Timeline

• Message threads with a delivery state per message, retried until the other station acknowledges
• A vector map with station symbols and trails, and a tile cache that keeps working offline
• The packet log, with an inspector that decodes every field of a frame
• The APRS service bots and gateways, each as a guided screen with its commands filled in
• Net rooms for #APRSThursday and the ANSRVR groups

• Recorded tracks export as GPX, or as KML for Google Earth
• Background running becomes one setting, on by default, replacing two that were rarely found
• Services that need a radio describe it as part of their setup rather than as a warning

• An AFSK modem in software: the phone's own microphone and speaker in place of a hardware TNC
• Channels: several named radios, each of any type, one connected at a time
• Six languages behind a switch: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese

• Bluetooth LE TNCs become a channel type: the Mobilinkd TNC4 in LE mode, and the B.B. Link
• The screen can be kept on: never, on the map only, or always
• Transmit delay moves to the radio settings, where it applies, rather than the audio modem's
• A pass over surfaces, corners and press states across the app

• Vector tiles for the whole planet, served from our own storage, with the map style shipped in the app
• Offline regions selected and downloaded, with the download size shown before it starts
• The map no longer depends on a third-party tile server

• CoreBluetooth support written for iOS, and a pass over every part of the app that assumed Android
• The subscription walls gain an export option, so data can be taken out from behind them
• The app's registered APRS device identifiers are used on the air

• The app is free over APRS-IS; radios, offline maps, radar, track export and capture replay need Pro
• Every screen reads its text from the translation catalogues, and the six languages are complete

• A message that has run out of retries can wait, and send again when its station is next heard
• Beaconing is consented to during setup, and the home screen says when it is off
• Position works on phones without Google Play services
• A net room shows how many stations are on the net and which have spoken tonight

• The phone can act as an IGate, each direction a separate setting, passing traffic only for stations it heard directly
• And as a digipeater, fill-in or wide-area, which stays quiet when another digipeater has already repeated the packet
• A coverage map of where a transmitter has reached a digipeater from
• Pinned stations sort to the top of the list and are followed on APRS-IS
• A grid square screen with the operator's locator, and the distance and bearing to another
• The tab bar becomes the first row of a drawer, and its tiles can be rearranged

Delivered from our update server rather than through Google Play, so the version number stays 1.8.0; the About screen shows the update's ID. The update post lists every change.

• A setting for where messages go: radio first, APRS-IS first, one link only, or all at once
• A retry schedule the operator sets, and a weekly #APRSThursday reminder
• For APRS OTA, a chase list read from aprsota.org, and a map of each op with the distance to each station
• The packet page links to what it names and shows every decoded field; every copy of a packet is kept
• The offline map catalogue covers Europe, and the map has its own light and dark theme
• A Mobilinkd TNC's battery level on the Radio screen

The first App Store release. The iPhone app connects to BLE KISS TNCs, KISS over TCP, APRS-IS and the audio modem, which keys the radio by VOX; Bluetooth Classic and USB serial TNCs are Android-only.

On iPhone on 21 September, and on Android two days later.

• Optional accounts, signed in with a password or an emailed link
• With Pro and an account, messages, pinned stations and settings stay the same on every device
• With Pro, the Rest of the world layer puts stations heard anywhere on APRS-IS on the map
• Station details in tabs, and a What's new sheet after an update

On iPhone in the releases from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0, and on Android on 27 September.

• With Pro, messages sent to the operator's other SSIDs can be received and answered on the phone
• Messages from every SSID of a station share one conversation
• The station answers ?APRSS, ?APRST and ?IGATE queries
• Every channel can send a record of what it did to support
• On iPhone, the Tidradio TD-H9 over Bluetooth LE, and more time to pair a Bluetooth LE radio

• A Dashboard of the station's own numbers, for today, the last week or all time
• Winlink has its own screen under Services, to read and send mail
• On iPhone, the app can turn sideways for a vehicle mount

• A message sent to the station while the app was closed is added to its conversation afterwards
• The QRX screen can pull waiting messages by itself

• Nets: every net on aprsnets.com in one place, with a one-tap check-in
• Long messages: up to 200 characters in one message, to stations that can receive them
• A packet composer, to write any APRS packet by hand and send it
• The app in Turkish

The same app as a program for Windows 10 and 11, and for Linux on x86_64 and arm64, downloaded from this site. It keeps running when its window is closed, and updates itself.

The desktop apps reach a radio through a sound card, with no TNC.

One app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs, downloaded from this site.

On Android on 9 October, and on iPhone on 12 October.

• The app in Malay, its ninth language
• The Grid square screen opens a map with the grid drawn on it
• A Next ISS pass tile for the Dashboard

• Other APRS programs can use APRS Connect as their TNC, through the KISS server
• The position can come from a GPS receiver on another computer, shared by gpsd

1.14.1 on Google Play and 1.14.0 on the App Store, on the same day. The first Android release on Google Play since 1.8.0.

• On Android: screen rotation, haptics, the Tidradio TD-H9 and LoRa APRS trackers
• On Android: a notification for a message that arrives while the app is closed
• A sky chart for each ISS pass
• With an account, the Dashboard shows this device or all your devices together