What’s new

Rides about to leave your bin for good are one notification, not one each.

• It lists every ride in your bin with the day it goes, soonest first.
• When another ride comes within a week of going, the same notification moves back to the top instead of a new one appearing.
• The email says the same, in one message.

Find meeting points no longer sends a joining group back down the road to meet sooner.

• It used to take the earliest point within the detour allowance, which on most rides meant the whole allowance spent riding the wrong way.
• Now every mile out of somebody’s way has to buy a mile and a half of riding together, so a group whose road joins the main one is met where it joins.
• The allowance counts from the cheapest place a group could join, so a group starting a long way off still gets an answer instead of “nowhere works.”

The detour allowance starts at 10 miles instead of 25, and you can set your own under Preferences.

• Preferences has a Meeting points topic; leave it empty for the default.
• The dial beside Find meeting points opens on your number and is still yours to change for any one press.

Your places-to-avoid and places-to-favor lists now count when meeting points are proposed.

• A station you avoid drops a few places down the list and one you favor moves up; nothing is ever hidden, so a lone station on an empty road is still offered.

Dark mode has a page under its cards now, and the small print on it is legible.

• Cards sit on the page instead of sinking into it, with a faint edge so you can find their corners.
• The gray text under a ride’s name, the tab labels and the captions are all a shade brighter.
• The tour’s spotlight has a yellow ring, so it shows on a dark page at all.
• Route lines and their pins are brighter on a dark map—the same colors, lifted, so a navy is a blue and a maroon is a red.

Your rides have their own page, under Rides in the menu, and on a phone it is where the site opens—one ride per row with a big Load ride and a Keep that stores it for when there is no signal.

• On a phone the front door is the list. Dash is still in the menu, one tap away.
• An On this phone switch above the list keeps every ride changed in the last 30 days, or this year, or all of them, and keeps them current each time you open it.
• The same five tabs—yours, friends’, following, public, and the recycle bin—on a page that starts with the list instead of ending with it.
• Rides somebody else added you to sit in Your rides, after your own, each saying who planned it.
• Dash keeps your numbers and links through to the list.

The ride page works with a thumb: bigger checkboxes and buttons, a tap on a route to single it out, and a map that fits above the drawer.

• Opening a ride on a phone used to fit the route under the drawer, so you saw the map and not the ride. It lands in the part you can see now.
• Tap a route’s mileage to light it on the map; tap again to let go.
• The roadbook scrolls sideways on a phone rather than squeezing eight columns into one.
• Pages have narrower margins on a phone, and the tabs scroll instead of crowding each other.

The QR code opens over everything, on a dark backdrop; it used to sit behind the timeline bar.

• Tap outside it or press Escape to put it away.

Every ride has an On the road page for your phone: the Google Maps legs one tap at a time, the ride’s files handed to your nav app, the roadbook as a list, and a copy you can keep for when there is no signal.

• Find it beside Roadbook on the ride page. Tap a leg and Maps starts from where you are; your place is remembered on that phone, and Next leg is one big button.
• The GPX goes to your nav app through the share sheet where the phone allows it, or lands in Downloads. On an iPhone pick Save to Files and open the file from there—most nav apps do not show up in the sheet directly.
• Keep on this phone stores the page, the roadbook and the files, so they open with no connection. Nothing is kept until you press it, and Remove takes it back.
• Routeloop can be added to your Home Screen, and a page opened with no signal lists the rides you kept.

The Google Maps hand-off links start from where you are, so Maps offers Start rather than Preview.

• The old navigate page said they did and they did not. It lives at the new address now and the old one forwards.

Type into any point’s name in the builder and the same search you get on the add row opens under it; pick a place and it replaces that point where it sits.

• The stop keeps its notes, its stop time, its category and its place in the list. Only the place, the address and the pin move.
• The legs either side are routed again, and one undo puts the old point back.
• Typing and tabbing away still just renames it.

The map can be light or dark on its own, under Preferences → Appearance → Map tiles.

• It matches the page unless you say otherwise, so a dark page gets dark tiles and a light page light ones.
• Pick Light or Dark to keep the tiles one way whatever the page is. The map picks it up the next time it opens.

Your stats on the dashboard are three bars each: you, the average rider, and the top rider, so you can see at a glance where you stand.

• Green is you, blue is the average rider, orange is the top rider, and every bar is drawn against the top rider’s figure.
• The tiles sit under a Your stats heading, each reads “13 rides” on one line, and Plan a ride moved up beside your miles planned.

Dark mode is easier to read: the text and the gray captions are lighter, and the route grips in the builder carry more of their route’s color.

• The Changed and Removed badges on this page take black lettering in every scheme; they had gone gray on their fields under a dark page.
• The Take the tour sign on the builder and the viewer had kept a green border from before it turned yellow.

The app’s scripts arrive at about a quarter of their old size, so the builder and the viewer open faster on a slow connection.

• Nothing on screen changes; the same code is sent with its notes and spacing taken out.

The Recycle bin is the last tab under Rides on your dashboard, and binned places sit under your places list.

• The Recycle bin item left the account menu; the old address still lands on the tab.
• Put it back returns you to the page you pressed it on.

The dashboard’s numbers say whose they are: yours in large, then everyone’s average and the most anyone has.

Under a dark theme, every text box is dark now, and so are the radios, checkboxes, and menus.

• The Custom box in Vocabulary, the confirm box under GTFO, and every field on Places and Paddock glared white against a dark page.

Places and Paddock are roomier: bigger fields, real labels, and a card per bike.

