Version 6.0 - What's new?

Version 6.0 is about what you do with what you record: before the trip, on the way and afterwards.

Before you go, plan it. Tap out your way with the ruler : in a straight line, as you fly or sail, or along the roads and trails for how you travel. It draws the profile of the land along your way and gives every leg its distance and the land’s ascent and descent, so you can plan your effort leg by leg before you set off.

On the way, pace yourself. Don’t burn out halfway up: the Climb panel shows how steep it is right now, how much of the climb you have already done, and how far and how high it still is to the top, so you know when to hold back and when to give it everything.

Make it a race. Beat your own best, or the friend who dared to send you their track: in the Ghost race the ghost sets off with you, and the gap shows live, second by second.

Listen to your body. Watch your Bluetooth heart rate and cadence live on the way, and now, if you want, keep them with the track and the video. Afterwards the chart shows how hard your heart worked on every climb and whether your cadence kept your knees safe, and the readings become videos of their own , to lay over your action cam footage or to show off.

Afterwards, find where it hurt. A total says little about the day; the map and the chart show all of it. Colour the route by speed, altitude, gradient or heart rate, and the hard parts light up on the map; drag along the chart and read the grade, the steepest 100 m and your climbing rate at any point of a climb , with your heart rate beside them. You see where you lost speed, where your heart hit its limit, and what to do differently next time.

Then watch yourself get better. One good day proves nothing; a trend does. Every climb of your track is measured and set against every time you did it before , with your best and your trend; a race shows the very spot where you won or lost the seconds; and your pauses and the places the GPS lost you are marked, so the numbers are honest. Now you can see that you are getting faster, and by how much.

Keep it all as a book . The route, your waypoints, the pinned tracks and the maps with their offline tiles in one file: one tap to focus on the trip, one file to share, or to keep as a backup. Look for inspiration in the book library : open a sample, and see how it is made.

Do more with fewer taps. No digging through menus while you move: the side toolbar puts the tools you reach for most one tap from the dashboard, on the side of any iPhone and iPad, and you adjust them to the task in hand: the track, a waypoint and the camera, or your target, heading and altitude, in the order you want. And on the iPhone Duo we don’t let a single pixel go to waste: the toolbar lives in its vertical bar, and every screen of the app is fitted to the new display.

Side toolbar: one tap from the dashboard

Start a track, mark a waypoint or film the trail without opening the menu, and keep the way to your target, your heading or your altitude in view while you move. You choose the tools and their order, from TRACK, POINT and CAMERA to TARGET, COMPASS, ALT and COORDINATES. On other iPhones and iPads, turn it on in Settings, MENU > SETTINGS > Side toolbar, and it shows in landscape; on the iPhone Duo it is on by default. Without the Pro Pack, the TRACK tool shows a lock until you upgrade .

More on the side toolbar.

Made for the iPhone Duo

On the iPhone Duo the vertical bar beside the screen is no longer empty: the side toolbar is on there by default, with the phone closed or open and in every orientation, with the tools you choose (TRACK needs the Pro Pack ). Around it, the app was gone through screen by screen for the Duo:

• Lists and settings stop at the vertical bar: their section headers, separators, search fields and footers no longer run underneath it.
• The dashboard’s corners, the menu and the map’s buttons keep clear of the bar and the camera, in every pose.
• Screens follow when you fold or unfold the phone: the waypoint list and the track screen keep their full width.

The side toolbar on the iPhone Duo.

Climb: how steep is it, and how far to the top?

The Climb panel answers on the way up: the grade under you, this climb so far, and, along a track you pick, how far and how high it is to the top, with the profile ahead. Put it in a panel or along the map.

• The climbs of a recorded track PRO — the Climb and Climb by climb panels find every climb in a track and measure each one: its length, height, average and steepest 100 m, and its time.
• Am I getting faster up this hill? PRO — compare a climb with every time up it, see your best, and keep all your climbs in My climbs.

More on the live Climb. · The climbs of a recorded track. · Your climbs over time.

Ruler: how far is it, really?

Tap a point on the map and read the distance, the bearing and the climb as the crow flies. Keep tapping to plan a loop, let the legs follow the roads and trails for how you travel, slide along the elevation profile, and keep the plan as a route book PRO.

More on the ruler.

Bluetooth sensors, recorded and on video

Heart rate, cadence and wheel speed from the Bluetooth panel no longer end on the screen. No watch needed:

• Recorded with every track: PRO on the chart beside speed and altitude, as route colours on the map, in the stats, and in GPX exports for Strava, Garmin Connect and other tools.
• On video: live on the camera, stamped into the recording, and exported as transparent overlay videos, from a video or from a track.
• They stay connected: a saved sensor connects by itself when it shows up again, and stays connected on every screen while a track records.

More on Bluetooth sensors. · Bluetooth sensors on video.

Books: everything one trip needs, in one file PRO

A book packs a trip into a single file: a route with its course notes, waypoint collections (camps, fuel stops, zones to avoid), the tracks you want on the map, and the map itself, with its offline tiles and ground image overlays. Make one from what is on your phone, run it with the compass arrow on the next course note and the notes read aloud as you reach them, and share it. Open MENU > Books, or start with a sample from the book library .

More on books. · The book library.

Ghost race: was I faster than last time? PRO

Pick a track you have recorded, go to its start and tap Start: the track’s ghost sets off with you, exactly as it was recorded. All the way you see whether you are ahead or behind, by how many seconds and how far, and at the end you get your time and the final gap. On foot, by bike, board or car, from the small Ghost race panel.

Every race is kept with the track it recorded, so afterwards you can see where you gained time and where you lost it.

More on the Ghost race. · Analyze a race.

Breaks in a track: your pauses and your GPS reception PRO

Where did I pause? Where did the GPS lose reception, and for how long? A track now keeps its breaks, and shows them: on the chart as a gray band where there was no position and a light magenta band for a pause, and on the map, with Breaks in a track set to Dashed, as a dashed line across the part that was not recorded. The climbs and the totals use only what was measured.

More on breaks in a track.

Upgrade to the Pro Pack

The side toolbar, everything made for the iPhone Duo, the live Climb, the ruler, and the Bluetooth panel and sensor overlays on video are free. Everything that needs a recorded track — the climbs of your tracks and your climbs over time, the Ghost race, Bluetooth sensors recorded with the track, and the breaks in a track — books, and keeping a ruler plan as a route book come with the Pro Pack, a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. It also brings track recording and sharing, offline maps, Channels and more: everything in the Pro Pack .