Go to the Settings screen and under Display, tap Data Formats. You’ll then be able to set all the following to your own personal preference: Set distance to Miles or Kilometers. Set elevation to Feet or Meters. Set weight to Pounds or Kilograms. Set temperature to Fahrenheit or Celsius. Set date to mm/dd/yy or dd/mm/yy. […]
Battery life will of course vary depending on your device, battery health, screen brightness, screen layout in Cadence, etc. Typical usage is generally between 10% and 20% per hour. Please see tips for increasing battery life and more real world tests below. A few tips to help increase battery life Real world results These are […]
There’s a couple ways your settings and routes can get backed up and imported. Settings and routes are included in Apple’s iCloud backups, so if you upgrade your phone and restore it from a backup, your existing settings will be included in that. From the bottom of the main Settings screen, you can export your […]
There’s a few ways your activities can get backed up and imported. Note: Cadence can only import activities that were originally created by Cadence at this time. From the bottom of the main History screen, you can export all your activities as a .zip archive. To import, simply select the .zip archive file that was created […]
The color coding of the route represents different data during your ride. By default, it shows distance, transitioning from blue (start) to red (finish). Other metrics like speed, heart rate, cadence, power, and elevation, show values transitioning from blue (low) to red (high). The grade colors match the route elevation chart.
For iPhone, Android, or “With iPhone” Apple Watch Based Workouts If you have a power meter Cadence uses that as it’s by far the most accurate way to estimate calorie burn. Otherwise, Cadence uses MET values with adjustments made for grade. Cadence doesn’t currently calculate based on heart rate because testing has shown it to be wildly […]
Cadence counts running cadence like cycling cadence, so one foot is one revolution, rather than each foot individually. That’s how devices like Garmin and Polar do it, but apps like Apple Workouts and Runkeeper count each foot individually, which would be double what Cadence shows.
Go to Settings > Screen Layouts. Tap the Screen you’d like to customize, or add a new one. On the Screen you’re customizing: Tap “Add” next to a row to add another row above or below it. Tap “Remove” to remove the row. Tap “Size” to change the height of the row. You can have […]
If the Strava App opens during authorization If you have the Strava app on your phone and it opens when trying to authorize Cadence, please remove the Strava app and try again. Doing so will force authorization to happen on Strava’s website instead, which should work correctly. After you’ve authorized Cadence, you can reinstall the […]
Lots of Android phones have special settings for allowing background processing to happen. If Cadence isn’t recording correctly when it’s in the background, please follow the steps on the website dontkillmyapp.com. You can also follow these steps generally: If you still have issues, you can instead keep Cadence in the foreground by turning the “Keep screen […]
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