• The places list has column headings, so the box beside the name is visibly the group.

The account tabs read Preferences, Profile, Paddock, Places, and Preferences opens on Appearance and Units.

• Vocabulary comes third, then Places and brands, Notifications, and GTFO.

Show me around moved to the top of your Profile tab, in a card you can fold.

• It starts open. Fold it and it stays a one-line bar on that browser until you open it again.

In the Vocabulary table, the word and its radio button line up, and the term sits level with its first pill.

The release notes read as cards: a kind on every item, a sentence, then the detail, folded to a title until you open one.

• Every entry carries its date, build, and commit; the newest starts open and folds when you open another.

Riders are cards now, with a face, and each list has a Large, Medium, Small switch.

• The size you pick for a list is the size you get next time, on that browser.
• A rider with no picture gets their initials on a disc, the way the account chip does.

The Take the tour sign in the header is a yellow yield sign with no arrow.

Drag the builder’s panel to the width you want.

• The collapse arrow is gone on a desktop; the panel’s right edge is a handle instead.
• Pull it narrower than 360 pixels and it folds into the thin rail; pull the rail back out and it pops to 360 and goes on up to three quarters of the screen.
• A click on the edge folds or unfolds it, the arrow keys nudge it, and the width you leave it at is the width you get next time, on that browser. On a phone the sheet works as it did.

One place for everything about you.

• Profile and Preferences were two menu items; they are one, My Account, opening a page with four tabs — Preferences, Profile, Places, Paddock.
• Your saved places and your bikes each have a tab of their own now instead of sitting at the foot of the profile form, and an empty paddock shows you a blank bike to fill in rather than telling you there are none.
• The old settings link still works and lands here.

Routeloop is not only for motorcycles, and the words no longer assume it is.

• On the Preferences tab, under Vocabulary, pick what you are on (motorcycle, car, bicycle) and what it runs on (gas, electric, pedal), and every page uses the words that fit — trip and driver for a car, charge and battery for anything electric.
• Under each preset is a table of fourteen terms, each with the words the presets use and a box for your own; type in the box and it is picked.
• A slash gives a word its plural, like person/people.
• A word you set here is yours everywhere.

A ride can be for a different vehicle than your default.

• Two new selects beside Visibility in the builder say what this ride is for, and the builder, the viewer, the roster, the roadbook and the tips all follow it.
• A ride powered by pedaling has no fuel to plan around, so the range ring, the empty markers and the Range button stay away on it.

Emails use your words too.

• A note about a comment, a suggestion, a new follower or a ride you were added to reads in the words you picked, not the words the person who triggered it picked.

The tour is now the whole app, in five parts.

• It plans one ride from start to finish while you watch — Oakland to Santa Cruz by Alice’s and Pescadero — and the only buttons are Next, Back and Skip.
• A cursor types the name, the points land and the road draws, the road is dragged inland through Big Basin, lunch gets a category and a time, a start time lands and the slider runs the day through, a second group sets off from San Jose, the roster fills, a tank runs dry in the redwoods and a gas stop fixes it, the builder proposes where the two groups should meet and takes its answer, and one rider turns for home over 84. It ends on the page you would share. About thirty cards, any part skippable.

Three riders exist for it.

• Sam, Priya and Diego are on every tour ride with real bikes and real ranges, so the roster, the fuel ring and the split have somebody to be about.
• They are nowhere else: not on the riders page, not friendable, never mailed.

The ride it builds is real, and it goes in the bin when you finish.

• It was the tour’s, not yours.
• Nothing is added to your paddock and nothing is routed live — the demo was planned once and is replayed, so it is the same every time and costs nothing to run.

It follows you across pages.

• The roster on the ride’s own page, the paddock on your profile, the riders page, and the shared view of the ride are each visited when the story gets there.

A small Take the tour sign sits beside your name in the header, on the builder too.

• If you have seen enough of it, Show me around in Preferences has a checkbox that takes it away; Take the tour under the menu stays either way.

A route’s Starts and Ends fields opened blank on a dated ride until you touched something; the times were there the whole time.

The first time you open the builder, it shows you around.

• Three short parts, each pointing at the thing it is talking about — the route, the clock, and the people.
• Name the ride, add a point, add a second and watch the road draw; give it a start time and meet the slider along the bottom of the map; then groups, who rides which route, and where to meet.
• Take the parts in any order or skip any of them, and it will not come back on its own — Take the tour under the menu brings it back whenever you like.

Point at almost anything and it tells you what it is for.

• Every button, field and grip in the builder, the download row and the buttons on a ride page, the tabs on your dashboard, the footer: a headline and a sentence on why you would touch it, faster than the old tooltip.
• The reverse arrow says the road back is not always the road out.
• The bed-time field says what the band across your route list means.

Both are on to start with, and neither turns itself off.

• Preferences has a new Show me around section at the top with the tour button and the switch for the tips.
• Say no to the tips and you get the short labels back exactly as they were, on every device you sign in on.

A ride you moved to the bin no longer sits on your dashboard.

• If somebody else put you on a ride and then deleted it, the card stayed under “riding with” and opening it answered not found.
• It was the one list in the app that did not check the bin, so the only thing you could do about it was ignore it. That card is gone.

The unread dot now shows on the map.

• The red count on your account chip is the way to your notifications, and on the builder and the ride viewer that chip lives inside the menu — so nothing on screen told you anything had happened and you had to open the menu on the off chance.
• There is a small red dot on the menu button itself now, wherever the chip is tucked away, including on a phone.
• It says something is in there rather than how many.

