CalReader: Update History - Calendar Time Logs, Calculations, Export and Readability - Released by Imaja for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

CalReader: Calendar Readability, Event Log Export, Time Calculations
for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch

Update History

Updates (newest to oldest)

Version 4.0.7

The CalReader calendar event reader app is updated with numerous user interface and aesthetic improvements and modernizations for the event list and popover views. This update refines various graphics Display style options available in the Settings view. Tap the gear button in the toolbar to open the Settings view. Customize the visual environment for readability in different lighting situations.

Version 4.0.6

CalReader gets a bug fix:

Updated app to work with new Calendar access authorization in iOS 17.
Fixed bug in navigation bar color.
Built for iOS 12.0 or later.

Version 4.0.5

CalReader get a quick bug fix:

Alarm indicators (two red exclamation points) were incorrectly displayed due to a change in iOS behavior. This is now fixed.
Built for iOS 12.0 or later.

Version 4.0.4

CalReader gets an improvement and bug fix:

Updated CalReader app icon with a better look for dark mode and improved proportions.
Fixed a bug in the app purchase verification from the previous release.

Version 4.0.3

Updated CalReader app icon with a better look for dark mode and improved proportions.

Version 4.0.2

Bug fix: Corrected event update display handling.

Version 4.0.1

Bug fix: Added explanation for app usage for Contacts access authorization.

Version 4.0.0

CalReader gets a modern upgrade with Siri Shortcuts, Home screen quick actions, and text-to-speech improvements:

Siri Shortcuts:

To add and configure CalReader Siri Shortcuts, tap the Extras button (question mark in circle icon) in the top left toolbar, and then tap Siri Shortcuts in the CalReader Extras view.
CalReader Siri Shortcuts provide quick access to common CalReader actions using your voice:
- Add Event
- Add Event at Current Time
- Add Event With Clipboard
- Speak Events
- Speak Today's Events
- Speak Tomorrow's Events
- Speak This Week's Events
- Speak Next Week's Events
- Copy Text to Clipboard
- Copy Text to Clipboard With Calculations

Home screen quick actions:

Home screen quick actions provide easy access to these CalReader actions: Add Event, Add Event at Current Time, Add Event With Clipboard, and Speak Events.
Touch and hold the CalReader app icon on the Home screen to display the quick actions menu.
Note: Home screen quick actions are available on iOS 13.0 or later.
Home screen quick actions help to quickly access common actions in CalReader from the Home screen of the iPhone or iPad, before even opening the app.

Text-to-speech improvements:

To listen to CalReader read your events using text-to-speech, tap the Speak Events in the Actions view. CalReader displays the event text in a popup view as it speaks each event, and a Speech Controls view appears in the bottom right with a Stop (square) button, and a Pause (two vertical bars) / Play (triangle) button.
Tap Stop button to stop the speech.
Tap Pause to pause the current speech. The button changes to Play when the speech is paused.
This version of CalReader supports both modern and older devices, devices running iOS 9.3 through iOS 15 or later.

Version 3.7.2

CalReader gets a minor update for compatibility with iOS 14.x.
Screenshots in the App Store have been updated.
Bug fixes in date pickers for Go To Date in the Actions view and in the Filter view.

Version 3.7.1

Bug fix:

Fixed a glitch in the app verification in our last update, which was limiting the app to ten events. (Sorry about that!)
See version 3.7 details for iOS 13 and Dark Mode update info.

Version 3.7

CalReader gets a tuneup for iOS 13 and iPadOS! Dark Mode is here.

Support for Dark Mode in iOS 13: Using the Light background Style in the Display settings view wil actually map onto the Dark Mode setting (on or off) on the device. This way CalReader syncs the display style with the entire device.
CalReader also features it's own in-app dark mode on iOS 12 and earlier.
General code modernization for efficiency, stability and compatibility.
Bug fix for text color readability in certain Color Styles.
Bug fix in Select Font view.

Version 3.6

New Dark Mode and Background Style options, minor improvements and a bug fix:

New Dark Mode style supporting older iPhone and iPad iOS 8.x through iOS 11.x. This combines with the nine Color Style variations which color code events based on the event's calendar color. Several new visual styles are available.

* Adjusted text layout in the Extras for readability.

Event Details and Edit Event views are full screen on iPhone for more editing space.
Fixed problem with Edit Event view behavior for older iPad devices running iOS 8.x.

