Venturi Sports

- New dark mode for maps - Activity overhaul - Gear Garage enhancements - New live cams! - Metric and imperial units! - Lots of bug fixes

- Easily share activities to Instagram and other social networks - Events! Find events near your favorite spots. - Various bug fixes and UI improvements

- Social feed and wind sport enhancements - Various bug fixes

- On water safety! Apple Watch and Phone workouts now show friend positions on the water - Garmin watch support added - See gear specific stats (max speed, distance, wind ranges, and more) - Bug fixes & UI enhancements.

- New "Today" view. A personalized view for your home spot - UI enhancements

- Today screen now shows live wind - Ask Siri "Venturi, what should I rig" or "Venturi, what's my weather brief" - Lots of bug fixes and UI polish - Increase loading speed of all pages

- New Today screen for favorites - New live cam in Maui! - Wind & Swell maps - Improved activity loading times - Apple Watch workouts upload on activity finish - Lots of UI improvements and bug fixes

- Activity improvements - More wave and wind readings! - UI improvements - Forecast time fixes

Activity enhancements! - Racings stats, upwind angles, segements, and more - Better tracking on Apple Watch - UI improvements

The biggest Venturi update yet. * Courses Create your own courses anywhere on the map. Compete on leaderboards, preview conditions with wind and swell maps, and use the pace calculator to plan your run. * Course Mode for iPhone & Apple Watch Navigate courses live with heading guidance, split pace updates, and ETA tracking right from your wrist. * Passwordless Sign-In Sign in securely with a single tap from your email — no password required. * Smarter Sessions New season and date-range filtering, plus expanded stats to help you track progress over time. * Better On-Water Connectivity See friends live on the map, get automatically checked into sessions, and receive chat messages on Apple Watch while you're on the water. * Beacon Safety New safety features help keep friends and family informed during your sessions. * Improvements & Fixes Spot names now appear directly on the map, map performance is faster and smoother, the Today screen has been refreshed, and we've fixed a ton of bugs across the app.

• Live-track a friend on the water — follow a friend's session in real time with a breadcrumb trail and a full-screen live tracker. • Wind-aware map — foil spots are now color-coded by current wind conditions, so you can spot what's firing at a glance. Markers are cleaner and easier to see over the wind and swell overlays. • Faster map — spots now appear as you pan and zoom instead of waiting for the map to settle, with smarter wind/swell defaults and tap hints. • Add photos to your gear — snap or pick a photo for any gear item • Smoother Today screen — opening a spot is faster and more reliable, with a polished header animation. • More accurate sessions — improved GPS timing for iPhone-recorded sessions and more precise leaderboard run times. • Apple Watch — more reliable course delivery and live-session chat to your wrist. • Fixes & polish — tides now match between the Today and weather screens, comment names display correctly, and a range of stability and scrolling fixes.

A big Apple Watch update this release, plus map and reliability improvements. Apple Watch * Redesigned in-session controls with larger Lock, Pause/Resume, and End buttons that are easier to use on the water * Refreshed live activity screen with cleaner stats that scale to your watch size * More reliable GPS tracking — your route now continues recording after pause/resume, and we fixed cases where overlapping sessions could cause tracks to be lost * Start, pause, and resume sessions directly from the Action button * Water Lock now engages reliably when a session starts, plus a new manual Lock button * Delete a session immediately after ending it if it wasn't one worth keeping On the Water * Selected spots now expand into a live wind pill so you can check conditions at a glance * Live wind on Today stays fresh automatically and updates more frequently * The Today spot carousel now fills with nearby spots when you have fewer than three favorites Fixes * Fixed a crash when opening a friend's live session * Fixed an issue where the photo picker could hang when setting an avatar or cover photo * Chats now update automatically as new messages arrive * Fixed issues with the map UI so the Wind/Swell switcher remains tappable and friend avatars stay visible above the wind pill Thanks for foiling with Venturi — keep the feedback coming!

What's New • Today "For You" carousel — see which friends are currently on the water and glance at live spot cameras right from the Today screen • Goal Challenges — browse active challenges from a carousel card and open a detail screen with a live leaderboard • Satellite Spot Imagery — recent Sentinel-2 satellite views on the spot page, with swell and wind overlaid • Favorite Spots on Your Profile — a compact, horizontally scrolling row of your saved spots with names and photos Performance & Polish • Much faster Today cold start — cached date and number formatters, a virtualized forecast table, lighter first-load reads, MMKV-backed query caching, and production console logging removed • Edge-to-edge rendering — the Today background now extends behind the camera cutout • Tap your level bar to jump directly to achievements and goals • Improved spacing and visual polish across Goal Challenges and spot pages • Fixed friends-on-water showing a generic "Rider" name and improved map sheet behavior • Removed the time-on-foil stat from gear details Bug Fixes • Fixed an Apple Watch pause/resume issue that could trigger a HealthKit error Under the Hood • Added groundwork for the new progression system, including XP, levels, and goals • Added Goal Challenge leaderboard infrastructure and winner tracking • Restored the activities sorting index for improved performance

