Last release we gave you KashCal Teal and were very pleased with ourselves. Then someone pointed out the obvious: we had spent a whole update letting you choose your color, and then chose it for you. A calendar telling you your favorite color is teal is a bit like a waiter ordering for the table. Bold. Rarely correct.

This release is about making KashCal yours. Two new choices, both in Settings, one for how the app looks and one for how it shows up on your home screen.

For a while now, KashCal has had a quiet flaw: you could only use it by looking at it. It worked beautifully with your eyes, and went silent as a stone the moment you turned on a screen reader. A calendar that only works when you're watching it is, on reflection, a poster. So this release taught it to talk.

Dispatch from the lab, best known (of all things) for a calendar.

We keep meaning to invent something important. Then July 22 rolls around, the annual Pi Approximation Day party starts (the one where 22/7 gets to cosplay as π and nobody files a complaint), someone gets ideas, and we end up improving the calendar again. Here is what escaped this time.

Your calendar is the nosiest app on your phone. It knows about the dentist, the interview you told nobody about, and the event you just labeled "lunch??". It is a diary that schedules your life.

It is also the app that is wide open when you hand your unlocked phone to a friend to "just look at the photo."

KashCal now has App lock. Turn it on, and opening the app throws up a curtain.

A handful of things KashCal does that most calendar apps charge for, bury, or skip. All free, no account. Show off the one you like and dare a friend to match it.