Train by heart rate, and see the race: • Choose a zone to hold for the ride (an easy zone 2, say) and the coach tells you when to ease back or lift the effort, waiting to see how your heart rate responds before saying more • On a climb it suggests an easier gear instead of asking the impossible, and it says nothing on descents • Your heart rate on the Lock Screen, as large as the distance and coloured by zone • Racing a ghost now shows their name and the gap as you ride, and the ride ends with the result: "You beat Dave by 1:20" • Time spent in each zone saved with every ride • Tidier wording throughout, easier to listen to

Ride with company, even when you're out alone: • Share a finished ride as a ghost - a friend can race your pace on the same route, and the coach calls the gaps by name • Race your own past rides, and old GPX or FIT rides you import • Ghost files carry pace only - no map, no location • Importing a ghost now shows whose ride it is, which route it races on and how the pace compares, before you save it • New Lock Screen and Dynamic Island display during a ride: distance, the next climb, how you're doing against the plan and your heart rate Also fixed: importing is clearer and no longer submits while you're naming a ghost, and when the post-ride debrief can't be written the app tells you why instead of blaming the network.

Easier to read, better to listen to: • Text now follows your iPhone's Text Size setting, and starts larger throughout • The ride summary and coach debrief can be spoken in the premium natural voice • Fewer switches between voices when the coach has a lot to say • Ride history now shows each route's elevation profile and your time in each heart-rate zone • Tell the coach about your bike and kit, and the AI coach may mention it • Optional AI gateway settings for self-hosted AI • Fixed: the coach's two voices could occasionally talk over each other

A big first update, tuned by real rides: • NEW Hype coaching level — a cheer every 5 km, a countdown to the finish, and relentless encouragement for anyone who finds long rides hard • Spoken encouragement all the way up every climb — "nearly there" only when it's true • Detour mode: roadworks and diversions are acknowledged, handled, and priced ("the detour cost about 4 minutes — forget it"), instead of endless off-route nagging • Premium live voice: with your own ElevenLabs key, the whole ride can be spoken in a natural voice — cached so repeat lines play offline • Ride history: every ride saved with stats, coach highlights and the AI debrief • Coach personality: shape the AI's tone with your own words • Fixes: "Open in RideCoach" now appears in the share sheet for GPX/FIT files; notification permission flow; nicer dialogs • Two free sample courses at ridecoach.app to try everything in simulation