# Ride - track your eSK8 rides — The ultimate eSK8 companion

> Electric skateboard ride tracker with photo logging and speed monitoring. (iPhone/iPad app by Kane Cheshire.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ride-track-your-esk8-rides/id1271234198 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kane Cheshire](https://appshunter.io/developer/948478739)
- Category: Sports, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.84/5 from 1,867 App Store ratings · 160 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 58 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2017-09-04
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ride-track-your-esk8-rides/id1271234198/reviews.md

## What is Ride?

Ride - the ultimate eSK8 companion app. Stop using apps built for running!

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FEATURES: 

- Ride automatically finds all photos you took during a ride, you don't have to do anything except take photos. Works with most camera apps that save to the camera roll on your iPhone.

- Tap anywhere on a route to see what speed you were travelling.

- Track your rides with Ride on iPhone or Apple Watch, completely independently. Rides automatically sync from your Apple Watch to your iPhone.

- See your current, average and top speed instantly during your ride.

- Track total elevation gain and loss to figure out the best routes.

- Ride for Apple Watch speedometer is always available during a ride, just start a ride and raise your wrist.

- View individual ride total distance, duration, top speed and more.

- See your overall Ride stats like total distance ridden combined.

- View your entire ride history on a beautiful map.

- Epic ride? Gorgeous smooth roads? Easily share a bespoke image of your route.

- Smart-saving discards rides you accidentally started.

- Real-time syncing of settings across the iOS and watchOS apps.

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OPTIONALLY, connect to a Boosted Vehicle for an enhanced experience:

- Automatically start tracking a ride as soon as your vehicle starts moving, without even launching the app. (iOS only)

- Automatically end a ride when your vehicle disconnects.

- Monitor your current charge level and status.

- View and change your current vehicle mode from either iPhone or Apple Watch. (Your vehicle must be stationary to change mode!)

- Smart, configurable notifications for critical battery levels and when your vehicle is "sufficiently charged".

- IFTTT support allowing you to hook up WiFi sockets to IFTTT triggers when your vehicle is sufficiently charged etc (handy for people who live at the top of hills and can't charge their vehicle to 100%)

- Share your current vehicle stats in a bespoke snapshot.

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More eSK8 boards are being considered for future versions.

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Feeling generous and want to support future development of Ride? Find the optional in-app purchases to tip Kane Cheshire, the independent designer and developer who works on Ride.

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Feature request or something not working quite right? Reach out on Twitter or Reddit and let me know.

## Key features

- Automatic photo logging during rides
- Real-time speed display
- Independent iPhone and Apple Watch tracking
- Elevation gain and loss tracking
- Ride history map view
- Bespoke ride sharing
- Smart ride saving

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tier 1 Tip | $0.99 | one-time |
| Tier 2 Tip | $2.99 | one-time |
| Tip Tier 3 | $4.99 | one-time |
| Tip Tier 4 | $9.99 | one-time |
| Tier 5 Tip | $14.99 | one-time |
| Tip Tier 6 | $19.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Ride?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Accurate and fun to track
- 👍 Straightforward and easy to use
- 👍 Great to track rides on my board
- 👍 Hands free and easy to use
- 👍 Great for riding, running and walking
- 👍 Works great
- 👍 Unexpectedly amazing
- 👍 Awesome for e-skate
- 👍 Better than the original BB App
- 👍 Essential if you ride on a longboard or skateboard
- 👍 Fantastic app! My favorite apple watch app
- 👍 Perfect ride companion
- 👍 Must-have for electric skateboarders
- 👍 Best app out there
- 👍 Parfait
- 👍 Must-Have for Boosted owners
- 👍 Best Boosted app
- 👍 What the Boosted Board app should have been
- 👍 Essential for Boosted Board owners
- 👍 Amazing app
- 👍 Hands down best!
- 👍 Cruise in style

**Cons**

- 🔋 Akku Verbrauch ist unglaublich hoch!
- 🐛 Won't pair!
- 🐛 Used to work, now it doesn't
- 🐛 Broken in iOS 15, doesn't start
- 🐛 Horrible, doesn't even locate my board to connect it
- 🐛 can't use board
- 🐛 Needs an update
- 🐛 Not booting up
- 🐛 Watch Support Fails

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Can't update new battery

**Most requested features**

- Add Evolve Boards
- Add Backfire board in the future
- Manual add for a board that isn't compatible
- Breaking up the ride time into active/stopped/total time
- Ability to save trips in the app
- Export gpx files
- Add other boards for connection
- Support for multiple boards
- Indicator for percentage of battery used for a ride
- Auto ride tracking as an option
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard

## Recent user reviews (10 of 160)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ride-track-your-esk8-rides/id1271234198/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Very fun!