A wrong link now lands on a page instead of a line of text.

• A mistyped address, or a shared ride that has since been deleted or made private, used to answer with the words Not found on a blank page and no way onward.
• It is a proper page now, and it keeps the menu so you can get back to what you were doing.

The blue on a route where riders join or leave is readable again.

• It was set in a blue borrowed from another app’s logo, which was too pale to read as text and could not be darkened by the high-contrast theme — the one setting that exists to fix exactly that.

Staging is not a sandbox any more.

• It used to hold its own throwaway rides, which meant nothing was ever tried against real ones until it was already live.
• It now reads and writes the same rides, the same riders and the same uploads as the real site.

So anything you delete on staging is really deleted.

• Bin a ride there and it is a rider’s ride; empty the bin and it is gone for good.
• The amber banner says so on every page now — it used to promise the opposite, that everything there gets wiped, and that is no longer true.

Staging will never email anybody.

• Testing a notification there cannot reach a real rider.
• The side effect is that the sign-in link does not arrive on staging either, so use Sign in with Google to get in.

Staging is a button now, like the real site.

• It no longer deploys itself every time something merges, because that would put new code in front of real data with nobody deciding to.

Notifications are color-coded by what they are.

• A comment is gray, a suggestion yellow, a settled vote green, someone joining a ride blue, a friend request brown, a report you filed red, and a release the guide-sign green.
• They were all the same blue before, so the little picture was doing all the work and the color none of it.

Storage still speaks twice.

• Nearly out of room is amber, and something about to be destroyed is red — the one mark that wears two colors, because those are advice and a verdict and should not look the same.

A notification you can open now says so.

• Rows that lead somewhere carry a small green Read more sign at the end of the line.
• Rows with nowhere to go do not, so you can tell at a glance which is which.

The unread count is round.

• It was half a pixel taller than it was wide, the number inside it sat high, and in the menu the dot hung low and too close to the word. All measured and all fixed.

Release notes now arrive as a notification.

• When a build ships, it turns up in your notifications alongside everything else, newest first — so you find out what changed without going to look for it.

Every release is in there, not just the new ones.

• The whole history back to July is in your notifications, dated when it actually shipped, already marked read so nothing is shouting at you.
• Each one links to its own entry on this page, which still has the full text.

The red count on your name is the nudge.

• It sits on your name in the header, and again on Notifications in that menu so you know where you are going.
• On the route builder and the map the header collapses to the ☰ menu, so the count is inside there rather than on screen — those two had no way to reach the release notes at all since the feedback button went.

No email unless you ask for one.

• Routeloop ships several times a day, so release notes are the one notification that is off on email and off in the browser to start with.
• If you want them in your inbox, Preferences → Notifications → Your account has the switch.

Along the route hits go in the right place now.

• Searching a route for coffee and picking one at mile 40 used to add it after the hotel at mile 300, so the road doubled back on itself and you had to drag the stop up the list.
• It now lands between the two stops it actually sits between.

Pressing a + between two stops still wins.

• If you opened an insert point, that is where the place goes — you pointed at that stretch of road, and nothing second-guesses it.

Typing a category now searches what the scope says.

• With Along the route selected, tapping the Gas chip searched the route while typing “gas” searched only what was on screen. Both follow the control now.
• Searching for a place by name is still the visible map, which is what you want when you are typing somewhere specific.

Naming a ride no longer brings up a save error.

• Start a ride, type its name, and a few seconds later you were told it could not be saved because it had no stop — which was the thing you had come to add.
• A ride with nothing on it yet is simply not started, so nothing is attempted and nothing interrupts you.
• The name goes up with the first stop you drop.

A ride that genuinely cannot save still says so.

• If you empty a saved ride of every stop, that is real work not reaching the server, and you still get told — that message was never the problem.

Dialog headings are readable on the dark themes again.

• The heading on the save-error dialog, and on the one for splitting a group off, was black on a near-black card — there, but impossible to read.

Notifications.

• There is a Notifications page in your account menu now, with a count beside it when something has happened — somebody commenting on a ride you own, putting you on one, saying whether they are coming, or answering a report you filed.

You choose what reaches you, and where.

• Preferences → Notifications lists everything we might tell you about, with a box for email and a box for your browser.
• Email is on to start with and the browser is off.
• A browser notification needs Chrome’s permission and only appears while you have Routeloop open in a tab, so it is a nudge while you are here rather than a way to be reached when you are not.
• Signing in and being let in are not on that list and cannot be switched off.

We will warn you before anything is destroyed.

• A week before a ride in your bin is deleted for good, a week before an account deletion you asked for goes ahead, and once when your storage is nearly full.

“Download everything about you” now means it.

• The zip was missing your saved places, your friends and follows, the rides you are on but do not own, every comment, suggestion and vote you made, the reports you filed, and your survey answers. All of it is in there.
• Other people are named by handle and never by email address — their contact details are theirs to export, not yours.

If you use a dark theme, several things were unreadable and are not any more.

• Every button’s legend, the KML download badge, and the banner across the top of the page were all rendering near-black on their own color.
• Worth another look if you had given up on dark.

The corner button is gone.

• The shield that floated at the bottom right of every page did the same thing as an account-menu item, so there is one way in now and it is called Feedback.
• The account menu is shorter besides, and pages are wider than they were.

Settings and Your profile are two tabs of one page now.

• Both were always “the things about me I can change”, and having them on separate pages meant knowing in advance which one a thing had been filed under.
• Both links still work and each opens its own tab.

Changing your username works again.

