When an ad is about to open as you come back to the app, or after you pick a tower in Towers, a plain screen with the app icon now covers the app until the ad appears (at most 3 seconds). Taps in that moment do nothing, so they cannot hit the ad or the screen behind it. When no ad is due, this screen is not shown.

• New transmitter lists for Brazil (Anatel), Poland (UKE), Czechia (ČTÚ), Austria (KommAustria) and Finland (Traficom). They show direction and distance only; whether each station is on air is not confirmed. • In over 100 other countries and territories, OpenStreetMap community points now appear where no official list exists. They are marked as community data that may be wrong or missing, and Set my transmitter stays on screen. A transmitter you already set yourself keeps being used. • Tapping a tower card in Towers, or Aim antenna on its map, highlights it at once. Any ad that is due follows about half a second later over Towers, and Pointer opens after you close it; touching the screen in that moment opens Pointer with no ad, and Back or a tab change skips both. • Answering the location permission or a rating window within a minute is no longer followed by an opening ad.

• Tap Set my transmitter to open My transmitter, which now has Find TV transmitter on the map: it searches for TV transmitters in your device’s map app without sending your location. Three steps explain how to find a nearby mast, long-press to drop a pin and copy coordinates, then return, paste, tap Fill and Save. For places without a built-in list, you choose which mast to use. • Returning from this map search skips the opening ad. • Selecting a card in Towers or tapping Aim antenna now shows any ad at that tap, before Pointer opens, rather than shortly after the compass appears. • Includes Ofcom’s list of about 1,100 UK transmitter sites and their national multiplex channels. In the UK, the nearest site replaces the no-data message; these sites show direction and distance only, without a signal grade.

Finding your location is more dependable. If the first attempt fails or stalls, the app now retries on its own with high-accuracy GPS instead of stopping at "Couldn't get your location". Each attempt has a time limit, so within about half a minute you see either your nearby towers or the retry message.

Thailand now has built-in transmitter data. 168 digital TV sites from the NBTC station list show their direction, distance and MUX channels on the Towers tab. The list is a registry, so each Thai target is labelled "operation not confirmed". The source and its Open Data Common licence are listed under "Data sources & licences".

Australia and Canada now have built-in transmitter data. Official ACMA and ISED records show each nearby site's direction, distance and published channels on the Towers tab, and the sources are listed under "Data sources & licences". Anywhere else, tap "Set my transmitter" on the pointer screen and enter coordinates or paste a map link; the compass aims there once the true-north reading is steady.

Outside the US, France, or Portugal transmitter maps, the pointer now says coverage is unavailable instead of aiming at a Los Angeles demo. The compass still works anywhere. Thanks for the reviews and feedback!

Portugal now shows the direction and distance to nearby mapped TV transmitters after inactive sites are filtered out. In France and Portugal, stations with unknown channel or power are clearly marked Direction only, and distant fallback sites are no longer substituted.

The pointer now uses the iPhone compass true-north heading, so Align matches each tower bearing. France: official ANFR DVB-T transmitter sites. Wave a figure-8 if the needle is unsure.

The compass now corrects for magnetic declination automatically, so 'Aligned' means true north and matches each tower's real bearing. A new antenna advisor suggests the antenna type and aiming direction for your location, and you get clearer guidance when you're outside US tower coverage. Thanks for the reviews and feedback!

The app no longer asks for location while the opening screen is still up. Three system prompts used to stack there at once, which made the first launch feel stuck; the location request now waits until you reach the tower list. The exit confirmation is also plain again, with nothing else competing for the tap.

Alerts now arrive properly on Android instead of landing silently, and the app no longer interrupts you in the middle of what you came to do.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and refinements for the latest iOS.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and refinements for the latest iOS.

Performance improvements, bug fixes, and refinements for the latest iOS.