Viewpoint 2.0 opens on your tools, and six of them are free. • Free to start. Depth of Field, Hyperfocal, Exposure, Long Exposure, Star Trails and Spot Stars are free for everyone, with no purchase and no account, and they work without a signal. • A Today card on top: sunrise, golden hour, sunset and the moon for where you are, worked out on your phone. • Pay once for Pro. One purchase, no subscription, unlocks everything that runs on your device: capture and your library, maps, shoot plans, the light meter, the almanac, AR Scout, Studio, widgets, and the Timelapse, Panorama, Subject Distance and Focal Match calculators. No account needed. • Online, now monthly, quarterly or yearly. Live conditions, alerts, sync, photo backup, sharing and the web app, with Pro included while you subscribe and a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Once you've paid for your first quarter or year, Pro stays yours. • Ten calculators that work the same way. The answer comes first, with a diagram that follows your inputs. Most settings start as presets, with a Custom value when yours isn't listed, and each calculator explains how to use it. Star Trails plans the frames for your run and lets you face the north or the south celestial pole. • Four tabs, one job each: Tools, Weather, Planner and Studio. Your saved spots and maps live in Planner, and the iPad sidebar follows the same order. • One unlock screen. Whatever is locked opens the same screen, showing what you get and how it works. • Readable at the largest text sizes. Labels, times and values on the new screens stay whole. • Panorama counts frames the way stitching software needs them. • Paid for a Viewpoint subscription before 2.0? Pro is yours to keep, and everything you use today is still here.

The real sky, in the AR scout and on the map. • The real Milky Way in AR Scout. Turn on Milky Way and the scout lays a real photograph of the whole sky over your camera — the bright core, the dark dust lanes — exactly where it sits for your place and time. It stays see-through, follows you as you turn and roll the phone, and looks the same above and below the horizon, so you can trace the whole band. In daylight it becomes a dark strip of night sky, so you can plan tonight's shot in the afternoon. • The sun and moon as you'll see them. The sun's path takes the colour of the light — deep blue before dawn, violet in the blue hour, red at sunrise, orange in the golden hour, yellow by day. The moon is a real photograph, lit at tonight's phase and turned the way it will appear. Both stay visible below the horizon, and a dashed line marks the horizon even offline. • Find the core. A target labelled "Milky Way core", with its height, shows exactly where to aim. • Conditions that look like the weather. Cloud, fog, golden light, snow and storm light now appear on the map as real textures instead of flat colour. Clouds cover as much of the map as the forecast says, fog settles in the valleys, golden light warms the land, and storm light shows lightning only where a thunderstorm is forecast. The map always shows through. • Easier to read. The legend shows each condition's actual look, the map switches to a dark style while a condition is on so it stands out, and changing the hour crossfades instead of jumping. • A more reliable north in AR Scout. The scout now waits for a true-north heading before drawing, falls back to a corrected compass indoors, and asks iOS to calibrate the compass when it needs to — so the sun, moon and Milky Way land where they really are.

The aurora, one tap from everywhere. • Tonight, right where your alerts arrive. The aurora card now sits at the top of Notifications — the verdict for tonight, the next 72 hours judged against that place's own threshold, and the best hour still ahead — without opening a spot or waiting for an alert. • For where you are, or where you're going. It answers for your current location by default. Tap the location to pick any saved spot instead, and Viewpoint remembers your choice. • Arm the alert from there. The bell on the card sets an aurora alert for that place, and "Aurora detail" opens the full view with the chart, the dark window and the mute controls. Location stays on your phone unless you set an alert; without it, the card says so and lets you pick a spot. Aurora alerts are part of the Online plan. New tools ship almost every week.

Tapping an aurora alert now opens the aurora — not a blank map. • A panel for the moment the push arrives. It leads with where you stand right now — likely overhead, not tonight, or a last-known reading that says how old it is — then tonight's Kp and how long the sky is genuinely dark at that spot, in that spot's own time zone. • The next 72 hours, drawn against your spot. The forecast chart has a line on it, and that line is the Kp this particular place needs. Bars above it can reach you. A single global "aurora likely" band tells a photographer in Tromsø and one in Manchester the same thing; this doesn't. • Mute tonight without muting tomorrow. If you have seen enough, quiet the spot until the dark ends — not into the following night. Also fixed: • Tapping an alert could freeze the app. Opening a notification for somewhere far from where you last left the map could lock the app on the map screen, sometimes until it closed itself. This is the reason for the release. • Aurora alerts opened a bare map with an empty likelihood track. An aurora alert was never a probability — it is whether the oval reaches you, whether it is dark, and what the sky is doing right now — so the row was showing a measure that did not exist. It now says what it actually knows, and opens the panel. Aurora alerts are part of the Online plan. New tools ship almost every week.

Viewpoint now watches the aurora for you. • Every spot tells you where it stands. Open a spot far enough north or south and Viewpoint says whether the auroral oval can reach it at all, and how strong a storm it takes before it does — "reaches here often, from Kp 3" reads very differently from "only in a major geomagnetic storm". A spot the aurora will never reach shows nothing rather than false hope. • Tonight, at a glance. The card shows the current Kp index and how long the sky is genuinely dark at that spot — real nautical night in the spot's own time zone, not a generic sunset. Above the Arctic Circle in winter it will tell you the night never ends. • An alert that arrives while it still matters. Tap the bell on a spot and Viewpoint will notify you when the aurora is actually active overhead — not tomorrow morning's summary, but inside the window when there is still time to get in the car. It reads the live space-weather feed, checks the sky is dark and the cloud is thin, and stays quiet otherwise. • Honest about what it doesn't know. A reading that has gone stale says so instead of presenting an old number as current, and a spot near the edge of what the model can promise is marked uncertain rather than sold as a sure thing. Aurora alerts are part of the Online plan. Two more languages: • Italian and Simplified Chinese, both in beta — the app, the guides and the store listing. That's nine languages in total. Also fixed: • Compass directions were shown in English no matter what language the app was in. • VoiceOver read one map icon in English in every language. • Three publishing alerts appeared half-translated. • A meteor shower's radiant could read 02h 60m instead of rolling over to the next hour. • The library screens on iPad when there is nothing in it yet, and a handful of words that were simply wrong in five languages. New tools ship almost every week.

