New in Palma
What each version added, in plain words. After every update this also shows as a card in the app.
2.30.0
Under the hood: Palma and the family apps now run on the latest versions of Kotlin, Compose and the Android libraries. You will see little difference, but everything is ready for what comes next. If anything feels off, tell us via Give feedback.
2.29.0
Lock your backup with a password and take everything to a new phone in one go. Guest mode now has a time limit and profiles, there is a High contrast style and a switch for large touch targets. Write notes with your S Pen, go into Zero together with a friend via a link, put Palma today on your lock screen as a widget, and pick the live wallpaper Sun or one of six new ones.
2.28.0
On an open foldable or tablet your panels can now sit in a calm grid, per workspace. Half open, Palma shows your timer and alarm large, and at night on the charger a dimmed clock. Search also finds your photos and downloads if you turn it on, and with automations Palma switches workspace, style or Zero by itself at a time, place, charger or your earbuds. Make widgets taller or shorter by dragging.
2.27.0
Slim, if you want it: with Gemini Nano on your phone or your own key, Palma sums up your day, runs several commands from one sentence, turns a note into an event and suggests replies. Everything is off until you turn it on, per feature, and only after a tap. The family apps join in, and Clock, Calculator and Arcade got a lot new.
2.26.0
Calmer settings: Calm now shows half the rows, the rest sits behind "More settings" and in Nerd. Clock and date, Continue, Guest mode and Answers have their own page. Under the hood the code is split up and tested on screenshots and start time. The maker's name in About opens his site.
2.251 version
2.25.0
Faster and calmer: switches and choices in Settings flip instantly, without a wallpaper behind it Palma draws an opaque screen, and the clock no longer fades every second. In DeX and next to other apps Palma now draws your wallpaper itself. Palma Pro goes on sale once Palma is called stable; if you already have a code, enter it under Palma Pro.
2.231 version
2.23.0
Half open now splits the screen exactly on the hinge, with the media buttons at the bottom near your thumb. Folding keeps your list and your letter where they were. Your note, appointment and daily goal sit above your favourites; at the top only clock, date and weather. Back and search in the settings are now at the bottom. Wikipedia answers are off by default: Palma asks once. Small buttons are easier to hit, and changing your phone's font size no longer restarts Palma.
2.221 version
2.22.0
Palma has a new icon: p. in front of a soft palm leaf. Every Palma app now asks once, with a short why, for notifications and for permission to install its own updates. You choose, and an update then carries on by itself. Palma Clock warns you when your alarm could not ring.
2.211 version
2.21.0
Palma Music now also has radio and podcasts: three sources at the bottom, one player. Palma Radio is folded into it and your stations come along. Stations that only stream over http now play too. One backup now also saves your other Palma apps, and Palma Clock can wake you with a station or a song.
2.203 versions
2.20.2
New in the family: Palma Clock, an alarm that wakes you gently with rising sound and light, plus timers, a stopwatch, world clocks and a night clock. >alarm and >timer use it automatically. Palma Arcade now has a daily Puzzle: a word, a sum and a grid, the same for everyone.
2.20.1
Smoother and calmer: settings no longer stutter, open fully at once and keep your place per page. Contact as favourite sits higher and tells you what happened. Search opens faster. The other Palma apps got a tidy-up too, with one Palm and Retro style for the whole family.
2.20.0
Palma now feels like one whole. Settings has Palma family: install Cam, Arcade, Calculator, Radio and Music with one tap. Help make Palma better is asked once for all Palma apps. Feedback sits at the top of settings and you can attach screenshots.
2.193 versions
2.19.2
Two new apps in the family: Palma Radio (find stations, add your own by link, a tuning dial with your favourites) and Palma Music (your own music as a cassette, beach radio or terminal). Type >radio or >music, or look under About.
2.19.1
New in the family: Palma Calculator, with a paper roll, conversions and three styles. Arcade 0.5 now has cards: patience, FreeCell and Spider. In the Palma icon style, apps without a calm version can keep their own logo (Appearance › Icons), and icons update when an app changes them.
