Viewpoint now speaks Japanese. • 日本語（ベータ）— the whole app is available in Japanese, from capture and the almanac through to the planning tools. • It's an early beta while we polish the wording. If a phrase reads oddly, Settings has a one-tap way to tell us — it goes straight to the developer, and we refine it. That's seven languages in all: English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Dutch and Japanese. Plus polish and fixes across the app. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: a real-time Light Meter, always in your pocket. • Point your phone at the scene and read the exposure straight off the camera: EV, aperture, shutter and ISO. • Tap the shadows and highlights to spot-meter the tones that matter, see the whole scene on a Zone System ruler, and place a tone exactly where you want it. • Reciprocity correction for film, a live histogram and colour temperature, all on-device and fully offline. • Freeze a frame to experiment, then save the reading with its GPS to a new or existing spot. Also: reach your alerts from the bell on any Locations view, and tap a forecast to open that exact spot on the map. Plus polish and fixes across the app. New tools ship almost every week.

What's new in 1.4.2 A cleaner home for your spots and your storytelling. • LOCATIONS, TWO WAYS — your saved spots now live in one place. 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. Gallery and Explore are now one tab. • STUDIO, 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. • A SMOOTHER FIRST RUN — the quick tour that points out what's new is tidier and lands where it should. Everything runs on your device, and it's all included in your Viewpoint plan. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

What's new in 1.4.2 A cleaner home for your spots and your storytelling. • LOCATIONS, TWO WAYS — your saved spots now live in one place. 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. Gallery and Explore are now one tab. • STUDIO, 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. • A SMOOTHER FIRST RUN — the quick tour that points out what's new is tidier and lands where it should. Everything runs on your device, and it's all included in your Viewpoint plan. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

What's new in 1.4.1 More ways to plan the shot and share the result. • BEFORE / AFTER WIPE — show the edit, not just the result. Pick your raw scout frame and your finished photo, and Viewpoint builds a short looping video where a labelled line sweeps across, revealing the final shot over the original. • SEE YOUR DEPTH OF FIELD — the depth-of-field calculator now shows you the blur, so you can see exactly what will be sharp. A new compare-lenses view puts two focal lengths side by side to help you pick the right one before you head out. • PANORAMA PAN, NOW 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. • 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. Everything runs on your device, and it's all included in your Viewpoint plan. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

What's new in 1.4.0 Viewpoint comes to iPad — and four new Studio tools land on your iPhone. • MADE FOR IPAD — Viewpoint is now a universal app with a true iPad layout: a sidebar instead of the tab bar, your library and maps side by side with the detail 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. • SPEC CARD — pick a photo and Viewpoint reads its shooting settings, then burns them onto a shareable card: aperture, shutter, ISO, focal length, camera and lens, laid out razor-sharp over your shot. Fix or fill in the camera and lens labels when a photo reports them oddly. • GRID SLICER — turn one photo into a profile-grid mosaic: a 3-column block (3×1 up to 3×4) that reassembles into the whole image across the top of your Instagram grid, with tiles exported already in posting order. • SHARE THE PLAN — turn a saved shoot plan and your result photo into a branded, shareable card, with a small map of where you stood, what you aimed at — and where the light sat. Your location always shows as a wide area, never the exact spot. • SETUP VS. THE SHOT — pair a behind-the-scenes moment with the finished frame it produced in one short vertical reel: pick the cut, set the timing, add captions, and post. • Studio remembers your creator handle across cards, and the map's zoom-out globe is back. Heads-up for iPad owners who already ran the iPhone app on iPad: you'll be asked to sign in once after this update — everything else is right where you left it. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

What's new in 1.3.0 A fresh new look for Viewpoint. • A UNIFIED DESIGN — Viewpoint now wears the same deep, low-glare dark theme across your iPhone and the web app, with a warm amber accent that keeps the moment that matters in front of you. Made for pre-dawn scouting and easy on the eyes in the field. • A NEW APP ICON — a redesigned camera-and-map-pin mark to match, adapting to your iPhone's Light, Dark, and Tinted home-screen styles. One Viewpoint, whether you're planning on the trail or at your desk. All your spots, maps, and plans are right where you left them. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

