Runtastic gets updated with Routes feature and more for Windows Phone 8

I of my favorite fitness apps, Runtastic got a squeamish niggling update today that brings with it a variety of new features – some exclusive for Windows Telephone 8. Permit'south check them out.

If you lot aren't up to speed on Runtastic, read our mega piece on information technology from a few weeks dorsum. It's a 2000 give-and-take masterpiece where we go into detail about Runtastic and its offerings. And so what's new in this update that wasn't there a few weeks dorsum? Quite a bit really! If you lot update you'll get yourself:

Flag one of thousands of new routes from the Runtastic website and sync them automatically to your phone
Employ routes for your activities
Share routes via NFC with some other phone
Navigate to start point of a road
Wide Alive Tile with monthly statistics
New languages supported: Chinese, Dutch, and Portuguese
New icons for sport types
Updated wordings and dialogs
Improved app start time and functioning
Bug fixes – Heart rate monitor wouldn't connect in some cases, rare trouble when loggin in with email and password, connection to Twitter would neglect, and a few others

Windows Phone 8 users will appreciate the wide live tile support – it shows your monthly activity and is a good manner to make certain you're hitting your fitness goals at a glance. Icons for the dissimilar sports have been tweaked and updated. If you have another friend who uses Runtastic, you can even share routes via NFC. But past far the biggest and most welcomed update is the addition of 'routes.'

If you navigate to the Runtastic website you lot can explore a department called routes, where users tin can create and share routes from an activity like running or cycling. From there y'all tin sync them to your phone, that way you can try out routes from other people. It'southward a peachy way to detect new trails if you lot're on vacation or in an surface area you lot aren't familiar with. Y'all get admission to some handy data inside a specific route. For example, the distance, pinnacle, estimated time of completion, and top runs from other users.

Runtastic is available for all Windows Telephone users – in free or pro/paid version ($4.99). The complimentary version is skillful for bones logging of runs, merely you'll need to enter an unlock code or buy the pro version if you lot desire routes, heart rate monitor connectedness and no ads. QR codes below, free to the left and paid to the correct, or swipe to the right in our windows Phone Central app.

Thanks Daniel R. for the tip!

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