• It had been failing outright, and we are sorry — if you tried in the last day and got an error page, try again.

Twelve- or twenty-four-hour time is its own choice.

• It used to come along with your date format, so the only way to get a 24-hour clock was to also read your dates as 24/08/2026.
• Now it is a setting of its own, and it applies in the planner as well as on the printed roadbook.

Tell us the places you would rather not stop at.

• Under Places to avoid, list a brand or a kind of place — ARCO, Costco Gas, fast food — and they drop to the bottom of every place search.
• Nothing is ever hidden: the one time you are out of fuel with one in front of you is exactly the time you need to see it.

Your bikes can carry a tank size, in gallons or liters.

• The unit is yours to pick under Fuel volume, and it follows your distance setting unless you say otherwise.

Some counts said “routes” where they meant days.

• The recycle bin said a ride had “17 routes left” and the account page counted down in routes. They say days, properly.

A group can now peel off partway through a ride.

• Open the ⋮ menu on any stop and choose Split a group off here.
• Say who is leaving — a group that has ridden together before, or a new one — and where they are headed, and you get their road drawn from that stop to their destination while everyone else carries on as planned.
• Both groups leave at the moment the last of you arrives.

Pick the same group again and the right people are already ticked.

• When a group joins the main pack their name stops applying, but it is not gone — it survives on the road they rode as it.
• So when they split off for home, the app offers that group back with whoever rode as it last already selected.
• Change it if one or two are carrying on with you.

Split the same stop as many times as you need.

• Three groups going three ways from one gas station is one pass each.
• The only thing it will not let you do is leave nobody on the road ahead — someone has to carry on.

The stop that a group left from says so.

• The group’s own road is added at the bottom of the route list, so the stop carries a line naming them and where they went — press it to jump straight to it.

Notes and reservations are one place now.

• The stop menu had two items leading to two different notes boxes with nothing saying which was which.
• There is one item, and inside it the boxes are labeled for who reads them: notes everyone on the ride can see, and notes only you can see.
• A note you have written also shows on the stop’s row, so you can read it without opening anything.

The stop menu lost three items it did not need.

• Move up and move down are gone — the grip on the left of each row does it, and you can now focus it and use the arrow keys, which you could not before. “Make this a POI” is gone from stops that carry a category, because removing the last category already does it.

What used to be called a day is now called a route.

• Nothing about your rides has changed — the same list, the same order, the same colors. Only the word.
• Once you plan for more than one group, the first few routes are often fractions of one afternoon rather than days at all: three groups setting off from three towns and meeting up before lunch.
• Calling those “days” described none of them.

“Day” still means a day.

• Dates, start times and the clock on your routes are unchanged — a Saturday is still a Saturday.
• Release notes below this one still say “day” because that is what they said at the time, and they are a record rather than instructions.

A route can be ridden by several groups, not just one.

• The group control on a route is a list of tickboxes now.
• Once two groups meet up, the road they share says both their names instead of claiming everybody rides it — which was wrong whenever a third group was still on its way. Ticking Everyone ticks the lot.
• Your own group is remembered on the road you rode to get there, so when you peel off for home it can offer to split you back off the same way.

You can say who rides which route.

• Each route in the Routes panel now shows how many riders are on it, and tapping that opens a list to tick.
• Somebody who joins you for the middle of a ride and peels off again is two answers — everyone stays on from where you put them until you say otherwise — and the routes where the group changes read “Dylan joins here” and “Dylan leaves here” instead of a count.

Your roadbook and your files are yours alone now.

• Download the roadbook, the Google Maps hand-off or any of the four file formats and you get the routes you ride — not the whole group’s.
• A friend who joined for one afternoon gets that afternoon.
• This used to give you your group’s whole run, which was the same answer only when everybody in a group rode exactly the same stretches.

Picking a meeting point now splits the shared stretch off as its own route.

• Everybody’s approach stays their own, and the road you ride together from the meeting point becomes one route marked for everyone.
• Do it twice and you get a staged meet-up — two groups join at the first point and ride on together, and the third catches everyone at the second.

Departure times now move the whole approach.

• If a group has a route or two before the one that reaches the meeting point, those shift with it instead of being left behind.

You can say how far a detour is worth it.

• There is a miles box beside Find meeting points now.
• Widen it and you will be offered somewhere earlier on the road; tighten it and the suggestion moves closer to where everybody was already going.

Groups show where they start.

• Each group in the Groups panel now says which town it sets off from, under its name.

Shaping points snap to the road.

• Drag the line onto a different highway and the handle now settles on the road itself rather than wherever your pointer landed.

Meeting-point suggestions sit on top of everything else on the map.

• A numbered suggestion could end up behind a gas-station pin, where you could neither see it nor hover it.

Re-check your saved ride files.

• The file format moved on to carry the new wording.
• Anything you exported before today still imports exactly as it did — but if you keep backups, this is a good day to drop one back on the import page and confirm your routes come back the way you left them.

Find meeting points now answers the question you actually have.

• Plan your main group’s route to the destination — say Oakland to Ensenada — then press Find meeting points in the Groups panel.
• It suggests where the other groups should join that road, and tells you what each one goes out of its way by name.
• Where a group’s route already passes through the spot, it says so rather than showing a zero.

There is now one button for the whole ride instead of one per group, and the first group you add is the main group.

• It used to refuse to say anything until a day was marked as ridden by everyone — which is the thing you were trying to work out.

Deleting a stop could leave a day that would never save again.

