It's been a long time since a Wallet update, and it seems like people are emailing me every day concerned about its future. It's true that most of my time for the past year has been focused on Acrylic, but I'm a Wallet user too, and hate to see my favorite apps abandoned just as much as anyone else. Next week I'll be releasing Wallet 2.7 (pictured above) to play nicer with the newly released Leopard. It's not 3.0 by any means, but it will bring a refined user interface, a number of bug fixes, and a few new goodies. Of course, it will still work with older versions of Mac OS X all the way down to 10.3.

It's no secret that our #1 Wallet request has been a version of Wallet for the iPhone. Sadly, Apple hadn't yet provided an ideal solution for creating apps for it. Web apps are an OK solution for some types of products, but not password managers. You don't want to have important data like that stored/served over the web. Of course, some of our competitors rushed out to create versions of their software for the iPhone, and being web-based, are hacks at best. It's definitely not the kind of solution we'd want ourselves, so we passed on doing a web app entirely.

Luckily, not too long ago Steve Jobs revealed that Apple was indeed working on a real SDK for the iPhone. With true capability for iPhone development promised, we can now imagine the kind of mobile Wallet solution we've always wanted. I think the iPhone is capable enough for this to be a full featured app and used on its own, with full read and write access. It might look something like this old mockup:


In short, Wallet is still an app I use all the time myself and would love to keep updating one way or another, even if the same can't be said for other Waterfall apps. I have plenty of ideas for improvement and innovation, and hope to show them with a major update around early 2008.

P.S. If you'd like to test out Wallet 2.7, send me an email - dustin at waterfallsw dot com - and I'll shoot a beta your way. Thanks.