Best Bike Computer2.5.3 - App Store

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
- Complete description of app on app web site.
- 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.
- Ability to enter a note for each trip.
- 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

Version History - Fixed defect that was preventing export of data file.
- Fixed defect that showed a non-zero speed when stopped. 2.5.3 06/27/2024 New features:
- You can now add a note for each trip displayed in the Previous Trips screen. This data is exported with the other data in the CSV file.
- In the list of previous trips, max values for all trips are shown in Bold font. These correspond to the values shown in the All Trips header. 2.5.2 06/10/2024 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. 2.5.0 04/17/2024 - 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. 2.4.7 06/07/2023 - On the Current Trip screen, an arrow is now displayed next to Altitude to indicate sustained increase or decrease in altitude.
- Added to Previous Trips screen All Trips Header: Max Time and Max Altitude. 2.4.6 04/10/2023 New feature: Return ETA calculation. This calculation estimates the time of arrival at your starting point for rides that are "out and back". Can be useful if you need to end your ride by a certain time. The app attempts to detect that you have reversed course and stops updating the Return ETA at that point. See the app web site for details on this feature. Return ETA is available for speech announcement (replaces Current Speed which is no longer available for announcement).

New feature: Maximum altitude. The app now tracks and displays the maximum altitude for a ride. This data is saved with other previous trips data and exported in the CSV file.

New feature: Maximum average speed. The app calculates the maximum average speed from all previous trips and displays it with other "All Trips" data. On the Current Trip screen, a + or - indicator is displayed with the Average Speed value. This indicates whether your current average speed is higher or lower that the maximum average speed from all previous trips. This can be useful for training rides where you are trying to best you previous average speed.

Additional detail has been added to the Help website for the app: https://sites.google.com/view/bestbikeapp 2.4.4 10/05/2022 - Force "light" mode on devices with dark mode set.
- Maximum average speed for all trips now calculated and displayed for Previous Trips
- Route can now be exported in GPX format (should be done immediately after you end the ride).
- Future versions may not support versions of iOS prior to 12.0. 2.4.1 09/02/2022 - Changed yellow fonts to black for better visibility.
- Elevation gain calculation changed so that only elevation increases of 1 meter or more will be added to gain. This is intended to filter out small spurious elevation changes when riding on a level trail. 2.3.8 06/07/2022 Corrected defect that caused crash on earlier versions of iOS. 2.3.7 12/06/2021 Cosmetic changes for iOS 15 compatibility. 2.3.6 12/03/2021 Compatibility updates for iOS 13. 2.3.5 05/02/2020 New feature: Added the ability to record data on a "lap" or subset of your ride. New buttons have been added to the current trip screen to start and stop a lap and to switch between displaying lap data and (total) trip data.
- Lap data is not voice announced or saved; it is only displayed.
Other features and changes:
- New help web site and support Email address (in Settings/About).
- App notifies the user (with voice announce if enabled) when the battery level on the phone drops to 30% and again at 20%.
- Notification for zero speed for 10 minutes now includes voice announce (if enabled). 2.3.4 03/03/2018 Improved gain calculation to be less sensitive to small altitude changes.
Removed ability to share CSV export file via iTunes.
Changes to All Trips section in Previous Trips screen:
- Replaced Total Gain with Max Distance
- Renamed Trip time to Total time
- Renamed Distance to Total Dst
- Renamed Calories to Total Calories

In future versions, the GPS coordinates on the Current Trip screen may be removed or replaced. If you have input on this change, send an Email to the author (Settings/About screen). 2.2.9 08/01/2017 - Minor changes to improve operation on iOS 10
- Removed feature that prevents voice announce during phone calls 2.2.8 11/23/2016 Added support for iOS 10 2.2.6 09/30/2016 • Music now "ducks" when speech is active.
• End button is hidden when not active for better usability. 2.2.5 06/29/2016 • Added a slider to control speech rate.
• Added support for background GPS reading in iOS 9. 2.2.3 06/14/2016 • Additional improvement of altitude metrics (altitude, delta altitude and gain) by using GPS and altimeter hardware.
• Can now set voice announcement by distance intervals in addition to time intervals.
• Announcement (optional) at end of trip.
• Changed metrics on Map screen to direction, trip distance, trip time. Now uses dynamic (variable size) type for Map screen.
• Fixed defect that prevented notifying the user if the bike didn’t move for 10 minutes.
• Added a button on the “About” screen to send direct Email to the developer. 2.1.0 07/24/2015 - Added cumulative elevation gain (altitude gain) calculation.
- Use of altitude gain in calorie calculation.
- Use of altimeter hardware (when available) for more accurate calculation of delta altitude and altitude gain.
- Use of sizable fonts (dynamic type) on previous trips and settings screens.
- Better use of available screen space on all phone sizes for current trip screen.
- Ability to control which metrics are announced during speech announcement.
- Announcement (optional) at start of trip to verify metrics and volume.
- Fixed defect that caused intermittent crashes when deleting row from previous trips.
- Fixed defect that prevented notifying the user if the bike didn’t move for 10 minutes. 2.0.0 04/01/2015 1.1.3 11/25/2014