Widgets Two new widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. The Moon shows its phase, its sign and how much of it is lit. Next in the sky shows the coming New or Full Moon, eclipse or planet station, with that moment's line drawn on the world map and its distance from home. Follow a line On the globe, any line can be followed from its northern end to its southern. The globe turns along it and names each country and stretch of sea as it passes. Tap the globe to pause. Overhead points Each planet stood straight overhead somewhere on Earth at the moment you were born. The globe now marks those points on your Midheaven lines, with the nearest city to each. Where your lines cross Learn lists the places where two of your lines meet, nearest home first, each named by the city it falls near. Tap one to see both lines on the map. Each line, in words A line's page says which countries it runs through, from north to south. The ring remembers The map's four line switches keep their setting between launches, as the chosen planets already do.

The sky, on your map Events now opens on the sky event whose own line runs closest to home, drawn on its own map. Every event after it shows how far its line passes from you. Tap See it on the map to open that moment. Your trips A trip now shows which of your lines run near each of its cities, and which sky events fall during your dates, with how close each one's line passes to your cities. Parans Switch on Parans in the map controls to see the latitudes where two planets are on angles at the same moment, drawn round the world. Learn, led by your map All forty of your lines in one table, by distance from home, each with its own page. The planets are redrawn as lit spheres, shown to scale beside Earth. The map The foot of the map names your nearest line and how far it is, and switches between the flat map and the globe with a tap on either picture. On the globe, a soft edge of atmosphere, and it flies to each place you choose. Share an eclipse When an eclipse path is on the map, it's in the picture when you save or share your map. Two new paper themes Porcelain and Rose join Almanac in Settings → Appearance, and the Classic style is quieter.

Eclipses on your map Switch on Solar eclipses in the map controls to see the real path of every solar eclipse from last year to ten years ahead, drawn over your lines. Tap the path for the countries it crosses, the time in your time zone, how long the Sun is covered and which of your lines it meets. The sky this year Events now shows what the sky does next: new and full Moons, retrogrades, planets changing sign, the equinoxes and solstices, and eclipses, in your time zone. Tap one to see that moment on the map. Your birthday map Travel → Your birthday shows the moment of your next solar return, when the Sun comes back to where it was when you were born, in your time zone. Open the map drawn for that moment, and see which cities sit on its Sun, Moon, Venus and Jupiter lines. Places in your life Travel → Places in your life: add the places you've lived and visited, and see which of your lines runs nearest each one, alongside your birthplace. Switch on Your places in the map controls to mark them on the map and the globe. The chart wheel Your four angles now sit under the map where a birth chart puts them: the Midheaven at the top, the Imum Coeli at the bottom, the Ascendant on the left and the Descendant on the right. Tap a quarter to show or hide that line, or the centre to switch between the flat map and the globe. Choose your icon Four home screen icons in Settings → Appearance: Dusk, Paper, Blush and the original Classic.

A clearer start Three pages that show the app itself: today's sky drawn on the world, the four angles in plain words, and what you need to make your own chart. Dates and distances your way Dates, times and distances follow your phone, so a US phone reads Oct 6, 2026 and miles. Settings → Display can set month, day or year first, a 12 or 24-hour clock, and miles or kilometers. How close is close Tap a line and the card shows the scale the whole app uses: on the line, close, moderate or distant, in your own units. Share your map New cards for your whole map, your chart wheel and your Best places, sized for a story or a post. Every share carries a link to the app. Your birth details stay off unless you add them.

A new look Names are set in a serif, lines are finer and the accent is quieter, in every theme. Prefer the pixel look? Choose Classic in Settings → Appearance, or from What's New. Best places for you Pick Love, Career, Home or Growth to see the cities that sit on those lines in your chart, and how far each one is from its line. Tap a city to see it on the map. Your chart in another city Your birth moment cast for any city: the rising sign, the Midheaven and the house each planet falls in, as seen from there. Open it from Best places, or hold a finger on the map and choose Your Chart Here. Share a line Make a card of one of your lines and the city it runs near. Your birth date, time and place stay off the card unless you add them. Almanac, on paper The Almanac theme is now light: cream stock and ink. Line names on the map and globe sit beside their lines instead of in boxes, so nothing covers the line itself.

