Specialized 4+

Very useful and pleasant to use. I almost never use apps for products or services but this does provide real value. I’d love to see a way to save my tune presets for commuting, exercising, etc instead of having to remember what settings I like or relying on screenshots. I’d love to see the HRM used to keep me in a zone by dynamically adjusting motor power and ease on the fly. I’d love to see some kind of navigation integrated or bike route recognition built in. Very good early effort! Let’s hope Specialized continues to evolve and improve this into a powerful bike companion app. Finally, less likely, I’d love to see some of that diagnostic data that’s being collected.

Update: it’s a real shame that the only data exported to Apple Health is ride duration. Would be nice to have power and cadence and other actually measurably useful data shared to track training progress.

All in all this app provides minimum viable functionality for a premier, high end product. Seems pretty stable though.

Thanks for the rating, review, and feature requests! We have a huge roadmap ahead of us, so please stay tuned over the next several months :)

A few issues: 1. Map is too large making it difficult to read ride data. How about options to hide the map and increase text font size. 2. With units set to imperial, data shows imperial in the app but data on bike shows metric. 3. Option to change the clock from 24 hour display to 12 hours. Is this related to #2? 4. A toggle to turn on/off light. 5. Alarm volume is laughably low, almost inaudible. Reminds me of the extremely low volume of the tones you hear when taking a hearing test. I just wonder if a thief would even hear it. Certainly no one nearby would. Why bother? In response to your questions, yes the light is reference to item #4. I ride a Turbo Vado SL 5.0 EQ
UPDATE: I’ve resolved items 2 & 3 on my list. Took my bike to a Specialized dealer. The mechanic showed me the settings menu on the TCU on the bike by press both the + and - buttons at same time on the power assist remote on the handlebars. Use the + - buttons to scroll up and down and the top and bottom buttons to set new settings which include Units, Date/Time, Sensors, Altitude and Regulatory. Hope this helps someone out. I did not see this information in the manual although the mechanic said it was there.
ANOTHER QUESTION: If using a heart rate monitor, will the Specialized app display live heart rate during a ride?

Hi tterrierr - Yes, if you pair your heart rate monitor with the Specialized app you can select heart rate from the list of metrics on the Record tab. Enjoy your next ride!

This is a pretty easy to use app. It’s made by to be started before your ride, twiddled with occasionally to tune your motor settings, then looked at afterwards. It’s great for that.

Correction: I had reported I found it not very useful for your ride. It’s not great for monitoring any of the things you can look at (and there’s much inside to look at). This is because there’s no way to prevent screen lock and so every time you look at the road, it locks you out. The developer responded (below, I hope) explaining how to get to the menu to make the screen lock. I haven’t tried it yet in that mode.

I wish it had features to make it more like a trip computer like Shimano does. For example, the Shimano looked more like a trip computer and less like an app with numbers. It also showed a cool speedometer displaying how much power, max speed and such all in one cool integrated graphic.

Thanks for the review and feedback, Michael! If you go to the Record tab, tap on the gear icon to get to the Ride Settings menu, you can enable the toggle to "Keep Screen On." Please let us know if this doesn't help!