Changelog

Updated 2026-09-27

What’s new in Viewpoint

This is the Viewpoint changelog — our running list of release notes and product updates, newest first. We ship improvements often, and we want you to be able to see exactly where your subscription is going: what’s new, what we’ve made better, and what we’ve fixed, across the iPhone app, the Android app and the web app.

We’re honest about timing. The web app updates continuously, so when something lands there it’s live within minutes. The phone apps go through store review — Apple’s for iPhone, Google’s for Android — so a new build is sometimes announced here before it’s downloadable on your device. And Google releases an approved Android build in stages rather than to everyone at once, so it can reach some phones days before others. The status on each entry tells you which is which.

How to read this

Each entry is tagged with the surface it belongs to and its current status:

iPhone / Android / Web — which app the change is in.
Live — available to everyone right now.
In review — submitted to the App Store or Google Play and waiting for approval, so it isn’t downloadable just yet. We’ll flip it to Live the moment it clears.
Rolling out — approved and being released in stages; it’ll reach your device shortly.

iPhone v1.12.0 — In review — 2026-09-27

New — the real Milky Way in the AR scout. Turn on Milky Way and the scout lays a real photograph of the whole sky over your camera — the bright core, the dark dust lanes — exactly where it sits for your place and time. It stays see-through, follows you as you turn and roll the phone, and looks the same above and below the horizon, so you can trace the whole band. In daylight it becomes a dark strip of night sky, so you can plan tonight’s shot in the afternoon.
New — the sun and moon as you’ll see them. The sun’s path takes the colour of the light — deep blue before dawn, violet in the blue hour, red at sunrise, orange in the golden hour, yellow by day — and the moon is a real photograph, lit at tonight’s phase and turned the way it will appear. Both stay visible below the horizon, and a dashed line marks the horizon even offline.
New — find the core. A target labelled Milky Way core, with its height, shows exactly where to aim.
New — conditions on the map that look like the weather. Cloud, fog, golden light, snow and storm light now draw as real textures instead of flat colour: clouds cover as much of the map as the forecast says, fog settles in the valleys, golden light warms the land, and storm light shows lightning only where a thunderstorm is forecast. The map always shows through.
Improved — easier to read. The legend shows each condition’s actual look, the map switches to a dark style while a condition is on so the colours stand out (with a one-time note), and changing the hour crossfades instead of jumping.
Fixed — AR scout photos save the right way up. A photo taken in the AR scout with the phone upright no longer comes out upside down.
Fixed — the AR scout points true north more reliably. It now waits for a true-north heading before drawing, falls back to a corrected compass indoors, and asks iOS to calibrate the compass when it needs to, so the sky lands where it really is.

iPhone v1.11.0 — In review — 2026-09-26

New — tonight’s aurora, right where your alerts arrive. The aurora card now sits at the top of Notifications: the verdict for tonight, the next 72 hours judged against that place’s own threshold, and the best hour still ahead — without opening a spot or waiting for an alert.
New — for where you are, or any spot you pick. It answers for your current location by default; tap the location to choose a saved spot instead, and the app remembers it. Without location, it tells you so and lets you pick a spot.
New — arm the alert right there. The bell sets an aurora alert for that place, and Aurora detail opens the full view with the chart, the dark window and the mute controls.

iPhone v1.10.0 — In review — 2026-09-25

New — the aurora card answers the question. Open a spot and the card now leads with one line about tonight, for that place: the lights are likely overhead right now, they could reach you later tonight, or tonight is not the night. No Kp number to interpret first.
New — the next 72 hours, on the card. The forecast bars are judged against your spot’s own threshold, and the card names the best hour still ahead — and whether the sky is actually dark then. A storm peaking in the afternoon is not a plan, and the card won’t pretend it is.
New — one tap to the full picture. Aurora detail opens the aurora view for that spot, the same screen an alert lands on, with the full chart, the dark window and the mute controls.
Improved — the card keeps up while you watch. Leave the card or the aurora view open and the reading ages honestly on screen; come back to the app and it fetches again. An old number is never dressed up as a fresh one.
Fixed — the bell tells the truth. If an alert couldn’t be saved, the card says so, says why, and invites you to try again. The bell never shows armed when it isn’t.

