SimpleBackgrounds vs Softly

Introducing...SimpleBackgrounds! If you're like me and are into more simplistic things in life and you want your phone to reflect that, SimpleBackgrounds is the app for you! It features 48 flat (matte) colors to choose from and more to come! Features: • 24 normal flat colors • 24 darker versions of the normal colors • Feedback option in the settings page • Save backgrounds as the height and width of the device you're on so no matter if you're on an iPad or an iPhone it'll always be dimensioned correctly Features to Come: • Custom color option • Apple Watch app or a place in iOS app for a watch background • Preview mode - shows what the background will look like behind apps or on the lock screen • Many more colors • Different color combination designs There may be a version to come out just for Macs also so stay tuned for that! Enjoy! - Eric Walker, Head Developer

Softly is a private journal for your days. No achievements. No streaks. No productivity metrics. Just you, a word when you want one, and a space that comes back every night to receive you the way you arrived. WRITE HOWEVER FEELS RIGHT Free diary, gratitude in three lines, a mood with a tap of a moon, or an affirmation when you need to hear it. Four ways to leave the day without losing it. YOUR MONTH IN WATERCOLOR Each day lights up with the color of how you felt. A hand-painted emotional calendar — not a bar chart. YOUR CONSTELLATION OF WORDS The words that return most to your writing appear as a constellation that shifts with you. You see patterns without anyone interpreting them for you. TIME CAPSULES Seal a piece of writing today (AES-GCM encrypted). Open it in a month, a year — whenever you're ready to listen to yourself again. TOTAL PRIVACY Everything lives on your device. On-device speech recognition. Face ID for your space. No tracking, no accounts, no server watching. WATERCOLORS THAT BREATHE Each time you return, a new variant of a sprig, flower, or lavender greets you. The notebook changes with you. Softly is for the days you want to write — and for the days you only wanted to open the app. Here, both count.