Meet the New Endomondo for Android
You know how you workout extra hard to show off your beach bod once summer rolls around? Well, we’ve been working extra hard on our appearance lately too. Our Android app got a makeover and we really hope you like the new look!
There are several reasons for updating the look and feel. First of all, we’ve listened to all the user feedback and even though our users are generally very happy with our Android app (average rating is 4.5+ out of 5), we wanted to do better. Secondly, we wanted the Endomondo experience to be consistent with the experience on other apps on Android and therefore, we’ve done our best to implement the new design guidelines on the platform. Last but not least, the old navigation did not allow us to add the cool features we have planned for the future. The new navigation and design will, so stay tuned!
Below is an overview of the main changes and the specific user feedback we’re addressing:
TRACKER
Pause the workout before stopping it:
A lot of users have reported that they sometimes accidentally stop a workout because the Stop button is just one click away. The new Play/Pause/Stop button makes this much less likely to happen.
HISTORY
Toggle between summary showing total distance, total duration and total calories for days with more than one workout
This new feature will quickly give you an overview of your totals on days with two or more workouts.
Get a better overview of the summary for each workout
We’ve spiced up the workout summary to give you a better overview of your performance.
ROUTES
Rate routes and view the overall ratings in percent as well as the number of likes/dislikes
We have so many routes on Endomondo by now that we’ve almost lost count. To help you find the best ones, you can now see the overall rating of routes and you can rate routes yourself.
See who of your friends also followed a route
When you click on a route, you can see who else of your friends have been out following that specific route.
Manage your favorite routes
Tag and un-tag your favorite routes so you can easily access them from the app.
View Best Time and Distance to Route for each route
We’ve added two new pieces of information to our routes. One is the Best Time, i.e., what is the best performance on the route yet and another is the distance to the route from where you are located right now – this comes in handy if you want to follow a route nearby.
NEWS FEED
Get a better overview of friends’ activities
We’ve changed the design to make it more clear what your friends have been up to and which peptalks and comments they‘ve received.
Publish workout notes in news feed
Workout notes added from our website are now being published in the news feed of the app. We’ve added this feature to make sure that you have a tool for sharing your bad excuses when you don’t perform as expected ;-)
Click on a friend in the news feed to see his or her workout list
We’ve added a new feature to allow you to see what your friends have been up to from within the app.
Let us know what you think on Facebook or in the comments!
Please add HR zones and voice notification about changing HR zone
yeees, HR Zones and at least voice notifications about HR frequency. At least in the pro Version…., would make my training so much easier… (the other apps have something like that , but fail on other topics….) With that Endomondo would be the first “complete” running app. would love to see this in Endomondo
which (free) apps got HR zones, please?
Ooo, yes, I totally agree! That’s the only missing feature!
Excellent idea, more than a nice to have
Yes, please add HR zones!
Yes, please add HR zones. This really would make the app perfect, now I’m still looking around for an app that has that.
HR zones would be real nice!
Initially I preferred the former layout, but why is it not possible to add a manually training pass like in the iPhone app?
Loving your work :-)
Pro user here, still waiting for more options in audio setting, ex: touch-on screen, distance and minutes trigger voice feedback.
Please add voice notification for lost GPS signal, thanks
HR zones would be epic, for me, this is the only thing the app is missing, voice notification would make HR training a breeze
Great app. If you add screen rotation will be great!
Can we add a quit button ASAP? I can’t believe it’s released without anyone noticing there is now no way to exit the app, so that it perpetually stays in your notification bar saying it’s running. I have to go into app management and forcibly stop it to quit.
Same as in previous versions, just keep clicking the “back” button, when you back out of the home screen, it shuts everything down.
This is very handy (actually, critical) behavior for things like pulling up another app while waiting for GPS to sync. In my case, the last thing I do before starting the Endomondo workout is pull up a metronome app to check my target cadence. And sometimes I send my wife an IM to let her know when I’ll be available again…
you must be thick m8!
I presume that you have by now found the way to exit the app (get to main screen, press Settings, choose Exit as it is the only option).
How do you close the app in 4.0.4?
my history is gone… i can’t access my settings…. Loved Endo before… not so much now…. bummer….
