What’s New • Fixed the grey popup issue in Journey mode - trip details now load reliably every time • Choose your trip timeframe, from 3 months to 2 years • Added profile image on the Map tab (tap to open your profile) • Improved visuals, animations, and dark mode clarity • General app improvements, accessibility updates, and stability fixes

NEW: Journey Planner & Performance Update Plan cosmic multi-city trips with smart timing based on your planetary lines. • Journey Planner: Create 2-5 city itineraries with automatic duration & timing optimization • Share beautiful timeline images • Major performance improvements for faster loading • Enhanced caching for smoother experience • Bug fixes and stability improvements

What’s New • Share your map - export beautiful branded images for social • “Why this city?” - personalised explanations for each recommendation • Improved daily rotation with new planetary insights • Together map now auto-centres on the recommended city and then remembers your position Your natal lines don’t move - we just show you new perspectives each day. Bug fixes: • Fixed subtitle localisation for Japanese and Chinese • Fixed empty state issue in Together view

MAPHRODITE APP • Full **Japanese (日本語)** and **Chinese (简体中文)** support • Website now multilingual TOGETHER • 7x faster TOGETHER calculations • Daily recommendations load instantly • Smarter memory = better battery life • Beautiful new views when your connection exists beyond cities PERFORMANCE • Major performance and stability improvements • Smoother maps, faster loading WIDGETS • Optimized & refined designs • More efficient automatic updates Your cosmic relationship insights - now lightning fast.

SMOOTHER, FASTER, BETTER We've been under the hood making everything feel more effortless. Faster loads, smoother animations, and cleaner visuals. TECHNICAL STUFF Better memory handling, updated docs, and architectural improvements that make the app more stable. Your data stays yours. Always.

• Fresh new look for the Home screen • Improved Best Place & explore 'Together' cities faster • Enhanced About page & new "Behind the Scenes" - discover our technology • Better city variety & recommendations • UI improvements across the app

• Polished cosmic matches UI • More intuitive, responsive location map • All city views are now cleaner • Performance & stability improvements

What's New in MAPHRODITE For Everyone • Full VoiceOver support for screen readers • Works beautifully with assistive technologies • Clear descriptions of every cosmic influence • Designed to be accessible to all More Settings Control • Toggle haptic feedback on/off • Early bird? Set notifications for 6 AM, 7 AM, or 8 AM • Choose how many favorites to save (we'll auto-clear the oldest) • See your cache size & clear data anytime Home enhancements • Redesigned home screen with vibrant gradients and improved card layouts • Enhanced tab bar and explore cards with beautiful color accents • Refined Power Place and city detail sections Onboarding Magic Your birth chart now reveals itself with orbiting planets and a beautiful animation. Smoother Experience Fixed launch animation settings toggle and notification badges now clear properly when you open the app

New This Update: • Daily Cosmic Hotspot - One beautiful destination, personally chosen for you each day • Intent-Based Guidance - Understand why each city matters right now • Streak Tracking - Build your cosmic exploration habit with elegant daily streaks • Power Place Enhancements - Richer insights into your most powerful locations • Widget Refresh - Your home screen glows with today's perfect destination • Profile Page - Performance improvements - smoother scrolling • Performance - Smoother, faster, more magical than ever Your journey through the stars just became more intimate and intentional. With love, The Maphrodite Team

MAP • Clearer, calmer map visuals Larger city markers, improved map guides and info cards, and a cohesive pastel color palette. • Smoother interactions Refined animations, simplified effects, and improved visual hierarchy throughout. • Better performance Reduced battery usage, faster rendering, and smoother scrolling. TOGETHER • One perfect place per day A single, focused daily location where your energies align most strongly - meaningful, not overwhelming. • Clearer cosmic context Planetary lines now explain why a place is special for you both. Scoring has been optimized and guides updated. • Streamlined TOGETHER flow Tap a city, view shared scores, and explore the details - beautifully connected, without information overload. Why this change? Your shared astrocartography is rare. By focusing on what truly matters - in both insights and presentation - the experience stays meaningful, calm, and inspiring.

- Best Places has been completely rebuilt to focus on actual line intersections. Only cities near real crossings are recommended now, with a new scoring model that prioritises accuracy and partner balance. Explanations are clearer too, with a dedicated section showing which lines intersect at each location. - Combinations are now accessed from the Together options - cleaner, less overwhelming, and easier to explore when you want quicker insights - Fixed an issue causing tiny white dots to appear on the Venus Dark theme home page. - Performance improvements and background processing updates ensure faster map interactions and smoother scrolling.

