Version history

Changelog

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

v1.3.8
July 2026
Current

Wind-angle alarms & Apple Watch fixes

Two fixes for things that were biting sailors mid-passage.

Fixes

  • Wind-angle range alarms — "inside" and "outside" alarms on true and apparent wind angle now fire correctly on both tacks. No more false alarms, or missed ones, depending on which side the wind is on.
  • Apple Watch app installs again — a version mismatch was stopping the watch app from installing. Fixed.
v1.3.7
July 2026
Released

Track memory & a destination fix

Your track sticks around, and shared destinations land where you put them.

New

  • Track memory — your voyage track is remembered, so it's still there when you come back to the app.

Fixes

  • Right destination on shared trips — setting a destination now shares the position you actually picked, instead of a default map location.
v1.3.6
July 2026
Released

NMEA-loss alarm fix

A focused reliability fix for the alarm that warns you when your instrument feed drops.

Fixes

  • Overlay returns after snooze — snooze an NMEA-loss alarm and, when the snooze runs out, the alert now reliably comes back with its full-screen overlay instead of only sounding.
  • In Alarm History — NMEA-loss events are now recorded in Alarm History like every other alarm.
v1.3.5
June 2026
Released

Cooler running with Internet AIS

A performance pass aimed at heat and battery when Internet AIS is switched on in busy waters.

Performance

  • Much cooler Internet AIS — the map now works out which vessels are visible and which are on a collision course once per frame instead of many times a second. Noticeably less heat and CPU with lots of traffic around.
  • Targets stay put — nearby vessels no longer disappear when you close a sheet.

Tracking

  • Your own track now draws on the main chart, with an adjustable length.
v1.3.4
June 2026
Released

The fleet map, inside the app

Everything around sharing a live passage, brought into the app itself.

Fleet & sharing

  • Live fleet map in the app — clustering, course hulls, search, and your own boat tappable.
  • Follower counter and a "View live page" button on shared trips.
  • Wind is free to view on shared trips; the share form now shows a fleet-visibility note.
  • Camera recenters cleanly after you return from the background.
v1.3.3
June 2026
Released

Wind readouts, corrected

A cluster of fixes to how wind is shown on a shared trip.

Fixes

  • True wind derived from apparent when the boat only transmits apparent wind; readings in m/s and km/h.
  • Stale wind values no longer keep repeating, and a port-side VWR reading is fixed.
v1.3.2
June 2026
Released

Live trip sharing + Internet AIS

The big one: share your passage as a public live page, and see nearby vessels over the internet.

New

  • Live trip sharing — a public live page for your passage that friends and family can follow.
  • Internet AIS — see nearby vessels even without your own receiver (bundled key, de-duplicated, your own boat filtered out).
  • Every NMEA connection is now free — the old paywall on TCP connections is gone.

Also

  • Guided feature tour, hold-to-choose snooze, persisted anchor swing track, and a Mac battery-reading 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.