• More reliable radar alerts — no false "all clear" if your radar drops out. • Town/street announcements and spoken alerts are steadier on long rides. • Better headphone and sensor (radar/power/HR) reconnection. • Metric unit fixes, "keep screen on" fix, and a rare startup crash resolved.

* Spoken street names. BikeTalk now calls out street names as you turn onto them, so you can keep your eyes on the road and hands on the bars. * Smarter race guidance. Your race now locks onto your actual start surge — the finish-time projection measures from the gun, not from when you pressed Start * More reliable audio. Fixed rare cases where sound could drop after a phone call or Siri, and evened out announcement volume so callouts are clear. * Better sensor pairing. Steadier signal indicators and faster, more dependable reconnection for heart-rate monitors, power meters, and radar. * Ride log & metrics polish. Accurate footpod cadence, safer ride recording, and live weather that updates instantly when you switch units. * Easier setup. Keyboard-free settings with simple pickers and dropdowns.

Running mode is more reliable this release: • Your runs are safe — recordings are never discarded by accident, even if you tap Start or End at the wrong moment. • One-tap start — "Start run" now begins recording and live coaching together, and reconnects your heart rate strap and footpod automatically. • Start-line sensor check — you'll hear what's connected before you go ("Ready. Heart rate. Power."). • Accurate cadence — footpod cadence now reads true steps per minute. • Clearer Run Log — every activity shows its start and end time, with distance in your preferred units.

BikeTalk now runs. RUNNING MODE • Pace instead of speed — on screen, and spoken in your ear as often as you like • Grade-adjusted pace: a hill at honest effort no longer reads as a lost split • Smarter GPS pace that doesn't under-read your intervals • Works with Stryd and any Bluetooth footpod for pace and cadence • Runs save as runs, with Start run / End run controls EFFORT TARGETS — new guidance mode Set your heart-rate, power, and pace bands and hear one word when it matters: "push," "ease," "hold." Heart rate is the safety ceiling and always wins. Recovery floors keep the coach quiet between intervals. ON THE BIKE • Restart and End ride controls right on the main screen • L/R balance is now a glanceable bar — green when balanced, tipped red toward the heavy side when not FIXES • First tap to talk works right after granting mic permission • Riders who leave now drop off the list immediately • More reliable incoming audio in group chat

- Race Guidance (beta) — opt-in spoken coaching that paces you to a target power and heart-rate band with simple "push / ease" cues, plus a projected finish time for your race. Turn it on in Settings → Race Guidance. - Sensor battery levels — see remaining battery for your heart-rate monitor and power meter. - In-app ride export — copy or share your ride data from Diagnostics → Ride Log. Improved - Headphone buttons are more reliable for mute (and starting/stopping a race), including when you connect headphones after opening the app. - Background ride tracking — GPS keeps recording with your phone pocketed and the screen off, so distance and route no longer freeze mid-ride. - Settings reorganized — Operating Mode (Demo / Running / Pro) and Race Guidance now have their own menus. - Power readouts round to the nearest 5 watts; pace and distance follow your Metric/Imperial setting. Fixed - "Alert on" can now be set to None.

⏺ New: Running pace announcements. Turn on pace callouts in Settings → Performance Alerts to hear your pace (min/mile, or min/km in metric) while Running mode is on — choose every 15 sec, 30 sec, 60 sec, 2 min, or 5 min. Heart-rate callouts now say "BPM" — e.g. "145 BPM" — so periodic readings are clearer. Smaller, faster app. Voice audio is now more efficiently compressed, trimming the download considerably.

⏺ BikeTalk now plays nicely with your other audio. Music keeps playing underneath callouts, podcasts pause politely for each prompt and resume, and starting another app no longer cuts BikeTalk off — or the other way around. • Voice callouts and Varia alerts now mix with music and duck podcasts instead of interrupting them • Audio recovers automatically when you switch headphones, take a call, or another app starts playing • Running mode is now a top-level Settings toggle • Clearer power balance bar (zoomed L/R scale) with corrected left/right orientation • Reliability and audio-stability fixes