Every time in the app now tells you whose clock it's on. • Sunrise, the blue hour, a transit, a shoot plan — each one now says when it's showing your phone's clock instead of the spot's. No more doing time-zone arithmetic in your head at four in the morning. • That label came with a real fix underneath it. A spot's time zone used to be guessed from its longitude whenever it couldn't be looked up, so a spot in Barcelona could come out an hour off, silently. It's resolved properly now — and when it genuinely can't be, the app says so instead of quietly guessing. • Your pins are honest about precision. If you've given Viewpoint approximate location, a spot you capture is drawn as the area it could be in, not a confident pin that's kilometres out. Precise location is offered at the moment you're saving a spot, not nagged at launch. • Photo backup stops saying "waiting" forever. A photo that can't upload now tells you, instead of sitting in a queue that was never going to move. • Purchases tell you what happened. A payment that fails, or is still pending, now says so rather than appearing to do nothing. Also fixed: • Sky events knows the difference between "nothing tonight" and "couldn't reach the data". • A transit corridor extrapolated past its orbit data now says so. • A one-foot depth of field reads as 1 ft, not 12 in. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: Photograph the Space Station crossing the Sun or the Moon. • Satellite Transits, in Tools, finds the moments the ISS — or Tiangong, or Hubble — passes directly in front of the Sun or the Moon from where you are. The whole thing lasts under a second and is only visible from a corridor a few kilometres wide, so it is won or lost before you leave the house. • Pick the dates you're free. You get the times, where to stand, and a map with the centre-line drawn on it — then navigate straight to it. • A sketch shows how big the silhouette will be against the disc, so you know what focal length to pack before you go. • It tells you how old its orbit data is. Orbits drift, and stale data quietly moves the corridor — so the app states the age instead of handing you a confident-looking answer that would send you to the wrong field. • The maths runs entirely on your device. Once the orbit data is downloaded, the search itself needs no signal. Fixed: • Restore Purchases now tells you what happened. If there's no active subscription on your Apple ID, or the App Store can't be reached, it says so — instead of appearing to do nothing at all. • Found one worth driving to? Turn it into a shoot plan, or put it in your calendar with a reminder to be set up before it happens. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: Say how you got the shot, not just what the camera recorded. • Spec Card already reads your photo's settings. Now you can add what the file can't say — under Technique, whether you were handheld or on a tripod, what was on the front of the lens, and whether the frame is a stack. • Filters combine the way they do in your bag: a polarizer and a 6-stop ND together, a graduated ND on top of both. Each is its own switch, so you can describe what you actually used. • Shot a focus stack, or an astro integration? Type the frame count — hundreds is normal, so you type it instead of tapping it up one at a time. • Everything sits on one screen now, with the card right above it. Pick the look, change a setting, and watch the card change — no more hopping in and out of a separate sheet to see what it says. • Leave it all alone and your card looks exactly as it always did. It never invents "handheld" or "no filter" to fill space. Fixed: • Opening the app with no usable signal — on a plane, underground, or on Wi-Fi that never quite connects — could leave you waiting on "Syncing your spots…". Your library lives on your device, so now it opens straight into it. • The keyboard always has a way down now, on every screen with a number to type. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: See the place before you drive there. • A spot you haven't photographed yet used to show an empty square. Now it shows a real photograph of that place — so you can tell at a glance whether it's worth the trip. • Every photograph is openly licensed, with the photographer who took it credited underneath and a link to the original. • No photograph for that spot? Tap "See this place" for a ground-level look around the pin instead. Also new: • Move a pin that landed in the wrong place. Open a spot's location, drag the map, and drop the pin where you actually stood — for when GPS drifted under tree cover or between tall buildings. Plus fixes: paid features no longer disappear when the App Store and our server briefly disagree, and the sign-in screen now wears the app icon. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: Plan your shoot as a route. • Turn any of your maps into an ordered day-route. Drop your spots into the sequence you'll actually shoot them in, and Viewpoint shows the drive, walk or bike time and distance for the run — following real roads. • One tap hands the next leg to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze for turn-by-turn directions. • Let the light set the order: sort a route by the best light at each stop, by the shortest distance, or by each spot's best time — starting from your location or any stop you pick. Also new: • Add a spot by typing its address or a place name, right from the create menu — no need to already be standing there. • Search your Maps list by name or by where their spots sit. • Every spot's map now draws which way the sun and moon rise and set, so you can picture the light before you go. • Tag each spot's best light — sunrise, golden hour, blue hour, sunset or night. • A polished new opening animation when the app starts. Plus fixes: adding a spot by address is rock-solid, and Back from a route map returns you to that map. New tools ship almost every week.

NEW: Compress — get a huge export down to a shareable size, right on your phone. • Drop in a photo and either set a target size — say 10 MB — or dial the quality yourself, and Viewpoint works out the settings to hit it. • Save as JPEG, PNG or HEIC, with a live size estimate before you commit. • It all runs on-device and fully offline — your full-resolution original never leaves your phone. • It's in Shortcuts too, so a heavy file can be shrunk in a single tap or a whole automation. Plus polish and fixes across the app. New tools ship almost every week.

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.