Please add lockscreen interface, so that i dont have to unlock the phone to see the current status.
Better interface is great, so would be better GPS sensitivity. Until now I stopped to use Endo app (I love Endo website) because of lack of gps tracking reliability with the android app.
The GPS accuracy depends on your phone, not app. It also depend on where you keep it while running or cycling. I don’t recommend to keep it in pocket. Use a neck strap for running, or phone holder for bike while cycling. :)
The new look is cleaner. It’s a little sluggish changing pages on my HTC Tattoo. What I can’t see is how you exit now
it’s nice that the workout notes are published in the news feed but it would be fine when a workout note could be written in app
Still no current altitude/elevation while recording workout.
So important information missing for Cycling (MTB, Cross), Hiking…
The new versions 8.0.0, incredible change!, The design is spectacular, shame that the voices are not in Spanish (this is a point), now would fail a change to the website …
Sad to say, I think the new GUI is a step back. Yes, it has more “Eye candy”, but Endomondo is a “working” app where functionality ALWAYS comes before graphics. I really don’t like the “menu” for switching views, hate the huge start button, that makes everything else invisible, hate the new maps… I’ll be installing back the 7 version.
Please post if you figure out how to do that. I can’t find the old version, and 8.0.0 keeps crashing and taking other apps with it…
looks great! but please… how do we know a workout has successfully uploaded? no notification?
How do I exit the app? I used to get that option pressing “menu” on my phone. I can’t find it now. I have no need to keep Endomondo running all day/night.
Hi Flo,
do you use a samsung Galaxy? You press the botton 2 seconds, then, on the bottom right, exit endomondo, or even all the running apps at the same time.
So what about a better looking IPhone app so we can enjoy your new look too
HR Zones! Me too =)
is there a way to go back to 7.1?
fuctionality has decreased significantly.
been using it mainly for cycling, but now screen is much harder to read, especially under direct sunlight. also much more difficult to switch between screens.
only obvious improvement the much easier start/countdown button.
add support for barometer in the list of welcome future features.
I cant find the button to close the app. You moved it. It is driving me nuts that this has been running since it downloaded. HOW DO YOU CLOSE IT?
You can ‘quit’ any Android app (including Endomondo) by pressing the back button until you’ve backed out to the previous app (which is usually the home screen).
The Endomondo icon will then disappear from the notification bar.
HR zones and also GPS lost alarm.
This should be realy VERY VERY easy to add guys, so what are you waiting for?
Endomondo is great, but these features will make it really complete !
Like Endomondo pro, specially the outlook of last version and use it.practically every day.
However even you have auto pause , it does not stop, my HR monitor (Garmin) can not be captured for no reason( have changed batttery etc etc) Maybe these things can be improved when new update is released?
Leaving the app is as simple as clicking on the back button (from the workout activity/page) twice.
Maybe your phone lacks the back button?
I like the new layout, but like Flo I cannot quit! can anyone help?
I second the lock screen suggestion. I do like the new layout, but I would like to choose bigger text size, at least for one line of data, e.g. workout duration
Great job
Still prefer the earlier layout. Took me a while to figure out how to quit. Still no audio feedback on heart rate… I’ll role back to the earlier version.
So, how to quit? I still can’t find….
The app looks good and my gps seems to finally work with it again! BUT this app uses way too much of my cpu while running (this is the case since 7, even got an alert it was at 99.9%) also it couldn’t find my HR belt. So i’m forced to go back to an other app.
Android 2.1 GarminAsus A10
I like the new look, but how do I get history/statistic on the phone? I can get them on the web site, but can’t find it on the phone.
Unfortunately, I use Endo Pro with BT headset and I can’t control music while training :((( .. This is very frustrating! .. Does anyone from Endomondo can help in this matter?
You could quit the old version so a quit option should be here too. In fact the same thing was in the new android version of Spotify, you could quit in the previous version but not anymore. Please add the option like it was in the old version too.
Losing GPS very often with this update.
HTC Desire – Miui ROM.
Me too. And now with the alarm, I know how unreliable it is. Love the app but really need better gps. Have tried trackerbooster which worked when I started using the app but now it doesn’t seem to matter :(
Ooops….should have mentioned, running SGS I9000 with Gingerbread.
