Postalgic (iOS) - Devlog

I much prefer the self-hosted Postalgic experience now and have been debating on whether I should de-list the iOS version of the app from the App Store and consider it discontinued. But it’s not like it’s a bad app, it does what it is advertised to do, so there’s no need to kill it off. Then I realized it might be cool if the iOS app could act as a client to the self-hosted version’s APIs, versus using a mobile web interface which’ll never feel as good as a native app does…

So I’m having, or was having, Claude Code spin on a first draft of letting the iOS app act as a client. Let’s see if it works, together…

Well, that didn’t work. The connection test worked but then it failed to fetch the blogs. So, we’re close…

Okay, this read-only test mode is working now, kinda, had to put in the info and then relaunch the app to get it to reload, but it’s working!

I need to get a CDN set up for uploaded content here if I am gonna be posting videos like this all the time.

Also Postalgic iOS got a 5 star review from Ukraine

The subject is “very convenient application”.

So I guess I can’t abandon the iOS app! I need to add localizations and a manually pickable light theme I guess, unless I somehow actually left out light theme but I don’t think so…

Postalgic for iOS has been broken off into its own dedicated repo now.