Ghostracer - GPS Run & Cycle

Trackwear.io

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About this app

NOTE: Strava leaderboard currently broken due to Strava api changes

Make every run and ride your best, train against virtual competitors in real time on your android phone or Wear OS watch.

•Race against Strava segments in real time. Beat your personal best or compare against anyone from the leaderboard
•Race against or navigate with gpx files
•Ghosts Start and Stop automatically keeping you free to ride/run
•Receive live feedback with audio updates of split times and distance
•Customise your display to show information you want to know
•Switch between Google Maps and Mapbox Maps for your preferred map
•Select Mapbox maps to displays trails and footpaths from open street maps
•Segments and routes are displayed on maps keeping you going in the right direction
•Upload your activity straight to Strava, SmashRun or Run keeper.
•Export .gpx or tcx files.
•Ant+ and Bluetooth Low Energy (btle) sensors supported:
speed, cadence, speed/cadence combined, power and heart rate monitors*
•Stryd footpod support showing power while running

Wear OS:
Full support for standalone GPS tracking with GPS enabled watches like the Sony Smartwatch 3 and Moto 360 sport. Allowing you can leave your phone at home. The Wear OS app also supports Bluetooth Low energy (4.0) peripherals like heart rate sensors and inbuilt sensors. The wear app also supports non gps enabled watches when paired to a phone, working in a mirrored mode allowing you to control and view the phones recording.

Ghostracer allows you to use your GPS wear os device as a fully usable cycling computer. It can connect to btle cycling sensors such as speed, cadence and power sensors.

Other Peripherals:
•Wahoo rflkt - Customise two screens of data with a segment complete page

Premium Features:
•Download offline maps from MapBox Maps making a truly offline experience on both phone and watch
•Add more fully customise Wear OS screens
•Have unlimited Ghosts enabled per activity

Ghost racer
*Sensors support where available.
Ant+ requires a phone with the Ant+ capabilities or a Ant+ dongle / usb stick

Note there is an issue with the Sony Smartwatch 3 (sw3) where sweat can make the watch lose GPS signal. People have used sweatbands or other things under the watch to keep it away from sweat, resulting in much improved performance.

Ratings and reviews

The best app for running with a smart watch. Fully customisable watch faces I wish there was a way to see the last activity on the watch either: If accidentally deleted instead of saved, I'd like to bring it back. If I've gone off the screen but would like to see the summary again. If there has been a problem with the sync to Strava, etc I'd like to be able to push it again

If I finish a run and forget to actually swipe away the statistics page, battery will drain to nothing over the next few hours. Presumably GPS is still turned on by the app at this time, or some other process is running away like crazy. Can you please stop whichever it is? There's no obvious indication that the stats page is still active - there is no ongoing notification, for instance. Otherwise very handy for sharing stats.

Unfortunately basically unusable on the Ticwatch Pro - if the screen isn't always on, it kills the CPU and takes 10-15 seconds just to get the watch screen to turn back on. Then crashed yesterday midway through a run, and the whole watch had to be restarted just to get anything usable again. I only use it in standalone mode. Nice idea, poorly executed.

What’s new

1.0.7.0- Wear bug fixes
1.0.6.8- OS 14+ fix
1.0.6.3- Black background option change
1.0.6.1- Bluetooth check, phone sensor icons
1.0.6.0- Mapbox to Maplibre
1.0.5.6- Running cadence fix
1.0.5.5- Wear default screens
1.0.5.2- Ant+ fix
1.0.5.1- Wear rotary button change page option
1.0.4.8- Wear os 3 home icon support
1.0.4.5- Ticwatch 3 always on fix
1.0.4.0- Added heartrate zones
1.0.2.2- Wear map zoom on hardware buttons
0.9.9.4- No more Sony Smartwatch 2
0.9.9.0- Leaderboard removed by Strava