Races & events - Join races and events right from the app, and see the races you've joined on Today. - Watch any race live on a full-screen map you can pan and zoom. - Race directors can create races, add them to events, message every athlete, and set finishes by hand. - Start and finish gates can now be lines. - Schedule course races and jump straight to their leaderboards. Session replay - Tap the replay button to swap a session's map for an instant replay, with a timeline and simpler controls. - See the other riders who were on the water with you, along with everyone's current hats and frames. - Watch the replays of other riders' sessions you're allowed to see. Forecasts & maps - Tap any point on the map for its forecast, including a second swell, wave energy and a swell target. - Swell and currents now follow the real coastline. - The Wind layer shows live wind stations and forecast arrows with speeds. - Swell forecasts on iPhone widgets and Apple Watch complications. - Show wind and speed in different units. Social - @mention riders in session comments. They get a notification that opens the session. - React to comments. - A ranked For You feed on Explore, which is now easier to find and post to. - Rider hats now show in Chats and direct messages. Quests & rewards - Rides you finished before accepting a daily quest now count toward it. - New seasonal pirate hats with five illustrated finishes, and refreshed Captain and Kraken frames. - Unlock signature frame toppers as you level up. - New rewards are marked on the Games tab, now called Quests. Health & recording - Apple Watch rides now record active calories, and iPhone-recorded rides are saved to Apple Health. - If saving a ride fails, it uploads again once you're back home. Gear - Your gear garage is grouped and sorted by type. - Adding gear takes one less step. Fixes & polish - Fixed target arrows disappearing on the map. - Fixed comment mention suggestions going stale or getting cut off. - Fixed a quick tab switch sometimes leaving the old screen showing. - Fixed an Apple Watch workout sometimes ending before Health had finished it. - Search your settings from the top of the Settings screen. - Sleeping live cams now say they're waking up. - Plus many smaller layout and performance improvements.

More ways to ride, race and progress in Venturi 1.8. • Earn your style: unlock hats, trails, frames and badges from Common to Legendary, with a new home for rewards and progress. • Explore your forecast: tap the map for wind and swell details, follow the hourly timeline, and switch between Wind and Surf views on Home. • Race together: join scheduled course races, chase finish times and relive the action with improved race videos. • Track your sport: enjoy sharper tack and gybe detection, updated foiling stats and new recording controls for supported sports and watches. • Find your crew: discover events, vote in chat polls, react to session comments and mention friends. • Get set up faster: a guided setup helps connect your Apple Watch, Garmin or phone. Plus improvements to session saving, shared links, chat, profiles and everyday reliability.

What's new in 1.7 Surf mode Riders who surf, prone or SUP get a wave-first app. Today, forecasts, the map and spot cards lead with swell, period and tide, and your session summaries lead with time on the water, distance and pace. It turns on automatically if your sports are only Surf or SUP, and you can switch it any time from your profile or Sport & Map settings. Wave rides Surf, SUP, prone foil and SUP foil sessions now break out every wave you caught: how many, your longest, your fastest, and total distance ridden. Tap any wave on the map or in the list to replay just that ride. Body boarding A new sport, with wave rides included. Parawing stashes On Apple Watch Ultra, press the Action button to mark the start and end of a stash run. Runs show as gold on your track with their own stats, and they appear in your race videos. Garmin riders get the same from imported sessions. Course challenges and race replays Challenge pages are redesigned with dated leaderboards and division tabs. Tap any scored day to watch a kart-style replay. The Today card now plays a playlist of the races you rode and the ones nearest you, and weekly spot arenas start with Kanaha. Compare rides In Analysis, compare your speed across two sections of a ride, or across two different rides. Also Weather maps have brighter, smoother currents and wave-period animation with cleaner controls. New in-app setup guides for Apple Watch and Garmin. Sign-in forms now accept paste and autofill. Deleted sessions stay deleted. Garmin syncing is more reliable. Empty chats no longer clutter your list. Fewer hangs when returning to the app on iPhone.

