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Keep a voice note playing while you do something else, and react to any message.

New

• Playback bar. On iPhone, voice and video notes keep playing when you leave a chat, queue up automatically, and let you change the speed.
• Message reactions. React to a chat message with an emoji, one per rider, on iPhone and the web.
• Return to the note. On iPhone, tap the playback bar to jump back to the message that is playing.

Improved

• Lock screen. On iPhone, voice notes keep playing in the background, with Now Playing controls.
• Corner names. In the corner analysis on the web, a corner that joins several turns is named after all of them, like 3–4.

Fixed

• Corner battle no longer shows apex speed under an entry label.
• Two official turns no longer claim the same apex, and a tie no longer tints the rival green.
• A message sent on a shaky connection no longer arrives twice.

On iPhone, Lapster keeps what you looked at last, so screens appear the moment you open them.

New

• Instant screens. On iPhone, stories, devices, notifications, chats, profiles, tracks and teams show from a local cache in the very first frame.
• Grouped notifications. On iPhone and the web, likes and comments from several riders collapse into one row, with filters for Racing, Comments and Follows.
• Instagram-safe recaps. A new toggle keeps Daily Recap cards clear of Instagram's overlays on iPhone.
• Storage dashboard. Settings on iPhone now shows what is cached on the phone, category by category.

Improved

• Corner battle map stays sharp as you zoom and shows speeds beside each corner, on iPhone.
• Rate the app. After a personal best, the iPhone app may ask whether you would like to rate Lapster.

Fixed

• Closing the Daily Recap sheet on iPhone with an unsaved caption or photo now asks first.
• Lap links shared from the web now open in the iPhone app instead of doing nothing.

Compare corners rider against rider, and record video notes more easily.

New

• Full-screen lap comparison. On iPhone, comparing laps opens full screen, with Summary and Corner Battle tabs you can swipe between.
• Corner-by-corner analysis. When you compare laps, swipe through one card per corner that explains where time was won or lost, on iPhone and the web.
• Flip the camera mid-recording. On iPhone, switch between the front and back camera while you record a video note.
• Transcripts for video notes. On iPhone and the web, turn a video note into text, and send one to LapsterBot to get an answer.

Improved

• Drag up to lock. Hold the record button and drag up to keep recording a voice message hands-free, on iPhone and on the web on a touch screen.
• Sign in with Apple on the web. app.lapster.me now offers Apple next to Google.

Fixed

• On iPhone, a RaceBox Pro session download that fails now tells you instead of failing silently.

Send a quick video note in any chat, on iPhone and on the web.

New

• Video notes. On iPhone and on the web, hold the capture button to record a short video and send it, and pick its shape in Settings. Tap the button to switch between voice and video.
• Readable track links. Track links now carry the track's name instead of a long code, and old links still work.

Improved

• Clearer errors on the web. When a chat, a profile or the track map fails to load, or a message, upload or delete does not go through, the web app now says so, with a retry where it helps.
• Search engines can now find recent sessions too, not only tracks and profiles.

Fixed

• Deleting your account from Settings, on iPhone or on the web, now works. Before, it failed for any account that had been used.

A monthly invite contest starts, and the web app learns to talk to your RaceBox.

New

• Referral GP. On iPhone and the web, invite riders to Lapster and climb a monthly leaderboard of inviters.
• RaceBox in the browser. In Chrome or Edge, connect a RaceBox Mini S or Micro at app.lapster.me to download its sessions and time laps live.
• Photo layouts in comments. Show several photos in a comment as a mosaic or a swipeable feed, on iPhone and the web.
• Photo privacy. A new setting on iPhone and the web decides whether your photos keep their location and camera details.

Improved

• Save all photos. On iPhone, save every photo in a gallery at once and watch the progress.
• Search engines can now find public tracks and rider profiles.

Fixed

• Signing out on the web now clears the data cached for your account.

Tools to keep Lapster safe, and the web app gets lap replay, track days, teams and more.