2.19.0
Giving feedback now uses a short form in the app, with stars and a text box; mail still works. About has the switch Help make Palma better: off by default, and you see exactly what is sent. Cam 1.0 can put your best photo on the Palma wall, and Arcade 0.4 has a leaderboard if you want to join.
2.182 versions
2.18.1
About now shows when Palma Cam or Palma Arcade has an update. A light style starts without a dark flash (Android 13+), and the accent follows your own style right away. New: Cam 0.9 with camcorder, instant border, 1998, Instant and Night cameras, and a roll that develops in the morning. Arcade 0.3 with sound, score card and milestones.
2.18.0
Palma Arcade is now also its own app, with every game, the new Botnet and three styles: House, Palm and Retro, each with its own names and look. Four games stay in the launcher; type play or look under About. Your scores come along.
2.176 versions
2.17.6
Small fixes: search history no longer keeps notes, switches are right again when you return from Android, widgets are no longer mirrored for left-handed use, an hour of quiet is really quiet, and Skip still gives you favourites. Palma Cam 0.8 is ready with 2005 and 2009 cameras, disposable, film grain and a date stamp.
2.17.5
Updates through Palma now let Android compile the app ahead of time right away, so everything runs smoothly straight after an update instead of a day later.
2.17.4
Smoother: settings, sheets and search are now prepared ahead of time, even right after an update. The wallpaper picker scrolls more lightly.
2.17.3
Search now sits on your own background, with your home screen blurred behind it. Set up guest mode in Settings › Home screen; the quick menu is short again. About shows your version and whether an update is ready. Arcade: close is fixed at the bottom, hold a game to star it and show only your favourites.
2.17.2
Guest mode is now properly closed: the Home button and a restart no longer end it, the PIN cannot be cleared during a session, and five wrong PINs bring a pause. A guest sees no notes, calendar, notifications, recent apps or contacts.
2.17.1
The app-list Home button is now optional and easier to see. Guest mode has roomier PIN fields and clearer guidance.
2.161 version
2.16.0
Waiting for something? Type play: there are now thirteen little games, and the first three got better.
2.151 version
2.15.0
Waiting for something? Type play in the search bar.
2.148 versions
2.14.7
Replying from your home screen is calmer: one line with the field and a send arrow, the keyboard is ready right away, and Send on the keyboard works too. Nothing hides behind the search bar any more.
2.14.6
Now playing no longer shows old music: a paused player disappears after half an hour of quiet. Hold the row to hide it right away, until something plays again.
2.14.5
Palma Cam now knows your mode. In Nerd: ISO, shutter speed, aperture and mm in the viewfinder, a histogram, a level and exposure control. In Zero: just viewfinder and shutter. New for everyone: timer, flash and shutter sound. If Palma Cam is installed, it is your camera in Zero.
2.14.4
Palma Cam now also picks up your style if you installed Cam before this Palma version.
2.14.3
Palma Cam now follows your style: the same colours, font, lowercase and corners as Palma, and your hand. Pick Nerd and Cam is Nerd too. Cam now updates itself like Palma, and has its own layout: 3:4, 1:1 or 9:16, a grid, and the shutter in the middle or at your hand.
2.14.2
New from us: Palma Cam, a camera that makes nothing up. No AI, film colours, and a roll that develops the next morning. Find it under Settings › About › Palma Cam, or at palmalauncher.com/cam.
2.14.1
Feedback in two kinds: Report a problem and Share an idea, under Settings › About. After a crash, the error log comes with your message. And Pack 2 with six new wallpapers: Cove, Harbour, Terra, Mist, Citrus and Bougainvillea.
2.14.0
New: wallpapers. Twelve designs Palma draws in the colours of your style, your own photo with blur, or Pack 1 from palmalauncher.com. Calm and Nerd each remember their own, and a workspace can have its own. Under Settings › Look › Choose wallpaper, or type >wallpaper sun.
2.133 versions
2.13.2
A small fix in the search bar.