Version 3.5

CalReader calendar readability and time log app is updated with new features and other minor improvements:

Updated for iPhone X
CalReader gets a new font picker for changing the event text. Open the Display settings view and choose improved visual samples of fonts in two sections, common and all fonts.
New event layout option: To position the event date in any of the four corners of the event box, change the "Date Position" in the Display settings view.
Modernized view display behavior.
Fixed layout issue for the Max. Lines option in Display settings.
Improved Extras view layout for readability.
Modernized font style of CalReader Help view.
Fixed glitch in display of E-mail view when exporting time logs from the Actions view.
Fixed bug in calendar selection operations.
All new screenshots in the App Store.

Version 3.4.2

CalReader is updated with a couple of improvements and minor bug fixes:

Improved Actions view with icons.
Improved view layout on various views on iPhone.
Updated Apps by Imaja in App Info view: Speak News, TelepaText, CalReader, Perspectiva, TaskInsight and Astral Blossom.

Version 3.4.1

Updated for iOS 11. Large icon. Modernized text layout code.

Version 3.4

Enhancements to user interface for CalReader for a more beautiful experience:

Modernized the presentation of popovers for both iPhone and iPad in horizontal and vertical orientations.
The graphic style of the popovers follow the text and background color style set for the calendar display in the Display Settings view. This is especially useful for the dark mode Color Style with dark backgrounds for easier reading in low light situations.
Minor interface improvements.

Version 3.3.2

Minor interface improvements.
Updated icons for other apps from Imaja: TelepaText, Perspectiva, and CalReader.

Version 3.3.1

New features and improvements:

New options in Settings:
- Date Format (Short, Medium, Long) option
- Participants Format (All details, Names only) option
- Play Sound When Calendar Changed option
Updated info and links for Apps from Imaja
Automatically ask for app receipt refresh if not found or matching.

Version 3.3

New options, various display and action improvements, bug fixes:

Improved formatting of event information: short/medium/long date format options, participant list display options, alarm indicators.
Added new formatting options to Display settings view. To open Display settings, tap the gear icon button.
Line breaks are removed from calendar event titles, locations and notes for a more compact display in the list view.
Improved date picker display for Go To Date in Actions.
Updated E-mail Text With Calculations, E-mail CSV, and E-mail TSV in Actions to fix bugs. Much smoother e-mail interface now!
Improved speech speed for Speak Events command in Actions.
Built for iOS 9 and iOS 8.

Version 3.2.2

Fixed view glitches. Much better view updates!

Version 3.2.1

Fixed bug in date picker display in Filter popover on iPads with iOS 8.

Version 3.2

Add support for iOS 8 extended keyboards, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screen sizes.
Add option for First Day of Week in Display Settings, which can be set to Sunday or Monday.
Optimized popover displays.

Version 3.1.3

Built for iOS 8, and also compatible with iOS 7.
Fixes view sizing glitches for device orientation changes on iOS 8.
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Check out our Perspectiva app at http://www.imaja.com/perspectiva - Calendar graphics, mapping and time charts

Version 3.1.2

This version fixes a bug for users with iOS 6.x only. Users running iOS 7 or later should skip this update in which the Speak Events action is temporarily removed.
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Version 3.1.1

New features and a bug fix. Thanks for your support. Please spread the word about CalReader! Visit www.imaja.com

Added buttons for Previous, This and Next for Day and Year in the Filter view for quick selection of date range for the event listing, calculations and export.
Added Speak Events action in Actions view. Use Speak Events to hear the current filtered event listing spoken by your device.
Fixed Filter view crash bug.

Version 3.1

New features and improved functions:

Improved interface: Added new buttons in toolbar for Filter, Actions, Calculations, Display, Extras and Go To Today. The new buttons provide more direct access to the main functions in CalReader.
Improved Go To Date function.
Set background of listing to black for Color Background and Color Text on Black color styles.
Corrected calculations display for filtered event lists containing no events.
Corrected minor graphics glitch in row separators in event listing.
Fixed bug in Filter view when keyboard goes away after editing Search text on 3.5 inch iPhone or iPod touch.
Improved Paste Text Into New Event command in Actions. New events are created using the current time.
On iOS 6 on iPad, added missing Edit button in event viewer popover and optimized popover height based on length of event title and notes.
Enjoy! Let us know what you think. Send technical support questions and suggestions via e-mail to support@imaja.com.
Thanks for your support and please help us out by posting a review on the App Store.

Version 3.0.1

Fixed bug causing a crash on startup on iOS 6 devices.

Version 3.0

CalReader - Calendar Readability, Event Log Export, Time Calculations:

Improved iPad interface, new features for ease of use, more fonts, updated for iOS 7 and later.

