What's new in 5.0.8: - fixed a bug that would prevent the app from properly launching when the location services access isn't yet granted, - reduced spacing between narrow cells like daytime and nighttime duration

What's new in 5.0.7: - fixed a bug that caused nighttime to display the same duration as daytime

What's new in 5.0.6: - fixed a bug where the Live View tool would not load properly after closing it for the first time. - improved Chinese translations - fixed a text layout issue when the Up-next widget displayed a date - fixed an issue where the border around a place card would not retain rounded corners during a transition to a detail view

Introducing Helios 5.0! This massive release brings a refined and bold new look with liquid glass design, completely reimagined navigation, and a stunning new sun and moon visualization on the outlook screen. We've streamlined the entire app experience, merging tabs for simpler navigation while adding beautiful information cards including an integrated map and Look Around view. Here's everything that's new: - Outlook and Places are now unified into a single screen showing both your current location and all saved places. The app still launches into your current location's outlook, with your full places list just a tap away. - Tools tab has been removed for a cleaner experience. The Map Explorer now lives in the toolbar and works for both searching new places and exploring sun and moon positions. Live View (formerly AR Lens) and Light Meter are also in the toolbar, appearing only for your current location and fading away for saved places. - Current location outlook features a stunning new realistic and highly detailed sun and moon visualization. The screen now includes additional information cards like map view and Look Around, giving you a richer sense of any place, especially useful for your saved locations. - Map Explorer now integrates with search and provides an improved line-based visualization showing current sun and moon positions along with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset times. The simpler ray-based view remains available in the layers sheet. - Live Viewfinder includes improved graphics that are more pleasant and refined. - Light Meter has been redesigned with a more information-dense layout, giving more space to the camera view. - Location search has been improved to return better and more relevant results. - Widgets now render properly on iOS 26. - App architecture has been optimized and prepared for exciting future updates. - The Apple Watch app has been reimaged to give you glancable information right away. - The iPadOS app is now better and optimized for larger screens. Thanks to the improved iPad app, we are for the first time releasing a MacOS app as well!

Introducing Helios 5.0! This massive release brings a refined and bold new look with liquid glass design, completely reimagined navigation, and a stunning new sun and moon visualization on the outlook screen. We've streamlined the entire app experience, merging tabs for simpler navigation while adding beautiful information cards including an integrated map and Look Around view. Here's everything that's new: - Outlook and Places are now unified into a single screen showing both your current location and all saved places. The app still launches into your current location's outlook, with your full places list just a tap away. - Tools tab has been removed for a cleaner experience. The Map Explorer now lives in the toolbar and works for both searching new places and exploring sun and moon positions. Live View (formerly AR Lens) and Light Meter are also in the toolbar, appearing only for your current location and fading away for saved places. - Current location outlook features a stunning new realistic and highly detailed sun and moon visualization. The screen now includes additional information cards like map view and Look Around, giving you a richer sense of any place, especially useful for your saved locations. - Map Explorer now integrates with search and provides an improved line-based visualization showing current sun and moon positions along with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset times. The simpler ray-based view remains available in the layers sheet. - Live Viewfinder includes improved graphics that are more pleasant and refined. - Light Meter has been redesigned with a more information-dense layout, giving more space to the camera view. - Location search has been improved to return better and more relevant results. - Widgets now render properly on iOS 26. - App architecture has been optimized and prepared for exciting future updates. - The Apple Watch app has been reimaged to give you glancable information right away. - The iPadOS app is now better and optimized for larger screens. Thanks to the improved iPad app, we are for the first time releasing a MacOS app as well!

