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Version 0.1.0 (27) — iPhone beta

Released: 14 November 2026

New

  • Added support for Arabic, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Spanish and Vietnamese.

Improved

  • Improved how Melboard handles delayed tram departure updates from PTV.

Fixed

  • Fixed a crash that could occur in Melboard and its Home Screen widget on an early iOS 27.2 beta.

Version 0.1.0 (26) — iPhone beta | Version 0.1.21 (22) — Android beta

Released: 12 November 2026 (iPhone and Android)

New — iPhone and Android

  • Added Hindi support across the app interface and Help.

Improved — iPhone and Android

  • Rebuilt the server that runs Melboard. Read about the server update on the Melboard blog.
  • On Departures and in already-loaded Nearby results, each card updates as soon as its own departure times arrive.
  • When you reopen the app later the same day, previously Live cards keep their Live label while fresh information loads. Confirmed timetable-only results still show as Scheduled.
  • Nearby Help now explains how to choose 250 m, 500 m or 1.5 km, and that Melboard remembers the choice. Updated in English and Simplified Chinese.

Redesigned navigation and maps for iPhone Duo

Melboard has redesigned navigation and map controls for iPhone Duo.

  • Add, Nearby Search, Settings, saved-card editing and service details now use a consistent navigation flow. When the Duo is open, these screens can sit alongside the map.
  • The transport tabs stay visible when the Duo opens, and Add remembers your selected transport mode as you fold and unfold.
  • The Destination picker fits alongside the map when unfolded, and its search field stays within reach as you scroll through results.
  • The full-screen map has a clearer location control. Tap it to return to your location. The map also recentres when you clear a selected departure or close a stop opened from the map.

Version 0.1.0 (24) — iPhone beta

Released: 5 November 2026

New

  • Added Simplified Chinese support. Melboard automatically uses Simplified Chinese when it’s your phone’s selected language.
  • Choose how far Nearby searches from the Nearby heading: 250 m, 500 m or 1.5 km. The default is 500 m, and Melboard remembers your choice.
  • Clearer messages when no departures are found within your selected distance, with suggestions to widen the search or find a stop or station.
  • Added iPhone Duo support, with the map alongside Departures or Nearby when the device is open.

Improved

  • Selecting a stop on the Duo map centres it while preserving your zoom level.
  • Added brief touch feedback to selectable map icons.
  • Added a plain black launch screen and black loading, unavailable-map and location-error backgrounds in the Duo map pane.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where pinching to zoom on a map could open a stop or prevent zooming when a finger touched a stop.

Apple Watch

  • Scroll below the main countdown to see up to two later departures, with the stop, route and direction given more room.
  • Added platform information beneath the main countdown for eligible train departures, when available.
  • Improved route and direction labels on saved cards, giving the direction priority when space is limited and keeping route numbers readable.

Version 0.1.17 (18) — Android beta

Released: 5 November 2026

New

  • Added Simplified Chinese support. Melboard automatically uses Simplified Chinese when it’s your phone’s selected language.

Version 0.1.0 (22) — iPhone beta | Version 0.1.15 (16) — Android beta

Released: 28 October 2026

New — iOS and Android

  • Platform numbers appear beneath the countdown on single-line train cards boarding at Flinders Street, Southern Cross and Richmond, when available.
  • V/Line departures from Southern Cross also show platform information in Service Overview during the 30 minutes before departure, when available. For combined routes, tap a departure to see its platform. Platforms may change; check station displays before boarding.

Improved — iPhone

  • Improved departure-card spacing for long stop names, directions and route labels, including custom names.
  • Service notice and warning symbols use outlines in Dark appearance and filled shapes in Light appearance, with their existing sizes retained.
  • Tabs keep your scroll position during quick switches and return to the top after five minutes away, including time in the background.

Fixed — iPhone

  • Corrected the routes offered together by Combine routes at your boarding stop, including offering 250/251 at Clifton Hill without the unrelated 504 destination.
  • Fixed Nearby briefly showing no scheduled departures while expired cached departures refresh. Useful cached departures remain visible, with a loading message while replacements are fetched.
  • Aligned service notice and alert icons with the first title line in expanded cards, Service Overview and the Service information list.