Ocean currents and wave period come to the weather map, and you can now compare speed across rides. Currents A new Currents layer shows global ocean circulation from Copernicus Marine. Scrub or play the timeline to explore currents worldwide. Premium riders get the full forecast. This layer shows ocean circulation, not tides. Wave period A new Wave period layer colours swell period in seconds, with a tap readout. Switching between layers keeps the hour you were viewing. Layers menu Explore map layers with previews of each. The updated menu leaves more room for the map. Weather map Current and wave-period particles are brighter, with longer trails. Forecast frames load ahead of playback for smoother animation. Compare rides Activity details → Analysis lets you compare speed across sections of rides. Your saved recordings remain unchanged. Overlay full-session speed to compare rides and the gear used. Spot pages Spot pages now show the ocean gradient, with more evenly spaced actions, a clearer title, and an updated rating. Recording Phone recordings keep running while you navigate the app. Swiping back no longer leaves the recording screen by accident. Rider badges Rider badges now appear beside names in messages and feeds. Today The Today screen now features a daytime ocean gradient and a night sky. Widgets and session maps Forecast widgets now include a loading state and a retry option. Session maps better frame your track, including long rides. Map colours are scaled so a single GPS spike doesn’t turn the whole ride red.

Venturi 1.6.5 — What's New Venturi comes to your Home Screen with new widgets, and the weather map has been reworked for clearer, faster forecasts. iPhone widgets Add Spot Forecast, Live Wind and Tide to your Home Screen, and Live Wind and Tide to your Lock Screen. A wider Daily Forecast widget charts hourly wind for the next 24 hours. Widgets follow your first Today favourite (or your home spot), use your units, and tap through to the full forecast. Requires iOS 17. Weather map Wind and swell colours are stronger and easier to read, flow trails are more visible, and the timeline is now a compact translucent bar you can scrub directly. Conditions update as you drag and playback runs six times faster. A Buoys toggle in Swell mode shows nearby swell buoys. If you go offline, the map stays put and tells you why. Forecast days Free riders now see 7 days of wind and premium riders 16, on every surface. Swell is 3 days everywhere. The Today card, spot Conditions, forecast sharing and the map timeline all agree. Session speed colors Session cards, session maps and the speed replay share one scale: red for slow sections, yellow for building speed, green for your fastest riding, relative to that session. Achievements Your own profile now shows an earned-only Achievements section. Goal cards display in your chosen units, the lifetime and per-session ten-mile goals have distinct names, and speed goals no longer credit an implausible GPS spike. If your sessions are set to Friends or Private, your standing card now explains why you are not on a challenge board. Apple Watch Starting a new ride after a saved one no longer lands on the old summary, and the Action button can start a fresh ride straight from it. The Crown scrolls the sport picker again, the SOS selector is easier to control, and the ride chooser, live stats, summary and settings screens have been tightened up. Privacy Changing who can see your sessions now also removes your earlier sessions from course leaderboards and spot pages. Fixes Pinching the map now works when your fingers start on a marker. Cancelling Add photo in the Gear Garage no longer freezes the app. Swiping right in a chat goes back on iPhone.

Venturi has been redesigned, and Progress has been rebuilt with new ways to see your riding. A fresh look Session cards, course pages, and your chats have all been redesigned. Chats now read like a familiar messages list, session analysis is easier to scan, and the tab bar and headings have been tidied throughout. Progress, rebuilt New interactive charts, a year view, and deeper insights — including a VMG scatter that shows how efficiently you ride, and a splash log of the moments you came down. Better forecasts Hourly air temperature, clearer daily wind outlook bars that explain what they show, every forecast day in the hourly timeline, and wave heights that are easier to read at a glance. Map, Wind and Swell are now separate buttons. Maps and spots Your recent routes and photo spots now appear in map highlights, course maps can be panned and zoomed, and browsing the map is faster and smoother. Recording Recording no longer asks for Always location — "While Using" is enough. Venturi also stops tracking in the background between rides, so it uses less battery. Courses Standing course records now appear on Achievements, and session maps show the start and finish gates a ride was matched against. Safety The SOS crown gesture on Apple Watch now works right after the watch wakes, and the first-run tutorial shows once. Fixes Labels are back under the figures on the live tracker, premium badges and profile checkmarks show correctly, posts load properly on rider profiles, and gear cards no longer clip a foil's area.