*2025-03-12, version 2.3*

Accurate and fun to track

### 5/5 — a great product from a greater god!

*2025-03-11, version 2.3*

I don’t know if he still has the god complex thing going on but what an awesome easy and beneficial app.   Only drawback is some guy(s) fell a little head over heels for “boosty boards”  but  I did have feelings for my backfire so who am I to talk/joke anyway.    Stay good.  Be safe and screw helmets.  Mazzle mazzle—-good things

### 5/5 — Great way to track runs

*2024-12-23, version 2.3*

Straightforward and easy to use

### 5/5 — good

*2024-12-11, version 2.3*

thanks

### 5/5 — Wash park

*2024-12-07, version 2.3*

Great ride really smooth around two lakes .  Be careful crosswalks , slow down for them and pass the tight shirt wearing cyclists at will 🤘🏻6mikes from 1595 S Jackson St.

### 5/5 — Add Evolve Boards

*2024-10-14, version 2.3*

Great app! However, as time moves on, so do I. It would be great if you added functionality for Evolve boards in addition to Boosted.

### 5/5 — Best app for e-skate

*2024-09-13, version 2.3*

I love this app. I use it every time I go for a ride.

### 5/5 — Absolutely wonderful

*2024-09-10, version 2.3*

This app is everything I need to work my board it tracks range and battery life and tells you how far you’ll be able to go on a certain percentage of charge app is completely free would recommend 👍👍👍

### 5/5 — sigma app

*2024-08-20, version 2.3*

this app is really sigma and awesome for when you wanna go on rides

### 4/5 — Great so far

*2024-07-22, version 2.3*

Got this board used as a gift. Only complaint is can’t change the boards name.

## Frequently asked questions about Ride

### What does the Ride app do?

The Ride app is a dedicated companion for electric skateboard (eSK8) riders. It allows you to track your rides, monitor your speed in real-time, record elevation changes, and automatically find photos you took during your journey. It also provides a comprehensive history of your rides on a map.

### What are the key features of the Ride app?

Key features include automatic photo logging from your camera roll, real-time speed and average speed display, independent tracking on iPhone and Apple Watch, elevation gain/loss tracking, a map view of your ride history, and the ability to share custom ride summaries. It also offers smart ride saving to discard accidental starts.

### Is the Ride app free to use?

The app is free to download and use for its core tracking features. However, it offers optional in-app purchases for users who wish to support the independent developer and future development of the app.

### What devices is the Ride app compatible with?

The app is designed for iOS devices, including iPhones and Apple Watches, allowing for independent tracking. Some enhanced features, like automatic ride start/stop when connected to a Boosted Vehicle, are specific to iOS.

### Can I connect the app to my electric skateboard?

Yes, optionally, you can connect to a Boosted Vehicle for an enhanced experience. This allows for automatic ride tracking when your vehicle starts moving, automatic ride ending when it disconnects, monitoring of charge level, and changing vehicle modes directly from the app.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3 — 2020-08-04

NEW:
- Adds serial number, firmware version, battery firmware version, model number etc to vehicle info.
- More overall Ride app stats: longest distance recorded in a single ride, longest duration recorded in a single ride, total locations recorded and most locations recorded in a single ride.
- Adds a way for you to export rides to JSON, and import again. You could use this to export from one device and import on another, until cross-device syncing is built. This also means you can "back up" your rides before trying out a beta of Ride or iOS, since you can't always downgrade. 

FIXED:
- Improves odometer calculation, specifically for the Rev which was wildly incorrect. You might find that the value is slightly different or incorrect until you next connect your vehicle.
- Fixes an issue where the app could be killed in the background while a ride is paused, causing you to lose your in-progress ride.
- Fixed a few crashes with Realm, the underlying database that Ride currently uses.
- Fixes a bug where the ride snapshot when sharing a ride would look wrong if the device is in dark mode.

### 2.2 — 2019-12-18

Hello!

Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season. I'm sorry for the delay in getting this update out to you, we got a puppy and everything else got put on pause! 

Here's what's changed in 2.2:

- Support for auto-pausing and auto-resuming rides when your board stops and starts.
- Support for automatically turning off or on the Rev headlight when your screen brightness drops below a chosen level (i.e. when you're outside at night or in a tunnel).
- Auto-end will no longer trigger if your board is currently moving.
- Suppresses connect/disconnect notifications so you get spammed less when the connection drops and reconnects straight away.
- Adds a new notification for when your Ride has auto-ended.
- Fixes getting spammed with notifications when boards periodically drop to 99% charged and back up to 100% while on charge.
- Formats elevation gain/loss based on your chosen units.
- The odometer values will update when you foreground the iOS app, without needing your vehicle to reconnect.
- Adopts new iOS 13 card style presentation of screens.
- Properly calls the Rev a Rev instead of Scooter A.
- Fixes an issue where changing the Rev's mode through Ride wouldn't reflect properly in the app until the next connection, even though the mode was changed.
- Improved logging. (Sending logs to me to debug issues helps immensely!)
- Slight tweaks to copy throughout.