iPhone v1.9.1 — Live — 2026-09-09

Fixed — tapping an alert could freeze the app. If the place an alert was about sat a long way from wherever you’d last left the map, opening that notification could lock the app up on the map screen, sometimes until it closed itself. This is why the update exists, and we’re sorry it took a release to find — it only showed itself on a long jump.
New — an aurora panel, where the alert used to drop you on a bare map. Tap an aurora alert and you now land somewhere built for that moment: whether the lights are likely overhead right now, tonight’s Kp, and how long the sky above that spot is genuinely dark, in the spot’s own time zone.
New — the next 72 hours, drawn against your spot. The forecast chart carries a line, and the line is the Kp that place needs before the aurora reaches it. Bars above the line can reach you. A single global “aurora likely” band tells a photographer in Tromsø and one in Manchester the same thing; this doesn’t.
New — mute tonight without muting tomorrow. Seen enough for one night? Quiet a spot until the dark ends, rather than into the following night.
Fixed — aurora alerts showed an empty likelihood readout. Every alert row carried a probability track, but an aurora alert was never a probability — it’s whether the lights can reach you, whether it’s dark, and what the sky is doing right now. The row was showing a measure that didn’t exist. It now says what it actually knows.

Aurora alerts are part of the Online plan.

Android v0.2.0 — Live — 2026-09-06

New — Storm Light comes to Android. The tile that catches a passing storm about to hand you the best light of the week, reading the same forecast the iPhone does. It was on the iPhone first; this page said it was on Android before it actually was, and now it is.
New — aurora alerts. Switch one on for a place and you’ll hear from us while the lights are overhead rather than the next morning. On Android this is the alert itself — the card that shows a spot’s aurora reach, tonight’s Kp and its dark window is on iPhone for now, and Android’s is being built. Part of the Online plan.
New — Italian and Simplified Chinese. Both in beta, bringing Viewpoint to nine languages on Android too.
Fixed — clearer answers, in your own language. Compass directions were shown in English whatever language you had the app in. A location that couldn’t be read now says why, instead of reporting a switched-off radio as a timeout. And a spot’s map is framed to how precise its fix actually was, rather than a fixed zoom that implied more precision than there was.

iPhone v1.9.0 — Live — 2026-09-06

New — Viewpoint watches the aurora for you. Open a spot far enough north or south and it now tells you whether the auroral oval can reach that place at all, and how strong a geomagnetic storm it would take — “often, from Kp 3” is a very different answer from “only in a major storm”. A place the lights genuinely never reach shows nothing rather than false hope.
New — tonight, at a glance. The current Kp reading, and the hours the sky above that spot is properly dark — real nautical night in the spot’s own time zone, not a generic sunset. Above the Arctic Circle in winter it will tell you the night never ends.
New — an alert that reaches you while it still matters. Tap the bell on a spot and you’ll hear from us when the aurora is actually active overhead — not tomorrow morning’s summary, but inside the window when there is still time to get in the car. It watches the live space-weather feed, checks the sky is dark and the cloud is thin, and stays quiet otherwise. Part of the Online plan.
New — Italian and Simplified Chinese. Both in beta, across the app, the guides and the store listing. That brings Viewpoint to nine languages.
Fixed — words that were still in the wrong language. Compass directions were shown in English whatever language you had the app in, VoiceOver read one map icon in English in every language, and three publishing alerts appeared half-translated. Also corrected: a meteor shower’s radiant could read 02h 60m instead of rolling over to the next hour, the library screens on iPad when there is nothing in it yet, and a handful of words that were simply wrong in five languages.

Web — Live — 2026-09-06

New — find out whether the aurora can reach a place at all. Open a saved spot on the web and, where the northern or southern lights can actually get to it, you’ll now see how strong a storm has to be before they do — and whether that is a regular thing there, an occasional one, or a once-in-a-decade night. Places the lights genuinely never reach say nothing at all, instead of holding out false hope.
New — tonight, in one line. Underneath, the latest Kp reading with how old it is, and the hours tonight when the sky above that spot is properly dark. In the far north in summer it will tell you there is no darkness to be had; in the polar winter, that it is dark the whole night through.
New — a bell for the nights worth driving to. One tap and Viewpoint keeps an eye on that spot for you. A place sitting right at the outer edge of what the lights can reach deliberately gets no bell — we would rather say “uncertain” than wake you for a night we cannot honestly predict.