What's new in 1.2.0 You planned it, you hiked out, you got the shot. Now Studio helps you share it: • PANORAMA CAROUSEL — take a sweeping panorama and slice it into a set of perfectly aligned tiles that swipe together as one seamless image in an Instagram carousel. Pick how many slices (2–10); Viewpoint handles the framing so every tile lines up edge to edge. • PANORAMA PAN — turn a panorama into a smooth vertical video that glides across the scene, ready to post as a Reel, Story, or TikTok — perfect for a vista a single frame can't hold. • STUDIO — the new home for your media tools. The Tools hub is now organized into Sky & Light, Photo Scouting, and Studio, so the right tool is easier to find. • FIND YOUR VIEWPOINT, POLISHED — the where-to-stand planner got a smarter subject search, cleaner results, and a smoother path from a suggestion into a saved shoot plan. Plus reliability fixes, including automatic recovery of photo links after long offline stretches. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

Find Your Viewpoint — tell Viewpoint what you want to shoot, and it finds where to stand: • FIND YOUR VIEWPOINT — name your subject (a cathedral, a peak, a lighthouse) and Viewpoint's AI suggests real places you could stand so the sun, moon, or Milky Way lines up behind it — with the date and time each alignment 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?" • REAL PLACES ONLY — every suggestion is a reachable spot plotted on the map, and every angle, time, and distance is computed by the astronomy engine, never invented. Tap one to open a shoot plan, framed and ready to fine-tune and save. • IN YOUR OWN WORDS — add a detail like "next full moon" or "behind the top cross" and Viewpoint reads it in your language to narrow the search. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

Viewpoint comes to the web — plus live sync across your devices: • VIEWPOINT ON THE WEB — pick up your scouting on the big screen at web.getviewpoint.app: your library, maps, and alignment planning in any browser, signed in to the same account. Included with your subscription. • DESKTOP ALERTS — get notified on your computer the moment a watched condition lines up, even with no Viewpoint tab open. • LIVE SYNC — capture or edit on one device and it shows up on your others right away, no manual refresh. • RELIABILITY & POLISH — your subscription self-heals so access is never wrongly locked, and an open spot refreshes after a background sync. • Bug fixes Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

Planning a sun, moon, or Milky Way alignment is faster and clearer in this update: • SEARCH FOR YOUR SUBJECT — in the Alignment Planner, type a landmark or place name to jump the map straight to it, instead of dragging across the map to find it. • JUMP BETWEEN STEPS — a new step bar lets you hop back to adjust your subject or camera in a single tap, without starting over. • SEE YOUR RESULTS — after you tap Find, the matching dates now open into view automatically, so you won't miss the moments that line up. • AR SCOUT — you can now dismiss the low compass-accuracy notice once you've read it. • FIXES & POLISH — the planner keeps your chosen location as you move between steps, plus a widget layout fix. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

• SNOW — forecast snow at the places you watch and get a heads-up when it's on the way, so you're ready for a fresh-snow shoot. • STORM LIGHT — chase the dramatic, theatrical light of a breaking storm. Viewpoint scores every sunrise and sunset for storm-light potential, and a new Upcoming list ranks the best windows over the days ahead — tap one to see it on the map. • COMPOSITION GUIDES — capture how a shot was made: the framing, the subject in the sky, and reference photos. A reusable guide for a spot, separate from a dated shoot plan. • NEW WIDGETS — an AR Scout launcher that jumps straight into the live sky overlay, and a Quick Tools widget with one-tap shortcuts to Snap, AR Scout, Calculators and Plans. • CONDITIONS, EVERYWHERE — Snow and Storm Light join the conditions map, your watch alerts, and the Conditions widget. • FIXES & POLISH — a sign-in crash on fresh installs, a sync reliability fix, and clearer error messages. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

- Conditions widget freshness. The Conditions widgets now refresh promptly when scores change — via a silent (content-available) refresh push alongside the existing background-app-refresh task (see the background-refresh note below) — label stale scores with their age, and no longer briefly show a locked state for Online subscribers. - Explore map. Tap a spot on the map to open its detail; the on-map sun/moon ray planning moved into each spot's own planner. - Notifications. The "Map" / "Open" action on a condition alert now centres the map on the spot, not the device's current location. - Smaller fixes: removed a redundant "Clear night" map filter, more timely condition alerts, and widget layout / glyph fixes.

