Max Speed, Distance, Altitude: Reading Your Session
Swipe once from the big number and you get the accountant's view: four cards keeping score of the drive, the ride, or the run — live, honest, and zeroed whenever you say so.
The four cards
- Current Speed — the live GPS reading, same number as the gauge, in your chosen units (decimals optional).
- Max Speed — the session's high-water mark. It only ratchets up, which is what makes it the ski-run scorecard and the “how fast does this boat actually go” settler.
- Distance — accumulated travel, summed point-to-point from GPS fixes as you move. Your ride odometer in miles or kilometers.
- Altitude — current elevation, feet or meters. Fun on mountain passes; see the honesty note below.
Heading — your direction in degrees — rides on the map view alongside the compass, completing the instrument set.
Reset: where a “trip” begins
The Reset button zeroes max speed and distance. That's not housekeeping — it's the feature that gives the numbers meaning: reset at the trailhead and Distance is this ride; reset before the descent and Max Speed is this run. One tap defines the experiment.
The honest fine print
- Stats are per-session, not a diary. There's no saved trip history or logs — when you reset (or the session ends), the numbers are gone. Want to keep a great max speed? Screenshot it; that's the record.
- Altitude wobbles by nature. GPS vertical accuracy is inherently 2–3× looser than horizontal — satellite geometry favors the map view of the world. Roughly right, occasionally jumpy: normal.
- Distance is as good as the sky view. Clean signal yields clean accumulation; a signal dropout (tunnel, garage) pauses the story. The signal badge is the disclaimer in real time.
- Max speed believes the GPS. A rare signal glitch can print an implausible spike — if your minivan claims 140, congratulations to the satellite that moved, not the van.
The screenshot ritual: since sessions aren't saved, end memorable ones — the century ride, the ski day, the road-trip state line — with a screenshot of the stats grid. Cheap, permanent, and it settles arguments later.
Keep score of the ride
Speed, max, distance and altitude — live on iPhone, free.
FAQ
What stats does the grid show?
Current speed, max speed, distance and altitude — heading lives on the map view.
What does the Reset button clear?
Max speed and distance — it's how you define where a trip begins. No history is kept.
Why does my altitude reading jump around?
GPS vertical accuracy is inherently looser than horizontal — that's the satellites, not the app.