About

We built the app
we wanted
to ride with.

Wheel Life started because riding an electric unicycle well means knowing what the wheel is doing, and the tools we had were not telling us. One app showed speed but hid PWM. Another logged rides but forgot them if you reinstalled. None of them knew that the best part of riding is the people you ride with.

So we wrote our own. It reads the wheel every second, keeps the whole log, and shows the numbers that actually decide whether you make it home. Then it puts your rides next to your friends’ rides, because that turned out to be the thing that keeps people riding.

What we hold to
01
The numbers have to be true
We show what the wheel reports, at the rate it reports it. When a value is missing you see a dash, never a zero and never a guess.
02
Your rides are yours
Everything records locally first. Nothing is posted and no location leaves your phone until you choose to share a ride.
03
Territory is coarse on purpose
Clubs claim big map cells, not routes. Nobody can follow your line home from a turf map.
04
Built by people who ride
Every feature came out of a real ride, usually one where something went wrong and we wished the app had told us sooner.
How it got here
2024
A spreadsheet and a bad idea
Logging rides by hand after every session, comparing numbers in a group chat.
2025
First Bluetooth read
One wheel, one screen, speed and battery. It was ugly and it was enough to stop using anything else.
EARLY 2026
Recording and history
Per second logs, maps, and charts you can scrub. Rides stopped disappearing.
MID 2026
The community tab
Boards, clubs, group rides and turf. Riding alone became optional.
NOW
Watch, Android and the web
PWM on your wrist, a beta on Android, and this site so a ride link works for anyone you send it to.
Who is behind it
Dean
Rider, builder, Orange County

A small team of riders in Southern California. We ride the same wheels we write code for, which means bugs tend to get found on a Tuesday night group ride rather than in a bug report.

Ride within your limits

Wheel Life shows you what the wheel reports. It cannot stop a cutout, and a leaderboard is a terrible reason to ride past what you can handle. Wear a helmet, wear wrist guards, and leave headroom.

Come ride with us

The app is free and it records before you make an account. If you like it, the community is right there.