I like the new App. Good fresh Design, Good improvement of the start/stopp-button.
I want to use Endomondo and track my heart-rate. I use it on an HTC-Desire. Which product should I buy? I ve seen some bluetooth-belts, which would work. Now I have read, that these products run very fast out of battery, also my phone would do this, cause of useing the blue-tooth.
I found from “runtastic and beurer” o whole set, with a very nice dongle. So I can put the dongle in the headphone place and then it doesn’t use any bluetooth.
But this one seems to be for runtastic. Do I find something similar for endomondo, or does this one run with endomondo?
And on the other way, how do I use HR in Endomondo. Is where a voice-notification, or do I have to unlock it and press around, every time?
I’ve just downloaded the new version of Endo & the GPS won’t track. On the main page of Endo on my phone it says GPS is disabled. How can I fix this?
I dont like it! It only logged a teeny portion of my 59 mile ride today!
There needs to be a way to quit the application when you are done!! This used to be there, why is it not included in the update?
Whoa…I am very impressed with this application. I think this application is good for joggers.
Thanks for sharing such an interesting post.
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New version can’t find gps signal quickly and it it very sad.. Searching for alternative apps for my android
Can someone tell me how to set my weight in the new version? I don’t see anywhere to do it under the settings menu.
Thanks!
On my Thunderbolt, I found (by chance) that if you hit the ‘back’ button on the phone, instead of ‘menu’ or the ‘home’ phone buttons, it will close the app.
i don’t know if anyone has mentioned this yet, if so, sorry for the duplicate.
Losing or can’t find GPS–have rebooted etc. still poor GPS coverage. Fix please!
1. Guys either remove this HORRIBLE russian translation or let me choose language different from OS setting. I didn’t pay you for app to read this analogue of engrish chinese jibberish.
2. With the new update somehow GPS sense of height is broken. I ride on brakes from hill for a minute and it thinks i falled just 10-15 metres. Prolly this one will autofix i don’t have good statistic yet.
The new design overall is great, but please fix these.
I third the request for Lock Screen, I ran at an event last sunday and having to unlock screen while some moisture was between touchscreen and arm band was painful. I ended up cancelling the workout halfway through and didn’t realize for several minutes later.
Being able to see distance duration and pace would be great.
I Love the new app but could we get a landscape mode?
Hi,
sorry for my english, im french.
Since this new design (im using Endomondo Pro on Galaxy S III), the app has stopped 2 or 3 times for no reason during my running ! Awful ! probably a big bugg. Did someone noticed that ? I will give one more chance to Endomondo this week, and if it happends again, then i’ll run with MapMyRun, but i hate MapMyRun, coz they send to many spams and adds.
Cheers
djkosmick
Same here: crashes all the time and totally lost ability to run in background. I use android 4 on Samsung Galaxy S. Pity but had to completely move to Sports-Tracker
Great work guys, love the new interface and functionality. One more feature that could be included is the ability to stop the phones backlight from turning off, this would be very handy if using as a cycle computer mounted to the handlebars or head stem.
Thanks,
Torsten
Another request for the GPS lost voice notification and an auto resume tracking feature. Very annoying to do a 12 mile run to find only the 1st 3.5km tracked…
Audio feedback on heart rate.
I like the new UI however on Interval training there is only a series of beeps now to separate the different intervals, on the previous version there was also voice giving me information about the interval I was doing. (which was much louder than the beeps)
I do not wear earphones when running and some the routes I do are next to busy roads, I would very much like the voice to come back again and possibly have the function to make my phone vibrate to separate the intervals also.
After reinstalling my voice app the audio coach now works. Its odd though that starting and finishing a run uses my phones default vioce but the interval timings use the voice app I have.
And an ability to record different interval sound bites to queue different exercises. The current functionality simply states lo, medium or hi interval – the ability to name the different intervals + soundbite would make the interval feature truly complete.
I would appreciate the possibility to either have to confirm before exiting the app or to be able to completely disable the back-button-exit functionality.
I recently was in a bike race and recieved an sms that popped up in front of the app. To get rid of it I hit the back button and either I pushed it twice or Endomondo took the back button push as a signal to exit the app. Either way – my tracking got interrupted and I had to start it over.
