Speed Vario

Speed Vario

Speed · Altitude · Vario

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Released
May 5, 2026
Updated
October 27, 2026

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Background Location Access

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Speed, altitude, climb rate: the three numbers that matter when you are moving, live, on your wrist or in your pocket. Speed Vario is the instrument for cyclists, hikers, skiers, paragliders, sailors and pilots who want an accurate reading — no account, no subscription, no ads. SAY WHAT YOU ARE DOING, THE SCREEN FOLLOWS Walking, cycling, driving, skiing, paragliding, flying or on the water: every activity gets its own dashboard. On foot, pace and cadence. On skis, runs and lifts counted, with their names. In the air, QNH, flight level, airtime and the airfields you used. On the water, knots, heading, depth. Speed is measured, altitude fuses barometer and GPS, the variometer reads every climb and every sink. ON YOUR WRIST TOO On Apple Watch, everything live — and standalone recording when the iPhone stays home. Paragliding, the vario taps your wrist to the rhythm of the lift. And for heart rate, a Bluetooth strap is enough — Polar, Garmin, Wahoo and their equivalents — with or without a watch. FIND YOUR WAY Follow a route on the iPhone and the Apple Watch, with a voice when you stray: import a GPX, or draw your own on the map, snapped to the trails. Mark a point and aim at it - bearing, distance and, in flight, the glide ratio needed to reach it. In the air, your height above the ground below, and a recording that starts by itself at take-off. THEN, RELIVE THE OUTING A logbook per activity, with the totals. Your track laid over real 3D terrain, a chase camera that replays it second by second, a fly-through video to share. Compare two outings, recognise a route you have done before, export to GPX, FIT, IGC, KMZ or CSV. SHARE IT LIVE, PRIVATELY Send a link or a QR code and someone you choose follows your outing on a 3D map, in real time, from any browser - no app, no account for them. It is optional and off by default. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, and only the link opens it: the developer cannot read your position or your heart rate. A red Stop button is always within reach, and the link ends with your outing. SAFE, AND YOURS An optional iCloud backup copies every outing to your own iCloud space and brings it back on a new iPhone - your heart rate is never stored in iCloud. Everything works offline, down to the map and its place names. No account, no ads, no trackers. Live sharing, if you turn it on, is end-to-end encrypted: your data stays yours.
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What's New in Speed Vario

4.0

October 27, 2026

SHARE YOUR OUTING LIVE Send a link, or show a QR code, and someone you choose follows you on a 3D map - with your speed, altitude, distance and, if you wish, the colour of your heart-rate zone. It is optional and off by default: nothing leaves your phone until you tap Start sharing, and a red Stop button stays one tap away on the iPhone and on the watch. Everything is encrypted on your device before it is sent, and only the link you share can open it - not even the developer can read it. The Apple Watch sends its own points when it records. Sharing ends with your outing: the final track stays visible for 2 hours, and a link never lives more than 24 hours. Heart rate is a separate switch, off by default. A NEW LOOK, MAP FIRST Designed for iOS 26: the dashboard now sits on the map, the controls float in glass, and the header gathers GPS, sharing, settings and help in one compact dock. The activity chip keeps just its icon, in the colour of the mode. COMPARE TWO OUTINGS Out and back, or two attempts at the same route: the app reads the direction of travel and times the stretch the two outings share. NAMED AUTOMATICALLY Every outing is named as you record it: A -> B for a one-way trip, the summit you reached for a loop. LIFT AND ROLLER-COASTER RIDES (EXPERIMENTAL) Turn on Experimental modes in Settings. Elevator counts the floors, Roller coaster finds the peak g-force, the airtime and the biggest drop, tied to the curves. On the Apple Watch Ultra, the Action button starts and stops a ride. ALSO Waypoints now travel with your iCloud backup. Widgets and the Live Activity follow the language you chose in the app. A watchdog notices when the GPS goes silent, so the speed no longer freezes. Recordings shorter than 15 seconds are no longer saved. The help is rewritten - 28 articles - and a short tour shows what is new the first time you open this version. Requires iOS 26 and watchOS 26.

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