Bike commutes, recorded on their own.
VADO is an app that records your rides on its own. Nothing to press when you leave, nothing when you arrive. If you decide to turn the feature on, you can name your places as they are on the map, your workplace, your gym, your children’s school, and enter them into a ranking split by province.
Download on the App Store ↗ Android coming soon
01Recording
You ride, VADO records.
The whole project comes from a single constraint: a ride must never be lost.
- Sleeps when you are still.
- Nothing running. No impact on your device.
- Wakes when you leave.
- Leaving home or work starts the recording.
- Closes on arrival.
- At home or at work, or once you have been stopped long enough for the ride to be over.
- Shows the ride.
- A list entry and a route on a map, with statistics.
02The ranking
It ranks places, never people.
If you turn this feature on, every ride that starts, stops or ends at one of your named places sends one single record: those places as you picked them on the map, never home, in the order you reached them, their coordinates, the date, the distance and how long the ride took. The server sums those per place, each place getting the whole ride, and hands back the whole ranking. No personal data about the person riding is ever shared or sent to our servers.
- Place
- Acme Srl
- Where
- 45.486912, 9.189702
- Date
- 28 August 2026
- Distance
- 4.8 km
- Time
- 24m
That is the whole of the competition. The app shows you an example before you agree to join the ranking.
Privacy is another one of our pillars. The server receives counts and no route and no personal data, so what the ranking measures is cycling as the rider’s phone detects it.
03Privacy
The device is the source of truth.
Local first and privacy first, as a permanent identity of the product and not as a simplification of the first version. Your rides stay on your phone. There is no cloud sync, and nothing syncs by default.
What never leaves the phone.
Not withheld by choice, absent by construction.
- The route
- Your coordinates
- Speed
- Elevation
- An account
- A login
- A device id
- Any personal identifier
- Sharing is off by default.
- You turn it on, it goes one way, and you can always turn it back off.
- You see what is sent first.
- An example record, with the data a phone sends, before you turn sharing on.
- Deleting a ride removes it for good.
- The record comes off the ranking, even if the app never got confirmation that it had arrived.
- Deleting a ride does not take you out of the count of people.
- Uninstalling the app does not skew the statistics either, since there is no account to do it through.
No identifier of a person is ever stored. All that is public is aggregate cycling data and the names of the places recorded.