Welcome to Venturi A fresh look. Clear forecasts. More insight into every session. • Redesigned throughout: A sleek dark design across Today, Maps, Sessions, profiles, gear, and settings. • Explore your progress: Interactive charts, consistency tracking, performance trends, and cardio insights for Premium riders—with a preview for everyone. • Better forecasts: Hourly wind and gusts, a 16-day outlook, clearer swell and tide charts, and refreshed wind station and buoy readings. • Richer session details: Cleaner GPS tracks, improved analysis, interactive replay, and a redesigned Log for notes, gear, comments, and reactions. • Course records and competition: See the course records you hold, explore updated leaderboards, and follow weekly course rumbles. • Improved rider safety tools: SOS controls on iPhone and Apple Watch, clearer alerts for your Beacons, and updated live rider status. • More expressive connections: Emoji reactions on social posts and sessions, plus a refreshed messaging experience. • Smoother and more reliable: Improved navigation, recording, syncing, privacy controls, and unit preferences.

Private Sessions -You can now keep a single session to yourself. Open the session and tap Make Private, next to Trim and Export. -A private session disappears from your friends' feeds and from your profile as other riders see it — but it stays in your own Sessions tab and still counts toward your personal records. Hidden from everyone else, unchanged for you. Fixes - If Apple Watch dies, your session is not lost. - The nearby spots list on the map could silently disappear. The map now notices and brings it back. - Apple Watch sessions could fail to upload when a slow request held things up. Fixed. - Feature updates now reach you without restarting the app.

React to sessions - Sessions now take a real reaction, not just a thumbs-up. Pick an emoji from the row, or open the full picker for anything else. - Emoji reactions work in direct messages and group chats too. Notifications, rebuilt - Every notification now shares one design. Previously the bell mixed two different row styles depending on where the notification came from; they're now one consistent list with avatars, unread markers, and relative times throughout. Forecast and conditions - A 1 HR / 3 HR toggle on the wind forecast, so you can zoom out on a long day. - Marine data now comes from the spot's own body of water. Lake spots no longer show swell from a distant ocean. - A timezone bug that hid conditions for 48 spots is fixed. - Spot alerts now evaluate tide against the same feed the app displays, so an alert can't disagree with the forecast you're looking at. - Weather overlays read more clearly: the basemap dims underneath them, data tiles render on the GPU where available, and wind arrows no longer clutter the wind and swell maps. Sessions - Export any session as a GPX file. - Swell and wave conditions are attached to sessions as they're recorded and backfilled onto older ones. - Phone recording uses far less memory in the background — long sessions are much less likely to be killed by the OS. - Recorded speed can't dip below zero, and the summary's Done button works while the save is still finishing. Courses - Overlapping course start flags group together and fan out when tapped, so crowded spots stay readable. - The course form scrolls clear of the keyboard, Save stays reachable while editing a route, and tapping the backdrop no longer discards a half-written course. Your gear - Community insights on the gear detail page show what conditions a piece of gear actually gets ridden in, wind against speed, and VMG. - The gear picker keeps the order you set instead of resetting it. Fixes and polish - Profile, the friends list, and the spot page no longer hide content behind the floating tab bar. - Setting a home spot stops removing it from your favourites. - Favouriting a spot that's still loading no longer fails silently. - Rider names on a spot's Recent Sessions are no longer cut off. - Input fields scroll clear of the keyboard across the app. - The alerts list is themed for dark mode. - The map filters sheet scrolls all the way to swell conditions. - Posting to the feed takes three taps instead of eight. - A like can't be counted twice.

Downwinding! Find courses around the world, on-water guidance while you record Follow your line in real time. The Record screen now has a live navigation view with a heading puck, your trailing track, and turn-by-turn guidance to the next gate — plus a clean two-tier stats banner. Choose 2D or 3D, let the camera follow you automatically, or zoom out for the full overview. Voice callouts give excellent guidance. Courses on your wrist Send any course straight to your Apple Watch or Garmin and get a big, easy-to-read arrow that follows the course line and always points you down the course. Courses now download to your phone too, so they're ready on the Record screen even without signal. New Venturi watch faces & complications Add live conditions to your watch face at a glance: wind, swell, and tide now come as clean gauge complications More courses, more places - Favorite your go-to courses and find them fast on the Today tab - Optional checkpoint gates when you build a course - Course gates are now labeled on the map - Share a course with a branded card and a web link - See your course runs right on the session screen and in your share image Trophies & challenges - Share branded trophy cards and show off your trophy case on your profile - Get notified the moment someone passes you on a challenge leaderboard - Challenge medals now appear on your rider profile Today & spots - Reorder your favorite spots exactly how you like them - Live wind now refreshes every minute so it tracks the sensor closely - Now Playing shows on the map, profiles, and your Apple Watch Sessions & recording - Workouts auto-save, with full-screen recording you can minimize - More accurate top speed using a smoother 5-second rolling max - Heart rate now included when sharing to Strava Reliability & polish Faster social screens, smoother launches, and a more dependable Apple Watch experience — including automatic recovery of a ride if the watch app is interrupted mid-session. Fixed - Opening Venturi no longer pauses music or podcasts playing in the background. - Trimming a session now keeps the correct duration and average speed. - The rating & comment box no longer hides behind the keyboard when logging gear on a session. - Calendar medals now fill in correctly, including days that previously failed to record.

