Release notes
Dovilo is a gamified productivity app for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Mac: a to-do list, focus sessions with full-screen ambience, and an isometric city built out of the work you actually finish. This page tracks every build that shipped — new features, redesigns and fixes — on all four platforms. Mobile and desktop carry separate version lines, so the numbers below are not meant to line up.
Each platform is tracked on its own below. The desktop entry is read live from the public releases repository when you open this page, so it is never a version behind.
Mobile: iOS & Android
- Game layer completely redesigned — every asset redrawn, with animations. The city feels alive now.
The game layer is the half of Dovilo that pays the work back: a finished task or focus session earns bricks, and bricks buy the houses, offices, parks and roads you place yourself on the isometric grid. This release redrew every one of those pieces and put them in motion, so the city reads as a place you are building rather than a progress bar with textures on it.
- Brand new Focus page: the whole flow was redesigned and rebuilt.
- UI and UX improvements throughout the app.
Focus came out of that rebuild in three shapes: a single session, a Pomodoro cycle — 25 minutes of work, a 5 minute break, a longer one every 4 rounds — or a session bound to one specific task. The timer keeps counting while the app is in the background or the phone is locked, Do Not Disturb holds every other app off for the duration, and the scene you pick — Rainy City, Midnight, Dusk, Snow or Fog — fills the screen and brings its own sound, blended from up to three layers at a time.
- Initial release.
The first public build, on the App Store and Google Play: the to-do list, the focus timer and the city they feed, offline-first and free to start.
Desktop: Windows & Mac
Desktop runs on its own version line, which is why its numbers sit well ahead of mobile’s. It needs an active Pro subscription — you subscribe from the mobile app — and it is the only build that carries the local MCP server: nine tools an agent in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Codex CLI or Gemini CLI can call against the AI tasks you write for it, never against your personal to-do list. The same build sends the HMAC-signed webhooks.
- Initial stable release.
Every desktop build before this one is tagged in the releases repository.
On the roadmap
Not shipped yet, and listed here so it is a promise on the record rather than a maybe:
- Data export — get your tasks and history out of Dovilo in an open format. Everything the app knows already sits on your device, and Pro syncs it between devices, but there is no way yet to hand that data to another tool. Export will write it out as a file you can read and keep, so walking away from Dovilo costs you nothing you made here.
- Remote MCP server — connect an agent to your AI tasks without the desktop app running on the same machine. Today the server is local by design: the agent and the app share one computer, and quitting the app ends every connection. The remote version keeps the same boundaries — AI tasks only, scoped per project, no task creation — and drops the requirement that both sit at the same desk.
Each will appear above when it ships, in the release that carries it. Neither has a date: naming one before it is real would make the rest of this list worth less.
How updates reach you
iPhone, iPad and Android — through the App Store and Google Play, like any other app. With automatic updates on they arrive on their own; otherwise they are waiting in the Updates list in the store.
Windows and Mac — Dovilo Desktop updates itself. It picks up each new build on its own, so there is no installer to fetch a second time. The downloads page is only for the first install.
Where else things change
The webhooks reference carries its own changelog for the payload contract, so an integration that depends on the schema has one place to watch. The MCP tool surface is versioned with the desktop app.