SailTools — what's new

1.1 (202610151257) — 16 October 2026

• The forecast page says whose forecast it is. Forecasts are made at the five buoys only, so for a place like Greenwich Point the page shows the nearest buoy's, and its title named only the buoy, as if your place had been ignored. It now says "The nearest forecast to Greenwich Point, 3 nm away". Its tides and slack water also come from your place's own stations now, the same ones as on its card, where they could be the buoy's.
• Times are the Sound's own. Away from Eastern time, tides, sunrise, alerts and the forecast's hours used to move to your device's clock without saying so, beside the National Weather Service's text in Eastern time. They stay on the Sound's clock now, and say "EDT" or "EST" when your device keeps another. In Eastern time nothing changes.
• Larger text fits. With the text size turned up in your iPhone's or iPad's Settings, the hour-by-hour forecast cut its numbers short ("12…"), and at the largest sizes the first screen ran off both sides. Now each hour is set on lines of its own when the table no longer fits, and the first screen's lines stack, as do the list of places and the Boat tab's readings. The thermometer, barometer and compass, and the radar's buttons, stop growing before their labels run into each other.
• Show my location on the map, a new switch in Settings. Switch it off and the blue dot is gone from the map and the radar. It is on to begin with, as before.
• Opening a sign-in link when you are already signed in asks first. It used to replace your sign-in at once, on all your devices.
• Logout now ends your sign-in on our server as well, not only on your devices.
• On a Mac, the map's reset button goes away once the map is reset. In a wide window it stayed. The map also keeps its opening view when the window is resized, until you move it.
• An alert you have open no longer says "This alert has ended" when it has only been reissued. The National Weather Service reissues a standing alert every few hours; the page now shows the new one.
• The radar no longer goes blank while it plays. With the loop playing, turning "Past hour" or "Forecast" off could leave the page showing "Loading the radar" for a few seconds of every pass, and turning one back on could leave the loop never reaching it, until you pressed play again.
• The radar's bar shows what you are looking at: blue where the pictures are radar, orange where they are a forecast, changing colour at "now". The label beside the time no longer shifts as the hour goes from 9 to 10, and says "Past hour" or "Forecast", as the buttons that choose them do (it said "Radar").
• "Now" is "Go to now". It is a button that returns to the newest radar picture, and it read as a label of where the loop was. It is always there now, greyed out when you are already at now.
• A playing radar loop carries on when newer pictures arrive. Every five minutes it could jump back to "now".
• The forecast keeps up wherever you are. With a place whose forecast comes from a buoy other than Western Sound, the forecast was fetched once and then left: the "Next hour" line went from the card after a few minutes and the charts aged, until you left the screen and came back. It now refreshes every five minutes, as Western Sound's did.
• Logout asks first. One tap used to sign you out — on every one of your devices, for a sign-in link — and getting back in needs a new link from Shane.
• The Boat page says when the boat was last heard. It said "Live" whenever the app could reach the server, even over readings twenty minutes old. Now it is "Live" only while readings are arriving, and otherwise "Last heard 16m ago".
• Pull down to refresh the Boat page; on a Mac it has a refresh button in the title bar (and ⌘R), as the Sound has.
• On a Mac, or an iPad with a trackpad or mouse, a station on the map shows its name while the pointer is over it.
• A pin on the map for a place with no wind of its own — a tide or current station such as The Race. The map was centred on it but showed only its neighbours.
• The wind is no longer cut short ("NNE 23 kt,…") when it comes from a station with a long name; the name gives way instead.
• On a Mac with macOS 27, the cards have their edges back. That system draws a window and its content in one colour, so every page was white on white (in dark appearance, grey on grey). The page behind the cards is grey again.
• "Can't reach the server" no longer flashes as you come back to the app, when the last thing it did before you left was a fetch that was cut short or failed.

