I built "Steady", an app to hold one pace, cadence or HR target, looking for feedback

[tvial]

Hi all,

I run with a Race S, and I wanted something simple: pick one target, see from the corner of my eye whether I’m on it, and only get a buzz when I’ve really drifted. So I built Steady, now on the SuuntoPlus store.

How it works:

• Before the run, choose pace, cadence or heart rate, then a target and a tolerance (for example 5:00/km ± 15 s).
• The screen is split at the gauge. The top half is now: your current value in big digits, green when you’re in the zone, blue when you’re under, red when you’re over.
• The bottom half is the run so far: your average since the warm-up, plus the share of time spent in the zone. So you can tell a passing wobble from a run that’s going off.
• The watch only vibrates after a few seconds out of the zone, never at every wobble. Getting back in is silent.
• You can change the target mid-run with a long press on the upper or lower button.

Full disclosure: it’s sitting at 3/5 with 6 ratings, and that’s fair. One early version crashed on launch on some watches. It ran fine in Suunto’s simulator, but the real watch has a memory limit when it loads apps, and the simulator doesn’t apply it. That’s fixed, and the current version is lighter, easier to read in the dark theme, and the colours now always match the number on screen.

I’ve only been able to test it on my Race S. If you have a Race, Vertical, 9 Peak Pro or Ocean, I’d really like to know how it behaves on yours.

So: try it, break it, tell me what’s missing or annoying, here or on X (@tvial). And if it works for you, a rating on the store would really help pull it up from that early crash.

Thanks!

[Steven Hambleton]

@tvial Can this hook into an interval session? The paces and tolerances are already set there so this would be a handy readout until the next interval.