Android v0.1.0 — Live — 2026-09-02

New — Viewpoint is on Android. The first release is with Google for review. It’s the same app, built on the same core as the iPhone version — so a spot you capture on an Android phone reads the same on your laptop, and the sun, moon and exposure maths give the same answers on every device you own.
New — Capture a spot in a tap. Point, shoot, and the place is saved with its coordinates, altitude, the light at that moment and room for the notes you’d otherwise forget by the time you got home.
New — Your library works with no signal at all. Everything you’ve captured lives on the phone. Browse it, edit it and plan from it down a valley with no bars; it catches up on its own when you’re back.
New — Read the light before you set up. The light meter turns your camera into a spot meter — Zone System placement, a live histogram, colour temperature, and a reading you can keep at a spot for when you come back to shoot it.
New — Know where the light will be. The sun and twilight almanac, shoot planning, the alignment planner, satellite transits and the AR Celestial Scout are all there, and all of them work offline once the day is loaded.
New — It tells you when a pin is only approximate. If you’ve given Viewpoint approximate location, a spot captured that way is drawn with the area it could be in rather than a confident pin — and it offers you the way to precise location at the moment it matters, instead of nagging you at launch.
New — one subscription, both phones. If you already subscribe on iPhone, sign in and everything is there. Nothing to buy twice. We’d rather tell you what isn’t here yet. This isn’t a like-for-like copy of the iPhone app on day one. Several tools arrive with fewer options than their iPhone versions, Maps can be created and have spots added or removed but not yet renamed or deleted, and where no openly-licensed photograph of a place exists the iPhone offers a street-level look that Android doesn’t have yet. Home-screen widgets and Compress aren’t there at all. We’re working through the list, and this page will say so as each one lands.

Web — Live — 2026-08-21

Fixed — numbers are written the way your language writes them. If you read Viewpoint in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese or Japanese, every distance, altitude and height on the web was punctuated in English — 1.60 m where your language says 1,60 m. Thousands follow your language too, so an altitude in feet reads 2.789 ft in German, 2 789 ft in French and 2789 ft in Spanish, which groups differently again. English readers see no change.

Web — Live — 2026-08-12

Fixed — the field of view on a plan now matches the camera you chose. If you set your camera body on one device and opened the plan on another, the angle-of-view figure was worked out as if you were shooting full frame — so an APS-C or Micro 4/3 body was shown a noticeably wider frame than it will actually take. Your camera choice now travels with the plan and reads the same everywhere, and the picker no longer shows “not set” for a plan that plainly has a body on it. Existing plans are picked up as they are; nothing needs re-saving. The matching fix for the iPhone app ships with its next release.

Web — Live — 2026-08-06

Fixed — your plan now unlocks exactly what it says it does. Viewpoint on the web, along with weather, conditions, sharing and the imagery in Spot detail, is part of Online. Because of a mistake on our side, some Offline subscriptions were being let into those Online-only features. That’s now corrected, so what you see matches the plan you chose. If you’re on Offline and you were using Viewpoint on the web, you’ll be asked to upgrade to Online to carry on — everything on your iPhone is unchanged, and nothing in your library is affected. Online subscribers need do nothing.

iPhone v1.8.1 — Live — 2026-09-02

Fixed — times now tell you whose clock they’re on. Sunrise, the blue hour, a transit, a shoot plan: each one now says when it’s showing your phone’s clock rather than the spot’s. No more doing time-zone arithmetic in your head at four in the morning.
Fixed — a spot’s time zone is looked up properly. It used to be guessed from longitude whenever we couldn’t look it up, so a spot in Barcelona could come out an hour off without saying a word. Now it’s resolved properly — and when it genuinely can’t be, the app tells you instead of quietly guessing.
Improved — your pins are honest about how precise they are. If you’ve given Viewpoint approximate location, a spot you capture is drawn as the area it could be in, not a confident pin that’s kilometres out. You’re offered precise location at the moment you’re saving a spot, rather than being asked at launch.
Fixed — photo backup stops saying “waiting” forever. A photo that can’t be uploaded now tells you so, instead of sitting in a queue that was never going to move.
Fixed — purchases tell you what happened. A payment that fails, or is still pending, now says so rather than appearing to do nothing at all.
Fixed — Sky events knows the difference between a quiet night and no data. An unreachable feed used to look like an empty sky.
Fixed — a one-foot depth of field reads as 1 ft, not 12 in.

iPhone v1.8.0 — Live — 2026-08-02

New — Photograph the Space Station crossing the Sun or the Moon. Satellite Transits, in Tools, finds the moments the ISS — or Tiangong, or Hubble — passes directly in front of the Sun or the Moon from where you are. It lasts under a second and is only visible from a corridor a few kilometres wide, so it’s won or lost before you leave the house.
New — The times, the place to stand, and a map to get there. Pick the dates you’re free; you get a corridor map with the centre-line drawn on it, and you can navigate straight to it.
New — Know what lens to pack. A sketch shows how big the silhouette will be against the disc before you go.
New — It tells you how old its orbit data is. Orbits drift, and stale data quietly moves the corridor. We’d rather say how fresh the numbers are than send you confidently to the wrong field.
Improved — the maths runs on your phone. Once the orbit data is downloaded, the search itself needs no signal.
Fixed — Restore Purchases tells you what happened. If there’s no active subscription on your Apple ID, or the App Store can’t be reached, it now says so instead of appearing to do nothing.