1.1 (202610101703) — 11 October 2026

• Radar. A Radar button on the map opens rain over the Sound and the country around it: the past hour as the weather radars saw it, then the next two hours as a weather model expects it. Press play, or drag the slider; "Now" comes back to the newest radar picture. Forecast pictures are marked "Forecast" — they are a model's, and will not match the radar exactly. Two buttons under the map, "Past hour" and "Forecast", show either one alone or both.
• Larger text on the Mac: the same sizes as on an iPad, where a Mac's own were about a quarter smaller. The Mac's widget too.
• Larger text in the iPhone's lock-screen widget: the tide and waves lines are a quarter larger, and worded shorter to fit — "High 10:04 AM" beside the arrow that says rising or falling, and "0.4 ft · 1.7 s WNW". The round widget's gust is a little larger.
• The forecast page on iPad and Mac: Apple Weather's "The days ahead" sits under the charts, beside the hour-by-hour list, where it used to be alone at the bottom of the page. On an iPhone it is still last.
• Headings on the forecast page stand out: the name of each chart, the days in the hour-by-hour list and "The days ahead" are blue and bolder.
• Fixed: an orange card flashed at the top when SailTools came back on screen after a while. It was "Updated … ago", shown for the instant before fresh data arrived.
• Fixed: the top of the sun's path was cut flat on the Sky card.

1.0 (202610071833) — 7 October 2026

• The forecast hour by hour. The forecast page has a second view, a list with a row for each of the next 72 hours: where the wind is from, its speed, gust, seas, sky and temperature. It starts as the consensus of the weather models, with the least and most of them beside the wind; tap a model's name to see that one alone. High and low tides, slack water and sunrise and sunset are set under the hour they fall in, the sunrise with first light and the sunset with last light.
• Near me. The place list starts with "Near me": tap it, allow your location, and it lists the three nearest weather stations with how far away each is and in which direction. The nearest is also marked with an arrow where it sits in the list, and the map shows you as a blue dot. Your location stays on your device. If location is switched off, the list says where to turn it on.
• Follow my location. A new switch in Settings: SailTools shows the weather station nearest you and changes it as you move, with an arrow beside its name in place of the house or pin. You can still choose another place; the nearest returns the next time you open SailTools. Your home station is what it shows when it cannot tell where you are. Your location stays on your device.
• Widgets can show the place on screen. Settings has "Widgets show": your home station, as before, or the place SailTools last showed — which, with Follow my location on, is the station nearest you when you last had SailTools open.
• Refresh on the Mac. A refresh button in the title bar of the first screen, or ⌘R, fetches the latest now — what pulling down does on iPhone and iPad.
• The forecast's sources all show. In the hour-by-hour list the names of the weather models wrap onto a second line; Apple Weather used to be cut off at the edge.
• Choosing a home station in Settings could close the list, and Settings with it, a moment after it opened. Fixed.
• On the Mac, Done and Make Home are at the top of the place list, as on iPhone. The box was "Make Home Station", which did not fit on an iPhone.
• Hours on the forecast charts. The time axis is labelled every three hours on the first screen's chart, with a tick at each hour.

1.0 (202610051425) — 5 October 2026

• Sky. The place's card has a Sky line: the next sunrise or sunset, and the moon's phase. Its page shows the sun's path through the day, first and last light, moonrise and moonset, and the next new and full moon. It is worked out on your device, so it needs no connection.
• Details come in pairs. Wind with waves, tide with current, air with sky — the one you tapped first. Wind, waves and air used to share one page.
• The wind reads more plainly: "NNE 14 kt, gusts 21" on the card, "NNE 14 kt G21" on widgets and in lists, where it was "NNE 14 G21 kt".
• Tide and current page: what the tide and the current are doing now come first, then the two lists of what is coming, each with a heading.
• The widgets follow your home station. They stayed on the Western Sound buoy before.
• A weather alert you have read tucks into a badge beside the place's name, which lists the alerts still in force. A reissued alert is shown in full again.
• Signing in on a second device no longer needs SailTools quit and reopened there: it signs in when it comes forward.
• "Sign-in link" and "sign-in code" replace "invitation", which is what TestFlight calls its own. The "Not connected" message says what to do.
• Settings has a link to the privacy page.
• On a Mac, the first screen is headed "The Sound", and clicking a widget opens SailTools.

1.0 (202610041419) — 4 October 2026

The first build for testers, on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

• The Sound: one place at a time — its wind, tide, current, waves, air and the next hour, each from the nearest source — with a map of the wind at every station, the weather forecast and the National Weather Service's marine forecast and alerts.
• A home station, chosen in Settings or from the list of places.
• Widgets for the lock screen, the home screen and the Mac desktop.
• Sign-in by a link, shared to your other devices through iCloud Keychain.
• A user guide, in Settings and at sailtools.pro/help.