6.7
2018-03-06
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This is a big update, with many issues resolved and some cool new features!
Some of the highlights include:
* New AR features - enjoy a model Solar System on your desk!
* Search for the brightest satellites, by name or from a a list (it used to include Humanity Star, but that one just burned up. awww...)
Many other bugs have been fixed. Enjoy!
6.4
2017-12-04
Welcome to the next generation of astronomy applications! Using Augmented Reality (on supported devices, with the existing in-app purchase) you can place the Solar System right in your living room!
Also in this update, the iPhone X is now fully supported, and many bugs have been fixed and refinements added. Enjoy!
6.3
2017-08-10
2017 Solar Eclipse Tracker added to in-app purchase
Fixed issue with mythological outlines.
6.1.3
2017-06-04
Bug fixes and performance improvements. Ugh. Don't you hate that?
So, forget that and welcome to this rather large update to Pocket Universe!
I've added an Augmented Reality view, and lots of other tweaks and fixes. Augmented Reality? Yes! Strap your phone to your face using those cheap headsets you see in the shopping mall, and blow your mind! Also, the app is general more stable, prettier and just, well, nicer after six months of work getting it all updated. There's even a Message app to share information with your friends.
Clear skies, and I hope you enjoy it!
Remember: Although the free app has lots of very cool stuff, you can unlock everything (including AR mode) with a single in-app purchase, or just run it on Thursdays - all the features are available on Thursdays for free because I'm a nice guy (and never could get the hang of Thursdays).
5.9.7
2017-01-24
Pocket Universe continues to be updated, fixed, and improved.
*New*
Support for iMessage - send your friends the current Moon phase or monthly sky news
*Updated*
Astronomical events for 2017
*Bug fixes*
Daylight time graph
Location setting
Other things..
Sorry there's nothing amusing in this What's New but.. you know.
5.9.5
2016-08-05
Meanwhile, far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, on a planet orbiting a small unregarded yellow sun, an ape descendant spent his evenings and weekends working on fixing some software that other ape descendants used on their phones. On this planet, ape descendants thought phones were a pretty neat idea, and they would spend all their time staring at the screens and sending each other pictures of themselves and arguing about a particular ape descendant with orange hair.
The planet had a problem, in that many of the people on it were unhappy. Many solutions were proposed, but most of them involved the people just being nice to each other, and for some reason, many of the people weren't very at doing that, and insisted on telling the rest of the people what they were doing wrong, and giving them rules to follow.
The ape descendent working on the software didn't like it when all the people were being mean to each other, and instead tried to write software to show them that they were all really rather small organic things, floating on a rock in a gigantic universe, and they all really needed to get some perspective and just chill out a lot more.
And so:
New! All features are unlocked on Thursdays for you to try them out! I never could get the hang of Thursdays..
New! Night tour - your nightly talking guide! Opens when the sky is dark.
New! Dashboard now has at-a-glance What's up view (tap it for more).
Fixed! Fixed issues with location.
Fixed! Resolved problems switching to and from landscape in many views.
Fixed! Corrected WikiPedia links issue.
Fixed! Compass points location corrected on iPad.
Fixed! Removed stereo mode for now, as it caused Bad Things to happen.
Tweaked! Updated launch screen and opening animation.
Tweaked! Controls on Virtual Sky view updated.
Terminated! Loads of bugs given a good hasta la vista, baby.
5.9.4
2016-07-09
Plenty of updates in this version!
* New-look dashboard display, with a mini-What's Up view (tap it for the full-sized one)
* First version of a "Night sky tour" feature, to point out interesting things to look for. Let me know if you like it!
* Many, many bugs sent to the big bug farm.
5.9.3
2016-03-07
Major update!
* Updated celestial events for 2016
* Support for larger iPads
* 3D Force for supported devices
* Improvements to graphics
* No more adverts
* Loads and loads of bugs taken and hidden on the fourth moon of exoplanet TrES-3b
* More updates coming soon!
5.5.1
2015-07-22
This is a major update to Pocket Universe Express!
* Refreshed user interface, optimized for all current devices.
* New features including a new "land the rocket" mini-game and NGC objects.
* Fancy new 3D rendered objects and improved sky view.
* Many bugs taken out behind the shed and er.. sent to the farm.
5.4.2
2014-06-19
* Big update with lots of fixes and improvements, and access to all features after an in-app purchase.
1.1
2011-02-08
Corrected issue with compass support on iPad.