New: - Redesigned workout summary with a cleaner post-session experience and fixed action buttons. - Pick your recording device during onboarding to choose how you'll record sessions from the start. - Place and area names are now shown on the satellite map for easier orientation. - See each rider's sport in the "Riders Here Now" list. - Surf can now be selected when adding gear. - Added a heads-up before posting mid-session, with an advisory about headphones and missed messages. Improvements - More accurate recordings with GPS accuracy now captured from your phone, Apple Watch, and Apple Health. - Cleaner map with roads, highway labels, and points of interest hidden so spots and conditions stand out. - Course leaderboards now match the website, with duplicate results removed per rider. - UI impovements on social Fixes - Fixed a background crash related to map annotations and improved recovery of recordings that could previously be lost. - Fixed an issue where the Apple Watch timer continued running after pausing without an active workout session. - Fixed session trimming so routes shorten correctly and the screen refreshes immediately. - Fixed liked-session notifications so tapping them no longer crashes and rider names display correctly. - Fixed challenge standings so the current day is recalculated correctly after stale updates.

New - Redesigned session recording flow. The record button has moved from the tab bar to a clear, labeled Play button on the Sessions screen, with onboarding that guides new users to it. - Press and hold is now required to pause or end a workout, helping prevent accidental taps during a session. - Added a loading state when ending a session, plus a post-session prompt to rate your session and attach your gear. - Launched medal goal challenges and one-off timed events, with challenge placements now attached to individual sessions. - Added new content achievements with progressive tier reveals. - Simplified course creation by letting you draw your route first, then place gates. - Added a Send to Watch button on course details and an elapsed-time display during Apple Watch course guidance. - Added session visibility controls: Public, Friends, and Private. - Chat now supports custom background images and includes a refreshed message composer. - Live weather station wind is now displayed on Today spot cards. - Redesigned Instagram activity sharing. - Added new two-column landscape layouts for Today and For You on iPad. Improvements - Introduced a new GPS track-cleaning engine for more accurate distance and top-speed calculations by filtering GPS glitches and reconnection spikes. - Historical sessions can now be reprocessed using the new GPS engine for improved statistics. - Fixed an Android issue that could lose or shorten sessions after pausing. - Improved Apple Watch pause and resume reliability. - Tacks and gybes are now shown only for wind sports. - Added push notifications for daily challenge podium finishers. - Added live rider avatars to course leaderboards. - Tap a commenter's name to open their profile. - Tap a direct message header to open your chat partner's profile. - Improved back navigation throughout the Feed and Social screens. - Improved wind and swell map visualizations. - City and state are now shown beneath spot names in the spot picker. - Moved the notification permission request to the end of onboarding. - Users signing in with providers that don't supply a name are now prompted to enter their first name. - Fixed a crash that could occur when sharing activities.

Downwinding! Find courses around the world, on-water guidance while you record Follow your line in real time. The Record screen now has a live navigation view with a heading puck, your trailing track, and turn-by-turn guidance to the next gate — plus a clean two-tier stats banner. Choose 2D or 3D, let the camera follow you automatically, or zoom out for the full overview. Voice callouts give excellent guidance. Courses on your wrist Send any course straight to your Apple Watch or Garmin and get a big, easy-to-read arrow that follows the course line and always points you down the course. Courses now download to your phone too, so they're ready on the Record screen even without signal. New Venturi watch faces & complications Add live conditions to your watch face at a glance: wind, swell, and tide now come as clean gauge complications More courses, more places - Favorite your go-to courses and find them fast on the Today tab - Optional checkpoint gates when you build a course - Course gates are now labeled on the map - Share a course with a branded card and a web link - See your course runs right on the session screen and in your share image Trophies & challenges - Share branded trophy cards and show off your trophy case on your profile - Get notified the moment someone passes you on a challenge leaderboard - Challenge medals now appear on your rider profile Today & spots - Reorder your favorite spots exactly how you like them - Live wind now refreshes every minute so it tracks the sensor closely - Now Playing shows on the map, profiles, and your Apple Watch Sessions & recording - Workouts auto-save, with full-screen recording you can minimize - More accurate top speed using a smoother 5-second rolling max - Heart rate now included when sharing to Strava Reliability & polish Faster social screens, smoother launches, and a more dependable Apple Watch experience — including automatic recovery of a ride if the watch app is interrupted mid-session. Fixed - Opening Venturi no longer pauses music or podcasts playing in the background. - Trimming a session now keeps the correct duration and average speed. - The rating & comment box no longer hides behind the keyboard when logging gear on a session. - Calendar medals now fill in correctly, including days that previously failed to record.