This quarter was full of actions.

New iOS has just been released. It’s a tradition that every major iOS version update will have an issue with the existing app. Luckily this one was one of the smoothest OS updates ever.

Here is what happened so far:

DistanceCalculator and GeoLoger are now available for subscription. And we saw one of you purchased the sub! Thank you so much! We are really grateful and can not thank you enough!
We made visual updates for some apps. It’s very subtle, but we think it’s awesome to have!

And a bad news

BlastSim for iOS was initially our side project we wrote while I was learning iOS app development, and taught us a lot. It went viral so many times, in online media and recently on TikTok.
We are unable to push a further update because of an issue with the app reviewing process. We had a similar issue way back in 2017 with BlastMap. So we built BlastSim to give more focus on the information aspect. We are not surprised to see that BlastSim will eventually suffer a similar fate.
We’ve done several submissions to hopefully make it comply with the guidelines, but it still has not passed a review. And after three months, we have given a deadline that the app will be removed from the app store forever.
It is sad for us to have to wind down the app after seven long years.
Starting mid-December, the app will no longer be available for download. So while the app is available, one for free if you can!
For those who already have the app on their device, The app should run smoothly on iOS 17 without a problem without any app updates. However, we have no guarantee that future updates will continue to be working.
The Android version will live on, so we suggest everyone who wishes to use the app in the future download the Android version instead. Or use a web-app version from other developers which we think they have done better than us.
We might work on a completely new app. We are always thinking about building a multi-tool map that does everything.