Every change and fix in Hamdam 1.2

Hamdam 1.2 brought the Voice of the Elder, a faal that opens a whole page of the Divan, a Persian calendar you can live by and a quieter way to read.

Today

The daily verse now changes every day, instead of staying on the same verse from one day to the next.
The verse library has grown to 500 verses, 100 from each of the five poets.
Today's verse leans gently towards the kinds of verse that have meant something to you before.
If you choose to, the verses you share help Hamdam learn what speaks to you. It stays off unless you turn it on.
The reflection beneath your verse now has a sense of the time of day.
The sky behind Today has more depth and light, and dawn's high cloud can now be seen.
Readers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and the UAE now see skies drawn for their own country.

Hafez now speaks aloud: the Voice of the Elder brings real human recitation, from readers who have given their voices to the Divan.
Reading mode is quiet and free of chrome. Pinch to set the size on iPad.
Reading mode remembers where you left off.
Your favourites are now a notebook, grouped by month, showing when you saved each verse.
Share a verse as a story, in a tall format made for stories.
Add a dedication when you share a verse, to say who it is for.

The faal opens a whole page of the Divan rather than a single couplet, so you can read around the line you drew.
Your faal is revealed with a soft touch you can feel.
You can ask Siri or Shortcuts to read your faal.
On Apple Watch, the faal now answers your intention the way it does on iPhone.

In Farsi, the Shamsi and Gregorian dates sit together in the calendar grid, and the day panel names the date in three calendars.
Official holidays and commemoration days are marked in the grid.
Five special nights now arrive with their own chosen verses.
Mehregan and Sizdah Bedar now have their own greetings, and a notification the evening before.

The Shamsi date can live on your Home Screen and Lock Screen.
A new month calendar widget, and a small overview widget.
Widgets now look right in StandBy.
Reminders now learn from the times you actually reflect, and move towards the hours that suit you.

Roots now carries moments and holidays for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany and the UAE.
Each of those countries has its own symbols, with photographs and a few sourced lines about each.
In the United Kingdom, bank holidays follow your own nation.
When you first set up Hamdam, the countries it has content for are suggested first.

Choose your Persian font, including Vazirmatn.
Seasonal app icons for Nowruz and Yalda, and a place to choose your icon.
Hamdam now runs from iOS 26.0 and watchOS 26.0, so more iPhones and Apple Watches can use it.

iOS / iPadOS 26+