Specialized – Globe 4+

The app is a good start, but there aren’t that many features, or useful ones at least. However, it is good that there’s another way to power off, lock and manage the lights. Unless I’m locking my bike’s battery/power, I don’t use the app as much as I thought I would.

Compared to the Specialized App for the Turbo, the Globe App looks like sticks and bones. Hopefully the devs are planning to merge this into the Specialized app or copy their great features onto the Globe app.

App does exactly what it needs to…EXCEPT giving an owner the ability to cap charging at a certain percentage, eg. 80%. Pleeeeeease add this feature!

For battery health (which is clearly instructed by Specialized and other brands like Tesla and Apple) states that you shouldn’t fully charge unless you really need it. Keeping the battery state between 20-80% will improve battery health and longevity. And at $900 for a battery replacement, it’s not just about the environment here.

Please give us this option to cap charging at 80%

I would expect this app to be similar to the app my wife uses on her Specialized Vedo. It sets default values. It allows battery charging to be set to 80%. And it locks the bike and sets the alarm.

This app needs the ability to save the light setting at least. And ideally the default assist level.

The other problem is that I tried to use this with the Specialized Ride app to record my rides and upload to Strava. But if you connect Strava to the Ride app the Globe app will also upload to Strava with incorrect bike information and no GPS. Specialized is aware of this but has no intention of fixing the problem.

I do wish the software was as good as the Specialized bikes!!! They deserve better.