Data field for Garmin Edge® 1060 · 1050 · 1040 · 850 · 550
Now on the Connect IQ™ Store
Your power records, live on your Edge.
PowerPeak Pro is a data field for Garmin Edge bike computers. While you ride, it shows your best power for every duration from 1 second to 3 hours, right next to your personal records, and tells you the moment you beat one.
€5.99 a year or €14.99 lifetime · key by email
- 18 durations, 1 second to 3 hoursYour best average watts for each one, updated as you ride.
- See a record fallBeat one and its bar and pill turn green, the Edge beeps and a counter adds it up.
- Chase one on purposePress LAP: the Effort screen shows the watts to hold to beat a 1 to 60 minute record.
Free for 14 days, then €5.99 a year or €14.99 lifetime, plus local taxes. Needs a power meter paired with your Edge.
How it works
Three steps. Nothing to do while you ride.
PowerPeak Pro is for riders with a power meter who want to know, on the bike, how today compares with their best. It runs on the Edge as a full-page data field: no extra app to open, no screen to set up during the ride.
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Add it to a data screen
Install it from the Connect IQ Store, then put it on a data screen of your activity profile, as the only field on that page.
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Ride with your power meter
Every second it updates your best average for each duration, from 1 second to 3 hours, and puts it next to your personal best (PB).
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See the records you beat
Go past a record and that row's bar and pill turn green with the watts you gained. The new record is kept on the Edge for your next ride.
Interactive demo
Ride it before you install it.
The screen below is a simulated Edge running PowerPeak Pro on a 3-hour ride. It uses the app's own calculations, rewritten in JavaScript. Tap the screen as you would on the Edge, press LAP, change the set.
Tap the top of the screen: next screen state. Tap the table (Large card): next set. LAP: Effort screen and back.
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The screen as text
| Duration | Today (W) | PB (W) | vs PB |
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How the demo is made: our JavaScript port of the app's power engine, Effort logic, zones and row rules, checked with tests copied from the app's own unit tests (same inputs, same expected results). The W′ reserve is not part of the demo.
Reading the screen
One row per duration. Green means a new record.
Each row of the table is one duration. It puts the best you have done today next to your personal best (PB), so you see at a glance how far you are from a record, and when you go past it.
- 20m the duration. The colored mark on its left is the power zone of today's value.
- 301 your best 20 minutes in this ride · 296 your PB
- Bar today against the PB; the white tick is 100%
- +5 when you beat the PB, the bar and the pill turn green and show the watts gained; otherwise the pill shows the gap, like −12
- NEW PBs at the top counts the records beaten in this ride, for durations that already had a record when the ride started. The Edge beeps on a new record (on by default, you can turn it off).
What is a personal best (PB)?
Your highest average power ever held for a duration: for example, the most watts you have kept up for 20 minutes. PowerPeak Pro keeps one for each of the 18 durations and updates it when a ride beats it.
Where the records come from
From your rides with PowerPeak Pro, saved on the Edge. You can also type your own in the phone settings (Your PBs (watts)): a value above 0 is the record to beat, 0 means “use my best from rides”.
What is the W′ reserve?
W′ (say “W prime”) is the energy you can spend above your FTP before you have to ease off. With the Large card, when it drops below 70%, the band under the watts shows how much is left, next to the lap time and average.
Zones and W/kg
Colors follow seven power zones. FTP and weight come from your Garmin user profile, or you type them in the phone settings. With no weight set, CLIMBER stays in watts.
One data screen, four states
Trade card size for more durations.
The same data screen has four states: the bigger the card with your watts, the fewer rows of records. On touchscreen Edge models, tap near the top of the screen to go to the next one; after Table only it goes back to Large. A tap in the middle of the screen belongs to the Edge, which opens its own timer overlay. On the Edge 550, which has no touchscreen, you pick the state in the phone settings (Display → Watt card).
Duration sets
Pick the durations that match your ride.
With the Large card, the table shows the 7 durations of the active set. On touchscreen models, tap the table to move to the next set; you can also choose it in the phone settings (Intervals → Interval set).
The set picks the rows of the Large card. Compact, Super-compact and Table only show a longer, fixed list of durations, the same for every set; with CUSTOM they show only the durations you switch on.
- ALL-ROUND5s · 30s · 1m · 5m · 10m · 20m · 60mFor most rides: a bit of everything, from a 5-second kick to a 1-hour effort.
- SPRINT1s · 3s · 5s · 10s · 15s · 30s · 1mFor sprinters, crits and the track: short, explosive efforts.
- CLIMBER3m · 5m · 10m · 15m · 20m · 30m · 60mFor climbs and hilly rides. Shown in W/kg when your weight is set, otherwise in watts.
- ENDURANCE10m · 20m · 30m · 60m · 90m · 2h · 3hFor long rides and gran fondos: how well you hold power over hours.
- CUSTOMAny of the 18 durationsYour own mix: one switch per duration in the phone settings (three Custom set groups).
Effort screen
How many watts to hold, from now to the end.
The Effort screen is a countdown for one effort. It tells you the average watts to hold from now to the end to beat your record for that duration by 1 W, so you can pace a hard effort instead of guessing.
- Press the lap button. The Effort screen opens on the 1-minute record. Only the lap button opens it.
- Read it. Time done and time left, the watts to hold, ON TRACK or BEHIND, your average so far, your watts now and the record.
- Change the duration. Tap the lower part of the screen for the next one: 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60 minutes. Without taps it moves up by itself as your effort reaches it; on the Edge 550 it always does.
