On 2026-10-09, Bob Woodham via General discussions about Org-mode. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-10-09, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bob Woodham via "General discussions about Org-mode." >><[email protected]> writes: >>>> Have you tried contacting the author? >>>> In theory, we can try to resurrect the app. I can ask Charles Choi, who >>>> has Apple developer account, to re-publish the app, if that is something >>>> Apple allow to do. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the reply. I thought I would ask here first. The project does not >>> appear to have been active in the last few years. >>> >>> Earlier, the author noted in his documentation that there was a $99 per year >>> fee to keep MobileOrg available in the Apple store (as part of a request for >>> donations). I'm assuming the author has moved on and/or decided keeping up >>> with the annual fee is no longer worth it to him. I don't know of any other >>> impediment to continued availability from the Apple store. >>> >>> It would be great to get the author to re-publish the app and/or give >>> permission to others to do so. MobileOrg has always worked for me and is >>> worthy of support from the community. >> >> Would you be interested to contact the original author about the status? >> If he is no longer interested, we can request the transfer. >> > > Sure, I'll give it a try. >
Section "B.3 List of Contributions" of the Org Manual says, "Richard Moreland wrote MobileOrg for the iPhone." mobile.github.io credits Richard Moreland and Carsten Dominik as "Original Authors" and lists four others as "Current Developers," one of whom is Sean Escriva. I contacted Richard and Sean in a joint email. I've heard back from both. Richard responded, in part, "I haven't been involved for a very long time unfortunately, and I can't help get it back onto the store directly. I have no problem with it being republished by anyone else to help revive it." Sean responded, in part, "I took over for Richard a few years ago and am currently responsible for publishing it to the App Store and will look at it asap for you. I want to keep it available for sure. My time recently has been very limited for writing any new features but I can at least keep it published for those that depend on it. I’ll let you know when it’s back." I'm sending thanks to Richard and Sean privately (and will update here when I hear further from Sean). Hopefully, I'm not the only person with an on-going interest in MobilOrg on the iPhone. Public kudos from me for their efforts.
