PaddlePal.

What’s new.

Every update, from launch to your next paddle.
New features, improvements and fixes for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

2026.21

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25 changes in this release

New Features

  • The Apple Watch app has been redesigned from first run to finish, with a clearer permissions primer, a GO button that responds to your touch, your loaded route shown on the home screen, and a new workout summary with your distance front and centre
  • Race Mode on Apple Watch can now be cancelled during preparation and the countdown, and remembers your last race distance
  • A refreshed welcome on iPhone introduces PaddlePal, asks about your craft and goals, and shows the plans that fit
  • VoiceOver users can now explore every chart point by point with Audio Graphs

Improvements

  • While you paddle, the watch shows GPS status, a Water Lock reminder, your current speed, and a hold-to-end hint so a stray tap never ends your session
  • The watch taps your wrist at each split and when a session starts or ends
  • The watch weather screen shows when conditions were last updated and explains clearly when location permission is missing
  • Watch Settings now has Workout, Permissions, and About sections
  • The emergency beacon on Apple Watch now shows sending, queued, sent, and failed states with a retry option
  • Layouts adapt better on small iPhones, iPad, and at larger accessibility text sizes, with photo zoom controls and stronger button contrast
  • Live Activities and widgets now distinguish paused and stale sessions and can speak a summary
  • Spoken VoiceOver labels are now translated in every supported language
  • Home screen weather loads faster and iPad now supports pull to refresh
  • Notifications on the watch are only requested when a route arrives from your iPhone, not at launch

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed watch workouts arriving on iPhone showing zero distance and speed
  • Fixed iPhone workout totals, pause timing, and calorie estimates being inconsistent, and recovery after a failed save now keeps your route
  • Fixed cropping a workout leaving the detail screen pointing at the deleted version or leaving duplicates in your logbook
  • Fixed the watch opening the session screen before a workout had actually started; a failed start now shows an error
  • Fixed a second race on the watch sometimes not recording a workout after the first
  • Fixed cancelling a race on the watch leaving a live workout with no way back to it
  • Fixed the location permission prompt appearing unexpectedly when the watch app opened
  • Fixed premium access checks reporting a spurious error on flaky connections
  • Fixed cancelled paddle spot requests reporting success and invalid birth dates being silently accepted
  • Fixed waypoint fields in the route editor keeping a previous point's coordinates when adding a new one
  • Fixed the pace and remaining distance row wrapping onto two lines during a race

2026.20

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17 changes in this release

Improvements

  • Workout routes in your logbook now load much faster, especially for long paddles
  • Sharing a very short paddle now works, with a tidy placeholder image instead of a failed map
  • Home screen weather now refreshes when you arrive somewhere new
  • Less battery used while recording: the app pauses background location checks it does not need
  • Clearer labels across the app: route waypoints, activity counts, and missing-location messages now read naturally
  • VoiceOver users can now activate the upgrade prompt on locked feature cards, with clearer spoken hints
  • Updated translations across all supported languages

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed short workouts sometimes losing their entire route from the map
  • Fixed routes showing as empty while a workout was still syncing from Apple Watch
  • Fixed the pace chart so it reflects how your pace actually changed, with the average line matching your workout totals
  • Splits now line up exactly with your workout's total distance, and pace differences show as clear plus or minus times
  • Distances and speeds now follow your chosen units consistently, including route lists and the full-screen speed summary
  • The tide ribbon and forecast detail now agree on the current height, clearly labelled Now
  • The UV summary now recognises moderate peaks and the Peak reading always shows a value
  • Fixed a rare problem that could make your workout history temporarily unavailable: the app now repairs itself and recovers your data automatically
  • Fixed workouts saved after an interruption not always reappearing correctly in your logbook
  • Fixed an error that could occur when saving a workout with no GPS points

2026.19

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22 changes in this release

New Features

  • A new pace chart in every workout detail shows how your pace changed across the session
  • Live pace now appears on the iPhone recording screen, in the Live Activity, and on the Dynamic Island
  • Challenge reminders: turn on notifications and PaddlePal will tell you about new challenges and remind you before they end
  • Reviews from other paddlers now appear near the top of every paddle spot, with a one-time tip pointing them out

Improvements

  • Apple Watch widgets now respect your distance unit and show live, always-current timestamps
  • The iPhone stats widget now honours your speed unit preference
  • The statistics calendar keeps a stable five-week layout and its loading placeholder matches the real grid
  • Smoother, more responsive app: several causes of brief freezes while scrolling and viewing weather have been removed
  • Apple Watch uses less battery during GPS tracking
  • Clearer VoiceOver descriptions and better contrast in many places, including when Reduce Transparency is on
  • A friendly message now appears if saving a route fails

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed workouts stuck showing "Locating..." in the logbook, including workouts recorded on Apple Watch
  • Fixed the watch occasionally starting a session paused, with a resume button that did not respond
  • Fixed live distance, pace, and splits freezing for the rest of a session after you stopped moving for a while
  • Saving a workout on iPhone is now more resilient: a problem at the end of a workout no longer loses your session
  • Fixed the Live Activity timer not starting if you paused right at the beginning of a workout
  • Fixed the upgrade screen going blank during temporary network problems
  • Fixed exported GPX and FIT files overwriting each other when they had the same name, and you are now told if an export fails
  • Fixed the statistics calendar occasionally dropping the oldest day of the last 30 days
  • Emergency beacon messages now use your real name instead of a generic fallback if available
  • Fixed heart rate zone details missing from some older workouts
  • Fixed a crash related to Siri suggestions

2026.18

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Our biggest update ever!