Introducing Helios 5.0! This massive release brings a refined and bold new look with liquid glass design, completely reimagined navigation, and a stunning new sun and moon visualization on the outlook screen. We've streamlined the entire app experience, merging tabs for simpler navigation while adding beautiful information cards including an integrated map and Look Around view. Here's everything that's new: - Outlook and Places are now unified into a single screen showing both your current location and all saved places. The app still launches into your current location's outlook, with your full places list just a tap away. - Tools tab has been removed for a cleaner experience. The Map Explorer now lives in the toolbar and works for both searching new places and exploring sun and moon positions. Live View (formerly AR Lens) and Light Meter are also in the toolbar, appearing only for your current location and fading away for saved places. - Current location outlook features a stunning new realistic and highly detailed sun and moon visualization. The screen now includes additional information cards like map view and Look Around, giving you a richer sense of any place, especially useful for your saved locations. - Map Explorer now integrates with search and provides an improved line-based visualization showing current sun and moon positions along with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset times. The simpler ray-based view remains available in the layers sheet. - Live Viewfinder includes improved graphics that are more pleasant and refined. - Light Meter has been redesigned with a more information-dense layout, giving more space to the camera view. - Location search has been improved to return better and more relevant results. - Widgets now render properly on iOS 26. - App architecture has been optimized and prepared for exciting future updates. - The Apple Watch app has been reimaged to give you glancable information right away. - The iPadOS app is now better and optimized for larger screens. Thanks to the improved iPad app, we are for the first time releasing a MacOS app as well!

Introducing Helios 5.0! This massive release brings a refined and bold new look with liquid glass design, completely reimagined navigation, and a stunning new sun and moon visualization on the outlook screen. We've streamlined the entire app experience, merging tabs for simpler navigation while adding beautiful information cards including an integrated map and Look Around view.  Here's everything that's new: - Outlook and Places are now unified into a single screen showing both your current location and all saved places. The app still launches into your current location's outlook, with your full places list just a tap away. - Tools tab has been removed for a cleaner experience. The Map Explorer now lives in the toolbar and works for both searching new places and exploring sun and moon positions. Live View (formerly AR Lens) and Light Meter are also in the toolbar, appearing only for your current location and fading away for saved places. - Current location outlook features a stunning new realistic and highly detailed sun and moon visualization. The screen now includes additional information cards like map view and Look Around, giving you a richer sense of any place, especially useful for your saved locations. - Map Explorer now integrates with search and provides an improved line-based visualization showing current sun and moon positions along with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset times. The simpler ray-based view remains available in the layers sheet. - Live Viewfinder includes improved graphics that are more pleasant and refined. - Light Meter has been redesigned with a more information-dense layout, giving more space to the camera view. - Location search has been improved to return better and more relevant results. - Widgets now render properly on iOS 26. - App architecture has been optimized and prepared for exciting future updates. - The Apple Watch app has been reimaged to give you glancable information right away. - The iPadOS app is now better and optimized for larger screens. Thanks to the improved iPad app, we are for the first time releasing a MacOS app as well!

Introducing Helios 5.0! This massive release brings a refined and bold new look with liquid glass design, completely reimagined navigation, and a stunning new sun and moon visualization on the outlook screen. We've streamlined the entire app experience, merging tabs for simpler navigation while adding beautiful information cards including an integrated map and Look Around view. Here's everything that's new: - Outlook and Places are now unified into a single screen showing both your current location and all saved places. The app still launches into your current location's outlook, with your full places list just a tap away. - Tools tab has been removed for a cleaner experience. The Map Explorer now lives in the toolbar and works for both searching new places and exploring sun and moon positions. Live Viewfinder (formerly AR Lens) and Light Meter are also in the toolbar, appearing only for your current location and fading away for saved places. - Current location outlook features a stunning new realistic and highly detailed sun and moon visualization. The screen now includes additional information cards like map view and Look Around, giving you a richer sense of any place, especially useful for your saved locations. - Map Explorer now integrates with search and provides an improved line-based visualization showing current sun and moon positions along with golden hour, blue hour, sunrise, and sunset times. The simpler ray-based view remains available in the layers sheet. - Live Viewfinder includes improved graphics that are more pleasant and refined. - Light Meter has been redesigned with a more information-dense layout, giving more space to the camera view. - Location search has been improved to return better and more relevant results. - Widgets now render properly on iOS 26. - App architecture has been optimized and prepared for exciting future updates. - The Apple Watch app has been reimaged to give you glancable information right away. - The iPadOS app is now better and optimized for larger screens. Thanks to the improved iPad app, we are for the first time releasing a MacOS app as well!

This update fixes an issue where the map explorer tool would not react to time changes.

