Welcome to Rydn Software

The first time you open it

1. Allow Location — While using the app. "Allow all the time" is not needed.
2. Allow notifications when it asks. While a trip is running Voygr shows a Recording trip notification — that is what lets it keep counting while you are in another app. Refuse it and the notification is hidden, so nothing tells you recording is live.
3. Put the phone in landscape in its mount. The cockpit layout assumes it.
4. Tap LOAD on the speed-limit sign, then Download the state or states you drive in. This is a one-time download — after that the speed limits work with no signal at all.

What's new

• The trip keeps recording while Voygr is behind Rydn Player or Maps. Pressing PLAYER mid-drive used to stop your miles; it no longer does.
• Trip time is measured between GPS fixes instead of by a timer that stops when the screen is off, so a drive no longer quietly loses minutes. STOPPED always shows hours:minutes:seconds.
• The speed-limit sign is easier to read: a much bigger number, no "mph" under it, and LIMIT as a small label at the top. It stays readable with a large phone font size.
• The padding that kept the layout clear of the hole-punch camera is gone.

Worth knowing

• The PLAYER key at the bottom right stays gray until Rydn Player is installed. That is expected, not a fault. To hide it: Setup → Switch to other app(s) button.

The first time you open it

1. Tap 📂 PICK MUSIC FOLDER and choose your music folder — subfolders are included automatically. Tap Allow / Use this folder when Android asks; the choice is remembered.
2. Choose a folder for the ratings file if you want your star ratings kept.
3. Turn the phone to landscape. The deck layout — transport keys, HOLD bar and ratings — is the screen the app is built around.
4. Optional, under ⚙ Settings: rating filter and weights, Sequential or Shuffle, whether unrated songs play, which folder or database to draw from, and haptics.

What's new

• The home-screen icon caption now reads Playyr, so it is no longer truncated.
• Import ratings (⚙ Settings) restores ratings from a CSV you exported earlier.
• Long files can hold section ratings — the stars follow the playhead.
• The volume number tracks every control, including the phone's hardware keys.

Worth knowing

• Back up your ratings: ⚙ Settings → share the dated ratings CSV, then e-mail it to yourself or save it to Drive from the share sheet.
• VOL + and VOL − move the real Android media volume — the same level the hardware keys move, and a Bluetooth speaker follows it.
• Installing a new version over an older one keeps your ratings, music folder and settings.
• Install Voygr too and each app gets a key that jumps straight to the other.

The first time you open it

1. Start using it straight away — type in the bar at the top and the item is saved. Installing does nothing on its own.
2. To see the same list on another phone or browser you need a key. Either paste one you were given into the ⚙ gear menu and press SET, or tap START A NEW LIST to make one on the phone.
3. A new key is shown once. Save it somewhere — it is not shown again.
4. No key? It still works as a private list on that device and says SYNC has no KEY. That is a normal state, not an error.

What's new

• START A NEW LIST in the gear menu makes your own key on the phone, so you no longer have to be given one.
• The web address is inside the app now: ⚙ gear → OPEN ON ANY DEVICE, with the address as a link plus COPY and COPY KEY. Copying can fail inside the phone app; when it does the app says so, and you can select the text by hand.
• Archive (⚙ gear) keeps everything you finish or delete, with the dates it was added and closed, and a RESTORE button. Export archive saves the whole history as a spreadsheet. On the phone that opens the share sheet, so you can send it to Drive, Gmail or Files.
• Deleting a stack asks first, and its items move to Main, so nothing is lost.
• Each item now shows only its checkbox, its text and the X, so the list reads cleanly. The Colors and Move buttons appear whenever Settings is open — or all the time, if you turn on COLORS & MOVE on items in Settings. That switch starts off and is set per device. Move is how you send an item to another stack.
• A newly added item no longer opens its color picker. To have it open, turn on COLOR on new items in Settings; it starts off and is set per device.
• Items are more compact, so more of your list fits on screen and long items wrap later.

Worth knowing

• Everything works offline. Sync catches up by itself when the network comes back.
• Treat your key like a password. It stays in whatever phone or browser you paste it into, so don't paste it on a shared or public computer.
• Upgrading: just install over the old version. Your items, your key and your settings are kept, and there is nothing to change in settings afterward.

The first time you open it

1. Tap Create your first plan and write one small if-then: “After I finish dinner, I will clear one kitchen surface.” Small is the point.
2. There is no account and nothing to sign in to.
3. Reminders are on from the start, so it asks permission for notifications the first time you open it. You can turn them off in Settings whenever you like.

What's new

• A link at the top, The actual science of building habits — the real research behind the app, with citations, and how it differs from the fake-expert claims these apps usually make.

Worth knowing

• Everything stays on the phone. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no password or key.
• The reference links open in your web browser, which is expected.
• Reminders only arrive from the installed app.