Settings and appearance
Every setting in Velorki, from theme, accent and units to navigation, recording, sensors, search, offline data, connections and the server URLs.
The Settings tab is one scrolling page with a section per subject. This page walks it from top to bottom, so you can find the switch you are after and know what it does.
Appearance#
Theme: System, Light or Dark. System follows the phone.
Map: how the map itself is drawn, independently of the app's theme: Follows theme, Light, Night or Black. Black is the one for a dark ride with the display dimmed, and it is what battery saver forces anyway.
Cycling overlay on dark maps: what to do with the CyclOSM overlay when the map underneath is dark: Inverted, Dimmed or Unchanged. The overlay is drawn for a light background, so on a night map it needs help. This row only appears in builds that ship the overlay.
Accent: four colour presets: Volt, Ember, Glacier and Berry. The accent colours the buttons, the charts and the route line on the map.
Units: Metric or Imperial, used by every figure, slider, chart axis, turn banner and spoken cue in the app. Until you choose, Velorki follows the phone's country.
Navigation#
The three switches here are the same ones as on the Record tab's sheet.
Turn directions: "Show the next turn while you record along a route". The master switch; the rest of the section is greyed out while it is off.
Voice: "Say the turns out loud".
Speaking voice: which voice says them. Opens the voice list, described in turn-by-turn navigation.
Announce turns is a slider in seconds. The hint reads "12 seconds before the turn at your speed, never closer than 50 metres". Counting in seconds means the cue comes at the same moment whether you are climbing or descending.
When you leave the route: Guide me back, "Keep the plan and show the best way back onto it, ahead of you"; New route to the destination, "Plan again from where you are, keeping the stops still ahead"; or Don't re-route, "Only show how far the route is and which way". What each does is in turn-by-turn navigation.
Recording#
GPS precision: Battery saver, Normal or Precise, with the hint "Precise is for trails; Normal is enough for roads". It decides how hard the one GPS client is driven while a ride runs.
Split length: Automatic, 1 km, 5 km or 10 km, in miles on imperial units, with the hint "Automatic keeps the table short: 1 km splits up to 30 km, 5 km up to 150 km, 10 km beyond". It sets the rows of the splits table on a saved ride.
Battery saver: "Dark map, no animations, a plain page with the numbers after 30 s; the screen is what drains the battery". The full behaviour is in recording a ride.
Keep screen on: "While a ride is recorded on the Record tab and not paused; the same switch as there". On until you turn it off; switching it here or on the Record sheet is one and the same.
Ride figures: every figure a ride can show, with a handle to drag it into place and a switch to turn it off. The sheet shows them in this order, the bar the sheet folds into the first four, the glance page the first two beside the ride's time; a figure with nothing to show, a sensor not connected or no route followed, gives its place to the next. One stays on at least, the reset button at the top right puts back the default, and Time, which the sheet shows beside the status anyway, is off until you turn it on. Edit figures under the figures on the sheet opens the same list.
Rider#
Three switches, all off by default, and the fields they need.
Estimate calories puts a Calories figure on every ride card: from your power meter when you have one, else from your heart rate, else from your speed. It needs your weight; the heart-rate estimate also needs your year of birth and sex.
Heart-rate zones puts the time in five zones of your maximum heart rate under a ride's heart-rate chart. It needs your maximum heart rate, or your year of birth to estimate it as 220 minus your age.
Estimate power puts an Est. power figure on rides recorded without a power meter: from your speed, the slope and your weight. Fair on long climbs, poor in wind or in a group, and never live: only on saved rides.
Power zones puts the time in seven zones of your threshold power and the ride's Intensity on rides with a power meter. It needs your threshold power, the most you can hold for about an hour.
With any switch on, the fields appear: Weight (kg, or lb on imperial units: "Kilograms or pounds follow Settings → Units, which starts from your country"), Year of birth, Sex (Not set, Female, Male) and Max heart rate (bpm, "Left empty, 220 minus your age is used"). With Estimate power on, two more follow: Bike weight (kg or lb, 9 kg until you change it) and Bike (Road, Touring, gravel, Mountain), which sets the drag and rolling resistance the estimate assumes. Power zones alone asks for none of those; with it on, a Threshold power field (W, 50 to 600) follows the bike fields, with the line "The highest power you can hold for about an hour. From a 20-minute all-out effort, take 95 % of its average. Sets the zones and the intensity". Once a ride with a power meter is saved, Velorki offers "Use … from your best 20 minutes" under the field: 95 % of the best 20-minute average power over your rides, one tap to take it. Everything here stays on the phone; see privacy on the phone. The figures themselves are described under library.
Sensors#
Apple Health, or Health Connect on Android: "Reads the heart rate other apps put into Health, such as the watch's own Workout app. Checked every few seconds, so it lags; a strap or the Velorki watch app takes over when it reports". Turning it on is what asks the phone for access to your health data, and refusing leaves it off.
Save rides to Health: "Each finished ride goes into Health as one cycling workout with its start, end and distance". It can be switched off on its own and does nothing while the switch above it is off.
Apple Watch: "Velorki's own watch app: measures your pulse live for the whole ride, shows the ride and has Start, Pause and Finish on the wrist. Costs watch battery". The row is there only on an iPhone that has a watch paired to it. Turning it on asks once to post notifications, for the "Ride started from your watch" notice. Below it, Rest the sensor while paused: "The watch stops measuring at every pause and the phone wakes it when you ride on. Saves watch battery on rides with many stops; the first pulse after each stop takes a moment, and if the wake-up fails the pulse is missing until the phone tries again after 45 seconds". Off, the watch keeps measuring through a pause, which is what keeps it listening for the resume, and the pulse carries on the moment you ride on.
Bluetooth sensors: "Heart-rate straps, speed and cadence sensors, power meters", or how many sensors are paired. It opens the screen where Scan looks for them. All of it is walked through in sensors and your watch.
Subscription#
Velorki Plus with Active or Not active under it, and the renewal or end date when there is one. Tapping it opens the subscription page. Underneath sit Manage, which opens the store's subscription page, and Restore purchases. See Velorki Plus.
Connections#
One row for Strava and one for Ride with GPS, each showing Not connected, your name once connected, or Not available in this build. Connect with Strava and Connect with Ride with GPS sit under the unconnected ones, Disconnect beside the connected ones. See Strava and Ride with GPS.
AI assistant#
What is sent always says which consent you gave: "You have not been asked yet.", "Nothing. The assistant is switched off.", "Your text only." or "Your text and your rough position (about 1 km)." Change beside it reopens the consent dialog.
Report AI output: "Tell us about an answer that was wrong or inappropriate." Opens a mail to us.
Advanced#
Offline data: "Maps and routing data for rides without a signal". When the mirror has rebuilt tiles you hold, the subtitle turns orange and counts them. See offline maps and routing.
Search: "What offline search shows, and in which order. Drag to change the priority." See search.
Routing, where routes are computed:
- Automatic: "On this device wherever the tiles are downloaded, on the routing server everywhere else." This is the sensible default.
- On device only: "Never ask the routing server. Routes outside the downloaded tiles offer the download instead."
- Server only: "Always ask the routing server, even where tiles are downloaded."
Server URLs: three fields, BRouter URL, Photon URL and API URL, for pointing this installation at your own servers: "Leave a field empty to use the address this build ships with." Reset to defaults clears all three. Most riders never touch this; it exists because Velorki is open source and you are allowed to run your own.
About#
- Velorki, with the version number.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Open-source licences: "The software and the map data Velorki is built on."
- Privacy policy and Terms of use, which open in the browser.
- Report a problem: "Open an issue on GitHub."