What's New
New features and fixes in Loam Moto, newest first.
v1.5.0 August 2026
It judges a motorcycle, not a bicycle
- The app now judges a motorcycle, not a bicycle - a sealed O-ring or X-ring chain is re-lubed around 500 km instead of the 100 km a bicycle chain wants, so the reminder arrives when the chain needs it and not five times too often. The workshop shelf offers motorcycle fluids in place of bicycle ones, several of which would have ruined a sealed chain. And real motorcycle figures can be entered at last: a 5.5 mm disc and a 300 mm enduro fork were both refused before.
- Numbers now read and save the way your language writes them - a price, an odometer reading, a quantity or a distance is grouped and punctuated the way you write it, and read back the same way. An English rider entering a 12,000 km odometer used to get 12. A rider whose keyboard gives a decimal comma could lose the number altogether. Both are fixed, in every field where a number is typed or shown, and long distances now carry a thousands separator in all seven languages.
- A part now shows which way it is heading - open any part and you will see a small trend line of how its wear has moved over recent weeks. It is drawn only once there is real history to draw, it never guesses, and it stays on your phone: it is not part of your backup and it never leaves the device.
- Your ride cannot be ended by accident - the back gesture no longer closes the app mid-recording without asking, the speedometer says when the GPS signal has failed instead of waiting forever, and the phone now shows whether your watch is connected and whether its last command worked.
- A low battery tells you once, then reminds you once - finish a ride on a pack that is running down and the app says so, with MARK CHARGED and NOT NOW right there. If it never goes on charge you get one reminder about eight hours later, in daylight hours. Charge it and nothing more is said.
v1.4.0 August 2026
Fix a mistake, and stop losing edits
- Correct or delete a service you logged by mistake - any entry in a bike's service history can now be edited or deleted, the service clock goes back exactly where it was, and the app tells you up front what will and will not come back.
- Location stops when the ride does - if no ride is running, nothing is recording where you are. Three separate ways the location service could stay awake after a ride ended, or after the app was closed, are fixed.
- Two phones, and neither loses your edits - encrypted backup now merges part by part and service by service, so an offline edit on one phone no longer loses to whichever phone synced last.
- A backup you are actually asked about - backup ships off and nothing used to ask, so you are now asked once, after your first bike. A restore is written down before it starts, so an interrupted one finishes on the next launch instead of leaving half your data behind.
- Spending, by period - the spend card gains All time, This year, 12 months and a custom range, and it names the money a window leaves out instead of dropping it quietly. Prices are formatted for your language.
v1.3.1 August 2026
A closed app no longer costs you the ride
- A closed app no longer costs you the ride - if the phone closes the app mid-ride, the part recorded after that is folded back into the track when you reopen it, instead of ending at the last checkpoint.
- Faster first launch, fully offline - the type the app is set in now ships inside it, so the first launch no longer reaches out for fonts and looks right with no connection at all.
- A store that can be retried - if the store is slow or unreachable when the unlock screen opens, there is now a Try again button instead of a screen you have to close and reopen.
- Up to date underneath - every component the app is built on moved to its current release, including the location engine that records your rides.
v1.3.0 August 2026
Follow a route, and know before you ride
- Follow a route - load a GPX route, or one of your own recorded rides, and ride it live: the line on your map, the distance to go, and an alert the moment you drift off it. Everything stays on your device.
- Know before you ride - plan a ride and see which parts cross a service limit during it, with a spares and tools checklist built from your own workshop stock.
- New ride cockpit - a labelled REC badge while recording, STOP within reach from every page, and a glove-sized way out of the full-screen map.
- Find my motorcycle - where you parked, how far away it is and which way to walk back.
- A service record to hand a buyer - export your maintenance history as a proper printed page, with the parts that have no logged history named rather than quietly left out.
v1.2.0 July 2026
Safer cloud sync, tuned for motos
- Safer cloud backup - back up and sync across two devices without one overwriting the other. Conflicting edits now merge instead of losing data, and a ride or bike you delete stays deleted everywhere.
- Restore an earlier backup - roll back to a previous backup from your history, with a clear confirmation first so you always know what will be replaced.
- Tuned for motos and e-motos - service reminders now use real moto and e-moto limits for suspension, chain, sprockets and brakes.
- Cleaner launch - the app opens straight into a dark branded splash, with no white flash.
- More reliable ride history - a deleted ride and its route stay gone for good, imported routes keep their exact shape, and every map stays smooth.
v1.1.0 July 2026
Ride from your wrist, auto-pause & more
- Ride from your wrist - start, pause and stop recording from Apple Watch, Wear OS or a Garmin watch (fenix and compatible). Your phone keeps recording; the watch shows live distance and moving time.
- Auto-pause - stop at a light or a viewpoint and the ride pauses itself; it resumes only when you genuinely move off, so GPS drift at a standstill never pollutes your ride.
- Auto start and stop - opt-in: leave your home or trailhead and recording begins; return and it wraps up and saves. Never forget to record a ride again.
- Live ride on your lock screen (iOS) - distance and moving time on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you ride, no unlocking mid-ride.
- All your routes on one map - open a bike's ride history and see every recorded route drawn together.
- Sharper GPS accuracy - saved max speed and distance are now validated against real movement, so a bad GPS fix can never save a phantom top speed or inflate your stats.
v1.0.0 First release
Loam Moto launches
- Track suspension, chain, sprockets, brakes and every service item from real ride hours and kilometres.
- GPS ride tracking with GPX export, for any motorcycle or e-moto.
- Independent service clocks for every component, with manufacturer intervals.
