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Island Watch

Know what may change your plans across Vancouver Island.

Island Watch brings scattered official-source updates into a native Status view, impact map, and Route Check while keeping freshness, uncertainty, and the official handoff visible.

Status
Available on the App Store
Availability
iPhone · Version 1.0 · Free core · Optional one-time Plus upgrade · No subscription
Sources
Official authorities · Visible freshness · Direct source links
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Island Watch Status screen with current Greater Victoria conditions and source freshness

The app, as it is.

Current product screens showing Status, Map, Route Check, and Home Region.

Island Watch Status screen showing Greater Victoria, current official sources, advisories, and monitored items.
Start with what may actually change your plans.
Island Watch Map showing current impact markers across southern Vancouver Island.
See current impacts in geographic context.
Island Watch Route Check with Greater Victoria as the starting region and a destination selector.
Check monitored corridors between two regions.
Island Watch screen showing the Home Region, current watch, plan, and on-device privacy details.
Keep a Home Region and watch settings close at hand.

What Island Watch does

One native place to check what is current, where it matters, and which official source to trust next.

  • Summarize plan-changing disruptions, lower-impact advisories, scheduled changes, and monitored items for a Home Region.
  • Show source freshness and preserve a direct handoff to the official authority behind each item.
  • Map current impacts without hiding their region or severity.
  • Use Route Check to review monitored corridors between two regions without pretending to calculate directions.
  • Keep the last successful status available when a fresh request cannot complete, with saved and freshness context visible.
  • Make offline and stale states explicit instead of presenting old information as current.

Who it is for

Island Watch is for people whose plans depend on Vancouver Island roads, ferries, weather, access, and local authority updates, especially when checking many official pages separately is too slow.

It supports a decision; it does not replace emergency alerts, local authority instructions, or an official travel source.

Island Watch Plus

One optional upgrade for more local organization.

  • Give watches their own names.
  • Add extra areas beyond the Home Region.
  • Save road and ferry targets that matter to a watch.
  • Keep eligible source follows organized on this iPhone.

Plus is a one-time purchase. Notifications are not included in version 1.0; Plus in this release is limited to these local watch benefits.

Trust boundary

Independent aggregationOfficial sources stay primaryNot an emergency serviceNo account requiredNo notifications in v1.0

Home Region, watches, targets, eligible follows, and precise location matching stay on the device. The app still needs network access to request new official-source updates; cached status is fallback context, not a freshness claim.

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