Web — Live — 2026-08-02

New — Satellite Transits, on the big screen. The same tool that finds the ISS, Tiangong or Hubble crossing the Sun or the Moon near you, now in your browser. Search a place or drop yourself on the map, pick the dates you’re free, and read the corridor off a full-size map.
New — Turn a transit into a plan. A transit worth driving to becomes a shoot plan in one click — with the moment, the place to stand and the target already filled in — or an appointment in your own calendar, with a reminder to be set up before it happens.
Fixed — you stay signed in. Both the web app and the iPhone app could sign you out for no reason you could see, roughly a month after you last signed in, whatever you were in the middle of. That deadline is gone: as long as you keep using Viewpoint, you stay signed in. This one is fixed on our side, so it applies to the iPhone app too — there’s nothing to update.

iPhone v1.7.2 — Live — 2026-07-31

New — Say how you got the shot, not just what the camera recorded. Spec Card already reads your photo’s settings. Now you can add what the file can’t say: whether you were handheld or on a tripod, what was on the front of the lens, and whether the frame is a stack.
New — Filters combine the way they do in your bag. A polarizer and a 6-stop ND together, a graduated ND over both. Each is its own switch, so you can describe what you actually used instead of picking just one.
New — Type the frame count. Shot a focus stack or an astro integration? Hundreds of frames is normal, so you type the number rather than tapping it up one at a time.
Improved — everything on one screen. The card’s settings came out of a separate sheet and now sit right under the preview, so you see the card change as you make each change. Leave it all alone and your card looks exactly as it always did — it never invents “handheld” or “no filter” to fill space.
Fixed — the app opens straight into your library with no signal. On a plane, underground, or on Wi-Fi that never quite connects, it could leave you waiting on a syncing message. Your library is on your device, so now it opens immediately and syncing catches up on its own.
Fixed — the keyboard always has a way down. On every screen where you type a number.

Web — Live — 2026-07-31

New — the same shooting-technique details on the web card. Spec Card on the web now takes the tripod, filter and frame-stacking details the iPhone version does, and prints them on the card the same way — because both run the same shooting-data engine, a card made on your laptop says exactly what one made on your phone says.
New — sign your web cards with your handle. Add it once and it rides on the card as a subtle credit, remembered for next time — the same handle the iPhone tools use.
Improved — the card’s settings are no longer hidden behind a button. Your gear and technique sit alongside the preview, so you can see what the card says and change it without hopping back and forth.

iPhone v1.7.1 — Live — 2026-07-30

New — See the place before you drive there. A spot you haven’t photographed yet used to show an empty square. Now, when you open it, you get a real photograph of that place — so you can tell at a glance whether it’s worth the trip.
New — Every photograph credits the photographer. The pictures are openly licensed, with the person who took each one named underneath and a link to the original.
New — A ground-level look where there’s no photograph. For places without one, tap “See this place” for a look around the pin from street level.
New — Move a pin that landed in the wrong spot. Open a spot’s location, drag the map, and drop the pin where you actually stood — for when GPS drifted under tree cover or between tall buildings.
Fixed — Your paid features stay put. They no longer disappear when the App Store and our server briefly disagree about your subscription.
Fixed — A friendlier sign-in screen. It now wears the app icon instead of a generic mountain symbol.

Web — Live — 2026-07-29

Improved — a photograph of the place, not just the road. Where an openly licensed photograph of a location exists, a spot with no photos of your own now shows that instead of a view from the nearest road — so a geothermal field looks like a geothermal field. Each one is credited to the photographer who took it, with its licence and a link to where it came from, and if a picture can’t be credited properly it isn’t shown at all.
Improved — your Locations and Maps cards fill in too. Because these photographs can be kept, they appear on your spot cards as well as the spot itself, so a list of desk-scouted locations stops being a wall of identical empty frames. Where the picture is of a nearby feature rather than the exact pin, it says so.

