5.0.1
2023-10-13
Quick update to fix crashes that happen when creating workouts in the Training Planner for walks or hikes with a pace alert or goal.
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5.0.0 Release Notes:
Introducing Tempo 5, with Custom Workouts & Training Planner!
This is a significant update with a bunch of under-the-hood changes to support iOS 17 & watchOS 10. While a lot more is in the works and will happen incrementally, I wanted to get this huge feature launched for the fall racing season. :)
TL;DR: We can now build custom workouts and do those workouts from the Workout app on Apple Watch. No third-party workout tracking app is required. Create a workout in Tempo, add it to the watch, and it will show up in the Workout app.
Here's a quick summary of the feature,
• Create and manage custom workouts from simple time, distance, or pace-based goals to complex multi-block intervals.
• Upload your custom workouts to the Workout app on your Apple Watch and use them just like the standard pre-installed workouts.
• Make the Workout app follow your training calendar by setting dates for the workouts.
• View your entire schedule of past and upcoming workouts in Tempo.
• Send your friends a copy of your favorite workout routine for them to try it on their Apple Watch.
• Review your custom workout goals alongside all the beautiful workout details generated post-workout in Tempo.
• All your custom workouts are stored in your iCloud account and stay private within Apple's Workout app.
More to come. Enjoy & Stay Active!
5.0.0
2023-09-20
Introducing Tempo 5, with Custom Workouts & Training Planner!
This is a significant update with a bunch of under-the-hood changes to support iOS 17 & watchOS 10. While a lot more is in the works and will happen incrementally, I wanted to get this huge feature launched for the fall racing season. :)
TL;DR: We can now build custom workouts and do those workouts from the Workout app on Apple Watch. No third-party workout tracking app is required. Create a workout in Tempo, add it to the watch, and it will show up in the Workout app.
Here's a quick summary of the feature,
• Create and manage custom workouts from simple time, distance, or pace-based goals to complex multi-block intervals.
• Upload your custom workouts to the Workout app on your Apple Watch and use them just like the standard pre-installed workouts.
• Make the Workout app follow your training calendar by setting dates for the workouts.
• View your entire schedule of past and upcoming workouts in Tempo.
• Send your friends a copy of your favorite workout routine for them to try it on their Apple Watch.
• Review your custom workout goals alongside all the beautiful workout details generated post-workout in Tempo.
• All your custom workouts are stored in your iCloud account and stay private within Apple's Workout app.
More to come. Enjoy & Stay Active!
4.5.1
2023-08-23
This update fixes minor bugs related to the changes in Heart Rate Zones implementation that was recently released (v4.5.0).
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4.5.0 Release Notes:
• Use the new Heart Rate Reserve method for Heart Rate Zones to analyze training based on your monthly average resting heart rate.
• Set your maximum heart rate to auto-update based on your current age.
4.5.0
2023-08-15
This release is all about Heart Rate Zones. Here's what we got:
• Use the new Heart Rate Reserve method for Heart Rate Zones to analyze training based on your monthly average resting heart rate.
• Set your maximum heart rate to auto-update based on your current age.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
4.4.0
2023-07-14
We are heads down with the next batch of major work. This is a quick update with minor bug fixes and some config changes.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
4.3.2
2023-04-26
This is a small maintenance update with some bug fixes.
• Fixed an issue where Workout Data Sources via in-app settings would not stay open and keep auto-dismissing.
• Fixed Tags rendering in Workout Details to not show placeholder text underlay for tagged workouts.
• Average pace on the Main screen header now correctly excludes walks when walks are disabled for pace calculations.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
ps: special thanks to Beau on helping troubleshoot a PB data issue during this update cycle!
=== 4.3.0 Release Notes ===
Happy Spring Marathon Season! We've got some great quality-of-life additions to keep Tempo fast, powerful, and out of your way. No doom-scrolling here. Just solid stats and insights to help you train like a pro.