• If you removed the last stop from a day using the row menu, everything left on it was a point you ride past rather than stop at — and the ride refused to save from then on, with no way to put it right except tagging one by hand.
• The first remaining point now becomes the stop, the way it already did everywhere else.

Every ride now starts with one group already there, which is you.

• Rename it if you like; you cannot delete it, because a ride you planned has at least one rider on it.
• Groups only start appearing elsewhere — on the roster, and on the roadbook’s whose-copy switch — once there are two of them.

The Groups tab now shows the main group on its own at the top, marked Main.

• That is the group whose route everyone else joins when you look for a meeting point.
• To change it, drag another group up over it — the one on top is the main one.
• You can also focus a group’s grip and use the arrow keys.

Suggested meeting points now appear on the map.

• One numbered dot each, matching the list, with the road each joining group would ride to reach it drawn alongside.
• Hover a dot or a row and the other lights up; press either to take it.

Tell a ride when you like to stop for the night.

• Set a time on the ride — say 4pm — and the day list breaks where you reach that hour, with a band saying how far in you are and how much riding would still be left after it.
• It takes the road you planned and the stops you added into account, and offers to search that stretch for somewhere to stay; picking one still offers to end the day there. The map marks the spot too. Leave it blank and nothing changes.

Dragging a route onto a different road stopped working.

• It broke earlier the same day, when the search-result dots landed — two pieces of the map code ended up sharing a name and the newer one silently replaced the older.
• Dragging a leg to reshape it works again.

Searching a long day for gas missed most of it.

• Looking for fuel along the day ran a fixed six searches spread across the whole route, and on anything over about 190 miles those searches stopped overlapping — so a 593-mile day had 37-mile stretches nobody ever looked at, and a run through Los Angeles could come back with nothing.
• It now runs as many searches as the day needs, which also means fewer of them on a short day.
• Past about 745 miles it still cannot cover everything, and now says so rather than looking like an empty road.

A meeting point has to be one everybody can actually get to on the fuel they have.

• Suggestions are now checked against the shortest tank on the ride, measured from each group’s last fill — along the road for the main group, and along the real routed road for anyone joining.
• If nothing is reachable without stopping for fuel first, it says so rather than quietly suggesting a forecourt you would run dry short of.

Meeting points are gas stations.

• Everyone turns up needing fuel and a forecourt is somewhere you can actually wait, so the suggestions are real stations on the main group’s road, named and with an address.
• The point added to everyone’s day is the station itself rather than a spot on the highway beside it, and it counts as a refuel on the fuel gauge.
• If there is no station on the stretch everyone can reach, it offers the best plain spots instead and says that is what it did.

Meeting points are now the earliest everyone can reach, not the cheapest.

• The old suggestions were whichever cost the joining group the fewest extra miles, which is almost always somewhere near the end of the ride — so two groups rode most of the way separately to a ride they were doing together.
• It now picks the soonest point everybody can get to without going a long way out of their way.

Taking a meeting point sets everyone’s departure for you.

• The main group keeps the time you gave them, and every other group is told when to leave so they arrive at the meeting point at the same moment.
• It waits for the real roads to be worked out first, so the times you see are the routed ones rather than a guess.
• If the main group’s day has no date yet, it says so instead of quietly doing nothing.

The choice of what to pin a group ride to is gone.

• It is always the main group’s departure, which is the one time anybody actually knows; the meet and the arrival are worked out from it.

Suggestions were also landing too far along the route.

• Every bend in the road ahead was counted as a detour the joining group had chosen, which on a normal winding route added tens of miles nobody was riding.

The second day of a ride could not be saved.

• A new day starts where the last one ended, and that carried-over point was not being counted as a stop — so the ride failed to save, every time, until you gave one of its points a category by hand.
• If a ride of yours has been refusing to save, this was why, and it should now save on its own.

When something goes wrong, you get a window that holds the whole message instead of a few words cut off at the bottom of the panel.

• It also tells you whether your work is at risk — usually it is not, because a copy is kept in your browser and Routeloop keeps retrying.

Errors name the day rather than a number.

• “Day 2 needs at least one stop”, not “days.1”.

Each day can now be told what to avoid — highways, tolls, ferries — and whether to prefer the twistier road.

• It is set per day rather than per ride, because a Saturday in the hills and the slog home want opposite answers. Changing one re-routes that day.

Show a QR code for any ride from the ride page.

• Hold it up and everyone at the meeting point can scan their way onto the route.
• It works with the phone signal you actually have at a meeting point, and the link is printed underneath for anyone who would rather type it.

Searching for a gas station or a coffee stop from the + between two points now searches that stretch of road.

• It used to search the whole day, or whatever was on screen — which on a long ride meant results from the middle of nowhere.

Search results appear on the map as numbered dots.

• Hover one to see what it is, hover a result to find it on the map, and tap a dot to add it.

Searching along a day now looks the whole way along it rather than around its midpoint, so a station three hours in is offered instead of missed.

The fuel ring is green while you have most of a tank, orange past half, and red from three quarters — so it says how much you have left rather than only where it runs out.

Ctrl or Cmd + S saves straight away, instead of your browser offering to save the page.

Searching along a day found nothing at all, whatever you asked for and wherever you were.

• It had been broken since the search was added two days earlier.

Every day now shows how far in each stop is and how far you are on the current tank, counted from the last stop you tagged Gas or Charge.

• A fuel stop reads zero at its own row, because standing at the pump you have gone no distance on that tank yet.

The map marks every place you would run dry, not just the first — a red disc with an E on it, one for each tankful the day needs.

• Hover one to confirm what it is.