2.13.1
Nerd commands now have a name in every language (flash, zaklamp, Taschenlampe, linterna, torcia), also in help and the palette. New in Help: a card about Nerd and the terminal, with every command, ; and alias.
2.13.0
New for Nerd: flash, vibrate, volume 40, brightness 30 (or auto), reply laura on my way, unlocks and log. Chain commands with ; (volume 20; flash), aliases with % (alias z = wiki %), and a key row with ↑ ↓ tab and clear above the prompt.
2.123 versions
2.12.2
New: world clocks. Pick up to two cities under Settings › Look › World clocks, or type >world clock London. They appear as a second clock under the date, in your clock’s font. Favourites as Grid now also works on a phone (two columns).
2.12.1
New: world clocks. Pick up to two cities under Settings › Look › World clocks, or type >world clock London. They appear as a second clock under the date, in your clock’s font.
2.12.0
New: world clocks. Pick up to two cities under Settings › Look › World clocks, or type >world clock London. The time there sits quietly next to the date, only when it differs from here.
2.1111 versions
2.11.11
Replying from the home screen is tidier: the field spans the full width with the buttons below, responds to a tap anywhere, and the notification no longer shows twice. Calendar reminders no longer show as an alarm next to the date.
2.11.10
Calendar reminders no longer show as an alarm next to the date: Samsung's calendar registers them as alarms, so an alarm appeared that you never set.
2.11.8
Palma can now update itself: when a new test version is ready, a card with Update appears above your favourites. Smart on your phone shows progress and a Try button, and Palma no longer crashes when you return to the home screen. Under About and backup you can now also check for a new version yourself.
2.11.7
Palma can now update itself: when a new test version is ready, a card with Update appears above your favourites. Smart on your phone shows progress and a Try button, and Palma no longer crashes when you return to the home screen.
2.11.6
Palma sometimes crashed when returning to the home screen (fetching Pro prices). That is fixed. Plus calmer Palma icons: own line drawings for phone and camera, shaded Samsung icons become line icons, and old square icons show their sign. Smart on your phone now shows what the model is doing: download progress and a Try button when it is ready.
2.11.5
Palma sometimes crashed when returning to the home screen (fetching Pro prices). That is fixed. Plus calmer Palma icons: own line drawings for phone and camera, shaded Samsung icons become line icons, and old square icons show their sign.
2.11.4
A big polish round: over 130 small and larger fixes. Uninstall from the app menu works again, notes no longer lose text, the Wi-Fi workspace works, tapping the alphabet jumps correctly, daily limits count from midnight, and dates and times follow your language and 12/24-hour setting. Palma icons are calmer: own line drawings for phone and camera, shaded Samsung icons become line icons, and old square icons show their sign.
2.11.3
A big polish round: over 130 small and larger fixes. Uninstall from the app menu works again, notes no longer lose text, the Wi-Fi workspace works, tapping the alphabet jumps correctly, daily limits count from midnight, and dates and times follow your language and 12/24-hour setting.
2.11.2
Reorder now also appears in a favourite's menu when your order is set to Smart. Smart stays on, and while dragging you see your own order.
2.11.1
Calm in your palm. New: Give feedback under About and backup, with your version and device already filled in. Plus small finishing touches.
2.11.0
Zero can do more: set times (every evening, for example), during appointments, a Quick Settings tile, and on a foldable only on the outer screen or whenever you close it. After Zero you calmly see how many notifications came in. Also: predictive back, all icons equally sized and light, widgets at their own size, better with TalkBack and large text, and cleaner translations.
2.101 version
2.10.0
New: Zero, Palma at its barest. Just calls, messages and camera, everything in grey and Palma offline, for as long as you like. Search knows more: live scores through your search engine, news from sources you choose and a short Wikipedia answer when you ask who or what. Also calmer icons, clearer settings and lots of small finishing touches.
2.91 version
2.9.0
Widgets now load reliably, match your style and are quick to add with previews, also as a stack or smart stack. Pick up where you were is smarter and can be hidden, and search history has its own settings with private search. New: a workspace during meetings, a rest moment, a saver at low battery and quick switching. Left-handed mirrors the layout while text still reads normally.
