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Releases

Every Wander update — what changed and when. Tap a version to expand.

1.5

· Not just walks. Wanders.

  • Activities — mark any leg of a journey as running, cycling, hiking, or driving — even a train, boat, or flight. The route redraws per leg: real streets and trails on land, a clean line across water or sky.
  • Smart suggestions — Wander reads trail names, pace, and elevation and gently suggests a type ("Looks like a hike"). You decide; nothing changes on its own.
  • People — add the people who shared a journey (from Contacts, or created on the spot), attach them to a Wander or part of one, and browse every Wander you've taken together.
  • Favorites — heart a Wander from the list, the detail view, or a swipe.
  • Logbook filters — narrow to favorites, an activity, or a person; the filters compose.
  • Share card upgrades — a featured photo up top, an optional elevation chart, and point-to-point journeys titled "X to Y."
  • At home on iPad — folder rows with their own stats, people counts on every Wander row, and a fuller stats bar with time, pace, and elevation gain.
  • Photo viewer — full-screen photos titled with the time and place they were taken, a star marking each stop's cover photo, and a timeline rail showing how you traveled between stops.
  • Distances, refined — very short Wanders read in feet or meters, and switching miles ↔ kilometers updates everywhere instantly.
  • The import notification now arrives reliably when you leave the app while a route builds.

Fixes

  • Out-and-back routes no longer cut the corner where you doubled back — the route follows the street you actually took.
  • Changing a Wander's type on a long route no longer fails on a momentary Maps hiccup — routing retries and recovers.
  • Smaller fixes: the type-switch animation plays out fully, the New Folder name field focuses on open, and the playback people bar shows up to four faces before collapsing to "+N."

1.4

· Now on iPad

  • Universal app — Wander now runs on both iPhone and iPad, with your Logbook syncing privately across your devices through your own iCloud.
  • Single-screen design — the Logbook is now the home of the app. The bottom tab bar is gone; everything starts and lives in one place.
  • Folders, redesigned — Notes-style folders you drill into, each with its own color and symbol. Drag to reorder.
  • Search — find any walk by name, place, or date.
  • Edit a saved walk — remove a stop and Wander rebuilds the route around it.
  • Playback now opens its picture-in-picture viewer on your first photo.
  • New app icon and launch screen.

1.3

· The biggest update since 1.1

  • Fun walk names — every walk gets an auto-generated name based on time of day and distance ("Morning Stroll Through Paris", "Afternoon Trek Through Brussels"). Rename anytime.
  • Elevation chart — a smoothed altitude curve drawn from your photos' GPS data, synced to playback. Tap the mountain icon to show it.
  • Playback picture-in-picture — a mini photo viewer follows along during route playback. Drag it between corners; the app remembers where you put it.
  • Pin clustering — nearby photos group under a single pin with a count badge, so dense walks read cleanly on the map.
  • iCloud sync — your saved walks sync privately across your iCloud-signed iPhones through your own iCloud database. No third-party servers.
  • Share image with light/dark toggle — your walk shares as a polished card with a "Made with Wander" sign-off. Tap the sun/moon button to flip between light and dark variants before you share.
  • Logbook organization — sort walks into folders, browse by date, or drag to reorder.
  • Refreshed app icon, deeper cobalt launch screen, and a brighter accent across the app.
  • Portrait-only orientation lock.

Fixes

  • Sharing via Messages now reliably delivers to every recipient — including SMS contacts — with smaller and faster image transfers.
  • Logbook layout could drift after a fresh-import push. Fixed.
  • Playback picture-in-picture could overlap the playback bar on Pro Max devices. Fixed.

1.1

· Meet the Logbook

  • New bottom tab bar — Home, Create, Logbook, and Feedback are always one tap away.
  • "My Walks" is now called Logbook.
  • Send feedback right from the app — a Feedback tab opens a pre-filled message with your device and build details ready to go.
  • Fixed: photo thumbnails in saved walks could render rotated 90° on iPhone JPEGs with EXIF orientation.

1.0

· Initial release

Wander's first App Store release.

  • Turn geotagged photos into a street-locked walking route, sorted by capture time.
  • Numbered pins for every stop — tap one to see the photo.
  • Press play to replay your walk on the map, with a marker that travels the whole route.
  • Save walks to your library and organize them into folders.
  • Share any walk as an image with the route and stats overlaid on the map.
  • Photo count and total distance shown at a glance.
  • Drop photos that don't fit the route and rebuild, without re-importing.
  • Long imports continue in the background, with a notification when they finish.
  • Adapts to light and dark map appearances automatically.
  • Built on Apple Maps with a clean, modern Liquid Glass design.
  • Private by design — no account, no tracking, no analytics. Photos never leave your device.