Documentation

The user guide: how to plan, ride, record and get your rides back out again.

• Getting started

  Install Velorki, understand the four tabs, see which permissions it asks for and why, and set your units. No account is needed.

• Planning a route

  Tap waypoints on the map, pick a bike profile, compare variants, read the elevation and surface stats, and save the route to your library.

• Loops

  Ask Velorki for a round trip of a given distance that ends where it started, then step through the candidates until one looks right.

• Search

  Find places, streets, house numbers and things like drinking water or toilets, on the phone where you have downloaded an area and online everywhere else.

• Offline maps and routing

  Download the map you look at and the routing data your routes are computed from, so planning, search and navigation keep working with no signal.

• Turn-by-turn navigation

  Follow a route while you record, with a turn banner and spoken cues, and see what Velorki does when you leave the route.

• Recording a ride

  Start, pause and finish a ride, keep it recording with the screen off, save battery, and get a ride back after the app was killed.

• Library

  Where your saved routes and recorded rides live, what a route or ride card shows, and how to rename or delete either of them.

• Import and export

  Open GPX, FIT and TCX files from anywhere on the phone, save them as routes or rides, and export yours to Komoot, Garmin or anything else.

• Sharing

  Turn a route or a ride into a link anyone can open in a browser, see what the page shows, and know that the link expires after a year.

• Strava and Ride with GPS

  Connect your Strava or Ride with GPS account to upload recorded rides and import routes, and see why sending a route to Strava is a file.

• Assistant

  Describe the ride you want in a sentence and Velorki turns it into a route, with your consent, a rounded position at most, and no route history sent.

• Velorki Plus

  Everything that runs on your phone is free. Plus is a small subscription for the four features that need our servers or a partner account.

• Settings and appearance

  Every setting in Velorki, from theme, accent and units to navigation, recording, sensors, search, offline data, connections and the server URLs.

• Privacy on the phone

  In rider's terms: what stays on your phone, what leaves it, when, and to whom. There is no account and nothing is uploaded unless you ask.

• Sensors and your watch

  Heart rate, cadence and power from a Bluetooth sensor, an Apple Watch or your phone's health app, set up once and kept with every ride.

• Troubleshooting

  Fixes for the common problems: no position, no route, the missing tiles banner, a silent voice on iOS, stuck downloads and links that will not open.