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Newsletter July 2025

Daily messages are back!

Hello, friends!

We’re happy to announce that we have brought back the Daily Messages feature to the app. This was by far the most requested update!

Daily message "Work from home day"

This is where you can add a custom message to the top of the main screen of the Home Routines app. It might be a theme for the day, or your favourite verse or encouraging quote.

Just tap on the text, or find it under Settings.

Daily themes, or two new modes

We’ve added a couple of new versions of this as well.

You can have a single message to use every day. Or, you can edit the messages which currently appear at different times of the day. 

Three types of daily messages to choose from

(If you don’t want this feature on your home screen, you can delete the message text, and it will not appear at all)

Routines chez soi

The app is now available en français!

If you download Home Routines from the French app store (or your phone’s language is set to French) you will see the translated version.


In other news – driving home from a family birthday party yesterday afternoon we saw an excellent rainbow and followed it down to the beach.

I’ve never seen a rainbow reflected in the wet sand before!

Take care,

⭐️ Rosie & Tim

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