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Journal.

Version history — and the stories behind each update. Minute It is built from real memories.

I was born and raised in Taiwan, so each version is named after a place here — with a real story behind it.

The stories are real — written from someone’s memory. Not generated. Not marketing. Just memories.

v1.2.2 LATEST
September 2026

KaoHsiung Wuling 1st Village

Bring your own music. Video generation is back on Android 10 and 11, plus a long list of quiet fixes.

—Use your own music. Pick a song from your phone, choose where it starts, and preview it first — length differences are handled for you.
—Fix the video generation bugs on some low-quality Chinese Brand Android phones.
—Purchases behave: restoring after a reinstall is reliable again, refunds aren't read as new purchases, and upgrading to Pro mid-recap keeps the recap.
—Fix the check-ins thumbnails visibility bug.
—No more dead-end dialogs — a few screens could leave you with nothing to tap.
—Your language, everywhere: English-only dialogs and errors are translated, and the App Store now lists all seventeen supported languages.
—An empty calendar now says so instead of looking broken, and the note leaves once you first check in.
—Some other smaller fixes.
v1.2.1
August 2026

Taipei NanYang Street

The biggest update so far: seven days of everything unlocked, free, and a long list of fixes to the things that used to go wrong quietly.

—Seven days with everything unlocked. Make your first recap and watch it, and every Pro feature turns on for a week — no watermark, your own albums, trimming, and storage cleanup. No card, nothing to cancel, and Minute It stays free afterwards.
—Bug fixed: Check-ins could vanish from the calendar — thumbnails gone, counts back to zero.
—Cancel now actually cancels. Tapping Cancel while a recap was rendering used to let it finish anyway — you got the whole video you had just cancelled, plus the heat and the battery.
—Days that looked empty are back on Android. Photos restored or re-downloaded from Google Photos lose their capture date, so they were being filed under the day you downloaded them instead of the day you took them.
—iPhone photos and videos play properly on Android again — merged recaps have their sound back, HDR clips no longer come out black, and their thumbnails show up.
—Making the same recap again is much faster.
—The generating screen tells you what is happening — a countdown from the first second, and a "preparing your days" count during the long quiet first run, instead of a frozen picture.
—Arabic now reads right across the whole app, and the back button works properly on large and folding screens.
v1.1.2
July 2026

Taipei Guang Hwa Market B1

A steadier release — fewer surprises when you step away mid-recap, and a batch of Android media fixes.

—Android videos and motion photos orientations on some phones. And the date overlay was flipped along with the frame.
—Leaving the app mid-recap no longer breaks it.
—Grey placeholders in the media list fill themselves in.
—Unchecking a day now clears its picture too. The day cell kept showing the old thumbnail after every item had been removed.
—Paid users could end up with the free watermark baked onto part of an otherwise clean video.
v1.0.3
June 2026

Lehua Night Market

This update brings the internal Android test release, with stronger Android support, a more reliable video workflow, and expanded language support.

—Major Android improvements, including more complete video playback, saving, and sharing support
—Better video merging, thumbnail orientation, and playback stability
—Smoother media selection, sorting, preview, and trimming experience
—Added Japanese, Korean, and Arabic support, with continued localization improvements
—Improved calendar and media browsing experience across the app
—Stronger update flow so you can get important fixes and features faster
—Overall performance, stability, and compatibility improvements
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v1.0.2
April 2026

Tainan Confucious Temple

Refined the overall UI with updated navigation, polished dialogs, and a more modern visual style across the app.

—Updated the bottom navigation experience and introduced more polished dialog visuals, including blur/glass-style treatments in key flows.
—Improved the look and consistency of text overlays in generated videos, with better styling, alignment, and cross-platform rendering.
—Enhanced the media editing and video generation flow, including better trim timeline loading and presentation behavior.
—Improved Minute It performance by correctly reducing unnecessary reprocessing and making generation faster in many cases.
—Fixed several iOS media processing issues, including portrait video/live photo orientation, overlay alignment, photo-path handling, and finishWithImage crash cases.
—Added a new Contact Us section in Settings with website and Facebook links.
—Improved paywall messaging by highlighting the specific feature that triggered the upgrade prompt.
—Expanded localization support with new languages including Czech, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Slovak, Vietnamese, and Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong).
—Updated existing translations across English, Malay, Tamil, Chinese, and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan).
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v1.0.1
March 2026

FongShan Youth Night Market

—Bug fixes and stability improvements
—Improved bottom navigation bar interactions
—New fonts in tutorials
—Fixed Simplified Chinese localization
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v1.0.0
March 2026

WanHwa Station

—Create one-minute memory videos from photos and videos
—All processing happens on-device
—No cloud, no account required
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