About Best Bike Computer
The Best Bike Computer is a biking performance tracking application developed by a biker. It tracks various metrics from your bike ride and saves them for review in Best Bike or export in a CSV file. The exported file can...
The Best Bike Computer is a biking performance tracking application developed by a biker. It tracks various metrics from your bike ride and saves them for review in Best Bike or export in a CSV file. The exported file can be opened with Excel for detailed analysis.
In addition to saving your bike trip data in the application, Best Bike exports it to the Apple Health application (calories burned, cycling distance and workout).
The Best Bike user interface is simple and designed for ease of use during a ride but viewing the screen is not necessary; Best Bike will speak the metrics you choose at the time or distance interval you choose.
Best Bike can show you your current location on the map and optionally show you where you have been on your ride. Your route on the map can be exported in GPX format.
Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
Features
- GPS-based recording of data for your bike ride.
- Displays current speed, altitude, GPS location and…
- Records distance, time, max & average speed, delta altitude, maximum altitude, altitude gain, calories.
- For "out and back" rides, estimates the time you will return to the starting point.
- Uses altimeter hardware on iPhone (if available) to improve altitude metrics.
- Calorie calculation based on distance, weight (from Health app if available), speed and gain.
- Data from each trip saved in app and in Health app (if available).
- Display of summary data from all trips.
- Data can be exported in CSV format for import into Excel.
- Shows your location on map and your route so far. The route can be exported in GPX format.
- Map in streets, satellite or both view with north up or heading up orientation.
- Voice announcement of trip data at time or distance intervals allows you to ride without looking at display.
- Choice of 5, 10, 15 or 30 minute intervals for voice announcement.
- Voice announcement is compatible with playing of music during recording of ride.
- Choice of metrics announced by voice.
- Ability to give announcement at start of trip (to confirm volume level, metrics, etc).
- Ability to vibrate before announcement.
- Ability to automatically pause recording of ride when bike is stopped.
- App runs in background and doesn't interfere with phone calls, etc.
- Notification if you have zero speed for 10 minutes without pausing the trip recording.
- Ability to change font size on previous trips and settings screens (controlled by iPhone Settings app)
- Ability to control the speech rate.
- Ability to record lap data and alternate between viewing it and total trip data.
- Notification when battery level drops to 30% and 20%.
Data Recorded During Your Ride
- Current speed
- Total distance during ride (saved in Health app)
- Total time of ride
- Current position (displayed in coordinates and on map)
- Where you have been (on map display)
- Compass heading
- Average speed
- Whether your current speed is above or below your average speed (indicated by + or – after current speed)
- Whether your average speed is above or below the maximum average speed from all previous trips (+ or - indicator)
- Maximum speed
- Altitude
- Delta altitude (difference between minimum and maximum altitude during ride)
- Maximum altitude
- Calories burned
- Cumulative elevation gain (or altitude gain)
- Data calculated for all trips combined: Total time, average speed, maximum speed, maximum average speed, total calories, maximum distance, total distance
Apr 17, 2024
Version 2.5.0
The displayed altitude values are now filtered using a digital filter algorithm. This reduces some of the spurious altitude fluctuations when riding on a level surface. Riders that frequently ride on level terrain will notice a reduction in the Altitude Gain and Calories values because some erroneous fluctuations are now being filtered out.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Best Bike Computer since it was posted on our website on 2023-09-25 16:18:58.
The latest version is 2.5.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 19:30:17. See below the changes in each version.
Best Bike Computer version 2.5.0
Updated At: 2024-04-17
Changes: Apr 17, 2024
Version 2.5.0
The displayed altitude values are now filtered using a digital filter algorithm. This reduces some of the spurious altitude fluctuations when riding on a level surface. Riders that frequently ride on level terrain will notice a reduction in the Altitude Gain and Calories values because some erroneous fluctuations are now being filtered out.
Best Bike Computer version 2.4.7
Updated At: 2023-06-07
Changes: Jun 7, 2023
Version 2.4.7
- Low battery warning has been improved. You are now warned via speech when battery level reaches 30%, 20%, and 10%. When battery level reaches 5%, the trip is saved and ended.
- Return ETA calculation now measures stops (pauses) in return trip and adds these to the return ETA.
- Average speed display suffix on current trip screen changed: "-" means your average is lower the average of all trips, "+" means your average is higher the average of all trips, "++" means your average is higher than the highest average of any trip.