The stretch you cannot ride on the fuel you have is drawn as red-and-white hazard tape, from the first empty marker to the next fuel stop, or to the end of the day if there is no fuel stop after it.

A dotted red circle around you shrinks to nothing exactly as you reach the point you run dry, and springs back out when you pass a fuel stop.

• The range is the smallest tank in the group, so the plan is built around whoever has to stop first.

All of it is behind one Range button beside the slider, on both the builder and a shared ride.

• Turn it off and you get the plain route back.

The scrubber no longer wastes most of its travel on the overnights.

• On a nine-day ride, roughly two thirds of the slider used to be nights in hotels with nothing on the map.

Searching for a place now looks at the part of the map you can see, and the category chips (Gas, Food, Coffee, Lodging) follow the map rather than the last stop of the day.

• If nothing matches on screen it says so, and zooming out searches wider.

A new Along the day option searches the whole day’s route instead of just what is on screen, and lists what it finds nearest-detour-first.

Tag a stop in the middle of a day as lodging and the day offers to end there, splitting what follows into the next day.

• You can also split a day at any stop.

Red is no longer offered as a day color, because red now means “you cannot ride this”.

• Rides you have already colored keep what they were given.

The slider along the bottom of the builder now covers the day you are working on, not the whole ride.

• On a four-day trip that is roughly eighteen times the precision — enough to actually find the middle of Saturday afternoon and work out where lunch goes.
• Whole ride beside the readout still gives you the old full-length slider.

The day you are editing is the bright one on the map.

• It used to be whichever day the slider happened to be parked on, so clicking into day three to work on it left day three faded out behind day one.

Picking a category for a waypoint closes the picker.

• It stayed open and had to be dismissed by hand, which read as the click not having registered.

The round feedback badge no longer sits on the end of the slider.

• It was covering the last of the travel, which is the end of the ride.

A ride somebody shared with you now has a way in.

• If you are on a ride’s roster you will see a link to open it from the ride page, and what it says is what you can actually do there — edit it, suggest changes, or leave a comment.

Two of you can plan the same ride at the same time.

• Take different days and neither of you can lose the other’s work: your saves are merged a day at a time rather than one of you overwriting the whole ride.

You can see who else is in a ride with you and which day they are on.

• A day somebody else is working on is marked, so you know to expect a clash before you start moving stops around.

When someone else saves a day you are looking at, it updates in front of you rather than going quietly out of date.

• If you have unsaved work that clashes, the panel says so and stops saving instead of picking a winner.

If you have ever had a ride open in two tabs, or planned one alongside somebody else, look over its days.

• Until today the last save won outright and could take the other one’s changes with it, silently.

Adding a bike in the Paddock no longer throws you out of every field.

• Each time you clicked into one it lost focus straight away and had to be clicked again; it just works now.
• Saving a place or renaming a group had the same problem, and does not.

You can set a stop shorter than an hour.

• Typing .25 gives you a quarter of an hour, and stop times are shown to two decimals so a fifteen-minute coffee stop stays fifteen minutes.
• It did not before: anything that was not a multiple of six minutes was quietly rounded on its way out of the box, and grew a little every time you touched the row.
• Worth re-checking any stop time you set before today — a stop you meant as twenty minutes may be sitting at eighteen.

Dash is now the first thing in the menu instead of hiding at the top of the Rides list.

• Your numbers, your records, then your rides.

There is a Plan a ride sign at the top of your dashboard.

• Starting a ride is what this is for and it used to mean opening a menu first.

Riders and Friends are one page with two tabs, reached from Riders.

• Everyone in one place instead of two, and old links to your friends list still land in the right place.

You can download a ride straight from the builder now — GPX, KML, GeoJSON, CSV, or a file per day — without going to the Import / Export page.

If you imported a route file and then re-cut it here, downloading it gives you your version.

• It used to hand back the file you uploaded, so an afternoon of edits came back as though you had never made them.
• What you uploaded is still kept, and is still in your account archive.

Google’s zoom and map-type controls are about a third smaller, so there is more map to look at.

A fix worth knowing about even though it was never reported: if the builder offered to restore unsaved changes, clicking the map to add a point silently did nothing, and the route could not be dragged into shape.

• It looked completely normal. That is fixed.

Everyone you add to a ride can now look at it, talk about it, and suggest changes to it.

• That is what an invitation gives them from the moment you add them — you no longer have to choose between showing somebody a route and letting them help plan it.

Letting somebody edit the ride outright is a separate decision you make yourself, either while you are adding them or any time afterwards, from the Riders page.

• You can go the other way too and give somebody a look and nothing more.

Editing means the route.

• Deleting the ride, changing who can see it, and adding or removing riders stay with the owner however much you trust somebody.

A ride can now have more than one owner, so you are not the single point of failure on a trip you organized.

• The last owner cannot leave — somebody has to be able to run it.

Comments, on the whole ride or on one particular stop. “Is this hotel actually walkable?” belongs on the hotel.

• Delete the stop later and the comment does not vanish with it — it moves up to the ride and still says which stop it was about.

Suggestions.

• Open a ride you cannot edit, rearrange a day the way you think it should go, and press Suggest.
• The owner sees it and takes it or leaves it.
• If they change that day in the meantime, your suggestion says so instead of quietly overwriting their work.

Everyone on the ride sees everyone else’s suggestions, so two people do not propose the same detour.

Settings is reorganized into two topics.

• — Appearance, and how things read — instead of four boxes that never quite lined up.

You can switch the whole site to kilometers.

• Distances, your records, the roadbook, the ride list and the builder all follow it.
• Twistiness comes along too: the same road reads as a smaller number per kilometer than per mile.