Web — Live — 2026-07-26

New — see a place before you’ve shot it. Add a spot from your desk and, where street-level imagery exists, its empty frame now shows a view from near the pin — so you can get a feel for a location you’ve never stood in. It’s clearly marked as an external preview, credited to its source, and it never replaces or becomes one of your own photos.

iPhone v1.7.0 — Live — 2026-07-25

New — Plan your shoot as a route. String the spots on a map into an ordered day-route with drive, walk, or bike times, road-following directions, and one-tap hand-off to Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Waze.
New — A schedule that follows the light. Order a route by the best light at each stop, by shortest distance, or by each spot’s best time — and set where you start from (your location or any stop).
New — Add a spot by its address. Type a place or address to drop a new spot, right from the create menu — no need to already be there.
New — Search your maps. Filter the Maps list by name or by the places their spots sit in.
New — See the sun & moon lines. Every spot’s map now shows which way the sun and moon rise and set, so you can picture the light before you go.
New — Tag each spot’s best light. Mark whether a spot sings at sunrise, golden hour, blue hour, sunset, or night.
Improved — A polished new launch. A branded opening animation when the app starts.
Fixed — Adding a spot by address is rock-solid. Removed a freeze that could occur when picking a search result or saving a far-away place.
Fixed — Back goes where you expect. Opening a spot from a route map now returns you to that map, not the Locations list.

Web — Live — 2026-07-25

New — Route planning on the big screen. The full day-route planner — travel modes, drive-time ETAs, road directions, Navigate hand-off, light-aware schedule, reordering, and a starting point — on the web app too.
New — Sun & moon lines on the spot map. Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset directions for any spot, with the times in a tidy panel below the map.
Improved — A redesigned spot page. The map stays in view as you scroll, with room for a spot’s best-light and details.
Fixed — No more unexpected sign-outs. Fixed a rare sign-out from a background session refresh.
Fixed — Back returns where you came from. Opening a spot takes you back to wherever you opened it, not always Locations.

Web — Live — 2026-07-25

New — see which way the light comes from, right on the spot’s map. Open a location and its map now draws where the sun and moon rise and set from that exact spot — four labelled lines for sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset, each with its time and compass bearing, plus a subtle live line showing where the sun is right now while it’s up. Step the date forward or back to plan a future shoot — it opens on your planned day when the spot has one — and switch the whole overlay off for a plain map with a tap. It’s all worked out on your device with the same sun-and-moon engine the app uses, no connection needed, and when the sun or moon simply doesn’t rise or set that day — a polar summer or winter — it says so honestly instead of drawing a line that isn’t there.

Web — Live — 2026-07-24

New — a suggested schedule that follows the light. Give a route a shoot day and Viewpoint works out, for every stop, when that stop’s light actually happens at that spot — sunrise, golden hour, blue hour, sunset or the heart of the night — using the same on-device sun-and-moon engine the app runs, with no connection needed. Set how long you’ll linger at each stop and, once you’re online, those targets turn into a suggested arrive and depart time for the run. One tap reorders the whole day into light order, and if your current order backtracks against the sun, it says so. And where the light simply never happens on that date — a white-night summer, a polar winter — it tells you honestly instead of inventing a time.

Web — Live — 2026-07-23

New — plan your day with Routes. A map can hold a whole region’s worth of spots; a route is the order you’ll actually shoot them in. Open a map on the web app, create a route, and drag your spots into the sequence that follows the light — then tag each stop with when you’ll be there: sunrise, golden hour, blue hour, sunset, night or anytime. When you’re online, Viewpoint now shows the real drive time and distance for the run — following actual roads — and draws that driven path on the map so you can see the shape of your day at a glance. Off the grid, it falls back to a quick straight-line estimate worked out on your device. Turn-by-turn hand-off to your maps app is coming next.

iPhone v1.6.1 — Live — 2026-07-21

New — Compress: fit any export to a size. A full-resolution export can be 70 or 100 MB, and the upload form wants 10. The new Compress tool in Studio takes a photo down to a size you name — 10 MB, 5 MB, 2 MB, or your own — and finds the best quality that still fits, so you’re not nudging a slider until the file happens to be small enough. Prefer to set quality by hand? Flip to manual and watch the size update live. Choose JPEG, PNG or HEIC. It all runs on your device — nothing is uploaded.
New — compress in a single tap, from Shortcuts. Compress is also an iPhone Shortcut, so you can shrink a shot straight from the Shortcuts app or an automation, without opening Viewpoint first.