That said, I would also appreciate the possibility to link several interrupted sessions into one.
Endo Pro User. Everything looks good but still in this version there is not elevation indication on the mobile app and we need to wait after the upload to the web to know it.
I use it for several sports in the mountain, hiking, mountain biking, skiing and the elevation is the first information I need after a workout.
Please add it.
Thanks
Nice fresh look! A bit harder to read in sunlight. Not an issue for me, as I mostly push the headset button to get updates, but I am thinking about mounting it on a bike – and I guess the old interface would be better for this purpose. Perhaps add an alternative high contrast or dock mode?
Still waiting for HR zone with voice notification. And please add Crossfit to exercises. :)
Here a PRO user,
I like the new UI. But is it that difficoult to have landscape mode? Many bikers out there with a holder which would swicht to Endomondo as soon as this feature is offered…
Need a lock screen interface. It’s too easy to accidenally touch the screen.
Nice update, I like the UI. However, I have problem with the headset control (I disabled the feature in the Endomondo Pro app). Media Controls works to control music until Endomondo Pro is started and return to functioning after app is shut down.
So I can’t control the music anymore (most of the time) when Endomondo is started.
Love the app, but can’t find the way to enter manual workouts…like treadmill days. (HTC One V, Android v. 4.0.3, Endomondo v. 8.1.0)
I love the interface, but will need to input some workouts manually (treadmill). I don’t see it on the phone where your documentation says it should be. I have the free app but will probably upgrade to PRO.
I loved the app very much untill the very last update… it keeps stopping tracking during activity (but not stopping measuring the time…), after track upload the length changes, needs several sychros to save it right… and so on
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Just missing HR information… what HR bands and blue tooth that could be used with android 4 e.g.
I’m a bit late with this. Today I went on my first outing with the new look app. I wish I could say I liked it but, to repeat what someone further up said, I’m after functionality rather than eye candy. This new version is hard to read, usability is reduced and that large button is out of proportion – just looks awkward. In fact, for all the ‘eye candy’ I don’t actually think it looks better.
But at least you are trying to improve the app and I appreciate all your efforts (I just wish I could go back to the previous version though!).
Just s little hint for future versions. I’m using Endomondo Pro on Motorola Defy Mini with Androind 2.3.6. If it’s on the SD card, the audio coaching is deactivated when the screen is locked. I.e. you don’t hear any audio feedback, not even the info about total time and lap time.
Why does my endo show a different speed in graph times to that of maximum speed on the stats????
We are trying to improve race speeds for a crew! but there is up to 1km/hr difference in the stats??
Is endo NOT accurate?
Me he pasado al pro para evitar ciertas molestias, pero no ha mejorado lo sufuciente como para pagar,
El GPS no funciona bien.
Cuando se queda sin cobertura y vuelve a conectar lo dice, con sus molestias (todo el rato se lo pasa repitiendo lo mismo)
Tarda un montón para coger cobertura
Y el idioma, fatal. Si no hay español, al menos opción para poder elegir.
Si quiero hacer una foto de la ruta, tengo que quitarlo y volverlo a conectar después.
Tenéis que mejorar mucho más la versión pro (que es de pago) Please,,,
Still no HR zones idication, nice look, but it is no important.
GPS, pause, time, distance works good.
HTC wildf S
I have to use Live Sports Tracker in order to get Heart Rate feedback every 20 seconds. I tried to completely switch to that app, but there are many things I prefer on Endomondo. Please, consider adding Heart Rate and other feedbacks on certain time/distance lapses. That would be a HUGE improvement for Endomondo.
My endoomondo keeps closing after a few hundred feet to less then a quarter mile. I have a droid x2 and have tried rebooting and I am stock no mods. I really loved this program till the last few weeks it started doing this.
Endomodo Pro on a Samsung Galaxy Note running ICS.
Used for walking, not running (i.e. much slower speed…)
Is anybody else having issues with speed at a walking pace and constant “Paused”/”Resumed” notifications?
As much as I would like to believe it, there’s no way I can walk at 6.5 mph… -) The speed readout is all over the place compared to my Garmin 310.
