Discover Scilly
Travel Guide for Scilly
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Discover Scilly is your local guide to the Isles of Scilly
Make the most of your time on the islands with Discover Scilly, a handy travel companion built for visitors, holidaymakers, and anyone exploring Scilly.
Find places to eat, shop, stay, and visit across the islands, with local listings, photos, contact details, maps, and directions all in one place.
Plan your trip with saved places, reminders, and stay details, so your island days are easier to organise.
Explore beaches, landmarks, attractions, activities, events, and local businesses, from well-loved favourites to smaller hidden gems.
Check useful island information including weather, tides, maps, and nearby places, helping you plan around the rhythm of island life.
Discover Scilly helps you explore more, plan better, and support local businesses while enjoying everything the Isles of Scilly have to offer.
more What’s New in 2.1.28
- Opt in to notifications for newly published events and open the event directly from the alert.
- Choose your notification preferences during setup or in Settings.
- More reliable trip-plan saving, offline downloads and map data handling.
- Improved compatibility with newer iOS versions, plus general stability and performance improvements.
2.1.28 3d ago
What's new in 2.1.27?
- Added 'View all' button to Events card
2.1.27 4d ago
What’s New in Version 2.1.26
- Added support for pinned business listings
- Improved notification handling for republished updates
- Added the Arts & Crafts category
- General reliability and performance improvements
2.1.26 Sep 11
What’s New in Version 2.1.25?
-Added a new Updates feed for business news and late availability
-Filter updates by type, date or unread status
-Added unread badges to Discover and relevant business listings
-Tap an update to open the related business or availability post
-Automatically removes withdrawn and expired updates from unread counts
-Improved notification badges, offline caching and update reliability
-General stability and performance improvements
2.1.25 Aug 25
What’s New in Version 2.1.24?
-Choose custom start and destination points directly on the map
-Track walking progress with live GPS
-Receive off-route warnings and calculate a safe route back
-Save an active walk and resume it from Home
-Rename routes directly from the navigation screen
-See nearby landmarks and enable proximity alerts
-Improved map recentering, dark mode and navigation stability
-Added directional location guidance while exploring
-Made route planning quicker and easier to access
-Improved map centring around your current location
-Improved place cards and category labels on island pages
-Significantly improved cached image loading, especially on maps and when offline
-General performance, stability and dependency updates
2.1.24 Aug 18
What’s new in 2.1.23?
-Updated walking paths using locally reviewed route data
-New map filters for places, events, island labels and planned walks
-Past Trip Plan items now move into a convenient archive automatically
-Notification badges now reflect new alerts
-Improved widget reliability, offline behaviour and deep-link performance
-Various map, navigation and stability fixes
2.1.23 Aug 10
Discover Scilly now includes home-screen widgets showing current weather, upcoming tides and your next trip-plan item.
Also included:
-Walking routes added to island pages
-Newest and oldest sorting for trip plans
-Improved offline maps and app performance
-Refreshed app branding and splash screen
-General fixes and stability improvements
2.1.22 Aug 4
What's new in 2.1.21?
Stay connected with what is happening across Scilly.
• Enable alerts for new late accommodation availability
• Follow individual businesses for their latest updates
• Tap notifications to open the relevant post directly
• Manage all notification preferences from Live Alerts
• Improved walking map update support
• Notification, map and general reliability improvements
No account is required. Notification preferences are stored anonymously per device.
2.1.21 Jul 30
What's new in 2.1.20?
Discover Scilly 2.1.20 introduces richer Live Updates and Late Availability.
-View image galleries on accommodation offers
-See when Late Availability offers are due to expire
-Improved image loading and offline caching
-Updated weather and tide data handling
-General performance, reliability and interface improvements
2.1.20 Jul 29
What's new in 2.1.19?
-View live news, announcements and offers directly on business listings
-Tap Business Update images to view them full screen, then zoom and pan
-Improved dark mode presentation and video support
-More reliable offline caching, tides and image loading
-General performance, stability and interface improvements
2.1.19 Jul 26
New in this update:
-Find last-minute accommodation using the new Late Availability section.
-Filter available stays by island, dates and number of guests.
-View live availability updates directly from accommodation providers.
2.1.18 Jul 25
What’s New in 2.1.17
-Improved business listings with clearer pricing and booking information.
-Expanded event details to include category, island, age restrictions, equipment, capacity, weather dependency and tags.
-Added in-app route planning and external map directions to event locations.
-Improved walking-route access data and map safety.
-Added a dedicated dark-mode home video and updated image credits.
-Fixed empty information sections appearing on listings.
-Fixed variable pricing being hidden for some businesses.
-Fixed newly published API content not refreshing promptly.
