A Quick Hello to New Friends

If you’re discovering PlanCoach for the first time, welcome! Here is what we’re about:

PlanCoach is an ADHD-friendly anti-procrastination app. It won First Prize in the Xiaohongshu Google Cloud Competition, has been featured across tech communities, and has been continuously refined for over a year with active feedback from our users. It pioneered this category of AI-guided micro-step coaching.

Here are the major new features arriving in version 2.11:

Scheduled Routes

Many users have shared a common struggle: once you open the app, following a plan is manageable; but when your energy drops and you feel completely exhausted, opening the app in the first place feels daunting. In those moments, all the tools inside remain out of reach.

The most requested capability was setting up “Schedules” in advance while energy is high. Whether for study sessions or daily routines (bedtime wind-down, workouts, calling parents), scheduling dramatically lowers starting resistance—the goal takes a giant step towards you before you even lift a finger.

Alice was especially eager for this feature and insisted on one addition: “The coach should speak aloud when the time arrives.” When it’s time to work out, the coach plays an encouraging voice prompt to kickstart the action. So, we built it in.

Testing it felt surprisingly great. My favorite personal trick is writing a note to my future self when setting the schedule. When the alarm triggers, I get a voice message from my past, ambitious self!

This lays the foundation for many upcoming capabilities. Soon, you’ll see PlanCoach expand beyond breaking down tasks into an integrated companion for daily focus and life management.

LoreBook Upgrades

Inserting LoreBook entries is now much smoother, complete with syntax highlighting. Advanced power users will love this.

Time Receipts

I am genuinely thrilled with how these receipts feel!

Living near local convenience stores proved a huge advantage—I collected and studied dozens of real thermal receipts as reference.

A skeuomorphic design can reach 50% quality quite fast with basic layout and slide-in animations.

But real thermal receipts have subtle details: ink bleeding slightly into paper fibers, half-tone printing dots, and gentle textures. Without those, it stalls at a mediocre score and feels like just another flat digital graphic.

Partway through, I questioned if it was worth the extra effort, since getting that final polish took several times more work than the initial setup.

Holding the finished result in hand made it all worth it. Each coach’s portrait and dialogue naturally render with authentic thermal printer texture. I tested coach after coach, and every receipt looks like it was freshly printed at a register.

Coach Memory

Memory received a major upgrade in this release.

While it uses significantly more context tokens, it makes coaches feel genuinely alive—they won’t treat you like a complete stranger every time you start a new task.

Because this touches core logic, community feedback will be essential.

App Icons

Portraits of our official coaches can now be chosen as your iOS app icon.

Other Improvements

Dozens of interface polish items and bug fixes have been completed. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who reported issues!

Join the Beta

You are warmly invited to join the TestFlight beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/2b1UrzVC

As an indie developer without a dedicated QA department, your eyes and hands make all the difference.

This beta will run for about a week before the public rollout next week.

For testers who report significant bugs or high-value insights, I’ll gladly send monthly passes, seasonal passes, Essentials Lifetime, or even Premium Lifetime memberships depending on impact.

I hope to keep iterating all my apps at this relentless pace, pushing toward that tipping point where people everywhere discover a tool built with genuine care.