This update is all about clarity, connection, and making your map feel effortless. --- Together Mode: Deeper Connections Quick Intersections: Finding where your energies align is now instant. The new panel automatically highlights meaningful planetary crossings between you and your partner - like Sun & Venus - with a single tap. Clearer Insights: We have refined our compatibility scoring to be more nuanced. We now clearly distinguish between gentle harmony (the sweet spot) and high-intensity transformation, helping you understand the true vibe of a location. Refined Design: Planet controls are now more compact and elegant, giving you more screen space to explore the map. New: Focus Modes (Location Map tab) Clear the noise and find exactly what you are looking for. We added three one-tap filters to the main map: Love: Instantly highlights Venus, Moon, and Jupiter. Wealth: Focuses on Sun, Pluto, and Jupiter. Career: Illuminates Saturn, Mars, and Sun. Performance & Polish Smoother Experience: We rebuilt our storage engine under the hood. The app loads faster, uses less battery, and feels lighter. Visual Refinements: Enjoy smoother transitions and a cleaner layout across your Profile and Settings. Bug fixes Fixed an issue where calculations on shared city modes might cause a crash on older iPhones --- Loving Maphrodite? A review helps us keep the stars aligned

What's New in Version 1.5.5 Maprhdodite Home: Integrated performance & battery life optimizations throughout the view for a much more fully fluid scrolling experience. Together: Natal Resonance Engine - We’ve upgraded our compatibility logic! Your birth cities now receive a special "Roots & Origins" bonus, ensuring these deeply personal locations are accurately reflected in your combined scores. Cinematic Redesign - We’ve introduced vibrant rank-based pastel themes, smoother animations, and a cleaner layout that puts your data first. The "Best Places" algorithm has also been refined to deliver your top 3 couples locations instantly. Profile Architecture 2.0: We’ve completely rebuilt how profile images are handled to significantly reduce storage usage and improve app launch speeds. *Note*: Due to this structural upgrade, you may need to re-upload your profile photo one last time. We apologize for this brief moment of transition, but the resulting performance boost is worth it. Map Experience & Battery Life: The Your Location Map has been re-engineered for optimum efficiency. Smart Rendering: New logic prevents unnecessary recalculations, significantly saving battery life while you explore. Glass Interface: We replaced the old map buttons with elegant glassmorphic controls that float seamlessly over the terrain. Pastel Markers: Standard pins have been replaced with beautiful glowing gradient markers that pop against the map. Fluidity: Optimized line rendering ensures a silky-smooth experience, even during rapid interactions. Bulletproof Notifications: We rebuilt the Daily Power Place engine. It now pre-calculates your cosmic forecast days in advance, ensuring you receive your daily alerts reliably—even if you haven't opened the app recently. Visual Enchantments: Profile: Both Profile & Edit Profile pages are now fully enhanced & optimized. Profile: Live Planetary Influences pop up guide has been reformatted & refined. Unified Glass UI: Premium frosted glass styling has been unified across the Settings and Support sections for a consistent, luxurious feel. Various: Additional minor UI tweaks & optimizations throughout the Maphrodite interface.

- The Hong Kong birth time issue has been fixed, so dates now display correctly. - Together mode is more reliable, with partner data staying intact even after profile changes. - Minor performance enhancements and battery-usage optimizations For feedback or bug reports, please use the in-app feedback option or email us at maphrodite@dro1d.org.

• Added more cities and richer country facts, with beautifully expanded Power Place & Cosmic Hotspot views • Refined Together mode with softer UI touches for a smoother, more intuitive feel • Improved performance throughout, with smarter battery use and calmer background handling • Fixed an animation issue that could cause devices to warm up

A big, gentle weekend rebuild. Maphrodite now feels smoother, faster, and more polished throughout. HOME -The Home screen now scrolls beautifully with the stutter fixed, especially noticeable on older iPhones. TOGETHER -Together mode has been refined with a clearer flow & now shows your best places on the map. -Compatible cities now appear on the Together map, with an option to hide them if you prefer. CITY VIEWS -City headers have been softly re-themed with subtle planet colors, and the Big City and Cosmic Hotspot pages feel cleaner and more cohesive. INTERFACE -Across the app, interactions feel softer and calmer: no more jitter, lighter gradients, smoother controls, and an overall gentler touch. -The launch experience is now powered by Metal, giving you a dreamy, ultra-smooth start. SHARING -“Share Power Place” now creates a lovely sharable image, with a text fallback when needed.