28 changes in this release

New Features

  • Challenges: a new dedicated tab where you can take on ready-made challenges or create your own based on distance, time, or number of sessions
  • Join and leave challenges straight from the home screen and watch your progress update as you paddle
  • Completed challenges move to their own tab so you can look back on what you have achieved
  • Export any workout as a FIT file, ready to upload to Garmin Connect
  • Helpful tips now appear around the app to introduce features like PaddleSafe, Glide Score, and creating challenges
  • Your Apple Watch now taps your wrist when a workout starts, pauses, resumes, and finishes

Improvements

  • Pace is now calculated and shown more accurately, including live pace during races
  • Distance tracking is more accurate: sudden GPS jumps are ignored, and pauses or lost signal no longer add phantom distance
  • The screen stays awake while you are recording a workout
  • Ending a workout on iPhone now asks you to confirm, so a session cannot be finished by accident
  • Deleting a route or piece of equipment now asks for confirmation first
  • Lower battery drain and memory use during workouts on both iPhone and Apple Watch
  • The live workout map now draws long routes much more smoothly
  • Your location dot now appears on the full-screen recording map
  • Searching as a free user keeps your search text and shows an upgrade prompt instead of clearing it
  • The close button on the upgrade screen now appears straight away
  • Every pop-up screen now has a clear way to dismiss it
  • Larger touch targets and clearer VoiceOver descriptions across the app
  • Clearer wording in alerts and permission requests
  • Challenge names and descriptions now appear in your language
  • The Apple Watch app has been refreshed to match the latest watchOS design

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed workouts recorded on Apple Watch occasionally never arriving on iPhone; transfers are now confirmed and retried until they get through
  • Fixed body weight not being read from the Health app, which could make calorie estimates less accurate
  • Fixed Pro features appearing locked when your device was offline
  • You are now told if a workout fails to save in the background instead of it failing silently
  • Fixed challenges not moving to the Completed tab as soon as you hit the goal
  • Fixed pause and resume occasionally triggering twice in a row
  • Fixed several animations not respecting the Reduce Motion setting

2026.15

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6 changes in this release

Changes

  • PaddlePal now announces your split times out loud during paddles on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Splits are now recorded for every workout, not just races, and appear as markers along your route.
  • Charts in Insights, Atlas weather, and workout details can now be opened full-screen, with interactive scrubbing to inspect your data more easily
  • Workout details and the Logbook have been refreshed and reorganised so your most useful stats are easier to find
  • Maps, route drawing, photo loading, live tracking, and heading updates are now smoother and more responsive, especially on longer workouts
  • This update also includes collapsible split tables, improved Apple Health route syncing, updated privacy and terms links, better accessibility support, and fixes for filters, tides, weather icons, chart rotation, iCloud photos, localisation, and minor crashes

2026.14

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5 changes in this release

Changes

  • PaddlePal now brings forecasts to life with live weather backgrounds, animated rain, drizzle, sleet, and lightning
  • Added a new metric switcher, making it easier to explore wind, rain, pressure, visibility, and more from each weather card
  • Workout saving is improved with a new confirmation before discarding a session, helping prevent accidental loss
  • Charts across workouts, insights, tides, wind, heart rate zones, and precipitation have been refreshed for a cleaner, faster, more consistent experience
  • This update also includes faster launch times, better Apple Watch workout reliability, improved accessibility, more translations, and a wide range of fixes for notifications, widgets, maps, sign-in, iCloud recovery, and battery usage

2026.13

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7 changes in this release

Changes

  • Redesigned iPhone home screen widget with weekly progress, day-by-day bars and locale-aware distance units
  • See paddle workouts recorded in other apps in your PaddlePal logbook: enable "Show Workouts From Other Apps" in Settings
  • Smoother live workout metrics during long sessions, with lower battery impact
  • Fixed a map snapshot issue when starting workouts back-to-back
  • Fixed invalid GPS readings occasionally colouring stopped segments on the route map
  • Fixed live metrics sometimes freezing on the last value at the end of a session
  • Fixed an unnecessary photo permission prompt when saving workout images

2026.12

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21 changes in this release

Changes

  • Race results now appear in your workout summary so you can review splits and pace alongside the rest of your session
  • Redesigned Share Workout screen with aspect-ratio targeting so shared images look great on every platform
  • New update banner on the home screen when a new version of PaddlePal is available
  • Faster app launch: the hang the first time you tapped the tab bar is gone
  • Share Workout animations now respect your Reduce Motion accessibility setting
  • More resilient GPS: brief signal drops no longer reset location tracking
  • Calendar view loads workout distances and durations faster
  • Clearer VoiceOver labels on the workout map, pause ring, action chips and loading states
  • Localisation updates across the app
  • Fixed a crash when saving a shared workout image to Photos
  • Fixed a rare crash caused by the photo permission prompt
  • Fixed the pause button occasionally getting stuck during a long press
  • Fixed planned routes sometimes not appearing the first time you started a session
  • Fixed Race Mode not engaging the watch's water lock
  • Fixed premium features appearing locked even with an active subscription
  • Fixed the paywall not always opening from the workout map
  • Fixed a subscription verification timeout that could delay premium access
  • Fixed ghost entries showing up in your favourite spots
  • Fixed a race condition when starting a saved route
  • Fixed the workout detail map occasionally not loading
  • Fixed race splits being lost when sent from older watch versions
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