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Getting Started

Stands-Up works the moment you open it. No account, no password, no sign-up form — just tell us what to call you and you're a rider.

First launch

Open the app and enter a display name — that's the name your riding mates will see on the map and in the group. Tap Get Started and you're in. You can create an account later, but you don't need one to join a group or ride.

The three tabs

The tabs run left to right the way a ride day does: link up with the Group, plan on the Map, then Ride. The person icon at the top right opens your ride history, planned routes, feedback, and account options.

Linking an account (when you're ready)

Without an account everything on this page still works — record rides, join groups, ride with your mates. What you don't get is anywhere for it to live but this phone. An account is free and turns on:

• Your rides, backed up — and waiting for you on a new phone. Without one, losing or wiping the phone loses every ride on it.
• The web app — plan routes on a big screen at stands-up.app, then ride them here, and browse your rides and replays.
• Chat that keeps working — reactions, delivery ticks, and every group you're in. Without an account you can send messages in one group only.
• Notifications — ride reminders and group activity reach a phone with an account on it.
• Photos, GPX import and replays — these are stored on our servers, so they need an account to hang off.

Leading group rides, creating groups and sharing replays need a Pro subscription as well as an account — see What's free and what's paid below. Linking takes one email and zero passwords:

1. Tap the person icon → Sign In.
2. Enter your email address.
3. Open the email we send you and tap Confirm — on any device.
4. The app signs itself in. Done.

The same email works on the web: enter it, click the sign-in link we send, and your rides, routes, and groups are there. There is no password to create, remember, or leak.

Linking is permanent — and what to do about it

Once a phone is linked to an email address, it belongs to that address for good. Signing out drops the session on the phone; it does not hand the phone to someone else. If you sign out and try to sign in with a different email, we'll tell you the device is already linked and refuse — that's deliberate, and trying again won't change it.

Two things do work. Sign in with the address the phone is already linked to and carry on as normal. Or, if the phone genuinely has a new owner — a second rider in the house, a hand-me-down, or you simply mistyped your address when you set it up — delete Stands-Up from the phone and install it again. That is a completely clean start: the phone comes back as a brand-new device and can link to any address you like.

The catch worth knowing before you do it: a clean start really is clean. Anything that lived only on that phone and was never linked to an account goes with it. If you have rides or routes you care about, link the phone to its existing account first and let them sync, then reinstall.

Permissions — what we ask for and when

Stands-Up asks for each permission at the moment it's actually needed, never up front:

• Location (while using) — asked when you first open the Map or Ride tab, to show your position and navigate.
• Location (always) — asked when you create or join a group, so your position keeps reaching your group during a ride while your phone is in your pocket. Location is only ever shared during rides you've explicitly joined — see Privacy & Permissions.
• Bluetooth — used during group rides to sync rider positions directly between nearby bikes when there's no cell coverage.
• Camera — only to scan a QR code when joining a group.
• Notifications — for scheduled ride reminders and group activity. These need an account on the phone; without one the permission is granted but nothing is sent to it.
• Battery (Android) — if Android has put Stands-Up to sleep in the background (Samsung's "Deep sleeping apps", or battery usage set to Restricted), your ride stops recording and your group loses you soon after your screen turns off. The app warns you when you start a ride and opens its settings: tap App battery usage (Battery on some phones), then choose Unrestricted.

What's free and what's paid

Downloading, "Just Ride" solo recording, joining groups, joining any group ride, planning routes on the web, and viewing your own history and replays are free. Pro is for being in charge or being guided: turn-by-turn navigation and starting or leading any group ride need a Pro subscription. Only the organiser pays; the crew rides free.

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