- Press lap again to go back. It also closes by itself after 60 minutes. Each press also records a lap in your activity, as on any Edge.
Settings on your phone
Every option in its place.
Settings live on your phone, in the Connect IQ app, grouped by category: open PowerPeak Pro's settings, pick a group, change what you need, go back and tap Save. The Edge gets the new values when it syncs. Pick a group to see it on the phone.
The phone on the right is our drawing of the app's settings: group names and options are the app's own, the look of the Connect IQ app on your phone is different. Values shown are examples.
… one field for each of the 18 durations
Illustration of the app's settings · example values
Compatibility
Edge 1060, 1050, 1040, 850 and 550.
PowerPeak Pro works with the Garmin Edge® 1060, 1050, 1040, 850 and 550. The Edge 850 and 550 have a shorter screen, so each state shows a few rows less. Rows per screen state:
| Edge model | Screen (pixels) | Touch | Large | Compact | Super- | Table only |
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| Edge 1060 | 480 × 800 | Yes | 7 | 13 | 15 | 18 |
| Edge 1050 | 480 × 800 | Yes | 7 | 13 | 15 | 18 |
| Edge 1040 | 282 × 470 | Yes | 7 | 13 | 15 | 18 |
| Edge 850 | 420 × 600 | Yes | 7 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
| Edge 550 | 420 × 600 | No* | 7 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
* Edge 550: no touchscreen
Everything is there, with buttons and the phone instead of taps: pick the screen state in Display → Watt card and the set in Intervals → Interval set. LAP opens and closes the Effort screen, and the effort duration moves up by itself.
What has been tried where
All five models pass the app's tests in Garmin's simulator, and the screens on this page come from the same rules. Taps have been tried on a real Edge 1050 with an earlier version; on the other models taps are not yet tried on a real unit.
Install
From the store to your first ride.
You need an Edge from the list above, a paired power meter and the Connect IQ app on your phone. The 14-day trial starts by itself the first time the field runs.
- Get it from the Connect IQ™ Store. In the Connect IQ app on your phone, select your Edge, open PowerPeak Pro and follow the instructions to install it. On a computer, open its page at apps.garmin.com and click Download. Let the Edge sync.
- Add it to a data screen. On the Edge: Menu → Activity Profiles → your profile → Data Screens. Use a layout with one field (full page) and pick PowerPeak Pro. In a smaller slot it shows only the watts.
- Pair your power meter as usual (Menu → Sensors). FTP and weight come from your Garmin user profile, or you type them in the phone settings (Power).
- Ride. Records build up from your rides, or type the ones you already know in Your PBs (watts).
- Keep it after 14 days with a license key: paste it in the phone settings (License → License key), see below.
License
Get your license key.
Pick the key that suits you. Same app, same key by email.
- Each key runs on up to 2 devices. Already have a PowerPeak Live key? The same key works here.
- Refunds within 14 days of purchase: see Support.
- Install it from the Connect IQ Store: it runs for 14 days from the first start without a key; after that it needs one.
- Checkout is on Lemon Squeezy and the key arrives in your purchase email. Paste it in the phone settings (License → License key) and keep the phone connected to the Edge: the key is checked in the background, the first time about 5 minutes after you save it. Status then reads “Licensed”.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Where do I get it?
On the Connect IQ Store, from the Connect IQ app on your phone or from apps.garmin.com on a computer. The 14-day trial starts the first time the field runs. You can also try it first in the demo on this page.
Which Edge models does it work on?
Edge 1060, 1050, 1040, 850 and 550. See the table above for the rows each one shows.
Do I need a power meter?
Yes. PowerPeak Pro reads the power your Edge already receives from a paired power meter (as you pair it on the Edge).
Do I need my phone?
The field runs on the Edge. The phone is needed to install it, to change the settings (they live only on the phone) and to activate the license key, which is checked in the background with the phone connected.
What happens when the free trial ends?
After 14 days from the first start the field stops showing data and shows “Trial ended – Get your key: powerpeak.app”. Paste a license key in the phone settings (License) and it runs again.
Where are my records kept?
On your Edge, in the app's storage. They grow with every ride that beats them. You can type your own in Your PBs (watts); 0 means “use my best from rides”. Erase all PBs deletes them all, typed ones too, and cannot be undone.
I'm moving to a new Edge. What about my records?
Records are kept on each Edge. On the new one, type the records you want to keep in the phone settings (Your PBs (watts)) and save: they become the records to beat.
Can I keep separate records for MTB or indoor rides?
Yes: PB options → “Separate PBs for MTB, indoor, e-bike and cyclocross”. Typed PBs apply to all other rides.
The Edge 550 has no touchscreen. What changes?
Everything is there, but you choose the screen state and the duration set in the phone settings instead of tapping, and the Effort duration moves up by itself.
My tap opens the Edge's timer overlay.
Tap near the top of the screen (or, with the Large card, on the table at the bottom). The Edge takes taps in the middle of the field.
Can I choose my own durations?
Yes. Set Intervals → Interval set to Custom and switch on any of the 18 durations, from 1 second to 3 hours, in the three Custom set groups. If you pick more than a state can show, the shortest are shown.
Is the demo on this page real?
The logic is: the app's power engine, Effort screen, zones and row rules, rewritten in JavaScript and checked with tests copied from the app's own unit tests. The ride, the rider and the records are simulated.
Is PowerPeak Pro made by Garmin?
No. It is made by Primato, an independent studio.