Kinomap - Interactive fitness experience

About the app

Kinomap serves as an interactive training app for various indoor activities such as cycling, running, walking, and rowing. It can be used with exercise bikes, home trainers, treadmills, ellipticals, or rowing machines. The platform offers access to an extensive collection of geolocated videos featuring thousands of routes worldwide. The app seamlessly integrates with your equipment, automatically adjusting bike resistance or treadmill incline depending on the selected route. This is not merely 'at-home training'; it's a genuine experience!

Stay active throughout the year with this engaging and realistic sports application! You can ride, run, walk, or row alone or alongside others across all five continents. Discover new locations from the comfort of your home while participating in virtual challenges. Make strides towards achieving your objectives through structured workout programs.

TRAINING MODES

- Scenic Videos

With a vast library of real-world videos, you can explore some of the most beautiful stages across the globe. Experience scenic paths and exotic scenery, or challenge yourself on more difficult courses.

- Coaching videos

Learn from our network of coaches and follow their training plans to enhance your skills.

- Structured workouts

Achieve your targets by customizing your own training sessions or selecting from programs recommended by Kinomap and its community.

- Map Mode

Train using your personal GPS tracks or utilize any public course available.

- Free ride

Track your workouts conveniently, as Kinomap automatically logs your activities from the connected console.

- Multiplayer

Engage in live challenges with friends or other app users. Organize private sessions with your followers or take part in public workouts.

WHY CHOOSE KINOMAP?

- Access to over 40,000 training videos, with an average of 30 to 40 new videos added each day

- Compatible with any fitness equipment

- Offers one of the most authentic indoor cycling, running, and rowing experiences that could make you forget you're at home

- Five distinct training modes tailored to help you reach your aspirations

- Suitable for all: from cyclists and triathletes to runners and those focused on fitness or weight loss

- A free version with unlimited access

OTHER FEATURES

- Sync your Kinomap activities with partner apps like Strava and adidas Running.

- The application is optimized for smartphones and tablets and allows video display on external screens via HDMI adapters. Remote viewing is also available through a web browser.

UNLIMITED ACCESS

The Kinomap app now features a free version without time constraints or usage limits. A Premium subscription is offered starting from €11.99 per month or €89.99 per year, with automatic renewal unless canceled 24 hours before the current period concludes.

COMPATIBILITY

Kinomap works with over 220 brands and 2,500 models of fitness machines. You can verify compatibility on the official site. If your equipment isn't connected, consider using a Bluetooth/ANT+ sensor (for power or speed/cadence), or utilize your smartphone or tablet’s optical sensor to detect movement and estimate cadence.

Our vision, our values

We re-imagine indoor workouts on cardio machines, and set
 a new standard for at-home training

Health

Stay fit! We help people create a healthier and happier lifestyle for themselves

Motivation

With the diversity of content and the variety of training modes, you will never get bored!

Exploration

You are going to love the adventure. Expand your horizons and explore the best tracks in the world.

Practical

Indoor training allows you to train in a flexible way that suits your lifestyle.

How do I record a geolocated video?

Keep your GPS tracklog

As soon as you start filming, record your activity with a device that can collect your GPS coordinate. You can either use a smartwatch, a mobile app such as Runtastic, Strava, Runkeeper, or your camera to keep a record of your GPS location with route details.

Export your GPS data

To easily retrieve your GPS tracklog, you’ll either need access to the web interface of your sensor supplier or you can also export your GPS data from a mobile app.

Then, you’ll be able to export your activity as a .GPX, .FIT, .NMEA or .TCX. file that will contain your GPS coordinates and timestamps.

If you recorded the GPS track with your GoPro7, here is a tool that you can use to export the GPS data.

If your smartwatch or activity tracker has the option, you will also be able to collect your elevation and heart rate data.

Note: In order to be accepted by the uploader, your GPS file must contain a timestamp. A timestamp is essential to keep the synchronization with the video.

This happens especially when you created a GPS file manually with 'openrunner' or 'Strava' for example or if you already downloaded an existing GPS file from a third-party platform.

Keep filming without stopping the recording

To synchronize your video with your GPS tracklog, you will need to record and to upload a continuous file on Kinomap. If you have different sections of video with a pause in between, you have to upload each section independently. As a side note, if your camera creates several chunks of 2GB or 4GB due to the memory card format limitation, you can combine them into a single file with our free software VideoTaped.

Upload and synchronize your geolocated video

Upload your video and then your GPS track on our dedicated page. Then, you will be able to synchronize your files to match your GPS data with the images. By using a visual landmark on your video (such as a crosswalk, a turn, parking, etc.), you should be able to find the same moment on your GPS file.

Tips: Use the "satellite" mode on the map containing your GPS track to visualize the route.

How to keep GPS synchronization throughout the video?

Dealing with non-continuous files

Kinomap is about geolocated videos, meaning a video that perfectly matches a GPS track

When you record a video, you move at a variable speed along with the video recording. 

When you record a GPS track, this is important also to get your speed in order to ensure synchronization along with the video recording. In fact, both your video and GPS contain a time stamp.

If your GPS track is longer than the video, no issue as it can be re-synchronized once online. Most of us do record the GPS track from the entire ride but capture in the video a part of it.

If your GPS track is short than the video, it means that part of the video will have no track record.

If your GPS track hasn’t been recorded at the same time or on the same vehicle as the video, be sure the speed of each device will be quite different so will not match later on.

If your GPS track has been designed by an app (google maps, route planner on Strava, or other), the file contains only the geographical route but no timestamp or speed. So it will not be useful when uploading a video to Kinomap either.

Some GPS trackers like bike computers give you the ability to pause the GPS recording when you don’t move for some time. Even if the GPS recording is paused, the time flight is on your GPS file so a gap will be added compared to the time stamp on your camera.

How to deal with a pause during your ride?

As explained, we need continuous files from the departure to the arrival, or a section of your ride but continuous. 

If you pause for some time, so pause the camera, and be sure your GPS tracker (watch, Gps app, bike computer) will continue to make the recording, creating a gap between the video when you start again from your pause. In such a case, you have 2 options: 

Do a complete video recording without pausing the video recorder. Once the ‘master’ video is online, feel free to ask us to make several extracts (part 1 from the start to the first pause, re-start to pause 2, from the last pause to the end). The master video will be switched as unlisted as people can’t really train on it but leave the sections of the video as public. 

Do a few recordings and upload each section independently. 

To illustrate, let’s take a 2 hours bike ride. When you leave home, you start recording the GPS track and the video recorder (camera). After 1 hour, you pause for 10min, so pause the camera during the pause. at the end of the day, your video will be 2 hours less than 10min long so 110 minutes, while your GPS track will be 120min long. if you upload the 2 files on Kinomap, the video will be well synchronized during the first hour but from minute 60, when you are about to restart the video, having cut the 10min break, but your GPS track will show you staying at the same place for an extra 10min. When your icon will move again on the map, your position on the video will be 10min ahead so no way to keep it synchronized during the second part of your ride.

If you have kept the video recording during the pause, please upload the entire 120min video and ask Kinomap to create part 1 from the start to the pause (60min long) and then from the end of the pause to the end of the ride as part 2 (50min long)

If you have to pause the video recording, please upload independently the video in 2 parts, part 1 from the start to the pause (60min long) and then from the end f the pause to the end of the ride as part 2 (50min long)