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AquaNexus Has Launched
AquaNexus reached public production on Google Play on 5 September 2026. The launch baseline is AquaNexus 1.0.4, following closed testing, real-device validation and final production review. AquaNexus includes a Free plan for up to 5 systems. Keeper and Advanced are optional paid upgrades, and eligible new subscribers can try a paid plan free for 7 days through Google Play.
Production Foundation
- Public Google Play production release with a Free plan for up to 5 systems, plus optional Keeper and Advanced upgrades
- Closed testing and production-access requirements completed
- Public store listing, privacy policy, data-safety disclosures and content ratings live
- Initial availability in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States
- Offline-first aquarium management with no AquaNexus account required for normal use
- Local backup, restore and readable export workflows
- Local Wi-Fi Sync and Master Transfer between explicitly approved devices
- Optional online knowledge, weather and published source-water features
Core Aquarium Management
- Aquarium and pond management
- Livestock records, quantities, life stages, movements and history
- Water-test and water-change records
- Maintenance, equipment, supplies and servicing records
- Medication and treatment workflows
- Feeding, breeding, plant, lighting and CO₂ records
- Sales, stock and timeline history
- Reminders, photos and personalised Home views
- Metric, US customary and custom measurement support
Knowledge and Public Information
- Searchable aquatic-life profiles and care information
- Ask AquaNexus grounded aquarium guidance
- Fish health, disease, symptom and practical troubleshooting content
- Public knowledge library and original AquaNexus Field Notes
- Published South Australian source-water information with source and independence disclosures
- Product-recall information linked to identified official sources
Current focus
Product Development — Real-User Feedback
The main product stream now follows what production users actually experience. Feedback, support requests, Play Store behaviour and real-world use will determine which improvements move to the front of the queue.
Current Priorities
- Fix genuine production bugs and confusing workflows quickly
- Improve screens and interactions that users find slow, unclear or repetitive
- Improve on-screen refresh after inbound Local Wi-Fi Sync so newly received data appears immediately without requiring a manual refresh
- Monitor production crashes, ANRs, first opens, active-device trends and update behaviour
- Continue polishing backup, restore, Master Transfer and multi-device workflows
- Use aquarium-keeper feedback to decide which features deserve expansion
- Keep core records dependable before adding unnecessary complexity
Feature requests will be assessed against usefulness, reliability, livestock welfare, privacy and whether they genuinely improve aquarium management rather than simply making the feature list longer.
Near term
What Comes Next
- Gather and prioritise feedback from the first public users
- Monitor production stability, install behaviour and store-listing conversion
- Continue expanding and refining Ask AquaNexus and the public knowledge library
- Continue improving aquatic-life profiles, health guidance and source quality
- Expand source-water and weather coverage where reliable official or suitable provider data is available
- Finalise and validate monetisation, upgrade and downgrade flows before broader promotion
- Improve onboarding and feature discovery using evidence from production users
- Grow localisation and international support without reducing accuracy or clarity
- Begin broader platform planning, including an iOS version, once the Android production foundation is stable
Longer-Term Direction
AquaNexus is intended to grow from a strong consumer aquarium-management foundation into a broader platform for beginners, experienced keepers, breeders, fish rooms, ponds, marine systems and, later, professional and commercial users.
- Continued expansion of aquatic-life and care content
- Broader source-water and tap-water provider coverage
- More powerful reporting, trends and aquarium analytics
- Improved breeding, grow-out and multi-tank workflows
- Additional pond, marine and specialist-system tools
- More detailed reminders, maintenance planning and inventory workflows
- Wider language and localisation support
- Professional and commercial workflows after the consumer product is proven
- Carefully considered cloud or portal features only where they add real value without undermining AquaNexus's offline-first approach
Development Principles
- Improve the product from evidence, not hype.
- Keep essential aquarium records available locally.
- Protect existing user data during every update.
- Never hide safety-critical information behind a paid feature.
- Keep government and public-authority information clearly sourced and independent.
- Use original, licensed or appropriately reviewed content.
- Test changes before promoting them into the production version.
- Separate user-facing product work from major platform-compliance changes when that reduces release risk.
- Keep private implementation, security and infrastructure details out of the public roadmap.
Roadmap Notice
This roadmap reflects the current direction of a live product and will change as production feedback, Android requirements and aquarium-keeper needs reveal better priorities.
Planned work is not considered complete until it has passed appropriate development checks, automated testing, build verification and real-device or live-service validation where relevant.
AquaNexus is being developed for long-term reliability. A feature is only useful if aquarium keepers can trust it when they need it.
