Rides, quantified
A bike computer from an AirPod on your hub
Strap an AirPod around the wheel hub, the same spot standard hub speed sensors use, and it becomes a true ground-speed sensor and odometer. Or wear it on your leg for cadence. Pair your power meter and heart-rate strap and every ride gets rolling power, Normalized Power and TSS.
Cycling is part of the Kinapod app, free for now. Works with AirPods Pro (2019 or newer) and standard AirPods (3rd generation or newer). Bluetooth power meters and heart-rate straps connect directly.
In the app now
True wheel speed
Wheel revolutions times circumference is a real odometer, immune to GPS drift. GPS fills in when the pod is out of reach.
Your screen, your layout
Swipeable pages you lay out yourself: rolling power averages, Normalized Power, TSS, laps, anything on any tile.
Your sensors
Standard Bluetooth power meters and heart-rate straps pair in the app, alongside the AirPod and AirPods heart rate.
Introduction
A speed sensor, a cadence sensor and a head unit are three purchases. Kinapod does the sensing with an AirPod and the display with the phone you already carry, with a map and exactly the numbers you choose.
What it measures
- Speed and distance from the wheel itself when the pod rides the hub, with GPS as backup, or GPS alone.
- Cadence from a pod on the leg, or from your power meter's crank data.
- Power from any standard Bluetooth power meter, with rolling 15 s, 30 s and 1 minute averages, Normalized Power and TSS against your FTP.
- Heart rate from a Bluetooth strap or AirPods.
- Wind, an optional gauge with live wind speed and direction relative to where you are riding, tailwind at 12 o'clock, powered by Apple Weather.
- Laps, with lap time, distance, speed and power, and auto-pause below riding speed.
Kinapod is a practice and training aid. Metrics are estimates derived from motion sensors and are not a certified measurement instrument.
How to use
- Strap one AirPod around the wheel hub with a rubber band, the standard hub-sensor spot, and set your wheel size. Or keep it in a pocket or under lycra on the thigh for cadence.
- Pair your power meter and heart-rate strap under Add Sensor.
- Lay out your screens: tap the pencil, pick any metric for any tile, add pages and swipe between them.
- Ride. Pause and stop need a long press, so sweat and gloves cannot end your ride by accident.
Want a bike computer you already own?
Cycling is in the Kinapod app now, free for now.