Sea SpotterSea Spotter

v1.0.1 — Richer reporting, sharing, and reliability

What is new

  • Sea Spotter is our new name (formerly SeaShare) — new app icon and splash screen
  • Attach a photo to a sighting report, straight from your camera or your library
  • Speed is entered in knots
  • Orca is now its own species category, and every species has a description
  • Suggest a species that is not in the picker yet
  • Tap a sighting icon for full detail — species, count, notes, photo, and time
  • Tap a cluster of overlapping sightings to see the individual reports
  • Vote a sighting up or down
  • Sailing ranks, plus a weekly and monthly Hall of Fame leaderboard
  • Share a sighting through your phone's normal share sheet, with a pre-written caption and no location data
  • Portuguese — Sea Spotter now supports 8 languages
  • Privacy Policy and Terms of Service open natively in the app, in your phone's language

Fixes and reliability

  • Sighting icons stay in place when you rotate the map
  • Clearer error messages instead of raw server errors
  • Notifications now take you straight to the right spot on the map
  • More reliable photo uploads
  • Offline reports now show their queued status directly on the Report screen
  • Fixed a rare issue where new accounts could get stuck after signing up
  • Android: the tab bar no longer overlaps the system navigation bar
  • Various performance and stability improvements under the hood