About Roveri

Roveri is a private iOS riding journal that turns the rides you already take into a season worth re-opening.

What Roveri is

Roveri is a journaling app for iOS that records the route, speed, elevation, and weather of every ride you start. It runs entirely on your device, using Apple’s own location and weather services. Every ride is saved to your private iCloud, never to a Roveri server — there is no account to create, no analytics collected, and no advertising. Over time, rides aggregate into a season and a year. You can filter by route, weather, or time of day, re-open any ride from months ago, or step into the Climate Studio to see the actual weather conditions you rode through across every ride.

How a ride is recorded

You start a ride with one tap on the Roveri home screen. From that moment, Roveri captures live data — your GPS route, real-time speed and elevation, and the weather conditions at your location. You ride. When you arrive, you tap to end the ride. Roveri saves the ride to your history with everything captured: the painted route on a map, distance and duration, top speed and total climb, and the weather you rode through. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose to share — and even then, only what you share, never the underlying ride data.

Who Roveri is built for

Roveri is built for riders and journal-keepers — people who take rides by choice, not by routine. It is not designed for daily commuting or routine transport. It is for the rides that are worth remembering. A weekend route through a mountain pass. The first warm Saturday in March. A coastal ride at sunset. Roveri exists so that those rides do not disappear into a scroll of generic activity log entries, but become a real record you can re-open in December and recognize.

Privacy posture

Roveri is local-first. Your ride data lives on your device and in your own iCloud account — synced across your devices through Apple’s CloudKit, never through a Roveri server. The developer cannot see your rides. There are no third-party analytics, no advertising trackers, no account system that could leak. If you uninstall Roveri, your iCloud copy remains yours; if you reinstall later, your rides are still there.

Pricing

Roveri is free to download from the App Store, and the core journal — unlimited ride recording, full ride history, ride detail with the painted-route map, and per-ride stats — is free to use. No account, no email, no signup.

Built on

Roveri is a native iOS app. It targets iOS 18 or later and is built with SwiftUI, SwiftData, and CloudKit — Apple’s own modern frameworks for data, sync, and rendering. No Electron, no React Native, no web view. The app uses Apple’s location services for ride capture and Apple’s weather service for the climate data attached to each ride. There is no Roveri backend; the architecture is entirely client-side with iCloud as the user’s own sync layer.

Frequently asked

How is Roveri different from Strava or other ride-tracking apps? Roveri is private by default and journal-first. It does not have a social feed, leaderboards, or public sharing. It does not require an account. It is designed to be opened weeks or months later, not pushed at you in real time.

What does Roveri NOT do? It is not built for routine commuting — Roveri is for the rides you take by choice, not by routine. It does not work on Android or web. It does not connect to wearables in v1.0.

Where do I get Roveri? Roveri is available on the App Store. The free tier requires no account, no email, no signup — install and start riding.