[TestFlight Update] Thank you for all the downloads and positive feedback!! Cockpit for visionOS now has 17 themes, 15 panels, new languages and smarter layouts
First of all, thank you. Cockpit has received many more downloads and far more positive, thoughtful feedback than I expected. Your reports, screenshots and suggestions have directly shaped this update.
Cockpit is a modular, glanceable dock for Apple Vision Pro: place it in your space, resize it, and build a dashboard from the panels you actually care about. This TestFlight update is the largest one so far.
## What’s new
### Four new panels — 15 panels in total
- **Countdown** — create up to three upcoming events, choose a date, time and symbol, and see the nearest one at a glance.
- **Habits** — track daily habits and streaks. Long-press a habit to remove it with confirmation.
- **Daily Goal** — set one measurable target for the day and update it directly from the panel.
- **World Clock** — follow four cities at once. New setups start with New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney, and every city can be changed.
They join Clock, Weather, Calendar, Focus Timer, Now Playing, Vision Pro Status, Shortcuts, Home, Network, Activity and Apps.
### 17 themes
The original appearance options have grown into three complete theme families:
- **Glass:** Midnight, Graphite, Sunset, Ocean and Holo
- **Instrument:** Cockpit, Apollo, Pit Wall, Grid, Outrun, Brass, Telemetry, Mecha and Visor
- **Light:** Minimal, Bauhaus and Zen
Each theme now has its own panel treatment, typography, controls, gauges and window geometry. I also refined the relationship between panel corners and the outer window in themes such as Apollo, Pit Wall, Brass and Bauhaus.
All panels and themes remain available to everyone during this testing phase, even when a PRO badge is shown.
### New languages
Cockpit is now available in:
- English
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Reports about wording, truncation or culturally awkward translations are especially welcome.
### Smarter layouts
- A horizontal single row can contain all **15 panels**.
- From **12 panels** onward, Cockpit recommends switching to **Two Rows** so panels stay larger.
- A vertical single column can contain up to **12 panels**.
- From **8 panels** onward, Cockpit recommends **Two Columns**.
- If you add a thirteenth panel while using one vertical column, Cockpit switches to Two Columns automatically before adding it.
- The old “Compact” label is now the clearer, direction-aware **Two Rows / Two Columns** control.
### Reorganized Settings
- General is now focused on everyday time and calendar preferences.
- Weather units and refresh frequency live together under **Panels › Weather**.
- Focus Timer sound lives under **Panels › Focus Timer**.
- Welcome, What’s New and support are grouped under **Help**.
- Permissions now show a visible status instead of only linking to System Settings.
- **Reset Layout** restores the default panels, order, direction and size without deleting panel data or changing the selected theme.
- Panel-data resets are grouped by purpose, making it clearer whether you are resetting launchers, tracking panels or World Clock.
- Configuration backup and restore remain available for moving the whole setup safely.
### Panel and interaction refinements
- Better vertical Weather spacing and larger multi-day forecasts.
- Better-balanced Network information in horizontal and vertical layouts.
- Focus Timer content is centered consistently in Light themes.
- Habit creation buttons remain readable across themes.
- World Clock reset now correctly restores its four starter cities.
- Countdown presentation and background updates have been made more reliable when creating multiple events.
- Numerous readability, spacing, corner and control fixes across all theme families.
## What I’d like you to test
Add, remove and reorder panels in all four layouts: one row, two rows, one column and two columns.
In a vertical single column, add a thirteenth panel and confirm that it changes to two columns automatically.
Try several combinations of the 15 panels with different themes and window sizes. Nothing should overlap, clip or become unreadable.
Test the four new panels, especially repeated Countdown creation, Habit long-press deletion and World Clock reset.
Review the reorganized Settings, permission statuses, Reset Layout, individual panel resets and backup/restore.
If you use Japanese, Korean or Chinese, please report untranslated, clipped or unnatural text.
Leave Cockpit open for a longer session and tell me about battery use, heat and responsiveness on a real Vision Pro.
## Known / expected
- The Weather panel is not tappable because visionOS does not include a Weather app.
- Some third-party apps cannot be opened through URL schemes. That depends on what the app developer exposes.
- HealthKit intentionally does not reveal whether individual read permissions were denied, so Settings can only report that the Health permission request was completed.
Please include what you did, what you expected, what happened and your visionOS version. Screenshots and short recordings are extremely useful.
## Join the beta
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VP1sz624
Support / FAQ: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/support.html
Privacy: https://andrefinetticangussu.github.io/cockpit/legal/privacy.html
Thank you again for the downloads, the positive feedback and the time you have spent helping make Cockpit better.