Version 0.1.0 (21) — iPhone beta | Version 0.1.9 (10) — Android beta

Released: 20 October 2026

New

  • Added optional Line colours: identify Metro train lines and tram routes by a colour strip on the right edge of departure cards, with standard mode colours for buses and V/Line. Combined services use a vertically split strip. Service overview uses per-route colour dots with neutral text.
  • Updated transport icons across departure cards, maps and Home Screen widgets, with filled circles in Light appearance and colour-matched outlined rings in Dark appearance, including V/Line coaches and combined Metro/V/Line services. Native navigation and menu icons retain their standard appearance.
  • Added optional departure groups: organise saved stops and stations into up to five named groups and switch between them from the Departures title.
  • Move saved cards between groups from Edit saved list. Turning groups off or clearing an optional group name keeps its cards saved.
  • Give saved cards custom names. Press and hold a saved departure card, then tap Edit to change its name, stop, station, routes or direction.
  • Choose a departure group independently for each Home Screen widget, then select the saved cards it displays.

Improved

  • Clearer replacement-bus labels in search and discovery.
  • Route and line search results use colour dots to distinguish them from stops and stations, independently of the Line colours option.
  • Find the single Line colours option in Settings under Line colours. Transport icon appearance follows the app’s Light or Dark appearance automatically.
  • Redesigned Edit saved list with the stop or custom name, direction and routes stacked together, giving long names more room. Optional line-colour markers match the departure cards while selection, reordering and deletion remain.
  • Refined card headings, chevrons, countdowns and expanded departure spacing, including longer names, combined services and larger text.
  • Kept existing departures visible during routine refreshes, with error warnings and retry actions retained when an update fails.
  • Made Service overview boarding and platform details clearer, including replacement-bus information.
  • Text search now starts after two letters; route-number searches still work from one digit.
  • Corrected V/Line coach artwork and refined circular map-marker sizing.
  • Shortened Help and clarified saving, editing, groups and widget choices.
  • Improved bus and tram map markers: individual boarding stops now appear separately, with routes, directions and departures for the selected stop.
  • Save a Nearby or search result through the shared Add form, with its stop, station, routes and direction already filled in and an optional custom name.
  • Expand Name when needed in the Add and Edit forms, or leave it blank to use the stop or station name.
  • Refined the native top fade and blur on Departures and Nearby to keep toolbar controls clear as cards scroll beneath them.
  • Vertically centred chevrons alongside their text and numbers, with consistent sizing and animated expansion for cards and Name.
  • Updated Settings and Help for departure groups, custom names and editing saved cards.

Fixed

  • Improved support for rail replacement buses and shortened V/Line services, with clearer Replacement Bus and Change required details while preserving the saved journey.
  • Reserved checkmark space in setup rows so long labels no longer rewrap when selected.
  • Fixed an error when reselecting the existing route or station while editing a saved card.

Service improvements — already available

  • Corrected cases where valid live bus predictions were missed after timetable or service-identifier changes, including predictions supplied without a delay.
  • Improved the targeting of service warnings and timetable fallbacks during disruptions, including preventing unsupported retained Live estimates from reappearing at affected tram stops.
  • Preserved saved replacement-service identities when timetable names change.

iPhone-specific

  • Transport icon artwork follows the phone app’s Light or Dark appearance on the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and Apple Watch. Watch screens remain dark with neutral text and no line-colour strips, with refined icon size and text spacing. Outlined V/Line and combined-service purple artwork uses the phone’s normal-dark shade.
  • Improved connection recovery while retaining genuine update warnings.
  • Improved contrast for shared-station map choices and the Current Location control in Light and Dark mode.
  • Fixed a refresh issue that could briefly show an outdated-data warning when returning to the app.

Android-specific

  • Aligned departure-card and widget countdowns with the iPhone presentation, including 1 min followed by Now during the final minute.
  • Saving a Nearby or search result now returns to Departures in its saved group.
  • Corrected Metro/V/Line shared-station selection so ordinary routes retain the correct boarding stop and Combined Routes retains its setup flow.
  • Fixed Android 7 notification expiry so the matching notification clears without losing the tracking session or its Stop action.
  • Added smooth chevron rotation on departure cards, the departure-group selector and the optional Name field.
  • Refined the Name field’s expansion and collapse, with the rest of the form moving together.
  • Smoothed transitions when showing or hiding stop lists and filtering setup and destination results.