You can turn animation off here, without changing your whole phone or computer.

• Or leave it following your device, which is what it has always done.

Your profile takes a picture now.

• Pick a photo of any shape, position and zoom the circle, and we store a square copy.
• We strip the location your camera put in it.

Typing an address offers suggestions, and picking one fills the street, town, state and postal code at once.

The profile saves as you go.

• Your username and your address still need the button — a username gets claimed and held the moment it is saved, so that one waits until you say so.

A phone number and your social handles, each with its own switch for who can see them.

In a club?

• Clubs are not built yet, but there is a note on your profile asking you to get in touch so we can find you when they are.

A fix worth knowing about: if your dates ever switched to American order on their own, that was us.

• Saving a setting could overwrite the date format your browser was giving you. It no longer can.

Deleting a ride from the dashboard no longer jumps you back to the top of the page.

• The card is replaced where it stood, with an Undo right there if you did not mean it — so you can clear out several rides in a row without scrolling back down each time.

The figures at the top of the dashboard — rides, days, legs, waypoints — are bigger.

• They were the smallest numbers on a page whose job is to show you numbers.

Each of your records now shows its figure in that record’s own color, matching the icon beside it.

Those colors were checked against all six themes while we were in there, and several of them were genuinely hard to read on the dark ones.

• Every record figure has been retuned so it is legible in whichever theme you use.

Dragging a stop to a new position works again.

• It had been landing a few rows farther down than you dropped it, or springing back to where it started the next time the list redrew.
• Both are fixed: a stop goes exactly where you put it.

If a drag sprang back, the change was never saved either — so a reorder you thought you had made was simply not there when you came back to the ride.

• Worth re-checking the order on any ride you have been rearranging this week.

Dragging a stop from one day into another now drops it where you aimed, instead of at the bottom of that day.

The panel is three tabs now: Routes, Groups and Riders.

• Groups and riders arrived last week and pushed the day you were actually editing off the bottom of the panel.
• Only one of the three takes up room at a time, so the day list gets the space back.

The ride’s description and who can see it sit above the tabs, because they are about the whole ride rather than any one tab.

Riders is new.

• It shows who is coming, what they said, which bike they are bringing, and the smallest tank on the ride—without leaving the map.
• You can put a rider on a group from there, or take somebody off the ride.

Inviting someone, answering for yourself, and the vote are still on the riders page, and there is a link straight to it.

• Those are things any rider does, and the panel is only for whoever is planning it.

A group you have just added cannot have riders put on it until the ride saves, which takes a second or two.

• The tab says so rather than leaving the group mysteriously missing.

In the corner menu, What’s new is now above Something wrong? instead of below it.

The build stamp under it is finally right.

• Every deployed build has been calling itself dev since the stamp was added, whatever it actually was—so if you have quoted one in a bug report, it told us nothing.
• It now says the build you are really on.

Riders leaving from different places.

• Add a group for each starting point in the ride panel, then say which days each group rides.
• The days you leave on Everyone are the ones you all ride together.

Everyone gets their own copy of the ride.

• Your roadbook, your Google Maps links and your downloads start where you start and skip somebody else’s morning — and the map shows the whole shape with your own path picked out.

Routeloop can find the meeting point for you.

• Press Find a meet beside a group and it suggests places on the shared route they could join without going backwards or a long way round — preferring fuel stops, since that is where everyone regathers anyway.

Pick whose clock the day is built around, and whether you are pinning their departure, the meet, or getting there.

• If you pick a group that is closer than the others, it says so.

Fuel stops are planned around the smallest tank coming, and it tells you whose it is.

• Say which bike you are bringing on the riders page.

Riders on a ride.

• Open a ride and press Ride roster.
• Add the friends you are actually going with, and they get the ride on their own dashboard under Riding with others — whatever its visibility is set to.

Everyone on a ride says whether they are in: Going, Maybe, or can’t make it.

• You answer for yourself, and only for yourself.

Vote on alternatives.

• If a day has two or more ways of doing it, everyone on the ride picks one and the count sits beside each.
• Press your own pick again to take it back.

The count does nothing on its own — you promote an alternative yourself, as before.

• Set a deadline and the one with the most votes is elected then instead. A tie leaves your current pick alone.

You can only add a friend to a ride.

• To share a route with somebody you have not added, set it to Unlisted and send the link.

Friends.

• Find someone on the Riders page and ask.
• Once you are friends, either of you can set a ride to Friends and the other can open it — nobody else can, link or no link.

A fourth setting on every ride, then.

• Private is still only you, Unlisted is still anyone holding the link, Public is still listed in Explore, and Friends is the one that actually checks who is asking.

You can take a copy of a friend’s ride the same way you can take a copy of a public one.

• Unlisted rides stay un-copyable: handing someone a link is not handing them a copy.

Blocking, if you need it.

• A blocked rider disappears from your Riders page and you from theirs, and they are not told.

Riders on a ride — invites, who is in, who is out — is next.

• There is a preview of it in the ride panel.

Every point you drop now starts as a point of interest.

• Drop pins wherever you are thinking of going, in whatever order, then promote the ones the route actually has to run through — “Make this a stop” in the row’s ⋮ menu.
• The road is drawn once two of them are stops.
• The first point of each day is promoted for you.

Changed your mind?

• “Make this a POI” puts it back, and the point keeps its notes, categories and reservations.

Dragging a row reorders it, whichever kind it is.

• Dragging a point of interest no longer moves its pin.

