Reviews for Ride with GPS: Bike Navigation

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 […]

While 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 + […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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% […]

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 […]