Press kit
TreadPilot is a free, open-source iPhone app that controls FitShow-protocol treadmills over Bluetooth. It sets speed and incline, runs interval programs that drive the belt on their own, reads heart rate from an Apple Watch, and writes every session to Apple Health. Everything below is cleared for editorial use — no permission needed, no embargo.
Status: version 1.0 has been submitted to the App Store and is waiting for review. It is not downloadable yet; this page carries the link the day it goes live. If you are writing now and need to know when that is, mail us and we will tell you what we know.
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- TextBoilerplate in three lengths, plus a fact sheet you can quote from directly.
- ScreenshotsNine iPhone captures at 1206 × 2622 and three Apple Watch captures at 422 × 514. The real interface, unretouched.
- Gallery framesThe six captioned App Store layouts at 1284 × 2778, for when you want a headline inside the picture.
- Icon and logoApp icon at 1024 × 1024, the mark as SVG, and the wordmark as transparent PNGs for light and dark backgrounds.
- Key artThe campaign illustration at 1517 × 1037. Generated artwork, not a photograph of a real person.
- VideoThree cuts of the same walkthrough. The finished one — the clip above, 1920 × 1080 with narration and music — plus two silent versions for cutting your own edit: portrait at 828 × 1800 as clean b-roll, and a shorter captioned landscape. Recorded in the app's Demo Mode, so the numbers in them are simulated rather than a real run.
Fast facts
- What it isAn iPhone app that connects to a FitShow-protocol treadmill over Bluetooth and controls it
- DeveloperBacklog Fejlesztő Kft., Budapest, Hungary
- PriceFree. No subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads
- PlatformsiPhone on iOS 17+, with an Apple Watch app on watchOS 10+
- Version1.0 — submitted to the App Store, awaiting review
- LanguagesEnglish and Hungarian
- LicenceGPL-3.0-or-later — free software, complete source published
- Works withFitShow-protocol treadmills, including many Tunturi models. Verified on hardware: Tunturi T40
- PrivacyNo account, no analytics, no third-party code, and no networking code at all
- Sourcegithub.com/backloghu/treadpilot
- Contacthello@backlog.hu
Boilerplate
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TreadPilot is a free, open-source iPhone app that controls FitShow-protocol treadmills over Bluetooth.
TreadPilot is a free, open-source iPhone app that takes over a FitShow-protocol treadmill over Bluetooth. It sets speed and incline, runs interval programs that drive the belt on their own, reads heart rate from an Apple Watch, and writes every session to Apple Health.
TreadPilot is a free, open-source iPhone app that connects to FitShow-protocol treadmills — including many Tunturi models — and takes the wheel. It sets speed and incline from the phone, runs interval programs that drive the belt segment by segment, shows live distance, calories, steps and elevation gain, reads heart rate from an Apple Watch, and writes finished workouts to Apple Health. Everything stays on the device: there is no account, no analytics, and no networking code in the app at all. It is GPL-3.0 licensed, and the Bluetooth protocol is documented in the source frame by frame. Built by Backlog Fejlesztő Kft. in Budapest.
The name is TreadPilot — one word, capital T and capital P. The all-caps form is the logo lockup only, not the name in running text.
The story, if you want one
FitShow consoles are closed. The treadmill knows its own speed, incline, distance and step count, and the apps shipped with these machines expose very little of it — and nothing you can build a structured workout on.
TreadPilot came out of working that protocol out frame by frame on a Tunturi T40, and then writing it down in the source: the frame layout, the command bytes, the XOR checksum, and the two byte-order variants real consoles turn out to use. The app is the useful half of that work. The documented protocol is the half that outlives it — the next person who wants to talk to one of these machines does not have to repeat the reverse engineering.
That is also why the app has no networking code. There is no account to create and no server to talk to, because nothing about the job requires one.
What TreadPilot is not
- Not a universal treadmill remote. It speaks the FitShow protocol. Machines using other protocols will not connect, and we only claim hardware we have actually tested.
- Not a Tunturi product. It is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Tunturi New Fitness B.V. or the makers of the FitShow protocol.
- Not a running-form or coaching app. It drives the belt and records what happened. It does not tell anyone how to train.
- Not a replacement for the machine's own safety controls. The app never starts the belt without an explicit confirmation, and programmed starts run a countdown that can be cancelled — but if the Bluetooth link drops the belt may keep running at its last set speed, so the treadmill's stop button and safety key stay the primary protection. Worth a sentence if you write about it.
Images
Previews only — the archive above has all of these at full size, plus six more screenshots and the Apple Watch captures.
Using the material
Everything in the kit may be reproduced in articles, reviews, videos and social posts about TreadPilot, cropped or scaled as you need, without asking us first. Two requests: do not restyle, recolour or redraw the icon and the wordmark, and do not suggest that Tunturi, FitShow or Apple endorse the app.
Tunturi is a trademark of Tunturi New Fitness B.V. Apple, iPhone, Apple Watch, Apple Health and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc. All other trademarks belong to their owners. The app is free software under the GPL-3.0-or-later; that licence covers the code, while the images here are provided for editorial coverage.
Contact
Gábor Halmosi, Backlog Fejlesztő Kft. — hello@backlog.hu. We answer press mail within one working day, and we are happy to do a written Q&A, get on a call, or answer protocol questions in as much detail as you want.
If you need something that is not in the kit — a specific screen, a longer clip, a Hungarian-language quote, a photo of the app on a real machine — ask. It is usually a quick job.