Here's a summary of notable items,
+ Glanceable Pace Averages:
Tempo's signature main screen design now also makes pace averages quickly available at your fingertips. Swipe the header to switch between paces and distances for the last 7/30/365 days + current week/month/year.
+ Faster Tagging of Workouts:
Tracking mileage on all those shoes got a whole lot easier in Tempo. We can now tag workouts quickly from anywhere that lists workouts in the app — Tempo's main screen, Intensity Calendar, or Workouts log. Touch & Hold on a workout row or intensity circle to start tagging the workout.
+ Export Notes:
Tempo autosaves backups of your notes & tags under your iCloud account. But just in case you want to save another copy or read the notes from outside Tempo, you can easily do that now by exporting all your notes in plain text from Tempo's in-app settings.
4.3.1
2023-04-07
Quick update to fix a bug with the keyboard auto-dismissing while typing to create or filter tags.
=== 4.3.0 Release Notes ===
Happy Spring Marathon Season! We've got some great quality-of-life additions to keep Tempo fast, powerful, and out of your way. No doom-scrolling here. Just solid stats and insights to help you train like a pro.
Here's a summary of notable items,
+ Glanceable Pace Averages:
Tempo's signature main screen design now also makes pace averages quickly available at your fingertips. Swipe the header to switch between paces and distances for the last 7/30/365 days + current week/month/year.
+ Faster Tagging of Workouts:
Tracking mileage on all those shoes got a whole lot easier in Tempo. We can now tag workouts quickly from anywhere that lists workouts in the app — Tempo's main screen, Intensity Calendar, or Workouts log. Touch & Hold on a workout row or intensity circle to start tagging the workout.
+ Export Notes:
Tempo autosaves backups of your notes & tags under your iCloud account. But just in case you want to save another copy or read the notes from outside Tempo, you can easily do that now by exporting all your notes in plain text from Tempo's in-app settings.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
PS: Good luck to all the marathoners. Please ping me if you are going to be in Boston.
4.3.0
2023-04-06
Happy Spring Marathon Season! We've got some great quality-of-life additions to keep Tempo fast, powerful, and out of your way. No doom-scrolling here. Just solid stats and insights to help you train like a pro.
Here's a summary of notable items,
+ Glanceable Pace Averages:
Tempo's signature main screen design now also makes pace averages quickly available at your fingertips. Swipe the header to switch between paces and distances for the last 7/30/365 days + current week/month/year.
+ Faster Tagging of Workouts:
Tracking mileage on all those shoes got a whole lot easier in Tempo. We can now tag workouts quickly from anywhere that lists workouts in the app — Tempo's main screen, Intensity Calendar, or Workouts log. Touch & Hold on a workout row or intensity circle to start tagging the workout.
+ Export Notes:
Tempo autosaves backups of your notes & tags under your iCloud account. But just in case you want to save another copy or read the notes from outside Tempo, you can easily do that now by exporting all your notes in plain text from Tempo's in-app settings.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
PS: Good luck to all the marathoners. Please ping me if you are going to be in Boston.
4.2.1
2023-01-16
Hello. This build has a few minor bug fixes that have been around but limited to very few folks and hence were not easily discoverable and fixable. You will notice the following improvements if you are one of those folks,
• Latest workout widget will work correctly now instead of showing a very old workout.
• Watch app should show the correct latest workout.
• Workouts imported into the Health app might show better splits info when available.
My thanks to the runners who helped troubleshoot these seemingly random and not very straightforward bugs.
In addition, there is more UI polish, new motivational quotes, and some work for yet-to-be-released features.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
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Tempo 4.2.0 brought updated Annual Highlights with more fun stats and visualizations to celebrate 2022 and get inspired for 2023. Here's a summary of it,
• Cumulative Heart Rate Zones:
Tempo aggregates heart rate zones from every workout during the year for a single year-long heart rate zones pie chart.
• Calendar of Active Days:
A simple and unified calendar highlighting every active day. Makes a fun and unique visual of training history.
• Averages:
We already had totals for key stats, and now we also have totals averaged per workout for the year.
