Changelog
Changelog
Every release of FastCompass, newest first, described by what it does rather than by what
changed in the code. The technical version of the same list lives in CHANGELOG.md in
the source repository.
2026.9.5 — beta, 20 September 2026
Housekeeping
Nothing in this release changes what the app does or what you can see. It is internal groundwork only.
2026.9.3 — beta, 4 September 2026
Housekeeping
Nothing in this release changes what the app does. It brings a years-out-of-date piece of Google’s own code up to date — a piece only the store build carries, and one Google had started warning about. The F-Droid build never carried it at all, and differs from the last one only by its version number.
2026.9.2 — beta, 2 September 2026
A new look for the icon
The mark is one blue gradient from end to end now, where it used to be dark ink with a blue accent on it. And it sits where the eye reads it as centred: the family framed its icons by a rule worked out on paper until now, and that rule has been replaced by one measured against a person moving each mark until it looked right.
2026.9.1 — beta, 1 September 2026
A new icon
The mark is the same one. What changed is how it is placed: every app in this family now frames its mark by a single rule — centred so the space around it is even all the way round, and stopping the same distance short of the circle a launcher masks with. Ten icons that were each framed by hand now line up with one another on a home screen.
The blue is a gradient rather than a flat tone, and there is a dark copy of the icon for dark surfaces. Nothing else changed in this release.
2026.8.5 — beta, 29 August 2026
No byline on the Info tab
The author’s name and their personal site have come out of the Info card. What it says now is what the app is, which version you have, and where its own site is — which is what anybody opens that screen for.
2026.8.3
A new look
This app is drawn in the design these apps now share: paper and slate, a single accent, one typeface, and thin rules where Android puts shadows. Nothing about what it does has changed.
The colours no longer come from your wallpaper — these apps have one look now — and everything reads a size larger, because the text was a step smaller than the rest of your phone.
2026.8.2 — beta, 28 August 2026
Appearance, and the same appearance as the other apps here. The Info tab and the cards every screen is drawn on are shared components now: the app’s own mark above its name, which build you are running beside the version, and the changelog folded to the last few releases. Nothing moved and nothing was renamed — from this version the look is defined in one place for all of these apps, so the next change reaches them together.
Not released yet
FastCompass is being built. There is nothing here to update to, and this page will carry its first entry on the day there is — with the date it actually shipped, not the date it was tagged.