At first I thought the “Paused”/”Resumed” notfications were something to do with tree cover, but there are also plenty of them when I’m out in the open.
Am I the only one?
To anybody reading this: I have since discovered that Entomodo had a bad release some time back and that a fix is in the works.
There is a multi-page thread on it somewhere in the forum, but I cannot find it at the moment.
One thing to keep in mind for any tracking tool on a phone, and probably on purpose-build GPS watches: GPS accuracy is _not_ that great. I don’t believe there is any GPS tracker app that is accurate enough for serious training. But if you take the end result over the course of a workout, the average value will be roughly correct. The longer the workout, the more likely the total distance covered is accurate.
If you are walking, I’d suggest disabling the auto-pause feature (again, this is not just Endomondo, this is any tracking app). You can get a reasonably accurate course distance using a tool such as gmap-pedometer. Your total elapsed time, assuming you start and stop Endomondo promptly, should be fairly accurate. You can compute your average pace from that. Or, even easier, go to the Endomondo web site, edit your workout, and correct the tracked distance with the computed distance. Most of the rest will be done for you.
I have to note – after upgrading my work phone from a DROID X with Android 2.2 to a DROID Maxx with 4.04, Endomondo reliability seems to have improved greatly. It may just be the additional memory in the device, or it may be differences in the OS. I’m not sure, I just know that I’m getting happy with it again. But still wish I could go back to Endomondo 7!
Here is the thread I was going on about: http://tinyurl.com/9qoasr9
I would love it if you guys could find a way to add mileage tracked per pair of shoes. My goal is to use a pair of running shoes for 300-500 miles and then retire them. Your app could keep track of the mileage accrued on each pair. In your app, I would add my shoes to my electronic list of shoes, then on the main screen I would use a pull-down list to select the shoes to be worn on that next run. Your app would need a way to retire pairs of shoes so they stop appearing in the drop-down list once they have been retired. Please feel free to contact me about this, especially if my attempt at brevity has made this confusing. Thanks for the great app.
Option to keep screen from locking is essential! Fingers get sweaty and prevent me from unlocking screen during spinning and it sloes me down!
If you use Android, you can use Tasker to prevent locking when using Endomondo. Works perfect!
Thanks. What is Tasker?
Tasker is an app where you can more or less make your phone act on any sort of event. These are a few tasks that I am using:
No screen lock code when Endomondo is running up front
No screen lock code when the phone is connected with Bluetooth to my car stereo
Read incoming SMS out loud when I am having the earphones plugged in
Send a dismissive SMS to my colleague if he sends me messages late on the weekend
Set volume to 70% when I plug in earphones
Activate WiFi when I am connected to the cells close to my home
And that’s only a fraction of what you can do. The Endomondo task is the one I use the most though.
If you look for it in Googles App Store, you will find it. It can be a little tricky to get the hang of the app to begin with buy there’s plenty of help forums if you just google around a bit.
Sounds exactly like my kind of app! I am a front end developer myself – and I like events!
I use endomondo on my iPhone (as well as my garmin800) on my bike which works fine.
My wife runs and has a galaxy s2 – she said she can’t hear the volume. It appears she doesn’t have the same option of increasing the volume within the app.
Am I missing something obvious??
Would really like to see push notifications on both the websites in the app :-)
other than that. Fab app and website!
Till the last upgrade it was superb. It sucks now. On my samsung note ii i cannot go back to the home screen to take photos thro the camera. Back menu key asks do u want to stop your workout – ok / cancel. The other key is just exit. Bye Bye Endomondo.
Hi, if you press the Home button, the app should continue tracking. But we have see a few other Galaxy Note users complain about other issues that the app crashes, please see this: https://getsatisfaction.com/endomondo/topics/app_crashing_on_startup_on_samsung_galaxy_note Thanks
Hello Endomondo!
Is it possible to add and show the actual percentage of maximum HR during workouts? During Spinning Workouts you often want to follow the program that is based on percentage of your maximum HR
Thanks for your reply :)
Audio started playing when I opened up this website, so annoying!
Another vote here for lockscreen controls and summary. It would be great to get a customisable field or two (avg pace, distance, etc) while the screen is locked.