The Ushahidi iOS app has come along way since it was first released seven months ago. The app has gone through several iterations including a number of new features with each version:

• 1.0 – iPhone and iPad interface, support for multiple maps, offline reporting
• 1.1 – sharing via Twitter, sharing via email, sharing via SMS
• 1.2 – iOS 4 high-res retina icons, deployment map list
• 1.3 – locating maps near you
• 1.4 – edit pending reports, dragging map pins, Checkins
• 1.5 – bug fixes and minor improvements

We are proud to announce two important new features in the latest version: multi-lingual support and white-label functionality.

Multi-lingual Support

Ushahidi iOS now supports 18 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Hindi, Swahili, Arabic, Catalan, Japanese, Greek and Lithuanian.

Huge thank you to the Ushahidi community for helping translate the app, it was sort of fitting that the crowd helped us translate our crowdsourcing app.

White-label Functionality

Ushahidi iOS now supports white-labeling, allowing you to re-brand and publish your own customized stand-alone version to the App Store.

This has been a highly requested feature, and we are glad to finally have this functionality available to the community. Instructions how to white-label your own version of the app can be found in the README in the GitHub repository.

Download the new version of Ushahidi iOS at http://bit.ly/ushahidi_ios_app

What can you expect in future versions? Here’s a glimpse what we have in store: admin functionality, map pin clustering, push notifications, report commenting, custom fields, route tracking.

Is there a feature or improvement you’d like to see? Let us know.