What's new

Camera configurations, statistics, trips by stage and an app that explains itself

Gear

• Configurations: every camera build saved with its slots — lens, battery, cards, hot shoe and remote port — with compatibility checked slot by slot
• Anomalies: log gear faults in three taps, then turn them into a maintenance task, leave them open or dismiss them when you get back
• File attachments per item: invoices, warranties, insurance and manuals
• Shared photos across identical items, without duplicating them
• Arsenal valuation: market value against what you have invested, broken down by category
• Warranty alerts: per-item warranty length with a heads-up before it expires

Statistics

• Activity: trips, sessions, countries and days away, with a period selector
• Spending by year and by category
• Map of the countries you have photographed
• Cost per outing and detection of underused items

Plans

• Destination explorer and Light Card: forecast, historical climate, sunrise and sunset, golden and blue hour, moon phase, plug types and drone regulations before you create the trip
• Session mode, with types such as drone and aerial, night, architecture or coast
• Stages and Environments within each trip, with fifteen environments available
• Smart luggage for distributing gear across bags
• Airline information
• Weather forecast and historical climate data per stage
• Dashboard banner with the active stage and its forecast, adapting to the phase of the trip
• Trip summary on closing, with a stage map, days, countries and most-used gear, exportable as an image

Lab

• ShotCard: Instagram cards with EXIF reading and automatic gear recognition
• EXIF viewer
• Depth of field calculator

Experience

• Contextual tutorial system that explains each feature when you need it

Comparisons, loans and a complete maintenance system

Gear

• New item comparison system
• New system for comparing complete kits
• New loan system
• Wishlist: add any catalog item to it
• Portable printers can be added to the inventory manually
• Card readers, SSD and HDD drives and USB sticks can be added manually
• Operator and drone licences
• New compatibility alerts for teleconverters

Maintenance

• New maintenance system to keep your gear always ready

Catalog

• New camera subcategories: pocket and 360
• New audio category
• New transport and protection subcategory: organiser pouches
• New lighting subcategory: head torches
• Catalog expanded with cameras from the new subcategories

Improvements

• Backups now include your settings
• View optimisation and UX improvements
• Performance improvements
• Bug fixes, including catalog corrections

A smarter ArsenalGuard, drones in the catalog and redesigned trips

Gear

• Smarter ArsenalGuard: it now suggests the gear you need to add in order to solve the problem
• New ArsenalGuard alerts for drones
• Smart Add suggests batteries when you add a camera or a drone, and controllers and goggles when you add a drone from the catalog

Plans

• Return checklist: make sure you bring everything back
• When you add an item to a trip, the app asks which backpack it goes in
• TripManifest and InsuranceManifest
• Redesigned trips section

Catalog

• New drone catalog, with controllers and FPV goggles
• Expanded camera and lens catalog

Improvements

• Redesigned dashboard
• Visual and accessibility improvements
• Resource optimisation and performance improvements
• Bug fixes

The first public release of PhotoArsenal 🎉

Main features

• Full gear catalog: cameras, lenses, drones and accessories
• Curated database of major and third-party brands
• Compatibility system: mounts, adapters, batteries and cards
• Backpack management and trip planning
• Rental and loan tracking
• Maintenance system with predefined tasks and history
• Full catalog backup and restore
• ND filter, astrophotography and star trail calculators
• Light and dark mode

Platform

• iPhone, iOS 18 or later
• Built with SwiftUI and SwiftData