TerraADV TERRAADV Beta Get started

Come and test it.

TerraADV is offline adventure navigation for Australia. It's working, I ride with it every week, and it isn't finished — which is where you come in.

Get started
  • iPhone + web planner
  • Works with no signal
  • Turn-by-turn with voice
  • Every Australian state
  • Free for testers, for good

What it is

Routing that knows what's under your wheels.

Pick how rough you want the day to be and it plans around that — then tells you what you signed up for before you turn a wheel. Have a play with the profiles below; these are real numbers from the same two towns.

Mansfield → Dargo 244 km · 89% dirt

Dirt & gravel roads, avoids steep climbs

31%
Steepest
216 km
No fuel
10.9 L
78% of tank
0
Crossings
↑ 4,803 mAscent
↓ 4,917 mDescent
Bar colour is gradient — rolling through to pitches you’ll stand up for.

What it does

The short version.

  • Three riding styles — Road, ADV and Hard ADV, not a dirt toggle
  • Properly offline — it can work out a new route with no signal
  • Official closures from the state feeds, on the map from day one
  • Rider reports — gates, locked gates, grids, crossings and closed roads
  • Knows your bike — fuel range off your own numbers, not an average
  • Loops — give it a distance and a direction and it builds you one
TerraADV map in the light Track theme showing the High Country with dozens of official road closures in red.
TrackDaylight, readable through a visor
The same area in the dark Nightrider theme.
NightriderFor the last hour of light

Before you start

One thing that saves a lot of hassle.

Sign up with your Apple ID email

TestFlight invites are tied to an Apple ID. If you register below with the same email address your Apple ID uses, the invite lands where it needs to and the whole thing takes about a minute.

Use a different address and you can still get there — it's just fiddlier, and I'd rather you spent the time riding.

Getting set up

Four steps to riding.

Ten minutes, most of which is the download.

  1. Register below

    The form at the bottom of this page. Takes a moment, and it's how I know where you ride so I can pair you with the right region.

  2. Install TestFlight

    Free from the App Store. It's Apple's own app for handing out test builds — you'll install TerraADV from it, and get updates through it.

    Grab it now and the next step takes seconds.

    Download TestFlight on the App Store

  3. Accept the invite

    The invite comes from Apple, not from me — that's just how TestFlight works, so keep an eye out for it rather than binning it as spam.

    Open it on your phone and TerraADV shows up in TestFlight. Tap Install and it lands on your home screen like any other app. New builds appear in TestFlight every week or two.

  4. Sign in

    You can ride without an account — planning, navigation and offline maps all work.

    For the beta, please sign in anyway. It's how your reports and routes sync, and it's the only way I can see what's actually working out there.

First run

Three things, then go ride.

  1. Choose your riding style

    Road, ADV or Hard ADV. This is your default — you can change it on any route, so pick whatever most of your riding looks like and move on.

    TerraADV route planner with Road, ADV and Hard ADV profiles — ADV selected for Mansfield to Woods Point.

  2. Set up your bikes

    Add whatever you ride — tank size, what it really drinks, tyres, weight. Give it a name if you like. Then set one as active.

    This is what makes the fuel estimates yours rather than generic. If you skip it, everything else still works, you just won't get fuel range.

    TerraADV My Bikes garage with three bikes listed, showing tank size, fuel consumption, weight and seat height, and which bike is active.

  3. Plan a route or two

    Pick somewhere you know well first — you'll spot immediately whether it's got the surfaces right. Then try somewhere you don't.

    Try the same trip on two different profiles and watch what changes. That's the bit I most want your eyes on.

    TerraADV planning Mansfield to Woods Point on the Hard ADV profile: 204 kilometres, 99 per cent dirt, elevation preview ready to navigate.

Then the important bit

Have fun, and tell me what happened.

There are two different kinds of “that’s not right”, and they go to different places. Knowing which is which saves us both a lot of time.

Tell me — it’s the app

  • It crashed, froze, or did something strange
  • Directions were confusing, late, or pointed the wrong way
  • The ETA was nonsense
  • The battery didn’t last the day

This is the stuff I can actually fix, and the stuff I can’t find on my own.

Mark it — it’s the map

  • A road that’s closed. Mark it and everyone behind you gets the warning
  • Gates, locked gates, cattle grids and water crossings, while you’re stopped there anyway

The map comes from OpenStreetMap, not from me, and the world changes faster than it does. Marking it in the app is what fixes it — for you and for everyone else.

  • Don’t worry about surface calls — sealed, gravel or track comes from the same map data, and it’ll come good as the map does
  • No forms, no surveys, no weekly check-ins
  • One email address, straight to me: hello@terra-adv.com

The orange flag

Tap the orange flag while you’re navigating and the app captures what it was doing at the time. Send me the files it produces, along with any screenshots, and I can see exactly what you saw.

Screenshots on their own are welcome too. So is a plain email saying “this bit’s rubbish”.

Step one

Get on the beta list.

Use your Apple ID email if you can. Tell me where you ride — the map comes good fastest where a few riders overlap.

Not listed? Just type it — anything goes.

Invites go out in batches through TestFlight — watch for an email from Apple. Beta testers keep TerraADV free for good. Your address is used for the beta and nothing else.

One to mull over — what would you pay for this?

Per year, once it’s finished. I’ll ask before testing wraps up — by then you’ll have a far better idea than either of us does now.

Who's building this

I'm Nathan. I ride around Victoria, and I built TerraADV because there had to be a better answer than planning a route in one app and uploading it to another.

It's a one-person project. When you email, you get me.