All of the above also works for the past years. So while you can check your year-in-review for 2022, you can also relive the past training years.
4.2.0
2022-12-24
Happy Holidays! This release introduces newly designed Annual Highlights with more stats & visualizations to celebrate 2022 and get inspired for 2023.
• Cumulative Heart Rate Zones: Tempo aggregates heart rate zones from every workout during the year into a pie chart summarizing the entire year with heart rate zones.
• Calendar of Active Days: A clean and simple calendar highlighting every active day. It creates a unique image of the year's training history.
• Averages: We already had totals for key stats, and now we also have stats averaged per workout for the year.
All of the above also works for the previous training years. So you can also relive and compare across the years.
There's lots of good stuff going on behind the scenes in terms of changes. And I can't wait to share what I am building for 2023 features.
Wishing you a great year ahead. Enjoy & Stay Active!
4.1.1
2022-12-10
No significant changes in this release. Just minor bug fixes and some bits to support the next feature release. I hope to get that one out before the end of the year.
4.1.0
2022-10-30
This update has a lot of improvements across the app. Here's a quick summary of the notable changes:
• New Apple Watch Complication for the Last 7 Days Distance Graph.
• Added ability to enable/disable workout data sources. This new in-app setting is useful to avoid duplicates when workouts are synced to the Health app from multiple third-party apps. (Ideally, we should avoid synching the same workouts into the Health app via multiple sources.)
• Cumulative Graph now shows the total distance in decimal format.
• Goal widgets now auto-display a goal when only one active goal exists.
• Tempo always backs up the data, like tags and notes, created and managed in Tempo. This backup mechanism started failing recently for some folks, and in the process of fixing it, we now have a brand new Tempo Backups section under the app settings. This new UI provides the ability to easily verify that backups are being created and also restore from a backup when needed. No action is required to create backups. Tempo will continue to create backups automatically.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the Latest Workout widget from displaying the workout's map until Tempo was opened again after a workout.
Enjoy & Happy Training!
4.0.1
2022-09-20
This update is packed with small improvements and bug fixes.
• Added the ability to tap along the route on the workout's map to view the distance and other stats at that point on the route
• Added end date to the rectangular Goal Lock Screen widget
• Added ability to emphasize map details (i.e. brighter tones) for photo sharing
• Fixed a bug where custom workouts segments would be missing
• Fixed calculation for tag's total days in use
• Fixed handling of exactly a minute intervals to not show as 59.999 seconds
• Fixed missing navigation bar in workout details when Tempo is launched via latest workout widget
Enjoy & Happy Training!
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Tempo v4 Release Notes:
New Running Metrics:
Tempo has integrated all the new data points — power, vertical oscillation, stride length, and ground contact time — within different parts of the app to provide thorough insights, as always, for all your workouts.
Lock Screen Widgets:
Tempo includes over a dozen new Lock Screen widgets for tracking distance totals across different timeframes and the ability to track goal progress.
Shortcuts & Siri:
Let's describe this one with some examples,
1. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo for some pep talk.
2. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo to show my latest run.
3. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo how much did I run this month.
4. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo to show stats for "insert your favorite tag name here".
Compare Workouts:
Compare any two workouts with all the stats, including individual splits & segments, side-by-side, in a simple and beautiful format detailing positive and negative differences.
Tag Details & Alerts:
Tags Log has been completely redesigned to highlight more insights about each tag. You can also set up a distance alert on any tag — great addition for better shoe tracking with tags.
New App Icon:
Tempo has a new look on your home screen! The new app icon is beautiful, and the app settings include more fun alternatives to match your style and training mood.
4.0.0
2022-09-12
Introducing Tempo 4. This is a significant update with a bunch of great improvements. Here's a quick summary,
New Running Metrics:
Tempo has integrated all the new data points — power, vertical oscillation, stride length, and ground contact time — within different parts of the app to provide thorough insights, as always, for all your workouts.
Lock Screen Widgets:
Tempo includes over a dozen new Lock Screen widgets for tracking distance totals across different timeframes and the ability to track goal progress.
