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Record your route, distance, duration, speed and pace during a paddle.

Pause a workout, resume it and finish with a session summary.

Automatically pause and resume workout timing as movement stops and restarts.

Use a countdown before starting a paddle.

See heart rate while recording a workout.

Estimate paddling cadence from GPS speed and save the estimate with your workout.

Hear distance and split updates during a workout.

Follow your recorded track on a map during the session.

Browse, search and filter previous paddles and open their details.

Review distance, duration, speed and available health statistics after a paddle.

Explore a completed route, coloured by speed, on an expandable map.

Edit a saved session’s name, location and notes.

Add a session that you did not record live.

Attach photos from your library to a paddle and view them in your logbook.

Take a photo while recording and attach it to the session.

Create workout images in square, portrait and story formats for sharing or saving.

Crop unwanted parts from the start and end of an eligible recorded workout.

Export an individual workout route as a GPX file.

Export an individual workout as a FIT file for services such as Garmin Connect.

Save an archive of your paddling history, including notes, planned routes and optional photos.

Review distance, time and session totals across selected periods and compare with the previous period.

Explore weekly distance, time and session-count charts.

Explore charts of distance, average speed and session duration over time.

See how your paddles are distributed across days of the week and times of day.

See which locations feature most often in your paddling history.

Inspect recorded workout metrics in interactive charts.

Review the time spent in each heart-rate zone during a workout.

Colour a completed route by heart-rate zone to see where effort changed.

Review estimated cadence trends and distributions across sessions.

See your longest recorded paddle.

See fastest session, longest duration, highest average cadence, biggest week and biggest month records.

See how many consecutive weeks you have paddled.

See your longest streak of consecutive paddling weeks.

Generate a written summary of your paddling activity on supported devices.

Review split distance, time and pace for recorded workouts.

Review per-split heart rate, pace differences and race personal-best comparisons where data is available.

Set a race distance and use a countdown, live race progress and automatic finish detection.

Review a completed race’s time, pace, distance, result status and basic splits.

Adjust the distance tolerance used to recognise a race finish.

Draw and edit routes on a map with waypoints and undo support.

Import a GPX file as a planned route.

Discover routes shared by other paddlers and view route details.

Add a community route to your own saved routes.

Share one of your planned routes with the paddling community.

Follow a planned route with direction, distance to the next waypoint and progress information.

Send a planned route from iPhone to its paired Apple Watch.

Browse nearby launch spots in a list or on a map.

Search for paddle spots and community routes around another location.

Explore spot information, local conditions and paddling difficulty factors.

Save favourite paddle spots to find them again.

Read paddlers’ reviews and contribute your own feedback on a spot.

Submit a paddle spot for the community.

Switch eligible workout, sharing and PaddleFinder maps to satellite imagery.

Copy a paddle spot’s what3words address or open it in what3words.

Check local temperature, wind and current weather conditions before paddling.

See the current tide height, direction and next tide event on the home screen.

Explore daily and hourly weather, wind and tide forecasts.

Inspect temperature, UV, precipitation, humidity, pressure and visibility forecasts.

Explore suggested paddling windows and wind assessments in the forecast.

Check wind direction, speed, feels-like temperature, UV and humidity on your wrist.

See a wave-height estimate alongside current home-screen conditions.

Share live session location through PaddleSafe with your emergency contact.

Send your emergency contact an alert containing your location.

Choose and maintain the contact used by PaddleSafe alerts and tracking.

Read in-app safety advice before heading onto the water.

Join available challenges and track progress towards their goals.

Create your own challenge with distance, time or session goals.

Review active goals and completed challenges.

Celebrate a completed challenge and create a share card, with a route image when available.

Receive enabled challenge reminders and completion notifications.

Earn points for recorded outings and bonuses for new launch areas and planned routes. Follow your level, personal goal, achievements and points history.

Save PaddlePal workouts to Apple Health and use available health data in workout details.

Keep supported logbook data in sync across your iPhone and iPad.

Bring Watch recordings into your iPhone logbook and show live Watch workout data on iPhone.

Link Strava, enable automatic paddle uploads and retry eligible uploads from workout details.

Start or control supported workout actions using Siri and Shortcuts.

Configure a supported device’s Action Button for PaddlePal workout actions.

Keep recording metrics visible outside the app using a Live Activity.

See recent paddling statistics from a widget or Watch complication.

Show supported workouts recorded by other apps in your PaddlePal logbook.

Enable Water Lock when a Watch workout starts.

Choose distance, speed and temperature units.

Manage your equipment and associate it with paddles.

Choose weather background behaviour and appearance preferences.

Read paddling articles and see what is new in the app.

Contact support and share feedback about PaddlePal.

Suppress non-essential in-app alerts with Focus mode or a configured system Focus filter.

Reduce GPS update frequency during stationary periods using device motion.