New - Redesigned session recording flow. The record button has moved from the tab bar to a clear, labeled Play button on the Sessions screen, with onboarding that guides new users to it. - Press and hold is now required to pause or end a workout, helping prevent accidental taps during a session. - Added a loading state when ending a session, plus a post-session prompt to rate your session and attach your gear. - Launched medal goal challenges and one-off timed events, with challenge placements now attached to individual sessions. - Added new content achievements with progressive tier reveals. - Simplified course creation by letting you draw your route first, then place gates. - Added a Send to Watch button on course details and an elapsed-time display during Apple Watch course guidance. - Added session visibility controls: Public, Friends, and Private. - Chat now supports custom background images and includes a refreshed message composer. - Live weather station wind is now displayed on Today spot cards. - Redesigned Instagram activity sharing. - Added new two-column landscape layouts for Today and For You on iPad. Improvements - Introduced a new GPS track-cleaning engine for more accurate distance and top-speed calculations by filtering GPS glitches and reconnection spikes. - Historical sessions can now be reprocessed using the new GPS engine for improved statistics. - Fixed an Android issue that could lose or shorten sessions after pausing. - Improved Apple Watch pause and resume reliability. - Tacks and gybes are now shown only for wind sports. - Added push notifications for daily challenge podium finishers. - Added live rider avatars to course leaderboards. - Tap a commenter's name to open their profile. - Tap a direct message header to open your chat partner's profile. - Improved back navigation throughout the Feed and Social screens. - Improved wind and swell map visualizations. - City and state are now shown beneath spot names in the spot picker. - Moved the notification permission request to the end of onboarding. - Users signing in with providers that don't supply a name are now prompted to enter their first name. - Fixed a crash that could occur when sharing activities.

New: - Redesigned workout summary with a cleaner post-session experience and fixed action buttons. - Pick your recording device during onboarding to choose how you'll record sessions from the start. - Place and area names are now shown on the satellite map for easier orientation. - See each rider's sport in the "Riders Here Now" list. - Surf can now be selected when adding gear. - Added a heads-up before posting mid-session, with an advisory about headphones and missed messages. Improvements - More accurate recordings with GPS accuracy now captured from your phone, Apple Watch, and Apple Health. - Cleaner map with roads, highway labels, and points of interest hidden so spots and conditions stand out. - Course leaderboards now match the website, with duplicate results removed per rider. - UI impovements on social Fixes - Fixed a background crash related to map annotations and improved recovery of recordings that could previously be lost. - Fixed an issue where the Apple Watch timer continued running after pausing without an active workout session. - Fixed session trimming so routes shorten correctly and the screen refreshes immediately. - Fixed liked-session notifications so tapping them no longer crashes and rider names display correctly. - Fixed challenge standings so the current day is recalculated correctly after stale updates.

What's New • Today "For You" carousel — see which friends are currently on the water and glance at live spot cameras right from the Today screen • Goal Challenges — browse active challenges from a carousel card and open a detail screen with a live leaderboard • Satellite Spot Imagery — recent Sentinel-2 satellite views on the spot page, with swell and wind overlaid • Favorite Spots on Your Profile — a compact, horizontally scrolling row of your saved spots with names and photos Performance & Polish • Much faster Today cold start — cached date and number formatters, a virtualized forecast table, lighter first-load reads, MMKV-backed query caching, and production console logging removed • Edge-to-edge rendering — the Today background now extends behind the camera cutout • Tap your level bar to jump directly to achievements and goals • Improved spacing and visual polish across Goal Challenges and spot pages • Fixed friends-on-water showing a generic "Rider" name and improved map sheet behavior • Removed the time-on-foil stat from gear details Bug Fixes • Fixed an Apple Watch pause/resume issue that could trigger a HealthKit error Under the Hood • Added groundwork for the new progression system, including XP, levels, and goals • Added Goal Challenge leaderboard infrastructure and winner tracking • Restored the activities sorting index for improved performance

