Bike Bell

About

Bike Bell is a fun and useful app to assist with your bike riding activities. Simply attach your phone to your bike, and you can use it to alert others as you pass them by. You can also track host of useful bike riding statistics.

Set up to three bike bells for easy access
Add custom .mp3's for new and fun bike bells
Track statistics such as speed, overall pace, distance, elevation gain
Record and save maps of your biking route along with speed along each leg
Save and export logs for further analysis

The Bell

On the bell tap there are three bell buttons, center, left and right. You can set all three to have different unique sounds by going to the "Settings" tab in the top right.

Play Bell Sound - On Press: When you tap the buttons ring the bell, While Moving: The bell will ring while motion is detected, Always: The bell will constantly ring. If While Moving or Always is selected, the right and left bell buttons will be disabled.
Sound Selection - Select which bell you want to set.
User Added Sounds - Custom sounds added by the user

Adding Custom Bells

Bike bell supports most sound file formats. There are multiple ways to add custom sounds

Finder File Sharing

You can load music files by placing them into the shared folder using a Mac's finder application.
File Sharing How To Documentation: support.apple.com/en-us/HT210598

Files App

If you have sound files saved in the File app you can move files directly to the Bike Bell file folder.
File Sharing How To Documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206481

Share

The app is associated with most audio files. Select the file, hit share, and find the Bike Bell App.

Download Music Files From Safari

Find a sound file from Safari
Download/save it to your Files app: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206481
Tap and hold the file, select "Share", find "Bike Bell", and save to the app.

If a sound file is shared with the app, you will have a chance to update/change the music file name. Make sure the name is unique, or the file will be ignored if another file exists with that name. You can update the file names from the Bell Settings page, or manually from outside the app by either using the Finder File Sharing or from the Files App.

Statistics

When recording a trip, the following stats will be tracked:

Current Speed: Instantaneous speed being travelled
Pace: The overall pace for the duration of the trip (average speed over time)
Top Speed: Maximum speed achieved during the duration of the trip
Distance: Distance travelled over the duration of the trip
Elapsed Time: Time since the start of the trip
Elevation Gain: The cumulative elevation gain (positive only) during the duration of the trip
Track Route Traveled: This will map and record the path taken, and record the average speed along each portion of the route. This is only available after the trip is completed. Black lines indicate a gap in data.

During the ride, you can choose what values are displayed in real-time by toggling the display metrics found in the top right "Settings" located on the Stats tab.

Saved rides are archived in the "Logs" tab.

Logs

Logs are saved by recording trips from the "Stats" tab. Logs are sorted by date, in either ascending or descending (toggle in the Settings tab)

Tap the heading to drill down to the month, tap again to view the item in detail
Press the "..." button at the top right for options such as deleting entries an export data where applicable

Settings

Display Options

Unit - Choose between Miles or Kilometers. Conversion will happen automatically when switched back and forth

Log Options

Sort - Choose between showing logs as ascending date (earliest first), or descending (latest first)

Database

Export - Export all log files
Delete All Logs - Deletes the entire database locally and on the cloud.

Subscriptions

Go to "Settings". At the top you can quickly tell if the app is activated or if the subscription has expired.
Under "Settings" tap the "Details".
Select the purchase you'd like to make and press "Buy".
Enter your Apple ID and Password.
Confirm purchase and wait for processing.
If your have previously purchased the product but have lost the purchase on the device click “Restore” and input your Apple ID and Password to restore the purchase.
NOTE: You must purchase the product with the same Apple ID that you used to download the App.
You can manage your subscriptions by pressing the "Manage Subscriptions" button
You can view and update your billing information by pressing the "View Billing Info" button.