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 2.1.16?
-Added unique imagery to the Home screen in dark mode, courtesy of Dave Sherris
2.1.16 3 days ago
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 4 days ago
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 12 Jul
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 9 Jul
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 4 Jul
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 3 Jul
What's New in Version 2.1.8?
Improved tide information with a new, more reliable data source.
2.1.8 23 Jun
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 9 Jun
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 6 Jun
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 3 Jun
Updated accessibility text spacing for more in depth information
2.1.4 25 May
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 23 May
Fixed a bug stopping the tide preview card on the home screen from updating correctly.
2.1.2 22 May
Bug fixes and improvements. Offline mapping and image saving is now much more reliable. Cleaned up caching options in settings, updated onboarding to allow users to cache on first use. Fixed bug with date pickers flickering when changing dates. Added back buttons to onboarding. Fixed bug with other audio pausing when opening the app.
2.1.1 20 May
Major app rewrite! Performance should be hugely improved!
2.1.0 18/12/2025
Updates include image gallery support for listings and events, updated branding and some performance improvements.
1.1.1 25/11/2025
# Changelog
## Recent Updates (2025-08-16)
### Bug Fixes
#### Navigation & UI
- Fixed duplicate navigation bar in Add to Plan modal when accessed from Activity Details
#### Data & API
- Updated all views to safely handle optional coordinates
- Simplified event refresh logic to use TTL-based caching only
- Improved reliability of event data updates
#### Cache Management
- Properly migrated cached payloads to file-backed cache
- Corrected corrupted comparison operators in event sorting
- Enhanced data integrity and stability
### Improvements
#### Accessibility
- Added comprehensive accessibility labels
- Quick Action cards in HomeView now announce titles
- Event cards include title and hint with date range and island info
- Improved VoiceOver support throughout the app
#### UI/UX Enhancements
- Implemented EmptyPlaceholderView for consistent empty states
- Standardised empty state display with title, message, icon, and colour
- Replaced inline empty messages in DiscoverView with new component
- Better visual consistency across the app
#### Maps
- Unified map implementation for offline support
- Ensures offline tile overlays work consistently across all iOS versions
### Refactoring
- Streamlined event fetching and caching mechanisms
- Improved error handling for API response anomalies
- Enhanced null safety throughout coordinate handling code
### Notes
- App now handles inconsistent API responses more gracefully
- Improved offline functionality and data persistence
- Better preparation for future trip planning features
1.1 08/09/2025
What's new in 2.1.16?
-Added unique imagery to the Home screen in dark mode, courtesy of Dave Sherris
more Version 2.1.16 3 days ago
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