A big Apple Watch update this release, plus map and reliability improvements. Apple Watch * Redesigned in-session controls with larger Lock, Pause/Resume, and End buttons that are easier to use on the water * Refreshed live activity screen with cleaner stats that scale to your watch size * More reliable GPS tracking — your route now continues recording after pause/resume, and we fixed cases where overlapping sessions could cause tracks to be lost * Start, pause, and resume sessions directly from the Action button * Water Lock now engages reliably when a session starts, plus a new manual Lock button * Delete a session immediately after ending it if it wasn't one worth keeping On the Water * Selected spots now expand into a live wind pill so you can check conditions at a glance * Live wind on Today stays fresh automatically and updates more frequently * The Today spot carousel now fills with nearby spots when you have fewer than three favorites Fixes * Fixed a crash when opening a friend's live session * Fixed an issue where the photo picker could hang when setting an avatar or cover photo * Chats now update automatically as new messages arrive * Fixed issues with the map UI so the Wind/Swell switcher remains tappable and friend avatars stay visible above the wind pill Thanks for foiling with Venturi — keep the feedback coming!

• Live-track a friend on the water — follow a friend's session in real time with a breadcrumb trail and a full-screen live tracker. • Wind-aware map — foil spots are now color-coded by current wind conditions, so you can spot what's firing at a glance. Markers are cleaner and easier to see over the wind and swell overlays. • Faster map — spots now appear as you pan and zoom instead of waiting for the map to settle, with smarter wind/swell defaults and tap hints. • Add photos to your gear — snap or pick a photo for any gear item • Smoother Today screen — opening a spot is faster and more reliable, with a polished header animation. • More accurate sessions — improved GPS timing for iPhone-recorded sessions and more precise leaderboard run times. • Apple Watch — more reliable course delivery and live-session chat to your wrist. • Fixes & polish — tides now match between the Today and weather screens, comment names display correctly, and a range of stability and scrolling fixes.

The biggest Venturi update yet. * Courses Create your own courses anywhere on the map. Compete on leaderboards, preview conditions with wind and swell maps, and use the pace calculator to plan your run. * Course Mode for iPhone & Apple Watch Navigate courses live with heading guidance, split pace updates, and ETA tracking right from your wrist. * Passwordless Sign-In Sign in securely with a single tap from your email — no password required. * Smarter Sessions New season and date-range filtering, plus expanded stats to help you track progress over time. * Better On-Water Connectivity See friends live on the map, get automatically checked into sessions, and receive chat messages on Apple Watch while you're on the water. * Beacon Safety New safety features help keep friends and family informed during your sessions. * Improvements & Fixes Spot names now appear directly on the map, map performance is faster and smoother, the Today screen has been refreshed, and we've fixed a ton of bugs across the app.

Activity enhancements! - Racings stats, upwind angles, segements, and more - Better tracking on Apple Watch - UI improvements

- Activity improvements - More wave and wind readings! - UI improvements - Forecast time fixes

- New Today screen for favorites - New live cam in Maui! - Wind & Swell maps - Improved activity loading times - Apple Watch workouts upload on activity finish - Lots of UI improvements and bug fixes

- Today screen now shows live wind - Ask Siri "Venturi, what should I rig" or "Venturi, what's my weather brief" - Lots of bug fixes and UI polish - Increase loading speed of all pages

- New "Today" view. A personalized view for your home spot - UI enhancements

- On water safety! Apple Watch and Phone workouts now show friend positions on the water - Garmin watch support added - See gear specific stats (max speed, distance, wind ranges, and more) - Bug fixes & UI enhancements.

- Social feed and wind sport enhancements - Various bug fixes

- Easily share activities to Instagram and other social networks - Events! Find events near your favorite spots. - Various bug fixes and UI improvements

- New dark mode for maps - Activity overhaul - Gear Garage enhancements - New live cams! - Metric and imperial units! - Lots of bug fixes