Rolldrift

Updates

What's new in Rolldrift

Every release, newest first. The App Store only ever shows the current version's notes, so this is the whole history.

1.6 · November 5, 2026

  • Details: tap ⋯ › Details under any post, or swipe up in full screen, to see when and where a photo or video was taken, with the place on a map, the camera and lens, the exposure, and the file's size and format. For videos: length, frame rate, codec and HDR or Dolby Vision. It's read on your iPhone, and a photo whose original is only in iCloud is downloaded only if you tap Load full details. Free.

1.5 · October 28, 2026

  • Cards: Albums › Cards keeps the photos you show, a gym card, a library card, a passport. It's a Photos album called Cards, so it stays yours if you delete Rolldrift. Add one with the + there, or from ⋯ › Add to Cards under any post.
  • A card opens at full brightness, with its front and back together (tap to flip). Fit barcode zooms to the code, and Copy number copies it. Show to someone keeps the screen on that one card until you touch and hold.
  • Lock any card with Face ID: it stays blurred until you unlock it. Free.
  • One tap away: Siri ("Show my gym card in Rolldrift"), the Action button, Spotlight, the app icon's quick actions, and a Cards widget for the Lock Screen and a Cards control (iOS 18). A widget or control for one particular card is part of Rolldrift Pro.
  • Card photos stay out of your memories, widgets and the iPhone Duo pane, and out of the feed unless you turn that off in Settings › Cards. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is deleted.

1.4 · October 27, 2026

  • Albums, arranged for you: rows of your places (with Show place names on) and your years, each a tap away from just those photos. Free.
  • Save a feed you made (Pro): Make a feed, a place or a year has Save at the top; it stays under Your feeds on Albums, and new photos that match join it. Rename or remove it from its ⋯ menu or by touching and holding the tile.
  • Your albums as Photos lays them out: folders show as folders, New album is the + beside the heading, any album can be pinned to the top (touch and hold), and a search field appears once you have more than twelve.
  • Rolldrift never deletes photos, and now says so where you'd look: ⋯ › Delete… under a post explains, and offers Photos or Photodrift (the sibling app that cleans up a library). Settings › Hide screenshots says the same about screenshots. Photodrift's App Store page opens inside Rolldrift.
  • Your Photos captions, as notes (iOS 27): a caption you wrote in Apple Photos shows under the post.
  • Voice notes (Pro): in a note, hold to record up to a minute in your own voice. It plays from the post, with a tap, and stays on this iPhone. "Write it out" turns it into text on the iPhone itself, and Export all notes takes the recordings too.
  • Make a feed (Pro): Albums › Make a feed. Pick a year, a month or two dates, a place, photos or videos, only hearted or only with notes, see how many posts that is, and scroll just those.
  • An empty note asks a question drawn from the photo instead of always "What was happening here?".
  • Settings › Notes › Also save notes in Apple Photos (off until you turn it on): each note becomes the photo's caption there, so it stays if you delete Rolldrift and reaches your other devices through iCloud Photos. Turning it on offers to copy the notes you already have; a photo with a different caption keeps it.

1.2 · October 19, 2026

  • Open iPhone Duo on its side: beside the feed, a pane follows the post you are looking at, with the same place in other years (or the same day), a small map and its note, which you can write right there.
  • In the pane, Done puts the keyboard away when you have written your note.
  • A What's New card (the first one since 1.1) tells everyone about choosing what comes back.
  • Fixed: Rediscover on a day with nothing from earlier years showed an empty screen (Pro) or two Unlock panels over each other (free); it now says so once.
  • Fixed: the Liked tile on Albums could ignore taps when its cover was a tall video.
  • Fixed: with Show place names off, the full-screen viewer and the note sheet still looked up place names.

1.1.1 · October 15, 2026

  • You decide what comes back. Settings › On this day › Never bring back: a date (every year) or a whole album never returns as a memory, on the card, the widgets, the reminder or Rediscover. The photos stay in your feed and nothing is deleted. Free.
  • "Never show this date" right from the memory card (the ⋯ next to Not today), with Undo.
  • Settings › On this day › Memory card on the feed: turn the card off for good ("Not today" lasts a day).
  • The memory widget stays out of CarPlay.
  • Share Rolldrift shares the App Store page.

1.1.0 · October 9, 2026

  • Your camera roll as a feed: photos and videos as posts, newest first, all the way back to the first one.
  • Videos play muted as you reach them; one tap for sound, and a muted feed never stops your music.
  • Photos taken together become one post you swipe through, with the date and the place on top.
  • Hearts are your Apple Photos Favorites, notes sit under a post, and albums are real Apple Photos albums (as many as you like).
  • Jump to any month from the calendar, or drag through the years.
  • A Home Screen widget with a photo from this day in past years, new each morning, and a Lock Screen widget that says how long ago.
  • An optional daily reminder, only on days with a memory, at the time you choose.
  • Rolldrift Pro, one purchase: Rediscover (every year of today as a feed, and Shuffle) and widgets that show your hearts, an album or Shuffle.
  • Made for iPhone Duo: open it and the feed becomes one centred column with every portrait photo whole.