A gentle patch that smooths and polishes the big 1.5 release. TOGETHER Refinements • Freshly styled TOGETHER button on the Home screen • Softer glassmorphic controls and a cleaner “Where Love Aligns” popup • “Best Places for Us” is now clearer, calmer, and easier to explore Visual Touches • Refined planetary orbit visuals on profile pages • Updated Sun glow & energy meter for a softer, more cohesive palette • City maps feel smoother and move more freely Bug Fixes • Cleared remaining “Couples Compass” (now “TOGETHER”) labels in onboarding and UI • Improved animation performance and layout stability And a few quiet optimizations throughout.

Version 1.5 is our most magical update yet. A refreshed experience, a beautifully intuitive new feature, and smoother performance everywhere you explore. TOGETHER — Explore the World as a Couple Discover the places where both your energies shine. • A combined astrocartography map showing both partners’ lines • “Best Places for Both” - meaningful, personalized recommendations • Compare how any city supports each of you • Partner profiles with photo support and elegant planet pickers • Available in the new Together tab and on the Home screen Performance & Flow The entire app now feels lighter, faster, and more effortless. • Smoother animations and quicker app launch • Cities and databases load more gracefully in the background • Power Place and Cosmic Hotspot calculations run more efficiently • Better battery behavior for day-to-day use New Notifications • Daily Power Place reminders (choose the time that suits you) • App icon badges (Badges clear automatically when you open the app) New Controls • Option to gently disable launch animations • A refreshed country selector with full app theming • Smarter fallback locations when exploring areas with fewer nearby lines Bug Fixes • Country not appearing in Finder is now resolved • Small animation hiccups fixed • Share Mode loading is now smooth and instant • Overall stability improved across maps and comparison views

• City Compatibility - Compare two cities side-by-side for personal compatibility • New Floating Map Buttons: Quick-access info and fast return to your birth location • Map Legend Sheet: Clear explanations of MC/IC/ASC/DSC plus simple “How to Use” tips • First-Time Tutorial: A short, friendly 5-step guide that appears on your first visit • Bug fixes and performance improvements

– Please re-enter your birth data if any lines still appear shifted west – Fixed an issue where some planetary lines could display slightly west of their true positions due to a caching mismatch between Swiss and Moshier ephemeris data. Both calculation and map caches now refresh correctly, and lines render in their proper locations. Interface & Technical • Smarter, more intuitive Cosmic Hotspots with better variety • Power Place widgets now refresh beautifully on their own each day • Interactive maps with distance + share options • Refined visuals and icons to better match the Venus aesthetic Bug Fixes • Corrected an astrocartography line accuracy issue introduced with the new Metal map rendering—planetary lines now appear exactly where they should • Improved 6-mode city recommendations for more precise location matches

- Even prettier maps! Pastel planet lines now pulse with lively particle effects - Map is enhanced and now remembers your last selected planet after navigation - Profile: redesigned, with clearer badges and now with Daylight Savings & Standard Time - Optimized first app launch for resource-intensive calculations post-onboarding - Widget enhancements & compatibility updates for iOS 26 - Overall visual polish, performance & battery-saving enhancements

• Major Timezone Fix: Birth times now correctly match the selected birth city - no more forced GMT! • Mandatory Onboarding Reset: Please re-enter your birth details once to confirm the correct local time. • Smarter Flow: City is selected first & Timezone (e.g. GMT +7) now displays live while editing for full clarity. • Next-Gen Map Engine (iOS 16+): New MapKit + Metal caching for instant line toggling, smoother animations, and better battery life. • Various bug fixes

-Introducing the Midnight Venus update! We've completely reimagined your cosmic journey with a stunning new theme and a host of refinements. Immerse yourself in the cosmos with "Midnight Venus," our beautiful new dark mode. Experience Maphrodite set against a backdrop of deep space purples and midnight blues, highlighted by glowing cosmic pink accents. It’s perfect for late-night explorations of your personal geography. Enable it in Settings or let it sync automatically with your device. -Enhancements & Refinements Polished Interface: We've refined every card, button, and screen for a more beautiful and intuitive experience in both light and dark modes. Elegant New Launch: Discover Maphrodite with a completely redesigned, cinematic new launch screen that sets the stage for your journey. Smoother Animations: Navigating your cosmic map and pop-ups is now more fluid and delightful. Improved Performance: Enjoy a faster, more responsive app as you explore your planetary lines. Thank you for being part of this journey with us. We can't wait to see where the stars take you next.

-Hotspot Lore: Discover unique facts and stories about your key locations. -Pinpoint Accuracy: Power Place recommendations are now even more precise. -Redesigned Profile: A beautiful new look for your profile, with no more timezone confusion. -General Improvements: Bug fixes and performance enhancements for a smoother journey.