The Blog

Sofa for iOS 26

Sofa's iOS 26 update comes with exciting new features including Liquid Glass, Voice Boost, Trim Silence, and manual sorting.

Introducing Sofa’s New Podcast Player

Enjoy the convenience, simplicity, and fun, of listening to podcasts in Sofa.

Sofa for iOS 18

iOS 18 introduces enhanced home screen customization options and allows third-party apps to create Control Center widgets, with Sofa implementing these features for improved user experience.

Sofa for Vision Pro and Mac

Up to this point, you've technically be able use Sofa's iPad app on the Mac and Vision Pro, but this new version of Sofa is built specifically for the Mac and Vision Pro.

Introducing Sofa 4.0

With version 4.0, you can add basically anything, and expand Sofa to fit your exact needs with Custom Categories, Ingredients, Smart Lists, and more.

New Pricing Page, Remote Announcements, and Search URL Scheme

Sofa 3.4.14 comes with a few handy improvements and bug fixes for you. I'm working on some bigger features so stay tuned!

Board Games Being Removed from Sofa

Board games have unfortunately been removed from Sofa. The provider I was using Board Game Atlas for board game information has sadly gone out of business.

Release 3.4.7

This is a simple update that brings a few new things and some bug fixes

A Simpler, More Inclusive Subscription Plan for Everyone

I’m thrilled to share some exciting updates I’ve been working on to make your Sofa experience even better. I’m combining the old Personal and Family plans into a single, all-in-one subscription plan.

Sofa 3.4.2 - Quality-of-Life Update

This release has lots of little features, improvements, and a healthy amount of bug fixes.

Sofa's 2022 Recap

2022 was Sofa's best year by every metric and the product has reached an important milestone in terms of usefulness.

Shared Lists, Shortcuts, and More

Today is a big day. I’ve been wanting to bring some of these features to Sofa since 2017 and I’m so pumped to finally launch them. I’m not going to beat around the bush, Sofa 3.4 is jammed packed with goodies.

Introducing Super Sofa Lifetime Billing

I’m happy to announce Sofa 2.10! This release brings full iPad support, iCloud syncing, and deeper personalization with 30+ themes.

Making Lists More Customizable

Hey gang, ready for a fun update? Sofa 3.3 enables you to make your lists even more personal and fun.

Sofa on Apple Silicon Macs

Sofa 3.2.4 has one significant new feature for M1 Mac owners and many more minor improvements and fixes. I hope you all enjoy it!

Closing the Sofa Forums

The Sofa Forums launched at the end of 2020, and a year later, it's time to shut them down.

A Place to Discuss Sofa

I’m happy to announce the official Sofa forums! It’s a central place to meet other Sofa enthusiasts, discuss organization strategies, ways to enjoy your downtime, and things to read, watch, play, and listen to.

Sofa 2020 Year in Review

2020 has been one long shit show. Focusing on the good things in life has been difficult, to say the least. Sofa was a positive outlet for me this year and gave me a place to take a break from everything else going on. I’m thankful I have it.

Sofa’s iOS 14 Update

This iOS 14 update is big. I don’t like working on big releases. I prefer small iterations that I can ship out more frequently, but sometimes you need to dig in deep and power through.

A More Well-Rounded Sofa Experience

I’m happy to announce Sofa 2.10! This release brings full iPad support, iCloud syncing, and deeper personalization with 30+ themes.

Sofa Year in Review 2019

I’m a fan of doing a “year in review” exercise. It’s easy to forget all the work that’s been done, which results in me feeling like I haven’t made enough progress. In fact, a lot of work has been done, which makes me feel good!

Making it Easy to Leave Sofa

I just implemented the ability to export your data in Sofa. It’s a feature that probably should’ve been there earlier, but, you know, that’s life.

Updates for iOS 13

There are a bunch of new features in iOS 13. To bring Sofa up to date, I focused on three things: dark mode, context menus, and bug fixes.

Reorder Sections, Lists, and List Items

Reordering of sections, lists, and list items has been the most requested feature for a while now.

Sofa 2.8: Introducing Themes

Sofa 2.8 introduces themes! Woot! You can choose between Classic, Dark, and Black.

Sofa 2.7: Adding More To Your Lists

There are an enormous amount of ways that you can spend your downtime. So far, Sofa has been able to help you with a few of those: books, movies & TV, and podcasts. Today we are adding a few more to that list.

Sofa 2018: Year In Review

I’m excited to announce that you can now save podcasts to Sofa 2.4. This is another step towards making Sofa the place for remembering things to do later.

Sofa 2.6: Sections and Siri Shortcuts

You can now group lists together into Sections. For example, create a section called “Movies” to group all movie lists. You can do the same for books, podcasts, and tv shows.

What’s New in Sofa 2.5

2.5 addresses a lot of issues I’ve been hearing over of the past few months. Some of the issues I’ve been aware of for a while, and needed time to think them through.

Bringing Podcasts to Sofa

I’m excited to announce that you can now save podcasts to Sofa 2.4. This is another step towards making Sofa the place for remembering things to do later.

From Free to Paid

Today I’m changing Sofa’s price from Free to $4.99. In a world were people don’t pay for apps, you may think that I’m an idiot. While very possible, there are a few good reasons to do this.

New in Sofa: Quick Add, 3D Touch, and Peek and Pop

We were hearing from people that sometimes they wanted to search for a book, movie or tv show before deciding which list it should be in.

Announcing Sofa 2.0

2.0 is a completely new app. When we first launched Sofa back in 2015 our only focus was movies. We learned a lot about how and why people watch and discover movies, and that drove our new direction.

Sofa with 3D Touch

It’s been a little over two months since we released Sofa 1.0. We’ve been working hard on new features, but we’ve also been doing a lot of listening.

Sofa is Here

If you love movies and have an iPhone, then today is a good day.