Your chart, from the start The welcome ends by asking for your birth date, time and place, and the map opens on your own lines from then on. If you don't know your birth time, say so: the app uses noon and tells you plainly what that means for your lines. What a line means Tap any line and the card says what the sky was doing there, such as Venus setting in the west when you were born, and how astrocartography traditionally reads that line. Learn The Planets tab is now Learn. It opens on the theory of astrocartography and the practical guides, with the solar system and deep space after them. Line colors in Theory match the lines on your map. Easier to read Larger paragraph text that follows your iPhone's text size, more space between sections, clearer contrast in every theme, and Aurora in a softer pink. Calmer Love, Career, Home and Growth lead the map controls and show which planets each one draws. Animations hold still when Reduce Motion is on, and VoiceOver names every line.

Place names on the globe Country names at a distance and cities as you close in, set in the same quiet type as the coastlines, so your lines stay the loudest thing on the sphere. Day and night A shaded half marks where the Sun is up. It is the same edge the Sun's ASC and DSC curves trace, so the two read together, and it follows the moment you are looking at. Every line labeled With all forty lines on, each marker carries a short chip at a distance and its full name as you close in. Your place on the sphere Where you are, and the place you are asking about, each carry their own mark.

Warmer, end to end A theme used to set one accent color and nothing else — the ground under every screen was the same near-black whichever one you picked. Now a theme sets the whole surface: the ground, the type and the accent together. Astro-Cartography opens warm. Six themes Ecliptic is a clay accent on warm charcoal, and it's what a new install starts on. Almanac is new — the same warmth in amber. Moonlight is neutral, Ethereal green, Aurora pink, and Astronaut the cold blue it has always been. Whichever theme you had already chosen stays chosen. The map Apple's map sits back now — desaturated, with points of interest off — so your lines are the only color on it. "All bodies" works: forty lines, every planet, at once. Each planet's labels keep to their own latitude, so they read as a ladder instead of piling up on the equator. The globe GLOBE was Apple's satellite imagery, and once the map sat back it was the brightest thing left in the app. It's drawn now, from the app's own coastlines — sphere, grid and land all in the theme's quiet tone, so your lines are the only color on it, at the same weights and dashes the flat map draws. Drag to turn it, pinch to close in. Tapping a line still names it, and a long press still drops a pin. Appearance The screen shows what it sets instead of listing hex codes. Your own Sun, Moon and Rising sit at the top and repaint as you move down the list, each theme is drawn in itself, and every planet row draws its line at the weight the map is set to. Your chart Every placement now names its house — Sun 10° Capricorn, 10th house — from cusps the wheel has been drawing all along. Every line names its direction: 744 km, west. Sun, Moon, Rising and Midheaven carry their degrees. Settings Your birth moment leads now, with the birth time the screen never used to show, and your birthplace is drawn rather than listed — the country in your theme's own colour. The settings under it are grouped into what you see and how it works. Help opens the full guide inside the app, and still works with no signal. Faster The map used to throw away everything it had computed each time you left the tab, then recompute it on the main thread when you came back. It keeps its work now, and that work happens off the main thread. The same moment is never computed twice, whichever place you ask about. And scrubbing time no longer rounds the sky to the nearest hour.

A new look, end to end Astro-Cartography now speaks the same design language as our other apps: flat surfaces, hard edges, and one color on screen that actually means something. The stacked boxes, borders and glows are gone. The map The controls are now a full-width band across the bottom that tells you how many lines you're seeing and opens wherever you tap it — no more hunting for a small chevron. Map, date and location sit flush against the right edge instead of floating over your chart. Each line now carries a single label naming the planet and the angle — Sun ASC, Moon MC — instead of two separate markers. You can also hide the status bar for a full-screen map, under Settings › Display. Your chart, reordered Your lines lead now. The line nearest your birthplace is the headline, with the rest ranked underneath — where before they were the last thing on the page, below the aspects table. Sun, Moon, Rising and Midheaven read across the top as a single strip, and the wheel, your placements and your aspects follow. Travel The line you're closest to is now the headline of "Where You Are Now", with the distance beside it. Themes Five accent colors now, including Aurora — a new pink. Ghost is Moonlight and Neon Grid is Ecliptic; your saved theme carries over. Each one sets a single accent color, so every screen stays readable whichever you pick.

New: Your chart, as a chart Your Chart now opens on a real natal wheel — the zodiac ring, your house cusps, every planet drawn at its true position, and the aspects between them traced across the center. Tap any glyph to read its exact degree. Where a planet sits in your sky Tap a planet on the map and you now see the path it travels across the sky at that place: its height above the horizon right now, and the times it rises, climbs highest and sets. The Moon, Venus and Mercury also show their true phase. Rebuilt map cards The planet, line and location cards now share one design, sized to your screen and colored by the body you tapped. Also in this update: rise and set times, brightness, disc size and illumination are now read straight from the ephemeris, for readings you can trust.