Week and Month select: Previous, This, Next buttons provide fast one-tap date range selections. Use Previous and Next buttons repeatedly to move the date range window through time.
Modernize the behavior of the DatePicker in the Filter view so it appears inline in iOS 7 or later.
Settings, Add Event and Edit views appear in popovers on iPad.
Expanded set of fonts available for event display to include new fonts in iOS 6 and iOS 7.
New soft Update Notification Sound to indicate that the calendar has been updated either locally or remotely.
New feature: Color indicator band on right edge of the List view: If the event is in progress (the current time is between the start and end times), then the indicator color is orange. If the event is in the past, the indicator is blue. A blue shaded color indicator band is displayed on the right edge of events if they are with the last 24 hours, or orange shaded if the events are within the next 24 hours. The intensity of the color is greater if the event is closer to the current time, and lighter if the event is farther from the current time.
New quick links to Imaja's related apps: Perpectiva - Calendar Graphics, Mapping, Time Charts app for iOS, and TaskInsight - task management with timeline and table views for OS X.
Optimized view updates during pinch gestures to resize the text in the event listing view.

Version 2.2

Added option for Condensed Time Format to Settings : Display Format.
New "Near-Now" indicator color for events in the last or next 24 hours. An orange shaded color indicator band is displayed on the right edge of events if they are with the next 24 hours, or blue shaded if the events are within the last 24 hours. The intensity of the color is greater if the event is closer to the current time, and lighter if the event is farther from the current time.
Refresh Sources command added to Actions view to reload calendar info from calendar systems if necessary.
Fixed bug where list view position was not properly restored for multi-day all day events.

Version 2.1.1

Corrected weekday names in instances of multiple-day all-day events in listing view.

Version 2.1

Multi-day All-day events are now displayed as multiple items in the list view, one for each day, with a duration of 24 hours.
Multi-day All-day events are now exported as multiple items in Text, CSV and TSV formats, one for each day, with a duration of 24 hours.
The Filter settings are applied to show only the days of Multi-day All-day events that fall within the Filter start and end dates.
All-day events are added in the Calculations time total as 24-hour events.
The current Search Text is now displayed in the Calculations view.
The date format is changed to "Thu, Aug 15, 2013" for the Filter start and end dates, and for Actions > Go To Today and Go To Date.
Color Style sample images have been added to Display > Color Style to make selection easier.
Improved behavior and layout of keyboard and date picker views on iPad.
Improved layout of Help text on iPad.

Version 2.0.2

Added the short version of the weekday to the date in the main CalReader event listing view.
The Update Notification Sound has been disabled.
The List view displays the list of Participants associated with any event, including information about each participant's Role, Status and Type.
The Role will be one of: unknown, required, optional, chair, or non-participant.
The Status will be one of: unknown, pending, accepted, declined, tentative, delegated, completed, or in process.
The Type will be one of: unknown, person, room, resource, or group.
CalReader does not let the user create or edit participants. Parcipants can be added to an event in iCal by clicking the Add Invitees link in the event editing view.

Version 2.0

Usability Enhancements: CalReader's functions have been reorganized for more efficient access. The Filter settings, Actions, Display, Calculations and Extras sections are neatly accessible without scrolling and searching for functions.

New Features:

Calculations now include average, minimum and maximum duration of events in the filtered listing.
E-mail CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or TSV (Tab-Separated Values) event listing files as attachments.
Tap the new Done button for direct return to the main CalReader view after performing functions or settings changes.
Event listings now include the duration for each event.
The export text generated by the Copy Text With Calculations command now includes a header with the current calendar names, date range and optional search text.
Events close to the current time are highlighted in the listing view with a gradient of orange displayed along the right edge, most intense for events close to the current time, fading off for events within 24 hours before and after the current time.

Version 1.1

New Functions:

Go to Today - Go to the text listing view at today's date.
Go to Date - Choose a date to go to in the text listing view.
Paste Text Into New Event > - To create a new calendar event with text you have copied from another app, tap Paste Text Into New Event.
E-mail Text With Calculations > - Sends an e-mail to your choice of recipients with the current event listing text with calculations.

Enhanced Features:

Actions are now featured at the top of Settings, including Go To Today, Go To Date, Copy Text, Copy Text With Calculations and Paste Text Into New Event.
Copy with Calculations - The format of the event listing for Copy with Calculations has been enhanced with start time, end time, and event duration.
Optimized date picker configuration for faster choosing of Filter > Starts and Ends and Go To dates.
Filter > Starts and Ends and Go To dates include day of week for more detail.
Settings > Filter > Starts and Ends dates are inclusive of the whole start and end days.
CalReader can display events from a wide range of dates, multiple years. Set the listing range in Settings > Filters > Starts and Ends dates.
Display bugs fixed. Start and end time were not properly updating, now fixed.

CalReader: Calendar Readability, Event Log Export, Time Calculations for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch