v3.0.0: lifeGLANCE comes to Android 🎉
lifeGLANCE is now a full Android app, live on Google Play!
A huge thank you to everyone who tested the alpha builds, reported bugs, and suggested features over the past weeks. This release is yours too.
📱 The Android app
Everything from the web app, as a native app on your phone or tablet:
- Your whole life on one zoomable timeline: milestones past and future, chapters, categories, photos, audio and video.
- Home-screen countdown widgets and a quick-add tile, so your next milestone is always one glance away.
- Share to lifeGLANCE from other apps to capture a moment straight onto your timeline.
- Encrypted sync with the web app and your other devices. Your data syncs to a server you choose and control, end-to-end encrypted, never to ours (we don't have one).
- Import calendars, export high-res timeline images.
- Available in all eight languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
The Android app starts with a free trial; after that it's a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime unlock, whichever you prefer. Nothing is charged when the trial starts, you can cancel anytime, and your data is always yours.
The web app and self-hosted builds remain free and open source. The source is MIT-licensed as it always has been; the paid store build is a convenience distribution that funds development.
🌐 What's new in the web app
Improved
- Encrypted sync is now the default for new WebDAV setups, so a fresh timeline is never uploaded as plaintext by accident. Existing setups keep their current settings, and turning encryption on without a passphrase now tells you clearly instead of silently doing nothing.
- Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are now linked from the Help & Feedback modal, and the app shows its license type in Settings.
- Filled the remaining translation gaps in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese (vault sync, watch mode and more).
- The dayGLANCE integration now labels its credential field as a WebDAV app password, so it's clear what goes there.
Fixed
- Sync no longer lets an empty field overwrite a real one. An empty category list or missing birthday arriving from another device could previously clobber the real values you had set locally. Both now survive.
- Relative-day labels are accurate around noon and day boundaries. "Today" and "tomorrow" no longer drift depending on the time of day you look.
For self-hosters
- The WebDAV proxy is hardened against SSRF while still reaching your LAN NAS: cloud-metadata and link-local addresses are always blocked, but a Synology or fnOS box on your local network (192.168.x / 10.x, http or self-signed https) keeps working.
- First-time WebDAV setup now creates the sync folder correctly on servers that don't auto-create it.
Notes
- On the native apps, sync server URLs now require
https, so your credentials are never sent in the clear from a phone. - Nothing changes for existing web users: no breaking changes, no action required, and the web app stays free.