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Sam Davis May 6, 2023

Alongside a bit of a redesign, I’ve spent the past month or so migrating Leatherbound off CloudKit CoreData and onto Realm (by MongoDB) with App Sync.

Whilst this has been an absolutely HUGE amount of work. I’m so pleased with the results so far. Sync is near *instant* now. There’s less magic involved in the codebase. And maybe most importantly: it’s caused me to rethink a bunch of old architecture so the app feels fresh and modern to work in now 💪🏻

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The one big downside to this migration is that Realm + Sync is NOT free to the developer unlike CloudKit/CoreData

This will *most likely* result in Leatherbound becoming a subscription backed app. This kinda scares me. I loved the simplicity of Leatherbound being a completely obligation free project.

I’m excited to get the new version out really soon! In the meantime, here’s a 📸 of the new tab based layout