What's new

Ten new languages, a fresh look for profiles, and Lapster adapts to iPad.

New

• Ten more languages. Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Hindi and Arabic, with Arabic reading right to left, on iPhone, the web and lapster.me.
• Avatars for everyone. Riders without a photo get their own colourful avatar and a matching cover, on iPhone and the web.
• Wall comments as blocks. On iPhone and the web, every wall comment now sits in its own block, and a shared session-best lap shows as a large gradient card.
• A year on track. The progress screen shows your last 52 weeks as squares shaded by your time on track, with your total and active weeks, on iPhone and the web.
• iPad layouts. On iPad, Lapster gets a sidebar, a dashboard with several layouts to choose from, and a lap screen split into panes.

Improved

• Profile stats on iPhone lead with your best lap and the track it was set on.

Turn a race protocol into sessions, watch your season unfold, and shuffle fresh record posters.

New

• Timing protocols. Upload a MYLAPS PDF to your team on iPhone or the web, or drop it in the team's linked Telegram group, and each matched rider gets their sessions with their lap times.
• Undo a match. The team can see the history of rider matches and undo a wrong one.
• Rider progress. On iPhone and the web, see your season on one track as pace, consistency, endurance and ramp-up, with up to nine posters to share.
• Poster shuffle. On iPhone, the personal-best screen shuffles a fresh poster each time you tap Shuffle, and can step back to one you passed.

Improved

• Team screen. Secondary actions sit behind one menu, any member can add riders from the plus on the avatar row, and the Track Time and Sessions tiles open the team's sessions, on iPhone and the web.
• Haptics. On iPhone, taps, switches and pickers answer with one consistent set of vibrations, and you can keep only the essential ones or turn them off in Settings.

Fixed

• A short link that will not open now says so on iPhone.

On iPhone, sort the laps you add to a comparison your way, and screens catch up the moment you follow or block someone.

New

• Lap order. On iPhone, the Add-lap sheet lists a session's laps fastest first or in lap order, for this ride and any past ride you open, and remembers your choice.
• App Store button first. lapster.me now leads with the App Store button.

Improved

• Back, not close. On iPhone, the Devices and Notifications panels now have a back arrow instead of a close X.
• Fresher screens. On iPhone, following or blocking a rider shows at once on your profile and dashboard, a blocked rider leaves your stories straight away, and a claimed track day appears on its track page.

Fixed

• On iPhone, favorited tracks stay available offline, and an empty track list no longer wipes the offline copy.
• On iPhone, a friend's profile suggestions opened from Notifications no longer freeze, and a suggested photo no longer shows as both the "before" and the "after".

Move between the main screens with a swipe on iPhone, and a round of fixes to what you see after signing in.

New

• Swipe navigation. On iPhone, swipe sideways to move between the main tabs, with a new floating tab bar.

Fixed

• On iPhone, the chat screen no longer stays empty after you sign in without restarting the app.
• Lap screens on iPhone no longer say there is no telemetry while the trace is on the server.
• Signing in no longer shows answers that were cached while you were signed out, on iPhone and the web.

Help a friend fill in their profile, and a broad round of fixes on iPhone.

New

• Boost a friend's profile. On iPhone, open a friend's profile menu to suggest an avatar, cover, bio, socials, follows, team or vehicle, and they accept each item they like.
• Official corner numbers. On iPhone, corner battle now uses each circuit's real turn numbers, one card per turn, in circuit order.

Improved

• Your speed unit everywhere. On iPhone, speeds show in the unit you picked, km/h or mph, across the app.
• Search now says so when nothing matches, and a track's rider list that fails to load no longer looks empty, on iPhone.

Fixed

• Lap times and gaps on iPhone no longer show as 1:60.00 instead of 2:00.00.
• Warning and error text on iPhone now has enough contrast in light mode.
• Russian and Indonesian now address you the same way throughout, on iPhone and the web.

Keep a voice note playing while you do something else, and react to any message.

New

• Playback bar. On iPhone, voice and video notes keep playing when you leave a chat, queue up automatically, and let you change the speed.
• Message reactions. React to a chat message with an emoji, one per rider, on iPhone and the web.
• Return to the note. On iPhone, tap the playback bar to jump back to the message that is playing.

Improved

• Lock screen. On iPhone, voice notes keep playing in the background, with Now Playing controls.
• Corner names. In the corner analysis on the web, a corner that joins several turns is named after all of them, like 3–4.

Fixed

• Corner battle no longer shows apex speed under an entry label.
• Two official turns no longer claim the same apex, and a tie no longer tints the rival green.
• A message sent on a shaky connection no longer arrives twice.

On iPhone, Lapster keeps what you looked at last, so screens appear the moment you open them.

New

• Instant screens. On iPhone, stories, devices, notifications, chats, profiles, tracks and teams show from a local cache in the very first frame.
• Grouped notifications. On iPhone and the web, likes and comments from several riders collapse into one row, with filters for Racing, Comments and Follows.
• Instagram-safe recaps. A new toggle keeps Daily Recap cards clear of Instagram's overlays on iPhone.
• Storage dashboard. Settings on iPhone now shows what is cached on the phone, category by category.

Improved

• Corner battle map stays sharp as you zoom and shows speeds beside each corner, on iPhone.
• Rate the app. After a personal best, the iPhone app may ask whether you would like to rate Lapster.

Fixed

• Closing the Daily Recap sheet on iPhone with an unsaved caption or photo now asks first.
• Lap links shared from the web now open in the iPhone app instead of doing nothing.

Compare corners rider against rider, and record video notes more easily.

New

• Full-screen lap comparison. On iPhone, comparing laps opens full screen, with Summary and Corner Battle tabs you can swipe between.
• Corner-by-corner analysis. When you compare laps, swipe through one card per corner that explains where time was won or lost, on iPhone and the web.
• Flip the camera mid-recording. On iPhone, switch between the front and back camera while you record a video note.
• Transcripts for video notes. On iPhone and the web, turn a video note into text, and send one to LapsterBot to get an answer.

Improved

• Drag up to lock. Hold the record button and drag up to keep recording a voice message hands-free, on iPhone and on the web on a touch screen.
• Sign in with Apple on the web. app.lapster.me now offers Apple next to Google.

Fixed

• On iPhone, a RaceBox Pro session download that fails now tells you instead of failing silently.

Send a quick video note in any chat, on iPhone and on the web.

New

• Video notes. On iPhone and on the web, hold the capture button to record a short video and send it, and pick its shape in Settings. Tap the button to switch between voice and video.
• Readable track links. Track links now carry the track's name instead of a long code, and old links still work.

Improved

• Clearer errors on the web. When a chat, a profile or the track map fails to load, or a message, upload or delete does not go through, the web app now says so, with a retry where it helps.
• Search engines can now find recent sessions too, not only tracks and profiles.

Fixed

• Deleting your account from Settings, on iPhone or on the web, now works. Before, it failed for any account that had been used.

A monthly invite contest starts, and the web app learns to talk to your RaceBox.

New

• Referral GP. On iPhone and the web, invite riders to Lapster and climb a monthly leaderboard of inviters.
• RaceBox in the browser. In Chrome or Edge, connect a RaceBox Mini S or Micro at app.lapster.me to download its sessions and time laps live.
• Photo layouts in comments. Show several photos in a comment as a mosaic or a swipeable feed, on iPhone and the web.
• Photo privacy. A new setting on iPhone and the web decides whether your photos keep their location and camera details.

Improved

• Save all photos. On iPhone, save every photo in a gallery at once and watch the progress.
• Search engines can now find public tracks and rider profiles.

Fixed

• Signing out on the web now clears the data cached for your account.