Navigation apps barely mention it
Your navigation app will route you fine, but it rarely says clearly where the measured stretch starts and ends — and almost never shows the average you are carrying through it.
iOS 26 · pre-release
Drive calmly through average-speed sections.
Paceway is a light driving companion for iPhone. It runs behind Google Maps, Waze, or Apple Maps and speaks when you approach an average-speed enforcement section, when the measured stretch begins, and what your average was when it ended.
- Offline
- No account
- Live Activity
- CarPlay
- Polish and English
- No ads
Status
Paceway is not on the App Store yet.
The internal beta is now in TestFlight while the app goes through road testing. Public invitations open after it passes the field-drive checklist recorded in the project documentation.
Tell me when the beta opens
A plain e-mail. No newsletter, no tracking.
01 · The problem
Your average is not what your speedometer shows.
An average-speed enforcement section does not take one photo at one point. It times you between a start gate and an end gate and works out your average across the whole stretch. Easing off near the end does not undo what happened earlier — and a speedometer never shows an average.
Direction matters
A section is enforced in one direction on one carriageway. Paceway treats every direction as its own record, so driving the other side of the road never triggers an alert.
The goal is simple
Keep the measured average at or below the posted limit. Nothing more — and nothing less.
02 · How it works
Four spoken moments per section.
Turn monitoring on, switch to your navigation app, and forget Paceway is there. It speaks exactly when your situation changes, and not once more.
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Approach
About 500 m before the gate
Average-speed section in 500 metres. Limit 120.
One alert, early enough to settle your speed without braking hard.
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Entry
Crossing the start gate
Measurement started. Limit 120.
A local measurement begins and a Live Activity appears on the Lock Screen.
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Inside
On the measured stretch
Average above the limit.
The average is the only large number on screen. The warning only fires after a sustained overage — not on every momentary spike.
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Exit
Crossing the end gate
Measurement ended. Average 114.
The Live Activity ends, the result goes to your history, and no GPS trail is kept anywhere.
The anti-fatigue rule: approach once, entry once, over-average only after a sustained threshold and a cooldown, exit once.
03 · Alongside your navigation
Paceway does not want to be your navigation app.
The app you already like keeps guiding you. Paceway only occupies the surfaces you can glance at without leaving your route.
Audio first
Alerts duck over music and navigation, in Polish or English following your system language. That is the primary channel — everything else is optional.
Live Activity and Dynamic Island
The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the average, the limit, and the remaining distance. One activity per drive, no flashing.
History without a GPS trail
Only the result is stored: section, time, length, and average. Never the path you drove. You can delete the whole history with one button.
Measuring
A4 Krzyżowa — towards Wrocław
114km/h
114
1,310
04 · CarPlay
In the car, without taking over the screen.
The part that matters in CarPlay needs no extra screen at all: alerts play through the car speakers, and the system can place the Live Activity on the CarPlay Dashboard even while navigation owns the main display.
Apple granted Paceway the Driving Task capability, so the app also has its own deliberately small CarPlay interface: a monitoring switch, current speed, estimated average, the limit, and remaining distance. It never pretends to be navigation.
The CarPlay interface is supplementary. Spoken alerts and the Live Activity work regardless of which app owns the car screen.
Monitoring
On
Current
118 km/h
Average (estimate)
114 km/h
Limit
120 km/h
Remaining
1.3 km
05 · Privacy
Your location never leaves your iPhone.
That is not a marketing promise but the shape of the app: there is no server it could send anything to.
No account
No sign-in, no e-mail, no profile. Nothing to create and nothing to delete.
No location upload
Section matching and average calculation happen on the device.
No ads, no analytics
No tracking SDKs and no events carrying coordinates.
No GPS trail
History keeps the result of a drive, not the path you took.
Export on request only
A CSV of your history is produced only when you explicitly ask for one.
Works offline
The section catalog ships inside the app. You do not need a signal to drive.
06 · Safety
Paceway will never work out how much you can get away with.
This is a speed-awareness assistant, not a tool for defeating enforcement. There is no “how much can I make up” calculator, no countdown, no maximum-speed-without-a-ticket readout. Those features will not be built — not because they are hard, but because they contradict the point of the app.
Always shown
- the posted limit from the catalog
- your current speed
- your average so far
- the remaining distance
Never shown
- “you can drive X for N seconds”
- a recoverable-speeding calculator
- enforcement tolerance thresholds
- anything that optimises driving against the measurement
Road signs always take precedence. The average Paceway shows is the app’s estimate, not the CANARD system’s calculation.
07 · Data
Silence beats guessing.
The catalog is built from the official CANARD/GITD device map, and road geometry comes from OpenStreetMap. A section whose direction cannot be confirmed still appears in the app, but it never raises an alert.
226
sections in the catalog
from the CANARD/GITD source
153
active directions
per the source status
127
monitored directions
with reviewed geometry
29
reference-only directions
awaiting direction evidence
Why not 100%
An alert on the wrong carriageway teaches a driver to distrust every alert. A direction is only activated once road geometry or a real drive confirms it.
Refreshed weekly
An automated job fetches the source every week and opens a change proposal for review. Nothing reaches the app without someone reading the diff.
Honest sources
Section data: CANARD/GITD. Road geometry: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. Paceway is not an official GITD or CANARD product.
Dataset version behind this page: 2026.08.12.1 · 12 August 2026
08 · Craft
Built precisely for iOS 26.
Swift and SwiftUI
No third-party dependencies and no map SDK. The matching engine is pure Swift, tested without a car.
Liquid Glass where it works
Glass is the functional layer: navigation and controls. The average and the warnings stay on solid, legible surfaces.
Dark, never low-contrast
The palette was designed for night driving and bright sun; every text and status pairing clears WCAG AA.
Accessibility without exceptions
Dynamic Type through Accessibility XXXL, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, Increase Contrast, and colour never used alone.
Polish and English together
Interface, speech, Live Activity, permissions, and store copy — both languages from day one.
Tested by replaying drives
Recorded drives are replayed in tests, so a change in matching shows up before anyone drives out.
09 · Questions
Before you ask
Will Paceway replace my navigation app?
No, and it is not meant to. Paceway has no routing, no destination search, and no turn-by-turn guidance. It is designed to sit beside the app you already use.
Do I have to keep the app on screen?
No. Turn monitoring on and switch to your navigation app. Spoken alerts and the Live Activity keep working in the background.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. The section catalog ships with the app and matching happens locally. A connection is only useful for updating the catalog.
Does it cover every section in Poland?
The catalog holds every section known to the source, but automatic alerts only cover directions whose road geometry has been reviewed. The rest appear on the map for reference.
Is the Paceway average the same one the system calculates?
No. It is an estimate from your iPhone’s GPS. Treat it as guidance, not as a reading from the enforcement device. Road signs take precedence.
What about tunnels with no GPS?
For tunnel sections the average is estimated from elapsed time and the official section length, so the result stays meaningful without a signal.
What does it cost?
It is a personal project, not a business. There are no ads, no subscriptions, and no in-app purchases.
Will there be an Android version?
None is planned. Paceway leans hard on what iOS 26 provides: Live Activities, CarPlay, and modern background location.
Want to know when the beta starts?
Send one line by e-mail. I will reply when TestFlight opens. There is no mailing list to add you to.