BikeOtter

• Take a route offline — its map, its terrain and its stops — and everything keeps working with no signal. Plus, two free to try. • A downloaded route reroutes offline too: a detour and the way back both plan on the phone. • Rain radar under your route, on the route's own timeline — drag the climb profile to see the rain where you'll be. Plus. • See the surface before you ride: paved, gravel and rough, on the route line and the climb. • Open-ended "where to?" planning still needs a connection; offline covers the corridor around the route you are already on. The rain is two hours measured and four hours forecast, drawn under the route line so the plan is never hidden by the weather, and the two halves are labelled apart so a forecast never reads as a measurement. • If you leave the route, the app notices — and offers the way back. Once you have been off the line long enough that a cycle path or a café stop cannot have caused it, the route card says so, and one tap previews a leg back onto the route ahead of where you left it: what it costs, what it cuts out, and which stops go with it. Accept and it goes to your head unit. • Planning a route is now a map you can actually see. Full-screen map with the figures on a sheet you can drag, and under six stops there is no "calculate" button at all — the line, the distance, the climb and the time follow you as you edit. • Every leg tells you what it costs, "back to start" is a row at the foot of your list of stops, and a finished route is named after where it goes rather than "Planned route". • Routes stay editable. The stops a route was planned from travel with it, so you can reopen any route and move, add or remove them. • Set a target heart-rate zone per stretch of the ride — easy to km 20, the climb at threshold — and your ELEMNT announces the new target as you ride into each one. • Drink and eat reminders can go by distance now: every 5 km rather than every 20 minutes. • When the wind is against you the whole way out, the plan card says so and offers to turn the route around. • Your group-mates now appear on the ELEMNT's own map during a live ride, not just in the app — labelled with their initials, and only once they are far enough away to be worth finding. On the ROAM and BOLT V1 and V2; the newest units accept them but do not draw them. • The map itself has grown terrain: shaded relief and elevation contour lines, worldwide. • Heart-rate zones reach your ELEMNT again, and reading them back off the unit works. • A ride that stopped downloading part-way now picks up where it left off instead of starting over. • On iPhone: importing a GPX or FIT file opens the file picker instead of failing, the app no longer asks for Bluetooth before you have even started, and the swipe-back gesture works on full-screen maps again.