The best place to glance at a group ride is the one already on your wrist. Party Onbici 2.4.0 is our biggest release yet for riders who don’t want to dig their phone out mid-ride — with brand-new Apple Watch and Wear OS apps, a way to join a party without installing anything, and smarter bike-bus navigation. Here’s everything that’s new.

⌚ Party Onbici comes to Apple Watch and Wear OS

This is the headline: a full companion app for Apple Watch and Wear OS smartwatches. Once you’re in a live party, your wrist becomes the easiest way to stay connected to the group — no phone-juggling at the lights.

  • Live radar, right on your wrist — see where everyone is around you on a glanceable map, with rider dots that glide smoothly between updates instead of jumping.
  • Who’s riding — a participants page lists everyone in the party at a tap.
  • Start and leave from the watch — kick off a ride or leave the party straight from your wrist (your phone just needs to be in reach).
  • Notifications follow you — messages and alerts from the ride are forwarded to the watch as banners and into your notification centre, so you won’t miss the moment the group sets off.

Radar and participants stay tucked away when there’s no live party, so the watch app is calm and uncluttered until you actually need it.

⚡ Join a party instantly — no install required

Got a friend on iPhone who’s curious but hasn’t installed the app yet? Now they don’t have to. 2.4.0 introduces a native instant party view powered by an iOS App Clip — so tapping a party link opens a real, native view of the ride without a full download. It’s the fastest way yet to bring someone new along for their first group ride.

🚏 Smarter bike-bus navigation: pause at timed stops

For bike buses that run to a schedule, navigation now pauses automatically at timed waypoints and waits for you with a simple Continue button. No more arriving at a pick-up point three minutes early and guessing whether to push on — the app holds the stop until you’re ready to roll to the next one.

🔔 Cleaner, branded notifications on Android

Android notifications get a polish: branded notification icons — a crisp monochrome small icon and a full-colour large icon — plus tidied-up foreground-location and security alerts, so every Party Onbici notification looks unmistakably like us.

🛡️ Hardened throughout

As always, 2.4.0 carries a steady run of stability and reliability work behind the scenes — including fixes for several production crashes and hardening across the live-ride experience. The unglamorous work that keeps every ride smooth.

Get the update

Party Onbici 2.4.0 is rolling out now on the App Store and Google Play. Update, strap on your watch, and start your next ride from your wrist.

Happy riding! 🚴