New

• Report and block. On iPhone and the web, report a rider, message, comment or story, and block a rider.
• Lap replay on the web. At app.lapster.me, replay a session's fastest laps head-to-head on the map, compare a lap with your other laps or another rider's best, and see who wins each corner.
• Time laps in the browser. On the web, time laps with your phone's GPS and save the run as a session.
• Track days on the web. At app.lapster.me, book a spot, review a track day with photos and a lap, and, as an organizer, see who is coming and message them.
• Transfer Session. Handing a session to another rider is now a clear Transfer Session screen on iPhone.

Improved

• More on the web. Teams, voice messages and GIFs in chats, and creating a track on a map arrive at app.lapster.me.
• Lapster.me now replays a real Mandalika battle between three riders, and shared links open in the web app, even for visitors who are not signed in.

You no longer need a RaceBox to time a lap: your iPhone can do it.

New

• Phone Tracker. On iPhone, time laps with the phone's GPS on a live race dashboard that also turns landscape, shows lean angle and a G-force circle, and speaks your lap times.
• Turn a ride into a track. On iPhone, create a track from a Phone Tracker ride, with the path you drove drawn on the map while you place the start line.
• Open landing page. lapster.me is open to everyone with no invite needed, redesigned around the racing line.

Improved

• First-run Home. On iPhone, a new rider's Home opens on a rotating poster hero with ways to get started, instead of a plain empty list.
• Support. A new Help & Support page answers common questions; open it from Settings on iPhone or from the lapster.me footer.

Fixed

• On iPhone, the location and Bluetooth permission prompts now describe what the app actually does.
• Your email address can no longer become your public display name.

Lapster gets a blue-to-violet look and a calmer lap screen on iPhone, and a new web app opens at app.lapster.me.

New

• A new web app. Open app.lapster.me in a browser to see your sessions, laps, tracks and profiles, import RaceBox CSV files, and chat in real time.
• A new look. The app icon, primary buttons and Track Library pills on iPhone wear the Lapster blue-to-violet gradient.

Improved

• Personal-best celebration on iPhone opens as a bottom sheet you can swipe away.
• Home title. On iPhone, the Lapster. wordmark is now the large title on Home, with a brand-red dot.
• Lap screen. Playback scrolling, rotation and the chart crosshair behave better on iPhone.

Fixed

• Stray lines and GPS-glitch spikes no longer show on the lap map on iPhone.

On iPhone, book a spot at a track day, review it afterwards, and share it with one link.

New

• Track day booking. On iPhone, book a spot on a track day, see how many spots are taken, and join the waitlist when it is full.
• Organizer tools. On iPhone, organizers see the roster, message an attendee and edit their details; on the web they can edit their details too.
• Track day reviews. On iPhone, riders with a confirmed spot can rate the day with stars, write a review, and attach up to 10 photos and one of their laps.
• Share a track day. On iPhone, the Share button on a track day sends a short go.lapster.me link that opens the track in the app, or its page on the web in a browser.

Improved

• Lap compare readout. On iPhone the readout is about 30 percent shorter, playback gives a light haptic tick, and a tap on the lap ruler jumps to that point.
• Track pages on the web now show the organizer, capacity and reviews.

Fixed

• On iPhone, GIF comments on a session wall post again, and a picked GIF stays selected while the list refreshes.
• On iPhone, opening a shared Lapster link while the app is closed no longer gets lost.

Lap comparison on iPhone shows who you are up against at a glance, plus a round of fixes.

New

• Rider rail on the lap screen. On iPhone, the riders you compare sit in a row of avatars at the top of the lap screen, each with their gap to you.
• Zoom minimap. Zoom into the lap chart on iPhone and a minimap of the whole lap lets you drag to any part of it.

Improved

• Speed for every rider. The lap readout on iPhone shows a speed for each rider you compare, not just two.
• Leave phone mode. The RaceBox standalone recording button on iPhone no longer gets stuck when the device misses a reply.

Fixed

• A personal best you post no longer vanishes from the stories feed.
• Pinch-zoom in a photo gallery on iPhone no longer bleeds into the neighbouring photo.