Aera: Sleep & Running Tracker

About Aera: Sleep & Running Tracker

Hello, autumn! While you were out running, walking and sleeping (hopefully in that order), I was teaching Aera one new thing: getting you out the door. Here is what 3.1 brings. PICK A DISTANCE, GET A LOOP Aera draws up to three loops from where you stand: one on ground you know, one on new ground, and the quietest. EVERY TURN, SPOKEN Follow a route with directions read aloud, on the Lock Screen too, even with no signal. Take a wrong turn and Aera says so, then tells you when you are back on it. Got a GPX file? Open it from Files or a message and it is ready to follow. YOUR ROUTES, YOURS Hold a route to rename it, reshape it or give it another activity. Walks you repeat become routes of their own, named after the neighbourhood they start in. Routes point out the sights they pass, and you choose which ones. RUNS FROM YOUR WRIST Record on your Apple Watch alone, with auto-pause. Follow a route on your wrist and feel each turn, with the next corner on a complication. TODAY'S SESSION, AND WHERE Fitness Today now picks the place as well as the session: your usual loop on a good day, a shorter one when your body asks for it. Part of Premium. ARE YOU GETTING FITTER? Progress answers honestly: cardio fitness, pace at the same effort, resting heart rate and heart rate recovery, each reading Fitter, Holding or Easing. Predictions show whether your race times are getting quicker. You can now set your own max, resting and threshold heart rate, and every zone follows. EVERY WORKOUT, IN ONE PICTURE One chart for the whole session: pace with every split marked, heart rate shaded by your own zones, and every hill on the route. Start a workout from Home, Fitness or the Map. SLEEP, IN ONE WORD Sleep opens on a word for the night, then your score and time asleep. The score now weighs things the way the published studies do, so your numbers may shift a little. Naps count, and never merge into last night. NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE Recap films for your weeks, months and year. Every personal best. Flyover for anything from the last seven days. Twelve months of every chart. LIGHT, AND TEN LANGUAGES Aera follows your phone into light mode, and now speaks German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) and Traditional Chinese. Reduce motion, higher contrast and colour-blind friendly colours are in Settings, Accessibility. STEADIER Aera opens in about a quarter of a second, down from three. The map stays smooth with thousands of trails on it, and a run survives the app closing. 3.1.1 • A route you save on your phone guides you on your watch too. • A walk started on your phone and recorded on your watch keeps its true time and distance. • Ending a workout on your phone stops it on your watch. • The coach's recommended route opens with its loop already drawn. • Suggested loops change from day to day. • Loops follow the route style you choose for each sport, and can keep off busy roads. • Ride loops reach 100 km and run loops 42 km. • Surfaces and sights appear sooner, and their photos load faster. • The Map asks for your location the first time you open it. • Bedtime and wake times show in full in every language. • Every screen, your watch and your widgets are fully translated. • Fitness and Recovery open on days with missing or repeated data. Aera is made by one person, and a review on the App Store is the best way to help others find it. Questions or ideas? https://vargagergo-git.github.io/aera-site/. I read everything. Every change, the fixes too, is in Settings under What's new.

App privacy

The developer, Gergo Varga, reported these privacy practices to Apple.