Changelog

What's new in OffTrail.

Every release, in plain words. Newest at the top.

1.3

May 2026

Group Ride, sturdier and clearer.

Group Ride survives app-switching. Your session stays live until it expires or you leave — even if you check another app mid-ride.
A colour for every rider. Each rider gets a distinct colour on the map and roster; the host stays brand orange.
Offline maps over cellular. A new opt-in toggle, in Settings › Storage.
Cleaner first launch. Straight to your tracks, no onboarding wall.
Visual polish across Home, the track rows and the About screen.
A discreet recording dot on the ride screen — plus dozens of small fixes.

May 2026

Look before you ride.

Track preview. Tap any track on the home screen to open it on the map, read-only — the whole route, the start marker, and for recordings the duration, moving time, max speed and altitude range. Hit "Let's ride" to head out on it.
Rename & promote. Rename imported tracks straight from the home card. Promote a saved recording back into a home slot with one tap.
Navigate here. Long-press the map, or tap a track's start marker, to hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
Today's weather. The top chip shows the current temperature plus today's forecast high and low for where you are.
Distance from the start. On a free ride with no track loaded, the stat slot counts the distance you've covered since you set off.
A colour per rider in Group ride. The host stays brand orange; every other rider picks up a distinct colour, matching on the map and in the roster.
North-up compass. The locate button shows a cardinal-North marker when the map is locked north-up, so the orientation reads at a glance.
Cleaner map: two basemap styles — Trails and Satellite Off-road. Looped tracks spread their start and finish markers so the loop reads clearly.

May 2026

Polish pass after the first real-world rides.

Direction-aware user indicator. The dot on the map now points where you're heading, not just where you are. A coloured halo wraps the indicator in the same colour as the track you're following — handy when you have several tracks loaded.
"See all riders" button during a Group ride. One tap zooms the map so every rider in the session fits on screen, plus you.
Smarter off-track guidance. Within 500 m of the track, a dashed line points the way back. Beyond 500 m, the off-track pill grows a chevron pointing at the route relative to your direction of travel — so "track is ahead" means up, "behind you" means down.
Faster Ride entry. Tapping "Let's ride" now opens the map at your location immediately, instead of panning across the world from the track bounds.
Auto-zoom polish. Speed-based zoom transitions are snappier and stay in sync with the user dot — no more lag on slower phones.
Various small tweaks: slot 7's track colour shifted to fluo chartreuse so it doesn't blend with the forestry-road overlay on Satellite Off-road; the off-track pill drops the redundant "from trail" suffix; map-style swaps no longer hide the connector line for a beat.

May 2026

First public release. The whole point of OffTrail, in one app.

Offline GPX navigation. Import up to 5 tracks, each with its own colour on the map. Tap "Let's ride" and the app follows you along the route, with off-track alerts when you drift.
Offline maps by country. Pre-download Portugal, Spain and more so the basemap stays sharp where signal disappears.
Four basemap styles. On-road, Off-road (terrain emphasis on dirt + forestry), Satellite, Satellite Off-road.
Group ride for up to 8. Share a QR code, riders join over Apple iCloud, everyone sees everyone's initials on the map. No accounts, no third-party servers.
Ride recording. Every ride is automatically saved as .gpx. Share with friends, import into another app, or just keep the log.
Speed-based auto-zoom. The map zooms out as you accelerate, in as you slow down — hands stay on the bars.
Three languages. Portuguese, Spanish, English.
No accounts, no cloud, no analytics. Everything you import or record lives on your phone. We never see it.