m still waiting for them to fix the issue with responding to calls while in pocket.
Exactly! I have to agree with others here. This list seems like it’s done by a single guy who just finished his apprenticeship? Cmon Mudita! Haven’t your first few months in the market been quite successful already so that you can invest in more software development? Just give us some robust, feature-rich basic apps that WORKS… A minimalist phone does not equal stripped down app functionality. You’ll save yourself so much future trouble and annoying customers, like @gezimos (thanks btw for being annoying and getting some of their priorities straight!)
The roadmap looks reasonable to me, building the os by only slightly tweaking the existing AOSP base would be more productive but I think at this point they are kinda stuck with all the custom re-inventing-the-wheel apps they built so far and having to maintain and extend that, which I’m sure is a looot of work… Looking at the bugs we saw so far in the 1.20 update I think it will be better if they don’t rush things more.
Yeah that is my biggest disappointment with my Kompakt, I thought I will enjoy the minimalistic philosophy but this execution took it too far. Basic Android features removed because someone decided they don’t fit the minimalistic vibe. Maybe I should get the Bigme HiBreak Pro or a Hisense A9 with LineageOS
Nahh I give up! I’m now against new features until basics are fixed:
Delete Call history
Ringtones
Voicemail notifications
(and I don’t even use any of those features).
The only things I care right now is
Bluetooth history
Manual selection of network
Bring back Accessibility permission
E-ink modes coming in 2026 can mean Decemeber 2026 for all I care.
Dude, 5-16 months range to fix voicemail notification/quick access. That’s not reasonable anywhere in the world. They’re losing NA sales because of that.
And I repeat something I’ve said in a different topic, I have never used voicemail in my life and don’t care about it at all! But it seems US/Canada people do care about that feature a lot.
Does your app have potentially thousands of users? Did you do UX research on their needs? Have you competing priorities? Are you designing hardware and software? Have you your own operating system? How is your app tested - did you write unit tests, integration tests, regression tests? What does your deployment pipeline look like? Have you thought about how you roll back changes if they go wrong? Do you have to market your product and support it?
I’m sorry but what you say you’ve done here and what Mudita are doing is very different. I’m not saying they’re perfect, but as a senior developer with experience in defence, pharmaceuticals, banking, publishing and the public sector I can safely say while AI can be a useful aid it isn’t a replacement (yet) for a team of people with significant industry expertise. Sorry to hijack the topic but just feel this needs saying.
I receive voicemails, but I don’t listen to them.
I don’t see myself using the phone much longer unfortunately. The biggest selling point for me was the offline+ mode, but it feels mostly pointless as a privacy/security feature when we are on android 12. I don’t see how we could have any level of security when mudita itself isn’t a security company. Why would someone who isn’t invested in privacy and security want a hardware level cutoff? Its a fully fledged hardware/software feature that sadly has no right or purpose being on this phone.
I’m glad that they are continuing to update the device, but I don’t feel like this phone was made for me. Offline+ ends up being a gimmick, the phone feels more sluggish than the E-ink panel, and features are just being reimplemented.
As someone else said, a newer version of android is going to feel even more sluggish. Maybe the next phone Mudita makes will come with the needed features, and have a dumb/demo mode that you can enable to strip it down. Idk, I’m ranting.
For me the biggest missing is syncing of contacts and calendar. That’s an important feature for a lot of us.
On the other side group messaging is a sealed up one.
Group messaging are on MMS. In Swizerland we have no access to MMS for a time now. Our provider decided that people use more and more instant messaging and that there is no need for MMS anymore.
Please keep an eye on the future.
I have a very modest request: can we have the time/date displayed in the control centre? When I’m in an app that doesn’t display the time it’s a pain to have to go out of the app just to check the time. If the time was displayed in control centre I could just bounce out/in with the control centre button.
I did not mean to upset anybody. I work in IT and have done functional analysis and testing, and I do know how difficult and time-consuming software development is. It does go a bit faster now thanks to AI, and it is certainly easier for junior developers to figure out some functions or patterns. That’s why I gave the example of my vibe-coding. Btw, the app my toaster created does not run very fluidly, especially not compared to the native apps the Mudita team made. The code is likely shit.
But I also agree with the others here: I don’t think the timeline is reasonable. I also don’t think the Mudita team has set the priorities straight or did much UX research on people other than themselves. What worries me the most is that the phone was brought out with critical functionality missing or critical bugs which are only planned to be fixed in autumn or winter. It will already have lead to a lot of returns especially with the people who don’t know/want to sideload. Mudita had another failed product before, and I don’t want to end up with a brick. My drawer is already filled with dumbphones which don’t work properly.
May or may not be a gimmick, we’d have to run some security assessment - is this version of Kompakt OS (as they say, heavy modification of AOSP, not plain AOSP with custom launcher) susceptible to stuff, is Sentry messing with anything, how well is the Offline+ software disablement of some features safe from an app trying to breach that.
(thanks btw for being annoying and getting some of their priorities straight!)