This page, and a version number in the footer, so you can tell which build you found something in.

The red button on the map is now a bug, and the gray one beside it opens this page.

Saved places.

• Keep a library of the places you use — home, the good fuel stop, the meet point everyone knows — and drop one into any ride from the day’s search box. File them into groups if you want to.

A place you save carries its phone number and address into every ride you use it in, but never a confirmation number — that belongs to one trip.

Buttons look like highway signs.

• The green field and white keyline are the house style now rather than something a few buttons opted into.

You could not click into the search box at the bottom of a day.

• It could be tabbed to but not clicked.

Each day has its own button for adding a point.

• Press it, then click the map, and the point lands on that day.

The button that adds a day looked broken.

• It always worked — it just had no styling at all.

Stop details.

• A stop can hold a confirmation number, check-in and check-out, a phone number, an address, links and notes. Only you can see them.
• They never go out with a shared link and they are stripped from every export except your own backup file.

Your rides show a map of themselves on the list, instead of all looking alike.

The alpha notice picked up its club marks and a bit of paint.

Leaving the map is an “Exit map” menu item now, rather than an X you had to find.

The stop-duration setting rendered wider than it declared, and the legend refused to wrap at any window size.

Alternate days.

• Two or more versions of the same stretch, grouped, with one of them live.
• The others are drawn as dashed ghosts and stay out of your mileage, your exports and your roadbook until you make one of them the active one.

Tell us something.

• Report a bug or ask for a feature from inside the app, with a screenshot if it helps.
• A bug is private between you and the owner unless it gets published; the idea board is where feature wants go, and you can back someone else’s instead of filing your own.

You get an email when something you reported changes state.

Every day has its own search row now, instead of one search box that had to be told which day it meant.

A day menu, and a select mode for acting on several days or points at once.

The builder’s icons were redrawn by an actual human.

The builder is a drawer down the left side showing every day at once, instead of a panel that floated over the map showing one.

The Save button is gone, and that is on purpose.

• Your work saves itself when you stop typing.
• If the browser dies mid-edit, the draft is waiting when you come back.

Drag a row to reorder it, or use the menu on the row if you would rather not drag.

The ride timeline moved to the bottom edge of the map, where it stops covering the road.

Terrain is the default map now, and there is a switcher for the others.

Choose how stop times are written — 1h 30m or 1:30 — in Settings.

The ride’s name is the headline of the drawer, so you can tell two half-finished rides apart.

An imported file opens in the builder and can be edited, rather than being a route you could only look at.

Delete Me.

• Ask for your account to be destroyed and it goes on a 30-day hold, with a Save Me button that calls it off. Nothing skips the hold, including us.

Your rides live at their own address now, and old rollchart.app links land in the right place.

Download Me.

• Everything the app holds about you, packaged and handed over, in one file.

The typeface is served by us rather than borrowed from Google, so pages stop flashing an unstyled headline on the way in.

The app is called Routeloop.

• It was TankBag, and briefly RouteLoop before that.
• Files you already downloaded still import.
• Anything named tankbag_… is read exactly as before, day order and dates intact — that is deliberate and it is not going away.

A proper navigation bar on a desktop screen, with About and your account as their own menus.

The signed-in home page is your numbers.

• — miles, days, rides, and what you have been planning — rather than a list you already had.

Invitations, and a short survey for the riders who take one.

Downloads are named so they can be re-imported.

• The long filename carries the ride, the day, the date and the order, because GPX and KML cannot hold a schedule inside themselves.
• Drop the files back in and the ride comes back with its days in the right order.

Drop a file anywhere on the import page rather than hunting for a file picker.

Mail from the app now comes from the app’s own domain and looks like something a person sent — the sign-in link, a waitlist confirmation, and an approval notice.

Undo and redo in the builder, and a recovered draft if the browser falls over.

Drag the route line onto the road you actually meant.

• The point you drop shapes that one leg and nothing else re-routes.

Hand a day off to Google Maps as an ordered series of links.

Expand weaves extra shaping points into those links so Maps has too little room to pick its own roads.

• It tells you the longest stretch Maps still chooses for itself rather than hiding it.

A file holding several tracks kept only the longest one.

• It keeps all of them now.

Import and export.

• KML, KMZ, GPX, GeoJSON and CSV in and out, plus a lossless Routeloop backup file that re-imports as the same ride.
• Hand it several files at once and they become the days of one ride.

A printable roadbook for the tank bag.

• Stop by stop: leg and running miles, miles since fuel, and an estimated clock.

Twisty.

• Every route gets a rough measure of how much the road actually bends, from Straight to Very twisty.
• Hover it for the number behind the word.

A point of interest can carry how long you expect to be there, and sits in the list where it falls along the road.

The questions page collapses into an accordion, and each answer has a link you can send someone.

A timeline slider across the whole ride.

• Drag it and the day it lands on comes forward while the rest dim, on both the builder and the shared view.

Find a ride.

• — a gallery of the rides other people have made public.

Clone a public ride into your own account and change it however you like.

Pick a username, and a starting point that shows on a ride you make public.

Reverse a day, and throw away unsaved changes without reloading.

Pause the video on the sign-in page.

Give a day a start and end time, and get an honest estimate for a leg the router could not route rather than a zero.

The map engine moved to Google Maps, and a ride became several days drawn together on one map instead of a single route.

The app was rebuilt from scratch in its second week, sign-in was tried three different ways before landing on Google and an emailed link, and it was called something else twice.

• None of that is worth a line each — but it is why the earliest rides in your account may look like they were made by a different app. They were.