What's new in 5.3.0 - This update includes a massive update to accessibility. All parts of the app are now fully accessible, supporting voice over, voice control, and more! - A big upgrade to the light meter, it now includes a dedicated video mode, adapted for those in the cinematography space with support for shutter angle, tweaked priority modes, and the ability to chose a specific lens (ultra-wide, wide or telephoto) for when the shot doesn't quite match with what you are seeing in the viewfinder. - Some slight UI tweaks to make the app feel better. - Fixed an issue where the map button wouldn't open the correct screen after interacting with the atmospheric visualization.

What's new in 5.2.0 - Fixed an issue with the new trends section where the times would behave incorrectly on the day of DST change. - Small UI tweaks

What's new in 5.2.0 - Broken up golden and blue hour notification into morning and evening times, letting you set them more granularly - Added a trends section in the sheet you can open by tapping on individual events - Significantly improved the iPad experience with a new two column layout with magic hour times in the sidebar and the map as the main view - Added some UI tweaks to make the app shine even more - Fixed a couple of common crashes - Fixed an issue where the notifications couldn't be turned on - Fixed an issue where the bright limb of the Moon would not face the real world direction in the Live View as well as the visualization on the current location's screen hero

What's new in 5.1.1 - Fixed a bug that caused the watchOS app to animate incorrectly when opening a location. - Fixed an incorrect button color of the date marker in the timeline component. - Fixed incorrect title bar behavior in the macOS app.

What's New in 5.1.0 iPad Experience Redesign - The app has been completely redesigned for iPad, with a reimagined interface that takes full advantage of the larger screen. Customizable Location Cards - Card order and visibility on the location detail screen are now customizable. Hide cards you don't need (such as morning magic hour times) or add new ones (like twilight times) directly from edit mode. Bug Fixes & Performance - Resolved a crash issue that occurred after extended app usage. - Significantly improved overall performance, particularly in the Live View tool. New Features - Added a "Current Moon Phase" widget. - Redesigned the date and time timeline in Live View and Map tools with a refined glass aesthetic. The date picker now intelligently minimizes when not in use and expands when you tap the current time marker.

What's new in 5.0.9: - fixed a bug where incorrect header images would appear due to a misconfiguration in 5.0.8, - fixed a bug where header images would appear squished due to an incorrectly set aspect ratio, - added a header image for moonrise and moonset instead of displaying the current moon phase

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.