Floating heart rate bubble
A small bubble that floats over other apps with your rate and zone colour, so you can watch a video and still see your zone.
What to expect
A bubble that sits on top of whatever else you are doing. Your heart rate in the middle, the bubble coloured by the zone you are in.
Drag it wherever you want and it stays there, out of the way of the thing you are actually watching. Tap it to expand for a little more, your time in zone and points so far, and tap again to shrink it back to the number.
Everything keeps recording exactly as it does now. This is another window onto the session, not a different way of running one.
Why we’re building it
Plenty of training happens while you are looking at something else. A workout video, a film on the turbo trainer, a match on the treadmill, a phone propped up on a rowing machine.
Today ZonePoints has to stay on screen. The moment you switch away, the one number you are training by disappears, and you are back to guessing or breaking your rhythm to check.
The colour matters more than the digits here. A bubble that turns from green to blue tells you what you need to know at the edge of your vision, without reading anything.
It is also the visual answer to what voice alerts do for runners. If you are watching a video, spoken alerts either interrupt it or get lost in it. A bubble does not compete for the same channel.
What it needs
Android’s permission to display over other apps, granted once. It is entirely optional: never turn it on and nothing about the app changes.
The bubble is drawn by the same foreground service that already keeps your sensor connected during a session, so it is not another thing running in the background.
Android first
This one is Android only for now. Android allows floating windows over other apps and iOS doesn’t, so the iPhone app will need a different answer.
The nearest equivalent on iOS is a Live Activity, your rate and zone on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, and that is what we will look at once the iPhone app is out.
When it’s ready
No date yet. Use Vote for this feature at the top of this page and you’ll get one email the day it ships.