New: Trip Maps Every trip now opens with a glowing map of the country itself - its real coastline drawn in light, your stops numbered in order, and your route tracing itself from city to city. Tap replay and watch the journey draw again. Your trip list gets a matching touch, with a small country silhouette beside each trip. Profile Your profile now carries a small sigil generated from your birth moment and place - a planet glyph and slow orbit, unique to you. Also in this update: refinements throughout for a calmer, more premium feel.

New: Your Chart Tap your avatar on the map for a readable summary of your birth sky — every planet's position at the moment you were born, and your natal lines ranked by distance from your birthplace. Tap a line to see it on the map. Travel The current-location card now ranks every nearby line, not just the nearest one. Map Tapping a line now shows its distance from the point you tapped, and line details stay consistent between taps. Also in this update: planetary data refreshed with the latest IAU moon counts, a new Moon IC case study set in Bangkok, release notes inside the app, and more accurate historical timezone handling for saved events.

New: Personal Profile Save your birth date, time, and place once. The map opens to your own chart, with a profile control on the map and a toggle in Settings. New: Travel Compare places for a trip. Enter your travel dates and the cities you're considering - or auto-fill a region - and each city is ranked by its nearest natal line and any favorable transit during your dates. The previous Influences tab now lives as the current-location card inside Travel.

- Timezone Precision: Upgraded to precise global IANA timezone lookup. Saved events now lock their local zone permanently and display local abbreviations (e.g., PDT) in your event list. - Historical Presets Calibrated: Fixed an issue where historical case studies read local times as UTC. Presets like the Berlin Wall and iPhone launch are now plotted with perfect historical accuracy. - Battery & Performance Engine: Re-engineered animation rendering for better battery life.

• Astrocartography case studies & practical guides • Encyclopedia updated & expanded: dwarf planets & deep space objects • Astrocartography theory section with formulas & animations • Visual refinements & performance improvements

- Refined map interactions with smoother, more responsive gesture handling - Instant planetary insights - tap any planet icon or line for detailed astronomical data and interpretations - Enhanced encyclopedia with improved readability and visual hierarchy - Expanded knowledge base with hundreds of new fascinating facts about planets and deep space objects - Redesigned onboarding experience with dynamic energy convergence animations - Completely reimagined info cards featuring live orbital animations and streamlined layouts - Visual polish and performance improvements throughout

• Refined onboarding with improved tutorials and gesture guides • Enhanced map controls with new Focus Modes and astronomical event presets • Quick globe/map toggle now accessible directly on screen • New Ethereal & Ghost visual themes with redesigned settings • Renamed "Here" tab to "Influences" for instant planetary analysis • Improved performance with caching and smoother animations • Accessibility improvements and bug fixes

• Fixed visual issues with bottom drawer overlapping content • Refined time scrubber UI and interaction stability • Removed light mode and standardized the app to a dark-only experience • General UI polish and visual consistency improvements

- Interpretations display different astrological perspectives, with each planetary influence showing insights - Refined Planet Selectors - Compact glassmorphic design - Fixed Line Thickness - Line thickness slider now correctly applies from ultra-thin (0.5pt) to bold (4.0pt) with visual scaling

- Refined onboarding for new users - Redesigned & expanded encyclopedia with guides, mission history, scale comparisons and facts - Modern UI refinement across Settings and HERE tabs with improved data visualization - Enhanced HERE tab with proximity-sorted influences, summary statistics, and filtering options - Refined tab headings and scrolling behaviour - Map performance improvements

- Fixed timeline scrubber with pre-computation for instant rendering - Silky smooth map rendering with zero lag - Optimized memory usage

• High-quality chart export as PNG or PDF • Improved visual polish and consistency • Fixed map loading flicker • Map style toggle restored to Settings

• Instant loading – Faster launches and better loading states • Ultra-gentle haptics – Subtle, polished feedback • Smooth time scrubbing – Smart preloading for instant ±2h and fluid 24h scrolling • Smarter errors – Clear messages with one-tap fixes • Improved location system – Clearer permissions, better recovery • Modern iOS 26 engine – Faster, lighter, smoother • More responsive map – Faster globe interaction and line rendering

• Streamlined "Here" tab - removed confusing event creation, simplified to event selection only • Optimized home map tab layout • More compact, minimal card design for better readability on larger screens

New: Here Tab Discover planetary influences at your saved locations. View the top 3 strongest influences with detailed interpretations, distance, and directional context. Improvements • Enhanced event management • Bug fixes• Bug fixes and stability improvements.