Version history

Changelog

What's new in each release. We update this page when a new build ships to the App Store.

v1.3.4
June 2026
TestFlight beta

The fleet map — and wind for everyone

Trip sharing grows a social side: see the other LYFE boats out there, and give the people following you a better live page.

The fleet map

  • Other LYFE boats on your chart — every boat sharing a trip shows up live, with name, speed and wind.
  • Boats under way render as hulls pointing on course; zoomed out, nearby boats cluster — tap to zoom in.
  • Search finds fleet boats by boat or trip name; tap any boat for details and its live page.
  • Your own boat is tappable too — manage your trip straight from the chart.
  • The share form now says clearly that sharing also puts your boat on the public fleet map.

Live page

  • Follower counter — see how many people followed your trip and how many are watching right now.
  • "View live page" button in the app — check what your followers see without leaving LYFE.

Wind for everyone

  • Wind is no longer Premium in shared trips — followers and the fleet map now see your wind, free.

Quality of life

  • Camera recenter — coming back from the background recenters the chart on your boat instead of a zoomed-out world map.
v1.3.3
June 2026
Current

Wind data fixes for live trip sharing

This update is all about getting wind right on your live page. Thanks to the sailors on the TestFlight who spotted these from the middle of the Atlantic.

Wind

  • Units read correctly from instruments sending m/s or km/h — no more 9 kn on the page while it's blowing 18.
  • Boats that only transmit apparent wind (AWS/AWA) now show true wind on the live page — calculated from apparent wind and boat speed.
  • No heading sensor on board? Wind speed still shows. We leave the direction out instead of guessing.
  • Port-side wind angles from VWR sentences are now read correctly.
  • Instrument values that stop updating are no longer repeated on your live page — stale data stays off the map.
v1.3.2
June 2026
Released

Live trip sharing & Internet AIS

The first version with live trips on board — and AIS coverage even without a receiver.

Live trip sharing

  • Share your trip with a public link — family and friends follow along in any browser: position, track, speed and wind, updated once a minute.
  • Opt-in by design — the app stays fully private until you start a trip.

Internet AIS

  • Coastal AIS coverage out of the box — no receiver or API key needed. Positioned as awareness, not a safety feature.
  • Viewport-driven coverage, vessel detail sheets, and AIS targets in search.
  • Deduplication — when a target comes in over both your onboard receiver and the internet, the onboard data wins; your own boat's echo is filtered off the chart.

Pricing

  • Any NMEA connection is now free — the TCP gate is gone. Premium covers the advanced alarm and sharing features.

Quality of life

  • Feature tour — short in-app tips introduce what's where.
  • Snooze, your way — hold the snooze button to pick a duration.
  • Anchor swing track persists across app restarts.
  • Stability — fixed a series of render loops that could peg the CPU and heat up the phone on longer sessions. Mac Catalyst battery fix.
v1.3.1
build 2
May 2026
Released

Calmer alarms, smarter AIS, the Apple Watch app

The release that takes LYFE Offshore public on the App Store. A handful of substantial refinements on top of v1.3.0 — most of it tuning the things that fire alarms in the middle of the night.

NMEA stability

  • NMEA-loss overlay — soft spoken phase first, then a full-screen alert with snooze. So you actually know your data dropped instead of silently sailing blind.
  • Auto-reconnect when the boat's WiFi drops and returns — driven by NWPathMonitor, no more manual rebinding.
  • "Continue without NMEA" escape hatch on the loss alert — useful when you're tinkering on the dock.

Alarms

  • Less jumpy — split debounce + value smoothing per data type, with sensible defaults you can tune per alarm.
  • Wrap-aware wind angles — no more false trips when TWA / AWA crosses 359° ↔ 1°. Signed display matches what you read on the chartplotter.
  • Circular mean for angles — proper averaging for heading, wind direction, and other compass-style values.
  • Unified alarm pipeline — source-pinning dropped; every alarm uses the same evaluation path.

New alarm builder

  • Up to 4 conditions per alarm with a natural-language UI ("when wind speed is above 25 knots and depth is below 5 metres").
  • Live filtering preview while you tweak thresholds — see what would have triggered against your current NMEA stream.

AIS Watch

  • Smart AIS Filter replaces "Ignore when stopped" — context-aware filtering that adapts to your situation instead of a hard on/off switch.
  • Collision evaluation now pauses when NMEA is stale to avoid false alerts on frozen data.
  • Boat icon snaps cleanly to its predictor on the map (no more jitter on lat/lon changes).

Apple Watch — v1.0

  • Native watchOS companion: glance list of live values, daylight palette for cockpit readability, premium gate for paid features.
  • New light icon variant.
  • Throttled alarm updates (capped at 1 Hz per kind) for better battery life on the watch.

Quality of life

  • Volume warning banner — orange alert when your phone is too quiet to wake you for an alarm.
  • Battery savings — GPS only runs when needed (anchor watch on, or NMEA stale). Poll loop drops to 1 Hz when there's no NMEA traffic.
  • Better diagnostics — event log now captures scene-phase transitions, memory warnings, and will-terminate events.
  • Support email moved to support@lyfeoffshore.com.

Under the hood

  • Release build now compiled with Swift -O + Clang -Os. Smaller binary, faster cold start.
  • dSYM symbolication fixed — crash reports come back with proper stack traces.
v1.3.0
Earlier in 2026
Released

Status chrome cleanup, alarm timer centralisation

Internal refactor that consolidated alarm timing into one place, and a visual sweep on the top-of-screen status indicators. Set the groundwork for the alarm-flow work in v1.3.1.

v1.0
Original release
Released

The first LYFE Offshore

Anchor Watch, AIS Watch, and custom NMEA alarms in a single dark-first iPhone app. Built for actual offshore use — alarms that fire when they should, silence when they shouldn't.

Found a bug, want a feature, or have a passage story worth sharing? Write to support@lyfeoffshore.com — every message gets read.