Headway 0.6.0

Headway 0.6.0: a live bus map for Madison, WI (Metro Transit) for iPhone, iOS 17 or later.

Download Headway-0.6.0-unsigned.ipa and sign it yourself. It is unsigned on purpose: install it with a sideloading
tool that signs with your own Apple ID (for example AltStore or Sideloadly). Check the file first:

shasum -a 256 -c Headway-0.6.0-unsigned.ipa.sha256

With a free Apple ID such tools are widely reported to allow an app for 7 days (then it must be signed again) and three
apps at a time; that comes from community reports, so check the tool's page. Details and the build-from-source route are in
the README. There is no App Store version.

What is new since 0.5.2

• Language. Settings > Language: System default, English or 日本語. The whole app switches at once, without a restart,
  and the choice is remembered. "System default" follows iOS, including its per-app language setting. Dates, numbers and
  distances keep following your phone's region. The map's labels and the city's stop and destination names stay in
  English, and the location permission message and the app's name come from iOS, so they keep iOS's language.
• The language choice is stored on the phone only and is never sent anywhere (see PRIVACY.md).
• One catalog entry with unescaped percent signs was fixed, and a test now checks that every string has a Japanese
  translation with the same placeholders.

Good to know

• The app includes a snapshot of the city's timetable and the Madison map, so it works on first launch; it asks the city
  for live positions. See PRIVACY.md for every network request.
• The punctuality figures come from recordings of the city's public feeds and still rest on a few days of data.
• Headway is independent of the City of Madison and Metro Transit; times can differ from what the buses do.
• MIT licence, Copyright (c) 2026 Kosuke Satake. Third-party material: THIRD_PARTY.md, and Settings > Licences in the app.

Headway 0.5.2

Headway 0.5.2: a live bus map for Madison, WI (Metro Transit) for iPhone, iOS 17 or later.

Download Headway-0.5.2-unsigned.ipa and sign it yourself. It is unsigned on purpose: install it with a sideloading
tool that signs with your own Apple ID (for example AltStore or Sideloadly). Check the file first:

shasum -a 256 -c Headway-0.5.2-unsigned.ipa.sha256

With a free Apple ID such tools are widely reported to allow an app for 7 days (then it must be signed again) and three
apps at a time; that comes from community reports, so check the tool's page. Details and the build-from-source route are in
the README. There is no App Store version.

What changed since 0.2.0

• Map. Routes that share a street are drawn side by side, thinner on busy streets, with the two directions kept apart
  when zoomed in; buses and lines shrink when zoomed out. A route can be narrowed to one destination (D1, D2, ...), with its
  first and last stop ringed.
• Buses. Each bus shows its route and pattern ("D2"), the way its trip runs (E, W, N, S) and a white or black ring for
  the direction. Buses that are not on a trip are marked so nobody boards one by mistake; if the next trip is known, it is
  shown.
• Delays. Buses are counted as late, on time or early per route, direction and destination, in colour. A live time never
  replaces the timetable's own time, which the stop board and the full timetable keep beside it. Tapping a punctuality bar
  opens hour-by-hour charts for weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
• Faster launch (about five times), a back button after "Show on map", a compact routes list, and Settings > Licences
  with the licence of everything the app contains.

Good to know

• The app includes a snapshot of the city's timetable and the Madison map, so it works on first launch; it asks the city
  for live positions. See PRIVACY.md for every network request.
• The punctuality figures come from recordings of the city's public feeds and still rest on a few days of data.
• Headway is independent of the City of Madison and Metro Transit; times can differ from what the buses do.
• MIT licence, Copyright (c) 2026 Kosuke Satake. Third-party material: THIRD_PARTY.md.

v0.2.0

Direction-aware map (a route or one direction of it on its own, with arrows), alerts and late or early buses shown on the map, trip planner fixes (stops across the street, editable saved places, journey bar), notifications for watched routes, routes drawn at once on launch, and a Cloudflare Worker that records the city's feeds around the clock.

v0.1.0

First working version: offline map of Madison with every route and stop, live buses, stop and bus sheets, timetables, search, settings and service alerts.