Web — Live — 2026-07-21

New — Compress: fit any export to a size. A full-resolution export can be 70 or 100 MB, and then the upload form wants 10. The new Compress tool in Studio takes a photo down to a size you name — 10 MB, 5 MB, 2 MB, or your own — and finds the best quality that still fits, so you’re not fiddling with a slider until the file happens to be small enough. Prefer to set quality by hand? Flip to manual and watch the size update live. Choose JPEG, PNG or HEIC; for lossless PNG it hits your target by resizing instead, and if a size simply can’t be reached it gets as close as it can and says so. It all runs on your device — nothing is uploaded — and it’s coming to iPhone soon, where it’ll also be a one-tap Shortcut.

iPhone v1.6.0 — Live — 2026-07-16

New — Viewpoint now speaks Japanese. Set your iPhone to 日本語 and the whole app follows, from capture and the almanac through to the planning tools. That makes seven languages in all: English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Japanese.
New — a beta, and we’re saying so. The Japanese wording is an early beta while we polish it. On a Japanese iPhone, Settings gains a Language section with a one-tap way to report a phrase that reads oddly — it comes straight to the developer, and we refine it from there.
Improved — polish and fixes across the app. The usual round of small refinements everywhere else.

Web — Live — 2026-07-16

New — the web app now speaks Japanese. Choose 日本語 from the language switcher to use Viewpoint on the web in Japanese, from the dashboard through the planning tools. It’s an early beta while we polish the wording — if a phrase reads oddly, let us know and we’ll refine it.

iPhone v1.5.1 — Live — 2026-07-15

New — a light meter that’s always in your pocket. Point your phone at the scene and read the exposure straight off the camera: the EV, and the aperture, shutter and ISO that go with it, before you unpack the rig. The fastest way to settle on a starting exposure while you’re still deciding where to stand.
New — spot-meter the tones that matter. Long-press the live view to drop a metering pin — one in the shadows, one on your subject, one in the highlights — and read each independently. On a high-contrast scene, that’s the whole game.
New — the Zone System, on your phone. See the scene’s full tonal range on a zone ruler from black to white, with a clear flag when the highlights or shadows will clip, then place a tone exactly where you want it and watch the exposure shift to match.
New — built for film, too. Shooting a long exposure on film? Pick your stock and the meter shows the reciprocity-corrected shutter time once it starts to matter. A live histogram and a colour-temperature reading stay on screen the whole time you’re metering.
New — freeze the frame and save the reading. Grab a still and drag the settings to play “what if I opened up two stops?” without chasing the light. Keep a reading for next time — the frame, the settings and your GPS saved to a new spot or an existing one.

Find it in the Tools tab. Tap the ⓘ any time for a full walkthrough, in your language.

Improved — your alerts are a tap away from anywhere. Reach your notifications from the bell on either half of Locations — the Grid or the Map — and tap a forecast to jump straight to that exact spot on the map.

iPhone v1.4.2 — Live — 2026-07-11

Improved — a cleaner home for your spots. Your saved spots now live in one Locations tab: see them as a grid, or tap Map for the same spots on the map, with the day’s light and conditions and nearby public spots to discover. The old Gallery and Explore are now one place, two ways to look at it.
Improved — Studio gets its own tab. The tools that turn a shot into a post — panoramas, the grid slicer, spec cards, before-and-after and more — now have their own Studio tab, a tap away instead of tucked inside Tools.
Fixed — a smoother first run. The quick tour that points out what’s new is tidier, and its highlight now lands right on the control it’s describing.

iPhone v1.4.1 — Live — 2026-07-11

New — Before / After Wipe, now on iPhone. Pair your raw scout frame with the finished edit and Viewpoint builds a short looping video where a labelled divider sweeps across to reveal the transformation — the most shareable way to show the work behind a shot, made right on your phone.
New — see your depth of field, and compare lenses. The Depth of Field calculator now shows a real preview of what stays sharp and what falls into background blur, and a new Compare mode puts two lens-and-aperture setups head to head, so you bring the right lens for the shot, not just the biggest one.
New — Panorama Pan goes vertical. Turn a wide panorama into a full-screen vertical Reel or Story, with the motion matched to your frame and a clean reveal at the end, ready to post.
New — sky events, one tap away. Meteor showers, eclipses, supermoons and more now have their own card in Sky & Light, so the next thing worth shooting is always in reach.