This update brings various improvements and fixes to the app. Here's a breakdown: - Performance has been improved accross the board. - The Places tab has been redesigned with a bottom aligned search bar for easier accessibility. - The design and common workflows, like adding a new place, have been improved to make them more intuitive and easier to use.

This update fixes a crash and weird behavior that popped up in iOS 18 related to the search sheet in the location picker and Map Explorer.

This update fixes a crash when opening the places tab. Thanks to everyone who reported it!

This update adds support for iOS 18, including dark and tinted app icons.

This is a small update which fixes a couple of bugs: - The sun trail now appears more consistent in areas where it reaches high altitudes. - The timeline no longer abruptly jumps on the initial scroll in the Map Explorer tool. - The timeline properly updates the date picker in the AR Lens tool.

Hello, hope everyone is doing great! This new version of Helios has some nice quality of life improvements. Here's the gist: - The design of blue hour, golden hour, sunrise, sunset, daylight, nightime, noon, nadir, moonrise, moonset and moon phase detail screens has been greatly refined. - The settings page design and layout has been improved significantly with some easter eggs along the way. - Settings now include a toggle for switching between standard and satellite map style for the entire app. - Notifications page has been moved to the settings page. - AR Lens experience has been improved as well with a more prominent and deliberate compass heading adjustment experience. - Map explorer tool has received quite a few tweaks, including a light rays animation indicating the direction of shadows and angle of all major sun related events. - The update also includes a few bug fixes, including one where the stars would not appear during the night in the landscape graphic at the top of the outlook tab. Thanks for using Helios. Remember to drink enough watter, go outside, exercise and take care of your loved ones.

This version fixes an issue where the date picker in the Outlook and Places tabs wouldn't be responsive.

This update fixes a few bugs: - the y-axis of golden hour, blue hour, sunrise/sunset, daylight, nighttime, moonrise/moonset and moon phases charts now has a correct range regardless of timezone, - the hero graphic on the Apple Watch now scrolls correctly (bug introduced in 4.2.2)

This version fixes various accessibility issues for users who use dynamic type.

This is a tiny update wiht only a few typo fixes.

Here's what's new: - Helios has been prepared to be localized in many other languages. To start, Helios is now available in Slovene. More languages are to come! - There was a bug on the iPad version that broke the map once a place was opened from the sidebar. This is now fixed. - The calendar has been moved up to the top. It was originally planned to be there, but there was an iOS bug (has been fixed in iOS 17.4) prevented that version from shipping. - Various UI tweaks to make the app look better than ever.

Here's what's new: - Map Explorer and Augmented Reality Lens now have a much improved time selection experience. - Augmented Reality Lens now show hourly markers on the Sun and Moon path. It's on by default for the Sun path, but both can be toggled on/off. - This update also includes a lot of UI polish. Helios now looks better than ever!

*mic noises* Akhm, is this still on? Thanks everyone for using Helios over the past few years! This is a major and long overdue complete rewrite of the app. Here's what's new: - New "Outlook" tab replaces the "Today" screen. It features a beautiful new Sun graphic inspired by the old design, but better in every way. Magic hour times are now shown vertically, show more data, and allow you to dive further into each event. - new "Places" tab replaces the "Location" screen. It's designed from the ground up, but feels familiar and works exactly as you'd expect. - The "Tools" tab also features a major redesign. It's more dense, but includes all the tools you're familiar with. - This release fixes various issues, including weird timezone edge cases, odd behaviours in the Southern Hemisphere, and more. - Notifications have been rewritten from scratch to consume less energy. - iPad design has been better optimized for the big screen. - Apple Watch app has been redone from scratch with a bold new design featuring the familiar Sun graphic and more data. - New widgets, including a beautiful Sun graphic that looks *soooo* cool, give it a try! - We bumped up the minimum iOS version to iOS 17, so we can better support new iOS features now and in the future.

Fixed some bugs to improve the experience in the app.

Fixed some more bugs to improve the experience in the app.

Woops, we fixed a couple of typos in the app. If you like the app, please leave a review on the App Store and follow us on social media. Thanks for your support.