BikeOtter for Bike Computers

BikeOtter is a companion app for the Wahoo ELEMNT (BOLT, ROAM and ACE). It talks to the head unit over the unit's own Bluetooth protocol — there is no vendor cloud in the middle, no second account to make, and no cable. PLAN A ROUTE, WITH THE STOPS YOU ACTUALLY NEED Build a route on your phone, or import a GPX. Drop in water, food, toilets, shelter or a bike shop straight off the map and see what each one is before you decide to detour to it. SEND IT TO THE HEAD UNIT Push the route to your ELEMNT over Bluetooth and it appears in the unit's saved routes — with your stops still on it. Already riding something? BikeOtter reads back the course the unit has loaded, so the phone and the head unit agree about where you are going. PULL YOUR RIDES BACK Download a finished ride off the device as a .fit file, look at it, keep it, or turn it straight back into a route to ride again. Hand it to Strava automatically if you want to. PUT THE WEATHER ON THE SCREEN See rain and wind along the route before you leave, and have BikeOtter write a warning onto the head unit's display while you ride — rain in twenty minutes, a headwind on the next leg, a climb worth saving something for. YOUR OWN RULES Pick a trigger — every so many minutes or kilometres, or a grade, heart-rate or temperature threshold — and BikeOtter writes your own message to the ELEMNT's screen when it fires. Including a sunscreen reminder that follows the actual UV index. NOTIFICATIONS, ON YOUR TERMS Forward phone notifications to the head unit from only the apps you choose. Nothing is forwarded until you say so. SHARE WHERE YOU ARE Give someone a link and they see you move on a map, with your route and how much of it is left. The link keeps working when your phone loses signal and comes back. FREE, AND WHAT PLUS ADDS Sending routes, pulling rides, Strava, ride alerts, live sharing and joining a group ride are free. BikeOtter Plus, a subscription or a one-time purchase, adds the parts that run on servers or build on them: route weather and rain radar, address search and the route planner, stops along the route, turn-cue control, your own rules, hosting a group ride and offline maps. Most of them can be tried a few times before Plus is asked for. BikeOtter is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Wahoo Fitness or Garmin. "Wahoo", "ELEMNT", "Garmin" and "Edge" are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to say which hardware this app works with. You need a Wahoo ELEMNT bike computer to use most of this app. Garmin Edge support is experimental: pairing and sending routes work on a real Edge 540; pulling rides back is built but not yet confirmed on one, and the rest is still being built. Privacy policy: https://bikeotter.app/privacy/ Terms: https://bikeotter.app/terms/