Shortcuts & Siri:
Let's describe this one with some examples,
1. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo for some pep talk.
2. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo to show my latest run.
3. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo how much did I run this month.
4. Hey Siri, Ask Tempo to show stats for "insert your favorite tag name here".
Compare Workouts:
Compare any two workouts with all the stats, including individual splits & segments, side-by-side, in a simple and beautiful format detailing positive and negative differences.
Tag Details & Alerts:
Tags Log has been completely redesigned to highlight more insights about each tag. You can also set up a distance alert on any tag — great addition for better shoe tracking with tags.
New App Icon:
Tempo has a new look on your home screen! The new app icon is beautiful, and the app settings include more fun alternatives to match your style and training mood.
Enjoy & Happy Training!
3.9.1
2022-06-17
Quick update to fix missing splits and chart data for workouts recorded with some of the third-party apps.
--- Here's what we introduced in 3.9.0 ---
New Notes Screen:
See all your notes in one place. One of the best features of Tempo is the ability to capture training notes for every workout. Use the new Notes screen for fast and easy access to all your notes in chronological order.
Standalone Notes:
In addition to notes attached to workouts, Tempo now supports adding standalone notes to your training journal. Use standalone note entries to log general training thoughts that may not be specific to any workout sessions.
Distance Totals in Decimal:
Track your distance totals in the new decimal format on Tempo's main screen on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Widgets. Seeing fractional distances can bring motivation for a few more laps to round off those weekly, monthly, and yearly totals.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
3.9.0
2022-06-13
Hello. This update introduces the following new features along with some bug fixes.
New Notes Screen:
See all your notes in one place. One of the best features of Tempo is the ability to capture training notes for every workout. Use the new Notes screen for fast and easy access to all your notes in chronological order.
Standalone Notes:
In addition to notes attached to workouts, Tempo now supports adding standalone notes to your training journal. Use standalone note entries to log general training thoughts that may not be specific to any workout sessions.
Distance Totals in Decimal:
Track your distance totals in the new decimal format on Tempo's main screen on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Widgets. Seeing fractional distances can bring motivation for a few more laps to round off those weekly, monthly, and yearly totals.
Enjoy & Stay Active!
3.8.0
2022-05-17
• Improved data sync performance between iPhone and Apple Watch app
• Added more quotes for the Quotes widget
• Updated design for the Tempo Premium features listing
• Minor bug fixes
3.7.0
2022-01-03
Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a very healthy and active 2022. This release adds the ability to view Personal Bests by year. In addition, it has the following notable updates:
• Fixed bad layout of splits data when sharing a workout screenshot
• Fixed rounding inconsistencies between Cumulative Graph and Distance board values
• Fixed bug that showed inaccurate percentage change (for sub 1% values) and corresponding arrow directions on the Cumulative Graph bars
• Improved handling of subscription state in both the iPhone and the watch apps, as well as the home screen widgets
Enjoy & Stay Active! :)
3.6.0
2021-11-15
Hello. This release adds following new features along with some general maintenance.
[NEW] Quotes Widget
A lot of us find quotes from athletes and coaches super motivating. I have been curating quotes for running motivation for a while now. So I am really glad to finally able to share it with everyone. This update adds a medium-sized quotes widget that auto-refreshes a few times a day. You can also customize the colors and fonts of the quotes widget from Tempo’s in-app settings.
[NEW] Splits Browser
Splits Browser enables visually inspecting a workout’s graph and map by selecting a distance segment (a split or an interval) at a time. It is a great way to do a more thorough performance analysis of a workout.
[NEW] Dew Point in Workout Details
Workout performance is directly affected by how dry or humid it feels, and unlike relative humidity, dew point provides a better measure of it. Tempo now calculates dew point temperature for every workout that has recorded weather data.
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!
3.5.3
2021-10-25
• Quick update to fix a crash that might happen when a workout with badly formatted location data is imported to Apple Health.
• Also made minor UI improvements to format vertical ascend and descend (when available) more clearly.