-Fixed valid tide predictions being rejected because of expired cache metadata.
-Made information cards more compact and less visually prominent.
-Included general stability, offline caching and display improvements.
2.1.17 Jul 24
What's new in 2.1.16?
-Added unique imagery to the Home screen in dark mode, courtesy of Dave Sherris
2.1.16 Jul 16
Whats new in 2.1.14?
-Offline walking routes across the islands
-Custom route planning between points of interest
-Route maps, trip-plan integration and completed-walk Journey entries
-Improved Discover and Home layouts
-Location-aware route suggestions
-Offline map updates
-Better privacy controls
-Improved image caching
-Improved overall stability
2.1.15 Jul 15
What's new in 2.1.12?
-Added remote update checking
-Update available row inside Settings
-Added a review prompt
-Improved offline map labels:added labels above tappable POIs
-Ensured Tresco’s island label appears
-Fixed Discover copy so it says local partner / local partners correctly.
-Tweaked the map info button centering by moving away from text metrics.
2.1.12 Jul 12
What's new in 2.0.11?
- Redesigned home screen, improved typography, cleaner layouts, and smoother navigation throughout the app.
- Offline vector maps, improved popups, and setup during onboarding so maps are ready when signal is limited.
- Polished dark mode, place cards, local partner labels, phone number detection, and overall app performance.
2.1.11 Jul 9
What’s New In 2.1.10:
Improved accommodation listings with stay-specific wording, actions, and trip plan display.
Links in descriptions, booking notes, event details, and trip notes are now tappable.
Added a warning before opening third-party websites.
Improved category icons for takeaway and honesty stall listings.
Refined Trip Plan accommodation entries so they appear as stays rather than generic activities.
General polish and reliability improvements.
2.1.10 Jul 4
What’s New in 2.1.9?
Added swipeable image carousels to business and event detail pages, with gallery indicator dots.
Improved Trip Plan cards with images, cleaner layouts, swipe-to-delete, smarter reminder states, and better filter pills.
Added a dedicated Sponsored Businesses page with island filtering and fairer listing rotation.
Improved Discover, Categories, More, Reminders, Journey, and cached page loading so the app feels faster and more consistent.
Added persistent Map/List selection in My Journey, plus improved favourites and no-image fallbacks.
Refined home page carousels, quick actions, sponsored island cards, and carousel alignment.
Improved reminder handling so expired reminders show as done in both Trip Plan and My Reminders.
Improved default plan times.
Added native nearby notification support for planned locations.
Fixed expired events still appearing on the full map.
General polish, wording updates, version display fixes, and reliability improvements.
2.1.9 Jul 3
What's New in Version 2.1.8?
Improved tide information with a new, more reliable data source.
2.1.8 Jun 23
What’s New in Version 2.1.7
Offline maps now feel much smoother, with improved pinch-to-zoom and panning so exploring the islands is more stable and responsive.
We’ve also improved map points of interest with clearer popups, image previews where available, selected-marker indicators, and easier tap-to-dismiss behaviour.
Event and activity detail pages now show loading skeletons, making pages feel quicker and more polished while content loads.
Also includes smaller fixes and refinements across maps, popups, and detail screens.
2.1.7 Jun 9
What’s New in Version 2.1.6
Fixed event updates so newly approved events appear in the app without stale cache getting in the way.
Improved the home screen’s upcoming events section to show the next relevant future or ongoing events.
Refreshed event data used by event details and map pins.
Added clearer refresh behaviour across cached app data.
Improved map recentering and offline map reliability.
Added more information to the events page.
2.1.6 Jun 6
What’s New in Version 2.1.5
Added pull-to-refresh across more screens, with clearer refresh indicators.
Improved offline cache refreshes so redownloading data replaces stale cached content more reliably.
Added more places to the full map, including grouped pins when zoomed out.
Improved offline map interactions, including tappable place pins and better recentering.
Faster offline map tile loading.
Updated island information with refreshed descriptions, highlights, and population details.
Fixed several smaller map, weather, tides, and settings issues.
2.1.5 Jun 3
Updated accessibility text spacing for more in depth information
2.1.4 May 25
Revamped the map controls and added manual toggle for live/offline maps. Added ease of use guestures to image galleries, including smooth panning and swipe down to dismiss.
2.1.3 May 23
Fixed a bug stopping the tide preview card on the home screen from updating correctly.
2.1.2 May 22
What’s New in 2.1.28
- Opt in to notifications for newly published events and open the event directly from the alert.
- Choose your notification preferences during setup or in Settings.
- More reliable trip-plan saving, offline downloads and map data handling.
- Improved compatibility with newer iOS versions, plus general stability and performance improvements.
more Version 2.1.28 3d ago
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