What's New

Features and improvements shipping to TOMO

September 16, 2026
1.0.3

A New Look in Gold Halftone

TOMO now has photography. Each photo is printed as a screen of gold dots over black, the way an old newspaper or fight poster prints a picture, and it shows up on the screens where you have time to look: signing in, setting up, an empty journal, the plan screen and your weekly debrief.

Intelligence

TOMO is your sparring partner, not your coach

TOMO stopped calling itself a coach. Your coach is the one who teaches you and promotes you. TOMO is the partner who rolls with you every week, remembers everything, and tells you what it felt: where you keep getting caught, what is starting to work, and one thing to try next session. The teaching stays with your professor.

  • The weekly debrief now gives you one concrete thing to try next session, said the way a sparring partner would say it after the round, never as a correction of your technique.
  • The monthly and quarterly reviews, the follow-up chat, and the study picks all speak in the same voice. Nothing pretends to be a black belt.
  • The same words carry through setup and every screen where TOMO talks to you.
Design

Sign-in and setup open on a photo

The first thing you see is a photo across the top of the screen with the TOMO name on it. The sign-in buttons sit on solid black below, so they stay easy to read and easy to tap.

  • The same photo carries through all four setup steps and fades a little more with each one, so by the last step the questions have the screen to themselves.
  • Each screen has one photo that holds still. Nothing moves or slides behind what you are reading.
Design

An empty journal that feels like a starting line

Before you log your first session, the journal shows a photo band above "No sessions yet." Once your first session is saved, the band steps aside and your entries take its place.

Polish

A faint print behind the plan screen and your debrief

The plan screen carries a faint photo that stays put while you scroll through the offer. This week's debrief card on Insights has a light watermark of its own, kept faint so the debrief stays the thing you read.

UX

Recording stays clean on purpose

The screen you talk to after class has no photo at all. When you are tired and trying to remember the round, the only thing on that screen is the button and your words.

UX

Plain black screens if you prefer them

Turn on Reduce Transparency in your iPhone's accessibility settings and every photo is removed, leaving the plain black screens. VoiceOver skips the photos, and they never get in the way of a tap.

Why this matters: Training is a practice with a long history, and the app you open after class should look like it belongs to that world. The photos sit on the calm screens and stay off the one you use with sweat still in your eyes, so logging a session is exactly as fast as it was yesterday.