I've also started designing Ride 3, although I can't give any timelines on when it will be out. Ride 3 will help improve how you navigate rides when you've tracked multiple, and hopefully support multiple boards at once!

### 2.1 — 2019-01-08

Hello, Riders!

I've been working on a neat update for you all ready for Spring. 
Here's what's new in v2.1:

- Introducing Auto-start: Ride can now automatically start tracking a ride for those of you who own a Boosted board. As soon as your board starts moving, Ride will start tracking your ride. Combined with Auto-end, Ride is more powerful than ever. You can automatically track full rides without ever opening the app (so long as you've given Ride the right permissions).

- Super lovely new charging animation in Ride for iOS. Check it out!

- Ride for Apple Watch has a brand-spanking new UI. Significantly quicker to navigate as horizontally paged screens, with the speedometer in the middle page, board details to the left, and ride details to the right. Everything looks fresher and more refined.

- Support for Apple Watch Series 4's new set of Complications.

- Ride can now optionally also track rides as "Skating sport" workouts, both on iPhone and Apple Watch. Workouts are saved to Health, and contribute to your daily Apple Watch activity if you have one.

- Ride for Apple Watch now better reflects individual board settings, like critical charge levels.

- Complications will update more frequently where possible, like when connecting to power. 3rd party apps only get 50 updates a day, so Ride is still careful about when it updates the Complications on your Watch face.

- Fixes an issue where deleting and re-installing Ride for watchOS wouldn't immediately sync already paired boards and settings. This also helps with multi-Watch users who switch between Watches.

- Ride now shows you total elevation gained and lost on rides, even ones you previously recorded. Ride uses the GPS data your device provides, so isn't always 100% accurate.

- Ride now confirms deletion of rides in Ride for iOS.

- Added an activity indicator when testing IFTTT triggers.

- Fixed an issue where it was possible to tap on the map during a ride and see the last recorded ride's speeds.

Suggestions? Something not working quiet right? Reach out to me on Twitter @RideHelp.

Don't forget you can always leave a tip in the app if you want to support ongoing development.

Thanks! 

Kane.

### 2 — 2018-08-06

Ride 2 is here, and I'm extremely proud of it! Along with a fresh new look, Ride 2 brings lots of great new features and tweaks:

- A unified ride history and ride tracking experience, meaning you track a ride directly on the main map screen
- Ride now finds ALL photos you took on a ride using any camera app saved to your photo roll and displays them in your ride history!
- Tap anywhere on a route and see what speed you were going
- Adds a new button to zoom to your current location
- See your overall Ride stats
- Significantly improved GPS filtering algorithm to vastly reduce the amount of incorrect speed results
- Improved GPS quality messaging when GPS is low
- Simplified notification text
- Changing Ride mode is even easier on watchOS
- See your odometer value on watchOS
- More reliable battery level on watchOS
- More reliable watchOS complication
- Moved to MapBox which means I'll be able to support different themes in the future
- Support for new boards
- Added an acknowledgements screen
- Significantly more reliable connection

If you have any feedback or ideas please let me know on Twitter @RideHelp or Reddit r/RideApp

### 1.2.0 — 2018-02-17

Hey Riders!

After a short winter hiatus to work on other apps, I'm back with an exciting update to Ride.

Here's what's changed in v1.2.0:

- Added support for IFTTT, which enables cool things like being able to turn off your board at 90% charge if you live at the top of a hill and don't want to charge to 100% to avoid over-charging. If you need assistance setting this up feel free to find me on Twitter @RideHelp or KaneCheshire on Reddit.
- Added support for Boosted Board extended range batteries. Thanks to everyone who helped!
- Adds option to enable or disable sufficient charge and critical charge notifications.
- Sliders can now be configured in 5% increments rather than 10% giving you more control.
- Added a fix for the battery info sometimes showing as 0% when you first connect a board.
- Tweaked the odometer calculation algorithm.
- Fixes a share icon sometimes showing as white when it should be the same colour as text.

Ride is and always will be free to use with absolutely no paywalls, but it does take a significant amount of my time to develop new features. If you want to support future development please consider leaving a tip in the app. Thanks!

Kane.

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