Your language
The app, its spoken alerts, this site and the guides, in eight languages to start.
What to expect
ZonePoints translated properly on every screen, and the spoken zone alerts too, so the app talks to you mid-session in the language you think in.
The app follows your phone’s language, so there’s nothing to set up.
Which languages come first
Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Italian and Dutch. Those are the languages most people already using ZonePoints speak, so translation starts there.
More will follow. If yours isn’t on that list, tell us. The sign-up at the top of this page is the fastest way to request it.
Not just the app
This website and the written guides get translated too, into the same languages.
There’s little point in an app that speaks your language sitting behind a site that doesn’t. And the guides are where the reasoning behind zone points lives. Reading why zone 2 matters in your own language is worth more than reading a settings screen.
Translated by machine, corrected by you
The first pass is machine translation. We’d rather say so plainly than let you find out.
It’s the only way one small team covers eight languages and keeps them updated as the app changes. It also means some of it will be wrong, and the failures won’t be evenly spread. Everyday screens tend to come out fine, while technical terms like zone points, heart rate reserve and streak save are exactly what machine translation mangles. Spoken alerts carry their own risk, because a phrase that reads correctly can still sound stilted or land on the wrong syllable at 170 beats per minute.
So we’d rather ship a good translation you can correct than an English-only app while we wait for a perfect one.
Please tell us what’s wrong. If a screen reads oddly, a term is off, or an alert sounds unnatural, send it to feedback@vercer.com with the language and where you saw it. Corrections from people who train in the language are worth more than any amount of review on our side. They go into the next release.
Why we’re building it
Most people using ZonePoints aren’t in English-speaking countries. An English-only app quietly asks them to translate while they train. That’s a small tax on a settings screen and a much larger one on a voice alert you have to process mid-session.
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.