Version 0.1.7 (8) — Android beta

Released: 12 October 2026

Available through Google Play closed testing.

Version 0.1.0 (20) — iPhone beta

Released: 12 October 2026

New

  • Added Combined Routes: save a direct journey from a chosen boarding stop and direction to a destination, then see eligible departures from qualifying routes together.
  • Combine eligible Metro and V/Line trains, trams, buses and V/Line coaches. Eligible Metro and V/Line train services can combine at shared stations; journeys do not include transfers.
  • Browse or search eligible downstream destinations, or choose one on the full-screen map, using the same destination flow in Add and Nearby.
  • Tap a Live Activity on Apple Watch to open its full-screen departure countdown, including Nearby services that aren’t saved as favourites.
  • Start a Live Activity for your top saved favourite from Control Centre or Shortcuts, without opening Melboard.

Improved

  • Refined departure countdowns to show 3 min → 2 min → 1 min → Now, with Now covering the final minute.
  • Departures refresh more frequently near arrival, helping pick up updated predictions sooner.
  • Improved transport icon sizing and consistency across Departures, Add, Nearby and Service overview.
  • Saved Combined Routes destination constraints remain intact when departures refresh.
  • Combined departures identify each service’s route, with clearer route labels and a combined Metro/V/Line icon on departure cards, Home Screen widgets and Apple Watch.
  • Choose any saved favourite independently for each small Home Screen widget and each of the three medium-widget rows through Edit Widget. Choices stay fixed when favourites are reordered; deleting a chosen favourite prompts reselection.
  • Made V/Line coach labels more compact across departures and destination setup, retaining via wording where needed to distinguish routes.
  • Updated Help for Combined Routes, destination discovery, both widget sizes and V/Line coach scheduled-service and reservation limitations.
  • Improved larger-text layouts across departure cards, destination selection, Service overview, saved-list editing, Settings and Home Screen widgets.
  • Smoother transitions when switching saved departures between All, Train, Tram and Bus, with saved scroll positions retained.
  • Nearby now uses a compact native filter menu with smaller transport icons.
  • Navigation and Settings icons now use neutral colours that follow Light and Dark mode.
  • Sharper combined Metro/V/Line artwork in Home Screen widgets.
  • Removed the redundant Departures heading from Apple Watch to leave more room for saved cards.
  • Refined destination-list separators and the error/retry layout.

Fixed

  • Fixed unavailable train-line search results that could cause setup errors, and made replacement bus results clearer.
  • Kept Apple Watch route headings in step with refreshed Combined Routes departures, including when no qualifying routes remain, and ignored outdated refresh results after a favourite is edited or removed.
  • Corrected the transport-data service so arrivals at a line terminus are excluded from departures towards that same terminus.
  • Returning Appearance from Light or Dark to System now updates the open Settings screen immediately.
  • Apple Watch stop names no longer become temporarily squeezed while departure times load.
  • Removed brief processing spinners from favourite-saving and Live Activity actions, while retaining protection against repeated taps.

Version 0.1.0 (19) — iPhone beta

Released: 5 October 2026

Improved

  • When a live prediction temporarily disappears, Melboard now retains the last known departure time as Estimated instead of immediately reverting to Scheduled.
  • Cleaner Departures and Nearby toolbars: press and hold a card to reveal available Live Activity controls and, on Nearby, save/remove actions.
  • Smoother toolbar animations as contextual controls appear and disappear.
  • Departures and Nearby now keep only one card expanded at a time.
  • Tapping outside a selected card or navigating elsewhere clears its selection.
  • Clearer Service overview headings in Light and Dark mode.
  • Shorter Metro train labels on departure cards, such as “Hurstbridge” instead of “Hurstbridge Line”.
  • Updated Help to explain contextual controls and card selection.

Fixed

  • Prevented an expired estimated departure from reappearing as a timetable-only service.
  • Kept card headings, directions and departure times moving together when switching between expanded cards.
  • Prevented previously selected card controls briefly reappearing after changing transport tabs.