3.5.2
2021-10-07
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Hello. This update fixes a crash that might be happening due to workouts recorded with a Garmin watch and then imported into the Health app using a different app.
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!
PS: Happy running & Good luck to all the Chicago & Boston marathoners!!!
3.5.1
2021-09-30
This release is focused on all kinds of minor improvements and bug fixes.
• Implemented duplicate workouts filtering for the Goals progress calculations. If you noticed incorrect goal progress, this should fix it now. I still recommend looking into why you have duplicate workouts in your Health data.
• Updated graphic circular watch goal complication to auto-switch from distance to the percent of completed goal when distance > 999 (mi or km). This change significantly improves complication legibility for goals with higher target distance.
• Updated watch app to show total distance (instead of just the latest workout distance) for the most recent workout day. If you run/walk/hike more than once a day, the watch app will now show the total distance for the latest workout day (e.g. “Today”).
• Fixed an issue where some premium settings (color scheme override and custom intensity baseline) were lost when Tempo was restarted.
• Updated Restore subscription button in the watch app to do a faster sync with the iPhone app.
• Fixed the launch screen (Health permission info) sizing issues for some of the older device types.
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!
3.5.0
2021-09-20
Hello. This release adds support for the latest versions of iOS and watchOS.
In addition, we have some nice updates for the Personal Bests functionality:
• View your top fastest times for a distance under the Personal Best details of that distance.
• Are you an ultrarunner? Tempo now supports Personal Bests for the ultramarathon distances from 50KM to 100 miles!
• Configure Personal Bests to show (or hide) distances from 100 meters to 100 miles
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!
3.4.1
2021-08-28
Hello. This is a quick update with minor bug fixes. It also adds the ability to use a workout’s route map for Photo Sharing.
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!
— v3.4.0 Release Notes —
Hello. This is a big update for Tempo with the following new features and improvements.
GOALS:
Introducing Goals! A goal can be highly motivating to maintain a consistent training routine and chase new peaks of fitness. With Tempo, setting up goals is simple & fast. And tracking goals is fully automated!
• Set a goal to complete a distance once over any number of days, or repeat it weekly or monthly.
• Visualize detailed goal progress in Tempo app on your iPhone and Apple Watch.
• Stay motivated by setting up one of the beautiful goal widgets on your Home Screen.
• Add a goal complication to your favorite Apple Watch face to see goal progress at a glance.
FILTER BY DATES:
• Use the new dates based filter to easily lookup past workouts.
• Combine dates filter with other powerful filters to tag multiple workouts simultaneously.
ARCHIVE TAGS:
Simplify your tags setup by archiving all the currently unused tags while maintaining the history of those tags. We can now move those retired shoes, old race tags out of the way, and make tagging even faster.
Thank you for being part of the Tempo community. We have a lot on our roadmap, and with all your help and feedback, we keep advancing our favorite training app.
3.4.0
2021-08-23
Hello. This is a big update for Tempo with the following new features and improvements.
GOALS:
Introducing Goals! A goal can be highly motivating to maintain a consistent training routine and chase new peaks of fitness. With Tempo, setting up goals is simple & fast. And tracking goals is fully automated!
• Set a goal to complete a distance once over any number of days, or repeat it weekly or monthly.
• Visualize detailed goal progress in Tempo app on your iPhone and Apple Watch.
• Stay motivated by setting up one of the beautiful goal widgets on your Home Screen.
• Add a goal complication to your favorite Apple Watch face to see goal progress at a glance.
FILTER BY DATES:
• Use the new dates based filter to easily lookup past workouts.
• Combine dates filter with other powerful filters to tag multiple workouts simultaneously.
ARCHIVE TAGS:
Simplify your tags setup by archiving all the currently unused tags while maintaining the history of those tags. We can now move those retired shoes, old race tags out of the way, and make tagging even faster.
Thank you for being part of the Tempo community. We have a lot on our roadmap, and with all your help and feedback, we keep advancing our favorite training app.
Enjoy & Keep Running/Walking!