Public beta — free to use. On iPhone the app must stay open with the screen unlocked.
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Riga · Latvia · free public beta

Know who is out
before you leave
the garage

LiveRide is a real-time map for car enthusiasts and night riders. See who is out, which meet points have people at them, and who is quickest through a marked point. Then take it private: open a server, bring in the drivers you choose, and run your own routes, meets and night rides inside it.

Get the app See how it works
Drivers out now—live
Routes set—riga
Drivers—signed up
Timed runs—logged
What the map shows

Four things, one glance

LiveRide is not a social feed with a map bolted on. Four things sit on one map, and three of them switch off independently when you only want to look at one.

Routes

Timed routes on real roads

A route is a chain of checkpoint zones. Cross one and your split time is logged automatically, the way a rally stage works.

Splits

A position at every checkpoint

Each checkpoint returns a position and a gap to the leader, so you can see which section cost you the run.

Meet points

Who is there, right now

Marked spots show how many drivers are parked there at this moment, so you never roll up to an empty lot.

Speed points

Three windows, one board

A marked point ranks the best speed per driver over 24 hours, a week and all time. Each point has a floor, and below it nothing is recorded at all.

Respect ties it together. A point that carries a reward pays it the moment you clear it, then sits on a cooldown so it cannot be farmed. Inside a server, times and respect rank in the room instead of on the public board.

The map

One strip of chrome. The rest is map.

There is no app bar and no search box. A single 26-pixel strip carries how many drivers are out, the room you ride with, and the layer chip. Everything else on the screen is the road.

  • A live count, in the corner, of the drivers out right now.
  • The room chip names your server. Join a second and it counts them instead.
  • The layer chip switches routes, speed traps and meet points on and off, in any combination.
  • Speed sits bottom-left in km/h. It is the only thing on the map allowed to glow.
In the app now

Servers

A server is a private room for the drivers you choose. It has its own routes and meet points, its own board, and a way to tell everybody in it where to be. You can be in as many rooms as you like, and run one.

Public or request to join Its own routes and meets Scheduled informs Going or not going An admin area Scores kept in the room
Find a room

Three numbers tell you whether it is worth joining

Every room in the catalogue shows how many drivers are in it, how many are online, and how many are actually out driving. An open room lets you in on the spot. A private one sends a request, and the owner decides.

  • Rooms you are already in sit above the catalogue, the one you own first.
  • An invitation arrives by nickname and waits at the top until you answer it.
  • A private room takes you and its members off the public live map. A public room does not, because any driver can join one.
  • You can be a member of many rooms and own one. A new room is reviewed before other drivers can find it.
Informs

Tell the room where to be, and who is coming

An inform is one of three things: a meet, a night ride, or a message. A meet and a ride are appointments, so both carry a be-there time and ask every driver in the room for an answer. A message is just words.

  • Going or not going, with a live headcount and the names behind it.
  • A reminder lands 10 minutes before the be-there time.
  • The meeting place can stay sealed until an hour you name, or until the admin opens it by hand.
  • So can the route. Until it opens, a driver sees the checkpoint count and nothing else.

Sealed means sealed. A hidden place has no coordinates in what the phone is sent — there is nothing on the device to read early.

The room you run

An admin area for whoever owns the room

Open a room and a tab in the app becomes yours to run it from. Three panes, in the order you use them on a given night.

  • Inform — send one out ahead of its time, open a place or route that is still held back, or read exactly who is coming.
  • Users — approve or turn down requests, invite by nickname, and cancel an invitation that went to a typo.
  • Map — switch the platform's routes and points on or off for this room, and add your own.

Authority stops at the room's edge. Nothing in here reaches the public map, and nothing in here reaches another room.

Opening a room takes four fields: a name, one line on what it is for, public or private, and a Telegram handle so members can reach you. New rooms are reviewed before other drivers can find them.

Right now

Who is out driving

The public map refreshes every five seconds.

Connecting —
Driver on a run Meet point, with headcount Speed point Set route

What is public here: only drivers who have started a run, as anonymous markers. No names, no scores and no history are ever shown on this map — those stay inside the app. Drivers who simply have the app open are not shown, and neither is anyone riding in a private server.

Free public beta

Get the app

No phone number, no email. Pick a nickname and drive.

Android

Install the APK

  1. Download the beta build below.
  2. Open the downloaded file.
  3. Allow install from unknown sources when Android asks.
  4. Open LiveRide, pick a nickname, and drive.
Download APK Android 7.0+ · 63 MB · beta build
iPhone · iOS

Run it in Expo Go

  1. Install Expo Go from the App Store. It is free.
  2. Open Expo Go and tap Scan QR code.
  3. Scan the code below. LiveRide opens straight away.
Get Expo Go QR code that opens LiveRide inside Expo Go Scan from inside Expo Go, not the camera app.

Beta limitations

Keep the app open on screen while you drive. On iPhone especially, locking the phone or switching apps ends the session and stops tracking. Background tracking comes later. Obey posted limits and drive safely — LiveRide times your drive, it does not excuse breaking the law.

Next

What is not done yet

The map, the boards and servers are all live. These are the gaps, stated plainly rather than left for you to find.

Background tracking A standalone iPhone build Push while the app is closed

Ready to set a time?

Free public beta. Pick a nickname, open the map, and see who is already out. Then open a server and bring your own drivers in.

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