I've used the free version for several years while touring in Asia. If I were training seriously I would upgrade. Very useful. I just tried the mobile route planner in Laos. Unfortunately, it won't allow me to plan routes that require fording small streams of even crossing bridges that were constructed several years ago. I'm not talking about off-road, but roads that actually appear on the maps*
Reviews for Ride with GPS: Bike Navigation
← Back to Ride with GPS: Bike NavigationWhile driving using Google maps and Android Auto my Google maps would freeze with a vague message "check your location". While driving I had to constantly repeat this process over and over to keep my navigation running. When I removed the Ride with GPS app it never happened again. Edit: 3/6/19 The developer refunded my money, app worked great on bike. Custom service is excellent.
Don't get this app for bike touring, it's extremely slow and will ask you to turn off power saver every time you use it. No way to see where you are at unless you are recording. There is no scale on the map even though the zoom is adjustable. There is no way to check the distance to something while following a route. Giving it two stars because it will work but it is exceptionally tedious.
There are a few of us who love riding 50cc scooters. Obviously the interstate is out, and I like to keep us off the highways as much as possible due to a beginner in our group. I use Ride With GPS to not only find and plan our routes, but also to hear live navigation cues in an ear bud as we ride. We've done quite a few several-hour-long rides, and the app has only led us wrong 1 time. I love this app. It's easy to plan out the route. It's easy to follow the audio navigation cues.
I use the free version and this is by far the most useful, most informative, easiest to use, & most accurate app I've found for tracking rides. Not having to pause the app when I take breaks is super helpful. I just hit record, throw my phone in my backpack & I don't have to touch my phone again until I get back to my vehicle. At home I can review my stats & compare rides. I haven't tried the other features but It works perfectly for logging rides. Kudos
If you find as I suddenly did, that navigation voice cues run much faster than normal speed , you can set the text-to-speech speed in settings, which helps. Thanks to Ridewithgps support for the tip. It's a great app, just used it in Bavaria and turn-by-turn directions were great. Sometimes, the route line on map disappears from view for a bit. Also, with Bluetooth earbuds connected, the sounds intermittently still run thru phone speakers. But overall, a realky useful tool.
I like this App over a few other I have tried. A lot of bike clubs make their routes in ride with GPS (RWGPS). The only part I don't like is if you download a ride you can not navigate it unless you pay for pro. I think pro should be for creating/editing routes and the other things it does but allow you to navigate routes you download. It gives you one free but that's it.
This is just such a bad app for the yearly price. I'm trying to use it for a year long bikepacking trip in South America and it's really bad for planning routes. For example, if I have a 900 mile route and I want to see the distance and elevation from town A to town B, I have to go through an extensive "Plan" process that requires internet, even if the route is saved offline. Furthermore, elevation is totally inaccurate on my Garmin. E.g. a 3k ft climb in ClimbPro is probably only 2k ft.
I have tried Map My Ride, Strava, and Ride with GPS. Out of the three of them, Ride with GPS is consistently my favorite. I appreciate the user interface, and I find it generally friendly to use. There is a wide library of routes available so I can generally find something I will enjoy riding. The free app is functional and has fairly rich features to get you started. I like the app enough that I have subscribed to the paid version as well, but to get started, the free one has all you need.
Navigation works mostly well, but sometimes it fails for long enough that you make a couple of wrong turns. For some reason, the app only tells you that you're going the wrong way instead of trying to direct you back to the route. Not great for new rotes. Also, the subscription is massively overpriced; there's no reason you should have to pay so much for some GPS lookups and worse-than-google-maps directions.
Love the app, been using it ever since I had to ditch my Windows Phone and stop using Cycle Tracks GPS. An old error that used to occur has started happening again, and that is randomly during a ride it will zoom all the way out to "Planet View" and I have to hit + repeatedly and then re-center. Not overly difficult if you're on the street, a real PITA though (not to mention a safety hazard), when you have to do it several times on a dirt trail, like what happened to me this very day.
With a premium RWGPS subscription and a phone with high battery capacity, you might not need another navigation device. The UI for designing routes keeps improving. Audio turn-by-turn is excellent, I would be literally lost without it. I keep my phone safely in my pocket, a Bluetooth in my ear, and my eyes on the road. (For best results, select "never sleep" for this app in the phone settings.)
It does what l need all the time and is really accurate. I used the pay version one year but never used the features l was paying for so now l just use the free version. I'm not a competitor so just knowing where I'm at, where I've been, how far I've gone and what the temperature is gives me what l need. It does tell elevation, speed and average speed as well but l don't pay much attention to that. It's easy to understand as well.
PLEASE give the ability to edit the ride? Sometimes I forget to end the ride in the app, and it tracks all of my driving after I'm done biking. There's no way to remove the extra 250 miles from the ride, so I wind up just deleting the whole ride so it doesn't mess up my stats as bad. If this can be added, I would give it 5*! Would also be awesome if there was a way to see what your speed was at certain points so the ride. Could be represented by changing the color of the line on the map.
Perfect for my daily use. I love this app my only complain and im pretty sure this can be improved is with the live logging limited to 10 mins only? My rides is usually more than 10 minutes and we noticed the live logging always stops after 10 mins. It doesnt update anymore after 10 mins. Im not sure if im doing something wrong. But all in all i love the app
The app is pretty good overall but the verbal cues are abysmal. I just took a 29 mile ride and I must have gone off course at least 15-20 times. Sometimes it says to turn left when it means right, sometimes it doesn't tell you anything. Sometimes it tells you right at the turn and sometimes a minute early. Once you go off course it does play a distinctive sound so you know you're not on the route anymore, but it offers no clues about how to get back on, so you need to stop and figure it out.
An absolutely outstanding app! I used the free version for a few weeks, upgraded to the trial of the premium version then signed up for the subscription. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, IMHO it's worth every penny. It does exactly what I wanted. The web-based route planning function has helped me find new fun routes on trails that I didn't know existed. Their customer service is stellar. They offered (and I accepted) a free, 30 minute 1:1 zoom call to answer questions and explore the app deeper.
Not terrible, but not easy to use on the phone. Route snapping is strange around parks and I had a few streets where the app tried to force a one-way direction. Not worth the money while I have other trip planning apps. Sadly, I screwed up cancelling the trial on time and now have a year of app I'll never use so blacklisted for me, even if they do improve in the future.
This app does not update GPS information nowhere near often enough when your screen is off. That is no good for longer rides with lots of curves and turns. My last log, distance traveled, was off by over 25%. A known 35 mile route returned as a 26 mile ride in this app. A 25.7% discrepancy, rendering this app completely WORTHLESS! I want accurate results for the over 3 hours of effort and this product failed entirely.
route planning tool is ok, but it's awkward to use on phone, and makes some weird assumptions about best route. it's actually similarly, but differently, bad on desktop, lacking some basic tools (like shift-select-delete if you want to remove a bunch of cues at once, and not updating the route map immediately if you delete them singularly, there's some weird refresh period that has to elapse). But - it's the best of breed for now. and for actual rides, and sharing routes, it works well.