Heliports, the Mac Menu Bar App, and Smarter Search
A few weeks after AvClock's first release, three changes landed that pushed it well past "airport clock": heliports joined airports as a trackable location, the Mac app stopped being an afterthought and became a real menu bar utility of its own, and search got noticeably smarter about how people actually look for a place.
Heliports and hospital helipads
Airports aren't the only places that matter for time and weather. Hospital helipads and EMS pads have real operational relevance too, and they'd never fit the ICAO/IATA-code model AvClock started with. Heliports shipped as a Premium-included feature: searchable, saveable, and viewable exactly like airports, with an Airports/Heliports switch right in the list header instead of a separate app to juggle.
AvClock, now on your Mac menu bar
The Mac app isn't a scaled-down port of the iPhone version sitting in a window. It lives in the menu bar itself. Your top favorite airport's code and live local time sit right there at all times; click it for the full list, live VFR/IFR weather, and an airport detail view with sunrise/sunset and full location info. It shares AvClock Premium as a Universal Purchase: unlock it once, and it's unlocked on iPhone, iPad, and Mac alike.
Building the Mac app surfaced a real lesson worth naming: a menu bar app can't assume it's always foreground and always fast. Getting the timer-driven clock right (instead of a naive per-second full-window redraw) and loading airport data off the main thread were both necessary before the app felt native rather than like a web view wearing a menu bar icon.
Search that understands cities and states
Typing "Utah" or "Orlando" now actually finds the right airports: city and U.S. state fields were added to the underlying data pipeline and wired into search on both iPhone and Mac, alongside an in-app "Update Airport Data" button so the database stays current without waiting on an app update.
AvClock is reference and informational only, not for actual flight planning or navigation. Always use official sources (FAA, NOTAMs, charts, ATC) for that. See Data Credits for where AvClock's airport and weather data actually comes from.