New sensors & data - Cycling power meter pairing — instant watts, 3-second average, and a centered L/R balance bar that makes pedal imbalance obvious at a glance (green when balanced, red when off-center). - Remember multiple sensors — pair several radars, heart-rate monitors, or power meters. BikeTalk reconnects to whichever one is powered on and in range, then stays locked to it for the ride. - Weather — current temperature, a live headwind / tailwind readout based on your direction of travel, and dew point color-coded for comfort. - Distance from home — anchored to your first ride of the day, with one-tap navigation home in Apple Maps. - Current street and town displayed alongside speed and bearing. Running - Running mode — shows pace in min/mi instead of speed. - Stryd footpod support — uses your footpod's speed for accurate pace, indoors or out, falling back to GPS automatically. Smarter radar - Live "seconds to impact" countdown on the threat pill — distinguishes a casual coast-by from a fast approach. - Voice callouts now include closing speed and seconds remaining for fast approaches ("car back, four seconds, wicked fast"). - Choose your voice — selectable voice packs, including two Boston accents. - 351 Massachusetts town-crossing announcements with friendly fallback for unknown towns. All voice clips are pre-recorded — no internet, no text-to-speech. - Radar Log in Settings for diagnosing pairing and connection issues. - Multi-radar battery tracking and serial number support. Pro Mode - A single toggle reveals advanced telemetry: power balance, bearing, heart-rate zones, weather, distance from home, pass count, and current street. On by default for new installs; switch off in Settings for a calmer screen. Polish - Redesigned home screen, plus a reorganized Settings split into clear sections — Devices, What You Hear, Profile, and Diagnostics. - Dark mode is now the default, with Light and System options. - Expanded onboarding covering radar pairing, headphone safety, and the proximity-broadcast model. - Heart-rate zones now use the Karvonen formula and respect your max + resting HR. Under the hood - Voice callouts now duck your podcast or music while they play and restore full volume right after — tuned to work with Overcast and similar players. - Smarter Bluetooth reconnect — three-tier backoff for radar, heart-rate monitor, and power meter. - Announcement queue with priority and grace periods — critical car-back alerts always cut through periodic info. - Numerous reliability fixes around permissions, first launch, audio routing, and silent-clip edge cases.

- Radar Lane View — Approaching vehicles appear as colored dots on a visual lane between the threat pill and your recently-heard list. See distance, speed, and threat level at a glance. - Heart Rate Monitor Support — Pair any standard BLE heart rate strap. Get spoken zone change announcements or periodic BPM readouts alongside your radar alerts. - New Default Voice — Added a new "Default" voice option alongside the existing Boston voices. - Demo Mode — Moved to the top of Settings so you can try the radar experience before pairing a device. - Updated Voice Clips — Refreshed audio across all voice packs.

- Pre-recorded voice alerts — Replaced text-to-speech with natural-sounding voice clips for faster, more reliable radar announcements - Voice pack switcher — Choose between Boston Cop and Boston Woman voice packs in Settings - Closing speed callouts — Hear "wicked fast" when vehicles are approaching at high speed - 1% battery announcements — Radar battery level reported at precise 1% increments instead of 5% steps - Distance reannounce via voice clips — Continuous distance updates now use pre-recorded clips instead of speech synthesis - Bug fixes — Ride logging fix, improved audio reliability

- Mute toggle — silence all radar alerts and mic with one tap or your headphone button - Repeating distance announcements while a car is behind you - Time announcements at regular intervals so you don't have to check your phone - Boston accent option (now the default!) - Nickname your paired radars to tell them apart - Larger fonts across the main screen for easier glancing on a bike mount - Improved voice clarity with higher sample rate and smoother audio buffering - All-clear delay now defaults to 3 seconds for new installs

Ride Log can now export raw data as CSV — copy the current ride or any saved ride to share or analyze. Each pass includes timestamp, GPS coordinates, vehicle count, distance, speed, and threat level.

SMARTER ANNOUNCEMENTS Alerts now tell you what matters: how many cars are behind you right now and how close the nearest one is. "Car, 80 feet" when one appears. "2 cars, 60 feet" when more stack up. "Clear" when they pass. Every syllable trimmed for road speed. All-clear fires within 2-4 seconds of the last car passing, down from 5-11. AUDIO FIXES - Alerts no longer pause your podcast or music permanently - Siri works normally with the app running - Reliable audio on every launch (fixed a bug where alerts could go silent) SETTINGS - Distance in feet or meters - Battery level announced on connect and periodically - Option to suppress alerts when stationary - Step-by-step pairing instructions IDENTITY & PRIVACY - New users get an auto-generated name (e.g., "SwiftOtter") instead of their device name - Handle editing requires a deliberate tap — no more accidental changes mid-ride STABILITY - Thread-safe vehicle tracking - Stale speaker nodes cleaned up automatically on long rides - Crash fix on launch for certain device configurations

What's New Rear radar alerts - Pair your rear-view radar in Settings — BikeTalk announces "car back, 50 meters" through your headphones or speaker when vehicles approach, and "all clear" when they pass. - Every car triggers its own alert — no missed vehicles. - Share radar with your group: when any rider's Varia detects a car, everyone hears the callout. - Choose voice announcements or tone alerts, and set sensitivity to all vehicles or fast approaches only. -Radar battery level shown on the main screen.