A fast follow-up with a redesigned Tools tab, more sky events, and widgets that stay fresh: • TOOLS, REDESIGNED — the Tools tab now leads with a featured AR Scout and lays every calculator and planner out in a clean grid, so what you reach for is one tap away. • SNAP A SPOT — a new home-screen widget, plus a Siri and Shortcuts action, that jumps straight into capture so a spot is logged before the light moves. • WIDGETS STAY FRESH — Sun & Light, Tonight, Conditions and Plan & Spots refresh in the background now, and the Sun & Light small widget and the Conditions freshness label are fixed. • MORE SKY EVENTS — lunar occultations of planets, planet parades and Moon–planet gatherings, markers on the month calendar, and a filter to show just the kind of event you're after. • UTM & MGRS — two new coordinate formats alongside decimal and DMS. • SHARPER PLANNING — depth of field now reads on the lens line for your actual framing, and you can type a focal length instead of stepping to it. • AR SCOUT POLISH — opens on your widest lens, a steadier altitude calibration, and a hint when a saved calibration is active. • ONBOARDING — tell Viewpoint what you shoot and start with the right condition alerts already seeded for you. • FIXES & POLISH across the widgets, the almanac, and localization. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

This release rounds Viewpoint out with a big batch of planning tools: • SKY-EVENTS CALENDAR — a new calendar of meteor showers, eclipses, equinoxes and solstices, supermoons and other lunar milestones, and planetary oppositions and conjunctions. Each is flagged for whether it's visible from where you are, and plannable in a tap. • MORE CALCULATORS — a new calculators hub adds time-lapse, star exposure (500 / NPF), the exposure triangle, panorama, star trails, subject distance and focal match — each with a plain-language explainer and a result diagram — plus an in-app Photography basics glossary. • iCLOUD SYNC — your library now syncs privately across your devices through your own iCloud. • CALENDAR — add any shoot plan straight to your system calendar. • MORE SETTINGS — metric/imperial units, coordinate format (decimal or DMS), true vs magnetic azimuth, aperture-step granularity, map type, and observer height, in a refreshed Settings layout. • FIXES & POLISH — a steadier AR Scout overlay and calibration, corrected star-trail limits, and subscription/restore fixes. Thank you for shooting with Viewpoint — tell us what you'd like to see next.

A big leap since you last updated — widgets, a new Star Trails view, and a sharper AR Scout. • Widgets for your Home and Lock Screen — tonight's sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour, the Milky Way window, your next shoot plan and recent spots, right where you'll glance at them. • Star Trails in the Scout — aim at the sky to find the celestial pole and see how the stars will arc for the exposure you're planning. • Compose your shot in AR — drag the sun, moon, or Milky Way to exactly where you want it in the frame, and the Scout tells you when that alignment actually happens. • Frame by lens — pick a focal length, from the 13 mm ultra-wide through telephoto, and the camera zooms so what you see is that lens's shot, cropped to your sensor. Carry the lens straight into a shoot plan, and snap a still with the sky overlay burned in — in portrait or landscape. • Calendar view for your library — browse captures on a month grid to find that shoot from three Saturdays ago. • "Best time to photograph" — every spot now suggests when the light will be best. • Camera-aware shoot plans — choose your camera body so the field-of-view cone matches what you'll actually capture. • Arrival suggestions — pull into a new location and the Scout offers to set up a travel watch for it. • Guided tips — short pointers introduce each tool the first time you reach it; switch them off in Settings whenever you like. • Now in six languages — English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Dutch. • More reliable weather and alignment (times now show in the location's own timezone), plus a batch of bug fixes. • Reliability fixes throughout.

- Bugfixes - New: Tools Tab — the Moon & Milky Way almanac — know exactly when the galactic core is up, then plan the sun, moon, and core over your map.