• Plan routes in the browser at bikeotter.app/plan. Your routes sync between the website and the app — on by itself with Plus — and "Send to my unit" from the website lands on your head unit. • The route planner in the app is free now, for everyone. • Several bikes: keep a profile per bike and pick one in Settings or on the route sheet. • Pinch the climb profile to zoom into a stretch and the map frames it; the scrub shows how much you have climbed so far. • Races: share a public "race this too" link, keep a race invite-only, and edit it on race day. Stopping the recording mid-race ends the race and opens the summary. • Group rides can take up to 50 riders. A ride organised by a club shows who organised it, and joining a planned ride goes live by itself when it starts. • Pick how often each head unit gets live updates, to save its battery. • The nearest head unit is listed first, and you can forget one you no longer use. • Garmin: watches show up in a scan (experimental), Connect IQ apps can reach the web through BikeOtter, and courses are written the way Garmin expects. • Fixes: road bike routes avoid busy roads, "my location" uses the phone, an update no longer nags in a loop, and sending a route waits for a ride download already running.

• Race mode: a lap race among friends, on the head unit. Set the laps and the start line on a looped route; lap times and "Anna 140 m ahead" land on your ELEMNT or Edge. Hosting is Plus; racing and watching are free. • Started riding without a route? BikeOtter recognises your usual one and puts it on the head unit in one tap, or plans the way back. • "BikeOtter saved your ride" shows on the head unit once the ride is on your phone, with the batteries left. • After a race the warm-up comes off before Strava: only the race is uploaded, with a lap for every race lap, and a summary shows everyone's laps. • With no route loaded, find water, food, coffee, a bike shop or a toilet nearby and get a route there. • Plus keeps your settings in your account and restores them on a new phone. • A group invite sent by mail survives installing the app: it is waiting for you once you sign in with that address, or paste the link. • Group rides and races start from one menu on the route, with Share beside it. • Find the Facebook group and r/BikeOtter under About. • The app no longer offers to send workouts or saved places to an ELEMNT — the unit does not take them from a phone — and the self-test explains every result. • Fixes: sending a route to an ELEMNT is more reliable on every phone, the rain-radar switch hides for a ride planned too far ahead, and the idle Ride screen and the settings line up.

• A new look, everywhere. Every screen is drawn like a stage route book: ruled sections and pen marks instead of boxes and badges, so what matters on a screen is what your eye lands on first. • Before you ride: what to wear, what to bring and what to pump the tyres to, for the weather your route actually rides into. • Share a route to BikeOtter straight out of Google or Apple Maps and it lands in your library. • No head unit connected yet? The Ride tab keeps the route queued and sends it the moment one is. • Stops and places wear their category on the map and on the climb profile. • The app holds together at the largest text sizes, every control is big enough to hit, colours carry the contrast they should, and a screen reader now names everything on screen. • German, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish all the way down — no English sentences left in a translated app, and the spoken alerts and the weather advice are in your language too. • A screenshot can travel with a support message. • Fixes: an inner tube is the default tyre setup again, dialogs open centred, and the headwind warning waits for a real headwind.

• Bike radar. Pair a Garmin Varia or Bryton Gardia and hear a tone when a vehicle comes up behind you, more urgent if it is closing fast. Your bike computer keeps its own radar link over ANT+. • The radar card says when it cannot warn you: no headset, or a radar that reports distance but not speed. • One tone per vehicle, not per reading — and none while you are stopped.

• Alerts read into your headphones. With earbuds, headphones or a Bluetooth speaker connected, every rule alert is spoken as well as shown on your head unit — your music dips for the sentence and comes back. Volume, a Test button and an on/off switch live under Settings → Voice & shortcuts. • A wrong turn gets a word. A new Off route rule tells you once you have ridden 250 m away from your route, and again every two minutes while you keep going; it goes quiet by itself when you are back on it. The distance is yours to change, like any other rule. Already using the app? Find it under Presets on the Rules tab. • Once you are riding, weather and stops are shown for the road ahead only — not the part you have already covered. • Stop search along a route: an "Only on route" switch and a Deselect all. • Sharing a live link with a low phone battery tells the people following you, and sends updates a little less often to stretch what is left. • Your head unit's ride status shows the moment the phone connects, instead of ten seconds later. • Sending a route to a unit that is already recording no longer fails halfway. • Joining a ride your unit has paused starts the recording paused, too. • The route on your unit keeps its badge across an app restart. • Importing a long GPX no longer freezes the screen. • Radar zooms out further, and no longer shows this hour's rain over tomorrow's ride. • A recentre button on the ride map, and the recording chip sits at the top.

• The Ride screen is a map now: load a route and it fills the screen, with the numbers on a sheet you drag up for the rest. • See when you will get there — a finishing time that counts the climbing left, not just the distance. The app has told the people following your ride this all along; now it tells you. • What is coming up: the next climb with its length and gradient, the next stop, and how far to the end. • Drag along the elevation graph to read any point on the route, and see where it is on the map. • Send a route to your bike computer straight from the Ride screen, with the transfer's progress in the button you pressed. • Plan a group ride now and ride it later: share the link, see who says yes, and the ride starts itself when the first rider sets off. • Your ride on the iPhone Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — time, distance and climb, with a Stop button on iOS 17 and later. • The ongoing Android notification says what is actually happening: recording, paused, auto-paused, sharing or simply connected, with your ride's figures, in your language. It used to claim a ride was active whenever your bike computer was merely paired. • Tapping the version number no longer closes the app out of nowhere. A waiting update gets its own band that says which kind it is — and that installing it closes BikeOtter, so you know to open it again. • Sending a route to an ELEMNT BOLT 2 works again. • Go live on its own when your ride starts, and tell your default group. • A ride your head unit recorded replaces the phone's copy of the same ride, instead of both sitting in your history. • The finished-ride notification arrives when the ride ends, not twenty seconds later. • The arrival note and the nearly-there heads-up are separate switches now. • Surface colours are explained in the route's detail view, and drawn as solid stretches rather than dashes.

• 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.