Changelog

Every release of Movier, newest first, described by what it does rather than by what changed in the code.

2026.9.5 — beta, 20 September 2026

A prompt to rate the app

Movier may ask you, once, whether you’d rate it — but only after a film you’re following has actually reached cinemas, never the first time you open the app and never the first time you visit the Watchlist. It asks at most once, and only once something has gone right.

The F-Droid build carries none of this: there is no Play Store listing on that side to rate, so it asks nothing at all.

2026.9.3 — beta, 4 September 2026

Housekeeping

Nothing in this release changes what the app does. It brings a years-out-of-date piece of Google’s own code up to date — a piece only the store build carries, and one Google had started warning about. The F-Droid build never carried it at all, and differs from the last one only by its version number.

2026.9.2 — beta, 2 September 2026

A new look for the icon

The mark is one blue gradient from end to end now, where it used to be dark ink with a blue accent on it. And it sits where the eye reads it as centred: the family framed its icons by a rule worked out on paper until now, and that rule has been replaced by one measured against a person moving each mark until it looked right.

2026.9.1 — beta, 1 September 2026

A new icon

The mark is the same one. What changed is how it is placed: every app in this family now frames its mark by a single rule — centred so the space around it is even all the way round, and stopping the same distance short of the circle a launcher masks with. Ten icons that were each framed by hand now line up with one another on a home screen.

The blue is a gradient rather than a flat tone, and there is a dark copy of the icon for dark surfaces. Nothing else changed in this release.

2026.8.7 — beta, 30 August 2026

One icon, one background

The icon is white now, on every screen. It used to go black whenever the phone was in dark mode. That was meant as a home-screen touch, and Android has no way to keep it there: the switch that darkens the home screen darkens F-Droid’s list, the recents screen and the app list in Settings too, so the icon went black in all of them. It is white in all of them instead — like the other nine.

2026.8.6 — beta, 30 August 2026

Its own icon

Movier had been wearing FastCompass’s compass — the same drawing shipped in three of these apps, which is what happens when an icon gets copied from a sibling to get a build out.

Movier’s own is a cinema screen with tonight’s showings under it, in the same slate and cyan as the rest of the family, on white.

2026.8.5 — beta, 29 August 2026

No byline on the Info tab

The author’s name and their personal site have come out of the Info card. What it says now is what the app is, which version you have, and where its own site is — which is what anybody opens that screen for.

2026.8.3

A new look

This app is drawn in the design these apps now share: paper and slate, a single accent, one typeface, and thin rules where Android puts shadows. Nothing about what it does has changed.

The colours no longer come from your wallpaper — these apps have one look now — and everything reads a size larger, because the text was a step smaller than the rest of your phone.

2026.8.2 — beta, 28 August 2026

Appearance, and the same appearance as the other apps here. The Info tab and the cards every screen is drawn on are shared components now: the app’s own mark above its name, which build you are running beside the version, and the changelog folded to the last few releases. Nothing moved and nothing was renamed — from this version the look is defined in one place for all of these apps, so the next change reaches them together.

2026.8.1 — not released yet

The first build, and it is deliberately half an app. It is finished and tested but is not being distributed: the F-Droid repository these apps use is being reorganised. The date goes here on the day it actually ships, never before (rules.md §5).

What is on in Italy. The first screen lists what is on release in Italian cinemas right now, with the poster, the synopsis and — the detail this app is built around — the original title beside the Italian one. The Odyssey is on here as Odissea, and it is the first of those two names that a versione originale listing will use.

A screen per film, with the synopsis, the runtime, the original language and the Italian cinema release date. That last one is fussier than it sounds: the international film databases carry a global “primary” date that is frequently not the day a film opens here, and Movier goes and asks for the Italian theatrical date instead.

Search, in Italian or in the original title. Both work, because the databases index both.

A watchlist that keeps what nothing else keeps. Follow a film and it lands in one of three groups: in cinemas now, announced with a date, or no date yet. The third group is the point — every listings portal can tell you about a film that has been scheduled, and none of them will remember the one that has not. The list lives on your device and works with no network.

There are no showtimes, and that is not an oversight. No cinemas, no times, no original-language filter — which is, awkwardly, the reason the app exists. There is no free, public, legal source for Italian cinema listings: the three that cover the country properly are commercial and priced on request. Scraping a portal would breach its terms and break on their next redesign, so Movier does neither and says so on its own first screen instead. That question is the next thing to solve, and it is a licence rather than a feature.

Film data and posters come from The Movie Database (TMDB), credited in the app under Info.