Web — Live — 2026-07-09

New — the Before / After Wipe, now on the web. Turn your raw scout frame and the finished edit into a short looping video where a labelled divider sweeps across to reveal the transformation — the most shareable way to show the work behind a shot. Drop in your before and after, name each side, and the web app builds the clip for you, ready to post. It’s on the way to iPhone too; today it’s live on the web.

Web — Live — 2026-07-08

New — compare two lenses before you pack. The Depth of Field calculator has a new Compare mode: set how far you’ll be from your subject, put two lens-and-aperture setups head to head, and see which one keeps more of the scene sharp. It makes the surprising truth visible — a longer, faster lens can leave less in focus than a shorter, slower one — so you bring the right lens for the shot, not just the biggest one.
New — Metric or imperial units. Pick Metric or Imperial in Settings and every distance, altitude and calculator result switches to match — metres and kilometres, or feet and miles — while focal length always stays in millimetres, since that’s a universal camera spec. Defaults to whatever your browser’s region already uses, and your choice is remembered from then on.
New — see your depth of field on a real photo. The Depth of Field calculator now shows a real photo where the subject stays sharp and everything else falls into natural background blur, sized to match your focal length, aperture and subject distance. A distance scale underneath shows exactly how far the sharp zone reaches, from close up to infinity.

iPhone v1.4.0 — Live — 2026-07-07

New — Made for iPad. Viewpoint is now a universal app with a native iPad layout: a sidebar instead of the tab bar, your library and maps side by side with the detail right next to the list, and every screen working in portrait and landscape. Scout in the field with your iPhone, plan on the big canvas at home. One heads-up: if you already ran the iPhone app on your iPad, you’ll be asked to sign in once after this update — everything else is right where you left it.
New — the Studio tools arrive on iPhone. Spec Card, Grid Slicer, Share the Plan and Setup vs. The Shot — the four tools that recently landed in the web app — are now on your phone too: burn a photo’s shooting settings onto a shareable card, slice one photo into a profile-grid mosaic, pair a shoot plan’s map with the shot it produced, and cut a quick behind-the-scenes reel, all made right on your device.
Improved — Studio remembers your creator handle. Set it once and every card you export carries it.
Fixed — the zoom-out globe is back. Zooming the map all the way out on the Standard style shows the globe again.

Web — Live — 2026-07-05

New — Setup vs. The Shot. Pair a quick behind-the-scenes moment — a clip of you working, or a photo of your setup — with the finished frame it produced, into one short vertical reel, in the “what my phone sees vs. what my camera sees” style feeds love. Pick a clean cut, a soft crossfade or a slide for the hand-off, set how long the setup and the shot each hold, and add your own captions. The clip’s own sound fades out under the switch so it ends cleanly. Sized for full-height 9:16, square or the tall 3:4, made right in your browser with nothing uploaded — save it and post.
Improved — Frame your reel shots. Drag to reposition and zoom the setup and the hero photo inside the frame, so a wide shot no longer gets blindly centre-cropped — what you see in the preview is exactly what exports.

Web — Live — 2026-07-04

New — Spec Card. Pick a photo and Viewpoint reads its shooting settings, then burns them onto a shareable card — your shot as a soft backdrop with the aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length, camera and lens laid out razor-sharp on top. Choose a minimal floating look or a tidy panel style, and match the shape to wherever you’re posting. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded. (On its way to the iPhone app in an upcoming release.)
New — Grid Slicer. Turn one photo into a profile-grid mosaic: Viewpoint cuts it into a 3-column block — 3×1 up to 3×4 — that reassembles into the whole image across the top of your Instagram grid. Drag and zoom to frame it, and the tiles download already in posting order, so they land back in place with no guesswork. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded. (On its way to the iPhone app in an upcoming release.)
New — Share the Plan. Turn a saved shoot plan and your result photo into a branded, shareable card — your shot as the sharp hero image, with a small map of where you stood and what you aimed at tucked in the corner. Drag the photo to reposition it, choose from six shapes — from a full-height story to a wide landscape — and the location always shows as a wide area, never the exact spot. Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Improved — Share the Plan shows the light. The plan map now draws where the sun sat for your shot — a line from where you stood pointing to the light, with a small note like “Back-lit · sun 16° off-axis.” The card doesn’t just show where you shot from and what you aimed at; it shows the light you planned around.
Improved — Edit the camera and lens on a Spec Card. When a photo reports an odd, blank or missing camera or lens, tap Edit specs and set the label by hand — or add one where there was none. It changes the card only, never your photo.