2.81 version
2.8.0
An onboarding that knows your device: a live preview of your own home screen, beside your choices on a big screen or behind Preview on your phone, with extra steps for foldables and tablets. Learn Palma by doing it, or take the tour whenever you like. Notes are now a small notebook with reminders, lists and sharing to Palma. Tablets get a Today pane, two thumbs in landscape and a clock mode while charging.
2.71 version
2.7.0
Calm or Nerd: choose how Palma feels, and mix freely. Calm is quiet, without arrows and with the alphabet on touch. Nerd is Terminal with a prompt, completion, ls, battery and aliases. Search is rebuilt: one list, commands without > with a preview, a sum's answer right in the bar. Plus folders with colour or emoji, notifications per conversation, an hour of quiet, new clocks and gestures.
2.66 versions
2.6.5
Unfolding picks up where you were, with a soft transition. In the morning, one line with weather, first event and alarm. Onboarding with a live preview on the big screen, and redoing it keeps your favourites. Type wifi or bluetooth in search to open that setting. Style by time: light by day, dark in the evening. Deleting now asks to confirm, and a crash in the style editor is fixed.
2.6.4
Tested on the Fold. Tabletop: small buttons for timer, alarm and all apps, favourites in two columns. The alphabet sits in the thumb zone and no longer skips letters. Pick up where you were skips Settings and shows names under recent apps. The arrow next to a favourite is a clean shape, seconds are smaller, and a swipe label stays hidden until you swipe.
2.6.3
Second stability round: 46 issues fixed. Mute really works during a call in tabletop, the music progress bar and the call timer tick every second, work-profile notifications only show under the right app, a half-typed reply survives unfolding, search and Today respond faster, and the Note and Alarm panes can be hidden again.
2.6.2
Stability round: 37 issues from a code review fixed. No more crash after renaming an app or with a removed icon pack, favourites survive reordering, restoring a backup is safer, the colour picker and the media panel keep working, app pairs are back on the open screen, and Sand and Terminal Paper have better contrast. Onboarding counts your favourites.
2.6.1
Onboarding: every style as a mini screen, adjust accent and type right away, pick your own favourite apps. The arrow under a favourite is your choice: in the row, hidden, or a swipe towards your thumb. Left now comes before right. Rows are transparent on a gradient. Pro sheet as a checklist. Smaller shortcut chips.
2.6.0
Choose where the favourites list sits: bottom, middle or top, separately for closed and open. An arrow under a favourite unfolds shortcuts and its own widget. Reply right in the row. Type a letter while the app list is open and it filters. Hidden apps behind the screen lock. Weather: tomorrow and rain radar. Evening mode with a warmer accent. Daily screen time goal under the clock. Focus: allow an app for this session. Faster start: the list is there at once, favourite icons preload.
2.51 version
2.5.0
Open screen: the list centred vertically. Shorter cards with "More". Empty favourites: suggested apps as chips. Swiping shows a glyph and grows with your thumb. Search slides in; empty bar with tabs Recent, History and Commands as cards with an example. Settings with a glyph per group, style gallery and onboarding with mini screens, app menu with three buttons on top, own switch, better contrast in Nacht, Mono, Zand and Roos.
2.41 version
2.4.0
Hold the clock for a quick menu. Rain on its way under the clock. Favourites on "Smart": calendar on top just before an event, apps with a notification above the rest. Workspace switches on Wi-Fi name. Search finds the apps in a folder; the > palette shows your last commands. Folders have their own tint. Weekly backup in Downloads. Help updated.
2.31 version
2.3.0
Rows and buttons respond with a spring, icons fade in. Clock in words and with seconds. Notifications as a dot on the icon. Letter icons with a tint per app. Two new styles: Glas dark and Terminal light. Undo after removing or hiding. Battery card when low, alarm and note panels (>note), contacts as favourites, workspace chips, and search on every settings page.