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 identify your workplace and enter it into a ranking split by province.
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.
It ranks workplaces, never people.
If you turn this feature on, every finished commute sends one single record: the workplace you picked in the app, the date and the distance. The server sums those per workplace and hands back the whole ranking. No personal data about the person riding is ever shared or sent to our servers.
Everything one commute sends
- Workplace
- Acme Srl
- Where
- Milano (MI)
- Date
- 28 August 2026
- Distance
- 4.8 km
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.
What never leaves the phone.
Not withheld by choice, absent by construction.
- The route
- The coordinates
- Speed
- Elevation
- Time of day
- An account
- A login
- A device id
- Any identifier
No identifier of any kind is ever stored. All that is public is aggregate cycling data and the names of the companies recorded.
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.
- Sharing is off by default.
- You turn it on, it goes one way, and you can always turn it back off.
- You see the record first.
- Built from your latest commute, with the data your phone would send.
- 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.