Trails

A trail is a saved, reusable route — a ride you liked enough to keep. Trails can be private ("Only me") or shared with a barn, where every member can browse them, follow them, and plan events around them. You'll find a barn's trails on the Barn tab (the Trails map tile on the barn profile) and in the trail book on the Ride tab.

What's the difference between a ride and a trail?

Your rides are personal — barn members never see them. A trail is the shareable version of a route: it carries the path, total distance, and an approximate time, but not your speed, gait breakdown, or exact ride stats. Saving a ride as a trail doesn't share the ride itself, and you can delete the original ride later without losing the trail.

Save a ride as a trail

Open one of your completed rides.
In the actions menu, tap Save as Trail.
The New trail form opens on a review screen with a route preview:
- Name (required) — tap to type a name. Nearby place suggestions appear based on where the ride started.
- Save to — pick a barn to share the trail with, or choose Only me to keep it private.
- Approx duration — a rough planning time for other riders, pre-filled from your ride time rounded to the nearest 15 minutes. Barn members see this estimate instead of your exact ride time.
- Route (Pro plan only) — opens the route editor so you can tidy the recorded track before saving. Free riders save the recorded track as-is.
Tap Save trail.

If you saved it to a barn, you land on that barn's trails list with your new trail at the top, and barn members get a notification about the new trail.

Browse trails

From the Barn tab: tap the Trails map tile on the barn profile. The barn's trails open as a grid of small map cards — tap one to see its detail.
From the Ride tab: tap the trail-path button next to Start to open your ride journal, then use the Mine · [barn name] toggle at the top. Mine shows your rides; the barn name shows that barn's trails. Tap the barn name again (or the caret) to switch barns.

The trail detail shows the route on a map with its distance and approximate time, plus who shared it and when.

Follow a trail

On a trail's detail, tap Follow Trail. You land on the Ride tab with the trail armed — a Following chip shows the trail name and how far you are from the trailhead. Start your ride and the trail draws on your map as a reference line. If you drift off the path, you get an alert, and you're congratulated when you reach the end.

Tap the ✕ on the Following chip (or the stop button while riding) to stop following — your ride keeps recording.

A ride that already has a trail shows the same Follow Trail row on its own detail screen.

Save a trail for offline use

On a barn-mate's trail, the actions menu has a Save trail row ("Keep it available offline"). Saving keeps the full route on your phone so you can follow it without a connection, and the trail won't be cleaned up from your device. The row flips to Saved — tap again to unsave.

Trails you created yourself are always kept on your phone automatically, so the save row only appears on other people's trails.

A save doesn't outlive your access: if the trail is deleted, removed from the barn, or you leave the barn, the offline copy is removed from your phone.

Edit a trail

If you created the trail, its detail screen has an Edit details row where you can change the name and approximate duration. Changes save immediately, field by field.

Edit the route (Pro)

With the Pro plan (see Account and profile), trail creators also get an Edit route row that opens a full-screen map editor. You can use it while saving a new trail (the Route row) or on an existing trail.

Move a point: tap a point on the route, then drag it — the line reshapes live. For precision, pan the map so the center crosshair sits where you want, then tap Move here.
Add a point: tap a ghost dot between two points, or pan and tap Insert. With the start or finish selected, Insert becomes Extend to lengthen the trail.
Delete a point: select it and tap Delete.
Snap to paths: matches the whole route to nearby trails and roads in one tap. If nothing suitable is nearby, the button tells you.
Follow paths: a toggle that routes each edit you make along the path network instead of a straight line.
Undo / redo / reset live at the bottom, next to a live distance readout showing how much your edits changed the length.

Tap Save (or Done during trail creation) to keep your changes, or ✕ to discard them. Snapping and path-following need a connection.

If you kept a trail private, you can share it later: on the trail (or its source ride), tap Share with Barn and pick a barn.

Once shared, the row reads Shared with [barn name]. Tap it to remove the trail from the barn — it becomes private again and barn members no longer see it. Members who saved it lose their offline copy.

What can a barn owner do with members' trails?

A barn owner can remove any member's trail from the barn. The trail isn't deleted — it goes back to its creator's private trails, and everyone else (including the owner) loses access. Only the creator can share it again.

Create an event from a trail

Any trail you can see has a Create Event row. It opens the event form with the trail's route already attached, so the group ride is planned around that path. See Events.

Who can see my trails?

Private trails ("Only me"): just you.
Barn trails: every member of that barn.
Trails never expose your ride stats — members see the route, distance, and your approximate duration estimate, nothing else.

Tips

Give trails deliberate names ("River loop", "North gate out-and-back") — the name suggestions from nearby places are a good start.
Save a barn trail for offline before heading somewhere without signal, so the route stays followable.
The approximate duration is meant for planning, not bragging — round it to what a typical rider would take.

Rides — recording rides, ride details, and following routes
Barns — joining barns and what barn owners can manage
Events — planning group rides, attaching trail routes
Offline and sync — what's kept on your phone and how changes upload