The Hide Guide now works fully offline. Take every reserve, species record and map with you — no signal needed. Download country map packs (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland - or all of them!) and hundreds of British bird calls for the field. Log sightings offline and they'll sync when you're back in range. We've also switched to beautiful new self-hosted maps across the app, redesigned sign-in, and polished layouts throughout.

This update also brings The Hide Guide to iPad "properly", with a full redesign built for the bigger screen — a new navigation rail, richer reserve and species pages, and a side-by-side site map with every hide and facility at a glance. On iPhone, a smarter filter bar makes browsing 29,000+ species and 4,300+ reserves faster, your Life List gets a fresh photo-first card layout, and the redesigned Home screen surfaces more of each day’s wildlife highlights. You can now draw a search area straight onto the map, set up sighting alerts with push notifications, check tide times for coastal reserves, and share your public profile with a QR code.

The Hide Guide launched its production version on the Android platform. As this is the initial release, no performance deltas or sentiment shifts are available for assessment. The current impact is neutral pending the accumulation of user feedback and ranking data.

Production Release