ShackleApp

Version 3.0 Slow dispatch, done right. Your messages now travel the world the way word really did in the age of sail and wire — and this update makes that journey more real than ever. A more authentic journey - Ocean dispatches now follow real sea lanes, not straight lines — rounding coasts and threading the historic ports and New England waterways along the way. - Watch your message trace its route, and learn the lore of the waters it crosses. Real weather, real delays - Live weather now shapes your dispatches. A gale, a calm, or a cold snap can slow a pigeon or becalm a sail — just as it would have. Genuine telegraph code - We've replaced our stand-in cipher with the real historic commercial telegraph code. Encode and decode your own words, and browse the code book. - When a dispatch is delayed or lost, the news now arrives as a true coded telegram — complete with the code word it was wired as and the story behind it. News from the ice - New ErNews and ShackleFacts dispatches bring you tales and trivia from the age of exploration, ready to send along with a single tap. Plus - Send us feedback right inside the app — report a problem, request a feature, or ask for a route we haven't charted yet. - Unread badges, swipe-to-clear, quicker replies, journey times at a glance, and a range of fixes and refinements.