iPhone v1.3.0 — Live — 2026-07-05

Improved — A fresh, unified look. Viewpoint now wears the same field-instrument design across your iPhone and the web app: a deep, low-glare dark theme made for pre-dawn scouting, with a warm amber accent that keeps the moment that matters in front of you. One Viewpoint, whether you’re planning on the trail or at your desk.
Improved — A new app icon. A refreshed camera-and-map-pin mark to match — and it now adapts to your iPhone’s Light, Dark, and Tinted icon styles.

iPhone v1.2.0 — Live — 2026-07-02

New — Studio comes to iPhone. The panorama publishing tools you’ve had on the web are now on your phone, gathered in a new Studio section — turn a wide shot into a scroll-stopping post right where you took it.
New — Panorama Carousel. Slice a sweeping panorama into perfectly aligned tiles that swipe together as one seamless image in an Instagram carousel; choose anywhere from two to ten slices and Viewpoint lines them up edge to edge.
New — Panorama Pan. Turn a panorama into a smooth vertical video that glides across the scene, ready to post as a Reel, Story, or TikTok — great for a vista a single frame can’t hold.
Improved — A tidier Tools hub. Your tools are now grouped into Sky & Light, Photo Scouting, and Studio, so the right one is easier to find.
Improved — Find Your Viewpoint. A smarter subject search, cleaner results, and a smoother path from a suggested viewpoint into a saved shoot plan.
Fixed — Photos that come back. After a long stretch offline, your photo links now heal themselves automatically instead of showing a broken image.

Web — Live — 2026-07-02

New — Pano Slicer. Turn any photo into a swipeable carousel: Viewpoint slices it into as many as ten tall tiles that scroll past as one continuous scene when your followers swipe, all in your browser with nothing uploaded. Drag and zoom the photo behind the tile frame — in 3:4, 4:5 or square — to frame exactly the part of the scene you want.
New — Panorama Pan. Turn a wide shot into a smooth vertical video that glides across the scene, sized for Reels, TikTok and Shorts — no editing app needed, made right in your browser. Set where the pan starts and ends, then watch the exact cropped frame you’ll export in a true-to-size preview. (Both tools are on their way to the iPhone app in an upcoming release.)

iPhone v1.1.0 — Live — 2026-07-02

New — Find Your Viewpoint. Name what you want to shoot — a cathedral, a peak, a lighthouse — and Viewpoint’s AI finds real places you could stand so the sun, moon, or Milky Way lines up behind it, with the date and time each one happens, the distance and direction to walk, and the lens to bring. It’s the alignment planner run in reverse: not “when does it line up from here?” but “where do I go, and when?” Every suggestion is a real, reachable spot plotted on the map, and every angle and time is computed by the astronomy engine — never invented. Tap one to open a shoot plan, ready to save. Add a detail in your own words, like “next full moon” or “behind the top cross”, and Viewpoint reads it in your language to narrow the search. (Already on the web; arriving on iPhone with this release.)

iPhone v1.0.7 — Live — 2026-06-28

New — Shoot-plan reminders. Plan a shoot and get a push notification before the light, so a great window never slips by while you’re busy.
Improved — Live updates from the web. Edits you make in the web app now appear on your iPhone in real time, and you can pull to refresh any list.
Improved — Works on more iPhones. Viewpoint now runs on devices back to iOS 18, so more of your gear is supported out of the box.
Fixed — Steadier AR Scout. The live sun, moon and Milky Way overlay on the camera is smoother and more reliable, with the occasional jitter and crash gone.

Web — Live — 2026-07-01

New — Find Your Viewpoint (beta). Name what you want to shoot — a cathedral, a peak, a lighthouse — and Viewpoint’s AI finds the real places you could stand so the sun, moon or Milky Way lines up behind it, with the date and time each one happens and the lens to bring. It’s the alignment planner run in reverse — scouting, backwards — and it’s live on the web right now (the iPhone version is on its way, above). Pick a viewpoint and its recommended lens carries straight into your plan.

Web — Live — 2026-06-28

New — Plans page. Every planned shoot in one place on the big screen, with filters and a choice of card or table view.
New — Milky Way on the planner map. The planner now draws the Milky Way’s arch and the sun and moon positions right on the map, so you can see the composition before you go.
Improved — Clearer golden-light alerts. Alerts now show the exact golden-hour time alongside today’s sunrise and sunset.
New — Talk to the maker. Reach Viewpoint’s maker directly from Settings — a quick way to send feedback or ask for help.