# Discover Scilly — Travel Guide for Scilly

> Travel Guide for Scilly (iPhone/iPad app by Alex Banfield.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/discover-scilly/id6749049557 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alex Banfield](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826116134)
- Category: Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 138 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-08-06
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/discover-scilly/id6749049557/reviews.md

## What is Discover Scilly?

Discover Scilly is your local guide to the Isles of Scilly

Make the most of your time on the islands with Discover Scilly, a handy travel companion built for visitors, holidaymakers, and anyone exploring Scilly.

Find places to eat, shop, stay, and visit across the islands, with local listings, photos, contact details, maps, and directions all in one place.

Plan your trip with saved places, reminders, and stay details, so your island days are easier to organise.

Explore beaches, landmarks, attractions, activities, events, and local businesses, from well-loved favourites to smaller hidden gems.

Check useful island information including weather, tides, maps, and nearby places, helping you plan around the rhythm of island life.

Discover Scilly helps you explore more, plan better, and support local businesses while enjoying everything the Isles of Scilly have to offer.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.25 — 2026-08-25

What’s New in Version 2.1.25?
-Added a new Updates feed for business news and late availability
-Filter updates by type, date or unread status
-Added unread badges to Discover and relevant business listings
-Tap an update to open the related business or availability post
-Automatically removes withdrawn and expired updates from unread counts
-Improved notification badges, offline caching and update reliability
-General stability and performance improvements

### 2.1.24 — 2026-08-18

What’s New in Version 2.1.24?
-Choose custom start and destination points directly on the map
-Track walking progress with live GPS
-Receive off-route warnings and calculate a safe route back
-Save an active walk and resume it from Home
-Rename routes directly from the navigation screen
-See nearby landmarks and enable proximity alerts
-Improved map recentering, dark mode and navigation stability
-Added directional location guidance while exploring
-Made route planning quicker and easier to access
-Improved map centring around your current location
-Improved place cards and category labels on island pages
-Significantly improved cached image loading, especially on maps and when offline
-General performance, stability and dependency updates

### 2.1.23 — 2026-08-10

What’s new in 2.1.23?

-Updated walking paths using locally reviewed route data
-New map filters for places, events, island labels and planned walks
-Past Trip Plan items now move into a convenient archive automatically
-Notification badges now reflect new alerts
-Improved widget reliability, offline behaviour and deep-link performance
-Various map, navigation and stability fixes

### 2.1.22 — 2026-08-04

Discover Scilly now includes home-screen widgets showing current weather, upcoming tides and your next trip-plan item.

Also included:
-Walking routes added to island pages
-Newest and oldest sorting for trip plans
-Improved offline maps and app performance
-Refreshed app branding and splash screen
-General fixes and stability improvements

### 2.1.21 — 2026-07-30

What's new in 2.1.21?
Stay connected with what is happening across Scilly.
• Enable alerts for new late accommodation availability
• Follow individual businesses for their latest updates
• Tap notifications to open the relevant post directly
• Manage all notification preferences from Live Alerts
• Improved walking map update support
• Notification, map and general reliability improvements  
No account is required. Notification preferences are stored anonymously per device.

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## More apps by Alex Banfield

- [clockout.](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/clockout/id6748535090)

All apps by Alex Banfield: https://appshunter.io/developer/1826116134

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