What is public
A working BeatBiker app
The web app and store releases provide Spotify-driven workouts and direct ride controls. They are the supported, public expression of the idea today.
Public experiment
Music meets movement
Ride the shape of a song.
BeatBiker is the current public ExerScreen experiment: an app that lets music help shape the effort of an indoor ride.
The web app needs a browser with Web Bluetooth support to connect to a trainer. The Apple app also runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 11 or later; Apple lists it as designed for iPad rather than as a native Mac app.
Available today
Start with the music—or just ride.
BeatBiker connects to compatible indoor cycling equipment and gives riders more than one way to use it.
- Spotify workouts. Use the changing intensity of music to guide training zones and compatible trainer resistance.
- Just Ride. Use direct, virtual-gearing control when the soundtrack does not need to call the shots.
- Trainer or no trainer. Follow visual effort prompts with compatible equipment, or use them as a guide for your own movement.
Honest status
Part app. Part laboratory.
What is in the lab
More kinds of sound and content
We are exploring how audio beyond a single music service—and eventually other kinds of content—might influence a workout in real time. That work is experimental, not a shipping feature promise.
Why music?
Because effort already has a soundtrack.
People use music to change pace, mood, focus, and perceived effort without waiting for fitness software to tell them how. BeatBiker asks the equipment to listen to that relationship too.
This is not about finding one perfect workout. It is about making more room for the workout someone will actually want to do.