Version 0.1.0 (18) — iPhone beta

Released: 4 October 2026

New

  • Added V/Line coach timetables under Bus, including scheduled departures and service overviews.
  • Added “What’s new” and “Melboard service status” links in Settings.

Improved

  • Improved Service information readability, with clearer single-notice previews and a compact link to view multiple notices in full.
  • Added native swipe actions to dismiss service notices, with dismissed notices restorable from Settings.
  • Updated Help with clearer instructions for Nearby selection, service notices and Apple Watch Live Activities.
  • Improved stop, station and route search while typing, with clearer Best matches for partial names.
  • Find stops along a selected route as soon as you start typing.
  • Choose a direction when viewing all stops or stations on a route, then see them in the order the service travels.
  • Save both directions of a route at the same stop or station in one step, with a separate departure card for each direction.
  • Made long bus and V/Line coach route names easier to read on departure cards.
  • Made city-bound Metro train directions clearer while preserving each service’s actual destination.
  • Made dense Nearby searches substantially faster and improved grouping of services with shared stops or different destinations.
  • Improved the Nearby map so Current Location restores the normal street-level position and zoom.
  • Improved Live Activity timing so the final countdown remains available until the selected service’s effective departure time.
  • Live Activity countdowns remain readable on the dimmed Lock Screen, with matching minutes in the Dynamic Island as live departures update.
  • Refined pull-to-refresh on Departures and Nearby: headings remain stable while refreshing, fade smoothly during upward scrolling and stay clear of the refresh indicator while cards continue beneath the translucent bars.
  • Made Dark the default appearance for new installations while retaining System and Light as options.
  • Refined the first-use layout for smaller iPhones.
  • Improved the iOS 18 layout so Departures, Nearby and add-stop tabs sit at the bottom, with the same search and save flow as on newer iPhones.
  • Refined the Departures and Nearby transport tabs so selected train, tram and bus icons and labels update together, with a clear blue selected state and neutral toolbar controls.
  • Improved offline, connection and location error messages across Nearby, maps, search results and service overviews, with clearer recovery actions.
  • Improved Home Screen widget freshness on iOS 26 and later with server-triggered refreshes when departure information changes.
  • Aligned app and Home Screen widget countdown transitions to departure times to reduce brief one-minute differences.
  • Aligned Apple Watch app and widget countdown transitions to departure times while preserving their existing refresh behaviour.
  • Fixed an issue where delayed services could disappear before their live departure time.

Fixed

  • Limited service notices to information relevant to the selected route and departure.
  • Fixed the first Map tap after opening Melboard incorrectly opening Search.
  • Closing the map from Nearby Search now returns to your search and selection.
  • Prevented combined bus and tram route numbers from splitting across lines.
  • Removed repeated route names from search results.
  • Limited direction choices to services that actually call at the selected stop, and restored reliable direction loading on busy routes.
  • Fixed single-direction stops so the user can explicitly choose the available direction and continue to departures or Save.
  • Dismissed the keyboard automatically after selecting a live search result.
  • Kept expanded departure cards stable instead of moving the surrounding page automatically.
  • Reduced unnecessary interruption from brief background refresh failures while preserving explicit errors for manual refresh failures.
  • Kept existing Nearby departures and map results visible when a refresh fails, with clearer retry options.
  • Centred the “No nearby departures” message within the available space.
  • Matched the “Finding your location” spinner to the existing grey loading indicators.

Initial TestFlight beta — Version 0.1.0 (13)

Released: 22 September 2026

  • Introduced a focused Melbourne departures board for saved train stations, tram stops and bus stops.
  • Shows the next useful departure with clear Live or Scheduled status, route, direction, platform information where available and expandable later departures.
  • Includes Metro trains, trams, metropolitan buses and V/Line trains in one consistent interface.
  • Added Nearby departures with transport filters, location-based results, search and a map for finding stops and stations.
  • Added complete service overviews with remaining stops or stations, effective departure times, platform details and relevant service information.
  • Added Home Screen widgets and Live Activities for following a selected departure from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
  • Added an Apple Watch companion and Watch widget using the favourites saved on the iPhone.
  • Added native Dark, Light and System appearance choices plus a selection of Melboard app icons.
  • Added local favourite management, including reordering, editing and a silent 50-favourite safeguard.