Settings, Tools & Projects

What you land on when you open MuirWave — a status bar across the top, a grid of tiles, and a data-freshness dock. Everything else in the app opens from here.

The MuirWave wordmark, a tri-clock, and live-data status chips. The tri-clock reads three times at once so you're never guessing which zone a figure is in:

A strip along the home screen showing, at a glance, how current your live data is before you start work — so you know whether you're on fresh feeds or the built-in climatology without opening a scenario.

All four open from the home screen. They share the same dark chrome and readable-width layout, so they read as siblings. Here's what each one owns.

Settings is a sidebar on the left and a panel on the right: pick a category, and its cards fill the panel. Here's every card and what it does — each one now sits in the category named beside it rather than in one long scroll.

Unit defaults

Six rows, one per quantity, each showing every option at once rather than making you cycle blindly through them: Depth (FT · M · FM), Range (NM · KM · MI · YD · M), Coordinates (DMS · DDM · DD), Speed (KT · M/S · KM/H · MPH), Temperature (°C · °F) and Sound speed (M/S · FT/S). The full name of whatever you've picked sits under each row, because DDM means nothing until you've read "Degrees · Decimal minutes" once.

A change here reaches every readout in the app straight away and stays put — across a relaunch, across RESET, and across opening someone else's project. See Reference §01 for the full table of what each setting governs, including the two things with no row of their own: wave and swell height follow your depth unit, and vessel draught does too.

This card isn't the only way in. Most readouts in the app are still tap-to-cycle, which is quicker when you're looking at the number and want it in the other unit — the two write the same preference, so they can't disagree. What this card gives you that a chip can't is the list: what your options are, without discovering them one tap at a time.

Compliance Jurisdiction

A menu picker choosing which regulator's framing your impact ranges and methodology export are written for. Your choice drives the Impact Ranges panel's compliance row and the export's framing section — it does not change which thresholds get computed. Every jurisdiction still routes through the same NMFS 2024 / Southall 2019 species-group values; the picker only changes how the result is framed and cited. An APPLIES summary line under the picker spells out what that jurisdiction adds on top of the per-group table.

Display Settings

The appearance and interface-scale controls, plus two on/off toggles for the app’s visual flourishes:

Support MuirWave

Your purchases and everything to do with them, in one card:

• Your purchases — status rows for MuirWave Live (Active, Active — billing grace, payment issue — renewing, lapsed, or not subscribed) and MuirWave Pro (Owned / Not purchased).
• Manage Subscription — appears once you've ever subscribed; opens Apple's system subscription sheet (iPhone/iPad).
• Restore Purchases — reachable without hitting a paywall, per App Store rules. Re-applies anything you've already bought on this Apple ID.
• Tip jar — three optional one-off thank-you amounts. They support development and unlock nothing.
• Rate MuirWave on the App Store — opens the App Store's review composer. Always available here, so you never have to wait for MuirWave to ask. It may also ask you once itself, using Apple's own rating dialog, once you've been using it for a week or so across a few working sessions — and only when you've just put the work down, never mid-task, never on a first run, and never in a session where something went wrong.

About

App name and Version (read from the app's own bundle), the copyright and MuirWave™ ownership notice, and Privacy Policy and Terms of Use links. Quote the version whenever you report a problem — it's the first thing we'll ask for.

Two small tools that sit beside the workspace rather than inside it, each on its own home-screen tile. Neither has any data dependencies and neither touches an open scenario — they're here so you don't reach for a separate app mid-workflow.

Eleven cards on one scrolling page: five quick calculators, then the six unit converters. The calculators call the same solvers the prediction engine uses — so a sound speed you work out here is the sound speed MuirWave would use for that water, not a second opinion from a different formula. Each card names the reference it implements.

Somewhere to write down the things that don't belong in a saved scenario — a hull number, a tide window, what the client actually asked for. Type into NEW NOTE and Save note; each note is stamped with the date and time and the newest sits at the top. Delete one with its ✕.

Notes sync through iCloud on the same account, so a note written on the iPad at sea is on the Mac afterwards. Sync is Apple's to schedule and there's no way for an app to force an instant pull — to prompt it, pull down on the list (iPhone and iPad) or use the refresh button in the header (Mac). A note deleted on another device disappears here once iCloud has propagated it, which is usually seconds but occasionally longer.

Every scenario you save from the Acoustics page lands here as a card, newest first. The library mirrors across every device signed into the same iCloud account — save on the iPad, open on the Mac.

The header carries three controls (the search field folds away on a phone to save room):

Opening a project

1. Tap a card to load it
   The card's saved scenario opens on the Acoustics page — pin, frequency, depths and everything else exactly as you left them. Each card previews its frequency and source/receiver depths so you can tell scenarios apart at a glance.
2. Long-press (or right-click) for more
   A context menu offers Rename…, Duplicate, Export… and Delete….